Entertainment News Roundup: Tennis drama 'Challengers' showcases Zendaya's versatility; Taylor Swift music back on TikTok despite fight with Universal Music, FT reports and more

Swift's return to TikTok had been in the works for some time, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter. 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' TV series seeks to send a message of hope The upcoming TV show "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and inspired by a real-life love story set in the concentration camp.

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Tennis drama 'Challengers' showcases Zendaya's versatility

Zendaya relished the double duty of producing "Challengers", a tense drama set in the world of professional tennis, and starring in the film's leading role. "I think every time that you do it, you learn something new about yourself. You get to learn from your peers and grow," said the Hollywood star, who previously produced "Malcolm & Marie" and her hit HBO series "Euphoria".

‘Absence of Eden’ cast and creators highlight humanity of immigrants

While American actor Zoe Saldana and her husband Italian director Marco Perego have been married since 2013, “The Absence of Eden” is the first film the couple has worked on together and focuses on immigration, an issue near and dear to them both. Saldana's grandparents immigrated to New Jersey from the Dominican Republic following civil unrest, while Perego was born in Italy and later became a U.S. citizen.

Protesters in Eurovision host city call for boycott of Israel

Protesters waving Palestinian flags and banners on Wednesday called for a boycott of Israel at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmo that will host the event next month. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises Eurovision, bills the song contest as a non-political event.

Taylor Swift music back on TikTok despite fight with Universal Music, FT reports

Taylor Swift's music is back on TikTok, even as the Chinese short-video app and singer's record label Universal Music are at loggerheads, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Swift's return to TikTok had been in the works for some time, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter.

'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' TV series seeks to send a message of hope

The upcoming TV show "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and inspired by a real-life love story set in the concentration camp. The mini-series tells the story of Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov who was taken to Auschwitz in 1942 and made one of the camp's tattooists who inked identification numbers on to the prisoners' arms. A few months after his arrival, Lali met and fell in love with Gita, a young Slovakian woman, while tattooing her arm.

Coppola, Cronenberg to compete at Cannes Film Festival undimmed by strikes

Directors Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize next month, organisers said on Thursday, easing concerns that strikes in Hollywood might dim the star-studded event. Coppola will bring his long-in-the-making passion project "Megalopolis," starring Adam Driver, to the competition, while Lanthimos teams up with Emma Stone after the success of "Poor Things" with "Kinds of Kindness", and Cronenberg will pull in horror fans again with "The Shrouds" starring Vincent Cassel.

'Civil War' seeks to capture 'heartbreaking' experience of war zone journalists

Actors Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura sought to understand how journalists cope with working in war zones as they prepared for their starring roles in the movie "Civil War," which is released in U.S. cinemas on Friday. "Civil War" is a tense thriller set in the near future, as society collapses in the United States and war breaks out. Fictional Reuters photographer Lee (Dunst) and reporter Joel (Moura) take to the road with the aim of reaching Washington before it falls to a rebel faction.

(With inputs from agencies.)