Directors Guild Of Canada BC Issues Strike Notice; Work Stoppage In British Columbia Could Come Any Day

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Rainbow baby! Big Brother’s Bayleigh Dayton is pregnant with her and husband Chris “Swaggy C” Williams’ first child after suffering a miscarriage in 2018.

NFTs in a recent phishing scam – including one image from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series that he had been intending to base a new TV show around.Fred Simian, an ape pictured with a halo and a skeleton t-shirt, was sold for over $200,000 after the actor, producer, writer and director unwittingly visited a phishing site on May 8.The image was then acquired by a user named DarkWing84, and from there to GBE_Vault. The image’s transaction history can be traced through the NFT platform OpenSea (per Consequence).Green is particularly concerned that no longer owns the commercial rights to the character, due to appear in his latest project, Whitehorse Tavern.“Well frens it happened to me.

Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, and Olivia DeJonge headlined the star-studded premiere for the upcoming Elvis Presley biopic at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The group was also joined by the singer’s ex-wife, Priscilla Presley. On the red carpet, Luhrmann showed off a flashy Elvis belt buckle to an impressed Butler. The group was also peppered with a long list of other stars showing their support, including Shakira, Sharon Stone, Ricky Martin, Kylie Minogue, Maye Musk, Jwan Yosef, Winnie Harlow, Shanina Shaik, Elsa Hosk, Candice Swanepoel, Stella Maxwell, Adriana Lima, and Andre Lemmers. Team #Elvis has entered the building.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Three Musketeers,” Pathé Films’s $75-million two-part adventure epic saga based on Alexandre Dumas’s masterpiece, has been bought in major international territories rolling off a busy Cannes market. Pathé unveiled a sprawling 15-minute promoreel for both “The Three Musketeers” – D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady” at Cannes Marché du Film. Both movies are directed by Martin Bourboulon and boast a star-studded cast, including Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Vicky Krieps, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, François Civil, Lyna Khoudri and Louis Garrel.

Jordan Moreau Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke crashed Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference on Wednesday where state officials were meeting to discuss the Tuesday shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were killed by a gunman.Videos showed O’Rourke approaching the stage where Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and more politicians were convening after Tuesday’s tragedy.

Michael Appler Gala on the Green, the Public Theater’s annual benefit held Tuesday night steps from the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, is the best spot in town for a breezy evening spent as a fly on the wall.Last evening, for example, Liev Schreiber served as emcee. At his table sat Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, while nearby was Peter Dinklage and partner Erica Schmidt. Pillars of the New York theater community like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kelli O’Hara, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Julia Murney and “A Strange Loop’s” Michael R. Jackson were on hand, too.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTV’s “upfront” ad-sales market is starting to move — and earlier than expected.Just days after the networks wrapped glitzy programming presentations to Madison Avenue executives, Walt Disney Co. is said to have written some business with at least one major media buying agency, according to three executives familiar with recent discussions.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Harry Styles continues to fly on vinyl.The pop star’s third solo album, the eponymously-titled “Harry’s House,” has set a record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album in the U.S. The LP sold more than 146,000 copies within three days of its May 20 release.

A murder trial jury has been discharged in the case of a teenager accused of stabbing a 63-year-old Bolton man after failing to reach a verdict. They deliberated for more than a day but could not reach a decision.

Thania Garcia Brandy upheld her promise to “murk” Jack Harlow in rap and “sing his ass to sleep,” dropping punchy bars for her own rendition of “First Class” that premiered on Hot 97’s “Ebro in the Morning” show on Wednesday.The nearly two-minute freestyle is in response to Harlow’s interview with that same outlet where he couldn’t identify Brandy’s 1998 “Angels In Disguise” and had no idea that the R&B singer was Ray J’s sister.That prompted Brandy to send out a pair of tweets vowing to show up the rapper but reminded audiences that it was “all love.”I will murk this dude in rap at 43 on his own beats and then sing is ass to sleep. ♠️— b r a n d y (@4everBrandy) May 17, 2022See, I can have a little fun too♥️ hehe…all love♥️♥️♥️— b r a n d y (@4everBrandy) May 17, 2022 Her freestyle response to the Louisville rapper is a playful remix of Harlow’s chart-topping “First Class,” and Brandy demonstrated her ability to bar up.

Love may well know no reason or boundaries but if you're hoping to get hitched abroad there are one or two important things you'll need to consider. Jetting away with your beloved to tie the knot on an exotic island in the Mediterranean was an increasingly popular option - until recently.

Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank sparked a discussion after he revealed to fans that he's taken to going to bed early to save on his energy bills. Daniel, who plays archdeacon Billy Mayhew in the soap, addressed the energy crisis in a tweet shared on Tuesday night (May 24).

Doctors and nurses across four of the region’s major hospitals say they are ‘losing patients in hospitals’ as a huge IT failure tips over into more than a week of chaos. ‘Waiting times are rising’, staff are doing ‘longer shifts’, and staff are ‘unable to track their patients as they move through the hospitals’ because the electronic systems continue to crash.

It’s the end of an era!

Kendall Jenner isn’t too pleased over how her viral cucumber-cutting moment played out on The Kardashians!

Broadway’s 2021-22 season – 10 weeks shorter than usual, plagued by Covid and the cancelations it caused, not to mention the tourists who didn’t show up – took a beating at the box office, with season-end numbers no less stark for being expected: The industry took in a total of $845,414,915 at the box office, down 54% from the the historic high of $1.829 billion set by the 2018-19 Broadway season (the last full season prior to the 2020 pandemic shutdown).

Yard Act frontman James Smith has shared concert footage of him with his grandad covering Tom Jones‘ 1966 classic ‘Green Green Grass Of Home’.Smith took to Instagram to share a snippet of their cover at a recent gig in Warrington. You can view the footage below.“A few weeks ago my grandad Dave asked us if we knew ‘Green, Green Grass Of home’ by Tom Jones,” Smith wrote.

Selena Gomez is about to start a new era! The singer has revealed that new music is already in the works and she is even planning to tour.The 29-year-old star who recently gave the most hilarious impression of her friend Miley Cyrus while hosting ‘Saturday Night Live,’ talked about her future projects during an interview in Deadline’s Crew Call podcast.And while she is keeping details about her new album under wraps, the singer got her fans on social media excited about the news, after confirming that she is currently in Los Angeles “working on my album now.”“I’m open to a tour, one thousand per cent, but I obviously have obligations and things I wanna do, so when the time’s right,” she added, “it’s not the top of my priority list.”Selena is also starring in the second season of the fan-favorite Hulu series ‘Only Murders in The Building’ alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. She previously revealed her thoughts on her music career, explaining that she thought about retiring from the industry.“It‘s hard to keep doing music when people don’t necessarily take you seriously,” she told Vogue, “I’ve had moments where I’ve been like, ‘What’s the point? Why do I keep doing this?’”However it seems Selena is thrilled to be making music, following the success of her latest EP ‘Revelación’ recorded in Spanish, which was a follow up to her 2020 record Rare, peaking at No.

Idris Elba stars in the intense trailer for the upcoming thriller “Beast” in which he must fight for his family after crossing a massive rogue lion’s territory.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe union that represents film and TV directors in Vancouver issued a 72-hour strike notice on Tuesday, saying that a negotiating session with employers on Monday had not yielded any progress.The notice gives the Directors Guild of Canada the power to call a strike in British Columbia as early as Friday. Under Canadian law, unions must provide 72 hours’ notice of labor actions.Shows that are currently in production under “safe harbor” agreements would not be affected by a strike, but as of Tuesday no new safe harbor agreements will be issued.