TOUBAB DIALAO, Senegal (AP) – Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa descended on a Senegalese fishing village over the weekend for the African Dance Biennial, the continent’s largest showcase of contemporary African dance.
Twenty years after the original, the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Driven largely by women, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” earned $77 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $156.6 million internationally, according to studio estimates Sunday. It easily topped the box office and bumped “Michael” to second place, though the musical biopic held well in its second weekend, falling only 44%.
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) – Britney Spears is set to be arraigned in a California courtroom Monday morning after prosecutors charged her with driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. But it will probably be only her lawyer who appears in front of a Ventura County judge.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Colombian superstar Shakira gave a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night, an event that the city’s mayor said drew 2 million people to one of the world’s most iconic waterfronts.
LONDON (AP) – Elusive street artist Banksy said Thursday that a new sculpture that appeared in central London of a man striding off a plinth, with his face blinded by a billowing flag, is his work.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Streaming provider Prime Video is diving into college sports by partnering with one of college basketball’s biggest brands: Duke.
Andrew Stanton has spent more than half his life with “Toy Story.” He was the lead writer on the first three, a script savior on the fourth, and now, cowriter and co-director on “Toy Story 5.” “It wasn’t the plan,” he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “But it wasn’t not the plan.”
Fashion trends are notoriously fickle but some things, like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, never go out of style. So you can see why making “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” two decades after the original, was hard to resist. The cast, led by Anne Hathaway, have hardly aged. The then-little-known Emily Blunt has turned into a star.
The movies always feel bigger in the summer. The budgets. The ambition. The names. The stakes. This summer, Hollywood has many of the regulars on the lineup: “Spider-Man,” “Minions,” “Star Wars” and “Toy Story.” But the most eagerly anticipated is not a superhero, toy, or franchise: It’s a 3,000-year-old epic poem.
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