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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9186, [email protected] Monday August 28, 2017 16 ENtertainment Lady Gaga to perform in Toronto LADY GAGA will perform at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival on the first Friday night as the Netflix documentary “Gaga: Five Foot Two” has a world premiere. The pop icon’s post-screening performance Sept. 8 will follow Gaga’s Joanne world tour having a two-night stand at Toronto’s Air Canada Center on Sept. 6 to 7, just as TIFF gets under way. Gaga’s latest concert tour kicked off in Vancouver on Aug. 1. “Gaga: Five Foot Two,” directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chris Moukarbel, offers behind-the-scenes access as Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Germanotta, meets with close friends and family, records and releases her 2016 album “Joanne” and deals with per- sonal struggles. The documen- tary produced by Heather Parry for Live Nation Productions was sold to Netflix. The video streaming giant will launch “Gaga: Five Foot Two” simultaneously in 190 countries Sept. 22, after its Toronto debut. Following the announcement about the doc, Gaga posted a number of clips to her Instagram page, with images making up a larger poster for the film. TIFF organizers also announced Thursday that the festival would offer a first look at footage for Chinese director Chen Kaige’s “Legend of the Demon Cat,” set during the Tang Dynasty. Chen, best known for his Palme d’Or winner “Fare- well My Concubine,” will be in Toronto as part of the jury for the competitive Platform Prize sidebar. Toronto will also see Quantico star Priyanka Chopra introduce the world premiere of Paakhi Tyrewala’s debut feature, “Pahuna: The Little Visitors,” about three Nepalese children separated from their parents and their harrowing voyage back home. The festival will give world premieres to Brandon and Skyler Gross’ short documentary “On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi,” about two 95-year-old Holocaust survi- vors, and a new restoration of Shi Dongshan’s “Struggling,” a wartime survival drama, com- plete with live piano accompa- niment. (SD-Agencies) New film JEFF BRIDGES and Chris Hemsworth are in talks to star in “Bad Times at the El Royale,” Drew Goddard’s contained thriller being made by 20th Century Fox. Goddard wrote the script and is directing and producing the pic, which is aiming for a Janu- ary 2018 start. The story is set in the 1960s at a run-down hotel near California’s Lake Tahoe named the El Royale and centers on a cast of characters whose own shady agendas will violently collide. Unsolved murders THE Fox network next month will air an investigation into the shooting deaths of rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. The two-hour special “Who Shot Biggie & Tupac?” will dig into the entangled murders of these legendary hip-hop adver- saries, which remains among the greatest crime mysteries in pop-culture history. Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996. Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in March 1997. Two decades later, both crimes remain unsolved. The program will be anchored by actor-rapper Ice-T and journalist-documentarian Soledad O’Brien. It will feature interviews with former private investigators, police officers, informants and hip-hop insid- ers. Airdate is Sept. 24. New single SPOTIFY says Taylor Swift has set a new global first day streaming record. The music delivery site said Saturday it had logged more than 8 million same-day streams for her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do.” The 27-year-old singer dropped the much-anticipated song late Thursday to streaming platforms and iTunes. She wrote and produced it with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who performs in the bands Bleachers and Fun. It’s the first single from her sixth album, “Reputation,” set to be released Nov. 10. The video for the song premiered Sunday on the MTV Video Music Awards. YouTube said Saturday the song’s lyric video broke a record for that site, with more than 19 million same day views. (SD-Agencies) At a Glance ORLANDO BLOOM has signed on to a new television show. The “Lord of the Rings” actor will star in Amazon’s upcoming fantasy drama series “Carnival Row,” an eight-episode neo- Victorian noir from Legendary Television. The series is set to begin filming this fall for a 2019 release on the streaming platform. The drama, first announced in May, will be written and execu- tive produced by Rene Echevar- ria (“Star Trek”). Paul McGuigan (“Luke Cage”) is set to direct and executive produce, along with Travis Beacham (“Pacific Rim”), who penned the original script, “A Killing on Carnival Row,” that appeared on The Black List in 2005. “Carnival Row” will feature mythical creatures who have fled their war-torn homeland and gathered in the city as ten- sions are