Oscar winner Emma Thompson on Wednesday hailed the "darkness" of acclaimed children's author Roald Dahl, as a musical screen adaptation of his classic Matilda kicked off the London Film Festival.

Leading French actresses including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert have cut locks of hair in protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iran's morality police. 

Depeche Mode founder and principal songwriter Martin Gore said onn Wednesday the group expects to be haunted by memories on its upcoming world tour, after the sudden death of bandmate Andrew Fletcher.

In a press event livestreamed from Berlin, singer Dave Gahan and guitarist and keyboardist Martin Gore said they were still working on "Memento Mori", their 15th studio album since the band originally formed in Basildon, eastern England in 1980. 

Less than a year after Will Smith shocked millions around the world by slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, his new film Emancipation will be released this December.

Beatles fans have hailed the release of never-before-seen footage showing the Fab Four on tour in Japan, following a fierce court battle over the 35-minute video.

After a successful event in Bali in March, Joyland Festival is set to return to Jakarta in November. The key players behind the festival talk about what to expect.

Featuring the world's disc jockeys (DJs), the fourth edition of the beachside music festival delivered an elated message: That Indonesians, after two years of pandemic-related restrictions, are ready to dance again. 

Kneeling before a chalk star outside his tumbledown house, an old man performs a ritual to rid himself of evil spirits -- which many Turks believe exist.

Music festival Berdendang Bergoyang will donate its ticket sales to a school renovation project in East Nusa Tenggara.

The rom-com's dated formula and perplexing message aside, its leading lady proves that she is still a force to be reckoned with.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film series, announced Thursday his support for a fundraising drive to buy drones for Ukraine as it battles "the evil empire”.

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Coolio, the American rapper best known for his chart-topping 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise”, has died, his manager said on Wednesday. He was 59.

The environmental NGO is powering indie labels Greedy Dust and Kolibri Rekords’ upcoming concerts using solar to spread renewable energy awareness among music lovers.

After six years in the music industry, Soundwave's latest album, RE/SET, is dance-ready and attempts to flip audiences’ expectations of the duo's music.

From an Aston Martin DB5 stunt car to costumes worn by Daniel Craig in "No Time to Die", an array of James Bond props and memorabilia are being offered at a charity auction soon as the film franchise celebrates 60 years.

All the noise aside, Olivia Wilde's new film Don't Worry Darling topped the North American box office this weekend

Superstar Rihanna will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February.

Destined to be one of the most divisive films of the year, Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde finally lands on Netflix after more than a decade of troubled production.

Superstar Rihanna will return to the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show in February, Apple Music -- the main sponsor of the event, which draws massive audiences each year -- announced Sunday.

Waters had been due to appear in Krakow next April, but Polish media reports about an open letter he wrote to Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska urging her to ask her husband to choose "a different route" and criticising the West for supplying Ukraine with arms provoked a fierce backlash.

British music stars Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran, United States basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal and other celebrities will donate personal objects for a campaign launched on Saturday to support healthcare in Ukraine.

Pharoah Sanders, one of the most wildly inventive figures in jazz who wrestled his saxophone to its limits and felt equally at home in Indian and African music, died on Saturday. He was 81.

Louise Fletcher, the United States actress who won an Oscar in 1976 for her performance as villain Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died, her family said in a statement to AFP on Saturday.

Jakartan psychedelic band Kalabiru talks about releasing multiple albums in one year, making peace with insecurities and revisiting childhood trauma.

A classic Dewa 19 album is getting released on vinyl in a limited edition.

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The next James Bond will serve King and country—but discussions with new 007 studio owner Amazon over the spy film franchise's future direction haven't really started, long-standing producer Barbara Broccoli said on Wednesday.

The decision by the Amazon-owned company to tighten its policy beginning October 18 comes after a popular streamer scammed fans and peers out of money to fuel what he claimed was a gambling addiction.