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‘Boy George & Culture Club’ Documentary Lands U.S. Release With Vantage, Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

Vantage Media has acquired North American distribution rights to a documentary chronicling the career of Boy George and the legendary band Culture Club and dropped the first trailer for the film. Directed by Alison Ellwood, “Boy George & Culture Club” made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025 to a strong audience […]

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‘Enola Holmes 3’ Sets July Release Date on Netflix, Drops First-Look Photos of Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge’s Big Wedding

Enola Holmes is ready to solve her next mystery — and walk down the aisle. Netflix has dropped new first-look images from the third installment of the action-adventure franchise — which follows Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes’ equally clever younger sister — revealing that wedding bells are ringing for Enola and Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge). […]

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Pedro Pascal Promotes ‘Mandalorian & Grogu’ in Mexico City and More Celeb Red Carpet Photos: April 2026

April began with the continuation of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s promotional tour for their new romantic dramedy “The Drama.” The two stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ahead of a special New York City screening of the film set for the following evening. On the west coast, “Love Story” star Dree Hemingway (she […]

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Amazon Releases Its First ‘Framed’ Ember Artline 4K TV: Here’s How to Buy the New TV Online

With the Samsung Frame TV, Hisnese CanvasTV, TCL NXTVISION, converting a 4K TV into a framed art piece to seamlessly blend into a home’s decor is a growing trend in 2026. And now, Amazon just released its own. With prices starting at $899.99, the Ember Artline 4K Ultra HD Fire TV is Amazon’s first framed […]

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Noah Kahan to Headline Rolling Stone’s Inaugural Stateside Festival, Celebrating the ‘Timeless Spirit of Americana’

Rolling Stone magazine is launching its first-ever festival, Stateside, which will be headlined by folk-pop hitmaker Noah Kahan. The music and culture fest is set to take place on July 4 at Hutton Brickyards in Kingston, New York and will channel the “timeless spirit of Americana,” according to a press release. “Stateside will celebrate the […]

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‘No Ordinary Heist’ Director Colin McIvor Signs With Anonymous Content (EXCLUSIVE)

Colin McIvor, the Northern Irish writer/director behind recent thriller “No Ordinary Heist,” has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. The news comes on the heels of Epic Pictures having released the film theatrically in North America on April 24, with a VOD release set for Monday. Directed and co-written by McIvor and inspired true events […]

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‘The Sheep Detectives’ Review: Wholesomely Offbeat Family Comedy Has Bags Full of Charm

Something of an anomaly in the age of multi-screen households and fragmented viewing, the genuine all-ages family movie gets a canny but uncynical revival in “The Sheep Detectives.” As bracingly odd a proposition to hit the multiplex as any we’ve seen in the last couple of years, the first live-action feature from long-serving Illumination director […]

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Norwegian Creature Feature ‘Kraken’ Acquired by Signature for U.K., Ireland (EXCLUSIVE)

Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Irish rights to Norwegian creature feature “Kraken” from TrustNordisk. Directed by Pål Øie (“The Tunnel”), and written by by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Jelen Rasmussen & Natasha Arthur, “Kraken” Kraken follows marine biologist Johanne who encounters several strange occurrences while researching at a local fish farm. Following the brutal […]

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Michael Jackson’s Auteur Music Video Directors: Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, David Fincher and More

The new biopic “Michael” covers Michael Jackson’s rise from precocious frontman of the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to launching his solo career in the mid-80s. So, as one would expect, the film recreates the making of Jackson’s legendary music video, “Thriller,” in 1982. But when the King of Pop (played by his nephew Jaafar […]

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Viral Comedian Matt Buechele Launching Podcast ‘That Sounds Like a Lot,’ About Culture, Politics and the ‘Increasingly Strange Rhythms of Modern Life’

Matt Buechele’s new podcast “That Sounds Like a Lot” might have music. It might veer into absurdity. But he promises it will always deliver laughs. Buechele’s weekly video podcast, produced by Vox Media and creator studio AND Media, will premiere Friday, May 1, featuring an interview with comedian Zach Zimmerman. Guests on upcoming episodes will […]

