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UK film industry in rude health despite virus horror
AFP, Published on 14/11/2020
» LONDON - Far from being wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's film and television industry is enjoying a blockbuster run thanks in large part to a surge in online streaming.
"Nomadland" wins top prize at Venice film festival
AFP, Published on 13/09/2020
» VENICE (ITALY) - "Nomadland" by director Chloe Zhao won top prize at the Venice film festival on Saturday, the first woman to win the prize in a decade.
Art world, politicians salute talent of Morricone
AFP, Published on 07/07/2020
» ROME - Big names from Hollywood, music and politics lined up on Monday to praise the talent and the legacy of Italian maestro Ennio Morricone, after the iconic composer died aged 91, with Antonio Banderas saluting "a big master of cinema."
Pakistan goes wild for blockbuster Turkish drama
AFP, Published on 23/05/2020
» ISLAMABAD - Dubbed the Muslim "Game of Thrones", a drama about the makings of the Ottoman Empire has sent Pakistan wild this Ramadan, smashing television records but exposing the country's lack of original content.
Smash hit Jordan documentary fills TV void for NBA fans
AFP, Published on 28/04/2020
» NEW YORK: A new Michael Jordan television documentary has become a smash hit for NBA fans whose hope of watching the playoffs these days was scuttled by the coronavirus pandemic.
AFP's Yasuyoshi Chiba wins top World Press Photo prize for Sudan protest picture
AFP, Published on 17/04/2020
» THE HAGUE - Agence France-Presse photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday with a picture of a mobile-lit Sudanese demonstrator reciting protest poetry in which judges saw a symbol of hope.
Cleaner hands, bluer skies: what has coronavirus done for us?
AFP, Published on 25/03/2020
» TOKYO - Deaths, economic meltdown and a planet on lockdown: the coronavirus pandemic has brought us waves of bad news, but squint and you might just see a few bright spots.
Def Jam banks on Southeast Asia rap stars
AFP, Published on 05/03/2020
» CHON BURI: When Singapore's Yung Raja remixed "Gucci Gang" by US rapper Lil Pump, he swapped the original's flashy cars and a prowling tiger for a beer can and Tamil food in a viral YouTube video that reeled in hip-hop label Def Jam.
A photographer's search for his mother in Nazi concentration camps
AFP, Published on 14/01/2020
» PARIS: Piles of skeletal bodies, the doors to a crematorium, emaciated faces -- an AFP photographer documents the full horror of the Nazi extermination camps in the spring of 1945, as he searches for his deported mother.
Justin Bieber reveals he has Lyme disease
AFP, Published on 09/01/2020
» MONTREAL: Pop super star Justin Bieber announced Wednesday that he has Lyme disease.