From comeback kings to teenage romances, Indonesian artists have served up some amazing music this year.

The police said the 19-year-old from Southampton in southern England was stopped within moments of him entering the grounds of the castle on Christmas morning and did not break into any buildings.

Three members of K-pop sensation BTS have tested positive for Covid-19 since returning from the US, where they held their first in-person concerts since the pandemic began, the group's management said Saturday.

"Spider-Man: No Way Home," British star Tom Holland's third solo outing in the wildly popular role, has grossed $467.3 million in North America and $587 million internationally, raking in more than $1 billion over 12 days and proving analysts' predictions that it could reach the milestone sum. 

Ten years after their last record, Jakarta’s The Brandals return with their fiercest album yet, Era Agresor.

Rapper RM and vocalist Jin tested positive for the virus Saturday evening, according to Big Hit Music.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said Thursday that the hugely successful British band will stop recording in 2025, but will continue to tour. 

Oscar nominee Franco was publicly accused by five women in 2018 of exploitative behavior including during nude scenes at his Studio 4 school in North Hollywood.

A fourth woman has accused Chris Noth of sexual assault, saying Thursday that the "Sex and the City" star had threatened to "ruin her career" if she spoke out about the alleged attack in 2002 earlier.

A budding Iraqi filmmaker yells "action!" as an actress clambers over rubble in Mosul's Old City, proud students of a nascent film school in the former jihadist bastion.

Bollywood's retelling of the 1983 World Cup hits cinemas Friday, recalling a stunning underdog victory that was instrumental in turning India into the cricket-crazy nation it is today.

The Governors Awards -- an annual gala where honorary Oscars are handed out -- became the latest glitzy Hollywood event postponed as fears grow over the Omicron variant.

In excerpts from The Jess Cagle Podcast made public on Wednesday, Franco, 43, said that while teaching, he "did sleep with students, and that was wrong." He said he did not start the school to lure women for sexual purposes.

Beyonce, Jay-Z and Ariana Grande are all in the running for the best original song Oscar, but French shock-fest Titane did not make the shortlist for best foreign film.

The electronic music festival comes as Saudi's leaders are pushing efforts to change its conservative image and diversify its economy, only a few years after the country lifted a ban on music and dancing.

Once the stomping ground of Italy's greatest directors and actors, Rome's renowned Cinecitta film studios are planning a much-needed makeover for a new era.

As the fourth instalment "The Matrix Resurrections" hits cinemas next week, millions are eager to return to the story of Keanu Reeves' Neo as he tries to unpick what is real and what is a computer-generated simulation.  

Rappers Dave and Little Simz also received four nominations for the awards, in a list that saw Britain's annual pop music honours dispensing of male and female categories.

The Matrix marked a significant break in Hollywood, after which blockbusters entered the era of "green screen" filmmaking in which special effects became omnipresent.

Tiara Andini's self-titled debut aims to showcase her emotional depth and potential as a songwriter. The singer gives The Jakarta Post an exclusive first listen.

Former US first lady Melania Trump on Thursday launched her own NFT platform, the latest public figure to join the crypto boom.

Harrison, who died in 2001, released the track from the album "All Things Must Pass" as his first solo single after the Beatles split and it went on to top charts around the world.

Noth issued his statement in response to the Hollywood Reporter story in which two women, using pseudonyms, described sexual incidents with him in Los Angeles and New York in 2004 and 2015.

Guillermo del Toro's new film Nightmare Alley, set in a macabre 1940s carnival world of "geek shows" and grifters, is his first since his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water.

Sony Music has bought the rights to Bruce Springsteen's music catalog, making him the latest superstar singer to join a frenzy of such sales fueled by the pandemic.

A camel beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia has been hit by a cheating scandal after 43 entrants were disqualified for botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements.

The 20-year-old singer said she started watching a lot of porn as a kid to help her feel as if she were cool and "one of the guys."

A rapper who allegedly told Megan Thee Stallion to "Dance, bitch" before shooting at the singer's feet after a Hollywood party was ordered to stand trial in California on Tuesday.

Dubbed by some auteurs, critics and moviegoers as the "Indonesian New Wave", this year’s batch of Indonesian films is having a moment, with recognition from international audiences and a promise of more to come.  

Critics objected to the Foreign Press Association having no Black members, and raised longstanding ethical questions over whether close relationships with Hollywood studios influenced the choice of nominees and winners.