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PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s best-known rock star Johnny Hallyday has died aged 74 after a battle with lung cancer, his wife Laeticia told AFP on Wednesday. The leather-clad would-be Elvis, known simply as Johnny, announced in March he had been diagnosed with the disease and would undergo treatment. “Johnny Hallyday has left us. I write these words without believing them. But yet, it’s true. My man is no longer with us,” said Laeticia Hallyday, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Boy band BTS, pop mega-stars in South Korea known for their dance moves and social media prowess, Monday broke into the Top 40 on the US singles chart for the first time. “Mic Drop” debuted at number 28, driven by a particularly strong showing in downloads, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week through Thursday. The band incorporates more R&B and hip-hop into its sound than most […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York’s Metropolitan Opera said Sunday it was suspending its famed longtime music director James Levine after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. The premier US opera house said Levine would no longer appear at the Met this season and that it had hired a former US prosecutor to investigate the accusations. “Based on these new reports, the Met has made the decision to act […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Carrie Fisher’s death caused a huge disturbance in the Force, but the women of “The Last Jedi” vowed Sunday to honor her legacy in the latest girl-powered “Star Wars” chapter. The cast came together in a secret location in Los Angeles with director Rian Johnson to build buzz for the latest chapter in the blockbuster space saga, which hits theaters on December 15. […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — “Stranger Things” fans, rejoice: more adventures in the Upside Down are on the way. Netflix said Friday it had renewed its hit 1980s-set nostalgic supernatural drama, which has won critical acclaim and instant fame for its cast of young stars. “Should we make another season of Stranger Things?” the subscription-only streaming giant teased with an interactive poll on Twitter before adding: “season 3 is officially happening!!!” No date was […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The thunderous success of “Thor: Ragnarok” has helped Walt Disney Studios become the first distributor in history to hit $5 billion in annual global box office sales three times, it said Thursday. The superhero movie, made by Disney’s Marvel subsidiary, is on the verge of surpassing $800 million worldwide, putting the company’s haul for 2017 at $1.8 billion in North America and $3.2 billion abroad. It is the third […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Jim Nabors, who created the beloved comic TV character Gomer Pyle and used his surprisingly rich baritone voice on several hit records, died Thursday at the age of 87, his assistant Charisse Gines told AFP. “He passed away this morning at his home in Hawaii” of multiple causes, she said, speaking from the actor’s Honolulu-based entertainment company Naborly Productions. “He’d been ill for a while.” Nabors’ husband, Stan Cadwallader, […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Disney’s pick of Chinese actress Liu Yifei to star in their upcoming live-action remake of “Mulan” was welcomed by residents in Beijing on Thursday (November 30). Disney announced that Liu, a popular star of Chinese film and dramas, snapped the role early on Wednesday (November 29). She is fluent in English and has also appeared in several international co-productions such as “Outcast,” where she starred alongside Nicholas Cage. While many were […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — It’s the moment that fans of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe have been waiting months for – the release of the “Avengers: Infinity War” trailer. The film pulls together the ensemble casts from the different franchises, which include “Iron Man,” “Captain America,” “Thor,” “Ant-Man,” “Doctor Strange,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Black Panther” and “Spider-Man.” “This is the culmination of ten years of film making and I think it’s unprecedented,” said the film’s […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — One of the most successful comic book characters in history, Spiderman, nearly didn’t get off the ground, 94-year-old creator Stan Lee admitted on Thursday. Lee told reporters in Tokyo he came up with the idea while watching a fly climb a wall and wanted to create a superhero with the same abilities. “Somehow calling him ‘flyman’ didn’t sound dramatic enough. What else could he be? Mosquito man? Then I said: Spiderman. […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Rap superstar Jay-Z led the nominations announced Tuesday for the Grammy Awards as the US-based music industry embraced hip-hop for its top honors — a move some critics have said is long overdue. Jay-Z received eight nominations, followed by fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar at seven and retro R&B star Bruno Mars at six. Here is a list of nominees in major categories for the Grammy Awards, with winners to […]
Reuters — Starring Meryl Streep as the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as late editor Ben Bradlee, “The Post” on Monday (November 28) was named the best film of 2017 by the National Board of Review, a New York-based 100 year-old group of academics, filmmakers and professionals. Streep was named best actress and Hanks was voted best actor, setting the film up as an early front-runner for the Oscars. The other […]
