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Angelique Jackson As ‘Brat’ summer raged, Charli XCX snuck away to Poland for a couple weeks in August to make a secret movie with playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris and filmmaker Pete Ohs. The film’s title “ERUPCJA” is the Polish word for “eruption” and refers to, of course, the type of violent explosion of molten rock that comes from a volcano, but also any sudden release of pressure or tension.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” which recently won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and is Italy’s international Oscars contender, is scoring stellar returns at the local box office and fast becoming the country’s indie darling. The intimate period drama, which is largely spoken in Northern Italian dialect and is playing with Italian-language subtitles in local cinemas, has been rapidly turning into a surprise local box office sensation, gradually going from a 26 screen micro-release on Sept.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Six years after Saudi Arabia lifted its 35-year ban on cinema, the kingdom continues to make significant strides as the Middle East-North Africa region’s top movie market with audiences flocking to movie theaters lured both by Hollywood blockbusters and a growing number of local hits. Despite a slight drop-off in box office numbers to date this year, Comscore analysts firmly believe Saudi remains a strong, healthy market, with considerable room for growth. Ahead of the second edition of the Saudi Film Confex industry conference in the kingdom’s capital of Riyadh that aims to boost the local film industry, Variety spoke to the Comscore team to break down recent figures that show a 5% dip in admissions (13,663,012 in 2024 vs.

Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson has spoken to NME about the band’s new material, their £5 tickets for fans on low incomes, his own working-class roots, Oasis’ reunion, his past feud with Noel Gallagher and his thoughts on Keir Starmer’s performance as Prime Minister so far.Williamson was speaking ahead of the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards (MPAs), for which he’d been a judge alongside the likes of founding judge Rankin and Gossip’s Beth Ditto. Held on October 4 at the famed London studio, the ceremony featured a surprise appearance from one Noel Gallagher, who presented legendary snapper Jill Furmanovsky with the Icon Award.This year’s nominated entries will be exhibited at London’s Royal Albert Hall from October 8 to November 12. Check out our full interview with Williamson below, where he told us about the importance of photography in telling a musician’s story, and how that applies to himself and Mods producer Andrew Fearn.NME: Hi Jason! Have you spent much time at Abbey Road before?Jason Williamson: “We did the judging for the photography awards about two months ago.

You Me At Six have announced that they will be holding “wakes” ahead of their final run of UK dates on their farewell tour.The band recently announced their split after two decades together, and unveiled details of a farewell tour earlier this year. Comprised of Matt Barnes, Josh Franceschi, Max Helyer, Chris Miller and Dan Flint, the Weybridge rockers took to their official Instagram account to share that they are planning on “wakes” for the final dates of their tour.“Calling all UK/Europe fans who have tickets to the final nights of six tour.

Ozzy Osbourne has admitted that he is “not completely sober” and has been “tempted” to use “stronger drugs” due to his ongoing health issues.The Prince Of Darkness has previously been candid about his drug endeavours and usage throughout his career and has recently admitted that he is no longer completely sober. The metal icon has dealt with various health issues such as being diagnosed with Parkinsons’ disease in 2020 and undergoing spinal surgery last year.Now, while appearing as a guest on the Madhouse Chronicles Podcast, Osbourne revealed: “I am happier, but I am not completely sober.

The Cure have announced details of their upcoming single, ‘A Fragile Thing’ – confirming that it’ll arrive later this week.The promise of new music comes as the post-punk legends have been preparing for the release of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ in recent weeks. It’ll be their first album in 16 years, following on from 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’, and has already been previewed by the lead single ‘Alone’.Yesterday (October 6), Robert Smith and co.

Fontaines D.C. by Alex Turner provided the “heavier sounds” on ‘Romance’.In a recent video by Guitarist, O’Connell played some of Rory Gallagher’s guitars, and whilst playing his 1963 custom-coloured Epiphone Coronet, said he picked it up because the Arctic Monkeys frontman came to mind.“He had one of these, probably [from] a similar year,” he said.

