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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Late night talk show host David Letterman is returning to television next week with an interview of former US president Barack Obama, streaming giant Netflix announced Friday. Letterman, 70, who officially retired in 2015 after a 22-year run as the host of “Late Show with David Letterman” — a very American melange of celebrity interviews, monologues and sketches — had said in August that he would be back in […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hollywood’s annual awards season revs up on Sunday as industry A-listers turn out for the 75th Golden Globes. Here are 10 fun-filled facts (plus a few bonus tidbits) you probably didn’t know about Tinseltown’s biggest pre-Oscars prize-giving, organized by the 90-member Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Beginnings Founded in 1944, the awards were given out for the first 14 years by journalists who were members of the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — “Game of Thrones” is taking a year off, US cable network HBO announced Thursday, confirming the widely-held understanding that one of history’s most popular shows would not wrap until 2019. HBO did not specify when exactly the eighth and final series will debut but, regardless of the time of year, it will be the longest wait ever for fans desperate to know which character ends up in the coveted […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — High-flying rapper Kendrick Lamar is making his first soundtrack as he released a song Thursday with singer SZA for the upcoming superhero film “Black Panther.” Lamar, whose socially conscious and often experimental hip-hop has won him wide critical praise, will produce the soundtrack for the movie which comes out on February 16. He and hip-hop executive Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith will record and select tracks for “Black Panther,” a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Cate Blanchett, the double Oscar-winning actress leading a Hollywood campaign to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, will head the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday. Australian Blanchett, 48, who helped launch the “Time’s Up” initiative this week following a string of sexual assault accusations against prominent men in the film industry, will become the 12th woman to lead the prestigious panel at Cannes, which kicks off […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Music sales grew at a robust pace for a third straight year in the United States in 2017 as listeners kept flocking to streaming outlets, an industry monitor said Wednesday. Analytical firm BuzzAngle Music said that consumption in the world’s largest music market jumped 12.8 percent in 2017, well outpacing the 4.2 percent growth seen a year earlier. On-demand streaming services led by Spotify […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Beyonce, Eminem and The Weeknd will headline Coachella, promoters announced Tuesday, marking the first time that no rock act will be among the main attractions at the leading festival. Coachella, which has turned into one of the world’s most lucrative and influential festivals since its debut in 1999, takes place in the desert of southern California over two successive weekends in April with identical lineups for each. The festival […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Pop superstar Justin Timberlake on Tuesday announced his first album in nearly five years, promising more “personal” songwriting inspired by his home and family. The 36-year-old singer and actor said that “Man of the Woods,” his fifth solo studio album, will come out on February 2 — two days before he headlines entertainment during the Super Bowl, generally the most watched television event of the year in the United […]
LOS ANGELES. United States (AFP) — The latest episode in the iconic “Star Wars” space saga finished the year on top of the domestic box office, data confirmed Tuesday, contributing to a second best-ever year for Disney. “The Last Jedi” earned $66.8 million over the four-day holiday weekend in North America, for a $531.5 million domestic total since its opening three weeks ago, said industry watcher Exhibitor Relations. Disney announced on Sunday that the movie […]
by Brian Knowlton Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than 300 top women in Hollywood — from Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence to Emma Thompson and Cate Blanchett — unveiled an initiative Monday to tackle pervasive sexual harassment in workplaces, calling special attention to their “sisters” in less than glamorous blue-collar jobs. The initiative, dubbed Time’s Up, caps a year in which the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal touched off a deluge of […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — President Blue Ivy Carter? Music power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce have imagined their daughter as a transformative US leader in a new video. Blue Ivy, who turns six on January 7, is depicted as leading an all-female constitutional convention in 2050 in a video released Friday for her father’s song “Family Feud.” The video — shot by “Selma” director Ava DuVernay, one of the most prominent African-American women in […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The experimental R&B singer Solange has revealed a struggle with an autonomic disorder as she cancelled a New Year’s Eve performance in South Africa. Solange, the younger sister of pop superstar Beyonce, said doctors had advised her not to make the long journey from the United States. “The past five months I have been quietly treating, and working through, an autonomic disorder. It has been a journey that hasn’t […]
