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Two-time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman has been named honorary president of Trinity Laban, Britain’s sole conservatoire for music, musical theater and contemporary dance, for a five-year term. The composer of “Slumdog Millionaire” follows conductor Charles Mackerras and violinist Yehudi Menuhin in the role. His appointment builds on Trinity Laban’s 125-year history of music education in […]

Netflix has unveiled that its documentary on one man’s quest for immortality, “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever,” debuts on the streamer New Year’s Day 2025. According to the official synopsis, the film explores the question, “How far would you go to live forever – or even just slow down the aging […]

A long-overdue shake-up is coming to Hollywood’s most celebrated night. For the first time in history, the Oscars will be streamed on Hulu and aired live on ABC, making the ceremony more accessible than ever. The potential game changer, announced jointly by ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, indicates a significant […]

Paris prosecutors have requested a five-year prison sentence for filmmaker Christophe Ruggia over sexual assault charges involving actor Adele Haenel when she was a minor, Le Monde reports. Haenel is the star of the Cannes prize-winning film “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and “BPM.” The sentence, requested on Tuesday, includes two years under house […]

The hottest sport on TV isn’t football, basketball or even pickleball. It’s the game of trying to find how to watch your favorite team. As more streaming services focus on offering sports, fans have a seeming infinite number of games they can watch. The trouble now comes in finding the exact one a viewer wants […]

Shohreh Aghdashloo will star in the upcoming third season of “The Wheel of Time” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned. It had long been rumored that Aghdashloo would appear in the series, but nothing had been confirmed until now. She will play Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, one of the Aes Sedai like Rosamund Pike’s […]

Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life, he refused to sell the rights to the novel because he felt a film adaptation would not come close to scratching the surface of this […]

The Pokémon Company are teaming up with stop-motion animation studio Aardman for a new mystery collaboration. Billed only as a “special project,” it’s unclear whether it will be a feature film, series or something else entirely but promises that Aardman will bring “their unique style of storytelling to the Pokémon universe in brand-new adventures.” It […]

Sci-fi epic “Kalki 2898 AD” and Netflix’s period drama series “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar” secured the top spots on IMDb’s Most Popular Indian Movies and Web Series lists for 2024, respectively. The rankings, based on page views from IMDb’s 250 million monthly visitors, showcase the expanding reach of Indian content across genres and languages. The […]

A bankruptcy judge in Texas rejected the bid of satire site the Onion to acquire the assets of Infowars — the bankrupt outlet of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — saying the auction process lacked clarity and that the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims deserved more money than the Onion’s parent had bid. Judge […]