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Bill Nye the Science Guy is a married man!

Bill Nye is a married guy!

Kid Cudi has announced that he’ll be coming to the UK later this year for his first gig in the country in 13 years – get tickets here.The show forms part of the rapper and actor’s ‘To The Moon’ world tour, which will kick off in Vancouver, Canada, on August 16.The North American leg of the tour will see Cudi will make stops in Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and more, before wrapping up in his home city of Cleveland on September 16.Cudi will then head across the pond for dates in Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Milan. His single UK date will take place in London on November 15, marking the first time he’s performed in the country since his iTunes Festival show at London’s Roundhouse in 2009.Support on the tour will include Don Toliver, Denzel Curry, 070 Shake and Stick, who will each perform on different dates.

here.) The New York City fest began June 8 and concludes June 19.Read below for the full list of competition winners.U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITIONThe Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Good Girl Jane (United States)Dir.

William Earl Variety and Indeed present a night of cocktails and conversation on June 16 in New York City with this year’s 10 Rising Voices finalists from across the United States.Participants include Jalmer Caceres, “Empty Bases”; Leon Cheo, “The 25th Filial”; Shanrica Evans, “Amina”; Justin Floyd, “Malleable”; Georgia Fu, “Maps”; Gbenga Komolafe, “Tofu”; Cara Lawson, “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings”; Tara Motamedi, “Before Dawn Kabul Time”; Urvashi Pathania, “Beast” and Travis Wood, “Black Santa.” The conversation will be moderated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis.Established in February 2021 and now in its second season, Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Indeed partnered on Rising Voices to provide resources to the selected BIPOC filmmakers to create the short film that will have premiered earlier in the day at the Tribeca Festival in New York City. The finalists were selected from 900 applicants based on their submitted screenplays.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticAs the days grow shorter in late fall, there will still be something to smile about for fans of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner. The first American tour by the group, collectively known as the Smile — and not to be confused with Greenwood and Yorke’s other group, Radiohead — has been set for late fall.The trio’s shows in the U.S. will all take place in mid-sized theaters, beginning Nov.

Courteeners have announced a string of US tour dates for this November, marking the first time the band have played the US since Coachella in 2009.The US tour kicks off at Boston’s Brighton Music Hall on November 10, with the band heading to New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles ahead of their recently announced Corona Capital Festival appearance in Mexico City on November 18.Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am local time in each city on June 17. Find tickets for the shows here and for the LA date, head here.Courteeners’ latest studio album, ‘More.

defamation court case, Deadline reported on Monday.The exclusive was filmed on June 9 in New York City in secret. To keep the special away from prying eyes, the interview was not filmed at NBC’s iconic 30 Rock building.A source told the outlet that Guthrie, 50, spoke to the “Aquaman” actress about how she thought the jury’s decision may impact free speech in America and other women coming out to talk about domestic abuse.A spokesperson for Heard told The Post about the forthcoming interview, “Johnny Depp’s legal team blanketed the media for days after the verdict with numerous statements and interviews on television, and Depp himself did the same on social media.”“Ms.

The Kid LAROI brought out an unusual set of special guests: beloved children’s entertainers The Wiggles.The show took place at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena last night (June 12), coinciding with the Victorian dates of The Wiggles’ own national tour. It was originally scheduled to take place on June 4, but was rescheduled after LAROI came down with severe cases of both influenza and rhinovirus.After performing his ‘F*ck Love (Savage)’ cut ‘Tragic’ with a fan, LAROI sent his Melbourne crowd into a frenzy of cheers by announcing, “This next guest is the fucking Wiggles! Shit!” He performed three of the group’s songs with them: ‘Fruit Salad’, ‘Hot Potato’ and ‘Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car’.

Amanda Seyfried is supporting husband Thomas Sadoski on his big night!

Machine Gun Kelly opened his 2022 world tour this week (June 8) in Texas – watch him arrive in a huge pink helicopter.The tour, behind new album ‘Mainstream Sellout’, began in Austin at the Moody Center on Wednesday, and Kelly made a huge entrance.As footage shows, a massive pink and black helicopter landed in the middle of the venue, from which the rapper and pop-punk star attached himself onto via a rope and was carried in mid-air through the venue.Watch footage of the arrival below.Reviewing Machine Gun Kelly’s latest album ‘Mainstream Sellout’, NME wrote: “In less than two years, Machine Gun Kelly has gone from underrated rapper to the sort of bonafide rock star who headlines festivals alongside the likes of Metallica, Green Day and Dua Lipa.”The lengthy arena tour behind ‘Mainstream Sellout’, which sees Kelly supported by Avril Lavigne and Blink-182’s Travis Barker among others, continues this week and throughout 2022.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWarner Bros. Discovery Thursday announced its management team for Japan, Australia New Zealand, reporting into James Gibbons, WBD’s president and managing director.The reshuffle follows similar announcements for the EMEA area under Priya Dogra and India, Southeast Asia and Korea under Clement Schwebig.In addition to the above appointments, David Macdonald is named VP Networks, Japan, based in Tokyo.

The next chapter in the “Predator” franchise is near. On Tuesday, 20th Century and Disney+ released the full trailer for “Prey”, an all-new action-thriller from 20th Century Studios directed by Dan Trachtenberg.

“Prey” also features a cast comprised almost entirely of Native American and First Nation talent, including star Amber Midthunder (“The Ice Road,” “Roswell, New Mexico”) alongside newcomer Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp (“Sooyii”), Michelle Thrush (“The Journey Home”) and Julian Black Antelope (“Tribal”). The movie also stars Dane DiLiegro (“American Horror Stories”) as the Predator.What’s more, “Prey” also has a Comanche producer in Jhane Myers, who produces alongside “The Predator” producer John Davis and Marty Ewing.

Last year, Robert De Niro, co-founder of the Tribeca Festival, stated, “The Tribeca Film Festival was born out of our mission to bring people together in the aftermath of 9/11.” With that mission still leading the charge, the annual festival is returning to New York this week, June 8-19, to bring artists together and allow them a platform to grow their audience and their network. With films from 40 different countries, we believe the festival will do just that again this year.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorSlovak director Denis Dobrovoda’s feature debut “The Cathedral” took the best film prize in the International Documentary Competition section of the 62nd Krakow Film Festival, which runs May 29-June 12.The film focuses on Justo Gallego Martínez, who started building a cathedral in Spain’s Mejorada del Campo 60 years ago without any qualifications, architectural plans or official permission. He invested his own funds and built it almost entirely with his own hands, mostly out of waste and recycled materials.