ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - From a zombie flick starring Iggy Pop to a tale of Chinese gangsters who decide to take over a city, these are the films vying for the top prize at the Cannes film festival which starts this week: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino apparently slaved for four months straight in the editing room to get his odyssey...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Broadway giant Andrew Lloyd Webber has leapfrogged Beatles legend Paul McCartney to become Britain’s wealthiest musician with an estimated fortune of £820 million ($1 billion, 953 million euros), according to the Sunday Times Rich List, published Thursday. Lloyd Webber, 71, wrote the scores for musicals “Cats”, “The Phantom of the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Cannes film festival is not just about killings made on big-money movie deals sealed over champagne in hotel suites and on luxury yachts. It is a goldmine too for many locals in the French Riviera resort. "For my boss the festival is the goose that lays golden eggs," a hotel receptionist called Herve told AFP. The proof, he...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - New York's Fashion Week will last no more than five days this fall, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced Thursday, a move insiders have been urging for years to strengthen the event. The women's shows, which traditionally kicked off on a Wednesday night, will this year begin the evening of Friday, September 6 and...

PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - Plettenberg Bay community members and business owners are set on reviving the recently cancelled Plett Arts Festival. The much anticipated sixth installment of the festival, scheduled for June this year, was recently scrapped after funding for the event could not be secured. Responding to questions from Knysna-Plett Herald Plett...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The remains of the worst known Mediterranean migrant shipwreck, in which up to 900 people died, will be exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale art fair this week. The blue and red fishing boat was carrying almost 1,000 migrants when it struck a Portuguese cargo ship that was coming to its aid off the coast of Libya during the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Creating colorful pictures of surreal human faces, marine animals or even huge owls, hundreds of graffiti artists have turned the Chilean port of Valparaiso into a gigantic open-air art gallery. Elias Street is typical of Valparaiso with its narrow sidewalks winding up and down Cerro Alegre hill, itself a tourist attraction. There...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Disney and Marvel's "Avengers: Endgame" has stormed into historic territory, earning $2.19 billion worldwide in less than two weeks to become the No. 2 film of all time, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. That exalted number, which includes the film's estimated take of $145.8 million this three-day weekend in...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Skemerson is based on a true story and is one of those strong “message” movies about anxiety and depression. Written by Pietie Beyers, who also stars in this production, it is a vivid account of his actual battle with depression and how hope and help are not far away. It serves in a way as an advertisement for those who suffer from...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Xolani Zingeni plays scales on his violin overlooking a muddy courtyard as his teenage sister washes laundry in a bathtub and his great-grandmother carefully hangs it on a washing line. "When I play it helps me to forget about the situation I am in," says the 16-year-old South African. Xolani lives a precarious life shuttling...

KNYSNA ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Carpe Musicam!'s next concert series will be presented over the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 May in George, Mossel Bay and Knysna respectively. In contrast to their previous offering, Fantasia 2019 which included pipers, drummers and dancers from Cape Town, the new show titled Choruses, Concertos…and Carmen! will feature only...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - MultiChoice has announced that it no longer wants to be associated with Hofmeyr or any of his past or future content after it threatened to withdraw its sponsorship of an Afrikaans music awards show held earlier this month if a new music video in which Steve Hofmeyr appeared wasn’t removed as a nominee in one of the categories....

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - New York's Rockefeller Center, famous for its ice rink and art deco buildings, was transformed Thursday into an art gallery housing 20 sculptures, some of them with a heavy political slant. The exhibition was organized by the group Frieze and will remain up until the end of June. It is spread throughout the Rockefeller Center,...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - English multitalented artist Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba is officially off the market. The actor married his sweetheart Sabrina Dhowre, who he proposed to last year. The couple tied the knot at a stunning ceremony at the Ksar Bagh hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Friday. British Vogue made the announcement on Twitter and Instagram on...