Damian Lewis, Rapman, Salman Rushdie, Jane Turton to Receive Queen’s Birthday Honors

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMoving waves on Spain’s film-TV scene when it launched in early May, Beta Fiction Spain has unveiled its first project as a producer, “Dolores,” a portrait of Spain’s Dolores Ibarruri, a worldwide icon of the workers’ movement and struggle against fascism.The feature film is inspired by “Pasionaria. La vida inesperada de Dolores Ibárruri,” a question-posing non-fiction book by Spanish historian Diego Díaz Alonso published in 2020.Underscoring Beta Fiction Spain’s ability to attach best-of-class Spanish talent, the screenplay for “Pasionaria” is being penned by two of Spain’s foremost film-TV scribes, Alejandro Hernández, co-writer of Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” and Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” and Michel Gaztambide, a writer on Julio Medem’s milestone 1992 debut “Cows,” Enrique Urbizu’s best picture Goya winner “No Rest for the Wicked” and Freddy Highmore heist thriller  “The Vault,” the second highest-grossing Spanish movie of 2021.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIsabelle Adjani has been under formal investigation for alleged fraud relating to hundreds of thousands of dollars of business expenses since October 2020, a judicial source confirmed to Variety on Monday.The investigation stems from a police complaint filed by a former business associate, Sebastien G., in 2015, according to the French national newspaper Liberation which was first to report the story. Variety has contacted Adjani’s lawyer, Olivier Pardo, for comment.According to the story published in Liberation, the case dates back to 2011 when Adjani hired Sebastien G. as a strategy consultant to help her run her production company, Isia Films.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe barrage of TV launches over the past several months has further blurred the sense of time. Although series like “Ted Lasso,” “Succession” and “Dopesick” remain front-runners in their respective comedy, drama and limited-series categories, they all aired last fall. Are they vulnerable when it comes time for Phase 2 final voting?Maybe, or perhaps not, as they’ve been consistently at the top of most pundits’ prediction pages.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFuse Media has secured distribution for two of its free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels — Fuse Backstage and Fuse Beat — on Amazon Freevee.Amazon’s Freevee, formerly IMDb TV, is a free streaming video service with thousands of premium movies and TV shows available on-demand. It also is adding a growing array of FAST linear streaming channels like the pair from Fuse Media.Fuse Beat is the entertainment and lifestyle destination celebrating Black culture and its multifaceted contributions to global pop culture.

Katarzyna Grynienko Director Karolina Bielawska is moving into production with her debut feature, a biopic inspired by the life of iconic Polish singer Violetta Villas. The working title is “Violetta and the Woodpecker,” Film New Europe reports.Bielawska has spent five years developing the project.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe negotiations over streaming-service royalties are one of the most complex, contentious and important battlegrounds in the contemporary music industry, pitting some of the world’s largest companies — Amazon, Apple, Google/ Alphabet, Pandora/ SiriusXM/ Liberty Media and upstart Spotify — against music publishers and labels.It’s so contentious that even as the battle over rates for 2023-27 approaches later this year, the rates for 2018-22 still have not been determined: In 2018, the Copyright Royalty Board, which determines rates for publishers but not labels, ruled that streaming services must pay approximately 44% more in publishing royalties. In 2019, the four streaming services appealed that decision, arguing that they already pay out billions of dollars in royalties and such an increase would make their business models untenable.

True karma. Tristan Thompson isn’t happy about Khloé Kardashian’s dating life. A source close to the Chicago Bulls basketball player revealed that he’s sulking over the news that his ex-girlfriend is dating other people.

A hoarse and angry Rudy Giuliani decried the downgrading of charges to misdemeanors in the Staten Island slapping incident, saying he felt as if “a boulder hit me” at the supermarket. Video showing the suspect backslapping Giuliani is “a little deceptive,” the 78-year-old former Trump lawyer said.

songwriter Darren Hayes has announced his first UK tour in over a decade, to celebrate 25 years in music.The Do You Remember Tour will feature hits from across his career, including his chart-topping records in duo Savage Garden, as well as his solo hits and new music.The tour will begin on March 21, 2023 at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, taking in over 10 cities across the UK including Brighton, Cardiff, Oxford, Birmingham, London, Southend, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester.READ NEXT: Sugababes' return at Glastonbury sees fans turned away as tent becomes overcrowdedKnown for songs including Truly Madly Deeply, I Knew I Loved You, Insatiable and Crush (1980 Me), Darren Hayes expressed his excitement for performing to generations of fans on the upcoming tour as he prepares to return to the UK next year.He said: "You never know how much you love something until it’s taken away from you. "After almost a decade out of the spotlight and all this time in lockdown I found myself really missing the electric feeling that only a live audience can bring.

