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For John Travolta, being a father is the greatest privilege in his life. The actor is the father of three children with his late wife, actress Kelly Preston. Preston passed away in 2020 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 57 years old. The couple welcomed their first child, son Jett, in April 1992. John was instantly smitten and told people about his newfound love of being a father. “After he was born and cleaned up, I held him for hours while Kelly slept,” he said at the time. A few years later, in April 2000, John and…
The prominent media analytics firm has partnered with Qatar’s Emerging Films Commission to open a regional office in Qatar’s capital Doha, which will provide data-driven intelligence to the small, oil-and-gas-rich Arab nation as it looks to take its emerging film and television business to the next level. The Qatar Film Board is a public institution that is part of the Media City Qatar Hub and is tasked with promoting the growth of the country’s entertainment industry. The group is led by Hassan Al Thawadi (pictured), a Qatari lawyer who oversaw the 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which was seen…
Coffee for closers! Alec Baldwin — the actor who uttered perhaps the most iconic movie line of all time about Java and who once publicly lambasted Starbucks employees as “stiff queen baristas” (sic) with “attitude problems” — is now contributing as a producer on a film in support of the coffee chain’s employees. Baldwin appeared at a fundraiser and screening of “Baristas vs. Billionaires” last week at Lincoln Center’s Eleanor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Director Marc Mori’s film about Starbucks Workers United says it depicts “a generational uprising of working-class Millennials and Gen Zers fighting against Starbucks Coffee for the…
Katherine Heigl is raising her three children away from the spotlight. The Firefly Lane star shares daughters Nallie, 16, Adalide, 13, and son Joshua, eight, with husband Josh Kelly. The couple met on the set of Kelly’s music video “Only You” in 2005 and married in Park City, Utah in December 2007. Heigl and Kelly were eager to start a family from the beginning. “I always thought it would be scary, but I’m ready,” Kelly told PEOPLE ahead of her wedding. “I’m 27 years old and feel like I’ve done more than most people do in a lifetime. I’m ready…
Scott Wolf celebrated his son Miller’s birthday via Instagram on Saturday, but he made sure to include his estranged wife, Kelly Wolf, in his eulogy. The “Party of Five” actor, 57, paid tribute to his now 13-year-old son on social media, sharing several photos over the years. In several photos, Miller was seen drinking hot cocoa in bed, holding a cat, playing soccer on the beach and smiling for the camera. But one photo that stood out showed Scott’s estranged wife, Kelly, cradling their son from behind as they walked through a field. Scott Wolf celebrated his son Miller’s birthday…
TALLINN, Estonia — The Baltic states have been conspicuously absent from France’s Cinéma du Monde (ACM), one of Europe’s most influential co-production funds since its creation more than a decade ago. This was publicly acknowledged by Michel Prasanet, Deputy Director of International Affairs at the French National Film Commission (CNC), during an industry session at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia’s capital. “So far, the Baltic states have not been very successful, but I am convinced that they have a lot of potential,” Prazanet said. “We are doing our best to promote co-productions with France, and of course…
From ambitious dramas to TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, Baltic projects look for inspiration in the most unusual of places. According to director Ove Masting, the goal of Business as Usual was not to judge the characters, but to “understand how the system seduces them.” “This is a world where bankers act like aristocrats, Danish executives function like kings, and oligarchies seem almost mythical. It’s a world that’s glamorous, terrifying, and willing to offer unimaginable riches for a few drops of blood.” He said corruption doesn’t begin with grand criminal masterminds, but “with small compromises made by…
Jessica Simpson will “never forget” Ashton Kutcher’s one-word response to her virginity reveal. The singer told Entertainment Tonight over the weekend that when she found out she was a virgin at 22, she immediately asked, “Why?” At the time, Ms. Simpson replied, “I haven’t met my husband yet.” Jessica Simpson details Ashton Kutcher’s reaction to his virginity reveal. Everett Collection / Everett Collection When the actress told her “That ’70s Show” co-star in 2002, he asked, “Why?” Getty Images The 45-year-old fashion designer met Kutcher, 47, to play Annette, the love interest of his character Michael Kelso, on “That ’70s…
Dharmendra, one of Indian cinema’s most beloved and enduring stars with a career spanning more than 60 years, passed away on Monday. He was 89 years old. In recent weeks, he was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai due to a respiratory illness, but has since been discharged. Known for generations as the He-Man of Hindi cinema, Dharmendra became a household name from the 1960s onwards for his matinee idol looks and naturalistic charm. He acted in over 250 films including some of India’s biggest hits like ‘Sholay’, ‘Phool Aur Patthar’, ‘Satyakam’, ‘Chupke Chupke’, ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’,…
Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Matthew Lewis and camera operator Lee David Brown hinted during a WAVES Film Bazaar panel that they plan to produce a one-off series following Netflix’s Adolescence, but emphasized that the new project will tell a different story. “No two stories are the same, because that story is definitely over,” Lewis explained in a session moderated by actor Rajdeep Chaudhry. “But we’ll probably make another production in the same format in the future, but not yet. We’re going to let it breathe…We don’t want to saturate the market with one-shot productions, because eventually everyone gets really tired of…