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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Mubi, which recently planted a flag in the U.S. with the wide release of Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” has welcomed Zhang Xin to its board of directors, as part of a new chapter for the rapidly expanding company which will also see Zhang’s New York-based film production and financing group Closer Media become an investor in Mubi.

Arthouse steamer and distributor Mubi has added Chinese billionaire Zhang Xin to its Board Of Directors. 

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor In a twist as predictable as a Hollywood sequel, conservative media and alt-right commentators have made it their mission to ridicule the entertainment industry’s awards circuit. It’s an annual ritual from the Oscars to the Emmys and the Grammys: commentators use YouTube, podcasts and op-eds to denounce Hollywood as a “cesspool of liberalism” and a “bubble of elite self-congratulation.” Yet here’s the irony — many of these same voices, who openly deride the industry, quickly seek its validation when they enter its arena.

Ben Croll For the first time in more than a decade, the Cairo Film Festival will open for business. Now kicking off its 45th edition, the Egyptian event has remained a key cultural and artistic showcase for the region and for the wider Middle East and North Africa world – but Cairo has gone without a market since scuppering that component after the country’s 2011 revolution.

Chinese Cinema Today is set to launch in Japan, featuring 15 Chinese films including four Japanese premieres. The program, running Nov. 22-Dec.

It turns out there was a time when Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin were not besties!

Access Hollywood that the famous gymnasts had a falling out after the 2008 Beijing Games, but they made up eight years later. In 2018, the pair spoke about their friendship rift in a YouTube sitdown at Liukin’s Grander Summit in Boston. Liukin explained that she decided to “fix” things with Johnson after learning she wasn’t invited to Johnson’s 2016 wedding to Andrew East.Their path to reconciliation started with Johnson writing an email that she described as “a love letter” to Liukin while sitting in an airport in Dallas, near Liukin’s hometown.

Access Hollywood.“Nastia and I were best friends, training, and at the [2008] Olympics we were roommates,” Johnson recalled. “We were 16 and 18 years old, we were kids.” Though the pair had worked out a way to be both competitors and friends, the public’s desire for them to be bitter rivals drove a wedge between the phenoms.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Tape,” a Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater’s iconic 2001 psychological thriller film of the same title, is heading for the American Film Market and theatrical release in its adopted territory. In anticipation of those steps, the producers are unreeling a “Tape” trailer. “Tape” explores the fallout from a traumatic event at a high school graduation party, forcing the three former friends to confront their past in a story that delves into themes of power, manipulation, and the subjective nature of truth.

Richard Kuipers A brief moment that determined the vastly different destinies, fortunes and identities of two sisters from Yunnan on the China-Myanmar border is at the heart of “The Unseen Sister,” a mix of crime suspense and family drama that takes time to warm up before coming home strongly in the second half. Adapted from elements of Zhang Yueran’s 2017 novella, “Sister” is the most commercial film yet by leading Taiwanese filmmaker Midi Z (“Nina Wu,” “Road to Mandalay”). After opening with a bang domestically on Oct.

Vogue revealed Wednesday.“I went into shock. I just froze and stared at him,” Dobrev said of White, who presented his bride-to-be with a dazzling five-carat diamond ring by famed jeweler Lorraine Schwartz.White, who began dating Dobrev in 2019, surprised the “Love Hard” star with an intimate proposal at The Golden Swan restaurant in New York City’s West Village neighborhood. Dobrev was under the impression she was attending a CFDA/Vogue dinner with the publication’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, a guise set up by White.“He made the invite look so legitimate,” Dobrev recalled to Vogue.Upon accepting White’s proposal, Dobrev and her future husband enjoyed champagne and caviar with friends — not to mention takeout dumplings and Shake Shack.“Eventually we realized — other than the caviar — we hadn’t eaten anything,” White told Vogue.A five-time Olympian, White won the gold medal in the halfpipe across three Winter Games (Torino in 2006, Vancouver in 2010 and Pyeongchang in 2018).White finished his Olympic career at the 2022 Beijing Games, placing fourth in the men’s halfpipe.“A lot of emotions hitting me right now.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hong Kong-based sales firm Cappu Films will use TIFFCOM, the rights market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival, to launch world sales activities on two films that were recently at the Busan festival. Psychological thriller “Waterdrop,” was winner of two awards at the Busan festival earlier this month while crime comedy “So It Goes” was competitor in the Jiseok Award section. Cappu was founded by independent filmmaker Janice Woo in 2018 and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Los Angeles. It focuses on rising filmmakers and genre films and television with global appeal and has activities that that span international sales and distribution.

Jose Mourinho entered the room, acknowledged familiar faces and tossed two shirts to two English reporters. One of them was for me.

Olympic hero Sir Chris Hoy, who is battling terminal cancer, has revealed the lengths he went to in order to keep his hair for his 10 year old son.The 48 year old sporting legend, who first shared news of his diagnosis earlier this year, has been told by doctors that he has 'two to four years' to live.The 11-time world champion and one of Britain's most decorated Olympians, with six gold medals and one silver from four different Games - Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London, has been fighting cancer for over a year, reports the Mirror. In an interview with the Times, Hoy revealed that son Callum asked him: "Are you going to die?" Hoy told his young boy that no one lives for ever, although he hoped that, thanks to medicine, he'd be alive for 'for many, many years'.

Karate Kid” movie, titled “Karate Kid: Legends,” at New York Comic Con on Friday night. The upcoming movie, releasing in theaters on May 30, unites franchise stars Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan and introduces a new student named Li Fong, played by Ben Wang. Macchio returns as Daniel LaRusso, whom he played in the original 1984 “Karate Kid” film trilogy and later reprised in Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” series.

In this week’s Saturday Night Live promo, Michael Keaton seems very pumped up to return as host. As a boxing match-style announcer intones some very iffy facts – 7’3 inches tall? 295 pounds? 2006 University of Beijing grad? – the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star gets increasingly annoyed and psyched.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Alyssa Sutherland head the cast of “The Room Below,” a psychological creature thriller film that is now shooting in Sydney, Australia. The film hails from writer-director Kurt Martin (“Moon Rock for Monday”). Production is through Byron Bay-based Lunar Pictures.

Plans for a £60m boutique Dakota hotel next to Manchester Airport have been given the green light. The hotel chain was given approval by Manchester city council’s planning team under delegated powers.

One of the internet's most popular Airbnbs is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world - and comes with a two-year waiting list.

Strictly Come Dancing is back for another series as weekend TV will be dominated by a bunch of celebrities doing foxtrots, paso dobles and cha-cha-chas for the next few months.

Dame Sarah Storey stretched her record-breaking exploits to 18 Paralympic gold medals with victory in the women's C5 time trial at Paris 2024.