THE GREEN ROOM

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*  Albums

• Freedom Child by The Script: Fifth album by the Irish pop rock band, the follow-up to No Sound Without Silence (2014); led by the single ‘Rain’, and also includes the songs ‘No Man Is an Island’, ‘Rock the World’, and ‘Written in the Scars’.

* Movies

• Animal Crackers (with the voices of John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Ian McKellen) - animation; a circus owner (Krasinski) and his wife (Blunt) must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save the run-down circus they inherited from being taken over by their evil uncle (McKellen).
• Deep (with the voices of Dwight Schultz, Jess Harnell, Justin Felbinger) - animation; after an accident destroys their home, an octopus (Felbinger) and his friends set out on a journey to find a new home.

A w a r d s

2017 MTV Video Music Awards

Winners

• Video of the Year: Kendrick Lamar - ‘Humble.’
• Best Direction: Kendrick Lamar - ‘Humble.’
• Best Art Direction: Kendrick Lamar - ‘Humble.’
• Best Visual Effects: Kendrick Lamar - ‘Humble.’
• Best Hip Hop: Kendrick Lamar - ‘Humble.’
• Artist of the Year: Ed Sheeran
• Best New Artist: Khalid
• Best Pop: Fifth Harmony (featuring Gucci Mane) - ‘Down’
• Best Dance: Zedd and Alessia Cara - ‘Stay’
• Best Rock: Twenty One Pilots - ‘Heavydirtysoul’
• Best Collaboration: Zayn and Taylor Swift - ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’
• Best Choreography: Kanye West - ‘Fade’

For the complete list of winners, visit mtv.com/vma/winners.

Star

Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman

• Born on 1st September 1996 in Oakland, California, U.S.
• Is the only child of her parents, but has five older paternal siblings.
• Appeared in stage productions as a child, and also danced in a group called Future Shock Oakland.
• Started modelling at a young age.
• Gained fame after being cast in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up (2010 Ð 2013).
• Currently stars in the Disney sitcom K.C. Undercover (2015 - present).
• Also appeared in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
• Upcoming projects include the movie The Greatest Showman (2017) and voice roles in the animated films Duck Duck Goose (2018) and Smallfoot (2018).
• Has a clothing line, Daya by Zendaya, and shoe collection, Sole of Daya.
• Published a book, Between U and Me: How to Rock Your Tween Years with Style and Confidence, in 2013.
• Is a vegetarian.­

Spotlight

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim de Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell, Richard E. Grant

Director: Patrick Hughes

Tagline: Get triggered.

• Action comedy; a special agent (Reynolds) is hired to guard a notorious hitman (Jackson) who has to testify at the International Court of Justice.
• Was originally intended as a drama, but rewritten into a comedy weeks before filming.
• Had a budget of $30 million; has made around $46 million in less than two weeks.
• Has received negative to mixed reviews, with criticism aimed at its clichŽd plot.
• Was going to be directed by Jeff Wadlow but he dropped out because of a schedule conflict with True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016).
• Score composed by Atli …rvarsson.