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Czech actor and president of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jiří Bartoška died on Thursday at the age of 78.

After graduating from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, he first worked at the Husa na Provázku Theatre and the Činoherní studio in Ústí nad Labem, before becoming a mainstay of the ensemble at Theatre Na zábradlí in the early 1980s. After leaving Na zábradlí in the early 1990s, he continued performing intermittently at Bez zábradlí Theatre and other theaters in the Czech Republic.

He made his film debut in 1975 with “The Playground” (Hřiště). He appeared in nearly 70 Czech films and starred in popular television series. He received the 1999 Czech Lion Award for best supporting actor for the film “All My Loved Ones” (Všichni moji blízcí), which he also produced. In 2016, he was awarded the Czech Lion for outstanding contribution to Czech cinema.

Bartoška played a key role...

“I never thought I could dream in detail,” Nct’s Mark Lee begins his newly released song, “Toronto’s Window,” expertly kicking off his debut solo album, The Firstfruit.

The 25-year-old K-pop star, known simply by his stage name Mark, debuted nine years ago as a member of Sm Entertainment’s mega-group Nct and is still learning new things about himself creatively. “I really got to find myself while creating this album,” Mark tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom from Seoul, South Korea. “Now that it’s done, it even put me on the idea of my second chapter.”

As one of the busiest working performers in the world of K-pop — Mark is a member of Nct subgroups 127 and Dream and has worked in supergroup SuperM, along with other Nct formations — the Canada-born singer and rapper has never shied away from a challenge. On The Firstfruit, Mark gets vulnerable...

Jennifer Lopez's hunt for an Oscar might finally be coming to a close. After earning rave reviews at its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the movie-musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, executive produced and starring J.Lo as the titular character, has just slotted a Fall 2025 release.

Per Deadline, Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and Ld Entertainment have snagged the Kiss of the Spider Woman's North American release rights following its warm reception. Bill Condon directs and pens the Lopez vehicle, adapted from the Fred Kander and Fred Ebb musical of the same name. Set in the 1980s, the film follows Argentine prisoners swapping fantasies and stories—many performed by the eponymous Spider Woman (aka Ingrid/Aurora)— barely surviving under the nation's dictatorship.

The story has taken on many forms over the years. The original 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman novel by Manuel Puig predates the musical concept. The songless version...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress who first achieved fame with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, big screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died at the age 43.

The actress, who revealed in October 2023 that she was battling a rare adrenal gland cancer, died in hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday evening, her agent Danielle Gain announced to Afp.

Born on August 29, 1981, Dequenne studied at Belgium’s Music & Spoken Word Academy in Baudour from an early age, taking up drama there at the age of 12, alongside joining the La Relève Theater troupe.

She landed her first cinema role at age 17 in Rosetta. She clinched Best Actress at Cannes in 1999 for her performance as the titular teenager living in a caravan with an alcoholic mother in the film, which also won the Dardenne brothers their first Palme d’Or.

“It’s terrible, life is disgusting sometimes,...

The premiere of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew finally took place on December 2, 2024, amid some initial uncertainty. Starring Jude Law, the series draws inspiration from classic adventure films like The Goonies and Indiana Jones, offering a fresh and unique direction for the franchise.

Early reactions have been highly positive, with critics and fans praising the show, a promising sign after the challenges faced by The Acolyte earlier this year. Skeleton Crew seems to have found its own identity, resonating well with audiences.

While we’ll dive deeper into the series in the coming weeks, this report highlights an exciting discovery tied to the origins of Star Wars that’s sure to thrill long-time fans.

The story we’re sharing today is about the Millennium Falcon, one of the most important ships in Star Wars. Skeleton Crew has connected us to the early days of the franchise when Han Solo’s famous ship was first designed.

Across the U.S., teens are preparing for high school homecoming football games and dances. Last night at Madison Square Garden saw a homecoming of a different sort: New York teenagers (a.k.a. 27-31-year-olds) donned wraparound sunglasses and baby tees to dance out the final gasps of Brat Summer — Brautumn, if you will — at Charli Xcx and Troye Sivan’s Sweat Tour.

Brat Summer originally took root right here in New York. The months-long, frenzied phenomenon was foreshadowed in February with Charli’s elusive Boiler Room set at a warehouse in Bushwick,...

During Charli Xcx‘s stop at Madison Square Garden for her co-headlining Sweat tour with Troye Sivan, the “Von Dutch” singer was joined by Lorde during Monday’s performance.

