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Ana Navarro has long been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, despite having close friends who voted for him. And on Monday morning, she offered some advice to those friends who have started to realize they might actually be negatively impacted by his proposed policies: figure it out.

To kick off the day’s show, the ABC hosts discussed Trump’s reported pick of Tom Homan as his “border czar,” and worrying about his threat to deport families together, even if some members are legal immigrants. Overall, the women slammed both Homan and Trump for what is expected to be a very expensive and cruel mass deportation plan.

But, host Ana Navarro found some amusement in the fact that many people who voted for Trump and didn’t think what he was promising “applied to them,” are now realizing it might — particularly her own friends.

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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” This quote by Dr. Seuss feels tailor-made for Daniel Ricciardo, the Australian-Italian racing driver who has been turning heads on the Formula One circuit under the Australian flag from 2011 to 2024. Indeed, he has certainly revved up the world of Formula One, leaving spectators and competitors alike in the dust.

Daniel Ricciardo | Credit: Formula 1/YouTube

With a career spanning over a decade, he’s not just known for his driving skills but also for his charm that could make a traffic cone blush.

Now, you might wonder—who’s the lucky lady standing by this speedster’s side? Enter Heidi Berger, the mysterious woman who’s captured the heart of one of racing’s most beloved figures. So, curious to know more about her, who has captured the heart of our favorite F1 driver?

Who is Heidi Berger? Daniel Ricciardo...

New slate includes five Malaysian series and iQiyi’s first Thai original, directed by Kongkiat Komesiri.

Chinese streamer iQiyi’s international division launched six new Southeast Asian original series at the on-going Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf), including five from Malaysia and the company’s first Thai original.

Singapore-based iQiyi International also announced that its first Korean production, My Roommate Is A Gumiho, was its most popular original of the year, racking up more than 100 million views worldwide. Viewership for its Chinese-language content was four times larger in 2021 in terms of viewing time globally, compared to last year.

The streamer’s first Thai original,...

Netflix will provide 40% of the total budget.

Leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier is embarking on an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.

Liberation Route will be a 12-part, English-language series and is being made through Czar – the production company behind Berlinale Encounters title Naked Animals.

It marks the first project to receive financing from Netflix since a law was passed in Belgium requiring the streaming giant to invest 2% of its income from subscriptions in Flanders into Flemish content. Netflix will provide 40% of the total budget.

The project has also secured Belgian Tax Shelter funding, a presale...

★★★☆☆ From Pavel Lungin, the acclaimed director of Tsar (2009) and The Island (2007), comes The Conductor (Dirizhyor, 2012), a beautifully rendered orchestra of existential themes brought together to depict a sombre portrait of life. A famous Russian conductor, Vyacheslav Petrov (Vladas Bagdonas) takes his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform a special rendition of the St. Matthew Passion oratorio. However, an ominous fax message he receives prior to departing forces him to re-evaluate his life, curiously thrusting his whole orchestra under the spotlight, questioning the very values we live by and the invisible bonds that shape our lives.

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You’d think that, having won an Academy Award less than 12 months ago, David Seidler wouldn’t have faded back into relative obscurity. Sure, he could simply be working on some projects and avoiding the media all the while, but our last report on the guy came in late March — which, if you look at your little calendar, is kind of a while ago.

However, ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist) reports that he’s still cracking on scripts, this time with Russian Art Pictures Studio on Queen of the Desert, an adaptation of the 19th Century story from Alexander Pushkin. Here, however, the scribe will rework the tale for a modern setting, all while presumably telling the same story — that of “a Russian officer who goes mad in an attempt to uncover the secret behind a money-spinning card cheat.” Pavel Lungin (Tsar, Taxi Blues) will direct; Art Pictures Studio are producing.

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"The King’s Speech" scribe David Seidler is set to pen a contemporary-set adaptation of Russian author Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 short story "Queen of Spades" reports Screen Daily.

Pavel Lungin ("Tsar") is attached to direct the story which recounts the story of a Russian officer who goes mad in an attempt to uncover the secret behind a money-spinning card cheat.

The €12 million film will feature music from Tchaikovsky's 1890 opera based on Pushkin's work.

David Seidler, who wrote the Oscar-winning script for "The King's Speech," is adapting Alexander Pushkin's Russian short story, "Queen of Spades." The project, which has directer Pavel Lungin ("Tsar") attached, will be shopped at Berlin's European Film Market by the Russian Cinema Fund (which has seven of Russia's production companies under its arm, including Fyodor Bondarchuk’s Art Pictures Studio -- they'll be producing and are looking for cohorts). Seidler, a 74-year old Brit, is adapting the story to be a contemporary morality tale which follows a Russian officer made crazy by trying to discover the secret behind a card cheat....

Moscow -- The 31st Moscow International Film Festival will open Friday with the film "Tsar" by jury chairman Pavel Lungin, which premiered at the Festival de Cannes last month in Un Certain Regard.

Sixteen movies from Bulgaria, Hungary, Iran, Japan, the U.S., Poland, Russia, Ukraine and other countries will compete for the main prize, the Golden St. George.

Among the competition's front runners are "Melodiya dlya sharmanki" (Melody for a Barrel Organ), a story about stepbrother and stepsisters trying to find their fathers in the big city following the death of their mother, by Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, who once won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and "Palata Nomer 6" (Ward No. 6), an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's mysterious paradoxical and disturbing story by Russian veteran director Karen Shakhnazarov.

Hollywood will be represented in the main competition by Noah Buschel's "Missing Person," a modern-day film...

Beloved Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky has died after a battle with cancer. He was 65.

His career spanned five decades and included many iconic roles in classic Russian movies like Shield & Sword and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia.

One of his final films, Tsar, recently screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival in France.

Yankovsky's death was marked by a day of unofficial mourning on Wednesday, when the news of his passing led morning news broadcasts in the former Soviet Union.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have both paid tribute to the actor - Putin called Yankovsky "an actor from God", revealing it was his role in Shield & Sword that inspired the young politician to become a member of the Kgb.

President Medvedev credited the star with being able to "fully represent the times he lived in" in his films.

Yankovsky, who was honoured as a People's Artist of the U.S.S.R., was born in Kazakhstan in 1944. He will be buried at Moscow's prestigious Novodevichy Cemetery on Friday.