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
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
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
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
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
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
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 p.m., the Stagecoach app shared an update: “Due to severe weather, please exit the event site and move to
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 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner wrapped 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 evacuate, and many of the journalists who were in attendance
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
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was turned upside down Saturday night as a gunman was taken into custody after shots were fired near the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and other administration officials were
The filmmaker, who becomes the studio's youngest feature director, took to CCXP Mexico to tease his horror movie that hits theaters next month and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.
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,” “Back to Black” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” are their own unbelievable animals. But I’m talking about the wave of
The 'Entourage' star previously said it was a "disappointment" not to return for the highly anticipated sequel starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt, which releases May 1.
“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,
Ania Magliano and Paddy Young, the hosts of Weekend Update on “SNL U.K.,” enlisted Jimmy Fallon in this week’s episode to roast Jeffrey Epstein, Benson Boone and Lily Allen, among others, “to boost our ratings,” they joked. After Magliano remarked, “It may seem like Britain and
The film underwent 22 days of reshoots to reshape the third act due to a legal settlement the estate had overlooked preventing an accuser from being depicted onscreen.
During her opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live U.K.,” host Nicola Coughlan got a little assistance from “SNL” legend Jimmy Fallon, who joined the “Bridgerton” star for a chaotic studio tour and an explicit rap about her new family film “The Magic Faraway Tree.” Coughlan
The fifth episode of “Saturday Night Live U.K.” opened with a sketch mocking Keir Starmer’s choice of Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to the U.S. The sketch featured Al Nash as Jeremy Clarkson – a.k.a. “fake farmer and real asshole” – as the host of “Who Wants to Remain a
“Wicked” star Marissa Bode posted a video on TikTok on Thursday claiming she was recently barred from a Southern Airways flight because of her wheelchair. “I was denied boarding a flight because I’m disabled,” Bode said. “I wish that were clickbait. I wish that were false, but
Cyndi Lauper didn’t hold back when a heckler interrupted her opening night in Las Vegas, firing back mid-show with an expletive-laced response that quickly drew cheers from the crowd. The moment unfolded Friday at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, where Lauper launched “Cyndi
The King of Pop movie tracking toward $100 million domestically and $200 million worldwide despite the controversy around the film
Peter Capaldi, who starred as the Twelfth Doctor in “Doctor Who” from 2013 to 2017, recently told The Times of London that he doesn’t understand why some people take the show “so seriously” when asked about the backlash to the castings of Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa.
The verdict on “Michael” is in, and it is blunt. A 38% Rotten Tomatoes score has landed with a familiar critique: The film avoids the most controversial chapters of Michael Jackson’s life. But with a projected $85 million or more global opening, the film has secured its place
Donnie Wahlberg says he went as far as offering up a significant portion of his paycheck in an effort to film “Boston Blue” in his hometown, but the economics of television production ultimately won out. Speaking on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, Wahlberg detailed his push to keep the
Alicia Keys recently told The Times of London that the music industry can feel like a boys’ club, and that it is difficult for women, particularly if they are working as producers or studio engineers, to break in. “The music world becomes a good old boy network and all the
R.I.P. Mohabbot. Early this month, Variety broke the news that Supriya Ganesh, who plays Dr. Samira Mohan on HBO’s medical drama “The Pitt,” was departing the show after the second season. Per executives, Ganesh was written off for storyline purposes, leaving fans to mourn the
France wasn’t originally the only country in the mix for season 4 of Mike White’s hit anthology series “The White Lotus,” but it won the shoot in the most “White Lotus” way imaginable, with a perfectly “stereotypical” French waiter encounter in Cannes. “Something happened,
“Michael” told the rest of the domestic box office to “Beat It,” as Lionsgate’s biopic about the King of Pop easily secured the top spot on the Friday charts. Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael” earned $39.5 million on opening day from 3,955 North American theaters. Early projections
Anthony Chen used a panel at the Far East Film Festival, Udine, on Saturday to deliver a sharp critique of social media’s effect on human attention, cinema culture and what he called the fundamental experience of being human – remarks that came a day after his film “We Are All
