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Broadway’s ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’, ‘Death Of A Salesman’, ‘Titaníque’ Open Big
Broadway held strong last week as a bevy of spring arrivals caught ticket buyers’ attention, with Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman and Titaníque opening to strong reviews and full or nearly full houses. Most of the nine shows still in previews last week also did well, especially Proof, The Fear […] More
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Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2026 Lineup: Will Sharpe & Stephanie Hsu-Voiced Animation ‘In Waves’ To Open Parallel Section
Phuong Mai Nguyen’s In Waves, an animated feature adaptation of L.A. illustrator AJ Dungo’s eponymous cult 2019 graphic novel set in California, will open the 65th edition of Cannes Critics’ Week. It is among 11 features, selected from 1050 feature-length submissions, unveiled by Cannes Critics’ Week on Monday for its 2026 edition. Scroll down for […] More
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Open Has Trump Reveling In Bombing Iran Again
Just a couple hours after Vice President JD Vance announced that marathon peace talks with Iran produced no agreement, Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) and Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) reveling in their failure. After speaking by cell phone from the Oval Office with Tiger Woods and First Lady Melania Trump, […] More
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‘SNL UK’ Cold Open: Melania Trump’s Epstein Statement Parodied
SNL UK cold opened with comic Emma Sidi as Melania Trump reassuring BBQers in a borough of south London that she definitely isn’t buddies with disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In an echo of the First Lady’s unexpected press statement this week, Sidi mimicked: “Never have I ever been friends with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.” “But […] More
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Turnstile open Coachella set with recording of Brendan Yates’ father after band’s former guitarist was arrested for his attempted murder
Turnstile kicked off their Coachella set by addressing news that their former guitarist Brady Ebert hit singer Brendan Yates’ father with his car. READ MORE: Turnstile – ‘Never Enough’ review: heartfelt hardcore poptimism Earlier this month, reports emerged that Ebert, who parted ways with Turnstile in 2022, had been arrested for attempted second-degree murder and first-degree […] More
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Final Four + Pam Bondi Firing Heats Up ‘SNL’ Cold Open With Rare Wit & Twists
It took a while to get there, but like its newly(ish) launched SNL UK cousin, SNL went for a very political cold open tonight. The skit started out drilling down on NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament’s Final Four before deftly segueing to the April 2 firing of Pam Bondi. “I made history as the […] More
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‘SNL UK’ Cold Open: George Fouracres’ Keir Starmer Calls On Olivia Colman & Peppa Pig To Inspire Nation
Saturday Night Live UK cold opened with the British prime minister calling on some friends to deliver a stirring address to the nation. George Fouracres’s Keir Starmer took to the lectern, flanked by the Union Jack flag, but admitted he’s “not inspiring” as a leader. Reflecting on war in the Middle East entering its second […] More
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Sam Altman’s Open AI “Working Hard With Disney To Find A World Where They Can Still Do Something Amazing” Post Sora
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company abruptly shuttered its Sora video platform to focus on its “compute and our product capacity,” acknowledging that in the process he scuttled a landmark partnership with Disney which had agreed to invest $1 billion in the AI video generation tool. “I love Sora, I love generating videos, and […] More
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Madonna, John Legend, Pedro Pascal and more call for closure of ICE detention centre in open letter
Madonna, John Legend, Pedro Pascal and many more have signed an open letter calling for the closure of an ICE detention centre in Texas. Hundreds of young children and their parents have been detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in recent months. “No child should be locked in an immigration detention centre. We, the […] More
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Saturday Night Live UK Features Prince Andrew, Mandelson In Cold Open
“The code word is Pizza Express Woking.” It was only a matter of time before Saturday Night Live UK‘s cold open took on the former Prince Andrew. The second SNL UK did just that, roasting now plain Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with a sketch set back to 1997. In this week’s cold open, a young Prince Andrew, […] More
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Breaking Baz: ‘Harry Potter’s’ John Tiffany Will Open ‘Wild Rose’ Musical At New York Theatre Workshop; Movie Helped Make Oscar Winner Jessie Buckley A Star
EXCLUSIVE: John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Black Watch) the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning director, has revealed to Deadline that his stage adaptation of the 2018 feature Wild Rose — a movie that helped propel recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley’s early career — is to make its U.S. premiere Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop […] More
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Snapchat Launches First Open Prompt AI Lens
Snapchat is taking another step into generative AI, with its new “Imagine” Lens, which enables users to recreate images from the Snap camera or their camera roll using text prompts. As you can see in this example, much like Meta’s “Imagine Yourself” AI option, or YouTube’s “Dream Screen,” or TikTok’s “AI Self” process, or even […] More
