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Jhené Aiko has scored her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her fourth record “Westside Whimsy.” Aiko bows atop the chart with 74,000 equivalent album units, making it the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 this year and the first to reach No. 1 since S

After having pulled the topical Jessica Chastain-led thriller “The Savant” on Sept. 23 — just days before its Sept. 26 premiere — Apple TV has confirmed it will release the show in Spring 2027, notably after November’s midterm elections. The company had gotten cold feet about “Th

The term WAGs (wives and girlfriends) was popularized by the U.K. press in the early aughts in relation to Victoria Beckham, a pop singer for the Spice Girls who was married to star footballer David Beckham and a frequent fixture at his matches. While originally referring to the

It’s about 9:30 p.m. at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, roughly an hour after Ed Sheeran delivered a surprisingly lengthy four-minute speech on the controversy that has engulfed his tour since Macklemore was dropped as an opening act following his pro-Palestinian remarks.

“Weapons” director Zach Cregger has electrified the box office again, this time with his take on “Resident Evil.” His reboot of the ’90s zombie video game has collected $60 million in its opening weekend. Those ticket sales are way above expectations, and they register as the lar

Paramount Skydance is moving closer to the finish line of its yearlong pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery as the company’s weekend settlement negotiations with the state attorneys general reach a critical stage. Meanwhile, opponents of the merger are rallying to protest what it wa

Ed Sheeran addressed the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s removal from his Loop Tour on Saturday night, speaking from the stage at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field during his first concert since the rapper was dropped from the trek. “Before I play some songs tonight, I

Following the news that “Sweet Magnolias” has been canceled at Netflix, creator and showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson is looking back on the romantic drama’s 5 Season run. “Living in Serenity for five seasons has been a privilege and a blessing,” Anderson shared in the caption of an

Every surface period detail is present and correct to an eerie degree in “The Smell of Apples”: the gawkily short seasonal school uniforms, the ickily patterned kitchen tiles, the garden chairs like steel satellite dishes, the orange-and-brown daisy print that anyone of a certain

“We came to this place for magic.” On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal stood in solidarity with more than 100 New Yorkers outside AMC Kips Bay 15. In his best Australian accent, he recited Nicole Kidman’s iconic AMC Theatres ad in a loving

Hur Jin-ho’s star-studded “The Assassin(s)” turns the holes in a public investigation into an imaginative mystery along the lines of Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” Like Stone’s provocative thriller, Hur crafts a clockwork political saga sure to spark curiosities about the attempted assass

In an era when glamorous writing jobs have acquired the unreality of folklore, it feels fitting that Alexandra Pechman’s alluring and affectionate feature debut, “Magazine,” should portray its literary world as a fairy tale. Set in a faraway time — summer 2011 — when office flirt

Following the news that “Sweet Magnolias” has been canceled at Netflix, stars Jamie Lynn Spears, JoAnna Garcia Swisher and creator and showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson are looking back on the romantic drama’s 5 Season run. Under an Instagram post featuring behind-the-scenes and on-s

Expanding on his 2021 short film, Theja Rio’s debut feature “Angh” forces its way into the hidden crevices between indigenous identity and colonial modernity. This tension unfolds with riveting restraint in a story set in 1960s Nagaland — the eastern Indian state on the Burmese b

Jhené Aiko has scored her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her fourth record “Westside Whimsy.” Aiko bows atop the chart with 74,000 equivalent album units, making it the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 this year and the first to reach No. 1 since S

“The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event” stars Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson were spotted filming the iconic opening of the “A Hard Day’s Night” movie for the forthcoming film, per images via TMZ. Directed by Richard Lester, the 1964 film followed the crew o

After having pulled the topical Jessica Chastain-led thriller “The Savant” in Sept. 23, 2025 — just days before its premiere — Apple TV has confirmed it will finally release the show a year and a half later — in Spring 2027, notably after November’s midterm elections. The company

Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist and backing vocalist of the pop-punk group New Found Glory, has died. He was 45. The band and Gilbert’s wife Lisa Cimorelli confirmed his death on social media in a joint statement. “On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed aw

“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson had plans to adapt the second book in the popular “Jack Reacher” series for the Prime Video show — before a certain “someone” got re-elected, he wrote in a comment posted to Threads on Friday. Responding to a user who wrote that “every year I’m sad to