Tag: Entertainment

Blackhawks, WGN-TV extend TV deal

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 10:05 pm

Fox to merge Shine with Endemol, ‘Idol’ maker Core

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 8:23 pm

Miami City Ballet hires new executive director

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 2:28 pm

American actress Blake Lively poses for photographers on the red carpet during the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows

The Associated Press · May 14, 2014 11:11 pm

FILE - An Aug. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul. Police in Sweden say the film director behind the Oscar-awarded music documentary "Searching for Sugarman," Malik Bendjelloul died Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify the cause of death. She said no crime is suspected in relation to the Swedish film maker's death. (AP Photo/TT, Anders Wiklund, File) SWEDEN OUT

Brother: ‘Sugar Man’ director killed himself

Malin Rising · May 14, 2014 10:58 pm

Actress Nicole Kidman, left, and actor Tim Roth pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Cannes kicks off with Kidman, ‘Grace of Monaco’

Jake Coyle · May 14, 2014 4:39 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2014 file photo, Taylor Swift performs "All of Me" at the 56th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Swift has had a relationship with the "Now That's What I Call Music" series for more than a decade. The series has reached No. 50, a serious milestone for a physical sales survivor that's managed to navigate all the changes in our digital world to remain relevant, profitable and incredibly consistent since its U.S. debut 16 years ago. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, file)

‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ reaches milestone

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 12:21 pm

Workers prepare the red carpet on the stairs of the Palais des Festivals prior to the start of the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The festival runs from May 14th to May 25th. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Razing the Cannes festival “Bunker”?

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 11:26 am

Fife, drum units celebrating military music in Va.

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 6:46 am

FILE - An Aug. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul. Police in Sweden say the film director behind the Oscar-awarded music documentary "Searching for Sugarman," Malik Bendjelloul died Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify the cause of death. She said no crime is suspected in relation to the Swedish film maker's death. (AP Photo/TT, Anders Wiklund, File) SWEDEN OUT

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36

Malin Rising · May 14, 2014 2:05 am

FILE - In this April 26, 2014 file photo, Jennifer Nettles performs during day two of the 2014 Stagecoach Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Nettles will join the lineup of performers at the National Memorial Day Concert on the Capitol lawn in Washington. Organizers announced Tuesday, May 13, 2014, that Nettles will perform a musical tribute for returning veterans from Afghanistan, who will join her on stage at the Memorial Day concert May 25. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

‘American Idol’ winner to perform for Memorial Day

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 3:27 pm

FILE - In this June 29, 2007 file picture Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at the art museum in Chur, Switzerland. H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Chateau St. Germain told The Associated Press Tuesday May 13, 2014 that Giger had died in a hospital the day before. Giger received a 1979 Academy Award for special effects in 'Alen'. Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos. (AP Photo/Keystone,Arno Balzarini,File)

‘Alien’ artist H.R. Giger dies at 74

Frank Jordans · May 13, 2014 9:56 am