Mark Ruffalo crashes Welsh couple's wedding in New York

Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin are keeping busy in New York City.

Big improvements to New York’s film and and television production incentives, included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal are still in place as lawmakers reached a handshake deal today, according to people familiar with the bill. The legislature is expected to vote formally next week to approve the budget.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer New York is poised to dramatically increase its film tax incentive from $420 million a year to $700 million, as it looks to stave off competition from New Jersey and Georgia. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement Thursday night on a $229 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with state lawmakers. Among many other provisions, the budget will increase the size of the film tax credit program, as well as raise the credit percentage from 25% to 30%, bringing it in line with rival states. The program will also be extended to 2034, according to a source familiar with the conceptual agreement.

It isn’t just the proximity to New York’s top-shelf production community. It’s also the scale.

Katy Perry has arrived in New York City ahead of the 2023 Met Gala.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter For Martin Scorsese, it was important to spend time with Osage people as he worked on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his epic crime drama about the murders that took place in the early 1920s after major oil deposits were discovered on the tribe’s land. “We tried to do right by them as much as we could,” the director said as he was interviewed by his star Leonardo DiCaprio on Thursday afternoon. “We shot in the actual location, even the doctors office.” The two A-listers were on hand at CinemaCon, the annual Las Vegas-based exhibition industry trade show, to talk up their new movie, which debuts in theaters in October after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, recently reunited in New York City. But it wasn’t a date- they met with friends Jason Bateman and his wife, Amanda Anka, for dinner.

Hit Thai BBQ restaurant Neon Tiger is to close, owners have confirmed. In a post to social media, headlined ‘Thank you Manchester’, the restaurant said that it will be shutting up shop on Sunday.

Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who once played Carnegie Hall might tutor a young Holocaust refugee to a Julliard scholarship, and breezy jam sessions do away with generations of friction between races, genders and sexual identities. You’d go there, right?

Naveen Kumar If there is a megawatt star in “New York, New York,” the new musical from Broadway titans John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (with additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda), it’s right there in the title. Aside from the occasional f-bomb and pantomimed scurry of rats, the show that opened at Broadway’s St. James Theatre is a love letter to Manhattan so unabashed that its vibe might be best expressed in cityscape and heart-eye emojis. Cynical? These New Yorkers? Fuhgeddaboudit! Though inspired by the 1977 film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, “New York, New York” is more accurately described as a musical-length rhapsody on the dreams crooned out in its title song, made famous by Frank Sinatra and naturally performed here as a big-band finale turned audience singalong. A crowded cast of characters has come to chase their dreams, and most of them want to be musicians. 

New York, New York,” which opened Wednesday night at the St. James Theatre, is akin to being stuck on the tarmac at LaGuardia. You can spot the city’s stunning skyline taunting you from across the river — “I want to be a part of it!” you think — but then nothing happens for hours on end, as you’re silently trapped there in your uncomfortable and expensive seat.And just like the elation and relief of finally deplaning, the best part of the show comes at the very end when the cast finally sings “Theme From New York, New York.” We clap for our local anthem and get to go home. Start spreading the news — I’m leaving today!  “New York, New York” is a show that honestly hurts to dislike.

David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is executive editor of The New Yorker’s digital site, is moving to NBC News as senior executive editor, national security, starting next month.

The long awaited trial over whether or not Ed Sheeran ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ finally gets underway in New York later today. This follows the jury selection process yesterday.Originally scheduled to commence in November 2020, but delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheeran is accused of infringing the copyright of late songwriter Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the Gaye classic.

EXCLUSIVE: Avatar: The Way of Water star Sam Worthington has joined Oscar winner Riz Ahmed and Emmy nominee Lily James in thriller Relay, which began filming this week in New York and New Jersey.

Taylor Swift is not hiding inside amid her breakup from longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

A park an hour from Greater Manchester which inspired New York’s Central Park has received Government backing to win Unesco World Heritage status. Birkenhead Park in Merseyside is among seven sites in the running to join the prestigious list.

Mark Ruffalo. Klaire Hodgson and Lynz Tanner of Gwynedd, Wales, were setting up a video link for their family to watch along as they walked down the aisle overseas when, according to Hodgson, Ruffalo “detoured over” while walking through the New York City haven to watch along himself. “Everybody was on the phone call and all of a sudden this guy starts slowly walking over.

spotlight.Mark Ruffalo gatecrashed a Welsh couple’s spontaneous wedding in Central Park last weekend.Klaire Hodgson and Lynz Tanner, from Gwynedd, Wales, were about to walk down the aisle when they spotted the “Hulk” star, 55, ambling through the park.According to the newlyweds, Ruffalo took a detour from his nature walk to stop by as they were setting up, expecting them to recognize his Oscar-nominated mug.“I noticed he had a really nice camera, and I was thinking, ‘Oh, he must do photography,'” Hodgson, 36, told NorthWalesLive. “But I thought, ‘I can’t know this guy.

told NorthWalesLive: "Lynz proposed to me last June and we'd gone through about a million different wedding ideas. Some of it was how expensive the wedding industry is and how heteronormative the wedding industry is. It's supposed to be a happy time.

Lewis Capaldi delighted his American fans during one of his biggest tours yet as he takes to the stage in New York, belting out his iconic ballads.