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On the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), users can rate films and series - for example for the current movie "The Little Mermaid". However, for this Disney remake, the site had to change the rating system.

Since May 2023, actress Halle Bailey has been flickering across screens as Arielle in the Disney live-action adaptation, trying to win the heart of Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King). As usual, moviegoers can rate the film online. One of the best-known sites is the Internet Movie Database, or "IMDb" for short. However, as has now been announced on the portal, the rating system for the film has been adjusted.

According to IMDb, "The Little Mermaid" became the latest target of "Review Bombing." This is a practice of flooding a production with negative reviews from users who have multiple accounts or use bots to create new accounts. The film has received nearly 41,000 user ratings on IMDb since its theatrical release. While the film received an average positive rating of 7.0, more than 39 percent of the ratings correspond to only one star.

IMDb takes action against "Review Bombing".
IMDb posted a notice on the remake's ratings page stating that "the site's ratings mechanism has detected unusual voting activity for this title." Now "an alternative weighting calculation was applied".

While the FAQ section of the portal doesn't explain how grades are calculated, it states that "not all votes have equal impact (or 'weight') on the final score. If unusual voting activity is detected, it can an alternative weighting calculation may be applied to maintain the reliability of our system."

Criticism before the cinema release because of the skin color of the leading actress
Even before the film was released, criticism of "Arielle" was pouring down. Many complained that Halle Bailey, a dark-skinned actress, embodied the cult figure. In the cartoon, the red-haired mermaid is white.

Last year, Bailey told Variety that she received a lot of support from her family when the hashtag "NotmyAriel" started making the rounds. Her grandparents, in particular, who shared their experiences with racism and discrimination, were a great source of support. "It was inspiring and beautiful to hear her words of encouragement, saying to me, 'You don't understand what this means to us, to our community, to all the little black and brown girls who will find themselves in you'" the young actress explained at the time.

Tom Holland is dying to make another Spider-Man movie.

The 27-year-old actor has played the lead role in the iconic character since 2016 and Tom has revealed he would like to reprise the role.

Asked about the possibility of making another Spider-Man movie, Tom told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I think as long as we can do Peter Parker justice. As long as we can continue to improve the films and give them more meaning, I'll be there. I'd be stupid to say I wouldn't be the happiest kid alive if I had to do it all over again. Something is in motion but we'll just have to wait and see what happens."

Tom previously admitted he wasn't sure about his future after starring in 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' in 2021. The actor admitted the film could have been "the perfect picture-perfect ending" to his incarnation of Spider-Man. Speaking about the future of the franchise, Tom told The Hollywood Reporter: "There are far smarter people than me who have been entrusted with the task of writing future films and coming up with new ideas. And as always, I'm very excited to see what they come up with.

But maybe we don't top this movie. Perhaps this movie is the perfect picture book ending to this chapter of Spider-Man. And when it comes time for me to step down and let the new person step up, I would do so with pride.”

He's 83, she's 29. And now she's making him her father again. Who is the woman expecting Al Pacino's fourth child?

Noor Alfallah has been known in the celebrity world for a long time. She is the eldest of four children born to a Kuwaiti businessman and an American mother. Raised in Beverly Hills, she studied at the UCLA School of Film and Television. According to media reports, she now works as a film producer.

The 29-year-old is rumored to have dated some famous men: in 2017 she allegedly had a brief relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger (79). The couple has often been spotted on romantic dates at restaurants; when the Stones gave a concert in Paris, Noor was also present.

"Our age didn't matter"
Two years later, in an interview, she spoke emotionally about her relationship with Jagger: "Our age didn't matter. The heart doesn't know what it sees, only what it feels. It was my first serious relationship and it was a happy one Time for me."

In 2018 and 2019, Noor Alfallah was in a relationship with art billionaire Nicolas Berggruen (61) and regularly posted intimate photos with him on Instagram. When and why the relationship ended is not known.

She was also said to have a romance with Clint Eastwood (93), but she vigorously denied it: "He's a friend of my family, there's no relationship."

The film producer has been with Al Pacino for a year now, and their baby is due to be born in a few weeks. For the 83-year-old, it's child number four: daughter Julie is 33, twins Olivia and Anton 22. Al Pacino has never been married before.

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Also premiering was "Black Flies," a suspenseful drama about New York paramedics starring Sean Penn and supporting ex-boxer Mike Tyson.