In a surprise set, Lorde took the stage to perform their “Girl, so confusing” remix alongside Charli for the first time. The pair strutted side-by-side, as they sang the pre-chorus: “People say we’re alike/They say we’ve got the same hair/It’s you and me on the coin the industry loves to spend/And when we put this to bed,...

“George Bush is Darth Vader” – that is not a sentence one gets to hear every day. While neither concerned party was remotely present at the source of this conversation, mass sentiments had been piling up long enough to make even George Lucas come to that conclusion. And considering he is the creator and overseer of all things Star Wars, no one could dare question him any further.

George Lucas receives Medal of Technology from George W. Bush in 2006 [Photo by Eric Draper, Office of White House Management, Photography Office]

But Bush is not the only one who Lucas has a problem with and neither is he the focal point of that initial condescending remark about Vader… Dick Cheney is. Often called the most powerful vice president in US history, Cheney aka Vice had tipped off Lucas enough to make him believe Cheney was not worthy of an endorsement from Darth Vader, evil incarnate himself.

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Since debuting in 2023, Boynextdoor have developed a signature sound, with music that’s full of energy and fun wordplay — and while they flow across genres, they’ve stayed close to their core themes of youth, building on a sound that is true to the members, Sungho, Riwoo, Jaehyun, Taesan, Leehan, and Woonhak. Part of this is surely due to the fact that the members have a big hand in producing their own music and choreography. Jaehyun, Taesan, and Woonhak have contributed to most of the songs Boynextdoor has released, including their new EP,...

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Since its release, Charli Xcx‘s latest album has had everyone and their mother living their best “Brat Summer” life, with bold, lime green shades and Y2K vibes galore. But the “360” singer is now keeping things very mindful, very demure with her latest campaign posing for Skims’ minimalist cotton collection.

As the internet’s favorite “it girl”, it’s no surprise Kim Kardashian would tap Charli Xcx...

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Mark Andrews, director of Pixar’s Academy Award winning animated feature “Brave” and a writer on Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” and “Samurai Jack,” is attached as the showrunner of animated series “Kyōryū,” about samurai dinosaurs living in a postapocalyptic Japan.

In development at Wellington, New Zealand-based Floating Rock, an animation and VFX studio, “Kyōryū” is set in Japan in a future where dinosaurs have outlasted humanity. Genetically engineered, they are far more intelligent than their pre-historic ancestors. That said, atavistic instincts can flare, making for tribal wars.

Unveiled last September, the “Kyōryū” proof-of-concept trailer went viral, with 1 million views in its first 10 days of release, now 2.1 million views to date on YouTube, and an estimated reach of over a million.

The trailer also attracted Andrews. “‘Dinosaurs in postapocalyptic Japan?’ I want to see that show without even knowing what the story’s about! We’re going to give the audience...

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Satirical news site The Onion has a new owner.

G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced on Thursday that the company had sold the publication to a Chicago-based company called Global Tetrahedron, which is comprised of “four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy based content.” The firm is run by former NBC reporter Ben Collins and owned by tech executive Jeff Lawson, who spoke to The New York Times about the buy.

(The name of the company, social media users pointed out on Thursday, is the same as a fictional firm that appears in The Onion’s first book, 1999’s Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source.)

According to Spanfeller, the new company will preserve the publication’s current staff and keep the site based in Chicago. “The Onion for over 35 years has been an...

The ultimate pop team up is coming in hot. Later this year, Charli Xcx and Troye Sivan will embark on the co-headlining Sweat tour, making stops throughout North American in September and October. The run will be in support of Charli’s forthcoming club opus Brat and Sivan’s dance-centric album Something to Give Each Other, released in 2023. To sweeten the deal, the pair will be joined on the road by Shygirl.

The Sweat tour kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 14 in Detroit, with plans to wrap on Wednesday, Oct. 23 in Seattle.

Coachella crowds are notoriously awful, but the response to Blur’s Saturday set was especially jarring.

By all accounts, the Britpop legends put on a phenomenal show. Their setlist contained several surprises, including rare performances of “Death of a Party,” “Out of Time,” “Trouble in the Message Centre,” and “Beetleblum,” as well as an on-stage collaboration with the indigenous Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers.

