Katy Perry Spotted at Dinner with Celeb Friends During Paris Fashion Week

Christopher Vourlias Rotterdam Film Festival winner Cyrielle Raingou (“Le Spectre de Boko Haram”) has secured French backing for “Pour toi je reviendrai” (I’m Coming for You), which tells the story of a single mother in northern Cameroon who joins forces with a radical group of women after being cast out of her community. Raingou is pitching the project this week at the Durban FilmMart. The film will be produced by Raingou and Alice Abah for the director’s Cameroon-based shingle Je Capture Ma Réalité, along with French producer Jean-Marie Gigon’s SaNoSi Productions.

Twisters is taking the world by storm… quite literally. The highly anticipated movie is now in theaters and blowing away fans at the box office!

Eminem has knocked Taylor Swift off the top of the Billboard 200 after 12 weeks with ‘The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)‘.Much like the UK it was the rapper’s 11th Number One album in the US after it shifted 281,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 18, according to figures from Luminate (via Billboard).His 12th studio album ties him with Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Kanye West with the fifth most Number Ones on the Billboard 200 chart. The Beatles with 19 chart topping albums, Jay-Z and Swift (each with 14), are among the artists ahead of them.Of ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)”s 281,000 first-week units, streaming equivalent units clocked in at 164,500, album sales comprised 114,000 (all from digital downloads as it wasn’t available as a physical album) and track equivalent albums totalled 2,500.The album’s first-week sales also marked the biggest week in 2024 for a rap album.His latest landmark comes after the album also topped the UK Albums Chart last Friday (July 19).He joined the likes of Swift again, David Bowie, and U2, who also have 11 chart-topping albums within their current discography.Eminem’s other chart-topping albums include 2000’s ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, 2002’s ‘The Eminem Show’, 2004’s ‘Encore’, 2005’s ‘Curtain Call: The Hits’, 2009’s ‘Relapse‘, 2010’s ‘Recovery’, 2013’s ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2‘, 2017’s ‘Revival‘, 2018’s ‘Kamikaze‘ and 2020’s ‘Music To Be Murdered By‘.In a three-star review of ‘The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’, Jordan Bassett wrote for NME: “So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him back to the light and showing him up as irrelevant, perhaps Eminem’s done his old pal in for good.

Threave Rovers’ under eight girls team played their first ever match on Sunday.

The vast majority of Dumfries and Galloway eateries have received the thumbs up from inspectors.

Toni Garrn has a new man in her life!

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Sloane (Revenge, Passenger) is currently appearing nightly on the London stage as Yosser Hughes, a proud, skilled laborer who has become mentally unstable due to lack of a job, in James Graham’s powerful adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s seminal 1980s TV drama Boys From the Blackstuff. During the day, he’s on set playing The Prodigal for the second season of Netflix cosmic horror series The Sandman.

Oscar and BAFTA-winning Ukrainian feature 20 Days in Mariupol has picked up two nominations at the prestigious British Grierson Awards, along with docs on Wham!, Boris Johnson and Ronnie O’Sullivan.

Sean Kingston and his mother are facing several years in prison.

Despite the The Royal Family being short on working members - there appears to be no way back for Prince Harry.

Plans are being made to remove more than 150 pylons between the Stewartry and Dumfries.

Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes has admitted that she is "probably going to die within the next five or six years, if not before".

Ben Platt has been on tour for the last month all across the U.S. and he gave his hometown crowd a special show!

As part of the ongoing efforts to promote cycling at Dalbeattie High School, senior students organised a cross country race around the campus site .

Zachary Levi dons a purple shirt while attending a premiere screening for his upcoming movie Harold and the Purple Crayon at Culver Theater on Sunday (July 21) in Culver City, Calif.

The new movie Twisters is playing now in theaters and fans were upset to find out that the lead characters, played by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, never kiss.

Heartstopper season three is in the works!

Naman Ramachandran Veteran Indian director and actor Aparna Sen‘s new project “Her Indian Summer” is set to be developed as an Indo-U.K. co-production, it was revealed during a recent London retrospective of her work. The film, a mixed-race love story set against the backdrop of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, is being produced by Kolkata-based Indian producer-director Aritra Sen and Los Angeles-based British writer-director Alex Harvey’s Big Bazaar Films.

The heartbreaking discovery of the body of Jay Slater, the Lancashire teen who mysteriously disappeared after attending a music festival on the island of Tenerife four weeks ago, has had many parents putting themselves in the horrific position of Jay’s poor parents. One of them was OK! columnist Kerry Katona, who has opened up about how the tragic sequence of events has her worrying about her own children when she’s not with them. She said: ““Lilly is going on holiday soon and I do worry about her - especially after this whole Jay Slater news - it doesn’t get easier.” In happier news, Kerry continued: "Lilly and Molly are both coming home this week from Ireland for a visit and I can’t wait to have them back.

he is dropping out of the 2024 race, despite a recent op-ed in which he suggested Mitt Romney should run.Last Saturday (July 20), Sorkin published an op-ed article in The New York Times titled “How I Would Script This Moment for Biden and the Democrats”. In it, Sorkin lamented the troubles Biden had been facing with his campaign.The 81-year-old president has faced increased scrutiny following a disastrous debate performance in June, with pleas from fellow Democratic Party colleagues, along with notable public figures like George Clooney, Stephen King and Stephen Colbert, to step down.“So here’s my pitch to the writers’ room: The Democratic Party should pick a Republican,” Sorkin proposed.

Coronation Street fans have only just realised that Emrhys Cooper, who stars as Rowan Cunliffe on the ITV soap, was in a hugely popular movie 16 years ago.The 39 year old actor made his debut on Coronation Street in March this year as villain Rowan, who has been causing chaos on the cobbles. He's groomed and manipulated Leanne Battersby into confessing her darkest secrets and blackmailed Leanne's partner Nick Tilsley and her sister Toyah over their affair. If that wasn't enough Rowan is also getting vulnerable Leanne to groom Amy Barlow in a bid to get her £40K inheritance.