Entertainment News
Poll
Loading ...Sunny Escapes
Sponsored
Amid political backlash, Canada’s Nathan Fillion says Superman’s true power is hope
By Canadian Press on July 10th, 2025
In an age of endless remakes and superhero fatigue, Nathan Fillion says he isn’t sure the world needs another Superman movie. But he’s certain it needs what the new one represents. “I think all the Superman iterations have had incredible value. I love them all. This one harkens back to the comic books, the very ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hindu music singer inaugurates project to spread yoga in Brazil’s favelas
By Canadian Press on July 10th, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in unison in a Rio de Janeiro favela for the inaugural class of a free course allowing residents of the low-income community to qualify as yoga teachers. Krishna Das, a renowned American vocalist born Jeffrey Kagel and known for his performances of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might otherwise have ignored. Simulcast from Philadelphia and London on July 13, 1985, Live Aid was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Video game performers approve contract to officially end nearly yearlong strike
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Video game performers approve contract to officially end nearly year-long strike
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former ‘Love Island USA’ contestant Cierra Ortega apologizes for using racial slur
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former “Love Island USA” contestant Cierra Ortega apologized Wednesday for resurfaced posts where she used a racial slur against Asian people. Just a week before the reality show’s finale, Ortega, who was half of one of the season’s strongest couples, left the villa after old posts resurfaced that contained the slur. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: War, through one child’s extraordinary eyes, in ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
“Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified (and defensive) mother. There are so many ways this three-word line reading could land wrongly — or just seem forced or mannered. But it feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Superman’ brings a message of hope to a cynical world
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Superman might do more than just save Metropolis — filmmaker James Gunn hopes the beloved superhero will bring hope to a cynical world. “Everybody’s gotten so cynical and ironic,” said Gunn. “Everybody’s ironic about everything all the time. And he (Superman) is a good-natured guy who wants to be kind. And ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Negative stories about Rogers Stadium are ‘branding poison’ for the sponsor, marketers say
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
TORONTO — As a marketing expert, Markus Giesler was aghast after hearing Coldplay frontman Chris Martin blast Toronto’s brand new Rogers Stadium onstage. “It sent shivers down my spine,” Giesler said of Martin’s comments at the 50,000-capacity venue built to attract big acts to the city over the next five years. When he took the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Ballet of Canada appoints UK theatre boss its new executive director
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
TORONTO — The National Ballet of Canada has found a new executive director in U.K. theatre boss Charlotte Geeves. The ballet’s board chair Rags Davloor says Geeves begins the post in September, when interim director Amanda Ram returns to her previous role as the ballet’s chief financial officer. Davloor says Geeves brings a wealth of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Madeline Merlo, Sacha, and Dallas Smith lined up as 2025 CCMA Awards performers
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
TORONTO — Country singers Madeline Merlo, Dallas Smith and Tyler Joe Miller are among the performers set for this year’s CCMA Awards. The Canadian Country Music Association announced the first wave of artists slated to play the televised music bash, which broadcasts live on Sept. 13 from Kelowna, B.C. They’ll be joined by Sacha, Cameron ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!
