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Back in early April, during the fan-focused Star Wars Celebration, many folks were expecting clarity regarding the future of the “Star Wars” franchise on the big screen. For years prior, there were reports of films that were in development, but then we’d get other news about drama behind the scenes, directors coming and going, and general disarray at Lucasfilm.

feature, through which you can send a snap to the app’s AI and it’ll send one back, custom-generated and tailored toward whatever you initially sent.For example, if you send the AI a snap of your homegrown tomatoes, it’ll send you a pic of gazpacho and offer up a recipe for you to try out.As the name of the feature implies, this is an image-based evolution of the recently launched My AI feature for Snapchat, which introduced a chatbot to the Snapchat experience. Now, you no longer need a human in the mix for image exchanges.

T.O.P has said that he has “withdrawn” as a member of K-pop boyband Big Bang.On May 29, T.O.P uploaded a video of him playing around with a music workstation, seemingly hinting that he is currently working on new solo music.Fans soon flooded the post with questions for the South Korean musician over the next two days. “[T.O.P] did you leave Big Bang?” one fan asked earlier today (May 31).T.O.P has since responded to the question, saying that he is has “already withdrawn” from the iconic K-pop boyband.

Austin Hill crossed the finish line yesterday (30 May) in his month-long trek. The seven-year-old has walked a mile or more every day in May in memory of his dad, Mark.

This Morning star Josie Gibson came close to a 'traumatic' wardrobe malfunction on today's episode (May 31), as part of her costume came apart. While dressed up as a mermaid to promote Disney's new live-action remake of The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey and Javier Bardem, the 38-year-old's 'bra' fell off.

Netflix has announced the release date of Black Mirror season six, including the titles of five new episodes.

When it comes to picking standout performers from the Premier League season it's hard to ignore Casemiro at Manchester United and Manchester City striker Erling Haaland.

Family fun! Allison Holker was joined by her three children at the premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Directed by Alex Holmes, “The Last Rider” offers offers an intimate look at the inspiring true story of Greg LeMond, the cyclist who is the first and to-date only American to win the Tour de France. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions, “The Last Rider” chronicles the career of the three-time Tour victor, and two-time Road World Race Championship winner.

Eamonn Holmes has slammed Phillip Schofield and his former employer ITV in an interview with Dan Wootton on GB News.

felt a great disturbance in the force on a special “Star Wars”-themed “Wheel of Fortune” Tuesday night.Contestants were light-years away from solving a rather self-explanatory puzzle in the category of “fun and games” during the Galactic Celebration episode.Word smithers Christopher, Kate and Adura all lacked the wisdom of Master Yoda when it came time to guess the proper response of “camping outside a movie theater” — despite almost every word in the puzzle being nearly spelled out already, according to The Sun.Audra — sporting a bounty hunter style jacket — wrongly guessed it as “gaming outside the movie theater” in a bigger tragedy than that of Darth Plagueis the Wise.“What an interesting group,” Sajak said during the new, hopeless episode.Eventually, it was the Princess Leia bun-wearing Kate who brought balance to the force by correctly solving the puzzle.Regardless, the Internet blasted Audra for missing a mark wider than Beggar’s Canyon.“Adura is having one of those episodes.

A video of the falling star amassed over 7.4 million views on TikTok as fans expressed concern over the “Dancing in the Dark” singer’s safety.Springsteen, 73, and the E Street Band were launching their hit song “Ghosts” at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam.Things took a turn after the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer attempted to walk up the stage stairs with a guitar around his neck, and ended up tripping and falling to the floor as fans gasped. The “If I Should Fall Behind” crooner lay on his back for several seconds and bandmates immediately rushed over and helped him stand back up.carefull bruce #brucespringsteen #brucespringsteentour2023 #johancruijffarena #amsterdam #foryou Thankfully, it appeared Springsteen wasn’t hurt during his impromptu stage dive as he rose to his feet with a smile and quipped, “Good night, everybody.” The multi-Grammy winner then finished the concert like a champ.

Choosy Eddie Howe is adamant the next phase of his Newcastle rejuvenation project will only include players who meet his lofty signing threshold.

Jodie Marsh has hit back at Phillip Schofield, seven years after he made a cheeky dig at her on Twitter.

Last year saw the worst 12 month period for wage growth in half a century as many continue to battle against the cost of living crisis.

2023 Railbird Festival.On June 3-4, over 30 (!) acts are coming to Lexington, KY’s The Red Mile including mega headliners like Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers, Weezer, Marcus Mumford and Sheryl Crow.Whiskey Myers, Jenny Lewis, The Head and the Heart, Nathaniel Rateliff and Charley Crockett will be there too.Plus, bourbon.Lots and lots of bourbon.In addition to the aforementioned music icons, festival goers will also be treated to hand-selected barrels from Kentucky’s best distilleries chosen by Justin Sloan and Justin Thompson aka the owners of Lexington’s Justins’ House of Bourbon.The most exciting news of all though might be that last-minute tickets are still available for the multi-day music extravaganza.At the time of publication, two-day general admission passes were going for $930 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $289 before fees.Want to take part in the fun all weekend long?Here’s everything you need to know and more about the 2023 Railbird Festival.All prices are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of the lowest single and multi-day ticket prices can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

A farmer created a 1.5km picture of rugby legend Doddie Weir in a field.

