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The ex-reality TV star's redemption arc ushered in a new era of the influencer candidate and reframed the city's narrative around homelessness.
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‘A big dude came up to me and said, “My wife dragged me kicking and screaming to see your movie – and it was the best thing she’s ever done”’Baz Luhrmann was this cool guy two years ahead of me at NIDA, the drama school in Sydney. When I graduated, I joined his theatre company Six Years Old and the play of Strictly Ballroom came out of that. It was inspired by Keith Bain, who taught movement at the school. He was a ballroom-dancer who had left Australia for South America in the 1950s then came b
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Anthony Jeselnik has announced dates for the first leg of a comedy tour titled “Wrath of Man.” Kicking off Sept. 12 in Portland, Ore., the tour will feature an entirely new set of stand-up material. Presale tickets are available on Wednesday, June 10, at 10 a.m. local time. A general sale will take place on […]
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Netflix has unveiled an early first-look at its upcoming “Scooby-Doo” live action-series. In a clip posted to social media, the beloved sleuthing canine is running through the woods near a summer camp when he runs into Shaggy, who will become his best friend and companion. Check out the clip below. The series, officially titled “Scooby-Doo: […]
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Fraudsters are using AI to impersonate top Hollywood casting directors — targeting aspiring actors looking for their big break.
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Travis founded the site and sold it to Fox five years ago, but will continue to appear on Fox News and host 'Outkick the Show with Clay Travis' on FS1.
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One of Argentina’s new filmmaking talents to watch, Sundance Institute Latin Fellowship recipient Ana Bovino has just received private funding for her documentary project “The Nights” (“Las noches”) from heavyweight doc player Jane Ray, founder of Cat Flap Media and consultant artistic director of UK funding body The Whickers. Shopped at various co-production markets including Chile’s […]
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Charli xcx is going back on tour this fall to promote her upcoming seventh studio album, “Music, Fashion, Film.” The 12-date North American tour kicks off in Philadelphia, Penn. on Sept. 11 and includes two nights at both Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. The electronic artist Underscores will open for all of […]
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Pedigreed Palestinian producer May Odeh (“Aisha Can’t Fly Away,” “A Useful Ghost,” “Hanging Gardens,”“200 Meters”) has added Jordan’s Rina Khoury from Arab Media Network ‘s Abu-Lughod Studios to her early list of backers of “Chentian,” helmed by “Lemon Tree” and “The Syrian Bride” scribe Suha Arraf. The buzzy project, now in development, scooped the €35,000 […]
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Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott first met as young, eager, internet-savvy members of Brooklyn’s alternative stand-up scene, who didn’t fit into the boxes prescribed by Manhattan institutions like the Comedy Cellar. But less than a decade later, they’ve both accomplished more than most aspiring comedians ever dream of. Yang, 35, is now in a reflective […]
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The polarizing stand-up comedian and TV talk show host will be feted at the Kennedy Center on June 28.
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Based on the 2018 documentary, Sheldon Candis' film premieres Monday at Tribeca.
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Microdramas, AI, and a shakeup of the financial fundamentals of series production will be in focus when Germany's biggest TV industry gathering returns to Cologne this week.
The Guardian Culture
In his own unique words, the One Battle After Another actor made it clear there is no one he won’t reject for a fan photo – and revealed the real reason he skipped the OscarsOne of the highlights of this year’s Oscars was Sean Penn’s win for best supporting actor. Not because he deserved it – although in truth he probably did – but because he didn’t turn up, which simultaneously made the ceremony a little bit shorter and spared the world a Sean Penn acceptance speech.At the time, much was made a
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This year’s Italian Global Series Festival will host the premieres of “Benindorm Is Murder,” a new Channel 5 detective drama series starring John Hannah, and hotly anticipated Brazilian medical show “Emergency 53.” The event’s second edition will take place July 3-11 in the seaside cities of Rimini and Riccione. “Benindorm Is Murder,” formerly titled “Death […]
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Mexico will soon have a fuller source of el fútbol americano. Fox Corp. said it secured a new deal to show a wide range of NFL games via its Mexican outlets, including transmissions of “Thursday Night Football” and the Super Bowl, the latest example of deal-making between the sports organization and various U.S. media outlets […]
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Tate Modern, LondonThe late artist found his calling in febrile 1960s Paris and this exhibition is imbued with an anarchist spirit – you can even spin the paintings! In a great scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à Part, the young protagonists run through the Louvre, leaving puzzled art lovers and angry guards in their wake. It seems impromptu and genuinely disruptive yet Godard’s camera finds time to pause in front of Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii, an icon of the French Revol
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In a story likely to have been excitedly retold and forwarded many thousands of times among budding filmmakers over the last few weeks, before he made “Obsession,” Curry Barker was doing his thing on YouTube, where in 2023 his 22-minute horror short “The Chair” was spotted by LA-based Brit producer James Harris. Impressed by what […]
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Guns N’ Roses will return to India for two concerts in November, touching down in Bengaluru and Guwahati as part of the Asia leg of their ongoing world tour. The shows, produced and promoted by BookMyShow Live, will take place at Nice Grounds in Bengaluru on Nov. 14 and Khanapara Ground in Guwahati on Nov. […]
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Hot tubs and high camp as a TV star dripping in rhinestones tries to solve a real-life crime in this fabulously flawed murder mystery. Who cares who did itHere is a camply craptastic murder mystery that aims to offer queer-minded fans of trashy detection stories a treat for Pride month with a manifestly cheap and cheerful, amusingly badly performed, diva-centric exercise. Let us be clear: this is not well-made in the slightest, with a script as shonky as a flatpack gateleg table, with similarly