Reuters Entertainment News Summary

Reuters Entertainment News Summary

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Actress Charlotte Rampling gets lifetime achievement award at Berlin fest

British actress Charlotte Rampling said on Thursday she was moved to be awarded the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. The 73-year-old, who started her career as a model, is famed for starring in arthouse films. U.S. targeted 21 Savage for his rap lyrics, lawyer says

A lawyer for rap artist 21 Savage said on Friday the entertainer was in part detained by U.S. immigration officials because he is a celebrity who has been outspoken about family-separation security issues at the U.S.-Mexico border. The entertainer, whose real name is She'yaa BinAbraham-Joseph, was arrested on Feb. 3 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on charges he is a foreign citizen who had overstayed his visa by more than a decade. Officials said he came to the United States from Britain. Clooney, Pitt among Hollywood actors yelling 'cut' over Oscar award changes

George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Robert de Niro on Thursday joined a growing protest in Hollywood over plans by Oscars organizers to present cinematography, editing and some other awards during commercial breaks at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Sandra Bullock, Emma Stone and Jon Hamm also added their names to an open letter signed by directors Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and Alfonso Cuaron demanding the decision be reversed. Living dangerously, one foot at a time, in 'Free Solo'

Alex Honnold lives life dangerously. One of an elite group of "free solo" rock climbers, he scales sheer vertical cliffs thousands of feet high, alone and without a rope. Portrait of Brazilian revolutionary is a salvo in fight over history

The makers of "Marighella", a film about a left-wing revolutionary murdered by Brazil's 1960s military dictatorship, hope their film will help counter a version of the country's history that they see far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as propagating. The drama was shot before last year's presidential election, but director Wagner Moura said the film was nonetheless an artistic response to the environment in which Bolsonaro won office to become Brazil's first right-wing leader since the end of the dictatorship. Brie Larson makes superhero debut in female-led 'Captain Marvel'

Oscar winner Brie Larson gets embroiled in galactic conflict in Marvel Studios' first female-led superhero movie "Captain Marvel", a role she said pushed her beyond her comfort zone during training. The actress, who won the best actress Academy Award for "Room", plays former U.S. fighter pilot Carol Danvers in the highly anticipated film, set in the 1990s and which follows her path to becoming a superhero. Father of supermodel concept awaits ex-wives' verdict in film

The German photographer credited with inventing the concept of the supermodel in the 1980s is the subject of "Women's Stories", a documentary that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday. Peter Lindbergh, born in 1944 in German-occupied Poland, is seen as the creator of a style of naturalistic fashion photography that dispensed with the lavish make-up and detailed retouching that had characterized the genre. Police arrest 'potential suspects' in alleged attack on 'Empire' actor

Two Nigerian brothers have been arrested in connection with an alleged racist and homophobic assault on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago, the city's police department said on Friday. Authorities had previously said only that the pair, whose names have not been released, were persons of interest after they were recognized from surveillance camera footage taken in the area where Smollett said two men shouted slurs at him and put a rope around his neck on Jan. 29. Brazilian documentary asks: do we live for work or work for life?

High in the hills of Brazil's remote northeast, the town of Toritama echoes with the sound of sewing machines: in the self-proclaimed capital of jeans, people work all hours of the day to produce denim trousers. That piqued director Marcelo Gomes's interest when he visited. From his childhood he remembered a sleepy town where you could hear a pin drop, not the bustling hive of cottage industries that the 40,000-strong township is today. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom hint at engagement with ring picture

Pop star Katy Perry and her Hollywood actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom have hinted they are engaged, posting a picture of the American singer sporting a large diamond-encrusted ring. Perry and Bloom began dating in 2016 but split for a time before getting back together.

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