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EXCLUSIVE: RTL has pushed back Fremantle‘s lofty €3B ($3.3B) revenue target by up to a year.

BABYMONSTER have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘See You There’ fanmeet tour, featuring concerts in Singapore, Thailand and more.Today (March 18), BABYMONSTER announced the cities for their upcoming 2024 ‘See You There’ fanmeet tour. While specific dates have yet to be revealed, the girl group will hold events in Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Taipei and Bangkok in the coming months.Ticketing and venue details have yet to be released for BABYMONSTER’s upcoming tour.

With a solid offshore hold, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is closing in on $500M globally. The overseas weekend brought in $51.2M across 73 markets, a 40% drop versus last session (-37% excluding China). The international box office cume through Sunday is $289.4M, and worldwide the running total is $494.7M. The latter figure means the film has already surpassed Villeneuve’s 2021 Dune worldwide.

Luxury cruise line Fred. Olsen has announced its 2025/2026 from Liverpool. Holidaymakers can sail to destinations including the Norwegian fjords, Italy and Iceland from the north west port.

Barry Keoghan and Travis Kelce are dating two of the most famous music stars in the world right now and they just met for the first time!

Naman Ramachandran Ken Kwek’s acclaimed Singaporean film “#LookAtMe” has secured North American distribution with Buffalo 8. The deal is exclusive for the North American territory and non-exclusive for the rest of the world. The film is a tragicomedy following the family of a teenage YouTuber who posts an irreverent video lampooning a megachurch pastor in defense of his gay twin brother.

Taylor Swift‘s fans love Travis Kelce just as much as she does — and the feeling is mutual!

Taylor Swift’s blockbuster concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, finally arrives on Disney+ this week, but what time will it be available?During the film’s cinematic run in late 2023, it earned over $250million at the box office, making it comfortably the highest-grossing concert film of all time.News of its impending arrival on Disney+ was confirmed last month, with the streaming service saying that the version on offer will be the ‘Taylor’s Version’ cut of the film, which includes the performance of ‘Cardigan’, as well as four acoustic songs that were removed from the theatrical edit.Check out the latest trailer for the new version of the film:In a four star review, NME wrote about the film: “It’s a staggering feat. In the space of one seamless performance, Swift is at turns a playfully eccentric artist, a country star and a genuine pop icon… Of course, as The Eras Tour proves time and again, Taylor Swift can do pretty much whatever she wants.”Swift announced at last month’s Grammy Awards that she is set to release a new album, titled ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, on April 19.The record will mark her 11th studio album.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Orange Sky Golden Harvest, the multi-territory cinema operator, Wednesday warned that it would return to losses when it reports its 2023 losses. The announcement, made in a regulatory filing, came just days after the company denied that it was preparing to sell off its cinemas in Singapore, which represent the biggest component of its business.

Revenues and profits fell at Poor Things super-indie Fremantle last year as the outfit’s lofty €3B ($3.2B) revenue target draws ever nearer.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are planning on using their free time to their liking!

BBC News is entering the growing free ad-supported TV (FAST) game in the U.S.

Former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs has returned to the world of football, having been a director at Salford City FC for most of this season.

EXCLUSIVE: US-based Filipino filmmaker Isabel Sandoval is returning to the Philippines to shoot her fourth feature, Moonglow, starring Arjo Atayde (Trigger, BuyBust).

Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan are enjoying some low-key quality time together after their Oscars weekend outing!

Naman Ramachandran Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has acquired worldwide rights for Indonesian film “Crocodile Tears,” it was revealed at Hong Kong rights market FilMart. The film is a co-production between Indonesia’s Talamedia (producer Mandy Marahimin), Singapore’s Giraffe Pictures (producers Anthony Chen and Teoh Yi Peng), France’s Acrobates Films (producer Claire Lajoumard) and Poetik Film (producer Christophe Lafont) and Germany’s 2Pilots Filmproduction (producers Harry Flöter and Jörg Siepmann). The deal was negotiated by Sebastien Chesneau at Cercamon, Chen at Giraffe Pictures and Marahimin at Talamedia.

