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The Directors Guild of America has secured a provision in its new contract that limits actors and others who work on TV series from directing episodes, as it seeks to preserve jobs for career TV directors. The provision is meant to address the 40% downturn in production jobs…
Hockney, one of the UK's most important and influential artists, has died at the age of 88.
Responding to an incident in which she was verbally abused, the actor said that ‘evil forces are rising everywhere’, as well as expressing support for MobLand co-star Tom HardyHelen Mirren has commented on being called an “evil Zionist bitch” while being harassed in the street…
The pop star discusses the difficulty of writing happy songs, and her Glastonbury anxiety attack.
Late night hosts weighed in on the president’s combative words about Netanyahu, his failing Iran peace talks and plans for a new Trump PromenadeOn Tuesday night, late night hosts addressed Donald Trump appearing to doze off during the NBA finals, misleading updates on Iran peace…
Ice flow modeling and geological analyses suggest it's possible that glaciers carried the stone part of the way during the last Ice Age. However, scientists say that scenario is unlikely
The late-night host detailed how the Florida liberal arts college became a testing ground for a rightwing agendaJohn Oliver dedicated Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight to examining how Florida’s New College has been taken over by the conservative state governor, Ron…
The new drama centres on Alice discovering best friend Steve is dating her 26-year-old daughter.
So far, archaeologists have recovered 40 artifacts from the discovery, an 18th-century shipwreck that likely will yield thousands more treasures
The rapper allegedly suffered an undisclosed injury that will require surgery
Symphony Hall, BostonThe mercurial artist reworked her catalog with technical mastery – and playful dance moves - accompanied by the Boston Pops orchestraSt Vincent’s artistry has been rooted in pushing boundaries since the beginning. Annie Clark’s genre-bent songs combine…
The late actor was a charming and funny father figure, and sometime singer, in the cult TV show, one of his many roles that showed just how much he could doAnthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso actor, dies aged 72For years, fans eagerly anticipated the oft-floated…
The late-night host discussed the president’s love of AI images, his odd rhetoric and reflecting pool renovationsOn Thursday night, Seth Meyers talked about Donald Trump snoozing during meetings and his eyebrow-raising boasts about the size of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…
When the metal is split, the atoms on its surface rearrange themselves into a very stable pattern that doesn't easily react with oxygen in the air, a study suggests
“Backrooms” director Kane Parsons recently sounded off on AI in filmmaking during a recent interview with The Australian. The 20-year-old filmmaker said that he was “in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” and does not want to see the technology take over Hollywood. “If…
The birds might use the organs' iron-rich immune cells as internal compasses on overcast days, when they must rely on Earth’s magnetic field, instead of the sun’s light cues, for navigation
Actress and comic Meera Syal was among the other stars to receive honours from King Charles on Tuesday.
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The foal was born on April 21 and is now romping around with the rest of the herd in the zoo's seasonal Wild Asia Monorail exhibit. It belongs to a species whose members are often considered the last truly wild horses
What is it — even still — about Marilyn Monroe? A century after her birth, the woman born Norma Jeane still has American culture hanging on her every breathy vocalization. Monroe remains the ultimate standard-bearer of Hollywood glamour — a woman who died (in 1962, at the…
Tony Leung Chiu-wai heads the main competition jury for the 28th edition of China's premier cinema event, running June 12-21.
From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to lifeSpread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the…
The late DJ’s mixtapes will be uploaded weekly until the end of June
Kane Parson’s “Backrooms” has already shattered the record for A24’s best opening weekend. Adapted from Parsons’ viral YouTube series, “Backrooms” earned $38 million domestic on Friday from 3,442 theaters, and is projected to gross $85 million to $90 million through the weekend…
The species, also known as the sihek, was wiped out from its native Guam and kept alive in captivity. Conservationists released some birds on Palmyra Atoll in 2024, and they have been thriving so far
Late-night host spoke of more bad news for the president and criticized his ‘nonstop multi-victim retribution tour’Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed Donald Trump over his falling approval rating while also taking shots at his crumbling anniversary concert event.The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host…
“Prime Minister,” the HBO original documentary about popular New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, was named best documentary at Thursday’s Documentary Emmy Awards. The doc, directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival…
Fresh revelations come after two women told the BBC they had been raped on the Channel 4 reality show.
Featuring unreleased recordings from the 1977 sessions that spawned “Surfin’ Bird” and “Human Fly”
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Although the researchers did not create an entire cell that could function without a crucial building block, the findings represent a big step in synthetic biology and provide a glimpse at how Earth’s earliest organisms may have lived
A series of 15 covers popped up without warning on Cuomo’s YouTube page over the weekend
The tenor player was equally heralded onstage by his peers as he was offstage with prestigious awards
The Abstract Expressionist is best known for his action paintings, which emphasized the movements of the artist's body during the creative process. "Number 7A, 1948" is now his most expensive work ever auctioned
The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May 15
From a Revolutionary War battlefield to a civil rights-era safe haven, these historic sites are at risk, according to the latest list from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Standing at the Cannes podium Saturday night to collect the Grand Prix for “Minotaur,” exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev used his acceptance speech to issue a direct, personal plea to Vladimir Putin to bring the war to an end. Set in Russia in 2022, “Minotaur” follows…
Scientists figured out that the predators were lumped in with a previously named mosasaur species. The new one, called Tylosaurus rex, could grow to 43 feet long, about the length of a school bus
Using a remotely operated vehicle, researchers are exploring a long-overlooked piece of Seattle’s maritime history
Quiver Distribution has acquired writer-director Jeffrey Scott Collins' feature that premiered at Sun Valley and also stars Reno Wilson, Jamie Lee and Dylan Playfair.
