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28-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Selena Gomez Celebrates 33rd Birthday with Launch of Rare Impact Fund's Giving Circle (Exclusive)
Selena Gomez is continuing to make an impact as she celebrates another year around the sun. On July 22 the Only Murders in the Building star — who turned 33 on Tuesday — marked the launch of the Rare Impact Fund's Giving Circle (in partnership with Dollar Donation Club), which was "built to democratize giving and foster purpose-driven community," according to a release. Starting at $1 a month, members can receive monthly updates from the Fund's nonprofit partners, curated mental health content and ways to engage with the Rare Impact Fund community, adds the release. "When we started the Rare Impact Fund, we wanted to build a community that could make a real difference," Gomez — who founded Rare Beauty in 2020 — tells PEOPLE exclusively in a statement. "Five years in, I'm so proud of the impact we've all made together and excited for The Giving Circle and other initiatives we are planning.' The Rare Impact Fund recently hosted its first-ever global Grantee Capacity Building Workshop, bringing together nonprofit partners for hands-on programming focused on storytelling, fundraising and more. According to Rare Beauty, the Rare Impact Fund has mobilized over $20 million and supported 30 nonprofit organizations across five continents since its inception, reaching more than 2.2 million young people annually. Last year on World Mental Health Day, Gomez opened up to PEOPLE about advocating for increased access to mental health services and education around the world for young people. "We created the Rare Impact Fund before we created a single product, and it's so rewarding to see it being a resource for people when they actually come to our community and seek help," she said. "I'm just really grateful. This is why I do it." Read the original article on People
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12-07-2025
- Automotive
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‘Top Gun' on wheels: Inside the high-octane race to create the sound of ‘F1'
They called it "Top Gun on wheels." That's because the aim of F1: The Movie, the Formula 1 racing film directed by Joseph Kosinski, was to provide the same kind of high-octane speed and intensity as the high-flying Maverick sequel. More from Gold Derby Dinosaurs rule the earth: 'Jurassic World Rebirth' jolts July 4 holiday box office (update) Brad Pitt's 'F1' cruises to $55.6 million debut, 'M3GAN 2.0' stumbles with $10 million 'Everything is very fast,' supervising sound editor Al Nelson tells Gold Derby. 'But I think one of the other things that intrigued Joe was that you're not only competing with the other teams at Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull, but within each team you have two drivers who are competing against each other, which is what our film focuses on.' Nelson, an Oscar winner for sound for Maverick, was part of a sound team that included supervising sound editor Gwen Whittle, re-recording mixers Juan Peralta and Gary Rizzo, and production sound mixer Gareth John. You've got Brad Pitt's hotheaded has-been, Sonny, who doesn't want to give up the position to Damson Idris' Joshua, the cocky rookie. 'If you're in F1, you want to be the fastest and the best racer in the world, and so does your teammate,' adds Nelson. 'And so there's some challenge and infighting going on.' Formula 1 is considered the biggest and loudest racing spectacle: a global sport that shuttles its drivers week after week to 24 races in 21 countries across five continents. And each location has its own flavor, whether it's the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the Temple of Speed at Monza, the Suzuki circuit for the Japanese Grand Prix, Las Vegas, or the finale at Abu Dhabi. However, unlike the sound for every other film, this one amounted to controlled chaos, as the crew embedded itself in the 2024 F1 racing circuit. They captured the actual sounds of the real cars on every live track, alongside the energetic pit crews and dedicated crowds, ready to improvise at all times. 'In a Formula 1 car, you're fairly contained, it's like a little cocoon,' sound mixer John tells Gold Derby. 'They actually mold the seat to your body. But F1 is obsessively concerned with weight to keep the car efficient and balanced. Everything is very dangerous.' Yet it made more sense to put Pitt and Idris in F2 cars (specially engineered and built by the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team), which could be fitted with custom Sony cameras and DPA mics and transmitters. This allowed the actors to race at 200 miles-per-hour on F1 tracks, with the sound team later replacing the F2 recordings with the proper F1 sounds. 'We spent a lot of time capturing the authentic sounds, and when you go from that documentary approach, then you get into the sound design," Nelson explains. "How does it sound if you're a driver? Or how does it sound sitting in front of that big Imax screen being Sonny going 200 miles an hour down the street?" From there, the team played a lot with augmenting the recordings. 'These are V6 hybrid engines, so they've got a higher, more technical sound to them. They don't have that beefy growl; they're more wound-up," explains Nelson. "But we wanted to eke out of them as much of that power by finding other frequencies and really filling the room with the lower end of it. When they go by, you feel that punch in the gut that you can only get standing there at turn three at Silverstone when the car comes accelerating by. And so we used a lot of additional low end sweeteners. It was kind of the same thing we did on Maverick, where this is what a jet sounds like. This is what a Formula 1 car sounds like, and this is what it's like to be there.' The film evolved based on how the season progressed, with some wild days at the track, and each race was intentionally different. "Silverstone is very much a kind of bare knuckles F1 race and there's no music," Nelson says. 'You're in the seat with the [drivers] feeling that race. Then there are more montage-based races. Vegas is more of a muted, angry race, and Abu Dhabi is the big climax, and we wanted to feel like at any moment, with either Joshua or Sonny, everything could be lost." The key for the team was making sure the audience was always in the passenger seat, along for the breakneck ride. '[Composer] Hans [Zimmer] has just got this pulse going, and we are right there, full throttle," says Nelson. "There are a lot of turns, and on turn five, which is really sharp and tight, there's a lot of bunching up. There's a lot of passing and spin outs, and a lot of drama that we wanted to depict authentically, but with as much energy as possible.' Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Batman 2': Returning cast, script finalized Tom Cruise movies: 17 greatest films ranked worst to best 'It was wonderful to be on that ride': Christian Slater talks his beloved roles, from cult classics ('Heathers,' 'True Romance') to TV hits ('Mr. Robot,' 'Dexter: Original Sin') Click here to read the full article.
