Karaoke events held in hip bars and clubs and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of participants, have become the country’s new ‘it’ party.

As this year’s Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) draws closer, the award committee has disclosed its final jury in charge of picking the winners.

Pop icon Beyonce on Tuesday received the most 2023 Grammy nominations with nine in total, putting her into a tie with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, as the most nominated artists of all time.

Millions of Taylor Swift fans swarmed Live Nation's Ticketmaster LYV.N website on Tuesday to try to score seats for her first tour in five years, causing periodic outages and long online waits that often ended in disappointment.

As the masses have started becoming more familiar with the Indonesian hardcore punk scene through the emergence of more-accessible touch points, the scene’s innately hermetic values might face challenges in adapting to an increasingly-wider audience.

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie said Hollywood has largely kicked its former drug-filled excesses, as their new film Babylon about 1920s Tinseltown hedonism entered the Oscars race.

Country music star and philanthropist Dolly Parton received a US$100 million prize from the Bezos Courage & Civility Award given by Amazon.com founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, an honor that recognizes leaders who "pursue solutions with courage and civility,” he said online.

Was he a visionary or a corrupt racist with a god complex? The troubled legacy of Robert Moses, the master builder who shaped New York comes under scrutiny this fall in a new play starring Ralph Fiennes.

Taylor Swift walked away with four prizes at MTV's Europe Music Awards on Sunday, including best video for her 10-minute "All Too Well".

Netflix will stream an event live for the first time next year, with comedian Chris Rock hosting a real-time special for the on-demand platform that has lured millions of viewers away from traditional broadcast television.

A United States judge ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday to pay an additional US$473 million in damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a "hoax.”

From the power of music to the cry of war victims, Minikino Film Week’s eighth edition offers a tasteful selection of its award-winning shorts.

A New York jury on Thursday found Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis liable for raping a publicist at his Manhattan apartment in 2013, ordering him to pay at least $7.5 million in damages in the civil case, an attorney said.

A United States judge on Wednesday has blocked the rappers Drake and 21 Savage from using fake copies of Voguemagazine to promote their new album.

The Marrakech International Film Festival returns to the Moroccan tourist hub this month, with organisers hoping to woo star-struck fans after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

German sportswear giant Adidas slashed its earnings forecast on Wednesday, saying the end of its partnership with rapper Kanye West would cut this year's net income in half.

The Disney+ streaming service saw its subscriber ranks jump by 12 million users compared to June, results showed on Tuesday.

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars for a third time, organizers said on Monday, as Hollywood's biggest award show tries to leave behind the controversy still swirling around its most recent edition.

Electronic music lovers know the drill. As soon as the DJ turns up the bass, the crowd goes wild and dances with heightened enthusiasm. But to what extent is this a conscious reaction?

Wilson's baby girl was born via surrogate and the 42-year-old star was thrilled to share the news with her fans on the social media platform.

When Guillermo del Toro first set out to make a dark, animated version of Pinocchio 15 years ago, he opted to set his tale of puppets and their string-pulling masters in 1930s fascist Italy.

One of the best-known actors remaining in Iran strongly backed the protest movement that has rocked the country, vowing on Sunday to stay in her homeland and pay “any price” for her rights.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was meant to serve as a reunion for 2022 inductee Duran Duran, but former member Andy Taylor was unable to attend, with the band members revealing his cancer diagnosis during their onstage speech on Saturday.

But in "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," out on Netflix next month, they find themselves living in Benito Mussolini's inter-war world of military salutes, strict conformity and violent machismo.

The latest season of The Crown hits the small screen next week, with streaming giant Netflix adding a disclaimer after a furore over untrue storylines.

Veteran event organizers, crowd experts and concertgoers discuss ways to prevent overcrowding tragedies from happening at large-scale events.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Endra Zulpan said the person responsible for the threat had been identified.

Her Godmother of Punk Rock icon status made her a household name, but for Patti Smith, it is writing where she finds her true artistic voice.

International music icon Celine Dion announced on Wednesday she will star in a romantic comedy called Love again, which will be released in theaters in 2023 – and in which she will play herself.

In recent weeks, the story of an Egyptian pop star admitted into a rehabilitation facility has spilled beyond celebrity gossip, and sparked new debate on women's rights in the conservative country.