BBC Considers Replacing Huw Edwards On Election Night Show As Presenter Remains Suspended

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The other demonic possession movie opening this week, “When Evil Lurks” is unlikely to steal major box-office thunder from “The Exorcist: Believer.” But Argentine genre specialist Demian Rugna’s latest is no mere opportunistic cash-in, either, with its own distinctive and non-formulaic take on the notion of an evil spirit that strikes like a malignant disease. IFC Films is releasing this uneven but engrossing, sometimes startling horror thriller to several hundred U.S. theaters on October 6.

Thania Garcia Bad Bunny premiered his new songs “Un Preview” and “Where She Goes” as part of a medley presentation for the Billboard Latin Music Awards that had everyone inside Florida’s Watsco Center on their feet. The crowd was singing along to practically every second of the performance that started with Bad Bunny sitting around a firepit, reminiscent of his massive 2022 jaunt “World’s Hottest Tour.” Sporting overalls and a giant diamond-incrested cowboy boot chain, Bad Bunny ran through “Moscow Mule,” “Titi Me Pregunto,” “Neverita,” “Me Porto Bonito,” “Where She Goes,” and his latest, “Un Preview.” The single arrived in late September and was one of the few singles Bad Bunny released this year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Leading Korean content firm Showbox Corp. has added “The Killers,” an unusual anthology film, to its Busan rights sales line up. The film takes its title and themes from Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story of the same name.

Naman Ramachandran Nabin Subba‘s “A Road to a Village” is a stark look at the damaging effects of galloping modernization in rural Nepal. The film had its world premiere at Toronto and is playing at the Busan International Film Festival in the ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ strand. Subba is a renowned chronicler of societal change in Nepal and his previous work includes “Numafung” (2001), which won an award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, “Goodbye Kathmandu” (2017) and documentary series “Dalan” (2008).

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Six years after the #MeToo hashtag took off with the bombshell exposés against Harvey Weinstein, a new survey has found that a promising number of employees in the entertainment industry feel progress has been made in Hollywood. WIF, the nonprofit organization formerly known as Women In Film, conducted a survey last month where the majority of respondents said the culture in Hollywood has improved, with experiences of abuse and misconduct being reduced by 33.7% compared to the previous year. The survey results, obtained by Variety, show that 59% of respondents believe that the culture around abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood has improved over the last year.

Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian have had a very rocky and emotional relationship throughout the years. The couple seemed like a great pair, but their romance blew up when Thompson was revealed to have cheated on the reality star. The news hit the internet just hours before Kardashian gave birth to the couple’s first child, daughter True.

Rooster Teeth is moving its content from YouTube to its own website, a move designed to bolster revenue that will allow them to create more content.

Caitlyn Jenner really wishes she could take back her recent comments about Kris Jenner!

The Tories have been humiliated in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election as they lost their deposit.

Labour have won the Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election.

expanded “Don’t Say Gay” law.Charlotte County Schools Superintendent Mark Vianello and Michael McKinley, the attorney for the Charlotte County Schools, recently responded to questions from the district’s librarians at a July meeting asking whether the law required the removal of books with LGBTQ characters but contained no explicit sex scenes.“Books with LBGTQ+ characters are not to be included in classroom libraries or school library media centers,” Vianello and McKinley said in response, according to a district memo obtained under a public information request by the Florida Freedom to Read Project.The nonprofit group, which opposes the law’s provisions making it easier to challenge or remove books from schools, provided the memo to The Associated Press last week.After receiving negative press, the district backed off slightly from an across-the-board ban, clarifying that it primarily applied to elementary and middle schools.The district said that high school libraries could keep non-explicit books with LGBTQ characters and themes in their collections, but could not use any of those books in classroom instruction, according to the investigative journalism website Popular Information.The expansion of the “Parental Rights in Education” law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by critics — passed earlier this year after conservatives said the original 2022 law didn’t go far enough in stopping LGBTQ-themed materials from being accessed by minors.Under the new restrictions, the ban on LGBTQ content was applied to all grades — except in rare instances for some high school biology or health classes.The law also allows any county resident — regardless of whether they have children enrolled in school — to demand the removal of books

must be included on candidates’ signs, on mailers, and in television ads, in order to inform voters of who, or which entities, are sponsoring or funding certain political messages.According to the statute, a candidate or candidate campaign committee that seeks to air a television advertisement must include a “visual legend” constituting “20 scan lines in size” in the ad reading, “Paid for by [name of the candidate or campaign committee sponsoring the ad].”If the ad references another candidate by name — as Woolf’s does, specifically mentioning Roem — the candidate must include a disclosure statement spoken by the sponsoring candidate, saying: “I am” or “This is” followed by their name, the office for which they are running, and disclosing that the candidate or their campaign “paid for this ad.”Because Woolf’s ad lacked notification about the office for which he is running, it technically violated the law. The law does not deal with the content of any ad or mailer.

