The Cannes Film Festival has named the eight members of its main Competition jury who will join previously announced president Greta Gerwig in deciding the Palme d’Or and other key prizes at 77th edition running from May 14 to 25. They are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress …
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[PRESS RELEASE – Paris, France, April 25th, 2024] Prize pool of over 1M€ value including media grant from Cointelegraph Proof of Pitch is part of Proof of Talk, where All Global Leaders in Web3 Meet 10-11 June 2024, Museum of Decorative Arts (MAD), Louvre Palace, Paris In a ground-breaking shift …
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Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump Drama The Apprentice, Anora, the latest from The Florida Project and Red Rocket director Sean Baker, and Andrea Arnold’s Bird, starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, are among the highlights of this year’s Cannes competition. The 77th Cannes Film Festival is unveiling this year’s competition lineup …
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[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, April 2nd, 2024] BNB Chain, the community-driven blockchain ecosystem that includes the world’s largest smart contract blockchain, today announced that it will be offering up to 1 million USD in rewards through its newly launched Meme Innovation Campaign. To accelerate the growth of the meme …
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[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, March 13th, 2024] SynFutures (https://www.synfutures.com), a leading decentralized derivatives exchange, today announced the Trading Grand Prix (TGP) Competition, setting a new record with the largest stablecoin prize pool ever offered in decentralized finance (DeFi) history. With 500,000 USDB in rewards, the competition marks a monumental …
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The Europe’s Margrethe Vestager, one of the world’s most powerful and proactive regulators, has made Europe a first mover in checking big tech for the public good and in the interest of competition. The head of the EU’s Competition Commission has developed key digital privacy laws, rules on hate speech …
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Celebrity Big Brother UK is back after a more than five-year absence. The cast of the first season of ITV will be revealed by AJ Odudu and Will Best during the live launch tonight, Monday, March 4. ITV resurrected the Big Brother format in 2023 and following positive results announced …
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A high school in Oklahoma is under investigation after a viral video shows students licking and sucking another participant’s toes at a school-sanctioned event. The Post reports, Deer Creek High School held a fundraiser inside the institutions gym. At least four teens laid on their stomaches as they vigorously ate …
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With his debut feature Last Swim, an ambitious and quietly radical portrait of young life in London, Sasha Nathwani has achieved one of the most difficult tasks for a new filmmaker: cutting through with a festival audience. Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened …
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[PRESS RELEASE – Paris, France, February 20th, 2024] We’re thrilled to announce the return of the highly anticipated Startup Competition at Paris Blockchain Week. With a staggering array of prizes totaling over $10 million, encompassing funding, grants, credits, accelerations, listing, and more, this competition has become a cornerstone event within …
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“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The doc — which screens in the Berlinale competition this afternoon — borrows its name from the …
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As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) nears its decision on the approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), asset managers, including industry giants like BlackRock, Ark Investments, and 21Shares, are on high alert, according to Reuters. Financial Titans Unshaken By Bitcoin ETF False Report As Bitcoinist reported yesterday, …
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