BABYMETAL have released a collaborative new single featuring Poppy – listen to ‘From Me To U’ below.The song will appear on the Japanese kawaii metal band’s fifth studio album ‘Metal Forth’, which is due to arrive on June 13 via Capitol Records (pre-order/pre-save here).Speaking about their thunderous, post-hardcore new track, the group described ‘From Me To U’ as “a kawaii metal song [that] was born from a collaboration between BABYMETAL and Poppy”.They added: “Check out Poppy’s shouts and BABYMETAL’s dance in the Neo Tokyo setting! Kawaii is sprinkled throughout the intense sound! Kimi ni todoke!”Poppy explained: “I have been a fan of BABYMETAL for years and I am so happy for this song to finally be here! They have inspired me so much, enjoy ‘From Me To U’!”The single is accompanied by a high-concept official video, starring Poppy. It also sees BABYMETAL unleash their signature choreography among “a futuristic world teetering on the edge of destruction”.Towards the end of the visuals, Poppy makes an explosive transformation into a dragon – emerging amongst the surrounding fire and carnage, as BABYMETAL dance their way through the disaster.
four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled, “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” the newest Beatles book delves into the music industry’s most iconic songwriting duo, whose tumultuous relationship has long been defined by an intensity and complexity that inevitably seeped into their music.
Matt Minton [emailprotected] In the years since Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history with “Parasite”s best picture victory in 2020, the Korean director’s fanbase continued to grow and evolve around the world. And with the recent release of his capitalistic satire “Mickey 17” starring Robert Pattinson, the time feels right to celebrate his genre-defying work over the years.
Will Smith is heading out on the road!
Oscars 2025 weekend.The private couple had a date night at Chanel and Charles Finch’s annual pre-Oscars dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge on Saturday.Jagger, 81, and Hamrick, 37, posed on the red carpet where they showed off their respective outfits. The Rolling Stones musician wore a pink bomber jacket with a grey sweater, teal pants, and black sneakers.
“94WIP Morning Show With DeCamara & Ritchie” on Tuesday that he’s rooting against Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs at the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday.“I am hoping to see Taylor Swift cry,” Rapaport said. “I want to see if her mascara can hold up after a ginormous loss.”He added, “And we know she loves her man when he’s winning, but will she still ride with him when he takes a ginormous loss?”Swift’s boyfriend, 35, is playing against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX this coming weekend.
scandalous stunt on the 67th Grammy Awards red carpet may have cost him an eye-popping $20 million international concert deal.The controversial rapper, 47, inked a deal to perform twice at the Tokyo Dome in May, however after causing a stir on music’s biggest night with his wife’s nude antics, the bosses financing his deals are now strongly reconsidering, the Daily Mail reports.“The investors in Japan who are backing the concerts are extremely upset by this. It is highly likely that they will pull the funding for the shows,” a source told the outlet, saying the so-called stunt “has been greeted with horror in Japan.”The insider explained that Japan is currently experiencing “a cultural awakening about women’s rights,” noting that “what he did is being seen as an act of coercive control, which is utterly unacceptable.”“He has completely culturally misjudged Japan,” the source went on.
The 2025 Grammys are airing tonight (Sunday, February 2), and plenty of people are placing their bets for the winners of the ceremony’s major categories.
Karol G has announced that she will be teaming up with Netflix to release a documentary in 2025.According to a tweet made by the streaming giant today (December 30), a documentary spanning the Colombian superstar’s life and career will be hitting the service next year. As reported by Billboard, Emmy Award-winning director and producer Cristina Costantini will helm the project.Karol G took to her official Instagram account to share the news with her fans in a post that featured a photo of a note that read: “A story born from dreams that seemed impossible, fueled by unwavering faith.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is starring in “Beba from 5 to 9.” The short film marks writer and acclaimed music video director Dano Cerny‘s narrative debut. Rodriguez portrays Beba, a Puerto Rican hospice nurse, as she “navigates a day that will test her resilience and redefine her outlook on life,” reads the film’s logline.
