Brazilian music festival The Town is standing behind its decision to book Marilyn Manson for its 2027 edition amid longstanding abuse allegations against the singer. Manson was announced alongside Slipknot for the festival’s September 4th opening day in São Paulo. The appearance comes as Manson joins Slipknot on their newly announced “(Sic)est Stadium Tour,” which will also bring the bands to Argentina and Chile. More than a dozen women, including Evan Rachel Wood and Esmé Bianco, have accused Manson of sexual and psychological abuse and other misconduct, allegations he has denied. In January 2025, Los Angeles prosecutors declined to bring…
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Theja Rio’s Angh, set in 1963 Nagaland and centred on an ageing Konyak village chief and his son, has travelled a long way from the filmmaker’s first attempt to tell the story. What began as a short film eventually grew into Rio’s feature directorial debut, and won the Platform Prize at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. The win also made Angh eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category at the 2027 Academy Awards, along with the Marathi film Gondhal. For the filmmaker, the journey to this point began much before Angh, in Kohima, where he grew up…
Netflix’s live-action One Piece has been a huge success for the streamer, turning Eiichiro Oda’s enormous pirate saga into one of its biggest ongoing blockbuster TV show. However, the ambitious live-action series is only one part of Netflix’s plans for One Piece. A completely new anime adaptation, titled The One Piece, is also due in 2027. For Netflix, One Piece isn’t just one show, it’s a fully-fledged streaming franchise. What’s more, One Piece has potential for appeal that stretches far beyond the existing manga fans The One Piece will cater to and the broad subscriber base Netflix has targeted with…
‘Monty Python’ Star Eric Idle Nick Reiner Won’t Get My Sympathy!!! Published September 29, 2026 1:00 AM PDT Play video content Eric Idle has no sympathy for Nick Reiner as he fights to access family money for his murder trial defense … and the reason is deeply personal. We got the “Monty Python” legend out in NYC Monday and asked how he felt about Nick trying to use some of the family’s fortune to pay his attorney. Eric’s answer was short and brutal … “I was the last man probably to talk to his father, so I have no sympathy.”…
Michelle Branch kicked off her sold-out “Everywhere and Back Again Tour” Sunday evening in Seattle at The Showbox with a career-spanning set that celebrated her 25 years in music. Her 21-song set commenced with a rendition of “Drop in the Ocean” before transitioning into “Find Your Way Back” and “Breathe,” a song from her 2003 album Hotel Paper that she has re-envisioned on the soon-to-be released EP Everywhere and Back Again. Her set leaned heavily into Hotel Paper and her breakout 2001 record The Spirit Room, starting with a performance of “You Set Me Free.” Get Michelle Branch Tickets Here…
Ranbir Kapoor is celebrating his 44th birthday today, September 28. The actor marked the occasion with the paparazzi, as he does every year. He first waved to his fans and the paparazzi from the balcony of his home along with Alia Bhatt. Later, he came downstairs to cut the cake and interact with the shutterbugs.Photos and videos that have surfaced on social media show Ranbir cutting multiple cakes and posing for the cameras. Among them was a special birthday cake featuring two cakes shaped like the number 4, placed together to form “44”. Ranbir posed with the cake before cutting…
Netflix’s sci-fi catalog includes quite a few ambitious sci-fi shows. However, when it comes to being bold and wildly experimental, only a few seem to fit the bill. Some of the more mainstream offerings on the streaming service remain relatively straightforward and conventional. One sci-fi masterpiece, though, defies many storytelling rules and even refuses to have dialogue as a narrative device. The Netflix sci-fi show in question is Love, Death and Robots. Considering how the series is an anthology that refuses to confine itself to one genre or visual identity, Love, Death and Robots’s episodes experience many radical shifts in…
‘Saved by the Bell’ Dennis Haskins Dead at 75 Published September 28, 2026 7:23 PM PDT Dennis Haskins, best known for playing Principal Richard Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” has died … TMZ has confirmed. His agent Jay Schachter tells TMZ … “It’s a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding and those of us who got to know Dennis, loved him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans.” His cause of death is currently not yet known. He continued … “He always had time for them, no matter what. He…
This past weekend, Bourbon & Beyond returned to Louisville for another four days of tasty bites, stiff drinks, and great music. A seamless, carefree four days with more genre variance than you might expect, the fest drew thousands and thousands to experience all it has to offer. Plus, they must have bribed the weather gods, because the conditions were absolutely perfect — a true rarity these days! Thursday kicked off the festivities in rockin’ fashion, marked by the hard-hitting, one-two punch of Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters. Each ripped, particularly the former, and helped the gradual transition…
The Income Tax Department conducted searches at several locations in Mumbai on Monday in connection with Bollywood actor and filmmaker-linked entities. According to reports, around 12 locations associated with actress Rakul Preet Singh, veteran producer Vashu Bhagnani and Panorama Studios are being searched. Sources cited in reports said the tax authorities had received information regarding large sums of money allegedly being transferred abroad in connection with film-related activities. The transactions are reportedly linked to expenses claimed under overseas film shoots, international distribution and production. The information has prompted the Income Tax Department to examine the transactions for possible tax evasion…