Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

Beyonce storms to first UK no.1 in 14 years with ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’

U.S. music famous person Beyonce secured her first UK no.1 single in 14 years on Friday, when her new nation hit “Texas Hold ‘Em” stormed straight to the highest spot within the British charts. The music is certainly one of two Beyonce launched after making a shock look in a Super Bowl industrial earlier this month during which the 32-time Grammy Award winner quipped about “breaking the internet” minutes earlier than asserting a forthcoming album.

Spiritual ‘Shambhala’ marks Nepal’s first shot at Berlinale prime prize

A wronged girl’s religious journey performs out amid the peaks and villages of the Himalayas in “Shambhala”, Nepal’s first movie in competitors on the Berlin Film Festival, which debuted Friday. “I feel very happy to be here at Berlinale,” director Min Bahadur Bham instructed Reuters, saying he was proud to characterize not solely his movie, but additionally Nepal, his village and his neighborhood.

Indie cinema packs a Hollywood punch in unflinching Berlinale refugee drama

From an Aleppo working theatre below bombardment to the ocean off Greece, Brandt Andersen’s refugee drama “The Strangers’ Case” unfolds with the heartbeat and urgency of a Hollywood thriller. And that’s no coincidence, stated Palestinian-Lebanese actress Yasmine Al Massri, who performs the physician in that working theatre, saving one affected person’s life as one other pulls a gun on her.

Factbox-Winners on the Screen Actors Guild Awards

The following is a whole listing of winners on the thirtieth Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday for the perfect performances in movie and tv. The ceremony was streamed dwell on Netflix. FILM

Barbra Streisand bestowed with SAG lifetime award

Actress, singer, film director and producer Barbra Streisand was honored on Saturday with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award in recognition of her prolific profession and humanitarian work. The 81-year-old Streisand obtained SAG’s highest award from Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper. She was the 59th recipient of the award, which works to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.” She was obtained with a standing ovation and plenty of actors in tears.

Franco-Senegalese director’s reckoning with European colonialism wins Berlin’s Golden Bear

“Dahomey”, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s movie about how returning 26 treasures to Benin, artwork looted by western powers within the nineteenth century, sparked a reckoning with colonialism’s legacy, gained the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear prize for greatest movie on Saturday. The documentary, named after the West African kingdom the place the artworks had been created earlier than they had been looted by a French colonel throughout his conquest of Dahomey in 1892, seems on the response to the return of a few of them from Paris to Benin, of which Dahomey is now half.

Night earlier than ‘Rust’ taking pictures, armorer smoked ‘to get excessive,’ texts present

New Mexico prosecutors on Friday confirmed jurors texts during which “Rust” weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez stated she smoked to “get high” the evening earlier than the film’s cinematographer was fatally shot on set in October 2021. In courtroom filings, prosecutors within the trial have alleged Gutierrez’s use of marijuana, cocaine and alcohol on evenings after filming could have led to her impairment at work on Oct. 21, 2021 when she mistakenly loaded a dwell spherical right into a gun actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with. The texts proven Friday, the second day of testimony within the trial, didn’t specify a drug.

Korea’s wildly profitable ‘Roundup’ sequence seeks wider viewers at Berlinale

One of South Korea’s hottest crime motion film sequence is hoping to make the leap to worldwide success on the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, the place its fourth iteration, “The Roundup: Punishment”, will have a good time its world premiere. The movie, which follows the rough-and-tumble detective Ma Seok-do as he takes down an unlawful on-line playing ring, joins an extended listing of South Korean movies which have made their solution to Western viewers following the 2019 smash-hit “Parasite”.

‘Oppenheimer’ steamrolls towards Oscars with SAG Award wins

Historical epic “Oppenheimer” picked up extra prizes on Saturday at Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, bolstering the film’s probabilities to attain the perfect image trophy at subsequent month’s Oscars. The movie in regards to the race to construct the primary atomic bomb took the highest honor – greatest film solid – handed out by members of the SAG-AFTRA actors union at a red-carpet ceremony in Los Angeles.

Okay-pop woman group TWICE goals for prime of the Billboard

With an upbeat new album all about love and friendship and a world tour below means, Okay-pop woman band TWICE has set its sights on a brand new excessive on the Billboard most important chart, the group instructed Reuters. The nine-member band has helped to drive the worldwide Okay-pop phenomenon since its debut in 2015, propelled by cheerful songs, catchy hooks and choreography.

(With inputs from companies.)