Variety

Stevie Wonder Announces ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ 50th Anniversary Tour Dates

Stevie Wonder has announced dates for his “Songs in the Key of Life Performances – 50th Anniversary Tour,” a celebration of his generation-defining 1976 double album. The tour, promoted by Live Nation and produced by Wonder Productions, will see the iconic album performed in its entirety by the 25-time Grammy-winning artist. The tour opens Oct […]

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Variety

Tom Jones Alleges ‘The Voice U.K.’ Fired Him at 86 Years Old Due to ‘Financial Difficulty With Insurance’

Singer Tom Jones has claimed he was fired as a judge from singing competition show “The Voice U.K.” due to “financial difficulty with insurance.” “To be clear, I did not want to leave ‘The Voice’ as I love the show and really appreciate the audience,” Jones posted on social media. “ITV made this decision — […]

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The Guardian Culture

Freiburg Baroque Orch/Rattle/Faust review – ‘problem’ Schumann works shine in exceptional evening

Royal Albert Hall, LondonSimon Rattle, guest conducting the period instrument ensemble, brought insights and detail to these three lesser known works by Schumann. Isabelle Faust was a spirited and graceful soloist in the Violin ConcertoSimon Rattle sure loves a challenge. This all-Schumann evening featured three “problem” works: the overture to a failed opera, a violin concerto deemed sufficiently disappointing that the composer’s executors ordered it locked away for a century, and a symphony wr

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The Guardian Culture

Monty Don steps down from BBC’s Gardeners’ World after 23 years

Final series to be hosted by the ‘utterly unique’ presenter will continue to be broadcast until later this yearMonty Don, the longest serving head gardener on the BBC’s Gardeners’ World programme, will step down at the end of the current series.After 23 years leading the show, which he has hosted from his own garden in Herefordshire since 2011, Don said it was “the right time for a change”. He will continue working with the BBC on other programmes, as well as pursuing his own projects, such as w

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The Guardian Culture

Monty Don is quitting Gardeners’ World – and you’re right to be devastated about it

Handsome, charming and vulnerable, the host made horticulture TV hotter than ever. What a huge hole he will leaveAfter 23 years at the helm, Monty Don has announced that he is leaving Gardeners’ World at the end of the series. All said, you are right to be distraught about it.Gardeners’ World is a show with a long history – it was commissioned by David Attenborough as a way to showcase the potential of colour television – but Don arguably did the show better than anyone. Under his watch, the sho

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Hollywood Reporter

Omaha Pulls Off a Star-Studded Hollywood Heist for the ‘Manningcast’ Schedule Release (Exclusive)

In a 15-minute film with cameos from Glen Powell, Anne Hathaway, Paul Rudd, Larry David, Jon Hamm, and many more, the Peyton and Eli Manning break into NFL HQ in an 'Ocean's 11'-style heist.

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The Guardian Culture

Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

Venice film festival: Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and an AI Muskbot in this absorbing documentary‘Elon is a nuke.” The speaker is Ashley St Clair, a former conservative Maga influencer and one of Elon Musk’s former girlfriends-slash-baby mommasShe is a fascinating expert witness in Alex Gibney’s four-hour epic study of the world’s richest and dullest man: the overgrown brattish South-African-born trillionaire plutocrat, ersatz visionary and Trump co

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Hollywood Reporter

AMC Global Media Settles ‘Walking Dead’ Profit Participation Lawsuit for $120 Million

The company will pay creator Robert Kirkman and the franchise's producers $85M this month, and another $35M next year, which will be treated as an advance against their profit participation.

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Variety

MIAM! Distribution Expands Slate, Strengthens Partnerships With French Indie Producers, Unveiled at Unifrance Rendez-Vous (EXCLUSIVE)

As Unifrance Rendez-Vous kicked out yesterday and with its sales team attending, MIAM! Distribution unveiled earlier today the acquisition of two new animated TV series and a 52-minute TV special, the latest addition to a carefully curated catalogue marked by MIAM! distribution’s editorial ambition: to champion distinctive creative voices and stories, rooted in the lived […]

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Variety

Longstanding Franchises, Distinctive New IPs Help French Animation Industry Weather Market Slowdown

Of the numerous formats impacted by budget cuts and labor shortage in the entertainment industry, animation ranks high in that rather bleak list. Yet for French production companies, distributors and sales agent who are gathering at the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Normandy’s Le Havre, hope is still a word with 24 animated fps. For Mediawan Kids […]

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Variety

‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Definitive Documentary Puts the Pieces of Elon Musk Together — It’s a Lacerating Portrait of Technocratic Brilliance, Power Lust and Crackpot Delusion

What makes "Musk" such a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Alex Gibney’s supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the form, is that it takes this flamboyant but in many ways elusive figure, with his tech ambitions and cosmic dreams and malignant megalomania, and puts him all together, letting us see how one chapter of his life led to the next, and how the Musk dream wasn’t always so grandiose.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Mammoth Elon Musk Doc Is a Poleaxing Portrait of the Tech Titan as a Con Man Given Way Too Much Power to Be Stopped

The Oscar-winning docmaker gets around the hiccup of Musk’s refusal to participate by creating an AI avatar of the world’s richest man.

