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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods Season 14 midseason finale, which is the close of the first part of the NYPD family drama’s final season.

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James Martin has spilled the beans on how he stays trim – and it's not how you might think.The 51 year old culinary whizz attributes his impressive three-stone weight loss to a significant diet revamp. And it turns out he's munching on fish twice a day.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Through the Lens Entertainment, the East-West film studio that made a splash at Cannes last year, is expanding into manga. It has launched Hoshi Studios, a manga development and publishing startup with outposts in Singapore and Japan. The outfit will create teams combining western film and TV talent with established Japanese manga artists to create books and other comic-book properties.

Brent Lang Executive Editor David Cronenberg is returning to Cannes with “The Shrouds,” the story of an industrialist named Karsh, who invents a controversial technology that allows grieving families to see inside the graves of their loved ones with high-resolution cameras. It’s a film that defies easy categorization. This being a Cronenberg production, there are elements of body horror, but there’s also a conspiracist undercurrent, as Karsh (Vincent Cassel) begins to suspect that shadowy forces are undercutting his expansion plans after his cemetery is ransacked.

Christopher Vourlias South Africa’s Known Associates Group (KAG) is teaming up with Canada’s Inner City Films (ICF) and Circle Blue Entertainment (CBE) to launch a new venture that will produce African feature films and TV series for audiences around the world, the companies announced Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. With offices in Johannesburg, Toronto and Los Angeles, the KIC Group will build on the track records of the three pioneering companies while also developing innovative financing models and capitalizing on an existing co-production treaty between their respective countries.

Christopher Vourlias Nigerian Afrobeat megastar Burna Boy and fast-rising South African filmmaker Mandla Dube are among the names headlining the new slate from Black Mic Mac, the production banner championing African and Middle Eastern talent that was launched last year by production and sales vet Pape Boye and Logical Pictures. The line-up includes close to a dozen films and television series from both emerging and established talents that showcase the range of dynamic voices the region has to offer.

Alex Ritman Aaron Eckhart (“The Dark Knight,” “Sully”) is set to return to the “Muzzle” universe in action thriller “Muzzle: City of Wolves.” The actioner marks the sequel to “Muzzle” and will be directed by John Stalberg Jr. (Lionsgate’s “Crypto”), who also directed the first installment. Jacob Michael King (“Caviar”) wrote the script from a story by Carlyle Eubank (“The Signal”) and Stalberg Jr.

Todd Longwell The Sony Pictures sequel “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” made headlines as it rolled through a succession of Florida locations in late February and early March, with reports of crews “spark(ing) buzz” filming on the A1A Highway in Fort Lauderdale, fans catching a glimpse of stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Brickell, and traffic tie-ups in Miami. “If you look at the trailer, you’ll see anything that has to do with the beach is all us, with the stunt scene that they did on Ocean Drive in Fort Lauderdale,” boasts Sandy Lighterman, film commissioner for Broward County (Film Lauderdale) and president of Film Florida.

Paris Hilton has hinted that her iconic The Simple Life TV series with close pal Nicole Richie could be returning.The duo shot to fame over 20 years ago when their reality series became a global sensation as they travelled across the US in their pink pickup truck. The Noughties show saw Nicole, the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie and Brenda Harvey, and Paris, the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, swap their lavish lifestyles for menial jobs to experience life without their usual wealth.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The boxing world has a heavyweight title bouts in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, May 18 with the headliner match between English boxers Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury (34-0-1) vs. Ukrainian fighter Oleksandr “The Cat” Usyk (21-0) for the undisputed heavyweight title of the world.

Naman Ramachandran Production is underway on horror-thriller film “Borderline,” shot in the U.K. and Malta. Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”), Laura Marano (“The Royal Treatment”) and Middle Eastern star Cynthia Khalifeh (“8 Days”) lead a cast that also includes Jason Flemyng (“A Violent Man”).

Is Billie Eilish going more Taylor Swift? Or are fans just quicker to pick up on this kind of thing thanks to Tay? Either way, we’re kind of into it!

Ben Affleck got super candid about having to “compromise” in the second iteration of his relationship with Jennifer Lopez. And he did so on a grand stage, months before those divorce rumors!

Cassie Ventura‘s husband is sticking up for her after that awful Diddy video!

If you’re watching Bridgerton on Netflix, you might be wondering about that makeout scene in the carriage.

Jeremy Renner is back at work on his series Mayor of Kingstown after his well-documented snowmobile accident and recovery.

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season finale of Fire Country on CBS.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Netflix’s rom-com “Mother of the Bride” and Will Forte crime drama series “Bodkin” led the Luminate streaming originals chart for the week of May 10-16, elbowing past higher-profile competition. Two buzzy streaming original movies — Netflix’s “Unfrosted” and Amazon Prime Video’s “The Idea of You” — held up well in their second full week in release. The Jake Gyllenhaal starrer “Road House” continues to be a work horse for Prime Video, which confirmed earlier this week that a second installment is in development.

