Germany’s MELT 2024 to be last ever due to “insurmountable changes in the festival landscape”

Updated with the Latest: Five new cast members have joined HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in addition to a new director, and production is underway in Belfast, Ireland.

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday announced the first six titles set to make their world premieres at the 49th edition, in the Gala and Special Presentation program, also naming this year’s TIFF Tribute Award recipients.

Stevie Nicks recently cancelled her show at the last minute due to an “illness in the band,” as per a statement shared on her social media accounts.The statement read: “Regrettably, due to illness in the band, tonight’s performance is being postponed. Please hold on to your tickets.

Spoilers below for the first episode of “House of the Dragon” Season 2. The season premiere for the “Game of Thrones” spinoff’s second season, “House of the Dragon,” covered an infamous and controversial murder, known to fans of the books as “Blood and Cheese.” As Season 2 begins, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, but her half-brother, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney), and his supporters have usurped her, and now both sides are at war over whether Rhaenyra or Aegon should be monarch.

Annecy Animation Festival, the most important eight days of the year for the global animation industry, wraps up tonight, so we’re looking back at 10 themes that dominated the dialogue around this year’s event. In interviews held before this year’s festival, several representatives from Hollywood studios, speaking on background, told us that Annecy has now replaced Comic-Con as their most important promotional event of the year for animation.

The Nevermets is gripping TV viewers, following the ups and downs of the love lives of five couples who've only ever met online... until now.The six-part Channel 4 series has introduced us to people like British catering assistant Sarah, 38, who's been living with a 27 year old Filipino virtual assistant called Jgoy. And floppy-fringed 17 year old A-level student Jay, who was only 15 when he met now-26 year old Veena in a Game Of Thrones chatroom but who travelled around 5,000 miles to meet her at home in India.

Paramount co-CEOs George Cheeks, Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy thanked staff in a memo today, obtained by Deadline, for a few tough months rocked by Skydance merger speculation. With that deal a no go, they said, they have plan, one mostly laid out at last week’s annual shareholders meeting, to take the company into the future.

Emily Eavis has revealed that her father nearly closed the gates on Glastonbury for good in the 1990s.Glastonbury returns to Worthy Farm, Somerset this year from June 26-30, with Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA headlining the Pyramid Stage. Other major acts on the bill include Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz, The National, Avril Lavigne, The Last Dinner Party, Jungle, Justice, Bloc Party, Fontaines D.C., Yard Act, Arlo Parks and Gossip.The festival’s principal organiser Emily Eavis has been discussing this year’s event in an appearance on the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast, where she spoke about some of the hard times that nearly forced them to close the festival down.She said that her father, the festival’s founder Michael Eavis, had planned to bring the festival to a permanent end when he reached retirement age in the late ‘90s.She said: “My parents were always like, ‘This is the last one’. Everyone thought it was some sort of stunt to sell tickets but it wasn’t.

Donald Trump is clearly many things, but one thing he’s not is a great orator, according to one of Britain’s great acting knights of the realm, Ian McKellen.

(Alec also has a daughter, Ireland, from his marriage to Kim Basinger, and a grandchild via Ireland), are TLC's latest “giant family,” following in the wake of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and 19 Kids and Counting. By TLC standards, they're actually not that big, but the actor thing is a twist.

Love Island is back for its 11th series with 12 new singletons ready and waiting to enter the famous Mallorcan villa. In the ultimate search for love, the contestants will spend around eight weeks together in hopes of finding a lasting connection and winning a £50,000 cash prize.

A grieving mother whose son died of dengue fever while he was travelling with friends through Asia has spoken out following a world-wide spike in the deadly virus.

An artist that was due to perform on the main stage of Parklife 2024 has been dramatically pulled from the festival.

Gavin And Stacey creator Ruth Jones has said the leaking of the show’s forthcoming final episode was “really mean”.It was announced earlier this month the much-loved sitcom will conclude on Christmas Day 2024 on BBC One and iPlayer, following leaked reports that another special was in the works in February.“James [Corden] and I wanted to give everybody a nice surprise and I think it was really mean that they leaked it,” Jones said of the leak to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Glastonbury has announced plans to celebrate the life of the late Annie Nightingale at this year’s festival.The legendary DJ and broadcaster died on January 11 after a short illness. She was 83 years old.

A variety of financial changes are set to take place in June which could affect your personal budget.

Bambie Thug, this year’s Irish Eurovision entry, has announced a 2024 UK and European ‘Crown The Witch’ tour.Bambie, who placed 6th in this year’s competition with their showstopping performance of ‘Doomsday Blue’, is now set to tour around the UK and Europe.They will kick off at Brighton’s Chalk in August, before making their way through Manchester’s Gorilla, Glasgow’s King Tuts and London’s Heaven in September. Bambie is also due to visit cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm.

The amfAR Gala at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival was one of the most star-studded events of the festival – as expected!

A pharmacist has issued a warning over a surge in head lice cases that can affect people of any age - but especially those in the younger generation.

UPDATED with latest: At its Max streaming event in April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a new era is coming for Harry Potter fans. The company announced a TV series based on all seven books about the boy wizard written by J.K. Rowling. See below for the most current answers to the most important questions about the project.