The former star of 1990s hits such as The Mummy endured a decade in the Hollywood wilderness before winning over Academy voters with his portrayal of a reclusive teacher who eats compulsively as he is tormented by grief.

With its unique blend of action, humor and existential angst, the adventure of a Chinese American laundromat owner battling a multiverse-hopping supervillain entered the Academy Awards as the clear favorite.

Yeoh, 60, was widely regarded as the front-runner for the award after claiming a Screen Actors Guild honor and a Golden Globe award for the role. This was her first Oscar nomination.

In a few years, the freshman hopes to launch her career behind the camera, thanks to a special program at her Los Angeles high school for hundreds of young people from underrepresented communities looking to break into showbiz.

Among many records tumbling this awards season, Malaysian Everything Everywhere star Michelle Yeoh is only the second Asian best actress nominee in 95 years of Oscars history, with a strong chance of becoming the first winner Sunday.

"Of course it's nice to come back. A lot has changed in Indonesia since 1975," Gillan said, referring to the year Deep Purple first performed in Jakarta, during which one of their hired bodyguards, Patsy Collins, was killed when he tumbled down an elevator shaft. 

The Japanese auteur, known for global box-office hits such as Your Name, leaves his signature style intact as he addresses the difficulty of accepting what is beyond human understanding.

Luis Moreno Ocampo was just 32 years old when he was summoned to prosecute Argentina's generals in 1985 after a disastrous military dictatorship -- a story retold in an Oscar-nominated film.

Once a semi-legal sharing site, Crunchyroll is now a streaming giant credited with helping Japanese anime transform from a nerdy subculture into a lucrative global industry.

Thousands of people have come to seek help, either for themselves or for a loved-one, from a 20-year-old woman named Adja whose reputation for healing powers has spread across the country.

The third installment of Indonesia’s Bumilangit Cinematic Universe finds power in unadulterated fun despite its ragged storytelling.

Gibran, who is the oldest son of the President, said that if Jokowi wanted to see the concert he had to buy his own ticket.

For almost two minutes, the screen is crowded with jostling animals, their guttural snorts filling the soundtrack and putting the viewer right in the middle of an astonishing natural spectacle.

Earlier, the Sun newspaper reported the house had been offered by the monarch to his brother, Prince Andrew.

Chris Rock's live Netflix special will air just a week before the Oscars, raising expectations that Rock will address the moment he was slapped by Will Smith during last year's award show.

Licca-chan is known as "Japan's Barbie", and her appeal is spreading to all ages, with adults turning the doll into a social media superstar.

After films such as Oscar-winning "Parasite" and TV series including Golden Globe-bedecked "Squid Game" helped popularise K-content overseas, industry figures have said South Korea's high-quality reality shows may be next in line for domination.

The Pokemon Company has revealed it will release "Pokemon Sleep" across most of the world in summer 2023, four years after it first announced plans for the game.

Disney's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania fell off a cliff but managed to land on all six feet this weekend, topping the North American box office with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales.

Absurdist sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once continued its dominance of this year's Hollywood award shows by earning top honors from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday.

BTS members said last year last year they would join the military starting with Jin, who turned 30 and enlisted in December after postponing his service as long as permitted.

Bandung electropop duo White Chorus explores its dancier side in new single, “This Feeling”, to pave new EP in June.

Pop superstar Rihanna will perform at the Oscars next month, just weeks after she made her long-awaited -- and visibly pregnant -- return at the Super Bowl.

Cocaine Bear, the new comedy-horror from Universal Pictures, hopes to shake up Hollywood with its very loosely based-on-a-true-story tale of a giant, wild bear who overdosed on narcotics.

Warner Bros, owned by Warner Bros Discovery WBD.N, said it had reached a multi-year agreement to collaborate on new films with Middle-earth Enterprises, a unit of Embracer Group AB EMBRACb.ST.

The Strokes are expected to share the main stage with British pop rock band The 1975 and Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. 

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke sentenced Holder to a minimum of 25 years for the killing, with an additional 25 years because a gun was used in the crime.

The Hollywood A-lister also spoke of still feeling the same inspiration he did "as a little kid" when he makes films today.

Celine Song's Past Lives, already a breakout hit at last month's US film festival Sundance, is having its global launch at the Berlinale cinema showcase in the German capital.

Disney's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has created an unexpected buzz, taking in an estimated $118 million over a long holiday weekend.