China Box Office Reaches All-Time Summer Record, With Minimal Help From Hollywood

Kourtney Kardashian has gone from bad to worse. The two sisters have been at each other’s throats for the better part of a year now, and it shows no signs of stopping. Things are getting so bad, that Kourtney even told Kim she hated her in a new clip from Season 4 of “The Kardashians.”Fans have been watching Kim and Kourtney’s relationship grow more and more rocky over the past year.

Taylor Swift is an icon. There’s no doubt about it. It’s no secret that she has a plethora of guys who would love to date her.

*NSYNC are set to reunite onstage for the first time in a decade at the MTV VMAs tonight (September 12), Billboard reports.The boyband last came together in 2013 for the same awards for Justin Timberlake‘s Video Vanguard Award medley. Meanwhile, in 2019, the other members – Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and JC Chasez – joined Ariana Grande to perform ‘break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored’ and ‘Tearin’ Up My Heart’ during her headlining Coachella set.Earlier this week, fans began speculating that *NSYNC would come back together at the 2023 VMAs when Timberlake, Fatone, and Bass were all spotted around New York City.Teasers for the upcoming Trolls movie, in which Timberlake stars as lead character Branch, have also pointed towards a potential reunion.Per an image shared by X/Twitter user Mike Taylor, *NSYNC’s logo can be seen on new Trolls posters across New York, which include a QR code that leads users to a snippet of what might be an *NSYNC song titled ‘Take You To A Better Place’.The linked website leads to a snippet of the track, which features a whistled hook and a visual teaser of five trolls to signify the five members of *NSYNC.However, according to TMZ, *NSYNC will reportedly not be performing at the event, but rather presenting an award.The group officially parted ways in 2007 and Justin Timberlake left in 2002, the group have remained in touch, showing up for special events together.Meanwhile, Timberlake reunited with Timbaland and Nelly Furtado to release a new single ‘Keep Going Up’ last week.The single marks the Grammy-winning producer’s first official solo single in more than eight years.

Apple TV+’s early originals, The Morning Show, returns for its third season this month.Created by Jay Carson, the drama examines life behind a popular morning news programme amid sexual misconduct allegations and the COVID-19 pandemic.Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon lead the series as show hosts Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson respectively, with a supporting cast that includes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman and Steve Carell.In the show’s third season, Jon Hamm, Nicole Beharie and Tig Notaro have all joined the cast.The first two episodes of season three arrive on Apple TV+ on Wednesday September 13. In the US, episodes usually arrive on the streaming service around 12am ET, which translates to 5am BST in the UK.The remaining eight episodes will be released weekly from this date, with the finale scheduled for November 8, 2023.Apple released a trailer for the third season last month – check it out above.A synopsis reads: “In The Morning Show season three, the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA.

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is highly anticipated as it will finally wrap up the show and producer Shawn Levy is teasing what’s ahead for the citizens of Hawkins.

EXCLUSIVE: After showing her strong support for interim agreements while promoting her film Memory on the festival circuit, Jessica Chastain is backing that up with Dreams, which has received a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement last month. The Teorema pic reunites her with her Memory director Michel Franco and recently finished filming in San Francisco, where some 60 actors and 50 below-the-line crew members were employed for the shoot. Rupert Friend among those featured in the cast.

A group of top-tier showrunners including Kenya Barris and Noah Hawley has set a meeting with the WGA leadership as they try to aid the negotiating process.

In a preview of an experience we’ll all be likely hearing a lot about in coming months, Darren Aronofsky has posted the first video from inside The Sphere in Las Vegas, and it’s pretty impressive.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are among a group of writers that filed a class action lawsuit against Meta in San Francisco federal court for having “copied and ingested” their works to train its LLaMA AI platform.

Brazil has selected Kleber Mendonça Filho’s documentary Pictures of Ghosts as its entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: In a continuation of a recent signing hot streak, Independent Artist Group has brought in Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of Star Trek: Discovery, who has made history in recent years as the first Black woman to topline a project in the Gene Roddenberry franchise, as well as its first Black female Starfleet Captain.

in your area" has taken on a more literal meaning for the past year as the Korean girl group embarked on their Born Pink world tour. Spanning more than 60 dates across 22 counties and four continents, the Born Pink world tour isn't just a testament to Blackpink's global popularity—it's also a reminder of Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé, and Lisa's fashion dominance and their unrelenting commitment to serving looks.From 'fits dreamed up by the group's stylist Minhee Park to custom designer pieces, the Born Pink tour delivered plenty of memorable fashion moments.

, defined as the things they would never do to their own hair, I realized I still make my fair share. And then some.From how we brush and wash to drying our hair, there are so many easy hair care mistakes to make that it's hard to keep track—and some that even the most diehard beauty buffs can overlook.Well, hopefully not anymore. Ahead, see the 15 most common contenders, and join me in my journey to actively unlearn a handful of them.

A woman whose cancer symptoms were ignored by doctors until it was too late has died aged 32.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Noted Japanese director Ando Momoko (“Kakera: Pieces of Our Life,” “0.5mm”) has been named as the ambassador for this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. She also features, alongside her father Okuda Eiji in the festival’s newly-released poster, which recreates a scene from Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” and in which Okuda and Ando represent the classic film’s Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko characters. The poster image, shot at the rooftop garden of Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo Station in the background, was designed by Koshino Junko, who has created the festival’s key visuals for the past three years.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Tencent, the Chinese games, social media and streaming giant, reported further quarterly profits recovery after a dire 2022. But its revenues for the April-June period missed financial analysts’ expectations and point to continued weakness in the Chinese economy. Group revenues for the period were RMB149 billion ($20.6 billion), representing an 11% year-on-year growth, but a 1% quarter-on-quarter decline.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief South Korean police said on Wednesday that they had found evidence that the box office performance of 323 films over the past five years had been inflated. Seoul Metropolitan Police said that, as a result, they had referred 69 people from major exhibition chains and 24 film distribution companies to prosecutors.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The number of paying streaming subscribers at China’s Tencent Music Entertainment hit 100 million in the June, the company said Tuesday as it revealed its second quarter financials. Subscriber numbers increased by 20% year on year and by 5 million quarter on quarter, to hit 99.4 million, the company said. That increase helped quarterly revenues from music subscriptions to rise by 37% year-on-year to RMB2.89 billion ($399 million).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Disney-owned Lucasfilm/ Industrial Light & Magic is to close its VFX and animation facility in Singapore, where more than 300 people are employed. The company points to changes in the global entertainment industry as a factor behind the decision. “Over the next several months, ILM will be consolidating its global footprint and winding down its Singapore studio due to economic factors affecting the industry,” Disney said in a statement emailed to Variety.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Lee Byung-hun-starring disaster movie “Concrete Utopia” topped the South Korean box office over the latest weekend, replacing female led crime caper “Smugglers.” Directed by Um Tae-hwa, “Concrete Utopia” is set in a Seoul that has been largely destroyed by a massive earthquake. One building stands tall among the wreckage and becomes a refuge for those already inside, but the inhabitants must fend of the unwanted attentions of outsiders. It opened on Wednesday, earning $8.40 million between Friday and Sunday and fully $11.3 million over its full opening five days, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Chinese crime action movie “No More Bets,” not “Barbie,” was the best performing film in the world this weekend. Comscore calculates that “No More Bets,” earned $88 million between Friday and Sunday in China alone. That figure is greater than the $33.7 million that “Barbie” earned in its fourth weekend of release in North America and the $45.1 million that it earned in international territories (for a global, weekend total of $78.8 million).