LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Geena Davis urged Hollywood filmmakers to take new steps to address an ongoing gender imbalance in media as she accepted an honorary Oscar on Sunday for her work to promote more women on screen.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Diahann Carroll, a versatile singer and stage actress who quietly blazed a trail for black women on American television in the late 1960s by playing a widowed nurse and single mother in “Julia”, died on Friday at age 84, her manager said.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Tom Hanks, one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors, is to add another honour to his name with a lifetime achievement award from the organizers of the Golden Globe awards.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – In one of the most anticipated New York Fashion Week runway events this season, American designer Tommy Hilfiger unveiled his latest ready-to-wear looks on Sunday in a collaboration with actress Zendaya at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
VENICE, Italy, (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators took over the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival for several hours today, demanding action to fight climate change and a ban on cruise ships entering the lagoon city.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Priyanka Chopra and her pop star husband Nick Jonas were named the best dressed of 2019 by People magazine today, marking the first time in the celebrity magazine’s history that a couple has shared top style honours.
(Reuters) – Actress Valerie Harper, who won four Emmy awards playing budding feminist Rhoda Morgenstern on the classic 1970s TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own spinoff sitcom, died on Friday at the age of 80.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Actress Emma Watson and Nobel laureate Nadia Murad will join other women’s rights activists on Sunday to urge powerful world leaders at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France to usher in laws empowering women and end those that harm them.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop star Miley Cyrus on Thursday said she was no angel, but angrily denied rumors she had cheated on her estranged husband, actor Liam Hemsworth.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The new James Bond film finally has a title – “No Time to Die” – and an April 2020 release date, producers announced on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – Lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby today will ask a Pennsylvania appeals court to throw out his sexual assault conviction, arguing the trial judge committed errors that deprived him of a fair trial.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky will be tried for assault in Sweden starting on July 30 over his alleged involvement in a street brawl in central Stockholm last month, the Swedish public prosecutor announced on Thursday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Music is a way of life, and being a musician is also seriously a way of life because once any momentum of success within the business is gathered, it can overwhelm and control your life,” Maxi Priest told The Gleaner.
SAN DIEGO, (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios on Saturday unveiled a star-packed slate of superhero films for the next two years that includes Angelina Jolie in “The Eternals,” Mahershala Ali in a remake of “Blade” and Natalie Portman as a female “Thor.” The announcements at San Diego Comic-Con charts Marvel’s course following mega-blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame,” which Disney said was set to top 2009 film “Avatar” by Sunday as the highest-grossing movie of all time.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Director James Cameron on Monday handed over the baton for the biggest box-office movie of all time to the makers of “Avengers: Endgame” after it ended the 10-year record of “Avatar.” The Marvel Studios superhero movie “Avengers: Endgame” at the weekend overtook the $2.789 billion record set by Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi film “Avatar” to bring its global total to $2.790 billion, according to box-office data.
SAN DIEGO, (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios on Saturday unveiled a star-packed slate of superhero films for the next two years that includes Angelina Jolie in “The Eternals,” Mahershala Ali in a remake of “Blade” and Natalie Portman as a female “Thor.” The announcements at San Diego Comic-Con charts Marvel’s course following mega-blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame,” which Disney said was set to top 2009 film “Avatar” by Sunday as the highest-grossing movie of all time.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Singer R. Kelly, already charged with sexual assault in Illinois, was indicted in federal courts in New York and Chicago today with transporting women and girls across state lines for sex, forcibly keeping them under his control and buying their silence.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky should be detained in Sweden for at least two more weeks to be investigated over serious assault charges, the national prosecutor said on Thursday, throwing into jeopardy the artist’s European tour.
(Reuters) – A Muslim actress’ decision to quit Bollywood, saying acting was taking her away from her faith, has triggered a backlash in India from fellow actors and fans.
LOS ANGELES, , (Variety.com) – Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Forky are still ruling the box office.
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