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K-pop singer Chung Ha has shared her rendition of Tori Kelly’s ‘25th’.On December 22, the singer released a new clip on YouTube of herself performing the 2020 Tori Kelly track. The video features Chung Ha singing on a sofa in a cozy, warmly lit room as her dogs, Aran and Bambi rest on her lap.“Don’t you know that Christmas would be incomplete / If you’re not here with me / Sugar plums ain’t half as sweet as you / Someone go tell Santa I don’t need no gifts / Got nothing on my list / Don’t you know my only wish / Is to hold you on the 25th,” she sings in the chorus.The new holiday cover is the first music Chung Ha has dropped since signing with Jay Park’s label More Vision back in October.
The singer had joined the company months after leaving her longtime agency MNH Entertainment in April.Her last solo release before leaving the agency had been ‘Bare & Rare, Pt.1’ in July 2022, the first half of what was intended to be a two-part release. Upon announcing her departure, MNH shared that it would not be releasing the second half due to “internal circumstances”.Chung Ha later penned a letter to fans, apologising for being unable to release the record.
“I didn’t know how to speak up to you all or from where I should begin conveying my apologetic heart,” she said. She added that it had been a “hard decision” to leave the company, but one that she ultimately made for her own growth.In October, Chung Ha revealed during a talk show appearance that she had considered leaving the music industry.
“I thought of not doing my work, such as studying abroad or something,” she said, explaining that she sees being a singer as a job. “You can find another life.”
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South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who went to jail for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, has been released on parole.
Former Olympian Oscar Pistorius has been freed from prison on parole more than a decade after he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, it was revealed today.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has officially hit theaters, but the film did not come without drama after the globally publicized Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial. Now that the movie is out, Amber Heard has taken a moment to thank her fans for their love and support, sharing some behind-the-scenes glimpses of her character, Mera.A post shared by Amber Heard (@amberheard)On Instagram, the 37-year-old actress shared a gallery of photos featuring her red-haired character with her 5.2 million followers.
Amber Heard reprised her role of Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The actress took to social media to acknowledge all the support she’s been receiving from fans who watched the DC Studios film.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Amber Heard posted to Instagram some behind-the-scenes photos from the making of “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” and thanked fans for supporting her return to the comic book franchise as Mera. The post is notable considering that Heard claimed in court during her 2022 defamation trial involving Johnny Depp that Warner Bros. “didn’t want to include me” in the “Aquaman” sequel due to the fallout from her divorce from Depp.
Amber Heard is addressing her performance in Aquaman 2.
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner and that means it’s time to finalize guests and, most importantly, jurors. The festival has a long tradition of honoring its multiple competition slates and over the years has recruited jurors such as Jane Campion, Sarah Polley, Edgar Wright, Jon Hamm, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino, Parker Posey, and even RuPaul Charles.
David Beckham is hilariously roasting his wife Victoria Beckham over a moment that happened in their Beckham docu-series on Netflix.
As we welcome in the New Year, we can reveal our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we think could grace the festival circuit in 2024. We’ve stuck to our criteria that the project must already be in production and have not already been announced for a festival. More than 70% of our selections last year went on to debut at a major festival. Those that didn’t were largely delayed by the strike or are still in post-production. If the titles below make the cut, it will be a thrilling year on the festival circuit once again.
Ethan Shanfeld In Hollywood, 2023 was a year defined by the “Barbenheimer” box office craze and the dual strikes that shut down the industry for months. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé dominated live music, and translated their blockbuster world tours into moviegoing events that bolstered the fall box office. Artificial intelligence became Hollywood’s next hot button issue, and the outbreak of violence in the Middle East divided the industry.
Victoria Wood fans were delighted on Saturday night as the late comedy legend returned to TV screens on BBC 2 with a repeat of her much-loved Christmas special Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings. The sketch show features an array of famous faces, but fans were quick to comment how many of them are no longer with us.
John Bleasdale Guest Contributor South Korean director Hong Sang-soo was awarded the El Gouna Gold Star for best narrative film for his meditation on art and relationships, “In Our Day,” as the delayed edition of the El Gouna Film Festival held its closing ceremony on Thursday. The Italian animated film “A Greyhound of a Girl,” directed by Enzo D’Alò, and the Brazilian director Guto Parente’s “A Strange Path” picked up the Silver and Bronze Stars respectively.
John Bleasdale Guest Contributor The 6th edition of the El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) has wrapped with a feeling of quiet triumph. The glitz and celebrities were largely absent, although Egyptian star Yousra and legendary French actor Christophe Lambert both appeared at In Conversation events. But in a way, this allowed festival organizers to better focus on the core values which they wish to take forward.
K-pop girl group KISS OF LIFE has covered songs by Beyoncé, Meghan Trainor and more.Belle recently appeared as a guest on a new episode of music talk show Lee Mujin Service, where she introduced her girl group KISS OF LIFE and their latest mini-album, ‘Born to Be XX’.During the episode, the vocalist performed several songs, including a stripped-down cover of ‘Plastic Off The Sofa’ from Beyoncé’s 2022 album ‘Renaissance’, which traded the original’s R&B instrumental for a simple piano accompaniment.“Say, say you won’t change / I love the little things that make you, you / Ooh, the rest of the world is strange, stay in our lane / Just you and me and our family / I think you’re so cool,” she sings.She also covered South Korean singer Lyn’s ‘Ring Tone’, snippets of BLACKPINK’s ‘Shut Down’ and LE SSERAFIM’s ‘Unforgiven’, the latter of which she helped pen. Belle also sang ‘Says It’, a track she composed for KISS OF LIFE’s recent project.At the end of the episode, she teamed up with host and singer Lee Mu-jin to sing Meghan Trainor and John Legend’s ‘Like I’m Gonna Lose You’.
Maury Povich and Connie Chung are enjoying a very night out!
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Better late than never, the 50th Annual Daytime Emmys got underway on Friday night from downtown Los Angeles’ Westin Bonaventure Hotel, after six months of postponement due to the Hollywood strikes. Airing live on CBS, “Entertainment Tonight” hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner were back to emcee this year’s event. “General Hospital” jumped out to a dominant early lead in the competition, winning six awards — including daytime drama, as well as both supporting actor and supporting actress, younger actor, guest actor and directing.
While Francis Coppola plans to set cinema alight in 2024 with his final epic Megalopolis, the Oscar-winner will begin the year with a revisit of one his most misunderstood efforts, One From The Heart. That’s the 1981 picture that Coppola threw himself into so hard, creatively and financially, that his American Zoetrope had to declare bankruptcy when it failed to draw audiences. It took Coppola years to build back his fortune with film hits and a win empire, to the current situation where he was able to self finance the $100 million+ Megalopolis.
In one of the earliest announcements in recent memory, the Cannes Film Festival announced early Thursday morning Paris time the president of the jury for 2024. And, in something of a surprise, this year’s president is Greta Gerwig, a soon-to-be multiple Oscar nominee for the 2023 blockbuster “Barbie.” Gerwig is the first woman to lead the jury since Cate Blanchett in 2018 and the second American this decade after Spike Lee presided over the first post-pandemic jury in 2021.
Victoria Ekanoye from ITV's The Real Full Monty has opened up about how her cancer diagnosis hit her "really hard", as she was the ninth person in her family to face the disease.The former Coronation Street actress, 42, discovered a lump in her breast just six months after welcoming her first child in 2021. She was inspired by the late Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding to seek a third opinion when she felt something wasn't right. In November, Victoria revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy after finding the lump.