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Fifty seasons of “Saturday Night Live” sketches, songs and special guests will be celebrated Sunday as the variety show celebrates its landmark anniversary. The pop culture juggernaut has launched the careers of generations of comedians, from Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig and many Canadians, including Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short and Norm Macdonald. The cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” pose on the show’s set in New York on Sept. 22, 1992, including Chris Farley, Al Franken, Melanie Hutsell, Chris Rock, Julia Sweeney, Dana Carvey, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Ellen Cleghorne, Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman and Tim Meadows. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Justin Sutcliffe Many of those stars will be on hand for “SN...

Fans of the Lord of the Rings franchise can rejoice as the third season of the Prime Video series has been confirmed. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 is in pre-production and will begin filming this spring in the series’ new production home at Shepperton Studios in the UK. Three directors, two returning and one new - Charlotte Brändström, Sanaa Hamri, and Stefan Schwartz - will be a part of this season. The globally successful series, which has attracted over 170 million viewers worldwide, continues to be one of Amazon`s strongest drivers for new Prime membership sign-ups. Season 3 of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power confirmed "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power continues to captivate audiences worldwide, and we`re thrilled that a third season is underway. ...

Artificial intelligence is rightly viewed as a potential threat to music. Models are being trained (illegally, in most cases) on copyrighted music created by flesh-and-blood humans without permission or compensation. AI compositions are being passed off as real human composers on streaming music platforms, taking away streams and income from proper artists. Beyond all the legal issues record labels have against companies producing AI music, they’re also very interested in its cost-saving, career-extending and money-making potential.Last year, Universal Music released a new Spanish version of Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee, a 1958 hit recorded when she was just 13. Lee is 80 now, so it wasn’t like they could get her back into the studio. Instead, they used AI to create a pe...

Director duo Raj-DK’s ambitious fantasy actioner Rakt Bramhand—The Bloody Kingdom has apparently hit a roadblock, forcing the makers to delay its upcoming schedule. Word is that Raj-DK, along with co-director Rahi Anil Barve, were to kick off the second schedule in Mumbai in February. However, the plan has been pushed by two months as the battle sequences of the Aditya Roy Kapur, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Ali Fazal and Wamiqa Gabbi-starrer are being reimagined. Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK A source close to the production reveals, “Rakt Bramhand has been mounted as a big-budget fantasy series about warring empires. Naturally, the war sequences are crucial to the story. The team wasn’t fully satisfied with how they were shaping up on paper, and is revisiting the portions.”  Rakt Bramhand is a...

Pop performer Tate McRae and country star Josh Ross are leading contenders at the 2025 Juno Awards. The Calgary-raised McRae and Burlington, Ont.-native Ross each have five nominations, including in the single and artist of the year categories, as well as for the viewer-voted fan choice award.Both artists are also up for album of the year — McRae for her sophomore record Think Later, and Ross for Complicated. 2:06 Calgary’s Tate McRae to appear on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as musical guest Previous Video Next Video Story continues below advert...

Kanye West’s Yeezy.com has been removed by Shopify after it featured a single product: T-shirts with a black swastika in the centre, under the product name HH-01. West had aired a commercial in some U.S. markets during the Super Bowl that promoted his website selling the T-shirts. In the 30-second commercial, West filmed a close-up of himself lying in a dentist’s chair. “I spent, like, all the money for the commercial on these new teeth,” he said. “So, once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone.”West, 47, then told viewers to go to his online store, Yeezy.com, which was selling only a $20 white T-shirt with a black swastika. Industry insider Variety reported that when the commercial aired on Sunday, the website had a range of non-branded clothing, but shortly afterwards it was only sellin...

Cinephiles can brace for more chaos as the trailer for Twisted Metal Season 2 is out, and this time, Anthony Mackie`s John Doe faces an even bigger challenge, reported The Hollywood Reporter. The action-comedy series, based on the popular PlayStation game, returns with more explosions, wild car battles, and high-stakes action. In the first season, John Doe had to deliver a package across a dangerous post-apocalyptic America. Now, in Season 2, the stakes are even higher. A mysterious man named Calypso, played by Anthony Carrigan, invites Doe and his ally Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) to join a deadly demolition derby. The winner of this brutal tournament will have one wish granted--but sixteen other drivers are fighting for the same prize. "The joy ride is over. The tournament is here," Mack...

Teddi Mellencamp, daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, shared that she has been diagnosed with multiple brain tumours and will be undergoing emergency surgery. Mellencamp, 43, posted a statement to Instagram on Wednesday, revealing that she received the diagnosis after being hospitalized for “severe and debilitating headaches” for the last several weeks.“Yesterday the pain was unbearable and required hospitalization. After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple tumors on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least 6 months,” she wrote.“Two of the tumors will be surgically removed today – The remaining smaller tumors will be dealt with via radiation at a later date,” Mellencamp continued. “I am blessed to be surrounded by my children, family, friends, doctors, n...

On Wednesday, the social me-dia accounts of JioStar teased the arrival of “a new era”. It turns out JioHotstar, the new OTT platform and one of the products of the months-long merger between Reliance Industry Limited’s Viacom and Disney Star India, is set to go live today. The streamer will house the library of both Reliance’s JioCinema and Disney Star India’s Disney+ Hotstar. Said to be designed with the idea of reaching the last-mile consumer, it will provide all its content free of cost and without subscription, but with ads. Subscription packs that provide ad-free content start at R149. Obviously, the big question is: What happens to users who have active subscriptions with JioCinema or Disney+ Hotstar or both? A source tells us that existing subscribers of either platform will be aut...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is suing NBCUniversal over a documentary that he says falsely accuses him of being a serial murderer who had sex with underage girls as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York state court says the documentary, Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy, included statements that NBCUniversal either knew were false or published with reckless disregard for the truth in order to defame the founder of Bad Boy Records.“Indeed, the entire premise of the Documentary assumes that Mr. Combs has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him,” the complaint reads. “It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘monster’...