Cinema XXI, Indonesia’s Largest Exhibition Chain, May Be Seeking IPO, Says Report

At Manchester's Mayfield Park the bees are literally buzzing as they dart among the lavender and blooms. The city's first new park for a century has exploded into floral life in its first summer - and it will be the simply stunning location for Manchester International Festival's big opening event for its 2023 return.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The last time “Stranger Things” fans saw Maya Hawke’s Robin, she was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for displaced Hawkins, Ind. townspeople alongside Vickie (Amybeth McNulty). Robin spent a lot of “Stranger Things 4” crushing on Vickie, a clarinetist who plays with her in the Hawkins High marching band. A lot of fans felt that PB&J scene opened the door for Robin and Vickie to become girlfriends in the upcoming fifth and final season of “Stranger Things.” Not so fast. During a recent interview with Yahoo Entertainment while on the press tour for Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Hawke said she has mixed feelings about Robin having a girlfriend in “Stranger Things 5.” Production on the show’s final season was supposed to kick off this summer but has been indefinitely put on hold amid the ongoing writers strike. Hawke said she has no idea what series creators Matt and Ross Duffer have planned for Robin in the final episodes.

“very busy” and never had a chance to go through the boxes to take out his own personal belongings.On Tuesday morning, Joe Scarborough marveled that Trump “keeps putting himself one step closer to jail” with every “rambling” interview, before turning to McQuade for her input on the situation. “You know, any lawyer would tell him to just stop talking about this matter.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief C CGV, a company that is one of the world’s top ten cinema exhibitors and is also a major cinema technology developer, is to raise close to $800 million in order to shore up its finances after a devastating COVID era. The company operates the largest cinema chain in its native South Korea and has significant numbers of screens in Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey and mainland China, with smaller operations in Myanmar and the U.S. It also owns CJ 4DPlex, which developed the technology for films to be augmented with practical effects, including motion-seats, wind, strobe-lights, simulated-snow, and scents. In addition, its ScreenX system provides screenings that use the side walls of an auditorium to create a 270-degree sensory experience.

Boris Johnson has been banned from Parliament as MPs voted overwhelmingly to back a damning report into his partygate denials.

Rod Stewart has taken to social media to share a fond throwback to the 1990s in celebration of the launch of his live album Unplugged...and Seated as the British rocker reminisced on his Maggie May days alongside former bandmate Ronnie Wood.

Britney Spears’ family is worried about her health.

Not holding back! Jenna Dewan recalled daughter Everly’s unfiltered reaction to seeing her and her father, Channing Tatum, in Step Up.

Read more about the whole thing here.Meanwhile back on MSNBC, Hayes asked Psaki, “I wonder how you think about the Biden administration handles this, how Democrats handle this, how Republicans in Congress handle this.”“This isn’t Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, who is not part of the Biden administration,” Hayes continued, referring to the District Attorney overseeing Trump’s criminal fraud case in New York City. “You can heap scorn on him and you can say nasty things about him, with all sorts of, you know, pretty gross, racist undertones.

There’s nothing quite like a new haircut to give you a confidence boost, and former Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote is proof that new hair can make you feel like a new woman.The actress showed off her newly transformed locks on Instagram on Wednesday as she revealed she’d gone for a dramatic chop and colour change. Georgia’s hair was previously a longer, more mid-length cut that fell below her shoulders, but she chose to chop several inches off her length in favour of a much shorter shoulder-skimming bob with a blunt cut.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief U.S. film and television content captures 30% of viewing time in key Asia-Pacific territories, according to a new research report by consultancy Media Partners Asia. Korean product takes 40%. The study “U.S. Content in the Asia Pacific” tracked the video consumption behavior between January and March this year of some 40,000 consumers in ten Asia-Pacific markets: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Australia, a $2.2 billion SVOD market, exhibits the highest reliance on US entertainment with 72% of measured SVOD viewership, followed by Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines where U.S. content accounts for 40-50% of viewership on average, with Indonesia close behind at 35%.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Women Talking,” which won Sarah Polley an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, was this weekend named best narrative feature at the Bali International Film Festival (aka the Balinale).Ashen Nadeem’s “Crows Are White” won the feature documentary prize and “The Tone Wheels,” by Yuda Kurniawan, was named winner of the Gary L Hayes Award for Indonesian Filmmaker. The festival jury called “The Tone Wheels” “an outstanding endeavor that transported us into the backstreets of Jakarta on a captivating musical journey.” The film depicts a busking village where dreams flourish, despite the scarcity of resources and equipment.

Not a fan. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that his time as the governor of California almost never came to be because of his now-ex-wife, Maria Shriver.

Angelique Jackson Ava DuVernay’s arts and social collective ARRAY has announced its slate of summer programming, including an actor’s masterclass taught by Emmy winner Niecy Nash-Betts, a cinematic celebration of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the debut of two new commissioned projects from ARRAY’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP).  The summer lineup is curated by ARRAY’s SVP of public programming, Mercedes Cooper, and in keeping with the ARRAY’s mission of “igniting social change through the cinematic arts,” all events are free to the public.  “ARRAY’s focus on instigating narrative change through our non-profit ARRAY Alliance allows us to gather audiences around issues aligned with our core mission and everyday work,” said Cooper in a statement announcing the lineup.

Sorry not sorry! Kate Beckinsale had a hilarious reaction to a fan who accused her of having plastic surgery. 

Rhea Perlman is opening up about her ongoing marriage to Danny DeVito, despite being separated from the actor since 2012. Speaking with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for an episode of her podcast, , Perlman talked about her relationship with the  alum, living alone and her body confidence journey. «Danny and I, we are still married… and we are still very good friends and we see each other a lot. And our family is still the most important thing to both of us,» Perlman said of her relationship with DeVito. In October 2012, ET exclusively revealed that the two actors were separating after more than 30 years of marriage. DeVito and Perlman tied the knot in January of 1982 and went on to have three children — daughters Lucy and Grace and son Jacob. Looking back on the separation, Perlman admitted, «I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, it was very difficult at first.

Vacation mode activated! Drew Barrymore has traveled the world, and she has some excellent getaway recommendations in the “Happy Place” issue of Drew magazine, on newsstands now.

Jen Shah's lawyer is speaking out about Elizabeth Holmes' prison sentence. On the same day that the disgraced Theranos founder reported to Bryan Federal Prison Camp to begin her 11-year sentence related to her fraud and conspiracy convictions, Justin Paperny told ET's Kevin Frazier that Holmes and Shah, who's his client, will likely cross paths at the facility.«There's a guarantee they're going to run into one another,» Paperny told ET of the Texas prison. «There's also going to be an understanding amongst them, so for that reason, I suspect they'll connect.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Indian streaming service JioCinema claimed a record for the number of concurrent viewers this week. It reported that 32 million viewers were simultaneously using its service to watch the IPL cricket final match between The Chennai Super Kings and the Gujarat Titans. The platform’s previous peak was 25 million. Chennai eventually won the rain-affected and one-day delayed match Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has removed its bouquet of 14 channels from Indonesia’s TV largest platform, MNC, ending decades-long affiliate arrangements, Content Asia reported. The decision, confirmed by WBD, involves channels from HBO and Cartoon Network to Discovery and TLC, all of which came off air on May 12. The move is understood to be the culmination of a payments disagreement. In November last year, beIN removds its sports service from MNC. WBD content remains available on three smaller platforms in Indonesia, IndiHome First Media and Trans.