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Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova will chair the committee selecting Bulgaria’s best international film submission for the 2022-23 Oscar race, the country’s National Film Center has confirmed.

Maria Bakalova showed off her summer style in New York City on Friday.The 26-year-old actress displayed her toned legs and arms in a pair of dark denim shorts and a black and white stripe sleeveless top as she strolled through the city.The Bulgarian beauty styled her long blond hair into a low pony tail and completed her look with neutral toned slide sandals, dark sunglasses and a Louis Vuitton crossover bag. Summer style: Maria Bakalova, 26, showed off her summer style Friday in New York, displaying her toned legs and arms in denim shorts and a black and white stripe sleeveless topThe busy star's latest film, Bodies Bodies Bodies hits theaters Friday.

Palaye Royale have unveiled details of an extensive European and UK tour for 2023 – check out the dates below.The band will tour from January to March and in the UK, they will play a night at London’s Brixton Academy.You can get tickets for the shows here from August 12 onwards.Palaye Royale European and UK Tour 2023:JANUARY21 – Krakow, Poland22 – Warsaw, Poland24 – Berlin, Germany26 – Copenhagen, Denmark28 – Stockholm, Sweden29 – Oslo, NorwayFEBRUARY5 – Cologne, Germany7 – Manchester, UK8 – Glasgow, UK10 – London, UK12 – Wolverhampton, UK13 – Paris, France15 – Barcelona, Spain17 – Lisbon, Portugal19 – Stuttgart, Germany20 – Zurich, Switzerland25 – Munich, GermanyMARCH1 – Vilnius Lithuania2 – Riga, Latvia3 – Tallinn, Estonia4 – Helsinki, Finland7 – Sofia, Bulgaria8 – Bucharest, Romania10 – Istanbul, TurkeyIt comes after the band recently announced the release of their fourth studio album ‘Fever Dream’, their first since 2020’s ‘The Bastards’.The band have released four singles in support of the album so far, including, its title track, ‘No Love In LA’, ‘Punching Bag’, ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Broken’.The album is out on October 28 via Sumerian Records and was made in collaboration with producer Chris Greatti, who has worked with the likes of Yungblud and Willow.Speaking about the new album recently, the band said: “Making this record felt like getting back to when we first fell in love with music.“This record is very much about self-belief and self-empowerment, and overcoming all the obstacles that life throws at you. It’s the first time we’ve really taken a hopeful approach in our music.”The band are currently playing festivals in Europe before they head on their North American from September.

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just learned about the remaining cast for Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate’s adventure horror thriller Creepers with Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Faurain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Skylan Brooks and Kai Caster joining.

Former Bolton Wanderers winger Yanic Wildschut has joined League One rivals Oxford United.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its competition line-up for this year’s festival, with Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage and Ukrainian helmer Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’ selected in the feature film and documentary categories respectively.

Three communications execs — Marlea Willis of Marlea Willis Communications, Michael Krause of Foundry Communications and Jolyn Matsumuro of The Brookes Company — are starting a new entertainment PR agency, Luminary Communications.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry strand has unveiled the winners of the five project showcases taking place within its auspices from July 3-5.

EXCLUSIVE: French film sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International (WBI) has unveiled a slew of deals on key titles on its 15-title Cannes 2022 slate.

Yikes! Nina Dobrev revealed her role on The Vampire Diaries caused major relationship drama – after she got cast and her then-boyfriend didn’t!

Manori Ravindran International EditorA cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that pulled in an estimated $4 billion worldwide is getting the documentary treatment.Sky Germany, the U.K.’s Channel 4 and super-indie Fremantle are backing a three-part doc series about the con, which was spearheaded by the mysterious Dr. Ruja Ignatova, who is still on the run from law enforcement officials.“Crypto Queen” (working title) promises to shed exclusive new light on one of the biggest digital scams of the last decade.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are in it for better or worse! ET's Rachel Smith spoke with the pair at the premiere of MGK's new Hulu doc,  Monday, where Fox discussed going to therapy with the rock star, whose real name is Colson Baker, after an incident which saw him try to take his own life while on the phone with his now-fiancée.«We’ve done every form of therapy that exists. We’ve found a therapist that really works for us, couples and individually, and it’s definitely a process, it’s not an easy one,» Fox revealed. «Some of it's really difficult, but our therapist said that a relationship is basically the process of breaking each other down, but most people don’t have the tools to build each other back up, to rebuild.»She continued, «And so, it’s a constant process of, like, suffering and passion and love and the repeat cycles.

Megan Fox is jumping on the blonde trend! The actress traded in her signature dark locks for platinum tresses with pink lowlights.

Machine Gun Kelly is opening up about his struggles with mental health. The singer, born Colson Baker, got candid about how his life took a downward spiral after his father’s death in 2020 in his new Hulu documentary "Life in Pink," which premiered on Monday. "I flew to my dad’s apartment to clear all this stuff out," the 32-year-old recalled.

Anna Franklin Ana-Maria Comănescu’s debut feature “Horia” starts shooting in Romania on Wednesday. The film is a Romanian/Bulgarian/Serbian coproduction, produced by Carla Fotea and Ada Solomon through Romania’s MicroFILM, in coproduction with Rossitsa Valkanova through Bulgaria’s Klas Film, and Nikolina Vučetić-Zečević through Serbia’s Biberche Productions, Film New Europe reports.The script, written by Comănescu, follows Horia, a cautious teenage boy from a Romanian village, who is badly longing for his crush, who lives on the other side of the country. He resents his only parent, Petrică, a charming mechanic, for constantly pushing him to pursue girls.

Trigger Warning: This story features details about attempted suicide.

Machine Gun Kelly is sharing new details about a disturbing phone call he had with fiancée Megan Fox.

Machine Gun Kelly once put a loaded shotgun in his mouth while on the phone with his now-fiancée, Megan Fox. The singer's new Hulu documentary,, details a dark night in July 2020 shortly after his father died on the one-year anniversary of his album release. The loss worsened MGK's ongoing battle with depression and substance abuse. «I wouldn't leave my [hotel] room,» he says in the film. «I started getting really, really, really dark.

A scary moment in their relationship. Machine Gun Kelly recalled an incident where he contemplated suicide while on the phone with Megan Fox.

Machine Gun Kelly, 32, revealed that he once attempted suicide, while on the phone with Megan Fox, 36, in his newHulu documentary Life in Pink.The rapper recalled battling depression following the death of his father and admitted he was in a 'really, really, really dark' one day in July of 2020.'I wouldn't leave my room and I started getting really, really, really dark. Megan went to Bulgaria to shoot a movie and I started getting this really wild paranoia.

Mariia Horb travelled over 1,500 miles from her hometown of Kyiv to study in Manchester two years ago. Over the last four months, she has watched her country become a war zone on social media and news channels.