simmering between citizens and the growing immi- grant population. At the center of the drama is the investigation of a string of unsolved murders, which are eating away at what- ever uneasy peace still exists. In the series, Bloom will play Rycroft Philostrate, a police inspector investigating the murder of a faerie showgirl. Bloom most recently reprised his role as Will Turner in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Elsewhere on TV, the actor played a role in HBO’s sports doping mockuentary “Tour de Pharmacy” and also starred in an episode of Netf- lix’s “Easy” from mumblecore filmmaker Joe Swanberg. In addition, he has four upcoming films: “Unlocked,” “S.M.A.R.T. Chase,” “Romans” and “Berlin, I Love You.” (SD-Agencies) Orlando Bloom to star in ‘Carnival Row’ Germany selects ‘In the Fade’ for Oscars GERMANY has picked Fatih Akin’s terrorist drama “In the Fade” to represent the country in the 2018 Oscars in the for- eign-language category. Diane Kruger made her German-language acting debut in the film, playing a German woman whose Kurdish hus- band and child are killed in an xenophobic terrorist attack. She picked up the best actress award in Cannes for her performance. The story was inspired by real- life neo-Nazi attacks on ethnic Turks and other minorities living in Germany. Akin is an established figure in the German art house scene — his hard-hitting drama “Head-On” won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear in 2004 and “The Edge of Heaven,” which won Akin the best screenplay in Cannes in 2007, was put forward as Germany’s Oscar candidate but was not nominated. Germany has been nominated 19 times in the past in the best- foreign-language category — most recently for Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” — and has won the statuette three times: for Volker Schlondorff’s “The Tin Drum” in 1979, for Caroline Link’s “Nowhere in Africa” in 2002 and for “The Lives of Others” from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck in 2006. Meanwhile, Turkey has selected Can Ulkay’s debut feature “Ayla: The Daughter of War” as its candidate in the race for best foreign-language film in the Oscars. Set during the Korean War in 1950, the film tells the story of a Turkish soldier, Sgt. Suleyman (Cetin Tekindor) who comes across an abandoned 5-year-old girl on a freezing cold night. The terrified, barely alive child melts Suleyman’s heart who risks his own life to smuggle her back to his army base and out of harm’s way. (SD-Agencies) Diane Kruger (R) stars in “In the Fade.” SD-Agencies Orlando Bloom Orlando Bloom
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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9186, [email protected]
Monday August 28, 2017 16 ENtertainment
Lady Gaga to
perform in Toronto
LADY GAGA will perform at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival on the fi rst Friday night as the Netfl ix documentary “Gaga: Five Foot Two” has a world premiere.
The pop icon’s post-screening performance Sept. 8 will follow Gaga’s Joanne world tour having a two-night stand at Toronto’s Air Canada Center on Sept. 6 to 7, just as TIFF gets under way. Gaga’s latest concert tour kicked off in Vancouver on Aug. 1.
“Gaga: Five Foot Two,” directed by Emmy-nominated fi lmmaker Chris Moukarbel, offers behind-the-scenes access as Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Germanotta, meets with close friends and family, records and releases her 2016 album “Joanne” and deals with per-
sonal struggles. The documen-tary produced by Heather Parry for Live Nation Productions was sold to Netfl ix.
The video streaming giant will launch “Gaga: Five Foot Two” simultaneously in 190 countries Sept. 22, after its Toronto debut. Following the announcement about the doc, Gaga posted a number of clips to her Instagram page, with images making up a larger poster for the fi lm.
TIFF organizers also announced Thursday that the festival would offer a fi rst look at footage for Chinese director Chen Kaige’s “Legend of the Demon Cat,” set during the Tang Dynasty. Chen, best known for his Palme d’Or winner “Fare-well My Concubine,” will be in Toronto as part of the jury for
the competitive Platform Prize sidebar.
Toronto will also see Quantico star Priyanka Chopra introduce the world premiere of Paakhi Tyrewala’s debut feature, “Pahuna: The Little Visitors,” about three Nepalese children separated from their parents and their harrowing voyage back home.
The festival will give world premieres to Brandon and Skyler Gross’ short documentary “On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi,” about two 95-year-old Holocaust survi-vors, and a new restoration of Shi Dongshan’s “Struggling,” a wartime survival drama, com-plete with live piano accompa-niment.
(SD-Agencies)
New fi lmJEFF BRIDGES and Chris Hemsworth are in talks to star in “Bad Times at the El Royale,” Drew Goddard’s contained thriller being made by 20th Century Fox.
