Month: June 2024

King Charles III hosted a grand banquet honoring the three-day state visit of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Thursday — where he elicited some laughs while sharing a shoutout to some cultural touchstones of Japan: Pokémon, Hello Kitty and Hayao Miyazaki. It was during one of these unexpected references that cameras caught Prince William giving
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News Kinky Friedman, Alt-Country Musician and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 79 Friedman’s band the Texas Jewboys found underground success satirizing American politics, Jewish culture, and taboo subjects June 27, 2024 Facebook X Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman, March 2022 (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for SXSW) Facebook X Kinky Friedman, the tongue-in-cheek humorist and alt-country musician of the
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1 of 26 June 10, 2024 At the London premiere of House Of The Dragon season 2, in a black strapless Stella McCartney gown. She accessorized with a bold diamond choker. Show MoreKarwai Tang 2 of 26 June 6, 2024 For the premiere of House of the Dragon season 2 in Paris, Cooke wore a
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Bachelor producers are getting candid about Matt James‘ season of the show. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, executive producers Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner admitted missteps in the season that featured the show’s first-ever Black lead. “I’m going to be really frank — we let Matt down. That season went wrong on so many levels,” Graebner
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Diane Marie Brown’s Black Candle Women tells the story of three fierce Black women united by the spells and elixirs that have been passed down in their family. Willow, Augusta and Victoria Montrose lead a quiet existence in California until Victoria’s teenage daughter, Nickie, becomes involved with Felix. Unaware of the family curse—that anyone a
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The Independent Exhibition Conference, or IND/EX, launches today and it’s at capacity with 700 attendees from art houses, indie theater chains, indie distributors, indie vendors and regional film festivals. This is the first time since Covid hit that the industry is gathering, and it’s a critical moment. The theatrical business is very different and extremely
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Before there were “nepo babies,” there were Claim to Famers. ABC‘s Claim to Fame first highlighted the funny connections between the Hollywood elite and their not-so-known relatives and offspring less than six months before Vulture‘s viral feature story in December 2022 swept the internet into a storm of chatter about “nepo babies.” And now, in
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If you want to breathe new life into a horror movie built around silence as the only means of surviving an alien invasion, there are countless worse ideas than relocating the story from smalltown U.S.A. to over-populated New York City. Opening screen text over an aerial shot of Manhattan accompanied by the cacophonous sounds of
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The next Yorgos Lanthimos directed feature Bugonia starring his Kinds of Kindness thespians Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons is hitting theaters on Nov. 7, 2025. Focus has the movie stateside, while Universal Pictures has the Will Tracy-written movie abroad sans Korea which is being handled by CJ ENM. In the movie, two conspiracy obsessed young
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On the heels of Lily Gladstone’s historic Oscar nomination for Killers Of The Flower Moon, the actor is keeping busy in between their recent critically acclaimed series Under The Bridge and one of the latest projects on the 2024 movie schedule, Fancy Dance. Written and directed by Erica Tremblay, Fancy Dance centers on Gladstone’s Jax
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Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 keeps on soaring, reaching $799.7M globally through Tuesday. Within that, its international box office crossed the four-century mark at a running cume of $411.9M from 44 overseas markets through Tuesday. In North America, Inside Out 2 rose to $387.8M, moving well up the domestic animated chart. After 12 days in domestic
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Bring the lights up, bust the doors down—because some Jeopardy! fans aren’t too thrilled with this line of phrasing. In fact, the internet is all shaken up over a $1,000 clue about Zendaya‘s body of work. “Before somehow making tennis steamy in 2024,” host Ken Jennings said during the June 25 episode of the long-running
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Bill Cobbs, the convincing character actor who had pivotal turns in such films as The Hudsucker Proxy, Sunshine State and Night at the Museum, has died. He was 90.  Cobbs died Tuesday night at his home in Riverside, his publicist, Chuck I. Jones, told TMZ. A native of Cleveland who excelled at comedy as well as drama, Cobbs portrayed Whitney
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