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4-day Iranian film show starts Saturday

4-day Iranian film show starts Saturday

-- 2018-11-02 15:10:40

A 4-day Iranian film show will begin at national music and dance auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy from November 3 (Saturday). Iran Cultural Centre, Dhaka and BSA will jointly orgnaise the...

Oprah to shine star power on Democrat Abrams

Oprah to shine star power on Democrat Abrams

-- 2018-11-01 17:29:35

Oprah Winfrey is lending her star power on Thursday to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is vying to become the first female black governor in the United States. The media mogul has long championed...

Netflix to release three films in theatres first

Netflix to release three films in theatres first

-- 2018-11-01 13:58:44

Netflix Inc will debut three of its upcoming original films in a limited number of theatres before the movies appear on the streaming service, the company said on Wednesday. The move for ‘Roma,...

Rock band Kiss promises 'unapologetic' final tour

Rock band Kiss promises 'unapologetic' final tour

-- 2018-10-31 13:43:53

Members of the rock band Kiss said they are kicking off a farewell concert tour in January because they wanted to say goodbye while they could still deliver the over-the-top performances that have thr...

Korean actress Son Ye-jin wins Best Actress Award at The Seoul Awards

Korean actress Son Ye-jin wins Best Actress Award at The Seoul Awards

FE Online Desk 2018-10-30 13:32:12

South Korea's leading actress Son Ye-jin has been awarded the Best Actress Award and Popularity Award at the second annual The Seoul Awards held on Saturday. She is of MS Team Entertainment Company...

Demi Lovato is 90 days sober, her mother says

Demi Lovato is 90 days sober, her mother says

-- 2018-10-28 12:48:48

Demi Lovato has reached 90 days of sobriety, according her mother, Dianna De La Garza. "She has 90 days," she confirmed in an interview on Maria Menounos‘ Sirius XM show Friday. "I couldn't be...

Sumon and Eti enthral audience with music

Sumon and Eti enthral audience with music

-- 2018-10-27 18:15:01

Iqbal Sumon and Khaleda Yeasmin Eti enthralled the audience at their first-ever duet musical in public appearance on Friday evening.  Organised by ‘Setu’ to celebrate its three decad...

Michael Jackson's 'Bad' tour jacket up for auction

Michael Jackson's 'Bad' tour jacket up for auction

-- 2018-10-27 13:41:33

Michael Jackson’s black “Bad” jacket that the singer wore on his first solo tour is going up for auction in November and could fetch up to $100,000. Julien’s Auctions said on...

Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam

Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam

-- 2018-10-26 16:51:53

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor has announced she has converted to Islam. The artist, who is best known for her 1990 hit version of the song Nothing Compares 2 U, said she had changed her name to...

Sofia Vergara tops as highest paid star on TV

Sofia Vergara tops as highest paid star on TV

-- 2018-10-26 13:28:13

Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is the best-paid actor on US TV, earning $16 million (£12.4 million) more than her nearest rival, according to Forbes magazine. Vergara earned $42.5 million (&p...

Netflix cancels Marvel’s Luke Cage

Netflix cancels Marvel’s Luke Cage

-- 2018-10-20 22:22:25

Just a week after it announced that Iron Fist wouldn’t return for a third season, Marvel has revealed that another of its Netflix shows won’t continue: Luke Cage. The series aired its se...

Disney-Fox merger: Combined box-office strategy begins

Disney-Fox merger: Combined box-office strategy begins

-- 2018-10-20 14:34:31

In recent days, 20th Century Fox has been quietly rearranging its release calendar, no doubt in anticipation of the $70 billion-plus Disney-21st Century Fox marriage. Late last week, Fox pushed back t...

Supermodel Karlie Kloss marries Jared Kushner’s brother

Supermodel Karlie Kloss marries Jared Kushner’s brother

-- 2018-10-19 19:35:08

Supermodel Karlie Kloss has mrried Jared Kushner’s bother businessman Joshua Kushner. Kloss posted a photo of her in a wedding dress and Kushner in a tuxedo — both of them beaming —...

‘Halloween’ targets $70m-plus debut

‘Halloween’ targets $70m-plus debut

-- 2018-10-19 15:07:03

Blumhouse and Universal's Halloween — a direct sequel to the 1978 classic slasher hit — is headed for a $70 million-plus debut at the domestic box office, the best showing ever for a title...

‘Airstrike’ director cancels release following Fan Bingbing tax case

‘Airstrike’ director cancels release following Fan Bingbing tax case

-- 2018-10-18 14:37:31

The director of “Air Strike,” featuring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, says the film’s release has been cancelled in the wake of her disappearance and conviction on tax evasion charge...

