Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ Dominates Iran’s Hafez Awards

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentWhile Netflix has been praised for being the first and only global streamer so far to have signed a windowing deal with French film orgs, a comeback at the Cannes Film Festival — in or out of competition — just isn’t in the cards for 2022.A Netflix rep confirmed to Variety that the streamer isn’t planning to world premiere its films at the festival’s 75th edition, meaning movies such as Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” a Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, will likely be skipping the French Riviera.Dominik recently told journalists at the Berlinale that he hoped his film would play on the Croisette, but it appears that discussions with Netflix have stalled due to Cannes’ rule, which dictates that every competing movie must have a theatrical release in France. Netflix, meanwhile, has certainly been open to having select festival movies open in European theaters.

Yorkshire Live reports. Mr Rahman didn't have to leave but was told to move his car due to the risk from the flood and sinkhole, caused by severe weather.He later caught a glimpse of the landslide and was shocked to see a neighbour's garden had disappeared, leaving the house teetering on the edge of a big drop into the river Aire below.He told the title: "It was five in the morning.

The Chase couldn't believe their eyes when the latest batch of contestants lined up to take on the ITV quiz.The latest episode saw host Bradley Walsh introduce four new hopeful winners as they geared up to take on The Chaser on Wednesday (February 23).But fans of the show were left completely distracted by the quartet when they heard their names read out much to their amusement.As Bradley called out the moniker's one by one it became apparent they had the exact same names as one very famous TV family.Hearing him welcome Lisa, Maggie, Bart and Marge to the show viewers then took to Twitter as they saw the funny side to the selection.One wrote: "Just noticed that the contestants are all Simpsons characters lol #thechase."Another posted: "Marge, Bart, Maggie, and Lisa. Haha it’s The Simpsons on #thechase."A third said: "The chase casting director at it again here.

scientists were able to see what happened during the 15 minutes before he died and found an increase in brain activity during the 30 seconds before and after his final heartbeat.These waves, known as gamma oscillations, are linked to things like memory retrieval, meditation and dreaming which suggests we could enter a peaceful dreamlike state just before we die.However, experts also believe that it could mean that our best moments play in our minds over and over again during our final minute of life, making the process feel less bleak.Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, who organised the study, said: "Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing the last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences."These findings challenge our understanding of when exactly life ends and generate important subsequent questions, such as those related to the timing of organ donation."The study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, said: "Our data provide the first evidence from the dying human brain in a non-experimental, real-life acute care clinical setting and advocate that the human brain may possess the capability to generate coordinated activity during the near-death period."This is the first and only case study of the phenomenon and the brain has already been injured due to epilepsy. Although, similar findings have been discovered in the brain of rats.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterReese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has acquired lifestyle brand The Home Edit, the company announced on Wednesday.Founded by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, The Home Edit offers “full service organizing” in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, NYC, Nashville, Orange County, Salt Lake City and San Francisco, as well as “travel and DIY services” globally. Shearer and Teplin are the authors of New York Times bestseller “The Home Edit Life” and the creators of multiple product lines, including a recently announced exclusive Walmart collection.Shearer and Teplin are also the stars of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated “Get Organized with the Home Edit,” which is produced by Hello Sunshine and will debut its second season this year.

The sexy singletons are heading to Peacock.

Paramount Pictures acquires worldwide rights to 80 FOR BRADY from Endeavor Content, who will produce the film.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPeople has a new top editor: Liz Vaccariello, formerly editor in chief of Real Simple magazine, is taking over the reins of the entertainment and human interest title.Vaccariello takes over for Dan Wakeford, who is leaving after three years as EIC.The change at the top of People’s masthead comes after Meredith’s magazine group was acquired by IAC’s Dotdash in a $2.7 billion deal. Earlier this month, the resulting Dotdash Meredith shuttered print editions of six magazines, including InStyle and EW, and laid off about 200 employees.Dotdash Meredith also announced the promotion of Zoë Ruderman to VP and GM of People’s digital operations.

Selome Hailu The U.S. version of hit reality dating competition “Love Island” has moved to Peacock after three seasons at CBS. Peacock has ordered two new seasons of the series, the first of which is set to shoot in California and premiere in summer 2022.In “Love Island,” group of singles search for love while living together in one villa.

Coronation Street, after she tries to convince Joseph to live with her.How will this affect their relationship? And how will Joseph react? Viewers will have to wait and see.Since joining Coronation Street in 2010, Izzy has become one of Weatherfield's most popular characters, becoming involved in huge storylines such as the birth of her son Jake.Fans were also delighted to see actress Cherylee Houston back on our TV screens, after she was absent from the soap due to the Coronavirus pandemic.Since then, Cherylee has spoken openly about her life away from the soap, including acting alongside her famous husband and filming scenes from home.Long before Cherylee Houston played Izzy Armstrong in Coronation Street, she also had roles in other rival soaps.In 2005, the actress played Jemma Fairbank in Holby City, before going on to appear in Doctors as Belle Hutchinson and ITV soap Emmerdale as Maureen Smith.Cherylee has also appeared in TV series including Little Britain, The Bill and radio drama Tinsel Girl on BBC Radio 4.However, she most fondly known for playing Izzy Armstrong in Coronation Street since 2010.She also formed the Disabled Artists Networking Community, which runs webinars and masterclasses for disabled artists and connects them with those working in the media industries.Talking about the community to Digital Spy, Cherylee said: "Over the last 12 months, as a society as a whole, our attitude towards diversity and change is really shifting."Being a disabled actor for 20 odd years, I know what people feel the blocks are, so we bring the solutions in a friendly way and we're beginning to see the changes already."Cherylee has spoken openly about her health battle, after first suffering joint pain when she was 11

