Parklife headliner Fisher pulls out of next weekend’s festival due to “little unborn human”

Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 grossed $29.1M stateside yesterday, repping a Tuesday record for an animated movie. That beats the first Tuesday gross of 2018’s Incredibles 2 at $27M.

Marta Balaga Viaplay Group has sold Sweden’s “Little Did I Know” – starring Alexandra Rapaport – to Australia (SBS), Croatia (Pickbox), Basque Spain (EITB), Indonesia (Mola) and Latin America (DMD). The film, which plays in competition this week at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, is produced by Bigster. It follows Petra (played by Rapaport), who is in for a rude awakening: her “perfect” husband, the father of her two children, is having an affair and he wants a divorce.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Paolo Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow,” a box office smash in its native Italy, was Sunday named winner of the Sydney Film Prize at the end of the Sydney Film Festival (June 5-16) A jury headed by Danis Tanovic called the film about an industrious woman in post WWII Rome “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous.” The prize is one of the richest awarded at any festival and is worth A$60,000 ($39,600). The announcement was made at the city’s State Theatre ahead of the Australian premiere screening of the Demi Moore-starring Cannes hit “The Substance.” The A$20,000 ($13,200) Documentary Australia award went to local filmmaker James Bradley, for “Welcome to Babel,” which charts Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work.

Sacha Baron Cohen appears to have been spotted wearing his wedding rings, two months after he and Isla Fisher revealed that they had filed to end their 14-year marriage. In new pictures published in The Sun, the 52 year old could be seen out on a walk in North London, sporting a navy jumper and flat cap. In the snaps, the Ali G actor also appeared to be wearing his wedding band on his left hand despite being seen without the wedding band last week, the Mirror reports.The pictures come after Sacha and Isla revealed in a social media post uploaded in April that they had called time on their relationship in 2023 and that they had been "quietly working through this change".

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Along with a red-carpet opening ceremony, a press conference with the members of the main competition jury is a staple event of major film festivals and the 26th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival kicked off in traditional form on Friday. Along with Vietnam-French director Tran Anh Hung, previously revealed as jury president, the other members of the decisive committee this year are: Australian director and screenwriter Rolf de Heer; German director Matthias Glasner; Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka Fai; Argentinian director Santiago Mitre; Chinese director Sonthar Gyal; and, the jury’s only woman, star actor Zhou Xun. A packed audience lobbed familiar questions about the criteria they jurors would employ to decide the Golden Goblet prize winners, and what informs those views.

Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 had its first full day of play at the international box office on Wednesday with No. 1 starts in each of its eight material markets, including strong debuts in majors Korea and Germany as well as the Philippines. The total through day one overseas is $4.9M. Majors joining through Friday include Australia, Mexico and the UK.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by locally-born, Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot, has been set as the opening title of the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival runs Aug.

A woman revealed her new husband "ghosted" her after he received a visa following their lavish wedding. Isabelle Glastonbury, 32, met her American lover in 2015 while living in the States.

A major headline act has pulled out of the Parklife festival with just days to go due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. Mercury Prize-nominated J Hus will no longer be performing at the festival in Heaton Park this weekend.

Pixies have released two brand-new singles ‘You’re So Impatient’ and ‘Que Sera, Sera’. Check them out below.Both singles mark the band’s first new music in two years.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The imminently upcoming Sydney Film Festival has added eight titles that premiered at Cannes to its lineup. They are: Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project “Megalopolis”; Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s “Rumours,” starring Australia’s Cate Blanchett; documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”; “The Girl with the Needle”; and revenge thriller “Ghost Trail.” Due to demand, the SFF organizers have also added additional screenings of “The Substance,” the Demi Moore-starring film already set as the festival’s closing night title. The festival runs June 5-16.

.The was shocked by a heckler during a recent concert. “Did you just say, 'Pride sucks?'” she asked the supposed fan in one of the exchange.

Fans of Channel 4’s popular series Gogglebox were not happy on Friday 31 May when they turned into the 16th episode of series 23 expecting the show’s families to be discussing the week’s TV, only to discover that it was actually a compilation of the best moments and the best shows from the current series. While there were some fun comments from familiar Gogglebox faces including David and Shirley, Jenny and Lee and Simon and Jane about the shows featured, including Trigger Point, Married At First Sight Australia, Wheel of Fortune and Masterchef, it was nevertheless not what viewers at home were expecting when they tuned in for a new episode.

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

One of Parklife's main headliners has pulled out of the festival with just a week to go due to 'personal reasons'. Fisher, a Australian house and techno producer based in Los Angeles confirmed this new this afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Media Res, the company behind Apple’s The Morning Show, has paid 7-figures to secure rights to Adrian McKinty’s global bestselling novel The Chain. The plan is to turn the thriller into a TV series.

Hackread (via Billboard), the compromise in data was carried out by a well known hacker group called ShinyHunters, who claim that they have stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Ticketmaster.Details obtained from the 560million customers include full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event details, order information, and partial payment card data. They are threatening to sell the data for $500,000 (£393,800).Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, has yet to acknowledge whether the reported data breach has in fact taken place.

Naman Ramachandran Cannes 2024 was a life-changing journey for Indian production designer-turned actor Anasuya Sengupta who won best actress at the festival’s Un Certain Regard strand for “The Shameless.” Sengupta made her acting debut alongside several of her friends in Anjan Dutt’s music-themed “Madly Bangali” (2009) and served as director’s assistant to Claire McCarthy in Australian production “The Waiting City” the same year. Kolkata native, Sengupta then moved to Mumbai, home to the vast Bollywood industry. She wasn’t impressed by Bollywood and became a noted production designer and artist instead.

Married At First Sight Australia star Eden Harper has opened up on her split with Jayden Eynaud as she said it came "out of the blue". It seemed like the pair's romance was set in the stars on the latest episode of the show, as they made it to the final vows where they chose to stay together. However, last month, they revealed that the had made the decision to part ways, with Eden recently admitting that the breakup came as a surprise to her.

Anya Taylor-Joy opened up during a conversation with her Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga costar Chris Hemsworth for Vogue Australia.