Linkin Park have announced a ‘From Zero’ concert film that’s set to hit cinemas sometime in 2025.The recently reformed nu-metal band – now led by vocalist Emily Armstrong alongside Mike Shinoda – performed in São Paulo, Brazil to launch their new record ‘From Zero’. During the show – which was partially livestreamed on the band’s YouTube channel – the band announced that they were filming the gig for a concert film.A release date for the film has yet to be announced.
Naman Ramachandran A series adaptation of Tawada Yoko’s award-winning novel “The Last Children of Tokyo” is being developed as an international co-production between Japan’s NHK and Taiwan’s Betula Films and Flash Forward Entertainment, with principal photography targeted for spring 2026. The project, directed by Edmund Yeo, who won best director at the Tokyo International Film Festival for “We, the Dead,” takes place in a dystopian Japan where the elderly have stopped ageing, but children face early mortality.
Tokyo International Film Festival and its accompanying TIFFCOM industry event might have been forgiven for being a little soggy. But spirits were rarely dampened.
Naman Ramachandran A feature debut exploring The Philippines‘ underground punk scene and social activism is participating at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, which is part of the Tokyo International Film Festival‘s TIFFCOM market. “Ria,” directed by award-winning short filmmaker Arvin Belarmino, centers on 25-year-old Ria, who lives in a punk commune facing demolition while caring for her diabetic foster mother. Working as a hotel housekeeper, she becomes entangled in underground porn operations as financial pressures mount.
We likely will not be seeing Zach Bryan at the Grammys in 2025 because he has been left off the awards ballot.
Matlock.The star, who made her breakthrough in the 1990s movie Misery, confirmed she plans to retire in an interview with the New York Times.“This is my last dance,” she said of the new show which is a reboot of the eighties drama.“Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it,” she added. “And it’s exhausting.”Over the years she appeared in American Horror Story, Two And A Half Men, Six Feet Under, The Office and Netflix’s two-season-long 2017 sitcom Disjointed.Playing nurse Annie Wilkes in Misery won her a Golden Globe award as well as the Oscar for Best Actress, and she won a second Golden Globe for playing Jay Leno’s manager Helen Kushnick in The Late Shift.“I never felt dressed right or well,” she said reflecting on breakthrough role in Misery. “I felt like a misfit.
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Tee (Chicago Med, Expats) is set to produce the anthology limited series The Scapegoat. The project is currently being shopped around to streamers and premium cablers.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief TIFFCOM, the rights market that sits alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival, is celebrating its return to an in-person format for the first time since 2019, with a move to another venue and the launch of the new Tokyo Story Market. The three-day market (Oct. 25-27) will relocate from Ikkebukuro to the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center (aka Hamamatsucho-Kan) in Hamamatsucho district.
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.
Simone Biles captured her first world title in 2013, and the gymnastics star is still on top.On Sunday, the 26-year-old newlywed earned her eighth U.S. Championship, posting an all-around two-day total of 118.40, four points clear of runner-up Shilese Jones. Florida junior Leanne Wong claimed third, bolstering her chances of making a third straight world championship team.The win makes Biles the oldest woman to win a national title since USA Gymnastics began organizing the event in 1963.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Noted Japanese director Ando Momoko (“Kakera: Pieces of Our Life,” “0.5mm”) has been named as the ambassador for this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. She also features, alongside her father Okuda Eiji in the festival’s newly-released poster, which recreates a scene from Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” and in which Okuda and Ando represent the classic film’s Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko characters. The poster image, shot at the rooftop garden of Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo Station in the background, was designed by Koshino Junko, who has created the festival’s key visuals for the past three years.
Kim Kardashian has been making the most of her time on the American Horror Story set — and Us Weekly has exclusive details on her highly anticipated appearance.
As the launch bay door closed on Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney’s Jedi Counsel announced the timing and location of the gathering’s next installment. Fans and talent will next get together and celebrate a galaxy far, far away in a year that may itself seem far away at this point: 2025.
Tim Gray Senior Vice President This year, all the Oscar-contending directors are nominated for original screenplay: the Daniels (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert), Todd Field, Martin McDonagh, Ruben Östlund and Steven Spielberg (writing with Tony Kushner). This is the first time it’s happened in AMPAS history. The only year that came close was 2017, when all five helmers had written or co-written their scripts, though they didn’t all get writing noms. So here’s Film History 101. In Hollywood lore, Preston Sturges is often credited as the first scribe to become a hyphenate, as writer-director of the 1940 “The Great McGinty.” But as with all Hollywood “facts,” there is only an element of truth here.
