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Netflix said Friday that it had fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about what it paid for Dave Chappelle's comedy special 'The Closer,' which some condemned as being transphobic.

Africa's largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million in recent years.

A sugar candy featured in the wildly popular Netflix series 'Squid Game' is causing a stir in Montreal. At Claude & Claudette Depanneur, a shop in St-Henri, Robert Kim sells Korean fare, including dalgona.

British songstress Adele made her highly-anticipated music comeback on Friday, releasing her first new record since her 2015 Grammy award-winning album "25."

Neil Young and Crazy Horse are coming out with 'Barn,' a new studio album they made while cooped up during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Rolling Stones have retired their classic song 'Brown Sugar', which begins with a slave narrative and sexualizes young Black women.

'Squid Game,' Netflix's newest hit series from South Korea, is the streaming services' biggest launch ever, beating out 'Bridgerton' for the top spot

'Squid Game,' a brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children's games for a chance to escape severe debt, hit a little too close to home for Lee Chang-keun.

A standalone Peppa Pig theme park at the Legoland Florida Resort is set to open Feb. 24, park officials announced Tuesday.

Netflix is defending Dave Chappelle's new comedy special after it has been criticized as transphobic by some LGBTQ2S+ advocates, artists and employees.

"No Time to Die," the latest entry in the James Bond franchise, notched an estimated $56 million at the North American box office this weekend, according to its studio, MGM.

Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, flatly refuting the suggestion that he was responsible for the group's demise.

Timothee Chalamet has teased a first look at his portrayal of iconic candy man Willy Wonka in the upcoming film 'Wonka.'

Kim Kardashian West, sporting a hot pink catsuit, skewered everyone from her mom's boyfriend to her famous sex tape and estranged husband Kanye during her first turn hosting 'Saturday Night Live.'

The Vancouver Art Gallery is opening a major exhibition of works by Yoko Ono on Sunday that includes photos of her and John Lennon's famous 1969 Bed-in for Peace protest in Montreal.

In advance of his becoming the oldest person to travel to space, William Shatner says past disasters sometimes give him pause.

This week, TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'No Time to Die,' 'Night Raiders,' and 'There’s Someone Inside Your House.'

Actors Keanu Reeves and Graham Greene, retired Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire and musician Bruce Cockburn are among this year's inductees to Canada's Walk of Fame.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.

The 2021 Nobel Prize for literature is being announced Thursday, an award that has in the past honored poets, novelists and even a songwriter, Bob Dylan.

The official teaser for 'House of the Dragon,' the first 'Game of Thrones' prequel has dropped and get ready for all types of action.

K-pop superstars BTS have raised US$3.6 million and generated millions of tweets during four years of teaming up with the UN children's agency to fight violence, abuse and bullying and promote self-esteem in young people, the agency is announcing Wednesday.

Former President Donald Trump now has a Dec. 23 deadline to undergo questioning in a former "Apprentice" contestant's defamation lawsuit over what he said in denying her sexual assault allegations, a court said Monday.

Britney Spears thanked fans who have called for years to Free Britney for major changes in the conservatorship that has long controlled her life and money.

'No Time to Die,' which opens in the U.S. on Friday after a 16-month delay due to the pandemic, is the last hurrah in Daniel Craig's celebrated Bond era, a stewardship that saw Craig remake and emotionally deepen the once retrograde superspy -- with more than US$3 billion in box office along the way.

'Drunken Birds' will represent Canada in the race for an Oscar nomination for best international feature film.

An Indian court on Monday denied bail to Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan's son, ordering him to remain in the custody of the narcotics agency, a day after officials arrested him in connection with a drug raid.

Grammy Award winner Billie Eilish will perform at Glastonbury next June, becoming the British music festival's youngest-ever solo headliner, organizers said on Monday.

Sony Pictures' Marvel sequel "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" blew away expectations to debut with US$90.1 million in ticket sales, making it easily the best opening of the pandemic, according to studio estimates Sunday.

'Saturday Night Live' is back, and with it came a new President Joe Biden. The NBC variety show returned for its season premiere and opened its 47th season with new cast member James Austin Johnson taking on the role of Biden.

CBS' 'Big Brother' crowned its first Black winner Wednesday night during the season 23 finale when Wisconsin attorney Xavier Prather took home the top prize.

Khabane Lame is the most popular man on TikTok, with 114 million followers.

Disney Theatrical Productions said it will cancel Friday's performance of 'Aladdin' and all shows until Oct. 12 after 'additional breakthrough COVID-19 cases were detected.'

Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts the right-wing commentary website Infowars, was found legally responsible in two lawsuits for damages caused by his claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook school mass shooting, according to court documents released Thursday.

This week, TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews three new movies: 'The Many Saints of Newark,' 'The Guilty' and 'The Addams Family 2.'

Restrictive abortion legislation in the U.S. and the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan took center stage Thursday at the Variety Power of Women event, which honored actor Rita Moreno, singers Katy Perry and Lorde, poet/activist Amanda Gorman, and Channing Dungey, chairwoman of Warner Bros. Television Group.

Gloria Estefan has revealed that when she was 9 years old she was sexually abused by someone her mother trusted.