Former Jeopardy champ Brad Rutter is spilling some trade secrets about the long-running game show.

Wendi Peters, famed for her role as the outspoken Cilla Battersby-Brown on Coronation Street, appears to have found love again after her marriage split – and has made it Instagram official with her new beau. The soap favourite is now said to be dating carpet fitter Gareth Wale for a few months, with Wendi seemingly introducing Gareth to her family.The 56-year-old actress, who bid farewell to the Weatherfield cobbles a decade ago and currently appears in the soon-to-be-cancelled Doctors, has been enjoying some swoon-worthy dates with Gareth.

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For some years now, Nicolas Cage has been a genre unto himself: desperate, deranged, deliciously cheesy, with that special mastery of dialogue that moves seamlessly from a panting whisper to a bellow and back again. Put Cage’s name above the title and your film has an immediate brand that not only rides over script glitches but does a full Fast and Furious speed-jump over the top of any yawning gaps in probability.

Jack Dunn Umbrelic Entertainment has unveiled the cast of its upcoming horror film, “The Possession at Gladstone Manor,” which includes Caylee Cowan (“Hypnotic”), Jesse Metcalfe (“John Tucker Must Die”), Charlotte Kirk (“The Reckoning”), Darren Weiss (“Inside Man”), Barbara Crampton (“You’re Next”), William Mapother (“Blackhat”) and Lin Shaye (“Insidious” franchise). Production is currently underway in Kansas City, and AMP’s Anthony Buckner is handling international sales at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. According to an official logline, “The Possession at Gladstone Manor” picks up “when Jamie Black discovers her mother has gone missing [and] resolves to investigate by applying for the same job her mother held at Gladstone Manor.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Bring back my girls,” RuPaul famously said; now, here they are again in “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 9.” Angeria Paris VanMichaels, Gottmik, Jorgeous, Nina West, Plastique Tiara, Roxxxy Andrews, Shannel and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo are the returning queens and they’re doing something good for the world. In a new twist, they’re no longer competing for prize money; instead, they’re backing their favorite charities. The competition will follow a non-elimination format.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. When Michael Jordan made his return to the NBA after a two-season hiatus, he took the Chicago Bulls to the Eastern Conference Semifinals in 1995. Although MJ eventually fell to the upstart Orlando Magic with Shaquille O’Neal and Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway, he was wearing the iconic Nike Air Jordan 11 sneakers.

Lexi Carson Life certainly imitates art as the “Merrily We Roll Along” trio Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez are just as close in real life as they are in the show. Radcliffe served as the ring bearer for Mendez’s wedding to fellow actor J. Alex Brinson on April 22 in New York, N.Y., while Groff was the officiant.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic With science denialism and theocratic politics both on the rise, it’s an opportune moment to revisit the life of Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries about the cosmos four centuries ago were considered a threat to the authority of the Catholic Church. But there are probably better ways to broach the subject than “Galileo: A Rock Musical,” an odd mixture of earnestness, flash and snark made odder by a score that trades in bombastic power-ballad sounds reminiscent of Jefferson Starship, Styx and Jim Steinman.

A missing Algerian teen has finally been found ALIVE after 26 years — but no one suspected him to be just feet away from his home the whole time…

King Charles is officially wealthier than his late mother Queen Elizabeth II! Wow, didn’t see that coming!

Well, it turns out the conspiracy theorists may actually be half-right… for whatever that’s worth! LOLz!

Content warning: This story describes domestic violence and alleged sexual assault.As sickening as it was to watch the footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie Ventura at a hotel in 2016—released Friday, May 17, by CNN, and corroborating the claims she made —it can and will never compare to the terrible suffering experienced by his victim. But we must .

, we need to talk about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romantic outing in Lake Como, Italy.On May 17, and were photographed cuddling up and sharing a sweet kiss during a rainy boat trip in Lake Como. In another image Swift and Kelce can be seen walking hand in hand on the dock, with Swift dressed in a tan trench coat, a tiny black purse, and patent leather Mary Jane flats. You can .For his part, Kelce was dressed in a black-and-white swirling checkerboard-pattern sweater, black pants, and what may or may not be a Taylor Swift–inspired friendship bracelet.

Details from Cassie Ventura‘s 2023 lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs are re-surfacing following the release of the hotel security footage of him attacking her.

A trio of drug dealers were hauled off a plane at Manchester Airport as they were about to fly to Ibiza. The three men, who hid behind the anonymous usernames "Mucky Mouth", "Frosty Finger" and "Wireless Dove", had tens of thousands of pounds and luxury watches seized from them after they were stopped.

CNN will make its June 27 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump available for simulcast by other networks, a spokesperson said Friday.