Queen Catalog to Be Acquired by Sony Music for £1 Billion

Balmoral Castle, Scottish retreat of the Royal Family since the 1850s, is being opened up to the public for the first time in its history.

The King is renowned for his specific tastes in interior design - and these will be on display when the doors to the Royal Family's much-loved retreat at Balmoral Castle are thrown open to the public for the first time in its history. King Charles will be allowing visitors to step inside the Scottish retreat in Royal Deeside - where Queen Elizabeth II passed away in September 2022 - allowing them a glimpse of Royal Family's private life in the Highlands.

The Queen has praised the nation's servicemen and women as a "source of inspiration, reassurance and pride" in a video message commemorating Armed Forces Day. In a rare national address, Camilla honoured the military's efforts amidst "challenges and dangers" that not only protect the UK but also defend liberties far beyond our borders.

show’s creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, as they created it through their production company Fake Empire – features the iconic theme song “California.” Bilson told Variety in an interview published Wednesday that she got involved because, “Josh told me about it. I have to start by saying anything that Josh and Stephanie do, I’m always like, ‘Yeah.’ They say, ‘Jump.’ I say, ‘How high?’… When they said we’re going to bring Summer back and they were writing it, of course I’m going to do it because how fun does that sound? Tequila and Summer, come on! She’s obviously drinking her tequila because no Orange County housewife can survive without it.”When the outlet asked Bilson if summer is a “Real Housewife of Orange County,” the actress said, “I feel like she should be.” “The O.C.” aired on Fox from 2003 to 2007.

Jon Burlingame Just as he did for Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things,” English composer Jerskin Fendrix has supplied an offbeat, musically provocative score for Lanthimos’ new film, “Kinds of Kindness” — except this time it’s all piano and choir instead of the strange, electronically processed sonorities of “Poor Things.” “Kinds of Kindness” was even more challenging, Fendrix tells Variety. Instead of a science-fiction drama about a reanimated corpse with a child’s brain, this was a trio of weird, decidedly absurdist tales featuring the same cast with only the most tenuous of connections between them.

AI) companies for copyright infringement.The news of the lawsuit was shared on Monday (June 24) by the Recording Industry Association of America, and accused companies Suno and Udio of committing copyright violations of “an almost unimaginable scale”.It is the latest of many lawsuits that have been filed in recent months, in a bid to challenge the rights of AI companies to use and reimagine their work.Udio is a firm based in New York, which has garnered popularity in recent months for allowing users to use AI in a musical setting. Already it has received backing from high-profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz and gained attention as being the technology responsible for creating ‘BBL Drizzy’ – a parody diss track that emerged among the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud.Suno is a company based in Massachusetts, which emerged in 2023 and claims that over 10million people have already used it to create AI-assisted music.

several cases brought by authors, news outlets and others over the alleged misuse of their work to train text-based AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

A celebration of life service for the late husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, Thomas Kingston, was held at St Mary Abbotts church in Kensington, West London on Saturday.The 45 year old tragically died from a "catastrophic head injury", leaving his wife, the daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, deeply bereaved. The memorial brought together close friends and family of Mr Kingston, including a few members of the Royal family.

King Charles and Queen Camilla kicked off Royal Ascot's fifth day in style, as they were seen leading the carriage procession alongside Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Lady Charles Spencer-Churchill during this annual horse racing event in Berkshire. Joining thousands of race-goers for an afternoon filled with equestrian action, Charles and Camilla, who recently made a major rule break, invited their close family and friends to witness the spectacle on the lush racecourse.

Remy Ma has opened up about her son being arrested and charged for the first-degree murder of a 47-year-old.According to ABC 7 Chicago, the Bronx rap icon’s son – 23-year-old JaySon Scott was arrested on Tuesday (June 18) for the June 2021 murder of Darius Guillebeaux in Queens, New York.According to the New York Police Department, Scott and 22-year-old Richard Swygert allegedly shot Guillebeaux to death. On June 7, 2021, Guillebeaux was found before 1pm with various gunshot wounds to the head and the chest.

