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Filipino boxer Kenneth Egano has died days after collapsing in the ring following a fight. He was 22 years old.

“Glitter and Doom” stars Alex Diaz and Alan Cammish gush over what it was like to work with the Indigo Girls on the bright, queer and joyful film featuring many incredible musical numbers.

EXCLUSIVE: Gaga Corp. and Goodfellas have revealed new sales on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or contender Monster as the drama enjoys a strong theatrical kick-off at the Japanese box office.

“Emily in Paris” is the latest TV show to be impacted by the Writers Guild of America strike, currently into its second month with no sign of ending anytime soon.

As Filipino Heritage Month rolls into motion, the dynamic Canadian duo Manila Grey, composed of Blame Soliven and Ghostride Neeko, recently shared their experiences as Filipino artists and their deep connection to their heritage in an interview with ET Canada’s Keshia Chanté.

Here Lies Love,” advertising a score by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim and direction by the ground-breaking Tony winner Alex Timbers. The show’s logo is superimposed over a mirror ball, literally reflecting the production’s highly unusual immersive nightclub setting, a semi-ironic counterpoint to a sobering story about the rise and fall of fascistic Filipino power couple Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. The tag line above that disco totem: “The Revolutionary Music Experience.” It’s a revolution that the union representing Broadway musicians would like to stop in its tracks, at least in its current form. And with the show set to open for previews in less than two weeks, the production and the Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians remain at loggerheads about how “Here Lies Love” will, or should, proceed.

Director Jacques Rozier, who was regarded as the last surviving member of the French New Wave, has died. He was 96.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The fourth season of “Emily in Paris” was initially set to start in late summer or early fall in the French capital that gives the show its name, but filming has been delayed by two months due to the writers strike, Variety has learned. That could stretch longer if WGA members remain on the picket line. Netflix declined to comment. The plan is still to start shooting by the end of fall, according to a source close to the streamer. Netflix announced the renewal of Darren Star’s Emmy-nominated romantic comedy in January 2022. Season 3 dropped on the streamer on Dec. 21, 2022 following a massive premiere event in Paris, which lured crowds of overjoyed fans and was attended by Star and the entire cast, including Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Kate Walsh, Camille Razat, Lucas Bravo, Lucien Laviscount (who wore a shiny purple suit), Bruno Gouery and Samuel Arnold.

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, Giselle Go served as editor in chief of for four years. It was a job that brought her from her home city of Manila, Philippines to the Lion City of Singapore, China and eventually to Tokyo, Japan, where she fell in love with J-Beauty.

A killer driver, a revenge-fuelled family and two murderers are amongst those who have been jailed in Greater Manchester this month.

EXCLUSIVE: The producers of indie feature Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, directed by the Philippines’ Petersen Vargas, have revealed a first look of the film, which started shooting in Manila at the end of April. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Recently-established Philippines-based production and financing company, Fire and Ice, has deals to provide completion funding to two films being produced by prolific Singapore-based independent producer Potocol. Under a related agreement, Fire and Ice has also struck a multi-faceted first-look deal with Potocol. The completion funding, which gives Fire and Ice a share of the film’s equity, will permit the completion of post-production of upcoming Potocol titles: “Pierce,” a sports drama by Nelicia Low, and “Last Shadow at First Light,” by Nicole Midori Woodford. Both films were recently showcased at Focus Asia’s Far East In Progress, part of the Far East Film Festival in Udine, and are expected to be completed before the end of the year.

of your favorite It girl on Instagram, chances are is behind her makeup look. Known for his flawless makeup and skill with colors and shapes, Avendaño has created viral looks for the likes of , , Stephanie Hsu, , Jodie Turner-Smith, Joey King, and . He also serves on the L'Oreal Paris League of Experts, a collective of makeup artists dedicated to improving inclusivity and sustainability in beauty. Inclusivity is especially important to Avendaño, who was born in the Philippines and moved to Los Angeles as a child.

of your favorite It girl on Instagram, chances are is behind her makeup look. Known for his flawless makeup and skill with colors and shapes, Avedaño has created viral looks for the likes of , , Stephanie Hsu, , Jodie Turner-Smith, Joey King, and . He also serves on the L'Oreal Paris League of Experts, a collective of makeup artists dedicated to improving inclusivity and sustainability in beauty. Inclusivity is especially important to Avedaño, who was born in the Philippines and moved to Los Angeles as a child.

shut down when she became engaged to her now-husband Prince Harry in 2017.With rumors recently swirling that the Duchess of Sussex, 41, may be angling the website for a comeback, her posts about the most intimate details of her life have resurfaced.In a blog entry shared on her 33rd birthday, Markle wrote that her “20s were brutal” and she detailed how she struggled to fit in when she was a teenager, according to the Daily Mail.Of her high school experience, Markle penned how her alma mater, Immaculate Heart, was full of cliques including “the black girls and white girls, the Filipino and the Latina girls.”“Being biracial, I fell somewhere in between. So every day during lunch, I busied myself with meetings – French club, student body, whatever one could possibly do between noon and 1 p.m.

The CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator today announced the projects that will take part in the sixth edition of the prestigious training program for women-identifying nonfiction filmmakers. 

