Thanks to Psy's "Gangnam Style" smash hit, the South Korean music industry's long-held dream to make it big in Europe and the USA with its K-pop boy bands has taken a giant leap forward.
But Psy's international success looks unlikely to have a big knock-on effect in other Asian countries, experts said at the MIDEM music industry gathering in Cannes.
Full StoryA Lebanese-made supercar, the LykanHypersport, will be unveiled at the Qatar motor show this year and will become the most expensive motor in the world to be sold at £2.2 million, reports said.
The car becomes the world's most expensive above the Bugatti Veyron, which costs a mere £1.5 million.
Full StoryIt's official. The force is with J.J. Abrams.
The Walt Disney Co. issued a statement Friday night confirming reports that had been circulating for two days that Abrams, Emmy-award-winning creator of TV's "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" movie, has been pegged to direct the seventh installment of the "Star Wars" franchise.
Full StoryBritish actress Miriam Margolyes, best known for her work in the Harry Potter films, became an Australian citizen on Saturday, saying she felt that the rest of her life would be "joyous".
Margolyes was one of 100 people taking the pledge at a ceremony in Canberra attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and one of a record 17,059 people from 145 countries to become citizens on Australia Day.
Full StoryApple co-founder Steve Wozniak questioned the accuracy of a long-awaited film about Steve Jobs as the movie opened with a red carpet premiere Friday, while its makers stressed it was not a documentary.
Wozniak said the movie "jOBS -- which opened at the Sundance Film Festival -- erred in its depiction of the characters as well as the relationships between them -- especially the one between him and computer icon Jobs.
Full StoryWhile Hollywood-style Osama bin Laden manhunt movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has garnered controversy and awards, a lower-profile film seeks to tell the real story of finding the al Qaida chief.
"Manhunt," a documentary by U.S. director Greg Barker, was presented at the Sundance Film Festival this week, days after Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's dramatization won best actress Golden Globe for Jessica Chastain.
Full StoryWritten by Anthony Sargon
The spoof genre hasn't exactly been thriving as of late. It's been milked to death in recent years with endless "Scary Movie" sequels and spinoffs like "Date Movie", "Epic Movie", and "Meet the Spartans". "A Haunted House" does little to reinvigorate the genre, and it's let down by an abundant amount of crudeness and lack of wit. You'll laugh, just not very often.
Full StoryTina Turner is on her way to becoming a Swiss citizen.
The American rock diva has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s. The local Zuerichsee-Zeitung newspaper said on its website the local council announced its decision to grant the 73-year-old Turner citizenship in an official notice published in Friday's edition.
Full StoryOnline auction giant eBay has banned the sale of dolls linked to Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked western about a freed slave "Django Unchained," describing them as "offensive," on Thursday.
The toymaker who manufactured the dolls had already discontinued them, after protests from black advocacy groups, according to the celebrity news website TMZ.
Full StorySci-fi and action filmmaker J.J. Abrams has been tapped to direct a seventh "Star Wars" movie expected to be released by Disney in 2015, a Hollywood trade publication reported Thursday.
After purchasing "Star Wars" creator George Lucas's Lucasfilm for $4 billion in October, Disney announced it was planning a new trilogy in the wildly popular sci-fi saga, which has raked in an estimated $4.4 billion since 1977.
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