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The Guardian Culture

‘Cantona’s a Kwengletarian!’ Inside the maximalist, magical mentality of rising London Irish rapper Kibo

The masterful ​Harrow MC behind the year’s funniest, most inventive UK rap debut explains how his parents sparked his ravenous outlook – and why he’s wrestling his peersA few Guinnesses into an interview in his local Irish boozer, and 26-year-old Harrow rapper Kibo is cooking. We’re talking football. As a kid, he preferred playing Fifa Street – where ordinary players backflip off walls to score incomprehensible bicycle kicks – to regular realistic Fifa. “If I’m gonna play a video game, I want to

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Musk’: Alex Gibney Shares His Take on Elon Musk’s “Global Right-Wing Agenda” and the “Almost Existential Fear” of Talking He Encountered: Venice

Also at Venice, Ashley St. Clair discussed why she rejected a $40 million NDA that she has mentioned before, while tech journalist Zoë Schiffer said Musk augmented "more inflammatory comments" on X.

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Variety

Elon Musk’s Ex Ashley St. Clair on Rejecting a $40 Million NDA and Participating in ‘Musk’ Doc: ‘I Hope the Risk in Trying to Fight Back Helps a Little Bit’

Elon Musk’s ex Ashley St. Clair spoke about her decision to reject a $40 million non-disclosure agreement after the influencer gave birth last year to Musk’s 13th child. By turning down the alleged payday, St. Clair was able to sit for an interview in “Musk,” a new documentary from Alex Gibney that seeks to make […]

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Variety

Levan Koguashvili Brings ’90s Georgia to Venice With Comedic Drama ‘Guria’

Levan Koguashvili’s “Guria” will world premiere in Venice’s Spotlight section on Sept. 9. The black-and-white tragicomedy, set in the western Georgian Guria region, follows Zuriko, a 45-year-old widower and farmer as he struggles to find love, as well as a fair price on hazelnuts. “Guria” is a co-production between Georgia’s Kino Iberica, Switzerland’s Cineworx, Luxembourg’s […]

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The Guardian Culture

Runner review – Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson thriller is serviceable B-movie camp

Impressive stunts and tongue-in-cheek flourishes elevate Scott Waugh’s silly Aussie action flick Credit where credit is due: of the many, many variations on the hammy late-summer action romp, very few have applied the gonzo B-movie treatment – physics-defying car chases, knee-smashing violence and the like – to the practice of organ transportation.Donor delivery is not the direction you think things are going in upon first meeting Hank Malone, Alan Ritchson’s outlandishly muscled fixer, of sorts

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The Guardian Culture

‘She blazed in and opened my eyes to the real world’: Readers remember Gloria Steinem

To generations of women, the feminist campaigner was an inspiration, a fearless challenger of sexism and domestic violence. Guardian readers share memories of her courage, intelligence, and warmthWhat I appreciated most about Gloria was she let me feel normal. I graduated in engineering as one of three women in a class of over 150. In her world, a feminist was a woman that wanted to be judged for her capabilities and not her gender. She was very inspirational and empowering when I first read her

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The Guardian Culture

Skyscrapers and smokestacks: the grittier side of Georgia O’Keeffe

Beyond her famed paintings of flowers and landscapes, the American artist created stunning studies of urban architectureGeorgia O’Keeffe is celebrated for her ethereal depictions of flowers, sunlight, landscapes and animal bones, their gracefully swooping forms dripping with organic curves and seemingly on the verge of melting before our eyes. Such an approach would seem to be quite at odds with the firm, straight lines of farmhouses and barns, to say nothing of the electrified skyscrapers of Ne

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The Guardian Culture

Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads

Director Kirsty Bell alternates archival footage with tacky dramatised filler, but it’s the breadth of appreciation, from Keith Richards to Kiefer Sutherland that impressesNo one could argue that rock’n’roll legend Eddie Cochran isn’t worthy of a birth-to-untimely-death bio-doc; it’s almost shocking that this is the first one to be made. But if truth be told, director Kirsty Bell’s effort is stretched so thin to make a feature-length running time you can practically see through the screen. Also

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