Carly Rae Jepsen has announced her upcoming “Day and Night” 2027 North American tour, with stops at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum and New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
The trek supports her eighth album, “Day and Night,” a double-disc offering split between more folk-oriented tracks and dance bangers. The tour kicks off in Canada on April 15 at Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, then hits Calgary and Vancouver before heading across the United States. Stops include San Francisco, Austin, Nashville and Philadelphia before curving back up to Canada for a show in Ottawa and a closing-night performance on May 29 at Montreal’s MTELUS.
In the middle of a big moment for Marvel — fresh off the huge success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and with Avengers: Doomsday looming — Kevin Feige was honored as Pioneer of the Year by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation.
From “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” creator Tim Federle, Freeform’s latest YA drama, “Coven Academy” — originally intended for Disney+ — follows three young witches as they navigate their burgeoning powers and friendship amid the chaos, anxiety and joy of being teenage girls. Intriguing and heartfelt, with sinister elements, the show highlights the importance of sisterhood, the confounding nature of first love and why secrets can never really be vanquished.
John C. Reilly will join the international competition jury at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival, which runs Oct. 14-25.
The actor, whose credits include Hard Eight, Magnolia, The Lobster and The Sisters Brothers, will lead a five-person panel awarding the Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos recognizing achievements including directing, acting, cinematography and screenwriting.
The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.5 million in seed funding to develop its products. The raise comes after the company signed up over 40,000 developers and grew its revenue 10x in just four months, it says.
A man has described how he hugged and reassured his two young children as their plane suddenly descended after one pilot stabbed the other in an attempt to seize control of the flight.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the UK’s security services have “strong indications” of Iranian involvement in the incident at a British Royal Air Force (RAF) station near Fairford this week in which five men were arrested before they were released on bail.
U2 and Ed Sheeran collaborated earlier this year on the song “Yours Eternally” off the band’s “Days of Ash” EP, which dropped in February. Bono told Rolling Stone UK in a new interview that Sheeran expressed his resistance to U2 about doing such a politically-minded song. “Yours Eternally” features Ukrainian musician Taras Topolia, and the lyrics take the perspective of a Ukrainian soldier writing to his friends back home amid the country’s ongoing war with Russia.
A newly developed textile covering helped strawberry plants produce more than three times as much fruit in tunnel field trials, while showing no harmful effects on plant health. Researchers say the technology may also offer a way to reduce water use and reliance on pesticides in strawberry production.
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