Alibaba Pictures to Pay $167 Million for Damai, Chinese Live Events Firm, Signaling Group’s Entertainment Reshuffle

Travis Kelce had the perfect response after TV personality Mark Cuban asked Taylor Swift to break up with him.

has his work cut out for him. The 72-year-old widower from Indiana is searching for a second chance at love with one of 22 women, and let me be the first to say—they're all gorgeous.Of course, Gerry is old enough and wise enough to know that looks aren't everything.

Maluma is speaking up following online rumors about his relationship status with Susana Gomez. The Colombian singer decided to shut down all speculation about a possible engagement after his girlfriend was seen wearing a diamond ring, visibly seen in one of his latest Instagram posts.MALUMA’S LATEST ROMANTIC GETAWAY FUELS ENGAGEMENT SPECULATIONMALUMA SHARES NEW SONG AND VIDEO DEDICATED TO MESSIThe musician revealed to fans that he has no plans of getting married to Susana so far, denying all rumors with a TikTok video, using his song ‘Según Quién’ featuring Carin Leon.

Selena Gomez and Nicola Peltz-Beckham have been enjoying plenty of time together while in Paris. This week, the two were spotted having dinner two nights in a row as the wore stunning black ensembles. Selena Gomez is obsessed with corsets and these stunning looks are here to prove itSelena Gomez and Hailey Bieber arrive at Paris after-party in matching stylesSelena Gomez takes Paris: from cozy to glamorous outfitsGomez and Peltz-Beckham were in attendance of a party hosted during Fashion Week Paris.

Jaden Smith and his girlfriend Sab Zada are stepping out for a cozy lunch date!

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have captivated the public with their co-parenting journey, proving that love, understanding, and time can heal even the deepest of wounds. Even more remarkable is that Jennifer Lopez, Affleck’s current partner, has played a pivotal role in fostering this harmonious atmosphere within the extended family.It’s no secret that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s divorce was heavily scrutinized.

Sophie Turner appears to be debuting some new jewelry amid her divorce from Joe Jonas.

Deacon Phillippe just posed for his most intimate photo shoot yet!

Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are teaming up for an epic reunion!

Kelly Clarkson is laughing off a wardrobe malfunction!

Kendall and Kylie Jenner are both in new relationships with very famous men, but will we see them on The Kardashians?

conservative makeup Wednesday at the Row’s spring 2024 show, pairing the look with a dark-colored, pinstriped matching suit set.Anderson’s lips were tinted pink, and she sported a peachy blush on her cheeks. She brought a pop of color and fun with her nails, which were varnished in a bright, cherry red.Anderson isn’t the only star wearing notable looks at Paris fashion week.Kylie Jenner, 26, hit Schiaparelli’s show Thursday in a shimmering, beaded keyhole gown, which featured a plunging V-neck line and perfectly hugged her curves.“The Kardashians” star wore her hair in waves and accessorized her stunning look with a pair of gorgeous gold statement earrings and nude pumps.Kim Cattrall, 67, also showed off her signature sexiness while attending the Balmain presentation Wednesday.

naked attraction.Kelly Ripa wasn’t afraid to go below the belt on the Wednesday, Sept. 27 episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark.” The 52-year-old morning show host delved into a conversation about the new hit Max series “Naked Attraction” with her co-host and husband Mark Consuelos, 52, and joked that he had nothing to worry about regarding his family jewels.“I could tell you were starting to feel really good about yourself,” Ripa told her husband in front of a live audience, implying that her beau’s package far surpassed those of the other contestants.

Scott Tanser admits being serenaded by the St Mirren supporters has put a spring in his step this season.

A real Satanic pedophile cult?! Wow! This story is WILD! And it all started from a gun charge… Back in November 2021, a 23-year-old man named 

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has apologised after the airline had to cancel flights scheduled this winter.

Taylor Swift didn’t want to give away any hints about her whereabouts over the weekend!

If there is one thing we know about Rihanna, it is that she loves watching reality television! So naturally, that was all the 35-year-old singer binged throughout her pregnancies — one new show in particular.

Don’t get too excited, Kravis fans! The wild name you’ve heard may not be the new baby’s moniker after all!

