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Marvel’s Agent Carter is coming to Middle East Film and Comic Convention
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is coming to Dubai. Organisers of the Middle East Film and Comic Convention yesterday announced that Hayley Atwell will be attending the three-day event, which begins at Dubai World Trade Centre on Thursday, April 9. Atwell starred as Peggy Carter in the Captain America movies and in the TV spin-off Agent Carter, which was broadcast this year. She will also reprise the role in the film Avengers: Age of Ultron, which will be released at the end of this month. MEFCC also announced that actor and sportsman Clive Standen will be a guest. An international Muay Thai boxer, medal-winning fencer and an ambidextrous swordsman, Standen is best known to genre fans for a string of roles in popular TV shows. He can currently be seen as the warrior Rollo in the historical action-drama Vikings. He also appeared in Doctor Who as Unit soldier Private Harris, and in the third season of the BBC’s Robin Hood as Archer. On the big screen, he appeared in the Viking drama Hammer of the Gods and will next be seen starring alongside former Doctor Who star Matt Smith, Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer and Hollywood star Stanley Tucci in Patient Zero, a fantasy-horror film about a rabies pandemic that turns victims into highly intelligent zombies. The National staff
Teen Emirati hopeful out of The X Factor
The only remaining Emirati contestant in The X Factor was eliminated from the show at the weekend. Teenager Almaz had made it through from the audition phase to the second round of the fourth season, but will not be taking part in the live rounds of the talent show. Selected as one of 10 contestants in the Solo Arabic category mentored by the Lebanese judge Elissa, the 15-year-old failed to secure a spot in the top four that will continue to the next round. Almaz took to the stage looking visibly nervous and sang Sodfa, a popular tune by the Lebanese singer, Yara. A few seconds into her performance, however, Almaz forgot the words and froze. The Lebanese judge Ragheb Alama, who is mentoring the 10 contestants in the International Solo category, was quick to comfort and reassure her and said she would not be judged for forgetting the words, but for what she had sung so far. The Egyptian judge Donia Ghanem then reminded her that she had done well to get this far in the competition to such a young age and with little previous experience. The judges described her as a “young butterfly”, as Elissa hugged her and told her not to be upset and take comfort from the fact that she had come so far. Almaz, however, was crestfallen and could not speak as she was sobbing so hard. – Hala Khalaf
Source: www.thenational.ae