Sam Heughan is best known to many as Jamie Fraser in the hit TV show Outlander but before his rise to fame, he starred in various other productions.

The clue, which was in the “Literary Groups” category, read: “Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th-century literary group this name.”The answer was, “What is the Lake Poets?” Two-day champion Diandra D’Alessio, Nathan Dennis and Ilhana Redzovic all guessed incorrectly.Contestants on the game show were stumped by the question, but fans of Swift were pointing out that they knew the answer thanks to the singer.Swift, 33, has a song called “The Lakes,” which is about going to the Lake District with her “muse” and leaving the rest of the world behind, on the deluxe version of her eighth studio album “Folklore.”Lyrics to the bonus track include: “Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die / I don’t belong, and my beloved, neither do you” and “Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry / I’m setting off, but not without my muse.”The song references both the sites and poets that were part of the Final Jeopardy question and answer, and Swifties took to Twitter to share their knowledge.“Me swearing up and down for some reason I know the jeopardy final clue. And can’t figure out why…Taylor swift is why,” one person tweeted.

Foo Fighters headlined the opening night of the new Washington D.C. venue The Atlantis and performed rare live track ‘New Way Home’ last night (May 30).The Atlantis – a new 450-person capacity replica venue of the original 9:30 Club – opened yesterday with the Foos taking the stage.According to Consequence of Sound, the band’s set began with frontman Dave Grohl reuniting with Pete Stahl, his old bandmate in the D.C.

Unless you’ve been living under a pop culture rock for the last couple of months, you’ll know that Disney’s live-action adaptation of the 1989 classic, The Little Mermaid has just dropped in cinemas. Everywhere. Starring Halle Bailey as Ariel, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, there was no holding back on any aspect of this film.

Next week will see Corrie's troubled teen Max Turner get an early release from the secure training centre (STC), but he isn't all too happy about leaving there. But when Max returns to the cobles and tries to put his wrongs right he soon learns that his efforts are in vain and it won't be that easy. Max was lonely and vulnerable and street newbie Griff Reynolds groomed the young lad, with Max then spreading his racist agenda across Weatherfield.

Married At First Sight's outback tradie Cam Woods revealed some horrifying truths on his Instagram stories that left fans shocked. Answeting questions on social media, the star from the Australian series revealed some never-heard-before stories including one about a disastrous date with his then-wife Lyndall.The date, which was planned and organised by Lyndall Grace, caused controversy and drama on social media when the backstory to it was revealed by Cam. At first he fondly recalls a romantic fishing trip date in Sydney Harbour for his birthday after a fan asked the best moment that we didn't see on TV.

TikTok truly is the number one resource for dupes, inspiration, and of course, hacks, but the latest lip-plumping hack is not for the faint hearted. On the eternal quest for tricks and tips to get fuller, plumper lips without having to resort to lip filler, TikTokers have been looking high and low for a new product to help give their pout more volume, and now they seem to have turned to their vegetable drawer for answers.The latest hack of the moment is using jalapeño peppers as a lipstick, and rubbing it all over your lips to try and encourage swelling and plumping.

Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are continuing to enjoy each other’s company without the pressure of any formal labels. According to a source close to the 25-year-old The Kardashians star, she and the actor, 27, continue to spend time together whenever they are both in Los Angeles.

Zara and Mike Tindall left some flight passengers rather surprised as they arrived to take their seats in economy class, after they jetted back from Monaco Grand Prix. The low-key royals were snapped storing their baggage in the overhead compartment as they took their seats alongside everyone else on their way back to the UK. Dressed casually for the flight Zara, 42, tied her hair back in small bun and donned a light blue blazer, which she accessorised with a watch and a pair of bracelets.

Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops this nugget early on while sitting at the company’s Santa Monica headquarters for his first extensive interview since 2012. It’s a Friday afternoon in mid-April, which means the office is mostly deserted. Huge replicas of characters and actual backdrops from the video game giant’s roster of franchises — including Call of Duty, Diablo, Overwatch and Candy Crush — dot the landscape of the open-architecture space. The quiet in the building and the low midafternoon light give the place a slightly spooky, fun house vibe. “We’d take their IP and turn it into games. They’d take our IP and turn it into film and television, and we’d have an extraordinary company,” Kotick says, sketching out his vision for a deal in an alternate universe in which AT&T never bought Time Warner and Activision took it on instead. In reality, the Justice Department lost its lawsuit to block the sale of Time Warner to AT&T. But during the first half of 2018, when the fate of the $85.4 billion Time Warner purchase hung in the balance, Activision Blizzard took a cue from its “Call of Duty” commandos: It stockpiled financial ammunition and waited patiently for an opening to pounce.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor The writers of “Kimberly Akimbo” tell a story about the musical’s creation that feels as if it could be a scene in the show itself. Like the Tony-nominated production, now up for eight awards including best musical, it’s a tale that lands right in the overlap of humor and heartache. In the summer of 2017, just before composer Jeanine Tesori and bookwriter-lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire were scheduled to spend two weeks developing the first act of “Kimberly Akimbo” at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Tesori had a cerebral hemorrhage. She was in the ICU for 11 days, the Tony-winning composer (“Fun Home”) recalled. She missed the entire first week of the show’s time at Sundance.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor In its heyday, “ER” would keep about 75 background actors on hand per episode to be called up as needed to fill out scenes in hospital corridors and whatnot. On Tuesday, about 75 “ER” alumni filled the sidewalks outside the show’s old studio on Olive Avenue in Burbank. Writers, actors and crew members who worked on the beloved NBC drama series rallied behind the Writers Guild of America on Day 29 of the strike called against Hollywood’s major employers. Many of those who gathered for the “ER” reunion-themed picket on the day after the Memorial Day holiday weekend were emotional about what “ER” represented in their professional careers. It’s an apt symbol for the WGA strike because “ER” is the kind of long-running scripted series that television networks don’t seem to make anymore.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Responding to an increasingly global demand for Japanese pop culture, the Kodansha comic book publishing firm is to debut a web version of K Manga, its recently-launched U.S. serialization app. The storied firm will mark the launch of the ‘browser version’ of K Manga with a June 22 online party that is held in Japan, but hosted in English and targets manga (comics) and anime (animation) fans in the U.S. With a theme of “The Stories Behind the Stories,” the event will take multiple behind-the-scenes peeks at manga production and include fan greetings from more than a dozen manga creators.

Thania Garcia It’s official: Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival will be returning to Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on November 11 and 12. A limited number of advance sale passes will be available starting June 2 at 12 p.m. PT while supplies last at http://www.campfloggnaw.com. The lineup for the 2023 event will be announced at a later date. NOVEMBER 11th and 12th: https://t.co/E8a5h3ROLJ pic.twitter.com/TCPVxgabRC The festival has been on hiatus since 2019, a decision that came as a result of the pandemic — and the increase of festivals post-pandemic — along with the rapper’s hectic touring schedule. The event included performances from Solange, YG, FKA twigs, Juice WRLD, Brockhampton, H.E.R., Daniel Caesar, and surprise guest Drake — who was booed offstage by a crowd that was expecting Frank Ocean.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director For Harrison Ford, the allure of reprising Indiana Jones for a fifth time in the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” was all about time. Ford will celebrate his 81st birthday in July, just a few weeks after “Dial of Destiny” opens in theaters, which is not the typical age of your 2023 Hollywood action hero. That was a selling point for Ford, who told Esquire magazine that he ensured Indiana Jones looked and felt like an old man in “Dial of Destiny.” “I wanted an ambitious movie to be the last one,” Ford said about reprising Indiana Jones. “And I don’t mean that we didn’t make ambitious movies before — they were ambitious in many different ways. But not necessarily as ambitious with the character as I wanted the last one to be.”

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Marco Bellocchio’s drama “Kidnapped” that reconstructs the true tale of a Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Rome, has opened strongly in Italy following its Cannes launch. The revered Italian auteur’s film about Edgardo Mortara, who in 1858 was taken away from his family in Bologna to live in the Vatican – after it surfaced that the boy secretly been baptized a Christian – has also sparked debate and prompted the Vatican to comment the abduction for which Pope Pius IX has been held responsible. “Kidnapped” over the weekend bowed in third place at the Italian box office, placing itself after “The Little Mermaid” and “Fast X” and pulling a handsome more than €550,000 ($587,000) intake to date from roughly 300 screens.

Not there for the No. 1 guy in the group? A Vanderpump Rules fan was reportedly escorted out of Tom Sandoval‘s recent concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after showing support for Ariana Madix.

Naman Ramachandran A first teaser has been unveiled for Canadian filmmaker Pier-Philippe Chevigny’s debut feature “Temporaries” (“Richelieu”), which will bow at the Tribeca Festival followed by the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and Fantasia International Film Festival. The film follows Ariane (Ariane Castellanos), who moves back home to the Richelieu Valley after a breakup and gets a job as an interpreter for seasonal migrant workers in a factory. Witnessing workplace abuses perpetrated by Stephane (Marc-André Grondin), the factory’s aggressive supervisor, Ariane must decide how far she is willing to go to speak out against injustice. Chevigny grew up in the Richelieu Valley in Quebec and observing migrant workers there informed the film. “My first feature aims to question the image of Canada as a perfect, injustice-free country. Launching at Tribeca, Karlovy Vary and Fantasia matters because it gives the weight of international attention to that criticism: it’s harder to ignore the noise when the rest of the world is showing concern,” Chevigny told Variety.

share one thing in common, and that is a passionate love for the warm summer months. The actor is celebrating the start of summer 2023 with a series of topless bikini pics on Instagram (which is where our resemblance ends).Hudson uploaded a carousel of snapshots to her IG on May 30, some of which show her in a thong bikini bottom and no top, taken outside a home pool. In one, she's hiding her breasts behind a book and another shows Hudson from behind.