Married at First Sight UK returned to screens on Thursday night for the first commitment ceremony of the series as the newlyweds got the opportunity to sit on the couch in front of the panel of experts for some much-needed guidance.

his own podcast, “Everybody Loves Tom,” on Thursday, and addressed his highly publicized infidelity — deemed Scandoval — earlier this year when he cheated on his girlfriend of nine years, Ariana Madix, with Leviss. Sandoval recalled meeting Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington days before he died by suicide in July 2017 and admitted he “never understood” how someone could take their own life until the world tuned in to his downfall. “When you get into that headspace, it’s like it’s a domino effect,” Sandoval said.

Now that the Writers Guild of America strike is officially over, deals that were suspended are in the process of being reinstated.

The world of entertainment is mourning the loss of one of its legendary actors, Sir Michael Gambon, known for his iconic portrayal of Professor Albus Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” film series. The news of Gambon’s death has not only saddened fans across the globe but has also deeply affected those who had the privilege of working alongside him. Among them, Daniel Radcliffe, who played the titular role of Harry Potter. The actor shared heartfelt words of remembrance and admiration for his late co-star. In a statement released by Radcliffe, he expressed his profound grief over Gambon’s death, s

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Disney has given a green light to a second season of Japanese drama -horror series “Gannibal.” Set in a fictional Japanese village, season one of Gannibal saw recently relocated police officer Agawa Daigo arrive in his new home a broken man. Wrestling with his guilt over an event that traumatized his daughter, things started off promisingly for the new arrival before a series of alarming events quickly led Agawa to the horrifying realization that something was deeply wrong with the villagers and the mysterious Goto family.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th birthday, a little more than a year after the release of his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” – celebrated throughout 2023 at places as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles’ Margaret Herrick Library and the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute. But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career. Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/NFAJ Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29. Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku, with all the advantages and disadvantages such an arrangement brought. While Ozu is best known for his stripped-down dramas, often centered on family relationships, sometimes troubled or contentious, involving parents and young or grown-up children, many hinging on questions of marriage, generational misunderstandings or the loneliness of the elderly, the director’s register may not entirely have been of his own choosing. “The apparent consistency of the post-war films surely owes as much to this production situation as to Ozu’s aesthetic choices,” wrote critic Tony Rayns in a recent Sight & Sound portrait.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Paramount+ streaming service will launch in Japan in December as a free-of-charge addition to cable and internet provider J:COM’s platform and to pay-TV service Wowow. Paramount+ originals including “Tulsa King,” “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” will be available at the launch of the service and for the first time in Japan. Japan will be the second country in East Asia where the service becomes available, following a launch in South Korea in June last year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Filming is now underway in Australia on “Desert King,” a neo-western drama series for Netflix that is positioned to be one of the streamer’s iconic prestige productions in the Asia-Pacific region. The story revolves around money and power in Australia’s harsh Outback regions with filming locations in the remote Northern Territory and near Adelaide, South Australia. When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill,” says Netflix by way of a synopsis. While describing the six-part series as “one of the largest local screen productions filmed in both the [Northern] Territory and South Australia,” and “an extraordinary cast,” the streamer has not disclosed the identities of any cast. Directed by Greg McLean (“La Brea,” “Wolf Creek”), the show is a joint production between Easy Tiger and Ronde.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A+E Networks is continuing its investment in Korean entertainment content with “A Good Day to Be a Dog,” a fantasy romantic comedy that will upload from Oct. 11. Within Korea, the show will play on public broadcaster MBC and Lifetime Korea, releasing at the rate of one episode per week, every Wednesday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Netflix and SK Broadband, one of South Korea’s largest internet service providers, said that they were ending all their lawsuits and would instead create a strategic partnership to provide better entertainment experiences to Korean customers. The legal dispute began in 2020 over whether content providers that generate large amounts of traffic should pay “network usage fees” in addition to the bills paid by the household end users, or whether that would go against the principle of net neutrality and lead to higher costs for consumers. Netflix said that it could offer a technological solution to traffic volume that it had provided to ISPs in other countries and to rival ISPs in Korea. But SK Telecom and its subsidiary SK Broadband held out and appeared to gain support for their position in the Korean parliament. “This strategic partnership with Netflix originates from the philosophy of SK Telecom and SK Broadband, where customer value is prioritized, and comes as part of our efforts to provide customers with an enhanced media service environment,” said SK Telecom’s Choi Hwanseok, VP of corporate strategy. “The partnership with SK Telecom, a leader in Korea’s telecommunication and innovative technology industries, holds special significance as it enables Netflix to enhance entertainment experiences for a broader Korean audience,” said Tony Zameczkowski, Netflix VP of APAC partnerships. “By teaming up with Netflix, SK Telecom and SK Broadband aim to help customers enjoy Netflix shows and films on mobile devices and IPTV (B tv) with easier access and payment options.