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The high priests of speaking out are John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, and Martin Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends,” Mill warned, “than that good men should look on and do nothing.” Niemöller famously ventriloquised the many Germans who kept silent when the Nazis “came for the socialists”, the trade unionists and the Jews: “Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

A row has broken out over restrictions imposed on how newspapers, magazines, TV broadcasters and digital publishers can use pictures taken at Oasis reunion gigs, as the band prepare to play the first night of what is expected to be the most profitable tour in UK history.

Photo agencies and publishers have been told they can use shots of the first concert, which takes place in Cardiff on Friday, for one year and then the rights revert back to the band and management.

The industry norm is that such deals for independent photographers from agencies are struck in perpetuity, so publishers can continue to use shots for pieces such as band retrospectives, tributes and to illustrate future concerts.

The News Media Coalition (NMC) – which represents national newspaper groups including Guardian News & Media, the Telegraph, the Sun and Times publisher News UK and the Mirror and Express owner Reach – has lodged a complaint after 11th-hour negotiations failed to sufficiently improve the terms.

The NMC also represents agencies including Thomson Reuters, Associated Press, PA, Shutterstock, Getty Images, France’s AFP and Spain’s EFE.

“News photography has had a significant role in amplifying interest and telling the visual cultural story of artists such as Oasis, it’s part of the legacy,” said Andrew Moger, the chief executive of the NMC. “And that does not stop after 365 days.”

It is understood that the initial terms proposed were for the right to use images for just one month.

While the one-year permission deal has been agreed for the first gig, the NMC is pushing for better terms for the remaining 40 dates.

It has written on behalf of news agencies and its news publisher members to Oasis’s management about the restrictions imposed.

“Oasis Live 25 will attract editorial coverage throughout the 41-date tour and for years to come,” Moger said. “We invite the concert organisers to withdraw the ‘shelf-life’ of such newsworthy material and not to diminish the copyright work of photographers who are in their own way artists too.”

The NMC said that the “highly unusual” restrictions would hit independent news agencies in the UK and abroad, as well as publishers and broadcasters who use stills to illustrate editorial reports.

The row is the latest issue to beset the highly anticipated tour, which brings brothers Noel and Liam back together for the first time in 16 years.

Earlier this week, it emerged that the UK competition watchdog ha written to Ticketmaster threatening legal action over the way it sold more than 900,000 tickets for the reunion gigs.

In March, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published concerns that Ticketmaster may have misled fans, some of whom paid more than £350 for tickets with a face value of £150, in the way it priced tickets for the band’s comeback gigs when they went on sale last August.

The watchdog said that since then Ticketmaster had failed to provide any undertakings that it found acceptable to resolve the issue of the way it sold the tickets.

The CMA is concerned that the ticketing company may have breached consumer protection law by labelling certain seats as “platinum”, and selling them for almost 2.5 times the price of standard equivalent tickets, without sufficiently explaining that they did not offer any additional benefits and were often located in the same area of a stadium as standard tickets.

The regulator also said fans were not informed that there were two categories of standing tickets at different prices, with many waiting lengthy periods in online queues without understanding they would be paying much higher prices than they expected.

Oasis was approached for comment.

Luca Bernabei is stepping down as CEO of Lux Vide, the Fremantle-owned Italian production powerhouse behind shows such as “Medici,” “Devils” and medical procedural “Doc,” the U.S. remake of which is produced by Fox and Sony Pictures Television.

Bernabei is parting ways with Fremantle three years after the RTL-owned production and distribution giant acquired a 70% stake in the company founded in 1992 by his father Ettore Bernabei. Fremantle has now completed its planned 100% purchase of Lux Vide that has been increasingly pushing into the U.S. and international markets with high-end premium shows. 

Lux Vide currently has two big English-language series – “Hotel Costiera” toplining Jesse Williams, a Prime Video original in several territories, and Italian state broadcaster RAI’s “Sandokan” with Turkish megastar Can Yaman slated for play later this year.