Queen have reportedly reached a deal with Sony Music for the acquisition of their music catalogue and more, which has been in the works for some time now.Per a report from Variety, sources with information on the deal have confirmed that Sony is now in the process of acquiring Queen’s back catalogue, along with merchandising and other business opportunities. Per Variety, the only aspect of the band’s revenue not included in the deal will be from live performances.Variety‘s sources claim the deal has been closed for USD$1.27billion (£1billion), making it the biggest acquisition of its kind ever.

2021 fatal shooting of a man in Queens, the NYPD said Wednesday.Jayson Scott and another man, Richard Swygert, 22, were nabbed on first-degree murder charges Tuesday night — three years after 43-year-old Darius Guillebeaux was gunned down in a brazen broad daylight attack.The victim was blasted in the head and chest when the shooting broke out at the intersection of 148th Street and Rockaway Boulevard in Springfield Gardens back on June 7, 2021.Cops are still probing a motive for the slaying, police sources said.At the time, police said they believed a dispute may have preceded the bloodshed.It wasn’t immediately clear if Scott or Swygert had any prior connection to the victim.In addition to the murder rap, both men were also slapped with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment charges, cops said.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired Nachiket Pantvaidya as general manager of productions in India. 

The Order of the Garter is one of the most recognisable annual royal traditions, thanks in part to the unique uniforms which the likes of King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince of Wales wear. As the Order of the Garter is the oldest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom and the most senior knighthood in the British honours system which is only outranked by the Victoria Cross and the George Cross, it is a significant honour to be invested.

The jubilant cheers of "We've got our Princess back" echoed on Saturday, serving as testament to the public's joy.

Lady Gabriella Windsor was seen attending Trooping the Colour today, marking her first public appearance since the tragic passing of her husband.The Royal Family was deeply saddened by the loss of Thomas Kingston, who passed away at his family's £3million Gloucestershire mansion in February, with authorities stating there were "no suspicious circumstances." An inquest revealed that Mr Kingston suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head on 25 February, at the age of 45.Thomas Kingston, a former hostage negotiator and financier, was the son of Martin and Jill Kingston, who have owned the grand mansion since 1996. A spokesperson for the Gloucester Ambulance Service confirmed their attendance at a private residence in the Cirencester area, saying: "Gloucester Police have confirmed an ambulance from Gloucester Ambulance Service attended a private residence." Following her husband's death, Lady Gabriella, daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, has reportedly moved into Kensington Palace, not wishing to stay alone in the house they once shared, reports the Mirror.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events It’s an early Friday morning in May and comedian Alex Edelman is on a Zoom video call from a Los Angeles hotel. He has a bit of a bed head and says that he had to borrow the socks he is wearing, a detail he shares when I tell him I’m nervous about our interview because he’s a really “smart comic.” “That is so nice but.. I’m not a smart comic.

Sturgill Simpson has announced his new album ‘Passage du Desir’ under his new stage name Johnny Blue Skies.The musician’s new era comes after he promised to release only five albums under his own name. “This is the last Sturgill record. I always said there would be five, and I wondered if I’d go back on that,” the Kentucky-born songwriter told Rolling Stone in 2021 while promoting his fifth album ‘The Ballad of Dood & Juanita’.‘Passage Du Desir’ is set for release on July 12 via High Top Mountain Records – Simpson’s own independent label.

Alex Ritman “Small Things Like These,” the Irish drama starring newly-minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy that opened the Berlinale earlier this year, finally has a domestic home, Variety has learned, with Lionsgate picking up the film for the U.S., the U.K. and Ireland. The studio will partner with Roadside Attractions for its North American theatrical release.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their final meeting with the late Queen Elizabeth II when they visited the UK for her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. However, the meeting didn't quite go to plan, with the monarch reportedly declining to be photographed with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.