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The new Spider-Man movie has been abruptly faraway from cinema listings in additional than a dozen Muslim-majority nations.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was eliminated with out rationalization, apparently over the inclusion of a blink-and-you-miss-it transgender poster within the background of 1 body. It was listed in cinema programmes as just lately as final week in nations equivalent to Kuwait, the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Egypt, however was abruptly and quietly pulled.The movie, a sequel to 2018's Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was launched earlier this month within the US.No express bans of the movie have been introduced, however there have been indications that it'll not attain screens. For instanc...

While Gary Barlow has joked it was a "blunder" by producers to not check out his appearing chops in Take That's new movie, in all seriousness the singer hopes Greatest Days' cinematic success will probably be in "turning a mirror" on their followers.Speaking to Sky News, with fake upset, he joked that not casting himself as a number one man was "a huge blunder, in my opinion, but there you go - we go on, we go on!" "We've got this brilliant audience and, you know, the one thing for us that was so important with [first] the musical, and the movie, was to turn a mirror on the audience and make it about them and how important they are within what we do."Directed by Coky Giedroyc with Tim Firth adapting his personal stage present, comic Aisling Bea leads the solid with the story ...

Meghan Markle's podcast won't be renewed for a second collection by Spotify.The Duchess of Sussex's Archetypes podcast is being dropped by the streaming service, and reportedly didn't produce sufficient content material to warrant a full payout of the $20 million (£15 million) deal she and Prince Harry signed with Spotify in 2020. In a joint assertion from the couple's Archewell media firm and Spotify the businesses introduced that they had "mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together", based on the New York Post."Meghan is continuing to develop more content for the Archetypes audience on another platform," an Archewell Productions spokeswoman informed the Wall Street Journal.Archetypes is described on Spotify as "a podcast where we investigate, ...

Al Pacino is a father for the fourth time. Pacino’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the actor, 83, an...

AI is a sizzling matter – from producing worryingly plausible photographs (pope coat anybody?) to using Chat GPT for all types of issues, and builders calling for its regulation earlier than it’s too late.So after all it was at all times more likely to characteristic within the new sequence of dystopian drama Black Mirror, which is returning this week, with one episode specializing in a possible use of the expertise. Asked by Sky News if he thinks our flesh pressers are doing sufficient in terms of staying forward of AI, the present's creator Charlie Brooker was considerably dismissive."I imply, if Rishi Sunak had been changed by AI, I in all probability would not have seen," he quipped."Actually, he'd be a good character to pop up like, you know the paper clip that used to p...

NEW YORK — Robert Caro’s fifth quantity on Lyndon Johnson, one of many ebook world’s most long-awaited publications, is unlikely to be delayed by the dying of his longtime editor, publishing luminary Robert Gottlieb. ...

LAS VEGAS — Nine extra girls are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them. ...

The High Court has been instructed a narrative a few Coronation Street star printed by the writer of the Mirror made him "feel sick", and that this and different articles about him have been a "complete violation" of privateness.Michael Turner, 58, who is understood professionally as Michael Le Vell and has performed Kevin Webster within the cleaning soap since 1983, alleges that titles run by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) printed "highly private details" about his life after allegedly concentrating on him with illegal exercise for years. The actor himself is but to offer proof - he's anticipated to take action in court docket on Monday - however his lawyer David Sherborne has outlined his case, which issues 28 articles printed between 1991 and 2001.They cowl a spread of tale...

The music trade is accusing Twitter of violating copyright regulation in a brand new lawsuit that seeks over $250 million in damages. The lawsuit, f...

Sir Rod Stewart has strengthened his dedication to serving to present extra free MRI scans for NHS sufferers and says he helps the junior medical doctors' strike as it's a "chance to get them even". In an interview with Sky News, the musician stated he "wants to pay for scans" and has requested folks to come back ahead, however admitted that he "hasn't gotten very far". Sir Rod, 78, paid for members of the general public to have scans in a cell unit on the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex in February.He pledged to assist throughout a Sky News phone-in concerning the state of the NHS in January, having simply returned from a scan himself. On Thursday, he stated: "We haven't got very far unfortunately, I thought there would have been a lot of people call...