Loading...
The Financial Express

Search results for: entertainment

Catriona Gray wins Miss Universe crown

Catriona Gray wins Miss Universe crown

Reuters 2018-12-17 12:08:15

Catriona Gray from the Philippines was crowned Miss Universe on Monday, the fourth time the Southeast Asian country has won the international beauty pageant. Gray, a 24-year-old Filipino-Australian m...

Ariana plans special Manchester concert

Ariana plans special Manchester concert

-- 2018-12-16 15:25:20

Ariana Grande is planning to return to Manchester with "a special show" as part of her world tour next summer. She will return to the city two years after 22 people died in a bomb attack on her gig a...

Pop star Shakira faces tax evasion charges in Spain

Pop star Shakira faces tax evasion charges in Spain

-- 2018-12-15 12:28:22

Spanish prosecutors have accused the pop singer Shakira of tax evasion, alleging that she owes payments of more than 14.5 million euros (£13m, $16.3m). The complaint covers the period between 2...

Rolling Stones' Keith Richards (almost) quits drinking

Rolling Stones' Keith Richards (almost) quits drinking

-- 2018-12-14 16:45:18

Keith Richards, the hard-partying lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, has quit drinking - almost - saying he “just got fed up with it.” “It’s been about a year now,” R...

Bangladesh Liberation War movie screened in Nigeria

Bangladesh Liberation War movie screened in Nigeria

-- 2018-12-13 13:14:25

Rina Brown, a Bangladeshi movie, was screened in Nigeria recently which earned the appreciation of the audience.  Bangladesh High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria is participating in the Asian Film...

Beauty meets despair in racial injustice movie 'Beale Street'

Beauty meets despair in racial injustice movie 'Beale Street'

-- 2018-12-12 14:16:07

“If Beale Street Could Talk,” opening in US theatres in major cities on Friday is marked by a quiet beauty and dignity, despite the despair that runs through it. Based on the 1974 novel w...

17th Dhaka Int’l Film Fest kicks off Jan 10

17th Dhaka Int’l Film Fest kicks off Jan 10

-- 2018-12-11 17:23:36

The 17th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF)-2019 is all set to start in Dhaka on January 10 with the theme ‘Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society’. The Rainbow Film Societ...

Modern Family star reveals second kidney transplant

Modern Family star reveals second kidney transplant

-- 2018-12-11 13:41:11

US actress Sarah Hyland has described how having to undergo two kidney transplants left her "contemplating suicide", US media report. The 28-year-old, who stars in the popular sitcom Modern Family, o...

Beyonce performs at Isha Ambani’s star-studded wedding

Beyonce performs at Isha Ambani’s star-studded wedding

-- 2018-12-10 11:07:25

US singer Beyoncé has performed as part of the lavish festivities at the latest extravagant Indian celebrity wedding. Isha Ambani, the daughter of India's richest man, is tying the knot with A...

US writer apologises for calling Priyanka a ‘scam artist’

US writer apologises for calling Priyanka a ‘scam artist’

-- 2018-12-09 12:14:25

A US journalist has apologised after writing that Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra was a "scam artist" who had trapped US singer Nick Jonas into marrying her to further her career. Mariah Smith said...

Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival screens four Bangladeshi films

Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival screens four Bangladeshi films

-- 2018-12-08 17:38:46

Four Bangladeshi feature films were screened at the 5th Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival-2018 that drew captivating attention among the Bengali community living in the India’s Telengana state. T...

Beyonce set to perform at Mukesh Ambani’s daughter wedding

Beyonce set to perform at Mukesh Ambani’s daughter wedding

-- 2018-12-08 14:22:45

US singer Beyonce will perform at the wedding of the daughter of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, along with Bollywood stars, and guests will be flown in on 100 chartered flights in lavish ma...

Short film fest begins from Saturday

Short film fest begins from Saturday

-- 2018-12-07 16:46:40

The eight-day “Bangladesh Short and Documentary Film Festival 2018” will begin on Saturday at 64 districts simultaneously across the country. Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor wi...

Kevin Hart steps down from 2019 Oscars host role amid tweets row

Kevin Hart steps down from 2019 Oscars host role amid tweets row

-- 2018-12-07 15:17:45

Comedian Kevin Hart stepped down from hosting the 2019 Oscar ceremony after “insensitive words” about the LGBTQ community he tweeted in the past appeared online. The 39-year-old comedian...

Two Bangladeshis bag awards at Kashmir World Film Fest

Two Bangladeshis bag awards at Kashmir World Film Fest

-- 2018-12-06 11:58:20

Bangladeshi film 'Haldaa', directed by Tauquir Ahmed, has clinched the Best Feature Film (Fiction) award at the 4th Kashmir World Film Festival (KWFF). The film fest organised by Zee TV and Zee Cine...

