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By Timour Azhari Oct 4 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is set to cancel next year's Joy Awards, its star-studded answer to the Oscars or the Grammys, as financial strain and the Iran war hit the country's nascent entertainment sector, two people with knowledg...

By Michaela Cabrera PARIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Exiled Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev takes on Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine in "Minotaur", a drama about conscription and moral compromise released nearly five years after Moscow launched its full-s...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Victoria Beckham unveiled slinky dresses, wide-legged trousers and roomy handbags in her spring/summer 2027 show at ​Paris Fashion Week on Friday. Models wore ‌oversized suits in green and blue tones with broad, p...

Oct 2 (Reuters) - Disney agreed to license a slate of movies and TV shows to Netflix, including ​existing "Ice Age" films as well as "Percy ‌Jackson and the Olympians" and "Will Trent" series, the companies said on Friday. Here are some more details: •...

By Anzar Mehraj Oct 2 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison on Friday said upon closing the company's merger with Warner Bros Discovery, the combined entity will be called Skydance. The move was ​aimed at maintaining separate identities of t...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - "Are we rolling?" the AI likeness of Hollywood 1930s movie star Greta Garbo lilts, in an unlikely advert for Swedish ball-bearings maker SKF. The advert has sparked debate, praise and ridicule, but underscores how ​sophisti...

By Deborah Mary Sophia and Neil J Kanatt Oct 1 (Reuters) - David Ellison's choice of Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz as his co-captain at the new Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery signals what the media behemoth will care about most: running a lean, cost-efficient...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli showed colourful tailoring and minimalist sneakers in his Summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday, a year ​on from his debut for the brand he is ‌se...

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Supermodel Naomi Campbell won her appeal on Thursday against a five-year ban from being a charity trustee, with a London tribunal ruling that the misuse of funds ​at the charity she founded had been concealed from her. Campbel...

MOSCOW, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Two concerts by US rapper Kanye West in Russia that had been scheduled for October have been cancelled, the show's organiser, Say ​Agency, said. West, who is also known as Ye, ‌had been due to perform in St Petersburg. However...

By Jody Godoy Sept 30 (Reuters) - A US judge entered an order on Wednesday allowing Paramount to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros, ending a months-long holdup, as the company named Mattel's Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO to help ​run the combine...

By Neil J Kanatt Sept 30 (Reuters) - Mattel's longtime CEO Ynon Kreiz, who led the toymaker's transformation into a broader entertainment company, is stepping down and will join Paramount Skydance as co-CEO following its $110 billion Warner ​Bros deal....

VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) - An Austrian man convicted of planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 lost a privacy lawsuit against ​Disney on Wednesday over the fact his parents' ‌home was shown in the docu-series "Taylor Swif...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Walt Disney is laying off a few hundred employees across human resources and technology departments, a ​source familiar with the matter ‌told Reuters on Tuesday. Disney has seen several C-suite changes since Josh D'Amaro took charge...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Dior creative director Jonathan Anderson showed metallic trousers, structured jackets and sheer feathered skirts in Paris on Tuesday, one year ​on from his womenswear debut at the storied ‌Parisian brand owned b...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Spotify and Anthropic's Claude recovered after brief outages ​in the US ‌on Tuesday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. The Spotify outage began around 9:30 a.m. ‌ET, ​with user-reported ⁠issues peaking at ⁠more ...

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Britain's Channel 4 has ruled out merging with the BBC but is open ​to sharing content on the ‌BBC's iPlayer streaming service, the broadcaster's chief executive Priya Dogra told the Royal Television Society's London Convent...

By Ryan Patrick Jones TORONTO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Three generations of an Armenian-Christian family were driving home in Baghdad in April 2003 when US Marines in a firefight with Iraqi forces fired on their cars, killing three men. Almost ​a decade la...

By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Florence Pugh says the new adaptation of "East of Eden" invites audiences to view Cathy, one of American literature's most notorious villains, under a more sympathetic light. The actor, who plays Cathy...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Maxhosa Africa creative director Laduma Ngxokolo unveiled a collection that celebrated pan-Africanism on Monday, as his label became the first South African brand to stage a full ​runway show on the official Par...