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Sad news from the world of music today, as yet another ’90s R&b legend has passed away:

D’wayne Wiggins — one of the founding members of the iconic group Tony! Toni! Toné! — has passed away at the age of 64.

News of Wiggins’ passing comes to us courtesy of an announcement from his grieving family:

Dwayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné! performs onstage after the Agents Power Panel during Day 3 of the Ieba 2014 Conference on September 29, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Ieba) D’Wayne Wiggins’ family announces his passing

“D’Wayne’s life was incomparable, and his music and service impacted millions around the world, including in his hometown of Oakland, California,” said the Wiggins family in a statement issued on Friday.

“He was a guitarist, producer, composer, philanthropist, mentor and founding member of Tony! Toni! Tone! He was deeply passionate about providing...

At long last, the remaining contestants from The Masked Singer Season 12 — Buffalos and Wasp — will compete for the Golden Mask during the Dec. 18 finale on Fox. But will the ultimate winner be Group A’s mammalian singing trio or Group B’s buzzed-about soloist? And, more importantly, which famous faces are hiding underneath the remaining masks, anyway?

If you’re looking for The Masked Singer spoilers for Buffalos and Wasp, you’ve come to the right place! Gold Derby’s official guess for Buffalos is Boyz II Men, and our official guess for Wasp is Mario. Don’t believe us? Let’s examine all of the various clues, one by one:

Masked Ambassador Clues

Buffalos: Their ambassador is Season 5 champ Nick Lachey, aka Piglet. The music star has been oinking it up with Boyz II Men ever since they toured together — along with the rest of Lachey’s boy band group,...

It’s that time of year again and there’s nothing Hallmark Channel fans look forward to more than the network’s Countdown To Christmas flicks.

A big one many are anticipating is the movie, Holiday Crashers that stars When Calls The Heart’s (Wcth) Chris McNally.

When Calls The Heart – Chris McNally Talks Holiday Romance In ‘Holiday Crashers’

Holiday Crashers is about two besties, Toni (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Bri (Daniella Monet) who feel unfulfilled with their careers and come up with the idea of crashing some high-profile holiday parties in and around town.

Everything is all fun and games until Toni meets techy entrepreneur Jusin (McNally), where chemistry is felt on both ends.

McNally recently caught up with Swoon, where he talks about Holiday Crashers and his character’s chemistry with Fonseca’s ‘Toni’.

McNally notes that Justin has been hurt in the past, so he does have some emotional trauma.

Legendary producer and director Roger Corman, who died recently at age 98, had an immeasurable impact on American cinema as we know it. The number of actors, writers, and directors who learned their craft on a Corman production is staggering, and he was known for giving people chances to prove themselves on the low-budget pictures he either produced or directed himself. Tons of notable names went through the so-called "Corman school," including James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, and Joe Dante, just to name a few.

Three-time Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson is another significant alumnus of the Corman school of filmmaking — in fact, his very first movie, "The Cry Baby Killer," was a Corman production, and it provided Nicholson the first of many starring roles across his incredible career. The film follows a young man who thinks he's committed murder outside of a local hang-out restaurant,...

Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner will serve as jury president of the Concorso Internazionale, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday.

She will oversee the jury that decides the winner of the Pardo d’Oro – the Golden Leopard – at the Swiss film festival, taking place Aug 7-17.

Hausner began her career in short films after studying at the Film Academy of Vienna, creating austere and distinctive films. Locarno was the first international festival at which Hausner’s work made an impression, taking home the main prize in the section Pardi di Domani for the short Flora in 1997.

She moved to Cannes with Inter-View (1999), her 45-minute graduation film, and later co-founded the production company coop99 which, besides Hausner’s own films and those of the other co-founders (Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda, and Martin Gschlacht), has also gone on to produce film such as Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann (2016) and...

Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner is to serve as jury president for the international competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which takes place August 7-17.

Locarno was the first international festival at which Hausner’s work made an impression, taking home the main prize in the Pardi di Domani section for her short Flora in 1997.

Hausner’s first feature films Lovely Rita (2001) and Hotel (2004) both premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, while Lourdes (2009) debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival and took home the Fipresci prize. Her subsequent films include Un Certain Regard premiere Amour Fou (2014), and...

A decade ago, Gerard Depardieu played a character inspired by Dominique Strauss-Kahn — the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund who was accused of assaulting a hotel maid — in Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York.” In an ironic twist, the iconic French actor has now become the poster boy for the country’s #MeToo movement, having been charged with rape and faced with over a dozen sexual assault allegations.

But the French remain divided over him due to his profile as a mascot of the country’s cinematic history. He’s starred in over 150 films, including classics such as Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” François Truffaut’s “Le Dernier Metro” and Bertrand Blier’s “Going Places.” However, the tide is starting to shift — while French President Emmanuel Macron refused to revoke his Legion of Honor, the Paris wax museum went ahead and removed his statue on Dec.

Jack Nicholson technically hasn’t announced his formal retirement from the film biz, but it sure sounds like he’s still enjoying his time off. On a recent episode of Wtf with Marc Maron, the actor’s longtime record producer pal Lou Adler said he’s still turning down acting jobs in favor of other more leisurely activities like, say, sitting under a tree and reading a book.

The interview was just to wrap up when host Maron had to ask Adler how Nicholson was doing. “He’s doing whatever he wants to do,” Adler responded, reminiscing on the Lakers games the two octogenarians would often attend together. “He wants to be quiet. He wants to eat what he wants. He wants to live the life he wants.”

“A friend of mine wanted to put him in a movie,” Maron recalled. “And he had a conversation with him. But Jack says,...

”“September is always low,” said Fncf’s Marc-Olivier Sebbag, “People have other things to do.”

Despite a promising summer blockbuster boost and August upswing, France’s September box office struggled with just 8.8m ticket sales and a total gross of approximately €63.2m, based on an average ticket price of €7.

The September slump was down 21.1% compared to the pre-pandemic 2017-2019 average and the lowest since 2005 (8.4m).

However it was up 16.1% from last year’s abysmal 7.6m admissions. Last September’s record low marked the worst month at the French box office since 1980, excluding the pandemic-ridden 2020 when cinemas were closed for most of the year.