Google doodle celebrates Tareque Masud’s 62nd birthday

Google doodle celebrates Tareque Masud’s 62nd birthday

-- 2018-12-06 10:45:12

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage, celebrating the 62nd birth anniversary of renowned Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud. In its doodle, the search engine giant sho...

U2, Coldplay top Forbes list of highest-paid musicians

U2, Coldplay top Forbes list of highest-paid musicians

-- 2018-12-05 13:58:16

Irish rock band U2 topped the 2018 Forbes magazine list of the highest-paid musicians on Tuesday thanks in part to the group’s successful “Joshua Tree” world tour celebrating their c...

'Ralph Breaks the Internet' wins again with $25.8m

'Ralph Breaks the Internet' wins again with $25.8m

-- 2018-12-04 13:30:01

Disney Animation Studios' Ralph Breaks the Internet stayed a big winner in its second outing, earning another $25.8 million from 4,017 theatres to top the box office chart in North America. The weeke...

Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas marry in Indian royal palace

Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas marry in Indian royal palace

-- 2018-12-02 20:11:20

"Quantico" actor and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra married US singer Nick Jonas on Saturday in a Christian ceremony attended by close family and friends at one of India's most opulent royal palaces,...

Egyptian film star charged for wearing see-through dress

Egyptian film star charged for wearing see-through dress

-- 2018-12-02 14:53:20

An Egyptian film star faces trial next month promoting immorality after attending the Cairo Film Festival in a see-through dress, state-owned online newspaper Al-Ahram Gate reported on Saturday. Rani...

‘Devi’ movie breaches law: Anti-tobacco group

‘Devi’ movie breaches law: Anti-tobacco group

FE Online Desk 2018-12-02 13:10:18

Claiming that ‘Devi’ movie has utterly violated the tobacco control law, SUPRO-CTFK called on the government to stop its broadcast in the soonest possible time. Alongside this, the anti-t...

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt reach child custody agreement

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt reach child custody agreement

-- 2018-12-01 12:04:36

Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached an agreement over the custody of their children, according to a lawyer in the case. The couple separated in September 2016 after two years of...

Netflix cancels Daredevil after three seasons

Netflix cancels Daredevil after three seasons

-- 2018-11-30 18:23:43

Marvel’s Daredevil will not see a fourth season, Netflix confirmed for TVLine on Thursday evening. “We are tremendously proud of the show’s last and final season and although it&rsq...

UNESCO declares reggae a global cultural treasure

UNESCO declares reggae a global cultural treasure

-- 2018-11-30 14:56:21

UNESCO has declared reggae, the Jamaican music that spread across the world with its calls for social justice, peace and love, to be a global treasure that must be safe-guarded. Born in the poor neig...

'SpongeBob SquarePants' series creator dies

'SpongeBob SquarePants' series creator dies

-- 2018-11-29 20:44:14

The creator of animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants," Stephen Hillenburg, has died at the age of 57, the Nickelodeon television network said on Tuesday. Hillenburg had said last year that he was su...

Sherlock creators find their Dracula

Sherlock creators find their Dracula

-- 2018-11-29 14:36:27

Danish actor Claes Bang has been cast as Dracula the vampire in the BBC's new take on Bram Stoker's classic novel. The BBC One mini-series has been written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatis...

Netflix to create Roald Dahl story universe

Netflix to create Roald Dahl story universe

-- 2018-11-28 18:44:55

Netflix is set to create a Roald Dahl story universe as part of a deal with the late author's estate. The streaming giant has announced it will bring a slate of new animated stories to the small scre...

YouTube making new exclusive shows, movies free to users

YouTube making new exclusive shows, movies free to users

-- 2018-11-28 14:12:48

YouTube plans to make all future original programs available to users for free with advertising, as the video streaming unit of Alphabet Inc’s Google seeks a bigger audience for shows and movies...

Momoa, Heard take to seas in superhero film 'Aquaman'

Momoa, Heard take to seas in superhero film 'Aquaman'

-- 2018-11-27 14:09:52

“Game of Thrones” actor Jason Momoa brings the latest superhero spin-off to the big screen, this time “Aquaman”, to tell the story of the DC Comics half-human, half-Atlantean c...

Last Tango in Paris director Bertolucci dies aged 77

Last Tango in Paris director Bertolucci dies aged 77

-- 2018-11-26 19:42:16

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, has died in Rome, aged 77. Born in Parma in 1941, his other films included The Conformist, The Dreamers, 1900 and Th...