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EXCLUSIVE: The director of Irish folk horror All you Need is Death has set his next feature project for 1185 Films, as the London indie unveils a slate with a number of up-and-coming directors attached.

James Chance 1953 – 2024Musician James Chance, Who Blended Punk Rock Aggression with Funk and Free Jazz Expression,…Posted by James Chance Official on Tuesday, June 18, 2024Chance had been in ill health for some time, with his friends and family launching a GoFundMe campaign in 2020 to help the musician through “personal health issues and the COVID situation”.A private funeral will be held for friends and family, with details of a public memorial set to be announced at a later date.Per Brooklyn Vegan, a second GoFundMe page was set up in November last year after the musician had been hospitalised. On the campaign page, his brother David wrote: “He’s very frail.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor James Chance, the confrontational, controversial saxophonist and singer of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped start the No Wave movement of the late 1970s in New York City, died Tuesday in New York, his Facebook page confirmed. He was 71. “His death was announced by his brother David Siegfried of Chicago, who did not specify a cause of death but noted that the musician’s health had been in decline for several years,” the statement said.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large I think I can say this on behalf of the entire collective of reporters who cover television: Nothing makes us groan more than when a series star or producer refers to the setting as another “character” in their show. (Actually, I take that back, something else causes even heavier eye rolls: When a performer says their co-stars are “like a family.”) And yet, I may have to temper my cynicism.

There aren’t many places in the UK where you can experience opera inside a cave, see a hotel where Mary Queen of Scots reputedly stayed and drink the freshest mineral water available (although you might want to add an ice cube or two), yet you can do all of this in Buxton. You’d be forgiven if your mind first springs to the bottled water when you think of the town, but there’s so much more to this beautiful town on the edge of the Peak District.

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Laurent Hubert Laurent Hubert is CEO of Kobalt Music, one of the world’s largest music publishers. Variety welcomes responsible comment — contact [email protected]. As the CEO of Kobalt, the largest organization focused solely on songwriters, I felt that I had to speak out and share the plight of the songwriter vs. Spotify.

Donald Trump‘s closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill today reportedly veered off into all sorts of topics, including that of Taylor Swift.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Sometimes girls just want to take a load off, too. Cyndi Lauper will be calling it quits as a touring performer after she does what is billed as her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” in arenas this fall — an outing she insists really will have her calling it a day on any kind of road show, although she’s not ruling out one-offs.

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A nutritionist has explained four types of food we should all be trying to eat more of to boost our heart health. Jenny Wise says we should be adding more of some types of food to our diet as the country marks British Heart Week (June 7-15).

Selena Kuznikov A Disneyland employee died of her injuries Friday after falling from a moving golf cart at the theme park two days prior. Anaheim Police and Anaheim Fire and Rescue personnel arrived at the resort Wednesday at around 11:30 a.m.

Top Chef” has always evolved in order to maintain its position as TV’s most prestigious cooking competition show. But when heading into Season 21, the Bravo mainstay had to make its greatest gear shift yet: After an international season that gathered contestants from a slew of global spinoffs in London, longtime host Padma Lakshmi announced her exit from the role after more than 15 years as the series’ grounded center.

Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 90s, has died. She was 101.Paige died Sunday of natural causes at her Los Angeles home, longtime friend Stuart Lampert said Monday.Paige starred on Broadway with Jackie Cooper in the mystery-comedy, “Remains to be Seen” and appeared with John Raitt in the smash hit musical “The Pajama Game.”Her other films included a Hope comedy, “Bachelor in Paradise”; the Doris Day comedy “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” and “Follow the Boys.”In 2018, she added her voice to the #MeToo movement, alleging an assault when she was 22 by the late department-store heir Alfred Bloomingdale, who died in 1982.“I could feel his hands, not only on my breasts, but seemingly everywhere.

Princess and Junior Andre want to follow in the footsteps of their parents Peter Andre and Katie Price by doing 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' together.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Next week, on June 7, the entertaining and highly acclaimed geek-goes-undercover-as-contract-killer screwball romantic thriller “Hit Man,” starring It Dude of the moment Glen Powell, drops on Netflix. But this weekend, in case you hadn’t noticed, the movie opened “in theaters.” How many theaters? If you use your hands and feet to count, you’ll have most of them covered. Netflix, the company that did for streaming what McDonald’s did for fast food (made it everyone’s new normal), always likes to make a big show of when it’s playing a movie “in theaters.” It has long amused me to see entertainment journalists get suckered into this public-relations gambit, for the simple reason that so many of them live in New York and L.A., where the tiny number of theaters occasionally playing a Netflix movie tend to be.

Jon Burlingame “I felt not only that it was important, but that I had an obligation to be a part of it,” says composer Terence Blanchard about writing the score for National Geographic’s “Genius: MLK / X,” the eight-part series about the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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Anya Taylor-Joy and her husband Malcolm McRae had the best time at the Monaco Grand Prix. The couple was photgraphed in the stands, having a look at the races as they talked and laughed together. Their trip together comes after Taylor-Joy has been traveling the world following the premiere of her awaited new film, “Furiosa.” Chris Hemsworth teaches the secrets of ‘box breathing’ while eating hot wingsAnya Taylor-Joy parties with Chris Hemsworth, Naomi Campbell, Elsa Pataky, and more in CannesThe two were photographed in the stands, wearing some Mercedes-Benz headphones to shield their ears from the sound of the racing cars.

Openreach has confirmed it will build full fibre broadband in nearly 30 areas across Scotland, with over 500 in the UK to see installations.