Goddard wrote the script and is directing and producing the pic, which is aiming for a Janu-ary 2018 start. The story is set in the 1960s at a run-down hotel near California’s Lake Tahoe named the El Royale and centers on a cast of characters whose own shady agendas will violently collide.Unsolved murdersTHE Fox network next month will air an investigation into the shooting deaths of rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
The two-hour special “Who Shot Biggie & Tupac?” will dig into the entangled murders of these legendary hip-hop adver-saries, which remains among the greatest crime mysteries in pop-culture history.
Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996. Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in March 1997. Two decades later, both crimes remain unsolved.
The program will be anchored by actor-rapper Ice-T and journalist-documentarian Soledad O’Brien. It will feature interviews with former private investigators, police offi cers, informants and hip-hop insid-ers. Airdate is Sept. 24.New single
SPOTIFY says Taylor Swift has set a new global fi rst day streaming record. The music delivery site said Saturday it had logged more than 8 million same-day streams for her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do.”
The 27-year-old singer dropped the much-anticipated song late Thursday to streaming platforms and iTunes. She wrote and produced it with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who performs in the bands Bleachers and Fun. It’s the fi rst single from her sixth album, “Reputation,” set to be released Nov. 10. The video for the song premiered Sunday on the MTV Video Music Awards.
YouTube said Saturday the song’s lyric video broke a record for that site, with more than 19 million same day views. (SD-Agencies)
At a Glance
ORLANDO BLOOM has signed on to a new television show.
The “Lord of the Rings” actor will star in Amazon’s upcoming fantasy drama series “Carnival Row,” an eight-episode neo-Victorian noir from Legendary Television. The series is set to begin fi lming this fall for a 2019 release on the streaming platform.
The drama, fi rst announced in May, will be written and execu-tive produced by Rene Echevar-ria (“Star Trek”). Paul McGuigan (“Luke Cage”) is set to direct and executive produce, along with Travis Beacham (“Pacifi c Rim”), who penned the original script, “A Killing on Carnival Row,” that appeared on The Black List in 2005.
“Carnival Row” will feature mythical creatures who have fl ed their war-torn homeland and gathered in the city as ten-sions are simmering between citizens and the growing immi-grant population. At the center of the drama is the investigation of a string of unsolved murders, which are eating away at what-ever uneasy peace still exists.
In the series, Bloom will play Rycroft Philostrate, a police inspector investigating the murder of a faerie showgirl.
Bloom most recently reprised his role as Will Turner in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Elsewhere on TV, the actor played a role in HBO’s sports doping mockuentary “Tour de Pharmacy” and also starred in an episode of Netf-lix’s “Easy” from mumblecore fi lmmaker Joe Swanberg. In addition, he has four upcoming fi lms: “Unlocked,” “S.M.A.R.T. Chase,” “Romans” and “Berlin, I Love You.”
(SD-Agencies)
Orlando Bloom to star in
‘Carnival Row’
Germany selects ‘In the Fade’ for OscarsGERMANY has picked Fatih Akin’s terrorist drama “In the Fade” to represent the country in the 2018 Oscars in the for-eign-language category.
Diane Kruger made her German-language acting debut in the fi lm, playing a German woman whose Kurdish hus-band and child are killed in an xenophobic terrorist attack. She picked up the best actress award in Cannes for her performance. The story was inspired by real-life neo-Nazi attacks on ethnic Turks and other minorities living in Germany.
Akin is an established fi gure in the German art house scene — his hard-hitting drama “Head-On” won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear in 2004 and “The Edge of Heaven,” which won Akin the best screenplay in Cannes in 2007, was put forward as Germany’s Oscar candidate but was not nominated.
Germany has been nominated 19 times in the past in the best-foreign-language category — most recently for Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” — and has won the statuette three times: for Volker Schlondorff’s “The Tin Drum” in 1979, for Caroline Link’s “Nowhere in Africa” in 2002 and for “The Lives of Others” from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck in 2006.
Meanwhile, Turkey has selected Can Ulkay’s debut feature “Ayla: The Daughter of War” as its candidate in the race for best foreign-language
fi lm in the Oscars. Set during the Korean War in 1950, the fi lm tells the story of a Turkish soldier, Sgt. Suleyman (Cetin Tekindor) who comes across an abandoned 5-year-old girl
on a freezing cold night. The terrifi ed, barely alive child melts Suleyman’s heart who risks his own life to smuggle her back to his army base and out of harm’s way. (SD-Agencies)
Diane Kruger (R) stars in “In the Fade.” SD-Agencies
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