Category: ENTERTAINMENT

The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards will be held virtually this year due to coronavirus pandemic. The development comes a day after the nominations for the annual award ceremony was announced. The ceremony, which was originally to be held at Microsoft Theater here, will now be shot from the actors’ homes across the US. It will take place on September 20. According to Variety, Emmy executive producers, including host Jimmy Kimmel, have sent a letter to all the acting nominees, asking them to be prepare to participate in the ceremony from…

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Netflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin , a limited series expanding the universe of its fantasy series The Witcher .   According to The Hollywood Reporter, the six-part, live-action series is a prequel to the streamer’s Henry Cavill-led show, which premiered last year in December. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who is the showrunner on “The Witcher” series, is attached as the executive producer on the prequel. Declan de Barra will serve as the showrunner. Blood Origin will be set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The…

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A Pakistani film that could not be released in January after a religious outfit called it “blasphemous” has been cleared for release in cinema halls by the Committee for Human Rights of the country’s Senate. Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, who chairs the panel, said in a tweet that they “found nothing wrong” with the film, adding that the censor board “has our go ahead to release it post-Covid”. He said all objections against the film were dismissed. The film, “Zindagi Tamasha”, which was premiered at the Busan…

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The body of “Glee” star Naya Rivera was found on Monday at a Southern California lake, authorities said. Ventura County Sheriff’s officials confirmed at an afternoon news conference that the body that search crews found floating in the northeast corner of Lake Piru earlier in the day was that of the 33-year-old Rivera. The discovery came five days after Rivera disappeared on Lake Piru, where her son was found on July 8 asleep and alone on a rented pontoon boat, authorities said. Authorities said the following day that they believed…

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Actor Kelly Preston, best known for her work in films Mischief, Twins and Jerry Maguire, has died following a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 57. John Travolta, her husband of 29 years, shared the news of her demise on his Instagram account. It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many, Travolta said. My family and I will forever be…

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BBC is set to produce feature length, state-of-the-nation documentary, telling the definitive story of the coronavirus pandemic in Britain . The broadcaster has commissioned its own BBC Studios Documentary Unit to deliver the documentary titled Britain vs Coronavirus. Interweaving archive and compelling master interviews with many of the key decision-makers in the crisis, the film will be a forensic retelling of the events of a seismic year in UK history when the coronavirus pandemic struck, BBC said in a press release posted on its website . According to the studio,…

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Actor Pooja Bhatt on Wednesday said her home banner Vishesh Films, under father Mahesh and uncle Mukesh Bhatt, has done far more than the combined efforts of Bollywood in launching new talent across the board in the film industry. The actor’s comments came as a response to the nepotism debate that has intensified after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. Her family has been at the receiving end of the divided social media discourse, with both her filmmaker father and her half-sister, actor Alia Bhatt being criticised for riding on…

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Actor Taraji P Henson says she has issues with the usage of phrases like “strong black women” and “black girl magic” as it dehumanises women of colour and belittles their pain. During a discussion with Essence’s Wellness House, the 49-year-old actor said black women are at the bottom of the social hierarchy and have been ignored for ages. ‘We’re not fairies! We don’t magically rebound from pain. We hurt and suffer just like others. It started off as an empowerment saying… because (black women are) always neglected, we’re always at…

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Hollywood star Halle Berry has apologised and pulled out from playing a transgender character in a movie following criticism on social media. The 53-year-old actor had spoken about the role during an Instagram Live interview. “(The film is about) a character where the woman is a trans character, so she’s a woman that transitioned into a man,” Berry said in the interview with hairstylist Christin Brown. “She’s a character in a project I love that I might be doing.” The announcement was followed by severe social media backlash with many…

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