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EXCLUSIVE: Simu Liu, star of Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and Kim’s Convenience, is joining Sam Worthington, Jordana Brewster, Robbie Amell and Alicia Sanz in thriller Hello Stranger.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” lead this year’s film nominations for the Critics Choice Association’s second annual Super Awards, with five nods apiece including Best Superhero Movie.  “Evil” and “Midnight Mass” tied for the most television nominations, with each earning six nods including Best Horror Series.

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Gray (On My Block), Kara Young (The Punisher), Allius Barnes (Cruel Summer) and Olivia Washington (Lee Daniels’ The Butler) have been cast as series regulars opposite lead Jharrel Jerome in Prime Video’s absurdist dark comedy series I’m a Virgo, created, written, directed and executive produced by Sorry to Bother You writer-director Boots Riley. Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo are set to recur in the project, which is a co-production between Media Res and Amazon Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Graden Media has upped EVP of Development Dave Mace to President. Meanwhile, LB Horschler, who had been Executive in Charge of Production at the company for seven years before leaving for Citizen last spring, is returning in a new, larger role, as EVP of Production.

Cruz Beckham is the spitting image of of his dad David Beckham in pictures from his latest modelling shoot.The youngest son of David and Victoria Beckham recently celebrated his 17th birthday party with the whole family, and the teenager seems to be growing up incredibly fast. Doing a photoshoot and interview for i-D magazine, Cruz showed off his muscular frame and bright pink shaved locks as he posed for the camera.

Roma boss Jose Mourinho has been slapped with a two-match ban and fined nearly £17,000 after accusing a referee of being 'sent' by Juventus.

Paradox Interactive has published its 2021 financial report revealing that its revenues have dropped by 19 per cent.Following the release of the year-end report, which also confirmed that its Q4 2021 revenues were also down 10 per cent, Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester described 2021 as a “challenging year” and laid out its plan to make this year more successful (thanks, GameWatcher).“2021 has been a challenging year for Paradox. Too few content releases, too low quality on some of our releases and several discontinued projects leaves us with a full-year result that we are far from satisfied with,” Wester said.

Epic Games will be making hundreds of temporary testers into full employees with benefits.As reported by The Verge, Epic Games will be hiring its US-based temporary staff full-time, complete with benefits. This will be offered to quality assurance testers and other “eligible” contract-based employees.The news comes about from an employee-facing memo, where the Fortnite developer wrote that it will “offer full-time at-will employment to eligible US-based contingent workers” and that “many of those offers will be effective April 4th, 2022.” The memo does also note that some will not receive the offer, saying, “there are a few exceptions in which it makes sense for both the worker and Epic to maintain contingent worker status.”Elka Looks, a spokesperson for Epic Games, told The Verge that the developer will hire “a few hundred” of its contracts, and that “most but not all” are QA testers.

Bad Boy Chiller Crew have launched a new ‘fans for foodbanks’ initiative at their gigs.The Bradford trio (made up of MCs Kane, Clive and GK), launched the initiative last week (February 18) in Manchester at local venue Gorilla, with gig-goers bringing non-perishable foods along to the gigs to donate to a local food bank.All last week’s donated food went to The Trussell Trust-approved Manchester Central Foodbank, with the band personally delivering the items there after the show.A statement said: “…The band have seen the all-too-real effects of extreme poverty in the UK having grown up on estates in Bradford where food banks are a vital part of the community.“The damaging effects of the pandemic have caused food bank usage to rise to an all time high and the trio wish to make a difference, trialling this donation initiative at their recent Manchester show.”Now, there are plans to roll out the scheme during their upcoming Spring 2022 tour that begins this April.Fans who bring items for the food bank along to the gigs will be rewarded with limited-edition signed posters and a promise from the band to match all monetary donations made at the show.You can see the full list of BBCC’s upcoming UK tour dates here. Reviewing their latest mixtape, NME said: “No pyro, no party: for Bad Boy Chiller Crew, it’s a real state of mind.