Also in the competition is a rare documentary film from China by one of the genre's masters, Wang Bing. The filmmaker is known for showing a side of Chinese life that outsiders rarely get to see, and his new 210-minute film, Youth (Spring), follows migrant workers in a town near Shanghai.

Documentaries have been doing well at festivals lately: 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' (Laura Poitras' film about Big Pharma) won in Venice last year, and 'On the Adamant' - about a day-care center for the mentally ill in Paris - won in Berlin in February.

At Cannes, 21 films compete for the top prize, the Palme d'Or, including several previous winners such as Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda, German Wim Wenders and two-time British winner Ken Loach.

Moderator Joko Winterscheidt (44) and author Sophie Passmann (29) will start the podcast "Sunset Club" from May 18th. This is always audible on Thursdays - wherever there are podcasts. In an interview, the two reveal how the two came up with the idea for the joint project and what the listeners can expect. They also talk about what they admire about each other and what they can learn from each other.

How did the idea of starting a joint podcast come about?
Sophie Passmann: In the long run, the shame of being a celebrity without a podcast is unbearable. Joko and I, we need each other.

Joko Winterscheidt: We saw each other twice in Klaas and I shows and greeted each other in a friendly way in the hallway in front of the recording. It was clear that we would do a podcast together, anything else would be fatal.

How well did you know each other before that?
Passmann: Not good enough to start a podcast together. We then made up for it. We went to dinner for a very long time, it was a fun evening. But we'll tell you all about that in the first episode.

Winterscheidt: So good that I was able to say: Sure, I can send you Sophie's number - if someone asked for it. But only because I knew someone who had her number.

What do you appreciate about each other?
Passman: Simple. Joko is lovable, funny, warm and smart. And I'm sure there are a thousand other things too, but I'm only getting to know them now.

Winterscheidt: Sophie is incredibly quick-witted, so at my age I have to be wide awake. My blood just doesn't flow that fast anymore, so of course I could also take Ilja Rogoff, but I have such a hard time swallowing pills.

They are 29 and 44 years old. How does this affect the podcast?
Passmann: In between, Joko uses words for young people incorrectly, but he knows more about life than I do. Basically, the age difference doesn't play a big role. But I am also an old 29-year-old and he is a young 44-year-old.

What can you learn from each other?
Passmann: I would like to learn the following specific things from Joko: Become popular. Laugh heartily at all jokes. Wearing the same model of glasses for ten years. Bake a fluffy yeast dough. How to keep yourself on TV. Cycle.

Winterscheidt: Sophie has a great deal of knowledge in the world of gourmet food and beverages. With this knowledge I can of course impress my old friends, I just have to be able to remember it.

How did the name "Sunset Club" come about?
Passmann: Just as song lyrics are created for pop music: Many people sit in a room and stammer words to themselves in the hope of finding some that sound good together. There will be surprisingly little about sunsets in the podcast.

Winterscheidt: I think it's good that we're so honest, that's exactly how it was. The hashtag "sunset" is one of the most popular in the world and a club is also great. We sort of combined "best of both worlds" into one podcast name.

What associations do you associate with the term club? What experiences have you had with clubs in any way?
Passmann: As a teenager, I was only once a member of a handball club. Since then I've been longing to finally become a real fan of a football club so that I have something to do on the weekends. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in football at all. The "Sunset Club" is a good compromise.

Winterscheidt: For me, the club is 1. FC Nürnberg, a club that had its greatest successes in the 1920s, and we want to build on that.

You're both very busy. How does a podcast fit into the appointment calendar?
Passmann: My children are old enough to take the Porsche to daycare themselves, so I have more relaxed time in the mornings.

Winterscheidt: I didn't even know you had a Porsche.

They both have podcast experience. Did that help you for the new project?
Passmann: Above all, it helps me not to constantly use the same incredibly tiring filler words, because enough podcasts have already pointed out to me how annoying that is. For example, I used to say "actually" twelve times in each sentence. Didn't appear once in the first episode of "Sunset Club".

Winterscheidt: We don't follow any concept at all, that's good, that's really good for me. We press "Record" and an hour later we press "Stop". In between we discuss Sophie's everyday observations and my burn rate. So everything as always.

The competition in the podcast landscape is fierce...
Passmann: There is no such thing as competition, I've learned that it's called "Dear Competitor". There can never be enough podcasts, just like there can't be enough books and films.

Winterscheidt: We are the new ones, we take a back seat and welcome any advice from the older podcasters out there.

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