Park Chan-wook, the Korean filmmaker of “Oldboy” and “No Other Choice,” will head the jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced Thursday Park Chan-wook, the…
Read more Park Chan-wook will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury, will be the 1st Korean in the roleLAHORE, Pakistan — A burst of color lit up Lahore’s night sky overnight as Pakistan’s cultural capital relaunched the Basant kite-flying festival after nearly two decades. Authorities said…
Read more Pakistan’s cultural capital erupts in color as Basant festival ends 20-year hiatusPARK CITY, Utah — Filmmakers and actors whose careers were shaped by Robert Redford and the Sundance Institute he founded reflected on his legacy as the godfather of…
Read more Robert Redford remembered for his mentorship of new filmmakers at Sundance galaPARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing, with Channing Tatum, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx movies premiering back-to-back at the storied Eccles Theatre…
Read more Channing Tatum, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx arrive at Sundance Film Festival for premieresThe Sundance Film Festival may be a little bittersweet this year. It will be familiar in some ways as it kicks off on Thursday in Park City, Utah.…
Read more The Sundance Film Festival prepares to bid farewell to Park City, and Robert RedfordPALM SPRINGS, Calif. — PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio emphasized the importance of creating cinema over content at the Palm Springs Film Festival Friday night. “Movies…
Read more Leonardo DiCaprio on the importance of creating cinema over content at Palm Springs Film FestivalBUCHAREST, Romania — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year…
Read more US rapper Wiz Khalifa sentenced by Romanian court to 9 months for drug possessionDonald Glover is opening up about a recent health scare that forced him to cancel his tour last year. At the time, he described it as an “ailment,”…
Read more Donald Glover says he had a strokeNINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started…
Read more German Baumkuchen ‘tree cake’ survived a disaster and world wars to become a Japanese favoriteVERONA, Italy — Internationally acclaimed ballet star Roberto Bolle will headline the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics closing ceremony, titled “Beauty in Motion,” in Verona’s ancient Roman amphitheater, one…
Read more Ballet star Roberto Bolle will headline 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in VeronaRobert Redford’s legacy and mission was always going to be a key component of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, which will be the last of its kind in…
Read more Sundance Film Festival reveals details about Robert Redford tributes and legacy screeningsNEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes Wednesday, putting a final exclamation point on a trailblazing career in which she became…
Read more Misty Copeland to take ballet stage one last time, before hanging up her pointe shoesThe organizers of the Jewish International Film Festival say they were forced to postpone the event because cinemas in Malmö, Sweden, would not screen the films STOCKHOLM —…
Read more A Jewish film festival in Sweden has been postponed. Organizers say cinemas won’t screen the filmsThe 190th Oktoberfest has come to a close, wrapping up the world’s largest folk festival with the traditional Bavarian marksmen’s gun salute in Munich, after a bomb threat…
Read more Oktoberfest ends Sunday with the traditional Bavarian saluteBERLIN — BERLIN (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger took up the baton at Munich’s Oktoberfest. The former Republican governor of California spontaneously conducted a live music band and the…
Read more Schwarzenegger directs a band in a beer tent at Munich’s OktoberfestNEW YORK — Miles Mykkanen grew up wanting to sing and dance on Broadway, but he was turned down by the musical theater programs he applied to for…
Read more Met season opens with new opera based on Michael Chabon novel starring tenor Miles MykkanenMINNEAPOLIS — Farm Aid — the annual fundraising concerts launched by Willie Nelson,Neil Young and John Mellencamp during the farm crisis of the 1980s — celebrates its 40th…
Read more Willie Nelson and Neil Young highlight 40th Farm Aid concertCardi B releasing her long-awaited sophomore LP, “Am I the Drama?,” and Lily James playing the founder of the popular dating app Bumble in the new biographical drama…
Read more What to Stream: Cardi B, a movie about Bumble, ‘Morning Show’ and a look at Lilith FairEach year during Hispanic Heritage Month, huge celebrations can be expected across the U.S. to showcase the diversity and culture of Hispanic people. This year, the Trump administration’s…
Read more Annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations make adjustments in current political climateLONDON — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English…
Read more Jane Austen fans step back in time to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the beloved author’s birth