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D23 EXPO 2022 - The Ultimate Disney Fan Event.

Pop culture at breaking point: Is the multibillion-dollar fan machine about to overheat?

Despite the absence of Star Wars, DC Studios and Marvel Studios, this year’s Comic-Con is still doing big business.

  • Michael Idato

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CBS says The Late show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled for “financial reasons”. Not everyone is convinced.

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show has been axed. But what did a $12b merger have to do with it?

US network CBS says The Late Show was dumped for financial reasons, but others argue the move was political.

  • Nell Geraets
Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That S03E09

And Just Like That recap: This is the moment we’ve been waiting for

The final moments of this week’s episode almost make all the pain and cringe worth it. Are we back?!

  • Brodie Lancaster
Hulk Hogan rips his shirt and pumps up the crowd at a campaign rally for Donald Trump before the 2024 US election.

Inside the decades-long friendship between Trump and Hulk Hogan

The US president and the late wrestling star shared a three-decade friendship – and many career parallels.

  • Darlene Superville
One week after ‘Coldplaygate’, former chief executive Andy Byron and former chief people officer Kristin Cabot have both resigned from Astronomer.

Astronomer HR chief resigns one week after being caught on Coldplay ‘kiss cam’

The $1.5 billion software company has now confirmed both executives wrapped up in the cuddle seen around the world are no longer employed.

  • Bronte Gossling

Gird your loins (and your wardrobe) for The Devil Wears Prada 2

The first images of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway reprising their roles as Runway magazine moves into a digital age have dropped. And it would appear “everybody wants to be us” is as relevant as ever.

  • Damien Woolnough
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Then-chief executive of Astronomer, Andy Byron, and the company’s chief people officer, Kirstin Cabot, at the Coldplay concert.

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

  • Kate Halfpenny
They’re off and running … Comic-Con gets under way in San Diego.

Riding a superhero high, Hollywood’s marketing machine roars back to life

Welcome to San Diego’s Comic-Con, a wild crossroads of capes, crowds and commerce.

  • Michael Idato
Beloved Australian actor Henri Szeps, who starred in the classic Australian sitcom Mother and Son, has died at the age of 81.

Henri Szeps, star of the ABC’s Mother and Son, dies aged 81

Szeps revealed during a television appearance with his son in 2021 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Louise Rugendyke and Michael Lallo
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs in The Salt Path movie adaptation.

The shady side of storytelling: Why we fall for literary hoaxes

The dark secret of publishing is that the fakes and frauds we know about are only the ones that have been uncovered and publicised.

  • Simon Caterson

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