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Crystal Rose Embraces 'Cloudy' Sound, Drops Live Album
Nashville singer Crystal Rose, a genre-defying Kansas City native, is gearing up to release a live album and is building infrastructure for Black women creatives in Music City while openly rejecting t
Armani Group Disavows Unauthorized Biopic Project
The Armani Group and family publicly disavowed Andrea Iervolino's planned biopic of the late designer, saying they never authorized or participated in 'Armani: The King of Fashion.'
Variety Toasts French Cinema at Post-Cannes Lapérouse Dinner
Variety hosted its fourth annual post-Cannes dinner at Paris's Lapérouse restaurant, gathering French cinema's leading figures — including Cannes director Thierry Frémaux, Guillaume Canet, and Anamari
Latin Music's Global Rise Ends English-Language Rule
Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud told Taiwan's Golden Melody Festival that Latin music's global rise — capped by Bad Bunny's 2026 Grammy win for a fully Spanish-language album — has retired Eng
Canal+ Drops TF1 Channels in France, Switzerland, Africa
Canal+ Group has stopped carrying several TF1 Group channels across France, Switzerland, and Africa after distribution talks collapsed, with both sides trading blame over the breakdown.
Brittany Whyte: Music Supervision Is More Than Picking Songs
Music supervisor Brittany Whyte, whose credits include The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Handmaid's Tale and Riverdale, told Taiwan's 2026 Golden Melody Festival that the craft extends well beyond
Kawaii Succeeded Globally by Refusing to Change
Speakers at the Golden Melody Festival in Taiwan argued that Japan's kawaii pop culture achieved global reach by doubling down on its distinctly Japanese identity rather than adapting to Western audie
Gower's Enemies and Rascals: Anti-US Art That Flatters Britain
A review of Terence Gower's Artangel sound installation 'Enemies and Rascals,' which uses 18th-century documents voiced by actors to argue US freedom was 'born bad,' linking the Revolution's slavery a
Richard Craker on Producing Jolin Tsai's 'Pleasure'
British producer Richard Craker told the 2026 Golden Melody Festival's closing conference that patience and cultural identity built Jolin Tsai's 'Ugly Beauty' and 'Pleasure,' and that Mandopop must em
Pierre Coffin: Female Minion Would Be 'Beginning of the End'
Pierre Coffin, director of the Minions franchise, says introducing a female Minion would be 'the beginning of the end' and would feel tokenistic, in a wide-ranging Q&A covering Minionese gibberish, hi
‘It opened my eyes to the city’: the artist drawing every single pub in London
Artist Lydia Wood has spent years sketching London's pubs from her pavement easel, documenting over 350 of the city's roughly 3,500 watering holes. Sixty of her intricate pencil drawings are now colle
Madonna: Confessions II review – nostalgic dancefloor trip sparks her most vital album in two decades
Madonna releases Confessions II, a long-awaited sequel to her 2005 dancefloor opus Confessions on a Dance Floor, which critics describe as her most vital album in two decades, built on house, trip-hop
Prime Video Nordics Adapts Kvensler's 'Sarek' for Series
Prime Video Nordics is adapting Ulf Kvensler's debut novel 'Sarek' into a four-part psychological thriller miniseries starring Felix Sandman, Kitt Walker Johansson, Alva Bratt, and Nora Rios, with fil
Hough Relaunches Leeds Piano With Free Choice, Higher Age Cap
Sir Stephen Hough takes artistic direction of the relaunched Leeds International Piano Competition, scrapping preset repertoire lists, raising the age cap to 35, and letting finalists choose their own
The Onion’s new parody of Alex Jones’ Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families
The Onion is launching a parody of Alex Jones' Infowars on its own website, debuting with a $100,000 donation from merchandise sales to Sandy Hook families, while the satirical outlet continues its co
Oscars Chief Melidonian Steps Down, Stays as Consultant
Oscars chief Teni Melidonian is leaving her full-time role at AMPAS, CEO Bill Kramer told staffers, as the Academy restructures teams ahead of its 2029 move to YouTube.
Josh Brolin Nearly Quit Dog Stars After Day One
Josh Brolin nearly walked off Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic drama 'The Dog Stars' after a chaotic first day, but a look at the dailies in Scott's trailer won him over.
Screen Australia Unveils First Cut Lab, Impact & Insights
Screen Australia has launched First Cut Lab and Impact & Insights, two new audience-focused programs pairing Australian filmmakers with international mentors and strategic audience advisors to strengt
Minions & Monsters Cast Tries Speaking Minionese
Universal's seventh Minions franchise film, "Minions & Monsters," world-premiered Sunday in Hollywood, where stars Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch, Jeff Bridges, and Allison Janney attempted to speak the
Alamo Drafthouse to Distribute Unreleased Festival Films
Alamo Drafthouse is launching a new distribution series to give festival films without U.S. theatrical release a nationwide run in its theaters, kicking off with a Butthole Surfers documentary this su
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