https://www.scmp.com/rss/325692/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Elon Musk is pointing the finger at Jennifer Lopez for not sounding the alarm against ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently locked up at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. The controversial billionaire, 53, pulled no punches when he mentioned the 55-year-old Bronx-born pop star during a Monday interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. “J.Lo was like his ex-girlfriend and [now] she’s like warning people against [Donald] Trump. How many... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3285366/what-did-elon-musk-say-about-jlos-relationship-diddy-trump-supporting-tesla-billionaire-slammed-pop?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3285366/what-did-elon-musk-say-about-jlos-relationship-diddy-trump-supporting-tesla-billionaire-slammed-pop?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:00:18 +0000 Hailie Jade Scott – née Mathers – the influencer and daughter of Detroit rapper Eminem, has married long-time partner Evan McClintock, she announced on social media. Maybe you wouldn’t think it from his brash persona as Slim Shady, but rapper Eminem has always credited his success to his daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers. From the day she was born, he said it was her who gave him purpose. “She has been my main source of drive and motivation, especially when she was first born. I didn’t have a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3263647/meet-eminems-newlywed-all-grown-daughter-hailie-28-year-old-made-famous-her-dads-raps-just-married?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3263647/meet-eminems-newlywed-all-grown-daughter-hailie-28-year-old-made-famous-her-dads-raps-just-married?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 May 2024 11:00:17 +0000 After launching the musical Waitress on Broadway, American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles didn’t plan to make a TV show. But then filmmaker J.J. Abrams came calling. That is what led to Little Voice, the romantic drama series that is now streaming on Apple TV+ and counts both Abrams and Bareilles as executive producers, and features the singer’s music. Bareilles was a huge fan of Felicity, the Keri Russell university-set TV series that Abrams co-created. And Abrams was a big admirer of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3093079/little-voice-how-jj-abrams-got-sara-bareilles-create-apple?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3093079/little-voice-how-jj-abrams-got-sara-bareilles-create-apple?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:15:10 +0000 Kurt Volker was little known outside foreign policy circles as the United States’ special envoy to Ukraine until last week, when the whistle-blower complaint against US President Donald Trump recast the once obscure diplomat as a central figure in the unfolding impeachment inquiry. He arrived at Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify in private to congressional investigators who want to ask about any role he may have played in Trump’s efforts to press Ukrainian officials for damaging information... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3031471/trump-impeachment-probe-casts-little-known-diplomat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3031471/trump-impeachment-probe-casts-little-known-diplomat?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:00:18 +0000 Now is Awkwafina’s time. After a scene-stealing supporting role in Crazy Rich Asians, the rapper-turned-actress will debut as a film lead in her first drama, Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, which opens in the United States on Friday. “I am not what you would think of when you think of a movie star. I don’t look like one. I don’t sound like one. I don’t act like one,” says Awkwafina, who was born Nora Lum. “I want to show girls, young Asian-American girls, that you can be literally what you don’t see... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3018127/every-asian-american-feels-outsider-awkwafina-farewell-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3018127/every-asian-american-feels-outsider-awkwafina-farewell-her?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:00:10 +0000 The glaring feline who spooked audience members and horror-lovers with his performance in the 2019 Pet Sematary remake has died just over a month after the film’s release. Leo the Cat’s death was confirmed on Instagram late on Wednesday by animal trainer Kirk Jarrett, who adopted the fluffy Maine Coon shortly after filming wrapped on the Stephen King thriller. “It is with great sadness that we tell you that Leo has passed away,” Jarrett wrote on cat’s social media account, which boasts nearly... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3012552/pet-sematary-star-leo-cat-dies-month-after-films-release?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3012552/pet-sematary-star-leo-cat-dies-month-after-films-release?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 May 2019 03:25:28 +0000 The Queen of Pop isn’t ready to dethrone the King of Pop just yet – despite a global backlash caused by a recent documentary that reopened allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused children. In a wide-ranging interview for the June issue of British Vogue, Madonna offered her thoughts about HBO’s hard-hitting film Leaving Neverland. The Dan Reed-directed documentary – which profiles the two adult men who made new allegations that the late music icon sexually abused them as children – has been... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3009496/madonna-says-michael-jackson-innocent-until-proven-guilty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3009496/madonna-says-michael-jackson-innocent-until-proven-guilty?