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Apple to release a movie with Will Smith, despite his Oscar slap
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Sylvie Claire / October 4, 2022
Less than a year after the scandal caused by Will Smith’s slap at the Oscars, Apple announced on Monday the release in December of its new film “Emancipation”, with the actor in the lead.
Hollywood professionals were betting on a postponement of this historical movie about slavery, because of the smell of sulfur that emanates from Mr. Smith since his slap last March on the host of the Oscars, the comedian Chris Rock.
A widely condemned slip, which earned him a 10-year ban from the ceremony. Despite the controversy, Apple will release “Emancipation” in U.S. theaters on December 2, before a release on its Apple TV+ streaming platform the following week.
The timing allows the company to nominate the film for the upcoming Oscars, just after becoming the first streaming platform to be awarded the Best Picture statuette at the last ceremony with its feature film “CODA.”
Smith has been keeping a low profile since the last Oscars, when he won Best Actor for his performance in “The Williams Method,” minutes after slapping Chris Rock, who had mocked his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. The former “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” publicly apologized shortly after the incident.
In July, he also posted a video on social networks, proposing a meeting with the comedian. The 54-year-old actor resigned from the Academy of Oscars. The Academy banned him from the ceremony for 10 years, but there is nothing to prevent him from being nominated for the competition.
His Oscar for best actor was not withdrawn despite the scandal. In “Emancipation”, he plays a runaway slave in the swamps of Louisiana, with the hope of reaching the North Country, synonymous with freedom for African-Americans in the United States of the nineteenth century. The feature film was directed by Antoine Fuqua, whose film “Training Day” (2001) won Denzel Washington the Oscar for best actor.
“Emancipation” was originally supposed to be shot in Georgia, but the production was relocated to Louisiana after the adoption of a controversial law by this state in the American South, which according to several NGOs aimed to discourage voting by African-Americans.
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Eva Descamps / February 28, 2024
You’ve seen him in “Star Trek”, “NCIS”, “Grey’s Anatomy” for the series, “Captain Marvel”, “The Recruit”, “Home of the Giants” for the movies… Canadian actor Kenneth Mitchell passed away at the age of 49 this February 24, 2024.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the dec! s of Kenneth Alexander Mitchell, a beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, son and friend,” read a post on his Instagram account announcing the sad news.
In August 2018, Kenneth Mitchell was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He had been in a wheelchair since October 2019. By August 2021, he had lost the use of his voice due to the disease.
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Alexei Navalny’s body handed over to his mother, says Russian opposition leader’s team
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Sylvie Claire / February 28, 2024
Alexei Navalny’s body, which his relatives had been demanding for over a week, has been handed over to his mother, the Russian opposition leader’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.
In recent days, Alexeï Navalny’s team has regularly complained about not having access to the body of the deceased Russian opponent. His relatives had complained that investigators would spend at least 14 days carrying out an “expertise” on his remains before handing them over.
Navalny’s relatives accuse the Kremlin of killing him and trying to cover up his tracks. According to Navalny’s mother, Russia is trying to decompose the body so that it can no longer be examined. Last week, Alexei Navalny’s mother and lawyers were not allowed to enter the morgue.
Eight days after his death, Navalny’s body was returned to his mother. The Russian opponent’s spokeswoman, Kira Iarmich, said on X (ex-Twitter) that she did not yet know whether “the authorities will prevent (the funeral) from taking place as the family wishes and as Alexei deserves ».
Alexei Navalny was the most prominent opposition figure in Russia, where he gained widespread popularity, particularly among the younger generation, thanks to his in-depth investigations into corruption under Vladimir Putin’s regime
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Eva Deschamps / February 16, 2024
Watching a Sylvester Stallone film in VF will never be the same again. Alain Dorval, the French actor who dubbed the American, died on Monday night, his family announced.
Alain Dorval had been battling cancer for several years, which finally claimed his life earlier this week at the Gustave Roussy hospital outside Paris.
He was best known as the French voice of Sylvester Stallone, but also distinguished himself as Tiger in the Fievel saga, and as Pat Hibulaire in the Disney universe.
Fans of the Rocky saga have been in mourning for several months. In October, actor Burt Young, who played Paulie, passed away. In early February, Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, passed away.
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