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Wicked, A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez and Conclave — Best Picture Oscar nominees all — were among the film winners at the 40th anniversary Artios Awards, which the Casting Society handed out tonight over three ceremonies in Los Angeles, New York and London.

the accused sexual predator is allegedly branded a “monster” with “a lot of similarities” to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The defamation suit claims that NBC’s parent company and the production company Ample “shamelessly” capitalized on the public’s “insatiable appetite” for Combs content by airing alleged “conspiracy theories” about the fallen rap kingpin in its “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” film released on Peacock last month.The doc “falsely, recklessly, and maliciously” accuses Combs, 55, of “murdering” his ex-girlfriend Kimberly Porter, Brooklyn hip-hop legend Christopher Wallace — also known as “Biggie Smalls” or “The Notorious B.I.G.” — and others, the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges.The flick “assumes that Mr. Combs has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him,” Combs’ lawyers wrote.“It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr.

Paul McCartney is rumoured to play another surprise, intimate show in New York tonight (February 12).The soloist and Beatles icon took to the stage at the 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan last night (February 11), after announcing the tiny gig shortly beforehand on social media.Tickets for the set – dubbed ‘Paul McCartney Rocks The Bowery’ – were available on a first-come, first-served basis, and limited to one per person. No phones or audio or video recording was allowed.

Naman Ramachandran Smriti Mundhra‘s Meralta Films is venturing into scripted content, acquiring rights to Riva Razdan’s romantic comedy novel “The Naani Diaries.” The two-time Oscar nominee and three-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker behind hit Netflix documentary series “Indian Matchmaking” will produce through her banner alongside Nina Anand Aujla and Maya Gnyp. The Harper Collins title follows Radhika, an ambitious New Yorker who turns to her grandmother’s 1960s love story – documented in an old diary – after getting dumped.

Natalie Portman is on board to star in a new rom-com written and directed by Lena Dunham.Good Sex, which currently has no confirmed release date, is set to be the latest in a string of films exploring age-gap romances, following on from the likes of this year’s Nicole Kidman-starring Babygirl.Portman will star as a successful couples’ therapist named Ally, who is freshly out of a decade-long relationship and nearing 40.Her best friend encourages her to enter New York City’s dating scene, where she “finds her life pulled in opposing directions as she falls into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster just as she begins a promising, more conventional relationship with Alan, a successful 50-something in Manhattan,” per the synopsis shared via Deadline.It continues: “As a romantic crossroads blossoms into a full-blown identity crisis, Ally juggles to keep these two very different men separate and to make sense of her own conflicting desires before she risks losing them both.”Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their company, MountainA, alongside Dunham and Michael Cohen under their studio Good Thing Going. In other Natalie Portman news, she’s also due to appear in The Gallerist, an upcoming film by Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey).She joins the star-studded cast alongside Jenna Ortega, Charli XCX, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star in rom-com Good Sex, written and to be directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls).

Woody Allen films including Annie Hall, has died at the age of 85.The news was confirmed by his daughter Nicole Burley to the New York Times on Saturday (February 8), who said he passed away from complications related to lung cancer.In a long and versatile career on stage and screen, Roberts became closely associated with Allen and often played the best friend of the writer/director. He appeared in a total of six of his feature films: Play It Again, Sam, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Hannah And Her Sisters and Radio Days.He was also nominated twice for a Tony Award for his work in theatre – first for his role in the 1968 musical How Now, Dow Jones, and then for the stage version of Play It Again, Sam, three years before he reprised his role of Dick Christie in the big screen version.David Anthony Roberts was born in New York on October 22, 1939 and raised in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Baldoni’s new website and filed in court, the movie’s director (Baldoni), 41, claims its leading lady (Lively), 37, “often” refused to go to fittings and demanded her character Lily Bloom’s outfits be “re-shopped,” thus resulting in an alleged inflated budget by $430,000.According to Baldoni’s amended complaint from his $400 million suit, Lively reportedly demanded the “costume department pack up wardrobe and deliver it to her personal residence” in Manhattan instead of traveling to the production office — roughly 15 minutes from her home — resulting in additional expenses. “Loading the wardrobe department on trucks and delivering the contents to Lively’s home in the middle of congested Manhattan for fittings cost time and money—always in short supply on any major film,” the court docs read.

his “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively has left him “devastated financially and emotionally,” his lawyer Bryan Freedman said Monday at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan.Speaking in front of a judge assigned to oversee the stars’ warring lawsuits, Freedman added that the accusations Lively leveled against the “Jane the Virgin” alum and his co-defendants — “It Ends With Us” producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, their production company Wayfarer Studios and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel — have allegedly amounted to “hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice.”“My grave concern is that my clients suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice as a result of actions they were blindsided by,” he said.Freedman also pleaded with the judge to fast-track the case, claiming his clients were “suffering greatly.”Michael Gottlieb, attorney for Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, insisted they were not dragging their heels.In her lawsuit filed in New York on New Year’s Eve, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and, along with his associates, orchestrating a public smear campaign against her. The claims, which the “Gossip Girl” veteran first made in an interview with The New York Times, mirrored those included in the her California Civil Rights Department Complaint against Baldoni.He denied her accusations.

