Wed 17 March 2021: British actress Emilia Clarke from the Game of Thrones series on Tuesday called for support for the Action for Sama campaign, an initiative that aims to stop the bombing of hospitals in Syria by the Bashar al-Assad regime. “It has been 10 years since the Syrian people took a stand for […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp says a landmark three-year agreement with Facebook to pay for its Australian content will transform the terms of trade for journalism. The move follows Australia’s recent historic move to approve a law that would force social media and tech giants to pay publishers for news on independently set terms unless […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: The Present, a film by Palestinian Director Farah Nabulsi, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Live Action Short Film category. Taking to Twitter after the announcement was made, Nabulsi wrote: “Literally standing on tables! Amazing news – The Present has been nominated for an Oscar! Thank you to […]
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Mon 15 March 2021: As expected Academy Award nominations, Netflix’s Mank pulled ahead, . The movie, which is itself about Hollywood, picked up 10 nominations, including best picture. Director David Fincher’s Netfilix film “Mank” leads the pack of contenders for the 2021 Oscars, with 10 nominations in various categories including Best Picture, the academy Awards announced […]
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Mon 15 March 2021: Beyoncé won Best R&B Performance for “BLACK PARADE” at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards. It is her fourth GRAMMY win of the evening, and a historic one, as she became the performing artist with the most career GRAMMY wins ever, totalling 28. Her iconic daughter Blue Ivy also won as a collaborator. Female performers […]
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Sat 13 March 2021: Streaming giant Netflix is testing a new feature that can help it crack down on password sharing where it is rolling out alerts asking users to verify they are authorised to watch on the account to be able to keep watching. “This test is designed to help ensure that people using […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: The film “Quo Vadis Aida?,” co-produced by Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT, was nominated in two categories at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, TRT announced Thursday. While director Jasmila Zbanic was nominated for Best Director, the war drama about the 1995 Srebrenica genocide was nominated for Best Foreign […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. The icon of that nostalgic era, the man who ushered it all, resides now in heaven. Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette and pioneered the CD has passed away. He […]
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Mon 01 March 2021: In the midst of the pandemic and amid a storm of criticism for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with top awards going to “Nomadland,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “The Crown” and “Schitt’s Creek.” Hollywood’s awards season kicked off at a very different-looking Golden Globes, with winners tuning in remotely to a ceremony […]
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Sat 27 February 2021: Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs – stolen two days ago by thieves who shot and wounded the dogwalker – were recovered unharmed today, Los Angeles police said. “Both of Lady Gaga’s dogs have been turned in to a local police station, and they have been safely reunited with Lady Gaga representatives,” […]
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