Mattea Conforti talks to The Hollywood Reporter about Becca's bloody actions being driven by her love for Chase Infiniti's Agnes, and the questions she has after the season finale now that the 'Handmaid's Tale' sequel series has been renewed for season two.
Although Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt are close collaborators, they allegedly had one moment where they disagreed while filming 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” The anecdote comes via co-star Bruce Dern, who spoke with People while celebrating a new documentary about…
The holiday company has cut ties with Married at First Sight following allegations of rape made by women on the UK edition.
Brownstein joined Morby onstage at his show in Portland (naturally) to play the 2005 favorite
Late-night hosts discussed the president successfully suing his own government and his latest ballroom updatesLate-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s controversial $1.76bn settlement and the latest on his taxpayer-funded ballroom. Continue reading...
The trio replace Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, who left the BBC dance competition last year.
Stories about exploited migrant workers have become something of a mainstay in international cinema, rightly so given the tenacious hold this form of indenture — or worse — continues to have on the Global North. They also make for good cinema: who doesn’t want to root for people…
The social platform, now controlled by Elon Musk's SpaceX, is bringing a new product called Creator Connect to market, using AI to connect brands to relevant creators in search of more ad dollars.
The Beatle served as musical guest for the first time since 2012 opposite host Will Ferrell
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co-writer Jack Epps discuss how the smash hit action drama came to be, from Tom Cruise vomiting on himself to ruling the box officeIt would be one of the most important flights in film history. When a young 5ft 7in actor with long hair and ponytail…
The 25 newest additions to the national playlist at the Library of Congress have been deemed "worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage"
Seven participants had electrodes temporarily implanted in a brain structure important for learning. While anesthetized, their nerve cells learned to differentiate between distinct sounds—and could even predict upcoming words in phrases
At the end of her “Mayhem Ball” tour, Lady Gaga performs “Bad Romance” as the opera house behind her ignites, the set piece roaring with flames. It’s a commentary, or at least it appeared to be, on the ephemeral nature of pop music: Gaga spends the entire performance celebrating…
The National Recording Registry, the list of historic audio treasures compiled and added to annually by the Library of Congress, is now 25 entries richer with the addition of 25 albums, singles or broadcasts that run the gamut from Taylor Swift’s “1989” and Beyoncé’s “Single…
Cannes film festival: Léa Drucker gives a bravura performance as a brilliant surgeon whose already chaotic life is further complicated by a same-sex affair with a journalistCharline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s new film is a hectic, garrulous, breezily agreeable comedy of midlife…
Michael Che is roasting the “Roast of Kevin Hart.” The comedian and “Saturday Night Live” star was originally slated to perform at the live Netflix event on Sunday, two sources involved in the production tell Variety, but he ended up pulling out due to scheduling difficulties…
The New Zealand duo’s first performances in eight years showcase their signature wit and understated charmWhen Robots, Flight of the Conchords’ song about an android uprising told from the robots’ perspective, came out in 2008, it seemed like pure comedy. Now the story feels all…
Sylvia Barbara Soberton's latest book challenges the perception of Anne Boleyn's sister as "promiscuous, intellectually incurious and unambitious"
Brooklyn Storehouse, New York CityThe viral star electrified Brooklyn with winking visuals, self-aware humor and a slew of special guests From the look of the crowd at PinkPantheress’s show in Brooklyn last night, you’d be forgiven for thinking that King Charles had extended his…
The naturalist's seven-decade career was marked with a special concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
In the “Regular Show” pilot, a mild-mannered blue jay named Mordecai and his scrappy raccoon counterpart Rigby swipe a magical synthesizer from a wizard while he’s peeing in a bush. The instrument, which they name “The Power,” can grant the 20-something-year-olds any wish, as…
With premium viewing areas and complimentary amenities at major concerts, sporting events and music festivals, T-Mobile seeks to redefine the role of a wireless carrier.
Québécois actress, director, and screenwriter Monia Chokri will preside over the jury for the Cannes Film Festival‘s Caméra d’Or prize. The award is given to a first work across the official selection as well as in the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections. Chokri, who…
The study examined 37 bird species in cities across five European countries. The animals allowed men to get about three feet closer than women, on average, before flying away
The Icelandic singer-songwriter was presented with the Creative Voice award; meanwhile, Allen took home the honor for pop songwriter of the year.
Five members of the show's professional line-up, including the long-serving Karen Hauer, are leaving.