Molly-Mae Hague has stunned fans with a throwback snap from a decade ago when she looked like Frankie Bridge from girl group The Saturdays.The former Love Island star, 23, was unrecognisable in the old photo from her younger days shared with her 6.4 million followers on Instagram. Instead of her trademark long blonde locks, the 13-year-old Molly-Mae pictured in the Story post on Sunday sported a cropped brunette cut.
Laura Whitmore has announced some exciting career news recently, with the 37 year old revealing that she's set to make her West End debut later this year. The TV host will star in 2:22 A Ghost Story in London's West End and will play a character called Jenny, in a move which hugely differs to her usual presenting gigs.
BreAnna Bell Netflix has ordered Kathleen Jordan’s period soap drama “The Decameron” with Jenji Kohan executive producing under her overall deal with the streamer.The eight episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOrganizers of the Asian Contents & Film Market, the industry section operated in parallel with the Busan International Film Festival, have underlined their commitment to hold the market as an in-person event this October.The Asian film industry had recently witnessed rumors that the Busan market would be staying as an online-only event, as it was in 2020 and 2021, during the height of the COVID pandemic.“To clarify, the Asian Contents & Film Market 2022 WILL be held in person, andin full capacity, for the first time in three years,” Busan market organizers said in a statement emailed to Variety. “[We] assume the misunderstanding arose from the news of cancellation of a different event that was scheduled to be held during the same period at the same location.” Last week, it was announced that the Cine Korea convention that was to have run Oct.
Police are urgently trying to trace a teenager who has been reported missing from his home in Renfrewshire for two days.
Manifesting! Sarah Paulson dished on which Real Housewives star she would play in a heartbeat on the big screen.
Mercury News.McCorquodale, who is the wife of former Democratic state Senator Dan McCorquodale, had earned a whopping $2.45 million in grants since 2009 by writing the aforementioned history book as well as grant applications. The executives awarded her the no-bid contracts as she was “uniquely qualified to do the work.”However, Santa Clara County investigators became suspicious of the star scribe after Mercury News claimed that a fifth of her 580-age opus — which was submitted two years late in January — was lifted nearly “word for word” from Wikipedia, the History Channel, Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation website, and even, somewhat ironically, the Mercury News.
Netflix’s FYSEE Space’s opening night ATAS panel on Sunday night showcased Shondaland’s Bridgerton season 2 and revealed big news about Season 3.
Emily Longeretta Netflix’s “Bridgerton” is skipping ahead. Season 3 of the period drama based on Julia Quinn’s books will follow the Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) love story, Coughlan revealed during Sunday’s FYSEE panel.The first two seasons followed the first two novels; Season 1 focused on Daphne Bridgerton’s (Phoebe Dynevor) love story with Simon (Regé-Page Jean), while the second dove into Anthony Bridgerton’s (Jonathon Bailey) romance with Kate (Simone Ashley).While the third book zones in on Benedict Bridgerton’s love life, that season will likely be pushed to a later date with the fourth book’s subject, Penelope, moved up.During the Season 2 finale of “Bridgerton,” Penelope overheard Colin, who she has been interested in for years, say that he would never marry her.
Blac Chyna’s mom, Tokyo Toni, has been banned from the courtroom in her daughter’s civil trial after a social media rant aimed at Kris Jenner came to light Monday night. Of course, it followed the first day of jury selection in the ongoing litigation battle between the famous family and Rob Kardashian’s ex-partner and baby momma.
Making a judgement. Blac Chyna‘s mother, Tokyo Toni, has been barred from court after going on a rant against the Kardashian family amid the model’s ongoing lawsuit against them.
FromSoftware employees have reported poor wages and working conditions with issues stemming back to over a decade ago.First spotted by TheGamer, the reports were posted on popular job board, Career Connection.The developer currently has a rating of 2.6 out of 5.0 stars on the site. Employees rated the company 2.2 for job satisfaction, 1.9 for compensation, and 2.6 for stress management.
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