Nearly 80,000 people have signed a petition to permanently remove firearms from sets after Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of the low-budget Western last week.

Kayla Drescher has long dealt with male magicians excluding her, assuming she is someone's girlfriend, or even one time requesting she "do magic by a poolside in a bikini" in Las Vegas.

Tunisia's prestigious Carthage Film Festival has opened with a screening of Lingui -- a movie from Chad about a teenage girl who seeks an abortion.

Obama, speaking via video, called 23-time Grammy winner JAY-Z "the embodiment of the American Dream" for his rise from a poor New York neighborhood to a billionaire songwriter, record executive and businessman.

In footage aired by TMZ, Baldwin and his wife Hilaria spoke to reporters who intercepted them in Manchester, Vermont. The Hollywood star declined to comment on the investigation of the shooting on the set of the 19th-century Western "Rust" on October 21.

Due to a scheduling coincidence, Baldwin was scheduled to give an exclusive interview to the Jakarta-based streaming service Mola TV, where he would sit down with host Dino Patti Djalal, former Indonesian ambassador to the United States.

Actor Iko Uwais will star in the latest installment of The Expendables along with a line of actors who have long been part of the American action thriller franchise.

Three of the four actors charged on October 22 over videos available for streaming on the "French Bukkake" website have been taken into custody, the sources said.

Aryan Khan, 23, the eldest son of the actor dubbed the "King of Bollywood", was detained in early October alongside 19 others after the Narcotics Control Bureau raided a ship set to sail from Mumbai to Goa.

Fayetteville-Manlius school district, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of New York City, wrote to parents saying outfits from the show, which include masks and green tracksuits and pink jumpsuits, would not be welcome at its six schools. 

After a decade, New York band Interpol reunites with surrealist filmmaker David Lynch to launch their collaborative work from 2011 as an NFT series.

Pokemon Go maker Niantic on Tuesday began rolling out a Pikmin Bloom smartphone game in its latest collaboration with Japanese video game icon Nintendo.

Audiences for more diverse television shows have grown during the pandemic, but Latino actors and writers remain underrepresented and transgender actors are "virtually absent," says new study.

The news came as it was reported that crew members had used prop weapons for target practice with live ammunition on the morning Halyna Hutchins died.

With dozens of movies and hundreds of TV series produced in the United States every year, many of them featuring weapons, safety is a huge issue.

The Way of the Hot & Spicy is something that both warms the heart and burns the tongue.

The affidavit provided additional details about Thursday's accidental shooting in New Mexico that killed 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.

Concerns about the safety protocols on the set of 'Rust' are also raised following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Here is The Jakarta Post's top three picks of LGBT-themed films that are still worth watching.

A classic that almost demanded big-screen treatment, sci-fi thriller Dune topped the North American box office this weekend with a take estimated at $40.1 million.

Bandung independent record label Disaster Records has just released Bloodsports and Modern Arts, the debut album from their newest roster, Nearcrush, another addition to the city’s already jammed-packed indie rock scene.

Ukraine-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was struck in the chest and died shortly after the incident Thursday in New Mexico, while director Joel Souza, 48, who was standing behind her, was wounded and hospitalized, then released.

Cinemas began re-opening in movie-mad Mumbai on Friday, the home of Bollywood, with theatres pinning their hopes on blockbuster releases from next month to pull back in the crowds.

The Texan director's latest film crams in some major star power, with Timothee Chalamet and Benicio del Toro joining Anderson regulars such as Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton and, of course, Bill Murray. 

Barack Obama decided to start a podcast with America's dad Bruce Springsteen, who joked that he figured the former president "had gotten a wrong number" when he pitched the idea.

British soul superstar Adele on Friday topped the British charts for the first time in six years with comeback single "Easy On Me", notching the highest first-week sales since 2017.

The new wave group are still going strong, releasing their 15th studio album, "Future Past", on Friday.

The incident happened on the set of "Rust" in the southwestern US state, where Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western.

The incident happened on the set of "Rust" in the southwestern US state, where Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western.

The UK music industry's contribution to the economy slumped 46 percent to £3.1 billion between 2019 and last year, the report noted.