Lise Pedersen Newcomer Docs-by-the-Sea, the international documentary Labs and Forum for creative doc projects from Asia, will present and works-in-progress showcase for the first time at the Marché du Film’s Cannes Docs.  Featuring four films in late production stage, the showcase is highly necessary, argues its curator, Gugi Gumilang, the executive director of In-Docs, the non-profit org behind Docs by the Sea.   A member of last year’s Docs-in-Progress jury, he said this gave him a chance to see what people are looking for. “There’s a lack of Asian representation [in documentaries],” he tells Variety, adding: “It’s really tough for documentary filmmakers in Asia, few countries have film funds,” he said, citing Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines and, more recently, Hong Kong. “There are few dedicated festivals, the biggest being South Korea’s DMZ. Other international film festivals like Busan, Singapore and Jeonju cater for documentary film, but the competition is tough as they don’t just focus on Asian projects.”

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Wilfredo Manalang, who was one of the producers of last year’s Cannes’ Japanese hit “Plan 75,” has come on board Vietnamese film project “Don’t Cry, Butterfly.” Manalang (aka Will Fredo) and partners in his Philippines-based Fusee consortium will join as an executive producer. Written and to be directed by Duong Dieu Linh, “Don’t Cry, Butterfly” follows a Vietnamese housewife who finds out that her husband is cheating on her. Instead of confronting him, she uses voodoo on him so he falls back in love with her. Production of “Don’t Cry Butterfly” is by Tan Si En at Singapore-based Momo Film Co. The company was founded in 2018 by Tan and writer-director Kris Ong. In 2021, Beach House Pictures, part of Canada’s Blue Ant Media, acquired a majority stake in Momo.

Metro Puerto Rico, the delegates of Aguada (Jinny Valentín), Añasco (Ninoshka Rodríguez), and Carolina (Luisa Angélica Vázquez) are among the moms trying to take the title after the Miss Universe organization began allowing young, married, divorced and mothers to compete.The current Miss Puerto Rico, Ashley Ann Cariño Barreto, will crown her successor, on Thursday, August 24, 2023, after a preliminary competition set to take place on Sunday, August 20.Daniela Victoria Arroyo González will also compete for the crown of Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2023 as the first transgender woman in the island’s beauty pageant. “The emotion and pride that I feel in this moment overwhelms me with joy,” Arroyo said in a video.

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Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology is launching a grant scheme to support co-productions between Indonesian and international filmmakers. 

I'm A Celebrity South Africa All-Stars winner Myleene Klass says there was a significant amount of prize money for her triumphant crowning for the ITV jungle spin-off show, but has announced the sweet gesture on what she's going to do with it.

I’m A Celebrity... South Africa winner Myleene Klass is donating all of her £100k prize winnings from the show to charity.The former Hear’Say star – who earlier this month beat celebs including Fatima Whitbread, Jordan Banjo, and Phil Tufnell to take first place as 'Legend' on an all-stars version of the popular reality TV series – revealed the news on her Instagram.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The premium end of the streaming video sector in India is poised for shake-up, with Reliance Industries’ JioCinema challenging the SVOD dominance of Disney+ Hotstar, new research suggests. “The India Online Video Report: Analysis of Consumption, Content & Investment Trends,” from Singapore-based Media Partners Asia, shows total consumption across the online video sector reached 6.1 trillion minutes for the 15-month period from Jan 2022 to Mar 2023. Within that period, the SVOD, AVOD and freemium platforms accounted for some 12% of viewing time, up from 10% in 2021. Social services such as YouTube and TikTok accounted for 88% of viewing time.

Bernard Grace lived a solitary life.

A man has been robbed in a town centre backstreet before being attacked by a group. Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation following the incident, close to a taxi rank in Bury.

A paedophile who spent nearly £21,000 to set up Skype live streams of child abuse in the Philippines has been jailed. Bernard Grace, 72, was found by police with thousands of chat messages to women.

Super Junior, is set to go on tour this year.Super Junior D&E – comprising Donghae and Hunhyuk – announced their upcoming 2023 ‘DElight Party’ world tour today (May 15) through the duo’s newly opened social media accounts.The pair’s 2023 world tour will kick-off with a two-night concert in Seoul, South Korean on June 24 and 25. Following which, Super Junior D&E will head on the Asia leg of the tour over the next three months, including shows in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and more.In their official announcement, Super Junior D&E also said that more dates will be revealed in the future.

As much as fans may not want to believe it, Taylor Swift and Matty Healy are the real deal right now!

famously protested taking off her facemask during her elimination lip-sync against Nina Bonina Brown, placing seventh.She would later compete in “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4,” also finishing seventh. She’s appeared in her own WOW Presents Plus series and modeled in several fashion magazines, including Vogue Mexico, and appeared in Fox’s live musical “Rent.”Born in Mexico City and based in Paris, Lolita Banana, is the first Mexican-born queen to have participated in the “Drag Race” franchise and is positioned as one of the most important drag queens in France.

There are so many ways to celebrate Asian Heritage Month and pay homage to this community, no matter your background — and one of our favourite ways is to run up the streams on songs by all our favourite artists of Asian descent. While you might know a number of notable artists from the radio, we’re here to put you on to some names that are up-and-coming, fresh, underground, or simply blooming with their music careers on TikTok.

Ryan Reynolds is adding fuel to the Taylor Swift and Matty Mealy dating rumour mill.

Kenneth Egano has sadly died.

The Masked Singer is back!