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‘Jackass 5’ Trailer: Johnny Knoxville and Friends Say Goodbye to Series With Tasers, ‘Escape Room From Hell’ and More Painful Stunts

Welcome back to Jackass: Paramount Pictures has released a trailer for the stunt-comedy franchise’s fifth and final film. “Jackass: Best and Last” will be released in theaters on June 26.  Originally beginning as an MTV show 26 years ago, “Jackass” has since become a decades-spanning property, spawning four feature films and a slew of spinoffs […]

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Roku Taps Consumer Data From Best Buy, Instacart, Others in ‘Roku Curate’ Offer to Advertisers

Roku wants to give advertisers new ways of determining whether their commercials are really helping to spur purchases and other kinds of valuable customer behavior. The company, which helps consumers stream many of their favorite programs, on Monday unveiled Roku Curate, a new offering that gives advertisers new access to various kinds of first-party data […]

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Webtoon Teams With AI Avatar Tech Company Genies to Launch Character Chat Feature

Webtoon Entertainment and Genies, an AI avatar technology company, are partnering to bring new character-driven chat and digital experiences to the company’s platforms. The collaboration will allow participating creators to extend characters into 3D, interactive formats through tools integrated into Webtoon’s English platform. A curated group of creator-approved titles, including “The Greatest Estate Developer” and “The […]

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Oprah Inks Amazon Deal for Her Podcast, Book Club and Her Original TV Show

Oprah Winfrey, the “Queen of Talk,” is bringing her podcast, book club and old episodes of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to Amazon under an exclusive multiyear deal. The partnership is multipronged where Wondery will have video and audio distribution and ad-sales rights for the popular “The Oprah Podcast,” across all channels. The deal also includes […]

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Marketecture Media Taps Jackelyn Keller as Chief Commerical Officer

Marketecture Media, a publishing and live event outfit that focuses on the nexus of media and technology, has recruited Jackelyn Keller to serve as chief revenue officer as the company looks to scale its business events and content operations. The company just completed a $1 million seed funding round designed to help it expand its […]

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Spotify Muscles Into Fitness Category, Inks Deal With Peloton for 1,400-Plus Workout Videos

Years before Spotify even launched, music was a core part of many people’s fitness routines. Now Spotify is expanding into the fitness category with an array of videos and guided workouts, available in the app alongside music, podcasts and audiobooks. Spotify’s new guided workout experiences will include more than 1,400 on-demand workout classes from Peloton […]

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‘Adolescence,’ ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ Lead BAFTA Television Craft Awards

“Adolescence” and “The Celebrity Traitors” led the BAFTA Television Craft Awards with two wins each.Netflix’s hard-hitting teenage drama won a fiction director award for helmer Philip Barantini while the sound team also won in the fiction category. Meanwhile “The Celebrity Traitors” brought home two wins in the entertainment craft team category as well as factual […]

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‘Alex Rider’ Producer Eleventh Hour Developing Legal Drama With Victoria Asare-Archer Inspired by Eco-Lawyer’s Book ‘A Barrister For The Earth’ (EXCLUSIVE)

“Missing You” writer Victoria Asare-Archer is developing a new environmental legal drama for Eleventh Hour Films. Asare-Archer was lead writer and executive producer on Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptation “Missing You” and previously wrote on “Stay Close” for Netflix and VR Game “Doctor Who: The Runaway,” which was nominated for an Emmy. Based on Monica Feria-Tinta’s […]

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Initiative Addressing Hair and Makeup Equality in U.K. Film and TV Industry Gets Backing From Networks

A number of major U.K. networks and industry partners have teamed to launch a new masterclass-focused training initiative aimed at raising industry standards when it comes to textured hair and dark skin tones. The ‘Textured Hair & Make-up for Deep Skin-Tones Accelerator,’ comes from Dandi, the diversity and inclusion service from the team behind the […]

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Yakusho Koji on 48 Years in Japanese Cinema and How ‘Shall We Dance?’ Brought Him to Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’