And yet, whether because the younger-skewing audience was unfamiliar with the band’s discography and/or because they had showed up early for Tyler, the Creator’s headlining set that was to follow, the crowd didn’t seem to vibe with Blur’s music. Video from the festival’s livestream (as seen below) captured a pretty lifeless crowd — even during performances of anthems like “Popscene,” “Girls & Boys” and “Song 2.”

It was during “Girls & Boys” that Blur frontman Damon Albarn finally had enough. After several...

Blur took the stage at Coachella on Saturday, and to close out their portion of the night, they brought out performers from the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers.

It was Blur’s first time at Coachella since 2013 (though Damon Albarn has made a few surprise appearances in recent years), and the band delivered renditions of some of their most beloved songs, like “Song 2,” “Girls & Boys,” “Beetlebum,” and more.

The Britpop legends first brought out a group of Bird Singers to perform a traditional piece titled “Bird Song,” honoring the culture and history of the indigenous tribes of the Coachella region. From there, the Bird Singers loaned their voices to Blur’s “Death of a Party,” and then returned at the end of the night to close out the set with “Tender.”

Elsewhere in Blur’s set, Albarn made an appeal for mutual understanding in a time of political polarization,...

With the focus on mid and short films increasing significantly this year, Osaka Asian Film Festival presented another quite intriguing edition, with the choices from both within Japan and the rest of Asia highlighting the quality of the programming once more. At the same time though, the fact that both Japanese and Korean cinema, which make up for a large part of the program, are not on their best years, does take a toll. Particularly regarding the former, the repetition of the same tropes, and more importantly, the almost complete lack of tension most Japanese movies seem to exhibit nowadays, does border on the annoying. There were still some films that stood out, with “Snowdrop”, “Swimming in a Sand Pool” , “Inch Forward”, and “Girls and Boys” exhibiting some fresh ideas, but the aforementioned fact remains. At the same time, it is also a fact that is quite difficult to find...

Satoru Hirohara, born 1986 in Tokyo, studied at Musashino Art University as well as at Tokyo University of the Arts. His feature debut Good Morning To The World! (2010) was awarded with the Jury's Special prize at the 32nd Pia Film Festival in Tokyo and received the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the 29th Vancouver International Film Festival. In addition to screenings at other festivals, the film was also selected for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Dawn Wind In My Poncho (2017) also had a decent festival run.

On the occasion of his latest film, “Girls and Boys” screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the role reversal aspect of the movie, working with students, the location the film was shot, humor in movies and other topics.

Girls and Boys screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival

Why did you decide to include this role-reversal in the movie?...

The differences between girls and boys in high school are as clear as they can be, with their presentation in cinema bordering on cliche. However, what would happen if this depiction happened through a role reversal scheme? Satoru Hirohara gives an answer through “Girls and Boys”.

Girls and Boys is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

The 45-minute film starts in documentary style, with six male and female students, who have already switched roles including clothes and mannerisms, talking about their respective gender in the school environment (that is the boys who act like girls talk about their lives as girls and vice versa). Comments like how school, and society essentially, perceives girls as more responsible, actually asking them to act in that fashion, while constantly excusing the boys whose immaturity is to be expected, echo quite realistic. One of the “girls” states specifically, “Girls are expected to be meticulous,...

Bradley Cooper is sharing the scary experience he once had with Carey Mulligan.

If you didn’t know, Bradley, 49, and Carey, 38, starred opposite one another in Maestro, which is nominated for seven Oscars.

Bradley recently described a time when he had to take Carey to the emergency room in 2018.

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The Silver Linings Playbook star was attending Carey‘s performance of Girls & Boys when she suffered an injury on stage.

“I went to meet her backstage and she was prone … because one of the sets had hit her in the top of the head halfway through the play,” Bradley remembered during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

“I went back and I was like, ‘Are you Ok?’” he continued. “And she was not Ok, at all, and so we went to the emergency room.”

Carey then explained that no one realized what had...

When “Maestro” director, writer, and star Bradley Cooper wanted to meet with Carey Mulligan to talk about her joining his Leonard Bernstein biopic, it was “a quite dramatic” beginning.

Cooper, who wanted Mulligan to play Bernstein’s wife, Felicia, attended the first preview of her one-woman play “Girls and Boys.” During the show, being staged in New York’s West Village, a piece of wood fell and hit Mulligan’s head. It gave Mulligan a concussion, which she now downplays, calling it a curtain because “it sounds fluffy.”