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Cobweb,” the Kim Jee-woon-directed satire that debuted at Cannes this year, has been cleared for theatrical release in its native Korea later this month. On Monday it saw off an injunction that sought to derail its hometown debut. The film is a tongue in cheek tribute to the Korean movies of the 1970s and plays partly as a film within a film, jumping from color to black and white as it does so. It stars Song Kang-ho (“Parasite,” “Broker”) as director Kim, who needs just two more days of reshoots to craft a new ending to his latest film (also called “Cobweb”) so that it will no longer be the trashy potboiler everyone thought he was making.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Byun hee-bong, a veteran South Korean actor who appeared in several films by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho, has died age 81. Byun died on Monday after complications related to a return of the pancreatic cancer that had previously occurred and been treated, according to the semi-official Yonhap News agency. The precise circumstances of his demise were not disclosed. He was born in Jangseon, South Jeolla Province, and started work at an unspecified time in live theater before becoming a voice performer for state TV network MBC in 1966. His TV work in the 1980s and 1990s included series including: 1981’s ”The First Republic”; 1985’s “The Joseon Dynasty 500 Years: Seouljungmae”; and 1999’s “The Legendary Doctor Hur Jun.” His first reliably recorded feature film work was in Bong’s breakout 2000 film “Barking Dogs Never Bite.” Byun appeared in significant roles in three other films by Bong: the cultish “Memories of Murder,” in 2003; 2006 Cannes presentation and box office hit “The Host”; and “Okja,” the creature feature which marked Netflix’s film production debut in Korea and which also appeared Cannes. Byun picked up half a dozen best supporting actor nominations in Korea and regionally in Asia for his role as Hie-bong in “The Host,” converting two of those into wins, at the Asia Pacific Film Festival and Korea’s Blue Dragon Awards.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief ‘Expendables 4’ narrowly took top place at the mainland China box office on a quiet weekend preceding the National Day holiday season at the end of the month. “A Haunting in Venice” opened outside the top five. Data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway shows “Expendables 4” earning $10.9 million (RMB78.6 million) over its debut weekend.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean crime-action webtoon “Knuckle Girl” is being adapted as an original film production for Amazon’s Prime Video. It is structured as a Korea-Japan co-venture. The narrative revolves around a promising woman boxer, Ran, who takes on school bullies and participates in illegal bouts.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Tabu-starring spy thriller, “Khufiya” has been set as the opening title of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Oct. 11-15).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Blue Ant Media, the Canadian-owned group with operations spanning TV production, distribution and channels management, is creating a new Asia-Pacific base in Sydney, Australia. It has hired Jon Penn as its Asia-Pacific MD and Jason Soh as VP of distribution, based in Singapore.Penn is a veteran with ten years in Asia with BBC Studios and 11 years of experience at Fremantle. Latterly, he has been a partner at ACT Media Ventures and advised Blue Ant on its expansion in Australia. “The appointments signal the expansion of Blue Ant Media’s channel and program distribution business in Asia Pacific, combining the company’s channel distribution and content sales in the region into one unit.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Top actor Asher Keddie will co-produce and star opposite David Wenham in Paramount+ Australia’s freshly-commissioned “Fake” drama-thriller series. Keddie has a long TV career with recent credits including “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” “Nine Perfect Strangers” and “Stateless.” Her movie credits include smaller roles in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and eccentric comedy “Rams.” Wenham’s filmography includes “SeaChange,” “Elvis,” “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers & The Return of the King.” “Fake” follows Keddie’s character, a smart and brilliant writer who thinks she has found her ideal match when she meets a successful rancher, portrayed by Wenham, on a dating app. But after she commits, she discovers that her boyfriend isn’t all he has led her to believe. The show is inspired by the book “Fake” by Stephanie Wood and was created for television by renown screenwriter, Anya Beyersdorf with award-winner director, Emma Freeman (“Secret City,” “Glitch,” “The Newsreader”). The eight- part series is produced by Kindling Pictures’ Imogen Banks (“Safe Home,” “Offspring”) and Emelyne Palmer (“Safe Home,” “RFDS”).