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 May 2019 07:00:12 +0000 Associated Press,New York Daily News Associated Press,New York Daily News The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court on Friday to promptly allow it to ban transgender people from serving in the US armed forces in an unusual move that bypasses the regular federal legal process. The request, filed by Solicitor General Noel Francisco, urges the high court to compound four separate legal challenges to US President Donald Trump’s transgender ban and singularly rule on the issue this term. Trump’s ban is currently not being enforced since all four lawsuits were... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2174799/trump-administration-asks-transgender-military-ban?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2174799/trump-administration-asks-transgender-military-ban?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:22:25 +0000 The US Special Counsel’s office alerted the FBI on Tuesday to allegations that women have been offered cash to fabricate sexual assault accusations against Robert Mueller, who is probing claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US election of Donald Trump. In a rare statement, Mueller’s top spokesman, Peter Carr, said Mueller’s team learned of the alleged payoff scheme last week. “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Carr said, calling the claims against Mueller... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2170953/women-were-offered-cash-smear-robert-mueller?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2170953/women-were-offered-cash-smear-robert-mueller?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:38:59 +0000 US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and self-described fixer, Michael Cohen, secretly taped a conversation with Trump two months before the 2016 election about paying off ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal, it has emerged. The call about McDougal – who was at the time threatening to go public with claims she had an extramarital affair with the soon-to-be president – was seized by FBI agents who raided Cohen’s Manhattan office, hotel room and home in April, a person familiar with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2156241/donald-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen-taped-talk-about?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2156241/donald-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen-taped-talk-about?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:52:19 +0000 Porn star Nikki Benz is going to court with claims she was sexually assaulted, violently attacked and basically subjected to waterboarding while filming an X-rated scene. Benz, 36, accused producer Tony T of choking her and stomping on her head while filming a scene in December 2016 and is now filing suit against him, her co-star Ramon Nomar and the company Brazzers over the alleged assault, according to documents obtained by TMZ. In the documents, Benz claims Tony T not only choked her and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2141167/porn-star-nikki-benz-suing-brazzers-after-she-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2141167/porn-star-nikki-benz-suing-brazzers-after-she-was?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:02:27 +0000 You may need a guide to keep up with US President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. The commander-in-chief continued his latest Twitter tirade Tuesday, railing against immigration, Nafta and CNN. Although these are some of the president’s favourite targets, he has introduced new material, from “caravans” to nicknames, that has left many puzzled. Caravans The president has repeatedly warned of “Caravans” crossing over the Mexican border and into the United States. “The big Caravan of People from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2140165/caravans-and-fakers-unpacking-us-president-donald?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2140165/caravans-and-fakers-unpacking-us-president-donald?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:46:48 +0000 Ignorance is bliss. Cate Blanchett, who starred in Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine, says she had no clue the director had been branded a sexual predator by his daughter when she signed on as his star. “I don’t think I’ve stayed silent at all. At the time that I worked with Woody Allen, I knew nothing of the allegations,” Blanchett told CNN after Christiane Amanpour asked her about supporting the Time’s Up campaign to support women victims of sexual harassment in spite of her past work with... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2138578/cate-blanchett-says-she-was-unaware-woody-allen-allegations-when-she?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2138578/cate-blanchett-says-she-was-unaware-woody-allen-allegations-when-she?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:03:15 +0000 Quentin Tarantino has apologised to Samantha Geimer after suggesting her sex assault by Roman Polanski was “not rape” and that she “wanted to have it”. Geimer was 13 years old in 1977 when Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a Quaalude depressant pill, and raped and sodomised her. ‘My biggest regret’: Quentin Tarantino addresses claims he endangered Uma Thurman on set and enabled Harvey Weinstein Speaking to the New York Daily News this week, Geimer said Tarantino was “wrong” when he... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2132669/roman-polanski-rape-victim-wanted-have-it-quentin-tarantino?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2132669/roman-polanski-rape-victim-wanted-have-it-quentin-tarantino?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Feb 2018 03:57:37 +0000 Kate Winslet has finally admitted she regrets working with Woody Allen – sort of. The actress has stayed noticeably tight-lipped as many of the famed director’s stars have come out against him in the shadow of a resurfaced sexual assault accusation. But Winslet – who starred in Allen’s most recent film, Wonder Wheel – has been careful to tiptoe around badmouthing her director, even with his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow’s claims that Allen molested her as a child looming. Winslet broke her... