July 28th, 2025

Entertainment News

Transgender-owned, LGTBQ-run music label Errant Records launches in Canada

By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025

TORONTO — A transgender-owned and LGBTQ-operated record label has launched with goals of supporting “left-of-centre” Canadian musicians. In founding Errant Records, Toronto-raised entertainment lawyer and former music manager Dani Oliva becomes a rare example of an openly transgender executive at a music label. Oliva says he intends to focus on artists outside the mainstream and ... Read More »

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Video game performers vote on contract that could end nearly 3-year battle over AI

By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results from a union member vote on a tentative contract between video game performers and their employers are expected Wednesday evening. If ratified, the contract would formally end a nearly three-year effort from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists negotiators to obtain a new contract for video game ... Read More »

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Video game performers vote on contract that could end nearly three-year-long battle over AI

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results from a union member vote on a tentative contract between video game performers and their employers are expected Wednesday evening. If ratified, the contract would formally end a nearly three-year-long effort from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists negotiators to obtain a new contract for video game ... Read More »

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Asian American, Pacific Islander comics are the main event in an LA comedy and cuisine festival

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

With the Belly Laughs Festival, an ambitious Asian American and Pacific Islander-centered comedy festival, the food is as important as the talent line-up. Every detail is intended to send a message of unabashed cultural pride. “It’s like we grew up kind of shying away and hiding our Asian-ness,” said Viv Wang, a volunteer festival producer ... Read More »

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Armani couture channels black as maestro misses Paris bow for 1st time, days from 91st birthday

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

PARIS (AP) — Armani Privé opened Tuesday under an unmistakable shadow. For the first time in the 20-year history of his couture house, Giorgio Armani was not present in Paris to take his bow. Days from his 91st birthday and following doctors’ advice after a recent hospital stay, Armani reportedly oversaw the Paris couture week ... Read More »

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Macron says France and Britain will ‘save Europe’ as he starts a state visit to the UK

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LONDON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbors despite its exit from the European Union, saying France and the U.K. will “save Europe” by standing for democracy, law and international order in a dangerous world. On a state visit that mixed royal pageantry with tough political ... Read More »

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‘Hostage,’ Eli Sharabi’s memoir about life in Hamas captivity, is coming to the US

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by an Israeli man held in captivity for more than a year by Hamas is coming out this fall in the U.S. Eli Sharabi’s “Hostage,” written in Hebrew and already a bestseller in Israel, is the first published memoir by anyone kidnapped by Hamas during the deadly surprise attack ... Read More »

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Video game actors are voting on a new contract. Here’s what it means for AI in gaming

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-month strike by video game performers could formally end this week if members ratify a deal that delivers pay raises, control over their likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The agreement feels “like diamond amounts of pressure suddenly lifted,” said Sarah Elmaleh, a voice actor and chair of the Screen Actors ... Read More »

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Striking video game actors are voting on a new contract. Here’s what it means for AI in gaming

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-month strike by video game performers could formally end this week if members ratify a deal that delivers pay raises, control over their likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The agreement feels “like diamond amounts of pressure suddenly lifted,” said Sarah Elmaleh, a voice actor and chair of the Screen Actors ... Read More »

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing set for Oct. 3 after split verdict in federal sex crimes case

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks. Combs, who remains jailed after a split verdict last week, spoke briefly to his lawyer ... Read More »

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Movie Review: A weird ‘Superman’ is better than a boring one

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound? Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) ... Read More »

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