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Leonardo DiCaprio to Star as Cult Leader Jim Jones in New Biopic, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Midnight Run, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!, and the Road House remake. This WEEK’S TOP STORY LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO PORTRAY CULT LEADER JIM JONES IN NEW BIOPIC (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) The last time we saw Leonardo DiCaprio in a theatrically released feature film was in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Certified Fresh at 85{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}). Although that film was primarily about the friendship between a cowboy TV star and his stuntman best friend (Brad Pitt), the cult led by Charles Manson also figured heavily in the film’s…
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Entertainment News Roundup: Britney Spears’ journey from teen phenom to guardianship; ‘You’ll meet Benedict after’: Cumberbatch on immersive Western role and more

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 A family affair: Antonio Banderas enlists daughter for new Spanish musical 
 When Spanish actor Antonio Banderas requirements some trustworthy feed-back in his new gig as a theatrical impresario, he phone calls on his daughter Stella, who he employed as 2nd assistant director on an impending manufacturing of the musical “Business.” Banderas, star of “The Mask of Zorro” and dozens of other movies, will immediate and star in a Spanish language version of the 1970 Broadway display by Stephen Sondheim, which received 6 Tony Awards, in his hometown of Malaga, southern Spain. 
 Chris Stapleton wins significant, variety recognized…
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Environmental Photographer of the Year 2021 winners revealed
Spanish photographer Antonio Aragón Renuncio has won Environmental Photographer of the Year 2021 for his photo of a child sleeping inside a house destroyed by coastal erosion on Afiadenyigba beach in Ghana. Image source, Antonio Aragon Renuncio The image, entitled The Rising Tide Sons, highlights the rising sea levels in West African countries, which are forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. Mr Renuncio receives £10,000 prize money. The Environmental Photographer Of The Year competition, now in its 14th year, showcases some of the world’s most inspirational environmental photography. The award celebrates humanity’s ability to survive and innovate and supports the calls to action in the United Nations Sustainable…
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Why Songwriter Royalty Rates Won’t Be Changing Much
Photo Credit rating: Toa Heftiba The pursuits of songwriters and their publishers aren’t aligned. So why is the most vocal songwriter advocate doing the job for the new music publishers? The price hearings for “streaming mechanicals” are in development suitable now. As normally, the proposals proffered by the streaming services and the National Audio Publishers’ Affiliation (NMPA), on behalf of publishers, are incomprehensible to any person other than the lawyers and economists who are paid out to get ready the prolonged filings that contain “expert” views about justifiable new rates. Acquiring equitable streaming costs for recordings and songs is not a complex mathematical conundrum. It does not call for convoluted…
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Bettina Grossman, an Artistic Fixture at the Chelsea Hotel, Dies at 94
It may possibly appear to be unlikely, upon observing Bettina Grossman pushing her shopping cart crammed with artwork exterior the Chelsea Hotel, that she was an accomplished artist with a once-promising job. Ms. Grossman was strange even by the requirements of the Chelsea, the storied haven for quirky artists. Her studio condominium, Space 503, at the close of a prolonged fifth-flooring hallway, experienced turn out to be so crowded with her accrued artwork — mainly summary, very conceptual drawings, sculptures and photographs — that she had been displaced from her own dwelling place. She slept in her hallway on a lawn chair. “She was eccentric with a funds E,” stated…
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Google Doodle celebrates once-forgotten Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer
Picked is effective by Johannes Vermeer, learn of the use of light-weight and shadow — with slight alterations, a la Google. Google Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter of the Baroque time period most renowned for capturing in beautiful detail the tranquil scenes of daily daily life in domestic inside settings. He is especially renowned for the sharp contrasts established by his fragile use of light-weight and shadow, as properly as his standpoint-correct paintings. While only 35 of his paintings endure, Vermeer is viewed as a person of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age. To rejoice his talent, Google focused a Doodle to Vermeer on Friday — the…