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Call Me Kat” actress Schuyler Helford’s teen-parenting comedy “Unplanned in Akron” has received a pilot order at CBS.Written by Helford with Emily Wilson (“The Conners”) supervising, the multi-cam project follows two teenagers navigating parenthood in the best way they know how. With a little help from their friends and parents, they’ll learn that mistakes in life don’t have to derail your life – that no matter what age you are, taking care of a child is no joke – but sometimes, you just gotta laugh (or cry) your way through it.Helford is co-executive producing the potential series.

Ellise Shafer SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen “Euphoria” Season 2, Episode 7, “The Theater and Its Double.” When Ryan Heffington set out to choreograph the dance number in the penultimate episode of “Euphoria” Season 2, he took a cue from the song it’s set to, Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero.”“I knew it was — and had to be — larger than life,” Heffington tells Variety of the dance, which takes place during Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) play and features over a dozen men in shiny gold football pants gyrating against work out equipment — and each other — in the locker room. Ethan (Austin Abrams) stars in the dance as a character mirroring Nate (Jacob Elordi), whose sexuality (and homophobia) has been bottling underneath the surface during the past two seasons.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe hills are indeed alive with the sound of music in Swiss filmmaker Michael Koch’s intimate Alpine epic “A Piece of Sky,” but if you go in expecting twirling frolics, expect to be harshly disappointed. Acting as a kind of distinctly non-Greek chorus, a full Helvetian choir pops up between the acts of this small-scale domestic tragedy, their solemn folk songs lending a mournful running commentary to this story of a mountain family undone by medical misfortune and psychological upheaval.

CBS has given a pilot order to Unplanned in Akron, a multi-camera comedy from Schuyler Helford (Call Me Kat), Eric Feig’s Picturestart and CBS Studios.

“I don’t want to be that person who lives in a town and says, ‘I used to remember when that was a movie theater,’ ” Arianna Bocco tells Deadline as the IFC Films president and New Jersey native formally joins Bradley Lab — a subsidiary of theater developer/manager Cinema Lab.

EXCLUSIVE: Sci-fi and fantasy publisher Heavy Metal, global talent representation company Range Media Partners and Oscar-nominated/Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger have joined forces to create Classick Club, a forward-thinking blockchain, NFT and Web3 company focused on bringing the prestige and counterculture of classic rock’n’roll into the nascent metaverse.

We’ve been saying it wrong for all these years! Lindsay Lohan, 35, shocked fans when she introduced herself on TikTok earlier in February, and she said her name a little differently than many of us have been pronouncing it since she became a child star with 1998’s The Parent Trap. Her debut on the video app was extremely simple, but it raised tons of questions from fans who had no idea that Lohan was said differently.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are proving their sense of humor is just as strong as their love for one another.On Tuesday, the engaged couple reacted to a hilarious spoof of their upcoming wedding by comedy/influencer sensation Benny Drama, who boasts 1.7million followers on Instagram.The skit titled 'Kourt's Fairy Tale Wedding' featured the funnyman impersonating all the Kardashian-Jenner clan yet again, as well as Travis, as he poked fun at the idea of their special day being filmed for their new Hulu reality series. In good fun: Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have reacted to comedian Benny Drama lampooning their upcoming wedding (Pictured above)Despite some risqué jokes and impersonations, the happy couple saw the funny side, wasting no time in commenting underneath the video.

Kanye West was pictured leaving his album listening party in Miami, Florida on Tuesday evening with Kim Kardashianlookalike Chaney Jones.The 44-year-old rapper's new muse Chaney, 24, looked strikingly similar to his estranged wife, as she was seen leaving backstage at the LoanDepot Park.Dressed in a white leather jumpsuit and big shades with dark long locks, passers-by will have been forgiven for thinking it could have been Kim, 41.The Instagram model and influencer is said to be Kanye's new love interest, after he recently ended things with Uncut Gems actress Julia Fox. Is that you, Kim? Kanye West's new muse Chaney Jones gave fans a double take as she stepped out looking very similar to the rapper's estranged wife Kardashian on Tuesday eveningKim - who attended his last album event in a show of support for her ex - is currently in Milan for fashion week.

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Moriarty (The Boys, Jessica Jones) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) have signed on to star in Screen Gems’ film True Haunting, based on Edwin F. Becker’s book of the same name, which will be directed by Gary Fleder.

Odell Beckham Jr. is starting off 2022 strong by becoming not only a world champion, but a father!The Super Bowl LVI champion and his girlfriend, Lauren Wood, have welcomed their first child together. On Wednesday, February 23, he took to Instagram to announce that their bundle of joy arrived on February 17.In his lengthy caption, OBJ talked about the one-of-a-kind experience of seeing their baby welcomed into the world, thanked his other half for how strong she is, and revealed the little one’s name: Zydn.A post shared by Odell Beckham Jr (@obj)“2-17-22, 0605.