For Its Next Trick, YouTube’s Dude Perfect Gets More Than $100M In Backing From Highmount Capital

Ben Croll In less than a decade, the NewImages Festival’s XR market has become a key international rendezvous, emerging as both the immersive industry’s largest single-purpose event and a foundation of NewImages’ identity. Programing and positioning went hand in hand at this year’s festival, which showcased immersive works designed for museums and cultural spaces for the wider public, while inviting curators and museum delegates to feel more welcome and at-home as industry delegates.

It's been years in the making, but Co-op Live Arena's opening season has finally arrived. A 'test event' with Rick Astley headlining takes place tonight (Saturday, April 20), welcoming the first 11,000 fans to set foot in the venue at a cut-price £5 a ticket.

Buying a property that needs work doing to it can be a great investment, especially if you manage to snap one up at a cheap price. By doing a DIY renovation and keeping costs low, you can significantly increase the value of a house and go on to sell it for much more than what you initially paid for it.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios has announced the three participants selected for its inaugural Directors Program, described as an inclusive, new initiative focused on expanding opportunities for mid-career directors across the U.S.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, globally renowned as Coachella, showcases an impressive lineup during its first weekend of April in Indio, California.This year, the festival features headliners such as Doja Cat, J Balvin, and No Doubt, showcasing a diverse blend of genres from rap to pop and rock.

The 19th edition of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) will be held in Zanzibar in July. 

Aerosmith has announced the rescheduled dates for the “Peace Out” farewell tour, which was abruptly postponed last September because of singer Steven Tyler‘s ongoing vocal cord and larynx problems.

died in 2022 — but the bizarre story of the multimillionaire New York real estate heir turned murderer is still unravelling.On Wednesday, HBO dropped the first trailer for “The Jinx: Part Two,” the juicy continuation of the 2015 documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” that explosively ended with his apparent confession.That program, by filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, combined a history of Durst’s decades of alleged misdeeds and a rare interview with the eccentric man.In the final episode, a hot mike caught Durst muttering “killed them all, of course” while in the bathroom — a seeming admission to the murders of first wife Kathleen Durst, California friend Susan Berman and Galveston, Texas, neighbor Morris Black that took place between 1982 and 2001.A Texas court ruled in 2001 that Black’s death occurred in self-defense — despite Durst beheading him while disguised as a woman named Dorothy Steiner — and he was acquitted. The shocking verdict led to The Post’s front page headline: “Run For Your Lives.”But in 2021, Durst was finally convicted of first-degree murder for shooting Berman at her Beverly Hills, California, home 21 years prior.

After winning a Peabody Award in 2023 and multiple Emmy Awards since its launch in 2020, HBO‘s “We’re Here” is back for another season with new hosts and a mission somehow more urgent than ever. The fourth season drops on April 26, and HBO has released a new trailer that demonstrates how the current political environment is putting queer people’s lives at stake.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Disney released the official vote counts from its 2024 meeting of shareholders held April 3 — in which investors decisively defeated a campaign by activist investor Nelson Peltz to win a seat on its board. According to the votes disclosed in an SEC filing Tuesday, nine of the Disney-backed director candidates received more than 90% of the shares voted in their favor.

After winning a Peabody Award in 2023 and multiple Emmy Awards since its launch in 2020, HBO’s “We’re Here” is back for another season with new hosts and a mission somehow more urgent than ever. The fourth season drops on April 26, and HBO has released a new trailer that demonstrates how the current political environment is putting queer people’s lives at stake.

Manchester United's forgotten youth star Ethan Ennis started for the academy on Monday, as he continues to get back up to speed after recovering from a serious knee injury.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Dude Perfect, the five-member comedy and sports YouTube creator company, hauled in more than $100 million in growth capital from private investment firm Highmount Capital — which they plan to use to flex their brand well beyond online videos. The companies didn’t disclose the specific dollar figure.

MipTV‘s 61st and final edition in Cannes saw a year-on drop of more than 40% in participation, organizers said on Tuesday. During the presser, organizers also outlined plans for MipLondon which will run alongside the London Screenings next February. This year’s MipTV welcomed 3,537 delegates from 84 countries, including 1,133 buyers, compared with 5,510 participants in 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: La Haine filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz is returning to the director’s chair to make English-language passion project The Big War, which will mark the first movie he has helmed in 13 years.

By now we’re pretty sure that we’re all officially aboard the multi-styler train when it comes to our hair tools. Rather than cluttering up our space with individual curlers, hairdryers and hot brushes (not to mention their various add-ons), we’re all about one tool that does it all with just a quick change of attachment.

Suits actor Patrick J. Adams has been touring Scotland as he surprised fans with tourist snaps from Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Carlos Aguilar Key to the ongoing conversations about Latino representation in the U.S. entertainment industry is the need for the diversification of stories, which in turn would breed valuable specificity. Rather than expecting one production to speak strongly to every single subset of the vast Latino community, projects should reflect the unique microcosms and experiences that speak to groups such as Cuban Americans in Florida, Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, or Dominican Americans in New York City.

Ben Croll An acute sense of instability will inform much of the content bought and sold on the MipTV floor, though the symptoms might manifest themselves beyond doom and gloom. Somewhat unsurprisingly, given an unrelenting remit of climate anxieties and global unrest, this tendency has left no genre untouched. “Obviously the world in which we live is quite dramatic at the moment, and that has created an appetite for stories that offer solutions,” explains international distribution expert Beatrice Rossmanith.

Old money, stealth wealth, quiet luxury – whatever term you prefer for the trend, one thing is for sure; our love of an understated luxe-looking outfit is going absolutely nowhere. If you’re looking for a spring-ready piece to add to your quiet luxury-inspired wardrobe, River Island’s latest launch is just the thing with its Cream Boucle Crop Trophy Jacket, £70 here, giving some serious old money vibes.