Jonathan Majors‘ violent bodybuilding drama “Magazine Dreams” has received its first trailer, after the actor was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and the film was temporarily shelved. It will now release in theaters on March 21 from Briarcliff Entertainment. In the film, Majors plays amateur bodybuilder Killian Maddox, who aspires to make a name for himself within the violent world of bodybuilding.

People.The “Suits” alum, 53, added: “I got out of town and we’re exploring the world.”Macht took a “long break” from acting to focus on his wife, Jacinda Barrett, and their two children: daughter Satine, 17, and son Luca, 10, after the USA Network series ended in 2019.“Right before COVID, we wanted to take the kids out of school and homeschool them,” the actor said. “But then we got stuck and so we were in Manhattan.

Gabriel Macht is no longer living in the United States, but he doesn’t want people to know where he’s living now.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many different things. It can be like a novel (if it covers someone’s entire life). It can have the more concentrated quality of a short story (if it’s set during one key period).

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contestant on “The Bachelorette,” after his mom Renee secretly submitted his application.A post shared by Iona Men's Basketball (@ionagaelsmbb)The self-proclaimed mama’s boy did watch some episodes from that season with his mother and grandmother, making sure to excuse himself when it was time for his on-screen make out sessions with leading lady Jenn Tran.“That was definitely weird. I would just get up and act like I had to use the bathroom,” said Ellis, who made it all the way to Week 6.When explaining to “Bachelor” producers the qualities he’s looking for in a wife, he said “somebody who was caring … with a good heart … who is outgoing.”“I knew that the ladies that came on the season were going to be stunning.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic In description, “Inheritance” sounds like one of those movies that’s about the gimmickry of its own making: A spy thriller shot entirely on iPhone, with many scenes staged in public without permits for added urgency and spontaneity. But this latest feature from Neil Burger (“Divergent,” “Limitless,” “The Illusionist”), who co-wrote the script with spy novelist Olen Steinhauer, ultimately transcends mere novelty by having an even smaller-scale gist than you’d expect.

American businessman Donald Trump is set to take the Oath of Office today (January 20), becoming the 47th president of the United States.

to build a steel-and-cast-iron gate in front of her building, so unfathomably rowdy the tourists have become.Call it “Sex” and the NIMBY.In an application to the Landmark Preservation Committee, outraged landlord Barbara Lorber — for whom Manolo Blahnik is a four-letter word — argued that “at any given hour of the day or night, there are groups of visitors in front of the house taking flash photos, engaging in loud chatter, posting on social media, or just celebrating the moment.”Imagine. People excitedly talking on the street.

feud with Kendrick Lamar to federal court. The “One Dance” rapper, 38, filed a defamation lawsuit in Manhattan on Wednesday against Universal Music Group — which reps both stars — for releasing Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”In the court documents obtained by The Post, Drake accused the record label of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he’s “a pedophile.”The lawsuit states that on May 4, 2024, the day “Not Like Us” came out, “UMG approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him.”“Even though UMG enriched itself and its shareholders by exploiting Drake’s music for years, and knew that the salacious allegations against Drake were false, UMG chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists,” the suit added.Drake is signed to UMG subsidiary Republic Records, while Lamar, 37, is signed to UMG’s Interscope Records.In the court docs, Drake claimed that Lamar’s diss track — which is nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year — conveyed the “false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile.”Lamar isn’t named in the lawsuit.

been accused in a new lawsuit of raping a 16-year-old baby-sitter after luring her into his car in the Big Apple more than two decades ago.The woman, only identified as “Jane Doe,” claims she had just finished a baby-sitting gig at an apartment building in Lower Manhattan when she ran into the Bad Boy Records founder in late 2000, according to court papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.The high schooler, who lived around the corner with her parents at the time, claimed Combs’ romantic partner — only described as a “well-known woman” — lived in the same building where she worked as a sitter, the filing states.It coincides with when Combs was known to be dating Jennifer Lopez.The accuser alleges Combs, who was sitting in a car outside with two male employees, repeatedly offered her a ride home, telling her it wasn’t safe for her to be walking alone at night.“She advised Combs that she lived around the corner, was familiar with the neighborhood and would be fine. Combs offered a ride home several times which she continued to refuse.

Diddy has been hit with yet another sexual assault allegation by a victim who says they were underage.