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The Palm Springs International Film Awards has selected Ariana Grande as the winner of the Rising Star Award for her performance in “Wicked....

The difference between being laughed at and having others laugh with you is perfectly exemplified in how the overweight young protagonist in...

Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Wilde, Kelly Rowland, Ali Wong and Demi Lovato were among the celebrities who helped 500 underserved Los Angeles stud...

Los Angeles is getting more production infrastructure. Sylmar Studios, a new 300,000 sq. ft. production facility, is set to open next month...

In 2024, a hit song is more like something you can’t escape than something you can measure. There are countless charts and services and data...

Sam Altman, CEO of artificial-intelligence power player OpenAI, believes that the next major developments in the AI sector will be more disr...

Dead & Company’s successful 2024 residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere will get a reprise. As expected, the band is returning to the venue in 2025,...

The 2025 Spirit Award nominations were announced Wednesday morning, with Neon’s “Anora” and A24’s “I Saw the TV Glow” leading the film categ...

If some people don’t feel they need to go to ESPN, Disney is working to bring ESPN to them. The entertainment giant on Wednesday made ESPN c...

Cara Donatto has been named executive vice president of media strategy for Atlantic Music Group, the record company announced Wednesday. Don...

Britney Spears has left the building, announcing on her 43rd birthday that she has moved to Mexico. The pop singer shared the news on Instag...

Lumina, a newly launched talent and IP media group, is putting forward a $2 million strategic investment from BAFTA and Grammy-nominated pro...

Sean Penn is “proud” about President Joe Biden’s most recent pardon. “Any father that didn’t do that would have been remiss,” Penn tells Var...

Jilly Cooper fans have reason to rejoice: “Rivals” is returning for a second season. Based on Cooper’s bestselling “bonkbuster” of the same...

TikTok’s year-end report reveals Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Addison Rae, Billie Eilish, Katseye and more as top 10 artists in the Un...

“Wicked” has been banned in Kuwait, in the Middle East, on the eve of its local theatrical release, Variety has confirmed. “Wicked” is the l...

Eva Longoria doesn’t feel that a “Desperate Housewives” reboot is necessary — but if the right idea came along, she’d be the “first to sign...

The Spotify Wrapped 2024 year-end data dive is out — and Taylor Swift is again at the top. Swift ranked as the No. 1 most-streamed artist gl...

Joe Rogan no longer had an exclusive window on Spotify in 2024 — but his hugely popular podcast was still the No. 1 most-listened to show on...

James Norton has revealed he was set on playing William the Conqueror in upcoming Middle Ages drama series “King and Conqueror” but was thwa...

The youngest Indonesian director to have won the Citra Award for Best Picture at the Indonesian Film Festival in 2014, Angga Dwimas Sasongko...

Jordan Bolger (“This Town”) and Max Fincham (“Invasion”) have been cast as the leads in upcoming Netflix drama “The Witness.” Based on the t...

Leading Indonesian studio Magma Entertainment presented its upcoming slate and premiered new content at the ongoing Jogja-Netpac Asian Film...

The Netherlands and Indonesia signed an audiovisual co-production agreement at the inaugural JAFF Market on Wednesday. The treaty was signed...

Sky scripted exec Meghan Lyvers has addressed a question some people have been asking over the recent “The Day of the Jackal” reboot, starri...