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Entertainment Harvey Weinstein’s retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at rape and sexual assault allegations levied against the Hollywood producer — plus a newly added claim from a former model. Five years after his original conviction, which was overturned in 2024, Weinstein is being retried on criminalContinue Reading

Entertainment TVO’s flagship current affairs program is coming to an end after 19 seasons. Veteran host Steve Paikin will co-host a weekly political podcast. Paikin will stay with TVO as co-host of the weekly political podcast #onpoli Alex Nino Gheciu · CBC News · Posted: Apr 22, 2025 4:27 PMContinue Reading

Entertainment The fifth season of the Christian series The Chosen outperformed expectations, and saw its first three parts premiere in theatres to a combined total of more than $36 million US, helping cement religious programming as an appetizing genre for studios and audiences alike. Wave of Christian programming is changing tenorContinue Reading

Entertainment The internet’s favourite killer AI doll is back, and this time, movie audiences can slide into M3GAN’s DMs via chatbot technology. These and other interactive experiences that let viewers step into fictional worlds, like Lumon Industries from AppleTV’s Severance, are immersive marketing strategies experts say can help build engagementContinue Reading

Entertainment A U.S. judge on Friday denied music mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs’s bid to delay his upcoming sex-trafficking trial by two months. Singer, record exec faces 5 criminal counts, including racketeering and sex traffickingThomson Reuters · Posted: Apr 18, 2025 12:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 18 Music mogulContinue Reading

Despite its current stunning critical reception, Sinners is not perfect. The Ryan Coogler-directed, Michael B. Jordan-acted, action-musical-vampire-romance flick is perhaps a bit over-ambitious in trying to tackle its final genre: social satire and critique.  But even for its small faults, it is also something else: in short, an incredible, best-of-the-year achievement.Continue Reading

Entertainment Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new Star Wars film that will reach movie theatres in May 2027, Walt Disney’s Lucasfilm announced on Thursday. The film’s events will take place 5 years after 2019’s The Rise of SkywalkerThomson Reuters · Posted: Apr 18, 2025 5:59 AM EDT |Continue Reading

Entertainment Drake has expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more people were duped into believing he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us at the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards. Lawsuit amended after Lamar’s halftime performance of Not Like Us Thomson ReutersContinue Reading

Entertainment Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor known for roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harriet the Spy, died as a result of complications from diabetes, New York City’s medical examiner said Wednesday. The 39-year-old died in February in her Manhattan homeThe Associated Press · Posted: Apr 17, 2025 11:23 AMContinue Reading