In a dark room with neon lights, patrons are greeted by staff dressed as the ominous hooded and masked guards in the nine-part thriller, holding toy guns and ushering them toward the end of the room where the "red light, green light" playground game starts.

The nine-episode thriller, in which cash-strapped contestants play childhood games with deadly consequences in a bid to win 45.6 billion won ($38.58 million), became an international hit after it launched last month.

Whether it’s new artists, scene veterans or younger musicians paying respect to their predecessors, Indonesia keeps on releasing fresh music.

In that period, the 33-year-old megastar said she suffered a "year of anxiety" in which her marriage fell apart.

The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC's decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency.

British soul diva Adele released her comeback single, in which she shares with the world details of the traumatic six years she has endured since last releasing a record.

Africa's biggest film festival kicks off on Saturday, delayed eight months by the Covid-19 pandemic and overshadowed by a brutal six-year-old jihadist insurgency.

"Let It Be", released in 1970, has long been considered the legendary group's breakup album. 

Amer Bersaudara's brand of extreme and absurd exploitation horror movies have carved it a niche within the landscape of Indonesian cinema, but it remains an uphill battle. 

Spanish rapper C. Tangana's steamy music video, which features erotic dancing and pixelated nudity inside a Spanish cathedral, has sparked fury among the faithful.

"I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he's in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness," Adele told British Vogue, referring to her nine-year-old son, Angelo.

DC Comics announced on Monday that the new Superman, who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, will have a romantic relationship with a male friend.

The dystopian South Korean thriller has become the most popular Netflix series launch ever, the streaming giant said Tuesday, but it is unlikely to pass China's censors because of its brutally violent content.

The unprecedented global viral hit imagines a macabre world in which marginalized people are pitted against one another in traditional children's games.

The proceeds will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which supports vulnerable young adults facing addiction. 

The band, which found massive international success in the 1980s, said they were "devastated" the show that evening and performances over the following three days would not go ahead.

It features South Korea's most marginalised, including the deeply in debt, a migrant worker and a North Korean defector, competing in traditional children's games for the chance to win 45.6 billion won ($38 million) in mysterious circumstances.

Netflix and local production company Siren Pictures said on Wednesday they would edit scenes to remove the phone number, which appears on a mysterious invitation card given to potential players of a series of deadly children's games.

'Aum!' reveals itself as a satirical look at creative idealism. Writer-director Bambang “Ipoenk” KM and actor Jefri Nichol talk about the film.

Africa's film industry is thriving and could create many millions of extra jobs if its potential was fully exploited, the United Nations said Tuesday.

A Russian actress and director blasted off to the International Space Station on Tuesday in a historic bid to best the United States to film the first movie in orbit.

After the hiatus of his well-respected group Space System, Aryo Adhianto moved on from his keyboard-based jazz into a more challenging rhythm-oriented minimalist electronic sound.

Fronted by Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, the indie duo’s new album features megawatt talents such as Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes, Ilsey and Anaïs Mitchell.

James Bond fans in Britain flocked to cinemas Thursday as the new 007 film finally hit big screens, 18 months later than planned.

It was meant to "signal a new era of virtual football", but Konami's "eFootball 2022" appears to have missed the goal, with players mocking its graphics and gameplay.

TVRI's president director Iman Brotoseno reasoned that the channel must unify the nation, instead of causing chaos and division among Indonesians.

The playground game where players stop and go at a tagger's command is one of six kids games with fatal consequences depicted in the gory thriller named after a South Korean variation of tag played in the 1970s and 80s using a board drawn in the dirt. In the "Red Light, Green Light" episode, the show's first, players are shot for failing to stand still at the red light call.

After the collapse of the New Order, Indonesian filmmakers began producing films with a more objective view of the 1965 massacre.

But now, nearly 30 years after he was first documented to have abused a minor, the 54-year-old artist faces up to life in prison after a New York jury convicted him of running a criminal ring that trapped teenagers and women in a web of sexual, emotional and physical abuse.

With COVID-19 putting a halt to almost all live events, the industry’s workers have been struggling to make a living. The “100 Untuk 100” (100 for 100) initiative aims to ease their hardships.