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Hong Kong movie icon Tony Leung, now in the fourth decade of his celebrated career, still hasn’t lost the habit of getting out to the movie theater.

“Even to this day, I go and watch movies at the cinema four or five times a week,” the actor said Tuesday at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where he is serving as the president of the event’s competition jury. “I’ve been doing this since I was small.”

But the actor — beloved by cineastes for his work in Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, and Zhang Yimou’s Hero, among so many others — said judging movies during a film festival makes for a “totally different” viewing experience and that tends to leave him anxious.

Leung is joined on the Tokyo jury this year by fellow Hong Kong film titan Johnnie To, Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi,...

Hong Kong film industry veteran and longtime assistant director Albert Mak directed a few films back in 2000 with his last solo directing effort being “Forget Me Not” (2010). However, he is also known as an associate director to filmmaker Johnnie To in the film “Drug War” (2012). Released during the Chinese New Year 2024, Mak returns as director in the wacky comedy action heist film “Rod N Roll” which is just perfect for the occasion.

Taxi driver Robby (Gordon Lam Ka Tung) lives in a small apartment with his frustrated pregnant wife and his nagging mother. Unreliable and timid, loser Robby lives day to day and avoids the conflicts at home. On the other hand, his good friend Fai (Richie Jen) is an honest man who runs a small elderly home business. But he is forever in financial trouble and the recent rent increase makes his life even more difficult. Nonetheless, these two middle-aged men are kind,...

The full competition jury for the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival has been revealed.

On Friday, festival organizers announced that Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To, Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi, Japanese actress Ai Hashimoto and French actress Chiara Mastroianni will be members of the 2024 main competition jury alongside previously announced jury president Tony Leung.

To, like Leung a legend of Hong Kong cinema, is famed the world over for his action and crime films. The veteran and prolific filmmaker’s credits include Breaking News, Exiled, Mad Detective, Drug War and the Election films (Election, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election). To, a regular feature of the international film festival circuit, has had six films screen at the Cannes Film Festival, two in competition, as well as had four films selected to compete at the Venice Film Festival.

Enyedi is best known for writing and directing the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul,...

Exclusive: Multi-hyphenate actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter has signed with Gersh for representation.

Walter, one of the stars of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Abbott Elementary, has earned a Peabody award and shares a SAG award for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on the show which is entering its fourth season. Her other credits include creator and star of ABC’s Life’s Work comedy and a starring role in Breaking News. She also has appeared on shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Las Vegas, Nip/Tuck, Glow, Grey’s Anatomy and 9-1-1. She also created and executive produced Dance Your Ass Off and has won celebrity editions of The Weakest Link and Jeopardy.

Walter’s film work includes The Parent Trap, alongside Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson; Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds; Bruce Almighty, alongside Jim Carrey; and Shall We Dance, alongside Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci.

The anticipation for the 18th season of Bigg Boss continues to grow, with fans eagerly awaiting the return of the Salman Khan-hosted reality show. The show, which has been a staple of Indian television for the past 18 years, has also seen success with its digital version, Bigg Boss Ott. The third season of Bigg Boss Ott premiered on June 21 and is currently hosted by Anil Kapoor.

With the finale of Bigg Boss Ott 3 approaching, excitement is building for Bigg Boss 18. According to Bigg Boss Khabri, there are rumors that the next season is already in the works. The same source reports, “Breaking News! #SalmanKhan to Host #BiggBoss18. Most likely it will start from October 5. Shoaib Ibrahim (Husband of Dipika Kakkar) is the first confirmed contestant.”

Bigg Boss Ott 3: Shiv Sena Leader slams Armaan Malik for spreading ‘vulgarity’

Despite these claims, there has been no official confirmation about Salman...

Eminem couldn’t bury Slim Shady without eulogizing him in some way. The track list for the rapper’s twelfth studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), out July 12, features a few early-career callbacks that nod to his infamous alter ego.

The record features a skit titled “Guess Who’s Back,” one of three interlude-like entries on the 19-song track list. It also includes “Guilty Conscience 2,” the long-awaited follow-up to his Dr. Dre-assisted single “Guilty Conscious” from 1999’s The Slim Shady LP.

Eminem hasn’t listed...

Wayne Brady recently made some funny remarks to his co-star, questioning her role on Let’s Make a Deal.

Announcer Jonathan Mangum and model Tiffany Coyne often participate in some antics to help Wayne make the game show entertaining.

They’ve both appeared with Wayne previously on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a popular show featuring comedic improvisation skits.

On a recent Let’s Make a Deal episode, a contestant tried to determine if she wanted the potential prize behind one of two curtains.

However, she needed some clues from Tiffany and Jonathan to help with her decision, and they helped out during a humorous segment.

Along the way, Wayne couldn’t help but laugh and call out his co-stars over how they acted.

Wayne tells co-star, ‘I don’t even know what you do’ during game show

The June 17 episode of Let’s Make a Deal featured the Breaking News game. Wayne...

Gossip blogger, media personality, author, and podcaster Perez Hilton will make a cameo appearance on General Hospital, as announced by the long-running American soap opera on social media. The show shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Hilton, teasing his upcoming role with the caption, “Breaking News: A very inquisitive guest swung by Port Charles today. We […]

Perez Hilton Joins the Cast of General Hospital in a Cameo Role...

