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The boom is real. The ambition is even greater. When the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man needed to recreate Stoke-on-Trent, a gritty British industrial town that bears little resemblance to the Pacific Ocean, the production simply relocated to Queensland. “We were able to do it because there was nothing similar in Australia,” said Craig McMahon, CEO of Forte Corp Holdings, which co-financed the film. “And it’s still an Australian film, made here. We have the ability to do it here.” This isn’t the first time Australia has pulled off the trick. When Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis needed to rebuild Memphis from…

Gretchen Wilson is reviving her “scrappy” country music career in honor of her iconic debut. The singer released a new song, “Redneck S–t,” on May 1, which is reminiscent of her first hit single, “Redneck Woman.” “For over 20 years, I’ve watched guys in the audience sing ‘I’m a redneck girl,'” Wilson exclusively told Page Six ahead of Country Thunder Florida’s performance at Coachman Park in Clearwater, Florida. “And I thought, ‘Someday I have to write something for everyone, not just women.'” Gretchen Wilson (pictured performing at Florida’s Country Thunder last Saturday) is reviving her “scrappy” country music career in…

HBO Max has released the first teaser trailer for The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Can’t Save the Universe. The teaser was released during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation for advertisers in New York on Monday. Series stars Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posen, and John Ross Bowie all took to the stage to share a video and announce that the 10-episode show will premiere on HBO Max on July 23rd at 9pm ET. New episodes drop weekly. Check out the full teaser below. The show was originally announced to be in development in April 2023. The logline says: “Stuart…

The 79th Cannes Film Festival opened on Monday with a strict dress code that prohibits nudity, long train gowns and sneakers on the red carpet. Getty Images Bare skin is once again banned on the Cote d’Azur. The 2026 Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Monday and runs until May 23, is implementing a strict dress code, adding sheer gowns and extravagant trains to the official no-fly list. According to the festival’s charter, “nudity is prohibited on the red carpet and in other areas of the festival” for “common sense reasons”. It also prohibits “voluminous clothing, especially clothing with large…

Macaulay Culkin recently told Gentleman’s Journal that part of the reason Catherine O’Hara’s death earlier this year hit him hard was because “I felt like I had unfinished business.” O’Hara played Culkin’s mother in the comedy classics Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Escape from New York, which together grossed more than $830 million worldwide. “When Katherine passed away in January, it hit me hard. It hit me pretty hard because it happened so soon,” Culkin told the magazine. “I felt like we had unfinished business. I certainly feel like I had unfinished business with her. You know? I feel…

Billy Ray Cyrus paid tribute to his ex-wife Tish Cyrus on social media with kind words on her 59th birthday. On Wednesday, the “Achy Breaky Heart” hitmaker shared a video of himself performing his 2007 hit “Ready, Set, Don’t Go,” dedicating the informal acoustic performance to “Hannah Montana Nation and all our friends at Disney” and wishing Tish and his mother Lucy a happy birthday. Billy Ray quoted the song’s lyrics and captioned it, “Stars in her eyes ⭐️. Awards for her to win.” “Two of the greatest mothers of all time were born today and tomorrow. My mother Lucy…

How do you recreate one of the most famous weddings in modern American history? The team behind Episode 6 of “Love Story,” titled “The Wedding” after JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s church wedding, took to the stage at Variety FYC TV Fest on May 6 to discuss the process behind recreating and imagining their 1996 wedding.In a conversation moderated by Variety senior journeyman editor Jazz Tancay, director Gillian Robespierre emphasized the pressure to make the episodes great. She was joined by author Juli Weiner. Constance Zimmer played Bessette’s mother and shared the process behind her emotional monologue. Costume designer Rudy…

Hayden Panettiere claims that her mother and former manager Leslie Vogel reacted badly in three words when she ended their business relationship. Panettiere, now 36, told podcaster Jay Shetty in a candid interview on Monday that she was 19 when she finally had the “courage” to “break up” with Vogel, the “boss” who had been managing her career since she was a child star. “When we were filming ‘Heroes,’ she came to my trailer at lunch and I said to her, ‘I don’t want to work with you anymore. I just want you to be my mom,'” Panettiere allegedly told…

Immersive theater experience based on Pirates of the Caribbean comes to UK Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: An Immersive Adventure, produced by Secret Cinema and Todayics and licensed through Disney Theatrical Group, is scheduled to debut in London in February 2027 for an initial run of 10 weeks. Described as an “all-hands-on-deck experience,” guests will become part of the story as they witness Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl brought to life with interactive sets, live theatrical performances, music and stunts. “Get ready for hijinks on the high seas! Featuring spectacular aerial stunts, fearless sword fights,…

CBS has announced that Big Brother Season 28 will premiere on July 9th at 8pm ET/PT. The show’s sister series, Big Brother: Unlocked, will be rebroadcast the following day in the same time slot. After the Season 28 premiere, subsequent episodes will air Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm ET/PT, and Live Eviction will air Sundays at 8pm ET/PT. CBS promises that season 28 of Big Brother will feature “more hours of programming than ever.” The show is scheduled to present its 1,000th episode during the new season. Big Brother is the first prime-time series to reach this milestone, according to…