The nominees for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards are being unveiled on Wednesday. Mia McKenna-Bruce, last year’s BAFTA Rising Star winner, and “The White Lotus” star Will Sharpe, a BAFTA TV award winner in 2020, are on hosting duties, making the announcement at 12 p.m. U.K. time (4 a.m. PT) from the British Academy’s headquarters in […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained Wednesday morning following a tense standoff at his presidential compound, marking the first time a sitting president has been apprehended in the nation’s history, per the Associated Press. The political drama unfolded like a blockbuster production, with black SUVs, police escorts, and a five-hour siege of the […]
Haut Et Court has taken French distribution rights to the upcoming historical epic “The Captive,” directed by Alejandro Amenábar, best known for “The Others” and Oscar winner “The Sea Inside.” The $15 million film, which shot last year at locations in Valencia, Alicante and Seville in Spain, is now in post-production. Film Constellation handles worldwide […]
POWERHOUSE PERFORMS J-hope of K-pop phenomenon BTS is set to make history as the first South Korean solo artist to headline a U.S. stadium show with his upcoming North American tour. The run, part of his “Hope on the Stage” world tour, will hit six cities starting March 13 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 12-date […]
The Swiss and French companies are in talks about a combination that would create a giant in Europe’s inspection, certification, and testing services industry, with a combined market value of some $33 billion.
The company reported total revenue growth of 8% at constant exchange rates for the third quarter of fiscal 2025, and confirmed its guidance for the year.
The Malaysian discount-store retailer aims to start tapping investors early next week ahead of a planned initial public offering valuing the company at over $1 billion, people familiar with the situation said.
Canada has approved Bunge’s $8.2 billion deal for Glencore-backed Viterra, as the companies agreed to concessions to address previous antitrust concerns.
Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and Universal Music Group after accusing the entities of launching an illegal “scheme” to boost numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s hit diss track “Not Like Us.” In a New York filing on Tuesday reviewed by Variety, Drake and his Frozen Moments company withdrew its order to show cause seeking […]
It was after midnight on Wednesday when “The Ark” writer and producer John-Paul Nickel and his wife Jennifer Nickel, a costume designer on “Gotham Knights,” were on the Target Rooftop in La Canada, Flintridge watching as the Eaton fire spread. “It was like something out of Mount Doom in ‘Lord of the Rings,’” John-Paul Nickel says. […]
In a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Margaret Qualley said it took “a year” for her skin to recover from the irritation caused by the face prosthetics used in “The Substance.” The damage was so bad that director Coralie Fargeat had to frame out her face in certain shots. “At the end, […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Elon Musk, accusing the owner of X of failing to properly disclose his purchases of Twitter stock prior to his acquisition of the social media platform in 2022. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that Musk was required to file a […]
Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite interesting enough to sustain a 90-minute documentary, but then, not many are Diane Warren, one of the great characters of modern Hollywood. Despite having a self-owned song catalog whose worth is estimated at up to a half-billion dollars, and despite famously having 15 Oscar nominations and a lifetime […]
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