Jeen-yuhs director Clarence “Coodie” Simmons said he “turned the camera off” while Kanye West was running for President of the United States in 2020.West, who changed his name to Ye last year, ran as an independent candidate but only qualified for ballot access in 12 states. He received over 60,000 votes, and conceded defeated on November 4, 2020.In an interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra, Simmons said he stopped filming during Ye’s campaign because it “felt uncomfortable” despite the artist never asking him to.“The time I got back with him when he was running for president, I decided to turn the camera off,” Simmons said.

America's Got Talent star Jane Marczewski aka Nightbirde passed away yesterday at the age of 31 after a brave battle with cancer.The singer-songwriter's family took to her social media to share a final video of hers delivering an empowering message along with their heartbreaking statement.WATCH: Meet Simon Cowell's AGT Golden Buzzer act NightbirdeIn the clip, Nightbirde could be seen reclining in bed while talking about giving people the space to grieve and be sad, made all the more heart-wrenching given the situation."It's scary to go down those dark roads, but you know what, those feelings don't leave you. You have to feel it, you can't fake the rest of your life like nothing bad happened and whistle a happy tune all day," she said.MORE: AGT's Nightbirde emotionally opens up about departure from show after season finaleHer family attached their statement along with the clip, writing: "It's like JANE knew the words she needed to leave us with before she left.

As a new mom, Mandy Moore has been lucky to get some good training.

Manchester City can expect at least another five years of Bernardo Silva performing at the top level, his former academy coach has predicted.

Atletico Madrid striker Angel Correa insists he and his team-mates are mindful of the threat Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo will pose when they meet in the first-leg of their Champions League last-16 showdown at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday.

Some of the Manchester United squad to face Atletico Madrid has been revealed after the team departed for the Spanish capital on Tuesday afternoon.

Love Island star couldn’t escape the power of Storm Eunice as the gorgeous goddess found herself channelling Marylin Monroe when a gust of wind blew up her skirt and showcased her envious assets. She paired the racy skirt with what appeared to be a brown drawstring bikini top and a pair of black authentic cowboy boots as she posed up a storm on the balcony of her new luxury property.The brunette beauty let her luscious long locks cascade down her back which ended at the middle of her waist as she looked out over her sprawling garden while soaking up the sun.Shannon simply captioned the snap: “Sometimes cheeky” as her loyal legion of fans flooded her comments section with fire emojis on social media.But the model star isn’t one to shy away from a sexy snap as she relaunched her OnlyFans account back in October last year.Initially, the star said she wouldn’t go back to sharing saucy content online after she appeared on the popular ITV reality show but now she has had a change of mind.After quitting the sex positive site for more than four months, Shannon returned to the platform in an attempt to “break the stigma” around the profession.She has since launched her own #ilovemine campaign, which encourages women to take ownership of their bodies as she opened up about how empowering it made her feel to return to the site.

Ralf Little to stay safe after the Death in Paradise star shared a clip of himself struggling to film a scene during Storm Eustice. Sharing the clip to Instagram, Ralf was struggling to stand still by the coast, as he said: "It’s absolutely freezing.

Netflix is behind a bunch of various genre-focused films and that trend continues with “Black Crab.” The post-thriller will focus on a woman looking to end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo. The streaming giant has released a new trailer of the film directed by Adam Berg with a cast that consists of Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Erik Enge, Dar Salim, Ardalan Esmaili, Aliette Opheim, and David Dencik.

LIAM Payne may have told fans he's keen to reduce his carbon footprint but it seems he's struggling to stick to his pledge. Despite publicly supporting Earth Day and launching a sustainable collection with HUGO, the One Direction singer, 28, made a 10,000 mile round trip to play golf last week. The multimillionaire jetted to Costa Rica with fiancé Maya Henry for a few rounds at the exclusive Ocean Course on the peninsula before racing back to London after just a couple of days.

MARK Wright has infuriated ITV after quitting their brand new show The Games at the last minute – over text. Those working on the flagship new series said they were stunned that one day after filming the reality star turned fitness guru sent a message to ITV bosses saying he was “too busy” to take part.

ABC News has promoted Ashan Singh at Nightline to multi-platform reporter, a first for the show.