Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis dominated the film categories at the Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) Industry Awards on Monday, while crime series prequel Mystery Road: Origin took top honors in the television section. Hosted by Aussie screen veteran Rove McManus, the AACTA Industry Awards were held at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney’s historic entertainment quarter — marking the first time the show took place in person since the start of the pandemic. The ceremony honored Australia’s finest craft practitioners of 2022. It will be followed Wednesday by the main AACTA ceremony, honoring the year’s best films, series and performances. Luhrmann’s…
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A protester and a policeman were killed on Sunday in Sweida, Syria, as security forces cracked down on a rare demonstration against poor living conditions.Hundreds of people turned out for the protest, with some throwing rocks at a government building, eventually storming it and tearing down a picture of the President, Bashar-Al-Asad.Local media said a further four people were hospitalised. The region is home to the ethnic Druze minority, who have so far largely kept out of the country’s civil war.Click on the video above to see more. WorldNewsIntel
Detoxification is becoming more popular in the fitness and health industry and for all the right reasons! It enhances your health by clearing your system of all toxins. Charcoal detox is one method that has been doing rounds for a while now. Do you know what it is and how it works? Let’s find out if its safe for you or not. Detoxifying your body using activated charcoal has become a trend recently. Few people are aware that charcoal is only effective on specific toxins in specific situations. Many individuals choose detoxification procedures based on charcoal to eliminate toxins from…
Football fans have been warned the first World Cup to be held outside the summer months could spark a rise in excessive gambling.Charity GambleAware and the Football Supporters Association (FSA) have both raised the alarm over the Qatar tournament, which gets underway on Sunday. “This upcoming tournament is very different for many reasons and one of those is the way we’ll watch it as supporters back home,” said Malcolm Clarke, FSA chair. “While most summer tournaments see millions of fans watching at outdoor events and in beer gardens, that won’t be the case for Qatar 2022. “With so much brilliant football on…
Uber said on Friday it was responding to a cybersecurity incident after a hacker apparently breached its network.The New York Times reported that Uber had discovered the breach on Thursday and taken several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the extent of the hack.A security engineer said the intruder provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial systems at the ride-hailing service.However, there was no indication that Uber’s fleet of vehicles or its operation was affected.“It seems like they’ve compromised a lot of stuff,” said Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who communicated with the hacker. That…
Global tourism is set to double in size by 2050 and with that growth comes increased carbon emissions.But measures to curb the travel industry’s impact on the environment are “woefully inadequate” according to the Travel Foundation.The sustainability charity says that without urgent action, the industry won’t come close to reaching its emissions cuts targets. These include the Glasgow Declaration goal of halving emissions by 2030 and a 2050 net zero target.Current strategies that rely on solutions like biofuels and technological advances alone will “reach net zero far too late,” according to Menno Stokman, director at the Centre of Expertise Leisure,…
After a decade of falling interest rates and central bank largesse, global financial markets are facing a reckoning.Soaring inflation is being met by rising interest rates, the slowing of central bank asset purchases and fiscal shocks, all of which are sucking liquidity, the ability to transact without dramatically moving prices, out of markets.Violent, sudden price moves in one market can provoke a vicious loop of margin calls and forced sales of other assets, with unpredictable results.“The market is so illiquid and so erratic and so volatile,” Elaine Stokes, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, said. “It’s trading on every impulse…
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There are upsides and downsides to having a film you’ve been hard at work on be abruptly swept from under your feet at the last minute by a number-crunching studio boss. Two filmmakers who can attest to this are Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, directors of the DC universe entry Batgirl, which in August became the highest-profile casualty of David Zaslav’s cost-cutting at the newly-combined Warner Bros. Discovery when it was unceremoniously cancelled while in post-production. With a budget of $90 million, the movie is considered among the most expensive cinema projects ever to be scrapped. For the two…
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has acquired “Bantú Mama,” the Dominican Republic’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film. TV actress Clarisse Albrecht makes her feature debut as the leading role and also co-wrote the script with director Ivan Herrera. A press release announced that ARRAY will debut the feature in select theaters and on Netflix starting November 17. “Bantú Mama” follows Emma (Albrecht), an Afropean woman who escapes arrest and finds refuge in a dangerous pocket of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, where she is taken in by three children. “By becoming their protégée and maternal figure,…