When Nakadai Tatsuya, one of Japan’s most celebrated actors, decided that his young student’s surname was too dull for the stage, he reached for an unlikely inspiration. Hashimoto Koji — as the actor was called then — had been working at a Tokyo municipal office before auditioning for Nakadai’s acting school. The word for such […]

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Hungarian Leader Péter Magyar Set to Attend International Premiere of Doc ‘Spring Wind – The Awakening’ at Italy’s Riviera Film Festival

Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar is set to travel to Italy’s Riviera International Film Festival on May 5 to attend the international premiere of of documentary “Spring Wind – The Awakening.” The doc charts the political journey that culminated with his historic April 12 victory in the country’s general elections. Directed by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, […]

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‘Star City’ Creators Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert Say Artemis II Has Reignited Excitement for Space Exploration Because ‘It Wasn’t About the Wealthy’: ‘This Is for All of Us’

Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, who co-created “For All Mankind” and now its spin-off “Star City” with Ronald D. Moore, are adamant that people are dreaming of space exploration again. “With the Artemis II launch that just happened, I felt that excitement again. It wasn’t about space tourism; it wasn’t about the wealthy. It was […]

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Sudhanshu Saria’s Four Line Films Launches Debut Features ‘Pech’ and ‘Silverfish’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Indian National Film Award-winning filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria is producing two debut features under his Four Line Films banner – Mumbai social drama “Pech” and Silicon Valley creature-feature “Silverfish” – with the latter having screened as one of five projects selected for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) industry showcase. “Pech,” written and directed […]

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Son Suk-ku, Ha Jung-woo Board Yoon Jong-bin’s ‘The Generals’ for Netflix

Netflix has begun production on “The Generals” (working title), a Korean political drama directed by Yoon Jong-bin in which Son Suk-ku and Ha Jung-woo play real-life historical figures Roh Tae-woo and Chun Doo-hwan. The film is Yoon’s first feature since “The Spy Gone North” in 2018. The director previously collaborated with Netflix on “Narco-Saints,” the […]

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Korea Box Office: ‘Salmokji: Whispering Water’ Holds Strong

The local horror-thriller “Salmokji: Whispering Water” maintained its dominance at the South Korean box office during the weekend of Apr. 24–26, 2026. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film earned $2.4 million from 343,461 admissions, securing a 39.29% revenue share. Since its Apr. 8 release, the […]

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China Box Office: ‘Michael’ Claims Top Spot During Another Sluggish Weekend

Universal’s biographical drama “Michael” debuted at the top of the China box office during the April 24–26 weekend, earning RMB32.6 million ($4.8 million), according to data from Artisan Gateway. With $217.3 million, “Michael” is also the No. 1 film in the world, per Comscore. The local drama “It’s OK” moved to second place in its […]

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‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: Musical Adaptation of ‘80s Teen Vampire Flick is Rich in Imagination, Filled With Spectacular Effects

“Turning a movie into a musical reeks of desperation,” says a character in the new Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 film “The Lost Boys.” That insider wink to the audience gets a big laugh — and truer words were never spoken. But this stunner of a show, based on the Joel Schumacher film, is […]

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Why Eric Dane’s ‘Euphoria’ Return as Cal Jacobs Is So Powerful

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from “The Ballad of Paladin,” Season 3, Episode 3 of “Euphoria,” now streaming on HBO Max. One of the defining loose threads of “Euphoria” has been settled — in moving and compelling fashion. The action of the first season of “Euphoria” back in 2019 kicks off with a crime. Jules […]

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Nedra Talley-Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80

Nedra Talley-Ross, the last surviving founding member of the early 1960s-era girl group and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Ronettes, has died, according to a social media post from her daughter. No cause of death was announced; she was 80 years old. Her daughter, Nedra K. Ross, announced her mother’s passing in a […]

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Ringo Starr on Making a Second Album With T Bone Burnett, ‘Long Long Road’: ‘I’d Love to Be Ray Charles, but My Voice Works for Country’

Ringo Starr, crooner. It’s not everyone’s first go-to when we’re talking about someone who has rightly earned a reputation as the most important, and many would say best, drummer in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. But T Bone Burnett has long held the belief that Starr is underrated as a singer. And the reasons […]

