2020: Last News

Anna Marie de la Fuente Leading Spanish indie Plano a Plano has snagged TV adaptation rights to “Lejos de Luisiana” by Luz Gabás, last year’s winner of Spain’s prestigious Planeta Award. Plano a Plano acquired the rights from Book & Film Rights, the Editorial Planeta division which oversees local and international audiovisual adaptation deals as well as translation rights in international markets. Since 1952, Planeta has bestowed an annual reward to outstanding unpublished Spanish-language works with the largest endowment worldwide, one million Euros. Gabás’ acclaimed debut novel “Palm Trees in the Snow” (“Palmeras en la nieve”) was successfully adapted to the screen in 2015, winning two Goya, translated to multiple languages and grossing $18.3 million in Spain.

Australian soap stars Sophie Dillman and Patrick O’Connor recently left Home and Away viewers gutted after they announced they were leaving the soap. The on-screen couple - who are also in a relationship in real life - revealed they were planning on moving to London once they wrapped up filming. In case you didn’t know, the pair actually go way back, and met over eight years ago when they studied acting together in Queensland.

A man was able to lose more than half of his body weight thanks to years of sheer 'hard work'.

Gary Lineker has said he still believes his tweet about the Government’s “cruel” asylum policy was “factually accurate”.The Match Of The Day star, 62, told Alastair Campbell during an interview for Men’s Health UK magazine that he stood by his comments, despite the drama it's caused.The BBC has launched an independent review of its social media guidance for freelancers following an impartiality row prompted by Gary's tweets. Gary was taken off air by the broadcaster after posting a tweet in which he said the language used by the Government to promote its asylum plans, in his opinion, sounded similar to 1930s Germany.

TikTok star Harrison Gilks has died aged 18. Harrison was sadly diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma – a rare type of soft tissue cancer – in November 2020, but received the happy news that he was in remission in February last year. His remission was short lived, however, with Harrison going on to be told in June 2022 that his condition had become untreatable.

Tom Daley shared a first look at his new baby boy in a sweet gallery of images on Instagram on Wednesday.  The post came just hours after it was revealed the Olympic diving champ and his husband Dustin Lance Black have welcomed their second child via surrogate - and the baby has a very unusual name. Tom, 28, wrote: 'Phoenix Rose Black-Daley.

A company behind the fashion brand founded by Real Housewives of Cheshire star Seema Malhotra has collapsed into liquidation.

Staying strong. Lea Michele revealed her 2-year-old son, Ever, is hospitalized again after suffering a “scary health issue” earlier this month.  

TikTok star Harrison Gilks has died after winning a legion of fans on the TikTok social media app. The Canadian teenager died "peacefully" with his mum, dad and brother by his side on March 30 after landing tens of thousands of subscribers as he attempted to tick off his bucket list. The teen bravely fought a rare form of soft tissue cancer after his diagnosis in November 2020.

to have a child at 68 through a surrogate mother took a fresh twist on Wednesday, after the TV star revealed that the baby is her dead son’s daughter. Ana Obregón told ¡Hola! magazine that her son, Aless Lequio, who died aged 27 in 2020, had preserved samples of his sperm before he began treatment for cancer. “This girl is not my daughter, but rather my granddaughter,” Ms Obregón told the magazine.

Nothing to see here? Amid Priscilla Presley and granddaughter Riley Keough’s ongoing legal battle surrounding Lisa Marie Presley’s estate, Navarone Garibaldi has revealed where the family stands.

A Conservative council candidate in Bolton has been kicked out of the party for a second time over claims he posted a racist comment on Facebook. Derek Bullock was re-selected to stand for a seat for the Hulton ward on Bolton Council at local elections next month despite previously being thrown out of the party for alleged anti-Islamic statements on social media.

Achieving her goals. Dolores Catania hasn’t been ashamed to admit the steps she has taken to be happy with her body.

his obituary, Gilks died on March 30 at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Canada. In November 2020, Gilks was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that forms in soft tissue. On March 21, just a week before his death, Gilks gave his final social media update to fans from a hospital bed.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch could be called upon to testify in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit suit against Fox News and Fox Corp., per a Delaware judge who says he is not against calling upon the media moguls. If the attorneys for Dominion issue trial subpoenas to force a testimony from the Fox leaders, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said at a public hearing Wednesday he, “would not quash it and I would compel them to come,” per NBC News. “It would be my discretion that they come,” Davis said. Dominion’s attorneys requested in a letter to the court Wednesday that live testimony be required from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as Fox board member and former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Fox exec Viet Dinh. Davis approved the request to compel each of them to testify, according to NBC News.

Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan and Fox Corp. executive Viet Dinh can be compelled to testify in Dominion’s upcoming defamation trial against Fox News, a judge said on Wednesday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Savvy Games Group announced an agreement to acquire Scopely, a maker of mobile games including “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Marvel Strike Force,” “Looney Tunes World of Mayhem,” “Scrabble Go” and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” in a deal valued at $4.9 billion. Savvy, a games and esports company that is wholly owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, said the acquisition will “strengthen Savvy’s global position, whilst enabling Scopely to accelerate its growth and achievement of its strategic objectives.” The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval. Scopely will be an “autonomous operating company” under the Savvy umbrella, joining other companies in its portfolio such as esports brand ESL FaceIt Group. Founded in 2011, L.A.-based Scopely had a $3.3 billion post-money valuation in 2020 after raising a $340 million funding round. Scopely’s valuation had climbed to $5.4 billion after it acquired GSN Games from Sony for $1 billion in 2021.

Illumination/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie began its international rollout today in 44 markets, and will expand to 70 through Friday. While we are waiting on numbers from a great many of today’s debuts, early word out of Asia Pacific is encouraging at $7.95M including sneaks. 

Olivia Wilde‘s new legal documents are going viral after she stated that her ex partner Jason Sudeikis is not currently paying any child support.

Olivia Wilde accused ex Jason Sudeikis of not paying child support since their November 2020 split.

Hayden Panettiere is speaking out about her controversial ex(ish)-boyfriend Brian Hickerson, and her terse words are definitely catching our attention.