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The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled a guest lineup headlined by Isabelle Huppert, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Fan Bingbing and Michelle Yeoh. Huppert brings her latest film, “All About Corinne,” to Busan audiences. Gyllenhaal makes her first visit to Korea with “Flesh Impact,” a project created to mark the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth. Fan Bingbing joins fellow Chinese stars Shu Qi and Zhou Xun in Busan, while also curating a Carte Blanche selection of Park Chan-wook’s “The Handmaiden.” Yeoh, the first Asian performer to win the Academy Award for best actress, returns to the festival after…
Picture Credit: Netflix With The Empress set to take its final bow with its third and final season later this year, Netflix is already hard at work finding its next big historical hit. If you’ve been worrying about a period drama-sized hole in your watch list, fear not—Netflix has officially started production on Dolly, a brand new six-part German period mystery that looks ready to fill that void. Hailing from BetaBerlin Productions GmbH (in cooperation with Candy Shop GmbH), Dolly (which is currently a working title) promises a gritty, thrilling look at late 19th-century Germany. But perhaps the most exciting news is who is behind…
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back for Practical Magic 2, but not all of the same witches have returned with them. In the sequel, set 25 years after the 1998 cult classic, Joey King and Maisie Williams replace Evan Rachel Wood and Alexandra Artrip as the daughters of Bullock’s Sally Owens. Wood has previously spoken out about being recast, saying she was “not asked to come back” and “it was not in my control or my choice.” On a red carpet for The Shards in July, Wood added that it appeared she wasn’t asked back because “it seems like…
Rep. Lauren Boebert I’ll Bet on Enes in the WNBA!!! Published September 1, 2026 6:43 AM PDT Play video content Rep. Lauren Boebert is practically waving pom-poms for Enes Kanter Freedom’s WNBA crusade … saying he’s “calling the idiocy out.” Jacob caught up with the Colorado congresswoman on Capitol Hill Monday, and asked whether Enes is a hero or simply chasing attention with his campaign against transgender women competing in women’s sports. Boebert squarely sides with Enes … and even joked his recent confrontation with Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud was “quite the cat fight” between “these two women.” She…
Picture Credit: Paramount Master Chief’s mission on Netflix is officially coming to an end. After a surprisingly successful stint on the streamer, the live-action video game adaptation Halo is set to depart Netflix in the United States on October 1st, 2026, following earlier international departures. As you may recall, Halo took quite the journey to get to Netflix in the first place. Following a rocky two-season run, the ambitious sci-fi series was unexpectedly axed by its home network. Shortly after, Paramount Global opted to license the show out to a rival, leading to Halo heading to Netflix in select regions following its Paramount+ cancelation. It…
How Much Do the Celebrities Get Paid to Be on Dancing With the Stars?Citing multiple sources, Variety reported in 2019 that Dancing With the Stars contestants make $125,000 for the rehearsal period and first two weeks of the show. If they progress beyond that point, the outlet continued, they earn more money each week. At the time, sources told the publication stars could earn a maximum of $295,000. However, Bobby Bones said he made more than this when he won season 27 with Sharna Burgess in 2018. “That show pays OK,” the radio personality said on a Sept. 2025 episode of…
EXCLUSIVE: Close to four years have passed since Iran’s Woman Life Freedom protests were sparked by the death in police custody, on September 16, 2022, of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for not wearing her hijab correctly. In a sign of their lasting impact, Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei arrives in Venice this year with Falling House, a prophetic work warning of the crisis building in Iran after decades of oppressive, patriarchal rule by the Islamic Republic regime. The allegorical drama, which world premieres in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar, revolves around three generations of women in an economically fragile family, living under…
NBC NBC’s “ER” ran for 15 seasons on the network, from its premiere on September 19, 1994, to its series finale on April 2, 2009. The show was eclipsed by “Grey’s Anatomy” as the longest-running medical drama of all time in 2019, but it will forever be one of the most groundbreaking shows in the genre for many important reasons. “ER” took its stories seriously, so while its characters were funny sometimes, it didn’t rely too strongly on a comedic premise like its predecessors, including “Doogie Howser, M.D.” and “M*A*S*H.”…
With her debut feature, the Serbian protest drama Until the Day Ends (Do Kraja Dana), Jelena Maksimović becomes the first female director from Serbia to bring a narrative feature to the official selection at the Venice Film Festival since Soja Jovanović’s Eagles Fly Early in 1966. That is likely to make for an emotional journey for the filmmaker to the festival, which just seems fitting. After all, an emotional, and intense, journey is also what the protagonists of her movie embark on. The film, set against anti-government protests by students and others in the country’s capital, Belgrade, will world premiere in…
Credit: Getty Dick Van Dyke isn’t slowing down! On Saturday (August 29), the Emmy-winning actor, who turned 100 last December, took to Instagram to share a video from his epic workout routine. In the video, Dick is wearing a white T-shirt, gray sweatpants, and slippers as he lays horizontally on an inversion table outside. The Mary Poppins star holds onto the handles before putting his hands behind his head for a more difficult balance. “1/2 workout inversion table,” Dick captioned the video. “#keepmoving” After sharing the workout video, Dick‘s comments section was flood with messages from fans sharing how impressed…