Paul Heaton has announced a huge show in Sheffield with Lightning Seeds and Shed Seven – find all the details below.The singer-songwriter and former Housemartins frontman will headline the city’s Bramall Lane stadium – home to his beloved Sheffield United FC – on Sunday May 25, 2025, marking one of his biggest solo headline gigs to date.Heaton is set to perform on stage alongside his live band and special guest singer Rianne Downey. Support will come from Lightning Seeds and Shed Seven.Per a press release, the upcoming concert has “huge personal significance” to Heaton – who has supported Sheffield United since he was a boy, and also lived in the Steel City during his childhood.A post shared by Paul Heaton (@paulheatonofficial)Tickets go on general sale at 9:30am BST this Friday (October 11), priced at £39.50 (plus booking fees) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

Dakota Johnson film was shown to the entire plane.The 2023 film Daddio, which also stars Sean Penn, follows a young woman who strikes up a conversation with a taxi driver upon her return to Manhattan.According to reports, a technical issue on a flight between Sydney and Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan meant that individual selection of movies was not available. After some passengers selected Daddio, it then was chosen by the crew to play for everyone.However, crew members replaced it with a children’s film after some passengers realised the movie’s sexually explicit content.In a statement, Qantas said (via The Guardian): “The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience.“All screens were changed to a family-friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn’t possible.

Industry‘s creators have revealed that the show’s unexpected season three death scene was nearly cut by HBO.The recent finale sees things take a downward turn for Rishi Ramdani (Sagar Radia), whose gambling problem has tragic consequences when debt collector Vinay (Asim Chaudhry) turns up at his home, Rishi owing him £500,000.Things escalate and in a shocking twist, Vinay shoots Rishi’s wife Diana (Emily Barber) in the head.Opening up about the narrative choice, co-creator Mickey Down told Rolling Stone: “We thought: ‘What if we actually started to show what the consequences of someone’s actions are in this world?’ Because Rishi, like a lot of the characters, has never had to face any.”However, US broadcaster HBO were hesitant to include the scene, the showrunner recalling: “We wrote it into the script, and HBO said: ‘What the hell?!’ And they very rarely say that.

Stereophonics have announced they’ll be embarking on a ‘Stadium Anthems’ UK and Ireland tour next year.The tour marks the Welsh rock veterans first in three years, and will kick off in Belfast before culminating in a huge hometown gig at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Special guests for the tour have not yet been announced.The ‘Stadium Anthems’ run will see Stereophonics play some huge venues, including Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park as part of Summer Sessions, Dublin’s St.

Finneas has announced a run of North American tour dates, set to kick off in 2025. Find ticket details below.The new list of dates comes as the North American leg of Finneas’ upcoming ‘For Cryin’ Out Loud!’ tour – celebrating the release of his new sophomore album.Already, the singer, songwriter and producer has revealed a run of shows across the UK, Europe and Australia for 2025, and now he has confirmed the US leg too.The North American dates follow on from the Australia dates – which include four shows at the beginning of the new year – and commence with an opening night in Nashville on February 13.

Tinashe has announced her 2025 ‘Match My Freak’ UK and European tour is set to kick off next year.The ‘Nasty’ singer will kick off her tour on February 13, 2025 at Vega in Copenhagen. From there, Tinashe will make stops in Berlin, Utrecht, Cologne and Paris before heading off to the UK for a show in London.From there, she’ll make her way to Ireland for a gig at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin.

Young Knives have announced a new album titled ‘Landfill’, as well as a 2025 UK tour. Find out more below, as well as new single ‘Dissolution’.Announced today (October 7), the new album will mark the sixth from the band and their first new record since 2020’s ‘Barbarians’.According to a new press release, the album sees the band contemplating the nature of their existence, and having their vision fixed on how they can best catalogue it through the music.“It’s a record about letting things go before they are taken from you, including the carefully curated images of ourselves.