Frenchwoman settles in Kushtia as Lalon’s devotee

Frenchwoman settles in Kushtia as Lalon’s devotee

-- 2018-10-18 13:07:46

Deborah Cukirman, a Frenchwoman who has transformed herself into a devotee of mystic legend Lalon Fakir and started living in Doulatpur upazila of Kushtia district. Deborah, a translator and a former...

Ayub Bachchu is no more

Ayub Bachchu is no more

-- 2018-10-18 11:07:27

Ayub Bachchu, a legendary guitarist-songwriter-singer, died of cardiac arrest at his Moghbazar residence in Dhaka city on Thursday. He was 56. Dr Mohammad Nazim Uddin, spokesperson of Square Hospital...

Netflix soars on record subscriber total

Netflix soars on record subscriber total

-- 2018-10-17 13:04:52

Netflix added seven million new customers in the three months to September, bringing its global total to more than 137 million. The stronger than expected growth - a record for the third quarter - se...

Cruise marriage protected me from harassment: Nicole Kidman

Cruise marriage protected me from harassment: Nicole Kidman

-- 2018-10-16 16:59:28

Nicole Kidman has said her marriage to Tom Cruise gave her "protection" from sexual harassment early in her career. The Australian actress married Cruise in 1990 after they starred together in the fi...

Nicole Kidman radically transforms for drama 'Destroyer'

Nicole Kidman radically transforms for drama 'Destroyer'

-- 2018-10-16 13:25:11

Hollywood star Nicole Kidman undergoes a dramatic makeover for new drama “Destroyer”, playing a tired-looking and worn out police detective with a painful history. The Oscar winner swaps...

Netflix cancels Marvel's 'Iron Fist' after two seasons

Netflix cancels Marvel's 'Iron Fist' after two seasons

-- 2018-10-14 21:30:23

Marvels Iron Fist will not return for a third season, said a Netflix representative recently. "Marvel's 'Iron Fist' will not return for a third season on Netflix. Everyone at Marvel Television and Ne...

'First Man' losing badly to 'Star Is Born,' 'Venom'

'First Man' losing badly to 'Star Is Born,' 'Venom'

-- 2018-10-14 14:00:42

Universal's critically acclaimed astronaut drama First Man is headed for a muted domestic debut of $16.8 million after earning $5.9 million on Friday from 3,640 theatres. The hope is that the adult-sk...

Russo Brothers confirm wrapping up filming of Avengers 4

Russo Brothers confirm wrapping up filming of Avengers 4

-- 2018-10-13 21:18:31

Avengers 4 has finished production, the Russo Brothers confirmed, according to a report in The Indian Express. The film was undergoing reshoots and at least a little additional photography (perhaps o...

Disney remaking Aladdin

Disney remaking Aladdin

-- 2018-10-13 14:30:43

The street rat is back - and this time in the flesh. Disney has announced that it is planning to release a live-action adaptation next May of its animated classic Aladdin, the ancient tale of the pen...

Guitarist Buckingham sues Fleetwood Mac for kicking him out

Guitarist Buckingham sues Fleetwood Mac for kicking him out

-- 2018-10-12 20:37:27

Lindsey Buckingham is suing Fleetwood Mac for kicking him off the band's new tour. In the suit, the Hollywood Reporter says the guitarist and songwriter is seeking his share of the tour because he sa...

Akshay cancels film shoot after #MeToo allegations against director

Akshay cancels film shoot after #MeToo allegations against director

-- 2018-10-12 14:27:42

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has cancelled today's (Friday) shoot of Housefull 4 after grave sexual harassment allegations against the film’s director Sajid Khan surfaced on Thursday. A...

Dhaka Korean Film Festival from Friday

Dhaka Korean Film Festival from Friday

-- 2018-10-11 20:12:15

A five-day film festival titled 'Dhaka Korean Film Festival 2018' will begin in the city on Friday. The opening ceremony of the film festival, to be hosted by South Korean Embassy in Dhaka, will be h...

Appeals court lifts judge’s ban on Lynyrd Skynyrd movie

Appeals court lifts judge’s ban on Lynyrd Skynyrd movie

-- 2018-10-11 13:36:02

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd cannot block the release of a movie created with help from a former drummer, and which depicted the plane crash that...

EgyptAir’s magazine apologises over Drew Barrymore article

EgyptAir’s magazine apologises over Drew Barrymore article

-- 2018-10-10 13:45:16

EgyptAir's in-flight magazine has apologised over an interview with actress Drew Barrymore that was slated on social media after being published. The article went viral after being posted online, wit...

#MeToo hits Indian media, entertainment industry

#MeToo hits Indian media, entertainment industry

-- 2018-10-09 10:53:03

India's #MeToo movement arrived in a cascade of allegations as women took to Twitter to call out comedians, journalists, authors, actors and filmmakers - in the process, they have sparked a debate abo...