Baz Luhrmann's rock'n'roll biopic "Elvis" hip-swiveled to the top of the box office on its opening weekend in North America, taking in an estimated $30.5 million in a rare tie with "Top Gun: Maverick," industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. . It also earned an estimated $30.5 million in its fifth weekend of release.
Menswear proved to be in reinvigorated form as Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, with spectacle, innovation and the return of big-name designers to the catwalk. . He gave no explanation for his reappearance on the catwalks, but he returns when there is a sense of a renaissance in menswear.
Jailed former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch -- despite not being suicidal -- according to her lawyers, who said they would move to postpone her sentencing for sex trafficking if she remained in isolation. . If Maxwell remains on suicide watch, her lawyers will move on Monday to postpone her sentencing, Sternheim said.
Iran's next revolution will be brought on by women taking back the freedoms denied to them in the Islamic republic, said Zar Amir Ebrahimi, the winner of this year's Best Actress award at Cannes.. But in contrast to the movie's hopelessly grim take on attitudes towards women in Iran -- which became an Islamic republic after the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah -- Amir Ebrahimi said she was now detecting signs that women were finally fighting back.
US rapper Kendrick Lamar will bring the curtain down on Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, after Paul McCartney ran through a set of Beatles classics, helped out by Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl.. McCartney, who turned 80 last week, on Saturday became the oldest main stage headliner of all time, and was joined by Springsteen for "I Wanna Be Your Man", while former Nirvana man Grohl came on for "I Saw Her Standing There."
A tattooed pop star banned for her slinky dresses and support for women's rights.. Another group managed to get pop star Melek Mosso's shows cancelled in the western city of Isparta because of her "immoral" low-cut dresses.
A Cuban court has sentenced two artists critical of the communist state to nine and five years in prison, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of heavy penalties doled out to government dissenters.. Rapper Maykel Castillo, 39, better known as Osorbo, was sentenced to nine years, while 34-year-old performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara was given five years in prison, the attorney general's office said on Friday.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, under fire for a wooden performance in election campaigning, has sought to reveal a more human side in a series of interviews, notably over her family history.. Critics had accused Borne, named prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron last month, of lacking the human touch in France's parliamentary election that cost the government its majority in the legislature.
The body of software entrepreneur John McAfee remained at a morgue in Spain Thursday a year after his death as a legal case filed by his family, who do not believe he committed suicide, is yet to be resolved.. "One year ago today John McAfee was stolen from us.
With feats of contemporary dance and fiery orbs being flung from cranes, two of the showiest men's brands on Thursday brought some spectacle back to Paris Fashion Week after a subdued couple of years. . The brand had presented all its collections via online videos or installations around Paris over the past two years, and was among the last to return to live shows.
