Culture & Entertainment

MNA Cu8lture & Entertainment Desk: In a shocking move, Blac Chyna has left Rob Kardashian and taken their baby, Dream, with her. On Saturday, Chyna revealed via Snapchat that her Instagram page had been hacked, exposing her private messages to her 10.4 million followers. Her page is now filled with personal text messages in which she insulted Rob as being “fat” and “lazy,” and detailing her plans to trademark the Kardashian family name upon marrying him in July. She also wrote, “Imma give Rob 1 year to get it together . Or I’m gone”. On a new Instagram account, Blac ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Pop superstar Rihanna has insisted she is not feuding with Beyonce after fans expressed outrage at the Grammy nominations announcement, reported news agency. The 28-year-old singer was accused of dissing the Halo hit maker after she liked a post on the photo-sharing website which bemoaned the fact she had received eight Grammy nominations while Beyonce was up for nine awards. Beyonce, 35-year-old, received nominations in categories including the coveted Song of the Year gong for ‘Formation’, and Album of the Year for Lemonade, both of which failed to include Rihanna in their shortlist. Taking to ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Model Gigi Hadid has been battling with Hashimoto’s disease for two years.She bravely opened up about her battle with Hashimoto’s disease during a recent interview with Elle magazine. The Victoria’s Secret model said the thyroid disease which is more common for women than men affected her metabolism, weight loss, and even her muscle gain ahead of this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion show. Speaking about the condition, Hadid said, “My metabolism actually changed like crazy this year. I have Hashimoto’s disease. It’s a thyroid disease. It’s now been two years since taking the medication for it.” ...

MNA Entertainment Desk: Kanye West has the support and love from wife Kim Kardashian as he continues his recovery following a more than weeklong hospitalization for exhaustion. The rapper was released from UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday and has since then been treated as an outpatient and spent time with his family. Kanye “will remain getting outpatient treatment till he is fully recovered,” a source told. “Kim wants him to continue getting therapy even after all of this. He has support from so many people.” “Kim is doing okay despite reports,” the source continued. “She has many things on her ...

MNA Entertainment Desk: A French electronic rock group thought their name, Trumps, was an ace choice when they launched on the musical scene in 2014. But the election of Donald Trump to the White House has given the band a mighty headache—and the monicker which they liked so much has been ditched. In an announcement on Facebook, Trumps said they want to avoid any association with the controversial tycoon and are open to suggestions from fans for a new name. Their lead singer, who goes under the stage name of Jim, said the Trumps’ image problem began when the US ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Lady Gaga took to Trump Tower early Wednesday morning to protest the results of the U.S. election as Donald Trump won the 58th election and became the 45th president of US. The “Bad Romance” singer, a well-known Hillary Clinton supporter, stood outside Donald Trump’s building and held a sign that read “Love trumps hate.” As the hours passed Tuesday night and it became clearer that Trump would win the presidency, Gaga tweeted, “In a room full of hope, we will be heard. Stand up for kindness, equality, and love. Nothing will stop us. Say a ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Justin Bieber emerged as the big winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards, bagging three prizes and edging out Lady Gaga. The Canadian star took home three of his five nominations, including biggest fans, best Canadian act and best song for Sorry. Bieber, whose fans got him the award for the third year in a row, was absent from the ceremony – as was Lady Gaga, currently on tour in Japan. Gaga was the night’s second biggest winner, collecting with best female and best look at Sunday’s Rotterdam show. Bieber was beaten to best male ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of Hollywood’s most influential figures branded the FBI “disgraceful” on Sunday over its controversial last-minute intervention in the US presidential election. Katzenberg spoke out after FBI Director James Comey lifted the threat of charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state, just 36 hours before her White House showdown with Donald Trump. “To have put her in that light one week before the election, and turn around two days before and say ‘just kidding?’ Pretty harsh,” the former Disney studio chief and DreamWorks co-founder ...

MNA Culture & Entertainments Desk: Hollywood actors Brad Pitt is asking a judge to grant him joint physical custody of his six children in his split from Angelina Jolie Pitt, according to a divorce filing Friday. The actor’s request was included in his response to Jolie Pitt’s Sept. 20 petition to end their two-year marriage. The actress sought sole physical custody of their six children, who range in age from 8 to 15. Custody has been the major issue in the breakup so far, with authorities investigating Pitt over what happened during a dispute on a private flight with his ...

