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Why was Brad Pitt ‘bullied and threatened’ by Russian tycoon Yuri Shefler? | Hollywood

Brad Pitt's tiff with his Russian business rival has significantly intensified as the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star accused him of 'bullying' as they battled it out over the Oscar-winner's vineyard. The 60-year-old Hollywood star is stuck in a fight with vodka tycoon Yuri Shefler over the Chateau Miraval, the South of France vineyard previously jointly owned by Pitt with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - NOVEMBER 17: Brad Pitt, star of the upcoming Formula One based movie, Apex, walks in the…

What to do this weekend: Yuri Yuan and ‘Bahia Reverb’

Welcome back! I’m dedicating the new year to spending more time at the movie theater. I purchased my AMC Stubs membership and have already sobbed to “All of Us Strangers.” Before I book my next movie showing, let’s get to the exciting 2024 happenings. I’m Steven Vargas, your L.A. Goes Out host, and here are the top events for the upcoming weekend recommended by the crew (sign up here for the newsletter):Weekly countdown Installation view of Yuri Yuan’s “A Thousand Ships” at Make Room Los Angeles until…

MAPPA Releases Attack on Titan and Hell’s Paradise Trailers

Image: Studio MAPPA/CrunchyrollAnimation studio MAPPA has kept itself pretty busy ever since it opened in 2011, and 2022 was an especially big year for it. Along with working on the second part of the final season of Attack on Titan, the company also released Chainsaw Man, Dance Dance Danseur, and brought Jujutsu Kaisen 0 stateside. 2023 looks to be an even more packed year for the studio, and it recently released new trailers for two of its upcoming projects.The first trailer is for MAPPA’s new series Hell’s Paradise:

Yuri Lowenthal’s Differences From Naruto’s Sasuke Proved To Be A Big Challenge

In a video interview with Crunchyroll, Lowenthal was asked about the hardest challenges he encountered throughout his career. In his response, the voice actor explained how there are characters who are more similar to him in terms of personality than others. "The darker characters take a little more work," the actor stated "Sasuke was one of the first. Up until Sasuke, I played mostly happy-go-lucky, just characters." Indeed, Naruto Uzumaki's rival since childhood is a highly complex character who…

Review: The Education of Yuri byJerry Pinto

Yuri Fonseca of Mahim, raised without family but for his uncle, has grown up lonely. Now, he struggles with making friends when the story begins with his joining senior college; his sense of embarrassment, awkwardness and insecurity sting him. Called padri ka bachcha at school and very culturally different from his peers, he has grown up hurt. In college, he gives in to the enthusiasms and causes of others, which he abandons when following through is needed. When included in a group, he finds himself drifting away. He…

Alexandra Rowland’s Epic Fantasy Romance is a Love Letter to Fandom

Image: TorDotCom PublishingAlexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron required a joyful writing process. They started over six times, across six years. But Rowland never got discouraged; this book was something that they knew was going to take time to get right because they were working on something that embodied many of the tropes, excitement, romance, and fantasy that they loved best in all the world. “It takes a long kind of journey to gain that kind of self-knowledge,” they said in an interview with io9 earlier this

Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner Said to Be Among Backers of Anti-Ageing Startup Altos Labs

Last year, a large group of scientists had gathered for a two-day conference to discuss whether biotechnology could make people younger. The conference was organised at a mansion owned by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner in Los Altos Hills, California, US. Experts took to the stage to explain and discuss radical attempts at “rejuvenating” animals. Eventually, a new company called Altos Labs was established. The objective of the new company is to find a way to rejuvenate cells in a lab that could ultimately lead to…

6 Things We Loved, 5 We Didn’t, in Stranger Things Vol. 4 Pt. 2

Image: NetflixConsidering that there’s a fifth and final season on the way, it was difficult to get hyped for a two-and-a-half hour season finale, knowing that the stakes weren’t quite as high as they will be next time we see these characters. (Stranger Things is not going to kill off Eleven, probably ever, but you know she’s gonna make it through season four.) Of course there’s no rule that you had to watch episodes eight and nine in one sitting. But we felt entirely obligated to power through... and also felt entirely

By Your Side Chronicles a Hundred Years of Yuri Manga and Anime

| In this episode of Castle Talk, Jason chats with Erica Friedman, author of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga. The publishers call it "the untold story of lesbian love in Japanese anime and comics." Two decades in the making, By Your Side is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable, by the Western Hemisphere's authority on the subject. This landmark work should be in the library of any fan of anime, manga, lesbian relationships in media–or any combination of the three! By Your Side…