Indian short film Bittu shortlisted in Live Action Category.

Hindi short film Bittu has been shortlisted in the Live Action Short Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards. Helmed by Karishma Dev Dube, the short film cast includes actors namely Rani Kumari, Renu Kumari, Krishna Negi, Monu Uniyal, Salma Khatoom, Saurabh Saraswat, etc.…

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Country singer Morgan Wallen dropped by WME after racial slur

American country music star Morgan Wallen has been dropped by his booking agency WME following a video surfaced that featured the singer using a racial slur.  The representative for the company confirmed the news to Variety. Apart from this, the singer’s contract with the la…

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Actor Christopher Plummer dies at 91.

Christopher Plummer, the Canadian-born Shakespearean actor who starred in films including “The Sound of Music” and “Beginners,” died on Friday 05 Feb 2021 morning at his home in Connecticut. He was 91. An imposing theatrical presence with a well-cultivated, resonant voice, t…

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World’s tallest swing ride opens in Dubai.

The world’s tallest swing ride, Bollywood Skyflyer has opened in Dubai, reaching heights up to 460 feet. The Bollywood Skyflyer is part of the Bollywood Parks Dubai and opened to the public this week. It’s even bigger than the 450-foot Orlando Starflyer in Florida, which was…

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Hollywood actor Hal Holbrook dies at age 95.

Hal Holbrook, the Oscar-nominated actor known for playing Deep Throat in All the President's Men, has died at 95. Holbrook, who also appeared in Wall Street, Into The Wild and Lincoln, died on 23 January, his assistant told the New York Times. As Deep Throat, Holbrook lea…

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Period drama ‘Bridgerton’ smashes Netflix viewership records.

Netflix has claimed its biggest hit ever with “Bridgerton,” a drama set in Britain in the early 1800s. Some 82 million households watched the drama, based on novels by Julia Quinn, in its first 28 days, Netflix (NFLX) said in a statement on Wednesday. The company also claims …

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Hilton Valentine has died at age 77.

The Animals' guitarist Hilton Valentine, best known for the iconic opening riff on the English rock band's arrangement of "The House of the Rising Sun," has died at the age of 77. Valentine began playing guitar as a teenager growing up in North Shields, Nor…

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Grammy-nominated electronic music producer, Sophie Xeon dies.

Grammy-nominated electronic music producer, Sophie Xeon dies at age 34. The Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens.  Sophie, wh…

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Cloris Leachman - Emmy and Oscar winning actor, dies at age 94.

Emmy & Oscar winning-actor Cloris Leachman has passed away. She died of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California. The late star was known as one of Hollywood’s most prolific performers having won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and eight Primetime Emmy…

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Cicely Tyson, Pioneering Hollywood Icon, dies at age 96.

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday 28 January 2021, at age…

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19th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) concluded.

The 19th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) concluded on Sunday 24 Jan 2021. During the 9-day long festival which started on 16 January, 226 films from 73 countries were shown. Kyrgyz film ‘The Road to Eden’ jointly directed by Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar won the bes…

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51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) concludes with grand closing ceremony.

The closing ceremony of the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India was held in the Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Stadium in Goa on Sunday 24 Jan 2021. Danish World War II drama “Into the Darkness” won the Golden Peacock award at the closing ceremony of the 51st e…

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International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2021 to celebrate the work of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

The 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be celebrating the work of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray by screening five of his classics.  As part of the tribute, the festival will showcase Ray's acclaimed "Pather Panchali", the first film of his…

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Grammy Awards postponed.

The 2021 Grammy Awards has been postponed due to the current global pandemic concerns, say the organisers. The ceremony, one of the music industry's biggest awards, was due to take place on 31 January. The event will now take place on 14 March, due to rising infection num…

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Bond actress Tanya Roberts dies at age 65.

Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65. Roberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show. She also starred in the f…

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Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage to represent the Jury of 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

The International Jury for 51st edition of International Film Festival of India has been announced on 05 January 2020 with eminent filmmakers across the world.  According to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Sri Lankan eminent filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage will join …

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Hollywood Director Joan Micklin Silver dies at age 85.

Joan Micklin Silver, who forged a path for female directors and independent filmmakers with movies including Hester Street and Crossing Delancey, has died. She was 85. Silver died from vascular dementia at her home in New York, her daughter Claudia Silver told. She used a co…

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Eileen Pollock: TV sitcom Bread's Lilo Lil actress dies at age 73.

Eileen Pollock: TV sitcom Bread's Lilo Lil actress dies at age 73. Actress Eileen Pollock, best known for playing Lilo Lil in 1980s TV sitcom Bread, has died at the age of 73. Pollock, from Belfast, played Freddie Boswell's brassy mistress in the hit comedy about a la…

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Kylie Jenner Tops Forbes’ List of Highest-Paid Celebrities of 2020.

Kylie Jenner Tops Forbes’ List of Highest-Paid Celebrities of 2020. American media personality and reality TV star Kylie Jenner has been crowned the highest-paid celebrity of 2020 by Forbes. The top-earning stars in the world earned a combined of $6.1 billion in 2020 with Kyl…

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US ountry music legend Charley Pride dies at age 86.

US Country music legend Charley Pride died Saturday in age 86. Pride died in Dallas of complications from current globally spred, the release said.. Born on March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Mississippi, the singer was a sharecropper's son who rose to become country music's …

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