On this episode of the award-winning Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Cooper and Mulligan discuss the process of getting into the mindset to play the Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre in Netflix’s “Maestro.” The two break down key scenes, and talk about their favorite acting works from one another. Listen below.

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre in “Maestro.

In her graceful portrayal of Felicia Montealegre Bernstein in “Maestro” — opposite director Bradley Cooper — Carey Mulligan turns what might have been Cooper’s solo performance into a duet. Born in Costa Rica and raised in Chile, Felicia is an up-and-coming actor in New York City when she goes to a party and meets Lenny, an ambitious conductor and composer. After they marry in 1951, she has three children with her lightning bolt of a husband, who is sexually oriented more toward men.

But she’s not pathetic; Felicia is Lenny’s partner in every sense of the word. In a way, Felicia is the consummate Mulligan performance: Her simmering interiority meshes with Cooper’s magnetism, which is Mulligan’s own form of conducting.

Mulligan first began talking to Cooper about “Maestro” in the summer of 2018, after he came to see her in the Off Broadway play “Girls & Boys.” Cooper had completed “A Star Is Born,...

Filmmaker Brian Skiba is teaming up with actors Alec Baldwin and Stephen Dorff for his upcoming thriller, Cold Deck. Cold Deck's production moved forward despite the SAG-AFTRA strike and is written by Joe Perruccio and Eric Bromberg. The film also includes actors Jesse Metcalfe and Tom Welling, with a release date yet to be determined.

Filmmaker Brian Skiba is teaming up with a one-time God and a maniacal vampire. Yes, Skiba is the director behind the upcoming thriller titled Cold Deck. And the independent film will bring together award-winning actor Alec Baldwin and Stephen Dorff. Baldwin once portrayed Dr. Jed Hill — a man who claimed to be a God among surgeons in 1993’s Malice — and Dorff is arguably most well-known for portraying the undead Deacon Frost in the big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comics' Blade (1998).

According to Deadline, Cold Deck's production has pushed forward since the film was reportedly completed...

You’d think an artist as influential and groundbreaking as Prince would have been showered in Grammys, but that’s far from the truth. Throughout his career, Prince was only awarded seven times. Indeed, while the Grammys certainly weren’t dismissive of him, you would probably expect him to have won more than that, or at least to have won in a major category. Throughout his career, the eclectic musician only got three general field nominations: Album of the Year for “Purple Rain” and “Sign O’ the Times,” both of which he infamously lost, and Song of the Year for penning Sinéad O’Connor’s smash hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Still, there’s a lot to unpack from Prince’s wild Grammy history, including wins that you might not expect and losses that leave us wondering what exactly voters were on.

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Winner of the 1999 Golden Horse Award for Best Visual Effects, Andrew Lau's “A Man Called Hero” is a genuine wuxia film, which doubles intensely though, as a drama, in a rather appealing package that also benefits the most by the impressive cast. The movie would be a huge commercial success, amassing more than 23 million Hk dollars upon its release.

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The script is loosely based on the manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Hong Kong artist Ma Wing-shing and begins in early Republican China. After passing a test, Hero Hua is accepted by Pride, a master swordsman, as his second apprentice. When he returns home, he is horrified to see that his parents have been murdered by foreigners for opposing the opium trade. That night, Hero breaks up the foreigners' party and kills them in revenge.

Netflix this morning released the first trailer for its new political drama “The Diplomat” that stars Keri Russell as the new U.S. Ambassador to the UK. The series will stream an eight-episode first season, premiering on April 20. See the new trailer above.

According to a series release, “The Diplomat” stars Russell as Kate Wyler, a career diplomat who upon being appointed ambassador – a job she’s unsuited for – suddenly finds herself in the middle of a massive diplomacy challenge. Wyler is expected to diffuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London and adjust to her new place in the spotlight – all while struggling to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell). Netflix further describes the series as “a high stakes, contemporary political drama about the transcendence and torture of long-term relationships between countries and people.”

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The Force is strong with the Home Economics gang in a new, out-of-this-world promo for Season 3 of the ABC comedy.

In the Home Economics season opener, which is titled “Mickey Ears, 19.99” and airs Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 9:30/8:30c, Tom (played by Topher Grace) finds out that Connor (Jimmy Tarro) is his new boss, which threatens to ruin Marina’s (Karla Souza) perfectly planned trip to the Happiest Place on Earth aka the Disneyland Resort in California. #CorporateSynergy

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