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UMG said it will remove all songs from TikTok after it accused the social media platform of trying to ‘bully’ them into ‘a bad deal’ over music rights feesUniversal Music Group’s agreement with TikTok is set to expire in the next 24 hours after the companies failed to agree on issues including artist compensation and AI, meaning some of the world’s most popular music...

A dozen playwrights and directors meet in Kyiv and find comedy can be an important part of their creative processIn a studio theatre tucked into a courtyard behind Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street, six playwrights and six directors were hammering out a fraught question: how to write plays about war, during the war.One unexpected outcome of their workshops was: through jokes. Continue reading...

The singer argued that receiving payments from the trust of his late father, Gregg Allman, put him in danger due to his substance abuseA judge has rejected Cher’s request that her adult son be put into an emergency court conservatorship controlling his money.The Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer and actor had argued in a petition that 47-year-old Elijah Blue Allman’s large payments from the trust...

The Kiowa tribe member’s debut House Made of Dawn is credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literatureN Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel House Made of Dawn is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89.Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico,...

Singer told to rest for two weeks, forcing him to cancel gigs in California and Los AngelesThe singer Morrissey is being treated for “physical exhaustion” after cancelling a number of dates on his current tour.His tour manager said on Saturday he had been told to rest for two weeks. Continue reading...

The artist once known as Jenny from the block is spearheading an animated feature about a Latino construction worker voiced by Anthony RamosMove over Barbie: the latest Mattel property set for cultural domination has been unveiled as Bob the Builder, the chirpy construction worker who debuted 25 years ago on CBBC and is being belatedly brought to the big screen by booty-shaking multi-hyphenate Jennifer...

The Smiths guitarist and co-songwriter says ‘consider this shit shut right down right now’ after seeing footage of rally in South DakotaThe Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has signalled that he will move to stop Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from using the band’s music at his rallies.Marr responded on X after a user shared footage of a Trump rally in South Dakota in 2023 in...

Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo EscobarColombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday.The 74th edition...

Weiss led US girl band with run of hit songs about teenage love and tragedy, including Leader of the PackMary Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75, her record label said.The US girl band rose to stardom with a run of hit songs about teenage love and tragedy, including Remember (Walking in the...

The reclusive fitness instructor, who was a household name in the 80s, says he is not involved in new biopic starring comedian Pauly ShoreFormer fitness guru Richard Simmons, who has withdrawn from public life in recent years, has spoken out against a new biopic, saying in a rare statement that: “I have never given my permission for this movie.”The as yet unnamed film was...

June Givanni founded London archive documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 yearsA pioneering curator, writer and programmer of African film is to receive Bafta’s outstanding British contribution to cinema award.June Givanni is the founder of a London archive that has amassed more than 10,000 items – including films, ephemera, manuscripts, audio, photography and posters – documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 years. Continue reading...

James Hunter alleges in a LA court filing that Goth intentionally kicked him while he lay on the ground playing dead An extra has alleged in a Los Angeles court filing that British actor Mia Goth kicked him in the head on the set of slasher film MaXXXine.James Hunter, a background actor on the latest instalment in the X series, which follows on from...

Actor was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy from television’s golden age of the 1950sJoyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actor whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, has died. She was 99.Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on the Upper West Side of...

Theatreland is taking a gamble on a wave of quirky little shows to challenge the big but tired box office beasts A fresh kind of musical theatre show, set apart by having started life on the fringe or in a small-scale provincial production, is challenging the established order in London’s West End this season.A wave of new, quirky productions will be taking their places...

Ousting of Keith, Sián Phillips and others in 2022 led to watchdog admitting it made errors in handling of rowA long-running and acrimonious dispute at an actors’ charity involving some of the best-known names of the British stage and screen is to return to the spotlight next week amid claims of boardroom coups and electoral gerrymandering.The quarrel at the £40m Actors’ Benevolent Fund (ABF)...

The Australian conductor will also be the first woman to perform the Ring cycle at the annual celebration of Wagner since it began in 1876Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSimone Young will become the first woman to conduct Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle in the Bayreuth opera festival’s 147-year history, and the first Australian conductor to perform at...

Actor allegedly made sexually explicit and unsettling remarks during casting process for serial killer thriller The PolicemanThe actor Vincent Gallo is being investigated by the Sag-Aftra union after several women alleged he made inappropriate remarks to them during the casting process for the movie The Policeman.At least three women reported Gallo to the actors’ union for sexually explicit and unsettling comments he allegedly made...

British singer says ‘I am proud of my physicality’ after advert is banned by Advertising Standards AuthorityFKA twigs has defended a Calvin Klein advertisement she featured in that was banned earlier this week by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).The singer appeared in the poster ad dressed in a shirt held across her semi-nude body. Following two complaints from the public, the ASA said...

Highly anticipated sequel to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later will be the first in a new trilogy, multiple sources told the Hollywood ReporterAfter years of speculation, a new sequel for zombie horror hit 28 Days Later is reportedly in the works – two decades since the 2002 original.Titled 28 Years Later, the film marks the third instalment in the franchise after 28...

Windsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and BirminghamThe chill blast of damaging cuts to provincial arts venues has returned to Berkshire this weekend as the cash-strapped local authority becomes the latest to scrap its cultural budget.Local MP and former prime minister Theresa May was among those to salute a reprieve back in February. But theatre...

In a Guardian interview, the actor also shares her admiration for Bella Ramsey and says she has challenged her son’s behaviour towards women‘There are different ways of being a woman’: Jodie Foster on beauty, bravery, and raising feminist sonsJodie Foster says she sometimes finds generation Z “really annoying” but she hopes she can help budding stars find their own path to help them “learn...

Anthony Delon told a magazine his father was finding it hard to accept his frail state of healthThe actor Alain Delon will file a legal complaint against his son over “a media outburst” in France’s most prominent magazine, his lawyer has said.In an interview published on Thursday, Anthony Delon told Paris Match that his father was finding it hard to accept his frail state...

Analysts suggest popularity of A Guilty Conscience is down to portrayal of recent abuses in judicial systemHong Kong’s highest grossing Chinese language film of all time is a courtroom drama exploring themes of power and justice in a city where many feel both have been abused in recent years.A Guilty Conscience, the directorial debut of the Hong Kong screenwriter Ng Wai-lun, tells the story...