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Star Jaz Sinclair Reacts to ‘Gen V’ Cancellation: ‘Thank You From the Bottom of My Heart’

“Gen V” star Jaz Sinclair is expressing her gratitude for her fans and time on the show, following last week’s cancellation of the Prime Video spinoff of “The Boys.” Taking to her Instagram story, Sinclair wrote, “There’s so much I wanna (and will) say, but for today I just want to say thank you from […]

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‘The Big Bang Theory’ Spinoff ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ Sets July Release Date on HBO Max

“The Big Bang Theory” spinoff series, “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,” will be available to stream on HBO Max, beginning in July. The show stars “Big Bang Theory” alums Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie, who made the announcement Sunday at the “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” panel at […]

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‘Are We About to Die?’: Host Oz Pearlman Was Right Behind Trump When a Shooter Stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

At the exact moment dozens of armed federal agents swarmed into the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, Oz Pearlman was revealing to Donald Trump the name of Karoline Leavitt’s unborn daughter. The mentalist was perhaps moments away from climbing inside the mind of the president on Saturday night when a 31-year-old teacher from Los Angeles […]

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NFL Draft Stars Reveal Their Favorite Football Movies and Binge Watches: ‘The Blind Side,’ ‘Love Island’ and More

When the NFL’s 2026 draft stars aren’t practicing for the upcoming season, they can be found watching reality shows like “Love Island,” thrillers like “The Night Agent” or “Breaking Bad” and even animated hits like “Zootopia 2.” Variety chatted with several of the top picks from Round One of Pittsburgh’s NFL draft to find out […]

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UFC Boss Dana White Says the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Was ‘F—ing Awesome’: ‘I Literally Took Every Minute of it In’

UFC president and CEO Dana White recently told USA Today that he thought experiencing Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting in person was “fucking awesome.” “All of a sudden, it just started getting noisy. Tables started getting flipped over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming, ‘Get down!’” White, who was in […]

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‘Severance’ Stars Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman Send Surprise Messages to Adam Scott at Canneseries: ‘You Make Coming to Work Feel Like a Summer Camp – Where We Have No Access to Sunlight’

Adam Scott was surprised by his “Severance” co-stars, who sent in videos congratulating him on his Canal+ Icon Award at Canneseries.  “You are so deserving of this award. You make coming to work feel like going to summer camp – a weird summer camp where we have no access to sunlight. You lead with kindness, […]

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Trump Set to Appear on ’60 Minutes’ After White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting

Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” will now include an interview with President Donald Trump, conducted by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in the wake of the shooting on Saturday night near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “After law enforcement officers stopped a gunman from rushing the Washington Hilton ballroom where President Trump, members of his cabinet, and […]

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‘Michael’ May Be ‘Family-Friendly,’ but It Taps Into Michael Jackson’s Most Powerful Creative Fuel — His Anger

The media has done a good job of talking about what’s not in “Michael.” I refer, of course, to the accusations of child sexual abuse that dogged Michael Jackson from 1993 until the day he died (and, of course, they didn’t stop then). The media has done a far less good job of talking about […]

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White House Correspondents Association President Weijia Jiang Says Dinner Shooting ‘Was a Harrowing Moment for Everyone in Attendance’

Weijia Jiang, WHCA president and CBS News’ Senior White House Correspondent, has released a statement following last night’s shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Taking to X, she wrote, “I know many of you are still processing what happened last night. Thank you to the USSS and all the law enforcement agencies who kept […]

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Matthew Lillard Says Nostalgia Is ‘One of the Reasons’ Hollywood Is ‘Hiring Me Again’: ‘I Don’t Think Anyone Really Likes Me. They Just Miss the Old Times’

Matthew Lillard said during a recent appearance on the “Phase Hero” podcast that he thinks nostalgia played a major role in his recent Hollywood resurgence. “’Scooby-Doo’ one and two are more popular now than they ever were when they came out. So I do think there’s a weird nostalgia thing happening in our industry and […]