News that Bernabei is stepping down was provided by a Fremantle statement on Friday announcing a new Lux Vide management board. No reason was provided for Luca Bernabei’s departure.

Luca Bernabei’s sister Matilde Bernabei, who co-founded Lux Vide with her father and has been instrumental to the company’s success in past decades, remains on the board in a stronger role than before, having been appointed Lux Vide president. She was previously the company’s honorary president.

The new Lux Vide management board will be made up by Valerio Fiorespino who is interim COO and CEO of Fremantle Italy Group; Elena Bucaccio, head of drama, Lux Vide; Corrado Trionfera, head of production Lux Vide; Manuela Monterossi, who is general counsel of Fremantle Italy Group; Valentina Monaca, who is CFO of Fremantle Italy Group; and Barbara Pavone who is Lux Vide’s chief marketing and sales officer.

“We are happy to present our new management team,” Matilde Bernabei said in the statement.

“They are highly experienced professionals and recognized leaders. I am happy to be able to work with them to take Lux Vide to new heights, also thanks to our solid relationship with Fremantle,” she added.

“Since day one, Fremantle has fully supported the company, the team and the projects,” Matilde Bernabei went on to point out.

“Series such as ‘Hotel Costiera’ and ‘Sandokan’ are proof of this: international productions that we could not have made without their involvement,” she concluded.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and the energy of Gwyneth Paltrow at the peak of her ’90s cool girl powers continue to permeate today—case in point, her daughter Apple Martin.

Photographed on a casual dog walk through the Hamptons yesterday (July 3), Apple Martin went for a relaxed look: She wore a white cable knit sweater over a white tank top, with navy adidas shorts, and black ballerina pumps with eyelet-studded straps. While the wired headphones (Apple Martin, an surprising certified wired-it girl) add that first layer of nostalgia, it’s the up-do and the circular black sunglasses that give her the ’90s stylings of her mother.

It’s a look that almost exactly reflects her mother at the 1996 premiere of her film The Pallbearer. Here, Paltrow was photographed with her then-partner Brad Pitt at the Tribeca Film Center in New York City, where she wore a white, lightly floral patterned shirt, her long blonde hair in a relaxed off-center up-do, and a pair of small, dark sunglasses.

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‘Adam’s last words were ‘I’ll be there with you’’published at 14:43 British Summer Time

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Kris Bramwell
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Image source, Sam Randall

Sam Randall, 41, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, is going to the gig tonight with his old school friends Rollo and Pete. They went to secondary school together and “collectively all got into Oasis around the same time in 1995”.

However, there is one person missing from the group – Adam Conrad Pratt.

“In 1997, after plenty of pleading with our mums (we were barely aged 14 or 15), we managed to get tickets to see Oasis on their Be Here Now tour at Earls Court. Later that year, Adam and I saw them again at Wembley Arena. Oasis became our band! The soundtrack to our youth.

“In 2020, Adam was diagnosed with colon cancer. He faced it with courage and determination, undergoing multiple surgeries and treatments.”

So when the reunion tour was announced, the friends were “beyond excited”. Then Adam’s cancer returned aggressively around Christmas 2024.

“After a brave fight, Adam passed away at home in California in February surrounded by his family.

“I was lucky enough to have one final call with him just days before. Though weak, he still managed to joke and laugh. I’ll never forget him saying, ‘I’ll be there down the front with you boys at the gig’.

“In honour of Adam, we’ll be wearing custom t-shirts I designed for the concert. He may not be there in person, but he’ll be with us in every word we sing!”

Squid Game is back for one last ride. With much higher stakes, deadlier games, and players more desperate than ever to survive, season 3 brings the Netflix phenomenon to an emotionally devastating close.

Set right after the fallout of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) failed rebellion, the six-episode season picks up with Squid Game‘s extensive cast of players, guards, enemies, and allies.

“Gi-hun persists with his goal to put an end to the game, while the Front Man continues onto his next move, and the surviving players’ choices will lead to graver consequences with each round,” reads the official synopsis.

