Paramount has reached a settlement with a group of US states that clears the way for its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, officials announced Monday, creating a Hollywood empire spanning television, news and cinema. Paramount, which is run by David Ellison, whose ultra-wealthy family has ties to US President Donald Trump, won a bidding war […]
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British Museum bans photos of Bayeux Tapestry as crowds linger
The British Museum has banned visitors from taking pictures of the Bayeux Tapestry in order to keep the crowds flowing through an unprecedented London exhibition, a spokesperson confirmed Monday. Excited visitors have been flocking to see the nearly 1,000-year-old artwork since the start of the sold-out exhibition earlier this month.”There has been enormous interest in […]
French singer accuses Miley Cyrus of plagiarism
French disco diva Amanda Lear publicly accused American singer Miley Cyrus on Monday of plagiarising one of her songs from the 1970s. Lear, a model-turned-singer who was a muse to surrealist painter Salvador Dali and a lover of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, took Cyrus to task over apparent similarities between her song “The Sphinx” […]
Horror movie ‘Resident Evil’ tops N. American box office
“Resident Evil,” a horror movie based on a video game franchise, swept the North American box office with a $60 million opening weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday. The Sony-distributed movie is directed by Zach Cregger and stars Austin Abrams, who plays a medical courier battling mutant creatures to deliver a package to a remote hospital.”Resident […]
Singer Ed Sheeran says Gaza situation ‘unjustifiable’ following controversy
Pop star Ed Sheeran said Saturday the situation in Gaza is “unjustifiable,” following a wave of criticism that he had failed to back his opening act who was booted from the tour after making pro-Palestinian comments. The singer, who had previously maintained an apolitical stance, broke his silence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his first […]
Spanish civil war drama ‘The Black Ball’ wins at Toronto festival
Spain’s “The Black Ball,” a gay rights drama set during the country’s civil war, won top prize Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The ambitious epic, known as “La Bola Negra” in Spanish, stars Miguel Bernardeau, along with Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close, weaving the stories of three gay men across different eras in […]
In ‘Tenzing’, a Sherpa mountaineer gets his due
It took years for Tenzing Norgay to secure his place in history as the man who, alongside New Zealander Edmund Hillary, first reached the summit of Mount Everest. And it has taken far longer for the story of his feat to be memorialized in film.”I don’t know why it took so long to tell this […]
Ed Sheeran set to return to stage after Palestinian controversy
Chanting protesters greeted concertgoers Saturday in Philadelphia ahead of pop superstar Ed Sheeran’s first show since his tour plunged into turmoil ignited by his opening act’s pro-Palestinian comments. Rapper Macklemore was booted from Sheeran’s US Loop Tour on Monday after the owners of stadiums hosting upcoming shows objected to his shouting “Free Palestine” onstage in […]
Germans arrested for Louvre stunt in Mona Lisa hall
Two Germans were arrested Saturday after they stuck two paintings on a wall of the hall that hosts the Mona Lisa in Paris’s Louvre museum, police sources said. The two men used sticky tape to stick the two paintings — measuring 30 by 40 cm — in the hall where visitors flock to see Leonardo […]