Three organisations — Directors Guild, Television Programme Producers Association of Bangladesh and Abhinayshilpi Shangha — have officially banned actor Prosun Azad for one year, following a dispute with director Rokeya Prachy. The 350-member strong Directors Guild confirmed media houses about Prosun’s ban through issuing a press release on Thursday. The press release was signed by Directors Guild president Gazi Rakayet, Television Programme Producers Association of Bangladesh president Mamunur Rashid and Ahsan Habib Nasim of Abhinayshilpi Shangha. All the three organisations took the decision of banning Prosun after Rokeya Prachy lodged a written complaint against Prosun on 19 October. The incident ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant has been booked for wearing a dress with pictures of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August, reported news agency. The First Information Report was lodged at a police station in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district. “The FIR was lodged on Thursday evening by a local resident against the actor. The complainant said by wearing the particular dress, she not only insulted the Prime Minister but also indulged in obscenity,” a police official from Kankroli police station said. “We registered the case under the Indian Penal Code provisions and started investigations,” the official ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: The forthcoming 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will not to screen any Pakistani film as the two entries sent from the country were not up to the mark, reported news agency. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu along with Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Deputy Chief Minister of Goa Francis D’souza and Directorate of Film Festivals Senthil Rajan, held a press conference here on Tuesday to unveil the poster and share the highlights of the film festival, which will take place in Goa from November ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: As millions of Americans celebrated the spooky holiday Monday Halloween night, Taylor Swift gathered a few familiar faces together for a fun night indoors. Taylor has definitely got connections and she wasn’t afraid to use them as she borrowed one of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool costume for Halloween. Posing alongside her BFF Gigi Hadid, Taylor wrote: “Thanks @vancityreynolds for this costume, you’re the BEST deadpool inside contact ever”. Looks like the squad avoided the nightclubs and instead settled on some home fun to celebrate the ghoulish fest. While Taylor went as the foul-mouthed superhero, her pals ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Actor Tom Hardy is set to play Al Capone, the infamous and feared American mobster, in Fonzo. Josh Trank is on board to pen the script and direct the movie, reported news agency. Production and financing company BLOOM is handling the international sales on the project and plans to introduce it to buyers next week at the American Film Market. “The movie brings together the myth and lore of notorious American Gangster Al Capone, with the undeniable talent of Tom Hardy and Josh Trank. We are thrilled to bring this film to buyers at the ...

MNA Culture & Entertainments Desk: Bangladeshi film ‘Jalaler Golpo’ (Jalal’s Story) has secured an international award in Russia, reported news agency. The film bagged the Grand Prix – Silver Akbuzat Best Film at the third edition of the International Festival of National and Ethnic Cinema in the Russian city of Ufa. Abu Shahed Emon received the award at the closing ceremony of the festival on Friday. Jalal’s Story is a 2014 Bengali film directed by Abu Shahed Emon and produced by Faridur Reza Sagar. The film’s name character actors Arafat Rahman and Mohammad Emon were in the lead roles. The ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Hillary Clinton took time off from storming the campaign trail in the key state of Florida Tuesday to take in a pre-birthday concert by pop icon Adele. Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the award-winning British singer, who can’t vote in the United States, is “100 percent for Hillary Clinton,” adding: “I love her. She’s amazing.” Merrill says Adele told the audience that while she is British, “what happens in America affects me too.” Reporters were not allowed to join Clinton for her concert treat—so we don’t yet know whether the White House hopeful belted out ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Prominent author Paul Beatty has become the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize 2016, for a caustic satire on US racial politics that judges said put him up there with Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift. The 54-year-old Los Angeles-born writer won for The Sellout, a laugh-out-loud novel whose main character wants to assert his African American identity by, outrageously and transgressively, bringing back slavery and segregation. Beatty has admitted readers might find it a difficult book to digest but the historian Amanda Foreman, who chaired this year’s judging panel, said that was ...

