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London’s Royal Albert Hall will stage its first “Star Wars” in-concert weekender over four days in spring 2027, with the London Symphony Orchestra performing the iconic scores live to …
Banijay Germany is bringing the immersive experience “Luminiscence” to Hamburg’s St. Michaelis Church, in collaboration with French immersive producer Lotchi, the creator of “Luminis…
Jimmy Kimmel is responding to calls from Donald and Melania Trump for him to be fired by Disney and ABC. The President and the First Lady of the United States posted separate statements on s…
Donald Trump is demanding ABC and Disney fire Jimmy Kimmel. Just hours after his wife, Melania, wrote in an X post that ABC must “take a stand” against Kimmel and his “atrocious behavi…
Series can have unreliable narrators, “Money Heist,” for example. But what about unreliable heroes? Just cast in a lead role in “Dexter Resurrection” Season 2, Dan Stevens delivers o…
Film and TV veteran Dan Steinman has joined Gigi Pritzker’s Madison Wells production venture as president and chief content officer. He takes the reins as Madison Wells is on a roll with h…
A construction worker who was helping set up for singer Shakira’s upcoming Brazil concert died in a stage accident on Sunday, concert organizers announced in a statement. Translated from P…
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 …
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, p…
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 �…
“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 get…
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 post on the group’s Facebook…
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 th…
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 t…
“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. Fra…
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 S…
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-creat…
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…
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 the…
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 ch…
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 J…
“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 flig…
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 …
Noah Hawley, creator of TV series “Fargo,” “Legion” or “Alien: Earth,” remains optimistic about the industry. “It has been a process to become optimistic,” he clarified at …
It’s never too late to dream – at least according to the gospel of “Boho.” In the show, presented at Canneseries, Kima, her sister Nawal and their friend Alex navigate societal press…