3 h. ago France boss threatens to drop Premier League target amid £25m transfer talks

France face Germany in the Nations League third-place play-off on Sunday, with boss Didier Deschamps ready to take drastic action as Chelsea pursue one of his key players

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44 h. ago England cricketer opens up on why he almost had his toe AMPUTATED in bid to end injury hell... before doctors advised him against drastic move

An England star considered having a toe amputated to end a six-month injury ordeal. Unable to prevent a wound worsening whenever he bowled, he was ready to take drastic action.

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2 w. ago Wes Anderson makes fun of Donald Trump’s film tariff plan: ‘Can you hold up a movie in customs?’

American president has threatened to impose 100 per cent tariff on films made abroad

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2 w. ago ‘Cinema doesn’t ship that way’: Wes Anderson mocks Donald Trump’s film tariff plans in Cannes

While acknowledging he is ‘not an expert in that area of economics’, the director criticised Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on films ‘from foreign lands’American director Wes Anderson has mocked Donald Trump’s plan to impose severe tariffs on foreign-made films, suggesting it would mostly financially hit film-makers like him and be unworkable in practice.“Can you hold up the movie in customs?” the world’s chief auteur of cinematic whimsy asked at a press conference at the Cannes film festival. “I feel it doesn’t ship that way. I’m not sure I want to know the details so I’ll hold off on my official answer.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Director Richard Linklater defiantly says Trump film tariffs are ‘not gonna happen’

Linklater made the statements at Cannes Film Festival where he is showing his new film, ‘Nouvelle Vague’

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3 w. ago Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’

The actor who is making her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water at the Cannes film festival says ‘we should expect the worst and fight for the best’ Kristen Stewart has described President Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry as “terrifying” and said that “we should expect the worst”.In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter as her feature directing debut The Chronology of Water screened at the Cannes film festival, Stewart said: “We’re living in a world that’s folding in on itself by the split second we’re all looking over our shoulders going: ‘Holy shit.’ The slippage is just terrifying.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ITV set for ad sales fall but does not expect hit from Trump film tariff threat

The group said it was still assessing the ‘possibility of trade tariffs in the US’.

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3 w. ago Cannes controversies: now critics protest about lack of access to stars

Jo-Ann Titmarsh reports from Cannes on the controversies that have hit this year’s film festival, which now sees film critics protesting, as well as De Niro speaking out against Trump and jury president Juliette Binoche having her say on Gérard Depardieu

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3 w. ago Trump tariff threat worries India’s film industry: ‘Could end theatrical releases in US’

US president wants to impose 100 per cent levy on all films made outside US

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3 w. ago Robert De Niro attacks ‘philistine president’ Trump at Cannes Film Festival for targeting art

‘We can’t just sit back and watch. We have to act, and we have to act now – not with violence, but with great passion and determination,’ said the actor

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3 w. ago Robert De Niro labels Trump a ‘philistine president’ at Cannes for targeting the arts

‘We can’t just sit back and watch. We have to act, and we have to act now – not with violence, but with great passion and determination,’ said the actor

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3 w. ago Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’

Accepting honorary Palme d’Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US’s ‘philistine president’The actor Robert De Niro has – after a brief period of abstention – returned to his robust public critique of Donald Trump, using his Palme d’Or acceptance speech at the Cannes film festival to newly attack the US president.Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 78th film festival in France, De Niro said that the US’s re-elected commander-in-chief posed a global threat. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Would do more harm than good’: what will Trump’s tariffs really mean for Hollywood?

The US president’s proposed film industry tariffs have led to confusion and unrest within HollywoodCitizen Kane, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, Goodfellas, Sunset Boulevard and the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Bloodsport – Donald Trump’s favourite movies are thoroughly American and 20th century. Foreign films? Not his thing.At campaign rally in 2020 he reacted to the South Korean movie Parasite winning the best picture Oscar by demanding: “What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of that they give them best movie of the year? Was it good? I don’t know. Let’s get Gone With the Wind. Can we get Gone With the Wind back please?” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Equity responds to Trump’s film tariff and says it is ‘industrial action ready’

Earlier in the month the US president said he had authorised a 100% tariff on films ‘produced in foreign lands’.

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4 w. ago Rümeysa Öztürk, detained Tufts student, released from federal custody – US politics live

Turkish national and PhD student was arrested by US agents in March over her pro-Palestinian political speechLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service.Donald Trump’s refusal to divest from his publicly traded company has predictably prompted huge investments from wealthy special interests that could use a favor from the president.Institutional Wall Street investors and even a foreign company with business before the administration have effectively offered a fo...

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4 w. ago Trump ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, top aide Stephen Miller says – US politics live

White House deputy chief of staff told reporters administration is ‘actively’ considering suspending a person’s right to challenge legality of their detentionLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service.Donald Trump’s refusal to divest from his publicly traded company has predictably prompted huge investments from wealthy special interests that could use a favor from the president.Institutional Wall Street investors and even a foreign company with business before...

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on the impact of Trump’s film tariffs: a disaster movie waiting to happen | Editorial

The US president’s proposed levies will badly hit the UK industry just as it is recovering from a series of blowsBarbieland, the Emerald City and a galaxy far, far away were all built – at least in part – at film studios just outside London. Now the UK film industry has come crashing down to earth with Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on all movies “produced in foreign lands”. “Hollywood is being destroyed,” Mr Trump announced, like an action hero on a mission. “Other nations have stolen our movie industry.” In the UK the news was met with warnings that the British film sector would be “wiped out” by such a “knock-out blow”. Brian Cox, the Succession star, called the proposed tariffs “an absolute disaster”. Roll the opening credits.Mr Trump has a point. New instalments of Marvel’s Avengers and Spider-Man are filming around London this summer. No wonder the president wants “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” The UK’s generous tax incentives, skills base and state-of-the-art ...

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4 w. ago ‘A kick in the teeth’: UK film industry’s horror at possible Trump tariffs

Prop-maker at Shepperton Studios fears for future after post by US president throws sector into uncertaintyIt is a sunny May afternoon in leafy Surrey, and Richard St Clair is carefully preparing a bomb. It is not real, but it will look like it is when shown on a Netflix TV show. Across the workshop a colleague is cheerfully sandpapering a pile of hip bones for the 28 Years Later zombie trilogy – trailers suggest a lot of skeletons will be involved.They are working at db Props, a small company based at Shepperton Studios whose handiwork – made of expanding foam, wood, or assorted odds and sods – in films and shows has ranged from weapons in Ant Man to Thor’s hammer to Alan Turing’s computer in The Imitation Game. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Starmer's trade deal with the US 'only covers a quarter of UK exports' as huge pharma sector is left in limbo

The pact theatrically announced by the PM and US president last night will cut tariffs from 25 per cent to 10 per cent for the first 100,000 cars sent to America.

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