Younger, in which they starred opposite Hilary Duff and Sutton Foster. Or maybe from Make It or Break It or more recently, The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

Days of Our Lives” is turning up the drama on-screen and off-screen this fall. The long-running soap opera has fans in a complete tizzy after they cut one beloved actress and recast her with an already established cast member. The photos have been released, and fans are not letting this shocking recast go over quietly.“Days of Our Lives” fans have really only ever seen Jen Lilley in the role of legacy character Theresa Donovan.

Music distribution giant UnitedMasters has announced Afrobeats star Davido and groundbreaking Dominican rapper Tokischa as headliners for SelectCon 005, now in its fifth year.

SPOILER ALERT! This contains details from Thursday’s episode of The Golden Bachelor on ABC.

Warning: the following interview contains spoilers about tonight’s first episode of season 2 of Loki

We guess Gaetz-Gate isn’t over after all??

Kendall Jenner’s viral cucumber-cutting incident continues to haunt her!

It sounds like the NFL’s coverage on Taylor Swift is far more strategic than anyone thought.

Exciting news in the Daugherty household!

Harry Styles is stepping out for coffee and an unexpected meeting with a friend!

Sam Heughan is rocking a kilt for his latest appearance!

Joshua Jackson has been spotted out and about amid his divorce from estranged wife Jodie Turner-Smith.

Froy Gutierrez and Madelaine Petsch are starring in the upcoming new The Stranger trilogy and the first look photos have been revealed!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Los Angeles music scene has long had “folk music,” in its many permutations and offshoots, as a key part of the famous sounds the city has been most often associated with. But a festival with that as part of the moniker and definition? Not so often, though some locals with long memories will remember a Troubadours of Folk Festival at UCLA in 1993 that included everyone from Joni Mitchell to the Folksmen.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Wondering whether there will be more seasons or episodes of the Max animated series “Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake”? So is executive producer Adam Muto. “It’s in discussion,” Muto told Variety last week at the SCAD Animation Fest in Atlanta. “But the person who greenlit the first season is no longer at Max.” The future of “Fionna and Cake,” and the “Adventure Time” franchise as a whole, is still in the brainstorming phase, Muto said.

Valerie Wu editor Rapper and entertainment mogul Snoop Dogg will perform at the Baby2Baby Gala on Nov. 11 in Los Angeles.

Steven J. Horowitz Jason Derulo has been sued by an artist he was courting to work with his Future History label. Emaza Gibson filed the suit earlier Thursday in Los Angeles, alleging quid pro quo sexual harassment, breach of contract and intimidation and violence in violation of the Ralph Civil Rights Act, among other complaints.

Keith Jefferson, whose acting credits included Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the about-to-debut The Burial, has died of cancer at 53. Jefferson announced on Instagram Aug. 9 that he had been diagnosed with the disease.

William Earl The Newport Beach Film Festival has added a screening of “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” to its Fashion Island main stage line-up. The screening on Sunday, Oct. 15 will include a Q&A with author Judy Blume, writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig and producers James L.

Valerie Wu editor Elsie Choi, a film and TV development veteran who has worked for such producers as Dan Lin and Bruce Willis, has joined Los Angeles-based CJ ENM America as executive VP and head of scripted TV. CJ ENM is a South Korean entertainment company that has produced content such as Oscar-winning film “Parasite” and popular Korean fantasy drama series “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.” Among the company’s recent productions are the romantic drama “Past Lives” with A24. It’s also the company behind the annual KCON Korean pop culture conference and concerts held in downtown Los Angeles in August.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Last week, “The Golden Bachelor” premiered, launching a new twist on an old franchise that has everyone talking. The show premiered to strong ratings, with 7.7 million viewers watching on ABC, in delayed viewing and streaming on Hulu, delivering the strongest debut performance from a “Bachelor” series in three years.

Schools, hospitals and a theatre in Greater Manchester have been identified as having dangerous crumbling concrete. Councils and social housing providers across the region are checking their estates for signs of the problem.

Work has begun on several Greater Manchester schools affected by dangerous crumbly concrete as 'mitigating measures' are put in place.

Hundreds of UK schools could be built with dangerous 'crumbly concrete,' according to a government minister.