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Box Office: ‘Michael’ Bows to $217 Million Globally, ‘Mario’ Surpasses $800 Million, ‘Project Hail Mary’ Rockets Past $600 Million

“Michael” glided to the top of box office charts with $217 million globally, the biggest opening weekend of all time for any musical biopic. Those ticket sales include a mighty $120.4 million from 82 international markets, as well as $97 million in North America. Despite the mostly negative reviews from critics, “Michael” has exceeded all […]

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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Director Tried ‘Sneaking’ Adrian Grenier in For a Cameo But it Was ‘Too Late in Our Production Schedule to Make it Happen’

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” director David Frankel says he would’ve liked to see Adrian Grenier reprise his role as Nate, Andy Sachs’ (Anne Hathaway) boyfriend from the first film. Frankel told Entertainment Weekly that he tried “sneaking” Grenier in for a cameo. But ultimately, “it was just too late in our production schedule to […]

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Michael Keaton Returns to Hometown Pittsburgh to Announce Steelers’ NFL Draft Pick

Michael Keaton, a longtime fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, surprised football fans when he took the stage at his hometown’s record-breaking NFL draft and announced a pick for the team. The Oscar-nominated actor was born in Kennedy Township, Penn., and was raised around Pittsburgh before moving to Los Angeles and beginning his film and TV […]

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‘Michael’ Rocks Box Office With Record-Setting $97 Million Debut

There’s a new box office king. “Michael,” a biopic about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, arrived in theaters as an instant sensation with $97 million domestically and $217 million globally in its first weekend of release. These ticket sales rank as the best start of all time for a biopic, smashing the record set […]

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Adam Scott Says He Already Knows the Ending to ‘Severance,’ Teases ‘So Many Surprises’ in Season 3: ‘It’s Going to Be Great’

Adam Scott already knows the ending of “Severance.” “Oh Yes. I’m an executive producer on the show, so I’m involved in all of it. We talk with the writers, and Dan [Erickson], all the time. I know everything about what’s going on. [As an actor] I like having as much information as possible.” Just like […]

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Giddens Ko and Kai Ko Bring ‘Kung Fu’ to Far East Film Fest, Reveal Stephen Chow Input

Taiwanese filmmaker Giddens Ko, presenting “Kung Fu” at the Far East Film Festival on Saturday, revealed that Stephen Chow contributed to the film’s development and reflected on the more than decade-long journey required to bring his most technically ambitious project to screen. Speaking on a panel moderated by Kevin Ma, Ko and his longtime collaborator […]

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NBC News, MS NOW Tamp Down Party Spirit After White House Correspondents Dinner Chaos

WASHINGTON — Mentalist Oz Pearlman was supposed to dazzle an audience of hundreds on Saturday night here with mind tricks in a well-lit hotel ballroom. Instead he found himself doing his act for a small handful of media executives in a darkened underground event space close to midnight. MS NOW had planned to host a […]

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Australia Makes Its Debut at EAVE’s Ties That Bind Co-Production Program

Australia is sending its first-ever delegation to Ties That Bind, EAVE’s flagship European-Asian co-production training program, with two Asian Australian filmmakers joining the initiative’s annual session in Udine, Italy, where it runs alongside the Far East Film Festival and Focus Asia through April 30. Industry development specialist Sheree Ramage shepherded the delegation to Udine, bringing […]

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Wim Wenders Presents Yakusho Koji With Far East Film Festival’s Golden Mulberry, Describes Shooting ‘Perfect Days’ With the Discipline of a Documentary

Wim Wenders traveled to Udine to personally present Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Far East Film Festival on Saturday, using the occasion to describe how their collaboration on “Perfect Days” quietly abandoned the conventions of fiction filmmaking. Wenders, who cast Yakusho as the taciturn Tokyo toilet cleaner […]

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Madonna Playfully Spanks West Hollywood Nightclub Owner in Front of Addison Rae at Surprise “Confessions II” Performance

Madonna made an epic surprise appearance Saturday night at West Hollywood LGBTQ bar and nightclub The Abbey. The invite-only event was billed as “Club Confessions Los Angeles” with DJs Stuart Price (producer of both of Madonna’s “Confessions” albums), Romy and Mez Monty. The festivities also served as a birthday party for The Abbey’s owner Tristan […]

