Paris Fashion Week launched Monday with touches of scandal and grief, as Balenciaga tries to move past recent controversies while Vivienne Westwood and Paco Rabanne hold their first shows since their founders' deaths.. And the first Vivienne Westwood show since the dame's death in December will be held on Saturday.
Indian director S.S. Rajamouli's films are all-singing, all-dancing spectacles -- and he is now a favourite to secure the first ever Oscar for an all-Indian film.. The only previous Indian Oscars won were for English-language films -- the 1982 British-Indian co-production "Gandhi" and 2008's Mumbai-set British drama "Slumdog Millionaire".
Absurdist sci-fi comedy "Everything Everywhere All At Once" continued its dominance of this year's Hollywood award shows by earning top honors from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday.. In the television sections, "The White Lotus" won the top drama prize, and "Abbott Elementary" was named best comedy ensemble. amz/st
British reality TV star Tommy Fury beat American YouTuber Jake Paul on points Sunday in a boxing spectacle intended to boost Saudi Arabia's reputation as a top-flight fight destination.. Saudi Arabia's boxing push has fuelled allegations of "sportswashing", or the use of athletics to distract from human rights abuses.
Disney's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" fell off a cliff but managed to land on all six feet this weekend, topping the North American box office with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales.. Rounding out the top 10 were: "Magic Mike's Last Dance" ($3 million) "Knock at the Cabin" ($1.9 million) "80 for Brady" ($1.8 million) "Missing" ($1 million) "A Man Called Otto" ($850,000) bbk/st
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" was named best film by Hollywood's producers Saturday, as the multiverse-jumping sci-fi hops from win to win at award shows ahead of next month's Oscars.. Twelve of the last 15 films to win the producers' top prize went on to take best picture at the Oscars, including the last two winners -- "CODA" and "Nomadland."
Africa's biggest film festival kicked off in Burkina Faso on Saturday with the Sahel nation's long-running jihadist insurgency looming large over the opening night.. The festival is due to run until March 4. bam/imm/jj
Eight-year-old Spanish girl Sofia Otero on Saturday won the best acting prize at the Berlin Film Festival for her role in the film "20,000 Species of Bees".. Gender and identity issues were the focus of several films awarded at the festival on Saturday.
In 2011, Tazmin Brits was involved in a horrific car accident which left her gravely injured and losing the will to live.. She added: "Along with my dream went all my sponsorships and will to live.
The 73rd Berlinale film festival awards its top prizes on Saturday, including the Golden Bear for best picture, after a star-studded edition that highlighted freedom struggles in Ukraine and Iran.. - Continent-spanning love story - There are 19 films from around the world vying for this year's Golden Bear, which will be awarded at a gala ceremony by a jury led by Hollywood star Kristen Stewart, at 32 the youngest president in the festival's history.
