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In the interest of full disclosure, I like my shipboard murder mysteries with an all-star cast and at least a soupçon of camp. That makes it hard to top the high-water mark of the 1978 Death on the Nile, with the delicious feast of Bette Davis and Maggie Smith swapping acid-tongued barbs and Angela Lansbury…
Universal Music Group will not have to face a lawsuit from Drake, who accused the record company of defamation over its distribution and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” Dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas on Thursday found that Lamar’s diss track advances opinions that can’t be considered defamatory. “A reasonable listener…
No rest for the wicked, or Charlie Hunnam when it comes to Monster. With the third season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story currently streaming atop the Netflix charts, season four of the true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan has gone into production in Los Angeles. The fourth season of the Emmy-winning Netflix…
SiriusXM wants to stay in business with Megyn Kelly for years to come. The satellite radio giant has inked a new multiyear deal with the former Fox News host, a pact that will see Kelly get her own branded channel on the SiriusXM lineup, taking over channel 111, formerly the Triumph channel. The channel will…
Dear Tilly Norwood, They tell me you are an actress and a computer. I am an actress and almost 40. Let’s talk. When I was your age … well, wait, no. You are both infant and immortal, like Thor in a diaper. I mean, when I was starting out in my career like you, this…
Cats: The Jellicle Ball is coming to Broadway. The musical, which reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats as a drag ballroom competition, will play Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatrewith previews starting March 18, 2026, ahead of an April 7 opening night. The musical moves to Broadway after an acclaimed run at New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center last…
Is Hollywood opting in or out? Early signs are that the major studios and talent agencies are now starting to circle the wagons over OpenAI‘s latest product, Sora 2: an invite-only, TikTok-style video app debuting Sept. 30 that allows users to scan their face and place themselves in hyperrealistic clips. Creative Artists Agency, the Bryan…
Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. Several of his novels, includingSátántangó(1985) andThe Melancholy of Resistance(1989), were adapted into feature films byHungarian auteur Béla Tarr. The Swedish Academy unveiled the honoree Thursday. Sátántangó is the Tarr-directed 450-minute adaptation, which was featured in the Berlin Film Festival’s Forum section…
Fremantle has found a flesh-and-blood boss to run their new AI studio. James Duffen, who has worked as an advisor for early-stage AI companies in the U.S. and Europe as managing director of seed investment and M&A group Aurelius Advisers, will take over as CEO of Imaginae Studios, the “AI native” studio launched by independent…
The European Film Academy will honor Norwegian cinema legend Liv Ullmann with the European Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards in recognition of her distinguished career as an actress, director, and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo and raised in Canada and Norway, Ullmann was a theater actress in Oslo before meeting Ingmar Bergman…
