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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Antoine Fuqua always knew Nelson Mandela as an icon. But he had no idea he was such a rebel too, and a literal fighter. He remembered walking into a restaurant and seeing a picture of a man in a boxing stance and asked why

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s last captive whales have received a reprieve from death after the government conditionally approved a plan Monday to export them to the United States. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson met Monday with officials from Marineland, the shuttered theme park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, to talk about its proposed plan to

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Jay Duplass had come to a turning point in his life and career. After years of mining personal stories, add those of his family, he’d decided that he was ready to tell other people’s stories. That’s when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon approached

By The Associated Press Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, has died. He was 73. Dunbar’s wife, Thelma, announced the death to the Jamaica Gleaner. Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare — Sly

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — BTS’s upcoming concerts in Mexico have escalated to a presidential level, with the demands of the ARMY fan base reaching Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday news briefing and prompting a response from the president herself. Following a lightning-fast sell-out last week, Mexico’s president used her briefing to advocate

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 7 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall. Producers of the show announced the date and location Monday. Nominations will be announced May 5. Radio City can seat

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some people see the glass as half full and some as half empty. Marc Shaiman is something else entirely. “I’m not even happy with the glass,” he says with a laugh. The award-winning Hollywood and Broadway composer and lyricist cheerfully likes to call himself an

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Dior turned the Musée Rodin into a celebrity waiting room — then into a garden — on the first day of Paris Couture Week. Guests packed into the museum as the start time for the show drifted. French first lady Brigitte Macron arrived. Lauren Sánchez Bezos

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aiming to shake up the Golden State’s media landscape, the California Post launched on Monday with a new tabloid newspaper and news site that brings a brash, cheeky and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple to the West Coast. The Los Angeles outpost of the New

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris men’s Fashion Week ended Sunday with two messages that kept coming up on runways: dress sharply, and build clothes to last. Japanese powerhouse Sacai pushed new shapes by breaking up the usual top-and-bottom silhouette. Hermès, in an emotional farewell show for longtime designer Véronique Nichanian,

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Charli xcx plays herself in “The Moment,” a meta mockumentary about the end of Brat summer and grappling with otherworldly success. “I was just really interested in telling this story about expectation,” Charli xcx told The Associated Press the day after “The Moment” debuted

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A man was arrested Friday night at a party during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, for allegedly assaulting a Florida congressman. Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost wrote on X on Saturday that he was punched in the face by a man

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a winter storm blanketing a large swath of the country, Hollywood had its quietest weekend of the year at the box office. The Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller “Mercy” dethroned “Avatar: Fire and Ash” from the No. 1 spot with $11.2 million in North America,

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Attendees at this year’s Sundance Film Festival could not stand in line, step onto a shuttle bus or walk into a lounge without hearing one common question: “Will you go to the festival when it moves to Boulder?” Butch Ward has been a Sundance regular

By KATIE TAM Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — American rock climber Alex Honnold ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment. Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as he reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower about 90 minutes after he started. Wearing a red

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — With Paris Fashion Week menswear heading into its final weekend, Hermès marked a transition Saturday as Véronique Nichanian presented her final men’s collection after 37 years leading the house’s menswear and then stepped out to acknowledge a standing ovation. The Fall-Winter 2026 show was staged at

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The comedy streak at the Sundance Film Festival continued Saturday with the world premieres of the art world satire “The Gallerist,” with Natalie Portman, and Oliva Wilde’s “The Invite,” a sharp look a crumbling marriage. “The Invite,” which debuted at the Eccles Theater, marks

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Sundance movies might have a reputation for leaning into serious dramas, but this year the independent film festival has a slew of comedies on the slate, from quirky documentaries to more raucous fare. One of the latter comes from filmmaker Macon Blair, a Sundance

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Filmmakers and actors whose careers were shaped by Robert Redford and the Sundance Institute he founded reflected on his legacy as the godfather of independent cinema at a star-studded gala Friday night during the first Sundance Film Festival since his death. The 2026 festival —

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Organizers delayed professional rock climber Alex Honnold’s ropeless ascent of the Taipei 101 skyscraper for 24 hours due to weather, they said. Honnold’s free solo climb of the iconic building in Taiwan’s capital city was supposed to be broadcast live on Netflix on Saturday local time, or Friday evening for viewers

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Can it be that, like many baby boomers, King Charles III feels misunderstood? That might sound like a strange question for a man with his own public relations team and easy access to any journalist in the realm. But 16 years after he wrote a book explaining

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators in Colorado confirmed Friday that the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a suicide, following a review requested by local authorities at the behest of his widow. The probe, announced in September, was opened after Anita Thompson contacted the sheriff for the Aspen

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival was in full swing Friday in Park City, with Channing Tatum, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx movies premiering back-to-back at the storied Eccles Theatre in the evening. First up was “Josephine,” writer-director Beth De Araújo’s raw drama about an 8-year-old

MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain’s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Renée Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership and the new leadership’s announcement that the venue would be renamed the Trump Kennedy Center. The Grammy-winning

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris men’s Fashion Week has been arguing for a new kind of authority this season — coat-first. Across the runways, statement outerwear, bigger shoulders and sharp tailoring have been doing the work, turning familiar staples — trench coats, suits, denim and workwear — into clothes with

By MARIA SHERMAN and JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writers The competition is fierce. Kendrick Lamar’s dominance continues at the 2026 Grammy Awards, where he leads the nominations with nine. He’s followed closely by Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Canadian record producer/songwriter Cirkut, who boast seven each. Then it’s Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Leon Thomas

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A reality TV series meant to spotlight the New York Police Department has spawned a real-life legal drama involving the city and the show’s producer, Jordan McGraw — the son of TV’s “Dr. Phil” McGraw. The city sued the younger McGraw and his production company