This year’s Cannes Film Festival is at its halfway mark, but it’s been an attention-grabbing affair since its start — from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise.
Scarlett Johansson, who set a record for a woman with her seventh appearance as host, used her monologue to lead most of the current cast of the NBC sketch institution in a song sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.”
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another.
Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office.
Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theaters this weekend and easily topped the domestic charts with $51 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Austrian fans enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport on Sunday after he won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with “Wasted Love.”
Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown ‘s upcoming tour was thrown into question Friday as a British judge ordered him held in custody while facing allegations that he beat a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
R&B singer Cassie delved further into text messages with former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs during her cross-examination Friday in the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial, telling “I’m not a rag doll. I’m somebody’s child” after he beat her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

Mitchell High School will honor the Class of 2025 during its graduation ceremony this Sunday at 2 p.m. inside the historic Mitchell Corn Palace. The celebration will feature speeches by seniors Maxwell Hart and Ashlyn Reynolds, who were selected by their peers to represent the graduating class. School board members will be present to award diplomas as families, friends, and community members gather to celebrate this milestone achievement.
Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor known simply as Cassie, began testifying Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ sex trafficking trial. She is expected to return to the stand on Wednesday.
Three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise returned to the Croisette on Wednesday with “Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning.”