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After prancing through the hallways showing his man-ness at the end of Saltburn last year, Barry Keoghan is back with a another illustrious ditty performance in Bird. In the Andrea Arnold movie that had its world premiere Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, Keoghan plays a young father, and at one moment he croons an off-key version of Blur’s “The Universal” in what is a sweet moment with dance involved.

Hailie Jade is married!

GOP nominee Donald Trump is going to be a dictator bored him.“When people come up to me and say, ‘What are we going to do?’ I’m like, ‘It doesn’t look to me like the world is just falling apart. Maybe it will tomorrow,’” he told the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd in an interview. “Look, I lost my nervous system under Trump once.

Girls Aloud are back on the road after more than a decade!

Kevin Spacey is facing another sexual assault trial in the UK next year, but today the two-time Oscar winner saw some major star power in his corner.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Harry Shearer has voiced dozens of characters on Fox’s “The Simpsons,” from Mr. Burns to Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, but he was replaced as the voice of Springfield physician Dr. Hibbert when producers of the show vowed in 2020 to no longer have white actors voice characters of color.

World-famous DJ Avicii’s ex-girlfriend, Emily Goldbert, has died at the age of just 34 - six years after the death of the Wake Me Up hitmaker. Emily died from a pulmonary embolism on April 3 in La Jolla, California, having just last year had celebrated being "cancer free" in a moving post on social media. Her family described the 34 year old as a "vivacious and unique person who experienced many adventures in her all too brief life".

Dan McDermott, President of Entertainment and AMC Studios, says the studio is positioned to do more third-party productions like Silo, though he noted that “it’s not our primary business.”

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales outfit Rapt Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Benjamin Howard’s debut US film Riley and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Market. 

BBC sitcom star Angela Thorne has left her £1.6million fortune including a home in London to her two sons. The actress, who was best-known for playing Marjory Frobisher in To The Manor Born from 1979 to 1981, died in June last year aged 84. According to The Sun, probate documents revealed that her son, actor Rupert Penry-Jones, 53, was bequeathed a coastal home in Anglesey.

Suits, a long-running mainstay on cable’s USA Network that became a streaming phenomenon last year, will make its broadcast debut this fall on MyNetwork TV.

SAG-AFTRA is responding to calls for more safety protocols for working child actors following Investigation Discovery’s documentary Quiet on Set.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Filming has begun on “Return to Paradise,” an Australian spin-off series of the global hit murder mystery franchise “Death in Paradise.” With filming in locations across Sydney and the Illawarra coastal region, the six-part whodunit is produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC in association with the BBC. The BBC will screen the series on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Despite a photographer’s complaint to police that Taylor Swift‘s father attacked him during a paparazzi encounter last month, no charges will be filed in the incident, Australian police confirmed Tuesday. The statement from police, reported by RTE, said that officers “conducted an investigation following a report of an assault” but that, as a result of it being looked into, “no further police action” will be taken.

Janelle Brown is emotional after an overwhelming show of fan support in the wake of her son Garrison’s untimely death.

erect a statue of Motörhead frontman Lemmy in the town where he was born have been approved by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.The 2.2 metre statue will be erected in the market place of Burslem, the town where Lemmy – real name Ian Fraser Kilmister – was born before his family moved to Newcastle-under-Lyme. The majority of the singer’s childhood was spent in Wales before founding Motörhead in 1975.The statue is estimated to cost about £50,000 and a fundraising campaign has been launched to raise the necessary funds.

Those UCLA fans who wanted Chip Kelly‘s departure got their wish Friday, but not in the way they expected.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is appalled by the sexually explicit Taylor Swift A.I. deepfakes that are circulating, and is calling for unspecified measures that would prevent its creators from continuing with their production.

Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that he almost gave a Green Day fan favourite track to 5 Seconds Of Summer.Armstrong spoke to People magazine about Green Day’s biggest hits throughout their career ahead of the release of upcoming album, ‘Saviors’. When the interview approached their 2016 full-length ‘Revolution Radio’, Armstrong spoke about ‘Still Breathing’, which he admitted was a song originally written for Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds Of Summer.“There’s a band called 5 Seconds of Summer who wanted me to write a song for them,” he stated.

Vue International, Europe’s largest independent movie theater operator, is in discussions with its shareholders and lenders on a fresh debt-for-equity restructuring. This comes after last year’s dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes caused production delays and pushed a number of titles off of the 2023 and 2024 release calendars. Overall, the industry is facing a severe downturn in ticket sales across the coming year.

Shares in EchoStar, which just completed a long-anticipated merger with Dish Network, have jumped more than 35% today after the company said it is officially reviewing its strategic options.

Wham! have secured the Christmas 2023 number one single with Last Christmas, having missed out on the title for 39 years. The pop duo, comprised of the late George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, landed the top UK chart spots for their first and second albums and also found success with a number of hits – including Last Christmas in December 1984.

Variety. He had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, though it is currently unclear when he was informed of the illness.James McCaffrey is survived by his wife Rochelle Bostrom and daughter Tiernan McCaffrey.Multiple myeloma is a type of bone marrow cancer characterised by abnormal expansion of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow.

Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s daughters are struggling with her death.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The same day activist investor Nelson Peltz announced he was launching a proxy campaign to get seats on Disney’s board of directors, the company adopted amended bylaws covering nominations of directors by outside parties. In a bid to win shareholder favor amid the brewing proxy battle, Disney separately on Thursday announced a cash dividend of $0.30 per share, payable Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of a sexual assault complaint filed against him, actor Sebastian Chacon has been dropped by his reps at Paradigm, and by the indie feature Red Dirt, Deadline can reveal.

Strictly Come Dancing star Dianne Buswell has been flooded with messages as she shared a social media post in tribute to her celebrity dance partner Bobby Brazier after facing the dreaded dance-off.

Joe Sugg, Dianne Buswell's boyfriend, shared a sweet message on Instagram after the Strictly Come Dancing Blackpool show. Dianne and her partner, EastEnders star Bobby Brazier, ended up in the bottom two but were saved by the judges. Joe, who met Dianne when they were paired on Strictly in 2018, posted pictures of them together and a screenshot from his health ring showing he was stressed for over 6 hours.

Strictly Come Dancing star Dianne Buswell's tears have been described as 'genuine' after she faced the dreaded dance-off with her celebrity dance partner Bobby Brazier.

BBC Strictly Come Dancing viewers took to social media to say they “felt sick” as the results show kicked off on Sunday night. MEN reports the show was flooded with complaints just seconds into the second instalment of the BBC dance programme of the weekend.