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Drake loses $1 mn on FIFA WC final bet despite picking Argentina to win
The Canadian superstar lost the massive amount despite picking Argentina to win over France in the Sunday match, reports aceshowbiz.com. As posted on Drake's Instagram Story, he made the bet on Stakes and would've earned $2.75 million if he had won. Footage of the OVO Sound co-founder supporting the Latin American country also surfaced on the Internet.
Randeep Hooda's crime drama 'Cat' to release on December 9
The series, which comes from creator and showrunner Balwinder Singh Janjua, marks Randeep's second collaboration with Netlfix after "Extraction", which released in 2020.
Jean-Luc Godard created his own path in cinema: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan said Godard's intellectual abilities were seen in his first movie 'Breathless'. He questioned the traditional mode of filmmaking and created his own path. He has used a unique style of the character directly speaking to the audience. The acclaimed filmmaker said Godard had even developed a new methodology to make digital movies.
Jean Luc Godard, iconoclastic vanguard of the New Wave, dies at 91
Although there hadn't been an official confirmation till midday in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Godard on social media with a message describing the auteur as "the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art." He added: "We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius."
Woody Allen plans to shoot his last movie in France
The New York-based director told the French newspaper aLe Journal du Dimanche' that he was aiming to relocate to Paris in September to lens his next project which he said will be a French-language movie with a local cast. According to Variety', while Allen said he was able to find the financing in the US but didn't give any further detail, a source close to the project said the financing was not yet in place.
Celebrated French actor Gaspard Ulliel dies in skiing accident
In a heartfelt tribute to the late Cesar-winning actor, French Prime Minister Jean Castex, writing on Twitter, said: "Gaspard Ulliel grew up with cinema and cinema grew with him. They loved each other madly. It is with a heavy heart that we will no longer see his most beautiful interpretations. We have lost a French actor." Ulliel was cast as Midnight Man in 'Moon Knight', but he's best remembered for his part in Xavier Dolan's Canadian-French film 'It's Only the End of The World' (2016), alongside Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel. The film won the Grand Prix at Cannes and three Cesars -- the French Oscars.
French abortion drama 'Happening' wins best film award at Venice fest
"I feel heard tonight!" a near-ecstatic Diwan said accepting her historic award. 'Happening', an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux, tells the story of a bright college student in early-1960s France who sees her emancipation threatened when she gets pregnant. With no legal options available, she tries to find a way to illegally abort.
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