French director Louis Leterrier was a regular fan of "The Fast and the Furious" when the multi-billion-dollar franchise started more than two decades ago.. "I was a fan, buying my ticket on the Champs Elysee in 2001, who became a director and now I'm ending the franchise," Leterrier told AFP. "That never happens!"
British architect Norman Foster has spent six decades pushing the boundaries of technology with awe-inspiring modernist structures from California to Hong Kong, but he is yet to be convinced by the craze for artificial intelligence.. That physicality, you can't replicate by artificial intelligence."
The UK government on Friday hit out at European broadcasters for banning a message by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at this weekend's Eurovision final, for fear of politicising the event.. "The prime minister believes it would be fitting for President Zelensky to address the event, and we're disappointed by the decision from the European Broadcasting Union," Sunak's spokesman said.
Thousands flocked to cinemas in Dhaka on Friday as Shah Rukh Khan's blockbuster "Pathaan" hit the big screens, the first Bollywood movie to get a full release in Bangladesh in more than half a century.. "I was waiting for many days to watch Shah Rukh Khan on a big screen." mma-sa/slb/dva
A Paris baker of Sri Lankan origin said he "cried" when he heard he had won best baguette in the French capital this week and would be delivering the bread to the presidential palace.. He has won 4,000 euros (more than $4,300) and the opportunity to supply baguettes to the presidential palace.
Johnny Depp's comeback film is full of scandal both on-screen and off, as he tests out his French in the role of King Louis XV. There were rumours Depp only had a few minutes of screentime in "Jeanne du Barry", which opens the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday and has a nationwide release in France the same day. . Depp's trials are not the only scandal surrounding "Jeanne du Barry", however.
Just days after anointing King Charles III, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was prosecuted in court for speeding, it emerged on Friday.. The prosecution occurred on the same day that Welby intervened in a House of Lords debate to say the UK government's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda was "morally unacceptable".
Serbian TV is a diet of women being beaten and threats issued at gunpoint.. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has remained defiant in the face of the protests, calling the demonstrations a "political" stunt aimed at discrediting his right-wing populist government.
Tired of Shanghai club nights dominated by men, where a woman's appearance often matters as much as her musical skills, Eloise Fan has created an underground space where women DJs are free to shine.. Even in more liberal circles, Fan often felt objectified in the clubs where she and her friends cut their teeth as DJs. "Men can put on a t-shirt, sweatshirt and shorts and be a DJ, but women (are expected to) put on thick make-up, and dress up so they look sexy and beautiful," she told AFP. "One of the artists from our label told me she had previously been asked for her body measurements for a show."
A six-year wait came to an end for "Zelda" fans across the world on Friday as Nintendo released the long-awaited next instalment of its 40-year-old gaming saga.. The prediction makes the Zelda release vital for the company.