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Chile’s ‘Red Hangar’ Sweeps 41st Guadalajara Film Festival

Chilean Juan Pablo Sallato’s black & white fiction feature debut “Red Hangar,” which chronicles long-suppressed details behind the military coup that ousted Chile’s President Salvador Allende, swept the Ibero-American strand of the 41st Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG), taking home every single category. In the Best Performance category, “Red Hangar” lead Nicolás Zárate shared the prize […]

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Ron Leshem at Canneseries: ‘There Are So Many Reasons Why Today Must Be the Golden Age of Global Drama’

Oscar-nominated for “Beaufort” and co-creator of the original Israeli series which inspired Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria,”  the second most-watched series in HBO history, writer-creator Ron Leshem ranks as one of the highest-profile standard bearers of a local-to-global drive that has counted for a significant part of the most inspiring TV made over the last 20 years. […]

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Stagecoach Festival Issues Emergency Evacuation Due to High Winds — Only to Reopen Less Than Two Hours Later

There were thousands of unhappy Stagecoach festivalgoers on Saturday night, as the approximately 75,000-80,000 guests were forced to evacuate due to high winds. At 7:46, the Stagecoach app shared an update: “Due to severe weather, please exit the event site and move to your vehicles or protected areas outside of the event site for safety. […]

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Trump Vows to Reschedule White House Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘We’re Not Going to Let Anybody Take Over Our Society’

President Donald Trump held a press conference at the White House about one hour after he and first lady Melania Trump were evacuated following gunshots breaking out at the White House Correspondents Dinner, held at the Washington Hilton. “That was unexpected,” Trump began from the White House Briefing Room, praising what he called the swift […]

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: Reporters React to ‘Lockdown in the Ballroom’ After ‘Multiple Shots Fired’

The 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner wrapped up early on Saturday night as gunshots were heard in the lobby outside of the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel, which caused President Trump and his family to immediately evacuate, and many of the journalists who were in attendance reported on the event in real time on […]

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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ Broadway Review: Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer Lead Stellar Cast

Nearly 40 years after its debut, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” has returned to Broadway. The second installment in legendary playwright August Wilson’s “The Century Cycle,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, grapples with Black life in the decades after Emancipation. Directed by Debbie Allen, the emotionally gripping play is set in a Pittsburgh boarding house. […]

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President Trump, Melania Trump and Others Evacuated From White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was halted Saturday night as President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were evacuated by the Secret Service while the annual gala dinner unfolded at the Washington Hilton. CSPAN coverage indicated that the dais for the event was cleared out and many of the several thousand attendees of the […]

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With ‘Mother Mary’ as Hollywood’s Latest Implausible Pop Star, Why Does Every Fictional Music Movie Have to Feel So Phony?

Why is it that nearly every fictional movie that is about music, or set in a musical milieu, has to feel as phony as a $2 resale ticket? Biopics like “Michael” are their own animal, but I’m talking about the wave of promising-sounding, mostly cringe-inducing dramas like “Mother Mary” (going into wide release this weekend) […]

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Sets Season 4 Release Date, Drops Stunning First Teaser

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 4 officially has a premiere date at Paramount+. The fourth season of the sci-fi show will premiere on July 23, with new episodes dropping weekly thereafter through the finale in Sept. 24. A new teaser for the season has also been released, which can be seen below. The announcement […]

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‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Enlists Jimmy Fallon to Roast Jeffrey Epstein, Benson Boone, Lily Allen and More: ‘We’re Just Two Hosts, Sat Next to a More Famous Host, Asking Him to Boost Our Ratings’

Ania Magliano and Paddy Young, the hosts of Weekend Update on “SNL U.K.,” enlisted Jimmy Fallon to roast Jeffrey Epstein, Benson Boone and Lily Allen, among others, in a bid to boost their ratings. Elsewhere in Weekend Update, targets for jokes included Meghan Markle, Ellen DeGeneres, Russell Brand and Michael Jackson. After Magliano remarked, “It […]

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