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Timothee Chalamet debuts as Wonka in prequel’s first trailer
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in a new prequel film that looks at how Roald Dahl's fictiona...
Jul 11, 2023
Berlin Film Festival announces cuts to programme from 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin Film Festival is slimming down from next year in a bid to stabilise its budget, organisers said on Tuesday, announcing a condensed programme and an end to its dedicated s...
Jul 11, 2023
Gary Lineker retains top spot in BBC pay list, with 1.35 million pounds
LONDON (Reuters) - Gary Lineker retained his position as the best-paid presenter employed by Britain's BBC, taking home more than 1.35 million pounds ($1.74 million) in the 2022-23 financial year, acc...
Jul 11, 2023
Iraq’s ancient sites, fragile stability spur new trickle of tourists
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider. "I...
Jul 11, 2023
Senegal’s lone developer fights to revive photography with film
By Ngouda Dione and Joel Kouam DAKAR (Reuters) - From a concrete jetty on Dakar's sun-baked coastline, Senegalese photographer Amy Saar clicked the shutter of her vintage Pentax camera, capturing the ...
Jul 11, 2023
New Zealand begins criminal trial over White Island volcanic eruption that killed 22
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tour booking agents and the managers of an island in New Zealand where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019 failed to properly prepare ...
Jul 11, 2023
Madonna’s North American concerts postponed as singer recovers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop superstar Madonna said on Monday that all of the North American dates on her upcoming tour will be postponed while she recovers from a multi-day hospitalization for a serio...
Jul 10, 2023
Johannesburg residents stunned by once-in-a-decade snowfall
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Residents of South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg were stunned by the first snowfall in over a decade on Monday, with some children seeing snow for the first time. While p...
Jul 10, 2023
Charlie Watts book collection to be offered for sale at auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Books and jazz memorabilia belonging to late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go under the hammer in a two-part sale in September, auction house Christie's said on Monday. ...
Jul 10, 2023
Kevin Spacey is a sexual ‘predator’, alleged victim tells UK court
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - An alleged sex assault victim said Kevin Spacey is a "predator" who performed oral sex on him as he slept in the Oscar-winning U.S. actor's London flat, a London court ...
Jul 10, 2023