Love Island star India Reynolds has confessed that she would rather do a food challenge over a strip tease as she promotes more inclusive and diverse body types in the villa.Throughout the popular ITV2 dating series, viewers excitedly wait for their favourite team challenges to be filmed, whether it be the group movie night, public tweets uncovered or the highly anticipated Casa Amor week-long challenge.But it’s fair to say one of the most-hated challenges by fans is the gross food-based challenges which sees Islanders exchanging food from their mouths to fill up a full plate of food in the shortest amount of time.READ MORE: Love Island fans hail Indiyah and Dami 'winners' after loved-up first dateAnd millions of fans up and down the country were relieved to hear from ITV producer Mike Spencer confirm that the telly bosses were “moving away” from the food-based challenges this series.But the 31-year-old confessed that she would much rather take part in the disgusting food challenges over a saucy strip tease “any day of the week.”Want all the last villa gossip straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily Love Island newsletter HERE.As fans of the popular ITV2 dating show prepare for another explosive instalment of the show, the brunette beauty sat down with Daily Star in an exclusive interview about the beloved challenges still to come.While she reminisced over her time in the luxury villa, she admitted that she was “grateful” she didn’t have to strip during the show.She explained: “I know that when I was in there [that] I was so grateful that I didn’t have to do the strip challenge because I don’t think I could have done that – not sober.“No, no way could I have done that, I would have rather done a food challenge than

EXCLUSIVE: Keith Adams, the Deaf coach who made history leading an all-Deaf high school football team on 12 consecutive victories against all hearing teams, has inspired two major projects: a feature film and a documentary with the Project Power directors behind the feature film. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have signed on to direct the film with screenwriter Josh Feldman currently writing the screenplay. That film is based on the life of Coach Keith Adams, and his sons, Kaden and Trevin, quarterback and team co-captain.

deal.Facebook users have been taking to bargain groups to reveal how they've been stockpiling items when they spot them at a reduced prices.READ MORE: Man clears B&M shelf after spotting 10p bargain - and people are left fumingAnd some even say they have enough stocked up for a whole year.One woman took to Facebook to share a picture of her pantry, which was packed to the ceiling with food, cleaning products and other essentials."When the product I like is on a good special I buy up as many as I can, sometimes enough for a year," she wrote.While another posted a snap of another similar looking pantry, as they wrote: "I'm proud of my husband. He's been doing such a great job with our doomsday pantry."Well, really it's just a money saving pantry."We've got so much stock now that we're bound to be good for the next few months."Almost everything was bought on special.

Three or four 'loud bangs' were heard with passengers 'screaming' as a plane had to make an emergency landing just after taking off from Manchester Airport this morning. It is the second TUI flight to make such a landing within four days.

Joey King is giving us an exclusive look at her new film, The Princess in this “Princess’s Guide to Kicking Ass” featurette!

Johnny Depp makes a low key arrival to a private airport earlier this month in France.

Trixie Mattel is getting candid about her future in the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise.

Standing by her friend! Tayshia Adams weighed in on pal Michelle Young’s split from Nayte Olukoya — and revealed whether she saw it coming.

An accidental hit. Ben Affleck‘s 10-year-old son, Samuel, backed a Lamborghini into another vehicle during a visit to a luxury rental car agency.

Damian Lewis has been made a CBE after an acting career spanning Second World War epics, terrorism thrillers and period dramas.The 51-year-old television, film and stage star has been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity.Among his best-known roles are Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers, Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland and Henry VIII in Wolf Hall.Last year he bowed out of his most recent high-profile role, that of ambitious hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod in Billions, after five series.During the coronavirus lockdowns, he and his late wife Helen McCrory co-founded Feed NHS, a fundraiser to give food from high street restaurants to NHS staff and by April 2020 they had raised around £1million for the charity.News of his honour was previously rumoured, with a friend telling The Sun: ‘This is richly deserved for all the work Damian has done for so many people with so much done with little or no public fanfare.’Lewis was born on 11 February 1971 in St John’s Wood, London, and attended Eton College.After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.

With Jubilee celebrations about to kick off in the UK, the Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been released for 2022. Included among recipients are such arts and entertainment figures as actor Damian Lewis, author Salman Rushdie, All3Media CEO Jane Turton, Wales-born singer Bonnie Tyler and designer Stella McCartney.

Damian Lewis has handed a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours List, recognising his charity work with his late wife Helen McCrory. Damian, 51, was handed the royal honour during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee for his services to drama and charity.The actor said he and his late wife Helen were “thrilled” with the honour. Helen was 52 when she died in April last year, following a battle with breast cancer.