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Actor-filmmaker Frank Mosley, star of Sundance Jury Prize winners "Upstream Color" and "The Procedure," is set to play the lead in "Fur," taking on the part of Albert Ostman, history's first…
Who would say no to a "Happy Gilmore" cameo? No one, apparently. "We got everybody!" Adam Sandler joked to Variety at the "Happy Gilmore 2" premiere on Monday night, which boasted an unusual…
Variety has announced that Grammy Award-winning singer Tyla, actor Finn Wolfhard ("Stranger Things"), and actor Sam Nivola ("The White Lotus"), will be honored at the 2025 Power of Young Hol…
Locarno's interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14th edition.  In her introduction "Somewhere Ove…
Malcolm-Jamal Warner's former co-stars and industry peers have paid tribute to the late "Cosby Show" star after he died in a drowning accident at age 54. "I love you, Malcolm," Tracee Ellis …
Gary Smith, the Emmy-Award-winning producer behind numerous television specials and live events, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90. Born in 1935, Smith studied scenic desig…
Cheating CEOs are safe at Oasis concerts, reassured singer Liam Gallagher. "Do we have any lovebirds in the house?" the frontman asked the audience at an Oasis concert in England on Sunday. …
Focus Features and Working Title's "Sense and Sensibility" has rounded out its cast with George MacKay, CaitrÃona Balfe, Fiona Shaw and more joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in the Jane Austen a…
Zeam, the streaming platform that brings hyperlocal content to global audiences, is set to unveil its first original live comedy event with the multi-day live-streamed special "Destination C…
Jordan Stephens is making the jump from music to theater, tapping into the Young Vic's Main House for his stage debut in Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane." The Rizzle Kicks frontman will…
Tom Troupe, a stage and TV actor who appeared in "Star Trek," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Cheers," died Sunday morning at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 97. Troupe's death was confirmed by h…
Canadian indie outfit Men I Trust seems beamed down from the heavens to be a headphones band. Lead singer and guitarist Emmanuelle Proulx's gentle vocals float along over a textured dreampop…
As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, "What's your favorite movie?" For decades, I've given the same answer. But in the last 10 years or so, when I say, "My favo…
Eileen Fulton, who starred as Lisa Miller on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns," died Monday in Asheville, N.C., after a struggle with declining health. She was 91. Fulton's death was a…
Jamie Lee Curtis says she's learned a lot from Lindsay Lohan since reuniting for "Freakier Friday," the much buzzed-about sequel to 2003's "Freaky Friday." "She has taught me so much," Curti…
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson will be honored with the SummerStage Icon award for his artistic contributions to New York City, the City Parks Foundation has announced. The Grammy-winning artist…
Sheryl Crow has released a song about the current political climate under the guidance of President Donald J. Trump, referring to him as the "leader of the free world," and comparing reality…
Jho Low, the playboy Malaysian financier who was central to the multi-billion dollar 1MDB corruption scandal, has reportedly been located and his new identity discovered. Low was the masterm…
Alan Bergman, the Oscar-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with his wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades and produced such hits as "The Windmills of Y…
Micheal Ward's big "Cannes moment," as he describes it, should have come five years ago. "Lovers Rock," the reggae-infused romance in which he played a charming singleton at a London house p…
Honor Swinton Byrne is reuniting with writer-director Anne-Sofie Lindgaard for the National Film and Television School (NFTS) short film "Small One," joined by Charlotte Spencer and Herbert …
Tina Fey is set to bring a sprinkling of Hollywood star power to the Edinburgh TV Festival next month. The award-winning multi-hyphenate has been confirmed as joining the small screen events…
India's creative economy ambitions were on full display at WAVES 2025, the inaugural World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit, where a new government report tallies over $1.1 billion in…
"Captain Planet and the Planeteers," an animated TBS series from the '90s about an environmentalist superhero, is being adapted into a live-action series at Netflix with Greg Berlanti and Le…
Mexico's Marina de Taviria, Oscar-nominated as supporting actress for her performance as the mother in Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" is attached to star in Brenda Navarro's "House Eight" ("Casa…