Romania: 2 Canadians to sleep in coffins at Dracula’s Castle
BRAN, Romania (AP) — A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired…
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‘Madea’ stuns ‘Inferno’ in box office upset
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s latest Dan Brown adaptation, “Inferno,” went up in flames at the weekend box office, handing Tyler…
Powder sprinkled into opera pit may have been human ashes
NEW YORK (AP) — A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York’s Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover’s…
Dylan tells Swedish Academy he accepts Nobel Prize
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left…
Female ‘revolutionaries’ take over Amazon Prime
LOS ANGELES — Anna Camp has played a lot of “Type A” characters in her career. So when the producers of the new Amazon…
Twitter cuts staff, kills off Vine app
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, seemingly unable to find a buyer and losing money, is cutting about 9 percent of its employees worldwide. It is…
Cranston details dark thoughts, inspirations in new memoir
NEW YORK (AP) — Bryan Cranston seems so far apart from the murderous Walter White that one wonders how he was able to channel such…
‘Battlefield 1’ looks backward for fresh ideas
The Associated Press Why doesn’t World War I get more attention in popular media? It’s complicated. Sure, we all know it started when some archduke…
Amy Schumer slammed for Beyonce parody she calls tribute
The Associated Press Amy Schumer is brushing off critics who say her parody of Beyonce’s “Formation” video is racially insensitive. The video features a sweaty…
Bill Murray honored with Mark Twain prize
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an evening filled with jokes about Bill Murray’s elusiveness and quirky personality, the actor was honored with the nation’s top prize…
Nobel academy member calls Dylan’s silence ‘arrogant’
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A member of the Swedish Academy that awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan says the U.S. singer-songwriter’s silence…
Lady Gaga’s powerful voice stars on uneven ‘Joanne’
The Associated Press Lady Gaga has spent the last few years proving her vocal chops — the Grammy-winning album with Tony Bennett, the show-stopping “Sound…
‘Hot Boy’ rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence
NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Shmurda, a rapper once on the rise thanks to a viral music video that popularized the “Shmoney dance,” was sentenced…
Review: ‘Imaginators’ lets kids build their own Skylanders
The Associated Press Kids these days sure have a lot of characters to play with, whether they’re into superheroes, “Star Wars” or classics like Barbie…
Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam lead rock hall of fame ballot
NEW YORK (AP) — The late rapper Tupac Shakur and Seattle-based rockers Pearl Jam are among the first-time nominees on the ballot for induction next…
Up for a night at Dracula’s castle in Transylvania?
BRAN CASTLE, Romania (AP) — Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the…
Affleck’s ‘The Accountant’ tops charts with $24.7M
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ben Affleck is still a box office draw outside of the bat suit. His new thriller “The Accountant” opened to a…
Shooting, stabbing at model Miranda Kerr’s home
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Media reports say an intruder outside the mansion of supermodel Miranda Kerr has been shot by a security guard, and Kerr…
FilmStruck aims to bring the art house into your living room
NEW YORK (AP) — Does this sound familiar? You want to stream a movie and end up spending most of your time clicking through a…
‘Deepwater Horizon’ – Haunting dramatization of a real disaster
The smallest of human error quickly grows to massive tragedy in “Deepwater Horizon”, from director Peter Berg (“Lone Survivor”), a haunting dramatization of the ill-fated…
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