September 21, 2020 5:47 pm
Falan Andrea was crowned winner at the grand finale of Derana Dream Star Season 09 held yesterday (September 19). MORE..
TV Derana has clinched several top awards at the Raigam Tele’es 2019 – The Nation’s Tele Awards. MORE..
Winston Groom, the writer whose novel “Forrest Gump” was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. MORE..
Alexa, make way for Amitabh Bachchan. Amazon announced Monday that the Bollywood star will lend his voice to the tech giant’s assistant device Alexa starting next year. He will be the first Indian actor to voice the Amazon artificial intelligence gadget. MORE..
Following the less-than-stellar theatrical debut of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” Warner Bros. is delaying its next big release, “Wonder Woman 1984,” to Christmas. MORE..
Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan, already the target of a boycott, has come under fire for filming in Xinjiang, the site of alleged widespread human rights abuses against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. MORE..
Filming for The Batman has been suspended again, days after it resumed following the coronavirus lockdown. MORE..
Actor and former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said Wednesday that his family recently tested positive for the coronavirus and are now implementing stricter rules on socializing amid the pandemic. MORE..
Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown with searing intensity before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43. MORE..
Scientists in Germany have held three pop concerts in a single day to investigate the risks posed by mass indoor events during the pandemic. MORE..
The exotic cat zoo made famous by the Netflix series Tiger King is closing for good. MORE..
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular characters in pop culture, inspiring acres of adaptations and spin offs about the detective’s crime solving adventures. MORE..
W. I. Nuwan Perera from Eheliyagoda became the winner of the Grand Finale of Dialog Prashansa Derana 60 Plus Season 3 held last night (16). MORE..
The United Kingdom’s Royal Mail is releasing a set of special stamps featuring characters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series and BBC One’s Sherlock. MORE..
Baahubali director S. S. Rajamouli and his family tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. The filmmaker shared his COVID-19 diagnosis in a tweet and revealed that he and his family are isolating at home, as prescribed by doctors. MORE..
Veteran American broadcaster Regis Philbin has died at the age of 88, a family statement says. MORE..
Actor, musician, film producer and, now, comic-book writer. Is there anything Keanu Reeves can’t do? The Hollywood action man has teamed up with New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Matt Kindt to produce a 12-issue comic-book series, “BRZRKR.” MORE..
A body found in a lake in the US state of California has been identified as the missing Glee star Naya Rivera, police say. MORE..
After Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, both Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya Bachchan have been tested positive for COVID-19. MORE..
Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and son Abhishek Bachchan on Saturday said they have tested positive for coronavirus and have been taken to a hospital. The 77-year-old is asymptomatic and stable, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope told NDTV. MORE..
Authorities are searching a Southern California lake for “Glee” actress Naya Rivera, who officials believe went missing while swimming Wednesday. MORE..
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” helped define a cinematic era, died on Monday. He was 91. MORE..
Veteran author and illustrator of children’s books Sybil Wettasinghe, fondly known as ‘Sybil Nanda’ in Sri Lanka, has passed away at the age of 93. MORE..
Sri Lankan kids with extraordinary talents took home prizes at the grand finale of Derana Little Star Season 10 last night (27). MORE..
British postage stamps which often portray the monarch will honor a different Queen in a new Royal Mail series - the veteran rock band that is celebrating its 50th anniversary. MORE..