Many familiar faces join Lee in returning for the final chapter. Read on to learn more about the Squid Game season 3 cast and where you’ve seen them before.

To many Brits and for many years, Jonathan Bailey was the talented up-and-comer known for roles in the likes of Crashing and Broadchurch. Then came the role of Lord Anthony in the huge Regency hit Bridgerton, and the rest, as they say, is history. Fast-forward to 2024, and Bailey is delivering one of his best performances to date as the dashing Fiyero in Jon M. Chu’s smash-hit adaptation of Wicked, alongside Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in a duet of Oscar-nominated turns.

Ahead of Bailey returning to Fiyero in the upcoming Wicked: For Good, the Oxfordshire-born actor is now starring in another huge franchise, as Dr. Henry Loomis in Jurassic World Rebirth, the latest installment in the dino-franchise helmed by Rogue One‘s Gareth Edwards. Starring in the movie alongside huge Hollywood talent such as Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and more, Bailey’s inclusion in the Jurassic World Rebirth cast is a promising reminder that the most talented will always rise to the top. But how did he get there? Well, thanks to an interview available to view on X, Bailey has spilled all on his surprising journey to taking the role.

“It was completely out of the blue,” Bailey begins. “Universal Studios made Wicked, and so Donna Langley and Peter Cramer, who run the studios, they spoke to Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall, the producer, and they decided to offer me the part.” So strong was Bailey’s performance in Wicked that Langley and Cramer spoke directly to one of the finest minds in all cinema and made a personal recommendation, without Bailey even needing an audition. “I hadn’t auditioned and I hadn’t read the script,” he continues, adding, “it was a real surprise. As an actor, that’s the one invitation you can only fantasize about. Yeah, it was really, really special, and I remember waking up the next day and going, ‘Is that all a dream?’”

Jurassic World Rebirth Gets Off to a Flying Box Office Start

Despite receiving disappointing critical reviews and scores on the likes of Rotten Tomatoes, that can’t take away from just how big an appeal Jurassic World Rebirth is to have. Bound to shoot to the top of the upcoming weekend’s box office charts, Rebirth has already got off to a flying start, earning an enormous $30.5 million on July 2 from just over 4,000 theaters nationwide. This already makes the movie one of the 25 highest-grossing of the year domestically after just 24 hours, with competition from the likes of Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon remake and Joseph Kosinski‘s F1 not likely to pose too much of a problem.

Jurassic World Rebirth is in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the latest movies.

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Up next Beaming Backwards out now on Test Pressing Recordings

Welding dubbed-out instrumentals with dreamy vocals and cosmic flourishes, Ddwy’s music captures the spirit of a 90s Ibiza chillout set. In fact, their last label joked that their tracks were “perfect for Balearic DJs”. But the project actually has its roots far away from the flurry of the white isle: many of the songs were made from a kitchen table in a Greater London suburb where the duo are based.

Made up of wife and husband Naomi Pieris and Ronan MT (Ddwy means “two” in Welsh), the project was born in 2020 from Covid-era home experiments. Their tracks conserve that intimacy: layered around guitars, percussion and washes of synths, Pieris’s vocals are soft and half-murmured, while field recordings are drawn from visits to her native Sri Lanka and voicemails from relatives.

Some of their material has an almost ambient quality – spacious, drumless – but other parts adopt more of a club sensibility, drawing on progressive and deep house. In the years since those early lockdown jams, the pair have gone on to release a small handful of records which they perform live at clubs and beachside festivals across Europe, as well as dimly lit DIY venues closer to home.

On their new EP Beaming Backwards, Ddwy continue to explore these (interlocking, rather than clashing) sides. Alongside the pulsing late-night rollers (Beaming Backwards, Peak Smile), there’s a blissed-out downtempo moment (Stars, Stars), and a gorgeous take on a Sri Lankan lullaby, complete with piano and strings (Heuldro’r Haf – Welsh for “summer solstice”). It’s the perfect soundtrack for this time of year, when the days are still long and the nights are still warm: sweet, but a bit melancholy too. Safi Bugel

This week’s best new tracks

Mammo – Traction
One of six universe-sharpening tracks on the Dutch producer’s stunning new album, this has the ethereal throb of dub techno’s greats, but with counter-rhythms inveigling themselves from the edges.