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2131146/kate-winslet-star-woody-allen-film-has-bitter-regrets-over-working?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2131146/kate-winslet-star-woody-allen-film-has-bitter-regrets-over-working?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:09:31 +0000 Less than a week after the Producers Guild of America put them in place, Wonder Woman 2 will be the first film to officially adopt the group’s new anti-sexual harassment guidelines. The superhero flick directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot was announced Saturday as the very first in Hollywood to implement the guidelines, which were released Friday as a means of combating Hollywood’s headline-grabbing sexual harassment problem. “For the multitude of producers urgently seeking guidance... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2130489/wonder-woman-2-be-guinea-pig-anti-sexual-harassment-guidelines-newly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2130489/wonder-woman-2-be-guinea-pig-anti-sexual-harassment-guidelines-newly?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2018 04:05:18 +0000 Cinemas across America are finally making room for The Room. The 2003 cult classic created by and starring Tommy Wiseau is getting a wide release more than 14 years after the film’s initial premiere, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Flashback: Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton’s bizarrely touching ode to the world’s worst director Over 500 cinemas will show the film in the United States on January 10 – a month after The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s movie about the making of The Room, hit US... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2125097/room-cult-2003-film-so-bad-its-good-gets-wide-release-us-cinemas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2125097/room-cult-2003-film-so-bad-its-good-gets-wide-release-us-cinemas?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:05:17 +0000 Before she joined the Star Wars universe, Kelly Marie Tran nearly lost all hope she’d ever make it as an actress. Tran – who plays newcomer Rose Tico in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi – had been stuck in a full-time office job a few years ago and was regularly attending casting auditions that came to nothing. Film review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi a true epic that casts off shadow of The Empire Strikes Back to leave us with new hope But any time she thought of quitting, she used her... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2124249/star-wars-last-jedis-kelly-marie-tran-talks-about-her-inspirations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2124249/star-wars-last-jedis-kelly-marie-tran-talks-about-her-inspirations?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:02:19 +0000 Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, has finally broken her silence about the controversial casting of Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, which is set to continue next November with Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald. Rowling supported Depp’s casting in a statement on her website. “When Johnny Depp was cast as Grindelwald, I thought he’d be wonderful in the role. However, around the time of filming his cameo in the first movie, stories had appeared in the press that... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2123441/jk-rowling-happy-johnny-depp-was-cast-fantastic-beasts-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2123441/jk-rowling-happy-johnny-depp-was-cast-fantastic-beasts-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:00:48 +0000 Pixar’s track record with racial and gender diversity is drawing new scrutiny after Rashida Jones blamed her departure as Toy Story 4 co-writer on a lack of minority and female representation at the animation studio. “There is so much talent at Pixar and we remain enormous fans of their films,” Jones and Will McCormack wrote in a statement. “However, it is also a culture where women and people of colour do not have an equal creative voice.” Actress Rashida Jones talks pornography in Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2121272/rashida-jones-reveals-she-left-toy-story-4-over-pixars-lack-diverse?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2121272/rashida-jones-reveals-she-left-toy-story-4-over-pixars-lack-diverse?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:01:48 +0000 Amber Heard was told to choose between her bisexuality and her career. The Aquaman star, most recently seen in Justice League , told Allure that people warned her to stay in the closet if she wanted to pursue acting. “Everyone told me: ‘You cannot do this.’ I had played opposite Nicolas Cage [in one movie], and in another I was playing opposite Johnny [Depp],” she said. “And everyone said, ‘You’re throwing it all away. You can’t do this to your career. And I said, ‘I cannot do this any other... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2120197/amber-heard-was-warned-coming-out-bisexual-would-ruin-her-career-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2120197/amber-heard-was-warned-coming-out-bisexual-would-ruin-her-career-her?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:03:53 +0000 This family reunion comes with a dose of holiday high jinks – and some extra baggage. Will Ferrell’s new comedy, Daddy’s Home 2, centres around his overly earnest character Brad Whitaker co-existing with his wife’s rough-and-tough ex-husband Dusty Mayron (played by Mark Wahlberg), until drama ensues when their respective fathers come to town for Christmas. The film features a controversial cast addition in Mel Gibson, who stars in his first family comedy in more than 10 years since his infamous... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2119086/will-ferrell-brings-unlikely-co-star-mel-gibson-family-comedy-daddys?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2119086/will-ferrell-brings-unlikely-co-star-mel-gibson-family-comedy-daddys?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:03:11 +0000