Perez Hilton is adding General Hospital to his acting resume. The gossip blogger, media personality, author, and podcaster is creating a buzz as he secures a guest appearance on ABC daytime drama. General Hospital thrilled fans with the news by sharing a behind-the-scenes photo of Hilton, teasing, “Breaking News: A very inquisitive guest swung by […]

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Many of Michael Jackson‘s posthumously released songs are available on streaming. Three were removed. One member of Jackson’s family questioned their authenticity.

La Toya Jackson said some Michael Jackson songs removed from streaming are fishy

Jackson’s musical legacy is still being felt after his death in major ways. Following his death, the King of Pop’s estate put out two albums of previously unreleased material: 2010’s Michael and 2014’s Xscape. Some of the songs from Michael turned heads due to allegations the vocalist singing them was not Jackson.

According to NPR, Jackson’s sister, La Toya, once sewed seeds of doubt. “I am shocked that things have gotten this far,” she tweeted. “This is ridiculous. I was at the studio when these questionable files were delivered. I heard these ‘so-called’ Michael Jackson songs raw and without the distraction of the well-produced music by Teddy Riley. How they...

The haters are coming for Teresa Giudice after she posed with Taylor Swift at Coachella in a picture that has gone viral.

Taylor and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, caused a frenzy at the annual music festival, with fans hoping to get a shot of them.

It turns out Teresa isn’t just a fan but managed to get Taylor to pose for a picture.

The image was featured on Teresa’s husband, Luis Ruelas, Instagram Stories before it was shared to several Ig accounts.

One of those Instagram accounts was @bravobreakingnews with a caption that read, “Taylor Swift posing with a fan at Coachella...

Amazon MGM Studios has closed a three-year first-look film deal with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories following the rousing success of his movie Road House on Prime Video, which was the most watched original movie for the studio ever with 50 million global viewers in the pic’s first two weeks.

Under the actor’s new deal, Amazon MGM will have a first look on narrative features Nine Stories intends to produce for both theatrical and streaming.

Prior to the Doug Liman-directed Road House, Gyllenhaal made the movie Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant with Amazon MGM. The pic was released last year in theaters.

Oscar- and Tony-nominated Gyllenhaal founded Nine Stories in 2015 with Riva Marker, a fully capitalized production company dedicated to working with visionary storytellers in all fields. Most recently, Nine Stories produced Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty, starring Gyllenhaal, which was Netflix’s No. 1 film for more than three weeks.

Singer and actor Richie Ren is no stranger when it comes to Hong Kong cinema, as he is best known for his stand out performance in Johnnie To's “Breaking News” (2004) and later in “Trivisa” (2015). In “Fierce Cop”, a Mainland online film streaming on Youku video platform is his first venture into the martial arts genre.

Set in country M, somewhere in Southeast Asia, there lives Zhang Tu, a middle aged single parent with a young son, Xiao Jie, who is also a hard working detective. He always asks his boss for a promotion so he can be a better role model for his son who is everything to him. One day, his son comes back from school in pain and covered with bruises, obviously a victim of bullying at school. After finding out that a bunch of young adults are responsible, he sets out to teach them a lesson by beating them up.

Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green have announced that they’ve gotten engaged.

The revelation came on the latest edition of “Oldish”, the podcast that the couple co-host alongside Randy Spelling.

“Of course, I said yes.”

In the episode — titled “Breaking News” — the “Dancing With the Stars” pro and the “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum revealed that they’ve actually been engaged for two months.

According to Green, he popped the question during a surprise birthday 50th birthday party that Burgess threw for him back in July, figuring that “she’d never see it coming.”

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As he’d hoped, Burgess was none the wiser until he called the kids into their bedroom to join them.

“We head into our bedroom and I start to get these feelings of like, ‘Oh my god, this just feels like a moment,...

CNN and CEO Chris Licht came in for ferocious criticism over the chaotic town hall the cable news network held with former president Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Amid his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump sat down with CNN This Morning anchor Kaitlan Collins at the event held in New Hampshire. The 70-minute town hall was populated by mostly Trump supporters and likely Republican voters, and the former president was able to dominate proceedings, overwhelming Collins who tried in vain to correct Trump’s statements and falsehoods about issues including the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a federal abortion ban, immigration and the war in Ukraine.

A particularly shocking exchange occurred over E. Jean Carroll, who had this week been awarded $5 million in damages after a New York jury held Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the writer. Among other things, Trump once again claimed he did not know who Carroll...

Combining intense action with deep, sociopolitical context is quite a hard endeavor, but this is exactly what Johnnie To achieved with “Breaking News” as he deals with the media, apart from one of his trademark themes, gangsters and the police.

After the clash of the police with a band of ruthless criminals led by the ingenious Yuen ends up with a sound defeat of the former, the media are all over the officers of the law, particularly since one of them was caught on camera surrendering to the robbers, and actually being one of the few that manages to survive. Hard-nosed inspector Cheung and his crew are initially tasked with catching the criminals, but as soon as Superintendent Rebecca Fong becomes in charge of the case, she tries to take them off the case, as her purposes are completely different: To promote police work by having the...