Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds add more dates to 2022 European tour

Back in December, it was announced that Frances McDormand (who basically only appears in Oscar-nominated films) is set to join the upcoming film, “Women Talking,” from director Sarah Polley. As if it isn’t exciting enough to have McDormand and Polley working together on a new film, the news was made even sweeter today as the rest of the main cast was announced, featuring some truly great talents.

The UK got a noisy new news network on Sunday, as Discovery-backed GB News went live with a commitment to offer an alternative to BBC and Sky News. Although the launch has proved popular with viewers, the channel has been plagued by tech issues and an advertiser boycott in its opening days.

Wolf Alice have announced details of a European tour that will take place early next year.The band will head to the continent in February 2022 for a number of live dates in support of their recently released third album ‘Blue Weekend’.Set to be Wolf Alice’s first European tour since 2018, the band will visit France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and more next year.

Netflix has ordered a “Castlevania” spinoff series focused on Richter Belmont, the son of Sypha and Trevor, and Maria Renard set in 1792 France during the French Revolution, the streaming service revealed Friday.The “Castlevania” franchise launched in the late 1980s as an action-adventure gothic horror video game series about vampire hunters.

Prince Harry took a break from paternity leave to announce the return of his Invictus Games, which supports the rehab and recovery of wounded veterans.

Another early morning, another early announcement from France. As promised by the organizers previously, new titles have been added to the Cannes Film Festival, nine of them in total.

Mariah Carey doesn’t know… how these rumors get started?

Mariah Carey is laughing off headlines claiming she and Jay-Z are feuding. Over the weekend, English tabloid The Sun reported that the diva and Hova were at odds over her contact with Jay-Z's label Roc Nation. "Mariah and Jay had an explosive meeting which did not go well at all. She has made it clear she wants nothing more to do with him and has called it quits with Roc Nation," a source said.

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century is looking to head back to the high seas as sources tell Deadline the studio is developing a new Master and Commander pic with A Monster Calls scribe Patrick Ness adapting the script. Insiders add it is still early days and no director or talent are attached at this time.

The French Dispatch. Set in a newspaper office in France, Anderson’s follow-up to 2018’s Isle of Dogs stars Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and more.Other standout films on show will be Flag Day which has been directed by Sean Penn; he also stars in the film as a bank robber alongside his daughter Dylan.Another is Mothering Sunday, Eva Husson’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s WW1-set novel about a doomed romance.

The Kooks have added a handful of extra dates to their forthcoming ‘Inside In/Inside Out’ 15th anniversary tour.The band have added shows in Dublin, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester to the jaunt which kicks off at Dublin Olympia Theatre on January 27, 2022.They will now play an extra show at the venue on January 28, plus new dates at the O2 Academy Birmingham on February 4, O2 Academy Glasgow on February 8 and the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on February 11.

Apple TV+ has set a stellar ensemble cast for its bilingual thriller Now and Then, a drama that will be shot in Spanish and English.

transgender son of soul legend Sade has married his long-term girlfriend in a beautiful beach ceremony in Hawaii.  British model and artist Izaak Theo Adu-Watts, 24, wed Californian girlfriend Emily Margaret Shakeshaft on the sand in Hawaii on April 16th, the couple revealed on Instagram.

GB News, the new UK news channel backed by Discovery, will launch on June 13.