Rio De Janeiro, Brazil — The Rio International Film Fest will feature China as its country focus in next year’s edition, as part of the 2026 China-Brazil Cultural Year, said Walkiria Barbosa, Rio Fest’s executive director and int’l marketing. The governments of the two countries announced in Nov. 2024, during a visit of China’s president…
OpenAI is releasing a stand-alone social app for making and sharing artificial intelligence-generated videos with friends, an attempt to supercharge adoption for the emerging technology just as ChatGPT did for chatbots three years ago. The free Sora app, available from Tuesday by invitation, is powered by a new version of OpenAI’s video-making software of the…
June Bunyan, a woman from the U.K. who was found dead inside her Los Feliz apartment, had previously filed for legal protection from her then-partner, Jonathan Renteria, NBC4 has learned. On Dec. 29, 2023, Bunyan filed a request for a restraining order against then 23-year-old Jonathan Renteria, alleging acts of domestic violence. In her request…
Julia Roberts set the internet on fire this week when her first fall fashion magazine cover was unveiled. The star of “Pretty Woman” and “Notting Hill” was photographed wearing a blazer by Phoebe Philo, embodying the glossy movie star allure we’ve come to expect of the season. But it wasn’t one of the usual suspects…
Giorgio Armani began by placing mannequins in the windows of a Milanese gallery, unaware that one day he would dress Hollywood’s biggest stars. Amid the fabrics, lights, and display windows of the historic La Rinascente department store, he began to forge a career based on the idea of understated, timeless elegance that would take him…
HE was a pioneer of fashion who empowered women to wear suits in the boardroom and dressed Hollywood’s elite. Tributes last night poured in for style icon Giorgio Armani, who died “peacefully, surrounded by loved ones” yesterday, aged 91. 21 Giorgio Armani at the height of his success in 1992Credit: Camera Press 21 Lady Gaga…
TOPSHOT – Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani acknowledges the audience at the end of the Giorgio Armani Prive show as part of the Women’s Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2023/2024 Fashion Week in Paris on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP) (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images When Giorgio Armani…
Hollywood actor Rupert Everett, known for his roles in Shrek, Another Country, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, has traded the glitz and glamour of red carpets for the rustic charm of a pub counter. He’s now serving pints at The Swan, a rural Wiltshire pub that was on the brink of closure. Rupert is among…
In 2001’s “Zoolander,” Ben Stiller delivered “Magnum,” the stunning facial expression of his fictional male model character, Derek Zoolander. Twenty-four years later, Stiller walked onstage at the Cinespia movie screening of “Zoolander” to deliver that look again, shocking a crowd of fashion-lovers. On hot summer evenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the final resting place of…
Los Angeles — Los Angeles has no shortage of architectural oddities, such as the Hollywood sign, the Watts Towers and the space age Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport. Now, L.A. can add one more to the list: a newly constructed five-story residence for the dearly departed. Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s new vertical Gower Mausoleum towers…