​George Riley – Slow
After recent appearances on tracks from Logic1000, HiTech and Sherelle, one of UK dance’s best vocalists keeps the werk rate high with this exquisite house track, Riley holding back from a too-intoxicating romance.

Oasis – Acquiesce (Unplugged)
As the band play their first reunion tour date tonight in Cardiff – follow the Guardian’s live blog later! – Noel Gallagher has brilliantly remixed a version of their classic B-side, making it more insistent and grooving.

Ethel Cain – Fuck Me Eyes
Not what a Yorkshire person says when it’s a bit bright out, but rather pulp fiction done as a synthpop power ballad, about a wayward young woman who “goes to church straight from the clubs”.

​John Glacier – Fly With Me
Coming after an excellent Glastonbury set, and rolling over a distorted head-nodding beat, the British rapper casts herself as a supernaturally powerful figure transcending earthly bonds thanks to her own skill.

Perfect 100 – Sunday
The debut single from this solo​ grunge-pop project by Brooklyn’s Andrew Madore is a ripper, with distorted guitar ​reminiscent of Yo La Tengo or Dinosaur Jr, and​ harmonised vocals adding a dash of vanilla sweetness.

Naemi – Hutchison
​Closing out their gorgeous new dream-pop album Breathless, Shorn, this track features acoustic guitar and bass motifs repeating around bird-chirrups and reverb: one for post-picnic snoozing this summer. Ben Beaumont-Thomas

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Appearing alongside Caden Brauch are company members Charlotte Coggin, Grace Swaby-Moore, Lauren Dawes, Gracie Caine, Ellis Kirk, Bryan Mottram, Zachkiel Smith and Kofi Aidoo-Appiah.

The music video’s intro also features Cory English, C.J. Borger, Ellis Kirk, Talia Palamathanan, Patricia Wilkins, Liam McHugh, Charlotte Coggin, Aidoo-Appiah, Zachkiel Smith, Connor Lewis, Louis Quinn, Lauren Dawes, Billie Bowman, Grace Swaby-Moore, Gracie Caine, Adam Margilewski, Alexander Day, Ella Beaumont, Helen Gulston, Anna Murray and Bryan Mottram.

BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical currently stars Caden Brauch as Marty McFly, Cory English as Doctor Emmett Brown, Sarah Goggin as Lorraine Baines, Orlando Gibbs as George McFly, C.J. Borger as Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry, Alex Runicles as Biff Tannen, Talia Palamathanan as Jennifer Parker, Lee Ormsby as Strickland and alternate Doctor Emmett Brown, Liam McHugh as Dave McFly, Patricia Wilkins as Linda McFly, and Ellis Kirk as alternate Marty McFly. The cast is completed by Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Billie Bowman, Ella Beaumont, Gracie Caine, Charlotte Coggin, Lauren Dawes, Alexander Day, Helen Gulston, Matthew Ives, Connor Lewis, Adam Margilewski, Bryan Mottram, Anna Murray, Samuel Nicholas, Louis Quinn, Zachkiel Smith and Grace Swaby-Moore.

From Wednesday 13 August stage and screen star Brian Conley and Tik Tok sensation Maddie Grace Jepson will join the production as Doctor Emmett Brown and Lorraine Baines respectively.

BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical. The musical has broken box office records at the Adelphi Theatre in London and has been seen by 3.8 million people worldwide. The production enters its 5th year in London from 13 September 2025.

Performances also began on Broadway on 30 June 2023, with its final performance on 5 January 2025. The North American tour opened in Cleveland, OH, in June 2024 and is currently running in cities across the US and Canada. In addition to the newly announced German and Royal Caribbean productions, the production is also now open in Japan and will open in Australia later this year.

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