Naman Ramachandran Korean action drama “A Shop For Killers” has become the most viewed local original on Disney+ in the Asia Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Philippines) so far in 2024, the streamer has revealed. Set in contemporary Korea, the eight-part series follows college student Jeong Jian who dives for cover in her childhood home after a series of highly skilled assassins come after her.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might’ve skipped the Oscars, but they still had fun behind the scenes of the iconic night!

Barry Keoghan is such a gentleman!

Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter are red carpet official!

Vanity Fair Oscars after party on Sunday. The pop star traveled from Singapore to Los Angeles to spend the evening with the Saltburn star. Just to torment us, they walked the red carpet at the same time but separately.

Naman Ramachandran India premieres of France’s “The Taste of Things” and Korea’s “Exhuma” will open and close respectively the first edition of India’s Cinevesture International Film Festival. Tran Anh Hung won best director at Cannes 2023 for “The Taste of Things,” which was subsequently submitted as France’s official entry to the Oscars’ international feature category.

Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter have arrived at Vanity Fair‘s big event!

captured Taylor Swift's every move at Travis Kelce's football games, the has countless camera phones pointed in his direction whenever he attends .Most recently, one of these videos caused a bit of a disagreement between Swifties. Apparently, flying to Singapore for concerts wasn't “supportive” enough for one fan, who appeared to chastise the 34-year-old for looking at his phone during “I Knew You Were Trouble,” sarcastically captioning their footage, “It's giving supportive bf.”Though the original TikTok video may have been deleted, the Singapore concert clip on March 8, along with screen shots of fans rallying to defend the tight end in the comments.

PDA alert!

Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ Tour is set to boost Singapore’s GDP by over $200million (£155million).Last February, it was reported that Singapore had made an exclusive deal with the popstar so she “can’t perform in any other countries in Southeast Asia”. As such, the singer has been performing six shows at Singapore’s 55,000-capacity National Stadium from March 2-9, making it the only Southeast Asian location on the Asia leg of her tour.Now, Bloomberg has reported Swift’s Singapore stop will bring 0.2 percentage points of GDP to Singapore’s economy (roughly equivalent to $200million).Forbes further revealed Swift’s decision to exclusively perform in Singapore meant hotel bookings rose 10% according to hotel analytics firm Smith Travel Research.

Taylor Swift is just one of the Kelces now!

Well, this is the right mix of awful and ill-conceived that really has to be from Antonio Brown…

Barry Keoghan is keeping rumored girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter close to his heart while they are apart.

Taylor Swift is clearly happy to have her boyfriend Travis Kelce back on the road with her!

Travis Kelce is back at the Eras Tour!

Naman Ramachandran Indian filmmaker and composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali has launched music label Bhansali Music with the soundtrack of Netflix series “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.” The first song from the album, traditional composition “Sakal Ban,” with lyrics by Amir Khusro and sung by Raja Hasan, will be released on Saturday. Via the label, the filmmaker will collaborate with musicians and artists to produce compositions for his films and shows and also independent albums.

Seems like Taylor Swift is re-evaluating some of her past song lyrics!

Eras Tour are always a on TikTok—and her most recent was no exception.During Swift's Eras Tour concert in Singapore on March 6, the 34-year-old pop star “Fifteen” from Fearless (2008) with “You're on Your Own, Kid” from Midnights (2022), two songs about melancholic yearning for young love, released 14 years apart. Swifties were freaking out about this mash-up for multiple reasons—the nostalgia of “Fifteen,” the friendship bracelet lyric in “YOYOK,” a potential that doesn't make much sense to me—but at least one fan noticed something missing.As X.com user @Audrey_Ratjack , Swift omitted the “Fifteen” lyric, “In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team / I didn't know it at fifteen.”“Take that information as you will,” the X.com user .

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Three men have been arrested, two of whom have been charged, for sneaking people into Taylor Swift’s performance in Singapore on Monday. A man named Yang Chenguang reportedly distracted security by chatting them up while Li Xiao Wei held a turnstile to let the three people into Singapore Sports Hub, reports BBC.

goes through during a performance on —ten eras with ten outfits, some of which include mini-changes—of course she wants to keep it comfy when she gets off stage.