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The fate of Japanese LGBTQ+ reality dating series The Boyfriend has just been revealed!

Big Special and Master Peace are among the most eye-catching of the 160 new names added in the second round of Showcasing Artists joining the SXSW 2025 line-up.SXSW will be celebrating its 39th year next year, and is set to take place in Austin, Texas from March 10 to 15.Punk duo Big Special and London indie sleaze revivalist Master Peace will be making the journey from the UK alongside Manchester-based jasmine.4.t, who became the first Brit signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory record label earlier this year, and singer and multi-instrumentalist Freak Slug.Sam Ryder, who gave the UK its best Eurovision result since 1998, is another notable new inclusion, as are Liverpool indie-punks Gen and the Degenerates.Big Freedia, a pioneer of the New Orleans rap genre bounce who’s been sampled by Beyonce, is set to appear, as are the Tokyo futurepop sister duo Tamanaramen, Barcelona indie rockers HEAL, and Czechia’s Eurovision 2024 entrant Aiko. With over 160 artists, countries from Brazil to Indonesia to Nigeria to Ukraine are represented.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked Chinese filmmaker and 2024 Un Certain Regard Prize winner, Guan Hu, for representation in all areas. 

Fire Force Season 3 is coming!

A teenager has set her sights on the Olympics after becoming Britain’s fastest female climber.

Naman Ramachandran Singapore director Chiang Wei Liang and co-director Yin You Qiao’s “Mongrel,” a portrayal of disenfranchised migrant workers in Taiwan, won Best Asian Feature Film at the 35th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). The jury praised the film’s “dense, shadowy and violent world” and its innovative approach to depicting contemporary issues of forced migration. The film has previously won awards at the Cannes and the Golden Horse festivals and at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Based on the novel by Shuang Xuetao, My Friend An Delie marks seasoned actor Dong Zijian‘s directorial debut.

Brendan Fraser have given an update on his upcoming post The Whale films, including Searchlight’s Tokyo-Shot Rental Family, and also revealed he would like to get into producing next, in an onstage conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival.

Keely Hodgkinson was told by Sir Alex Ferguson that she might not fully value her Olympic gold medal until her career ends, during a heartfelt exchange at Old Trafford.

TikTok users are calling out Khloé Kardashian for what they’re saying is a SUPER different look in Bustle‘s fresh new series of Keeping Up With The Kardashians throwback videos this week! But honestly? We’re not totally feeling what fans are saying this time around!

The sudden death of Japanese actress Miho Nakayama, who was found unresponsive in her bathtub at her Tokyo home, is being investigated by police. Reports suggest that the 54 year old star may have drowned as she was discovered sitting upright and leaning forward in the bath. She won hearts not only as a TV star but also as a J-pop singer.

Japanese singer and actress Miho Nakayama was found dead at her home in Tokyo on Friday.

Japanese actress Miho Nakayama has been found dead in her bathtub in Tokyo.

Ellise Shafer Miho Nakayama, a Japanese singer and actor best known for the 1995 romance film “Love Letter,” was found dead at her home in Tokyo on Friday. She was 54. Nakayama’s team confirmed the news in a post on her website, writing: “We are deeply sorry to have to suddenly announce this to all the people involved who have always looked after her and to all the fans who have supported her, but this incident was so sudden that we, too, are shocked and saddened.

Khloé Kardashian, girl, what are you doing?!?!

SM Entertainment has dropped the first batch of stops for the upcoming SMTOWN Live 2025 world tour, with shows in Mexico, Los Angeles and Tokyo.On December 2, the South Korean music label announced the first three stops for its highly anticipated SMTOWN Live 2025 world tour, along with dates and venues. The tour is in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary.It will kick off with two-night residency at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome from January 11 to 12, 2025.

In Japan, you can set your watch by the arrival of a train. “Delays” (if that’s the word) tend to be calculated in seconds – not minutes or hours.

Ringside Studios is teaming with Tokyo Vice producer Alex Boden to create a production services business, as it boards Netflix Japan feature 10Dance.

Tokyo Police Club played their final ever show in their hometown of Toronto on Friday (November 29) – check out footage below.The Canadian indie rock group – made up of David Monks, Graham Wright, Josh Hook and Greg Alsop – made the announcement that they were breaking up at the start of the year, saying that it was “time for us to say goodbye”.They confirmed that their last show would go down at Toronto’s History venue, and the sold-out show took place in front of their most devout fans. They played an extensive 29-song set, including a nine-track encore, drawing on music from across their career.Making appearances were ‘Cheer It On’, ‘Citizens Of Tomorrow’ and ‘Nature Of The Experiment’ from their debut EP ‘A Lesson In Crime’ from 2006, all the way up to tracks from their final full-length release ‘TPC’ in 2018.See fan-captured footage from the show below.‘Favourite Food’‘Favourite Colour’‘Breakneck Speed’‘Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)’‘Centennial’‘In A Cave’‘Juno’‘Sixties Remake’‘New Blues’‘Simple Dude’‘Pigs’‘Hang Your Heart’‘Hands Reversed’‘Gone’‘Bambi’‘Frankenstein’‘Nature Of The Experiment’‘Citizens Of Tomorrow’‘Listen To The Math’‘Tessellate’‘A Lesson In Crime’‘The Harrowing Adventures Of…’‘Ready To Win’‘Argentina (Parts I, II, III)’‘Hot Tonight’‘Box’‘Cheer It On’‘Your English Is Good’‘End Of A Spark’Announcing their decision to end in January, the band wrote: “It’s time for us to say goodbye! This band has meant so much to us for so many years, but all magical things must come to an end.

Select public screenings of All We Imagine As Light, the second feature from rising Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, began in early May, a few weeks ahead of the film’s splashy competition debut at the Cannes Film Festival. I first saw the film during this run in London at the notoriously dingy Soho screening rooms and as the credits rolled in the room, there was a feeling of subdued excitement in the air. Attendees — some of the industry’s most hardened and cynical critics — could be seen cracking smiles at each other and nodding approvingly. 

Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan has responded to Christopher Nolan revealing his love for Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. Back in 2020, while appearing as a guest on Josh Horowitz’s HappySadConfused podcast, Nolan shared that he’s “got a very soft spot” for Tokyo Drift and went on to praise director Justin Lin’s entries in the franchise “as they got crazier and bigger and crazier and bigger and became something else, but something else kinda fun,” (via Collider).Now, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Morgan opened up to Nolan’s comments about the standalone sequel to 2001’s The Fast and the Furious.After being asked if the news of the Oppenheimer director’s comments had “knocked you sideways at the time,” Morgan said: “How could it not? He is literally one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of humanity, and he likes my movie.“By the way, I’ve spoken to him about it since then.