Jane Campion is set to preside over the jury of the Taormina Film Festival.

Marking a high-profile appointment for the long-running Sicilian event, the 71-year-old director will lead the jury at the 72nd edition of the event, which runs from 10 to 14 June.

The festival, held in a coastal Sicilian resort, is undergoing a revamp under Tiziana ...Read more

Dakota Johnson once lost a role after being branded "pompous" and "cocky" for shaking hands during an audition.

The Fifty Shades of Grey actress, 36, said the incident happened during a callback early in her career, when she entered the room and greeted the creative team before performing her scene.

Speaking on Hits Radio while promoting the ...Read more

Comedian and “Blue Bloods” actor Alex Duong has died, a year after receiving a cancer diagnosis. He was 42.

The cause was a rare and aggressive cancer of the soft tissue, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, according to the organizers of an online funding appeal. The announcement came a day after an infection threw him into septic shock.

“With ...Read more

Mariska Hargitay will make her Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing.

The Law + Order: SVU actress is set to take over from current lead Daniel Radcliffe in the one-person production, with the play extending its run at the Hudson Theatre in New York until 28 June.

Mariska will make her debut in Every Brilliant Thing on Tuesday 26 May and she...Read more

Whitney Houston made a heartbreaking final promise to her friend Brandy just hours before her death.

The superstar singer passed away in 2012 at the age of 48 and Brandy has now revealed she spent three hours on the phone with Whitney the night before the tragedy - and the Greatest Love Of All star vowed to "be better" and was looking for "...Read more

Work has already begun on the second series of Harry Potter.

Last week, the first trailer for HBO's upcoming blockbuster wizarding series - which is based on JK Rowling's best-selling novels - debuted along with the announcement the programme will now premiere at Christmas this year, and fans won't have to wait too long for the follow-up ...Read more

Josh Groban is happy that Timothee Chalamet's disparaging comments about opera and ballet sparked an outpouring of support for the arts.

Last month, the Marty Supreme actor caused a stir when he claimed "no one cares" about opera and ballet any more, prompting a furious backlash and criticism from the likes of Misty Copeland, Andrea Bocelli, ...Read more

Mel B told Rory McPhee she was never going to get married again and urged him to "look somewhere else" if he was hoping to settle down.

The 50-year-old Spice Girls star - real name Melanie Brown - got together with Rory in 2018 and the singer has now revealed the romance was initially just a bit of "fun" because she had no plans to embark on ...Read more

Russell Brand's rape trial has been postponed until October.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star had been due in court on 16 June after he was charged in April 2025 with two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, in relation to alleged offences involving four women between 1999 and 2005, but after fresh ...Read more

Amid allegations of three domestic violence incidents involving reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul, fans are worried about whether MomTok can survive this.

Paul, who gained an online following after founding MomTok — a loosely connected group of TikTokers who made content about their lives as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-...Read more

Frank Turner got so drunk he "ruined" the reunion show of one of his favourite bands.

The 44-year-old folk punk singer - who will be heading out on tour across Australia and the UK with Girl All The Bad Guys Want legends Bowling For Soup this year - has reflected on one of his most awkward drunken nights on the road when The Van Pelt reunited ...Read more

Sir Paul McCartney says The Beatles "liked" seeing men in the crowd studying their musicianship.

The 83-year-old Hey Jude hitmaker has recalled the Fab Four's first trip to America, and the difference between the demographics in the audiences they were playing to.

Over the weekend, Sir Paul played a couple of intimate shows at the Fonda ...Read more

Jessica Rothe claims that the third Happy Death Day movie is "figured out".

The 38-year-old actress leads the cast of the slasher franchise as Tree Gelbman and has suggested that director Christopher Landon has a follow-up to the 2019 movie Happy Death Day 2U planned out.

Jessica told ScreenRant: "I think that is the power of zeitgeist. I ...Read more

Alison Brie relished playing the "larger than life" Evil-Lyn in Masters of the Universe.

The 43-year-old actress stars as the antagonist in the new movie based on the Mattel media franchise and enjoyed portraying a character out of the norm for her in the sword and sorcery flick.

Alison told USA Today: "I was really excited to get to play a ...Read more

Nancy Cartwright was asked to make an announcement using her Bart Simpson voice during a flight.

The 68-year-old actress is best known for voicing the 10-year-old animated schoolboy from The Simpsons and she recalled being recognised by flight crew on board a plane and was asked to use her skills to help keep passengers informed.

During an ...Read more

Tiger Woods' teammate has branded his arrest "very disturbing" and called for support for the golf legend.

The 50-year-old sportsman was charged with DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test after being involved in a rollover car crash in Florida on Friday (27.03.26) afternoon and Kevin Kisner has called for people to "...Read more

Ryan Gosling has accepted an invitation to visit his soap opera idol Deidre Hall on the set of Days Of Our Lives.

The Project Hail Mary star opened up about his love of soap operas during a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and he revealed watching Deidre played a woman possessed by the devil on Days Of Our Lives taught him ...Read more

Prince Philip spent eight years battling pancreatic cancer in secret prior to his death, according to a new book.

Queen Elizabeth's husband passed away in 2021 at the age of 99 - a year before his wife - and now it's been suggested the late royal spent almost a decade living with cancer after being diagnosed with an inoperable form of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Before becoming a global phenomenon in the 2000s thanks to artists like Aventura, Monchy y Alexandra and Prince Royce, and before being declared an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” by UNESCO in 2019, bachata was — and continues to be — the soundtrack of the Dominican Republic.

The importance of the genre to the...Read more