MNA International Desk: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wishes he could have run for the US presidency. The “Terminator” actor, who was governor of California for eight years until 2011, is unable to contest for the position because he was born in Austria, but he thinks it would have been the right time to campaign for the Republican candidacy if he had been able to, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “If I’d been born in America, I would’ve run. Because now? This was a very good time to get in the race,” Schwarzenegger told Adweek magazine. But the 69-year-old star says he doesn’t love politics. ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Madea Hallooween has to fight with long awaited Jack Reacher: Never Go Back in the box office though it seems to be already winning over its rival.  Even the skilled and lethal Jack Reacher couldn’t quite muster up enough to take down Madea at the Friday box office, but both films have a long fight ahead of them. Tyler Perry’s newest entry in the Madea franchise, Boo! A Madea Halloween, managed to come out on top of the Friday numbers, pulling in $9.4 million. Many expected Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back to be ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: The United Nations named comic-book superhero Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador to fight for gender equality on Friday, reported news agency. UN officials at a ceremony formalizing the appointment said Wonder Woman is known for her commitment to justice, peace and equality. “Wonder Woman is an icon,” said UN Under-Secretary-General Cristina Gallach. “We are very pleased that this character will help us reach new audiences with essential messages of our empowerment and equality.” UN officials have said they hoped the selection of a comic-book hero and movie character would appeal to younger women in ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: As news agency reported, amid growing tensions with India, Pakistan’s media regulatory authority on Wednesday permitted a complete ban on airing of Indian content in Pakistan from Oct 21. The decision was taken at the 120th meeting of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) held in the federal capital. The ban will come into effect at 3pm on Oct 21, and violators will be prosecuted under law, said the statement. Radio and television stations which violate the ban will have their licenses suspended without a prior show cause notice, said the statement issued from ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: English singer-songwriter Adele is reportedly earning around 84,000 pounds a day. The star made an incredible comeback to the music industry with her album “25” last year, with it becoming the fastest selling in British history. According to The Sun, she raked in around 30 million pounds last year through her company Melted Stone Limited, as per newly-released accounts – equaling 84,000 pounds a day, reported news agency. Her company Melted Stone Limited turned over 30.7 million pounds. The report also claims that the company made a 15.9 million pound net profit, as well as holding ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Deepika Padukone will be joining superstar Salman Khan to launch the tenth season of controversial reality TV show Bigg Boss. The actress says she will be getting “Hollywood’s action and thrill” to the launch event. There were rumors that Deepika, who will be making her Hollywood debut with “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage”, will be the first celebrity guest of the show when she was spotted shooting with Salman recently. But the news was confirmed by Raj Nayak, CEO of Colors channel, which beams “Bigg Boss”. Nayak tweeted: “The excitement begins. Look who is ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: American music legend Bob Dylan on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers. Dylan, 75-year-old, was honored “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy said. The choice was met by gasps and a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. The folk singer has been mentioned in Nobel speculation in past years, but was never seen as a serious contender. The Academy’s permanent secretary Sara Danius said Dylan’s songs were ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: The Rolling Stones announced on Thursday it will release its first studio album in over a decade in December—covers of the American blues greats who got them into music in the first place. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts recorded “Blue & Lonesome” last December in three days at London’s British Grove Studios. That’s close to where the band, which formed in 1962, began performing at local venues with American blues as a major inspiration. The rock group teased fans this week on Twitter with a video snippet of them performing a ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Production on the TV reality show named “Keeping up with the Kardashians” is on hold, the E! Network said on Thursday, just days after the show’s star, Kim Kardashian, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. “Kim’s well-being is our core focus right now. No decision has been made as to when production will resume,” a spokeswoman for the network, which broadcasts the show, said in a statement. Flanked by multiple security guards, Kardashian and her family on Thursday left their Manhattan apartment, where they have been closeted since she returned from Paris. News video and ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: An extended cut of — Suicide Squad — will be released next month and will feature scenes that were chopped from the release in theatres, reported news agency. Jared Leto had complained shortly after the film’s release on August 5 that many scenes he shot as the Joker were deleted. Warner Bros, the banner behind the film, unveiled a short teaser on Wednesday touting the extended cut for the film’s home entertainment release, available on Digital HD on November 15 and Blu-ray on December 13, reports variety.com. Made on a budget of $175 million, the ...