The Acolyte star Jodie Turner-Smith has criticised Disney for not defending the show’s stars amid a racist backlash.The Star Wars series, which is set around 100 years before the prequel movies, premiered on Disney+ back in June – though was recently cancelled after one season.However, some of the show’s stars were subjected to racism amid its release, with Amandla Stenberg previously sharing a song in response to abuse she had received. The star later admitted that the series’ cancellation was “not a huge shock” for her, especially after the cast was targeted with a “rampage of vitriol”.Turner-Smith, who played Mother Aniseya – the leader of the coven of witches that raised Stenberg’s characters Osha and Mae – has claimed that Disney’s silence amid the racist backlash was “unfair”.“They’ve got to stop doing this thing where they don’t say anything when people are getting fucking dog-piled on the internet with racism and bullshit,” she told Glamour.

The Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman has explained why the show is very good at predicting the future.The animated series has famously foreseen several major events throughout its run, notably Donald Trump’s presidency, Disney’s takeover of Fox and iPhone autocorrect – to name a few.Asked by People why the series has been great at such predictions, Selman responded: “Well, the sourpuss answer I always give that no one likes is that if you study history and math, it would be literally impossible for us not to predict things.“If you say enough things, some of them are going to overlap with reality, and then that’s the math element.“And then, the history element is if you make a show that is based on studying the past foolishness of humanity, you are surely going to anticipate the future foolishness of humanity as it sinks further into foolishness fair.

Brian Eno has implored the International Criminal Court to “exercise the mandate it has been given to prosecute war crimes” in an open letter.In a post shared to Instagram today (October 7), Eno referenced the “horrific events” that occurred on this day last year, when over a thousand Israelis were killed by Hamas forces.Following the attack, the Israeli cabinet formally declared war against Hamas, the the most significant escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in several decades, triggering unprecedented and seemingly unrelenting violence.Eno and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote that the ongoing military campaign from Israel “amounts to a well-planned, fully-fledged genocide”. Per Reuters, Palestinian health authorities have said Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 41,500 people.

The Inbetweeners.The actress played the role of Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the E4 comedy series between 2008 and 2010, though opened up about the dark side of fame following the show’s success.Recalling photoshoots she did for lads mags at the time, Atack said she didn’t consider that a “narrative was being painted for” her, revealing the abuse she received.“People go, ‘How can you not expect it? You’re stood up there in your pants, going, ‘Look at me!’” she told The Guardian. “But in my head, I wasn’t doing that. I wasn’t putting myself out there in an overtly sexual way.

Judi Dench reportedly got emotional while speaking about her late friend Maggie Smith.The Harry Potter star passed away last month at the age of 89, with her death confirmed by sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens.While appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday (October 5), Dench was asked by interviewer Brendan O’Hea about the topic of grief in the wake of Smith and fellow actor Barbara Leigh-Hunt’s deaths.“I know I probably shouldn’t bring this up, I know the last week has been tricky for you because you lost your great friends Maggie Smith and Barbara Leigh-Hunt,” he said (via The Times), also touching upon the death of her husband Michael Williams in 2001.Asked about her previous comparison of grief with petrol, Dench replied: “I suppose because the energy that’s created by grief…,” before getting lost for words in tears.The actress spoke no further of Smith, though did explain that she plants trees in her garden in memory of friends who have passed, and that they’ve begun resembling them.Following Smith’s death, a clip went viral from TV series Nothing Like A Dame (called Tea With The Dames outside the UK) in which the late actress appears to “turn” on her friend Dench.“We’re going to work forever if we’re asked,” Dench says, Smith adding in a deadpan manner: “But you’re always asked first if I may say so.”One of my favorite videos of Maggie Smith with Judi Dench and Joan Plowright.

Whitney Rose is asking for support and prayers amid a scary medical situation.