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Nicole Scherzinger is mourning her dear friend Liam Payne, whom she was texting on the very day he died. Oof.

Nicole Scherzinger is credited with helping form One Direction while serving as a judge on The X Factor UK and she actually kept in touch with Liam Payne until he passed away.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Even without the John Williams factor, the premiere event for the 38th annual AFI Fest would have been notable in one particular regard, Steven Spielberg said. “First of all, I thank the AFI board and everyone for doing something they’ve never done before, which is to open the AFI Festival with a documentary,” Spielberg said in introducing the 2025 events’s opening-night attraction at the TCL Chinese Theatre.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time, but it also proves memorable enough to carry with us out of the cinema. So effective are his themes that to hum just a few notes of a Williams score is to be caught up in the same emotions you felt gazing up at the big screen in the first place, watching Superman take flight over Manhattan or Elliott and E.T.

The AFI Fest opened Wednesday night back at its home, the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and runs through Sunday, highlighted by world premieres of awaited new films from past American Film Institute Life Achievement Award honorees including Tom Hanks with his new film, Here, on Friday, and Clint Eastwood with his latest, Juror #2, on Sunday (among a host of prime Oscar contenders and international films). But the fest kicked off with yet another AFI honoree, legendary movie composer and musician John Williams, who is the subject of an exceptionally well-conceived and executed documentary on his remarkable career.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor One of the year’s most anticipated and epic musical scores won’t be in the running for an Academy Award. Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part Two,” directed by Denis Villeneuve, was met with critical acclaim when it hit theaters in March.

Thania Garcia Jeff Jones will exit as the CEO of the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd after 17 years in the role, the company has announced Monday. Apple Corps Ltd was founded in 1968 by the Beatles to control the band’s interests across music, film, publishing and more.

Strictly Come Dancing fans feel one performance in week five on Saturday night was 'overmarked' by the judges.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Signalling one of the biggest European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the latest big series swing from Germany’s Story House Pictures, behind Beta Film/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian public broadcaster counterpart ORF. In further news, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers,” this year’s Canneseries best series and German TV Awards winner, is set to helm the series. Based on one of Europe’s largest IPs and now backed by ARD, the biggest of Europe’s public broadcasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story House Pictures, the international studio of the Bavaria Film Group, and producer and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a staff writer on “Dignity” and a Story House development executive.

Youngsters from Paisley Gaelic Choir fought off stiff competition to bag first prize at a national event.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor This time last year, executive directors of film festivals were programming screenings and premieres without stars due to the labor union strikes. Now, some 12 months later, says Middleburg Film Festival executive director Susan Koch declares, “We’re welcoming back filmmakers and actors. It’s our strongest year yet.” The festival, which is based in horse country due east of Washington, D.C., kicks off its 12th year with Steve McQueen’s “Blitz.” The World War II drama, starring Saoirse Ronan, will be co-presented with the British embassy.

Police in Argentina have released some of the details surrounding Liam Payne's death at a hotel in Buenos Aires.

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Kyle Donnelly’s remarkable run of success continued after the Kamma Gym ace won WBC under-18 super bantamweight world title in Ayr.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman didn’t want a score that paid homage to “Saturday Night Live.” Musician Jon Batiste says, “He wanted a pressure cooker of a score, and I interpreted that to mean that he wanted me to do an anti-score.” “Saturday Night” follows a tense 90 minutes on October 11, 1975, as Lorne Michaels and a group of young comedians and writers prepare for the first broadcast and premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” Batiste is doing double duty in Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” he’s playing musician and band leader Billy Preston, and he also composed the film’s score. The “anti-score” directive was heaven for Batiste who loved that type of score because it breaks with the paradigm. The narrative is set within a 90-minute timespan.

Jon Burlingame In the absence of a phenomenon like “Barbenheimer,” which dominated the Grammys’ visual-media categories last year, the outlook for 2025 is considerably more complicated and, some might say, more interesting. Look for the summer’s biggest movie hits, “Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine,” to land spots in the score and compilation soundtrack categories when the Grammy nominees are announced Nov.

Optical illusions can be insightful tools for self-discovery.

Marta Balaga Composer Howard Shore likes to sleep on it. “I try to get in touch with my inner feelings,” he said at the Zurich Film Festival, explaining his preferred method of working.“If you think about cinema, you go into a dark room and all this imagery starts appearing. You are in a dream-like state and I like to use that idea when I write music for film.

One lucky cinephile will soon have the chance to work with Paul Schrader on his next film.

The Simpsons have incorporated a parody of The White Lotus’ opening credits in a new episode.The nod to the Emmy-winning HBO series comes as the iconic Springfield family are back on screens, kicking off the 36th season.Starting last Sunday (September 29) with an episode that was dubbed the “series finale”, the new season already gripped fans’ attention with the return of Conan O’Brien to the show. O’Brien formerly helped write some of the fan-favourite episodes in earlier seasons.Now, the upcoming episode set for this weekend is certain to get the fanbase of another series talking too, as it comes as a parody of Mike White’s hit show The White Lotus.According to a description of the plot shared by Variety, the episode sees the Simpson family travel to “The Yellow Lotus”, where they “encounter death on vacation at a high-end resort.”Not only is the premise a nod to the award-winning HBO drama – which first aired in 2021 and has already had two seasons – but the opening credits also come as a parody to those of the original series.Written and sung by Kara Talve, who has also composed for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Faraway Downs, The Simpsons’ intro comes more inspired by the intro to season two of The White Lotus.

One of the country’s biggest music conferences and festivals will be returning to Manchester for the second year in a row next week.