Hong Kong's ACT3 and Philippine producer Blackops Studios Asia have cast Cuba Gooding Jr., Luke Ford, Keith Duffy and Qymira in "Lotus," the first project under their five-film slate deal. Principal photography runs September-October in Manila, with additional sequences in Brazil.
Director James Gray said at the Cannes Film Festival that 20th Century Fox took the 2019 sci-fi film "Ad Astra" away from him and made it longer than he intended. He said his cut would have been about 12 minutes shorter. Gray is at Cannes promoting his new film "Paper Tiger."
Spain coach Luis de la Fuente named a 26-player World Cup squad headlined by Lamine Yamal and featuring no Real Madrid players, the first time in modern Spanish World Cup history. Spain opens Group H against Cape Verde on June 15 in Atlanta.
Daniel Suarez won the rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, becoming the first Mexican-born driver to win NASCAR's longest race. The event served as a public tribute to two-time Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who died Thursday at age 41.
A Mississippi warehouse holding 8 million-plus comic books from bankrupt distributor Diamond Comic Distributors is at the heart of a court fight between JPMorgan, which holds a $7 million unpaid claim, and publishers who placed product on consignment. The ruling could reshape consignment treatment in media bankruptcies.
Two anonymous Afghan cousins, working under the pseudonyms Mahnaz and Somayeh Ebrahimi, are exhibiting stark black-and-white photographs of life under Taliban rule at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn. The images use the burka as both subject and visual instrument.
Residential electricity bills will be 8.5 percent higher on average this summer than last, NEADA projects, with steeper increases in the South. A combination of natural gas prices, grid rebuilding costs and rising data center demand is pushing rates up at four times the pace of overall inflation.
Startup accelerator 50:50 Startups, which pairs Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs in joint ventures, completed its latest cohort with investor pitches in Boston. About 35 entrepreneurs participated, fewer than usual due to ongoing conflict that prevented some from traveling.
South Carolina Republicans are moving to redraw congressional maps after a Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act. The new lines could eliminate the majority-Black district held by 17-term Rep. James Clyburn, who says he will run regardless.
President Trump said Sunday the U.S. and Iran are close to a framework agreement aimed at de-escalation, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Republican senators including Cruz, Wicker and Graham raised concerns the deal does not adequately constrain Iran's nuclear program.
DemoChicks, a Long Beach nonprofit founded by environmental consultant Robin Thorne, will host a "Women in STEM Signing Day" on May 30 at Long Beach City College. The group works to push more women of color into architecture, construction and engineering, where female representation remains under 25 percent.
The La Brea Tar Pits and George C. Page Museum will close July 6 for a roughly two-year renovation. The redesign will retain signature exhibits and add the upright skeleton of Zed, an 80-percent-complete Columbian mammoth, plus a new outdoor amphitheater.
Filmmaker Boots Riley said on X that the Cannes Film Festival has passed on all three of his major projects, including new heist comedy "I Love Boosters," 2018's "Sorry to Bother You" and 2023 series "I'm a Virgo." Distributor Neon launched the latest film at SXSW.
Victor Wembanyama scored 33 points and hit a 40-foot first-half buzzer-beater as the San Antonio Spurs routed the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-82 to even the Western Conference finals 2-2. He set the Spurs' rookie postseason scoring record in the process.
A forthcoming book revisits the Armed Services Editions program, which distributed nearly 123 million pocket-sized paperbacks to U.S. troops between 1943 and 1947. The effort, billed as a counter to Nazi book burnings, mixed pulp fiction with literary classics.
L'Oca d'Oro, an Italian restaurant in Austin, runs a weekly pay-what-you-will night to draw customers who have pulled back on dining out. Co-owners say tariffs, labor costs and menu inflation drove the experiment, which has held up financially.
President Trump's late endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over four-term Sen. John Cornyn has unsettled national Republicans, who view Cornyn as the safer general-election pick. Texas voters cast runoff ballots Tuesday.
A potential crack in a Garden Grove tank holding methyl methacrylate may be relieving internal pressure, fire officials said Sunday. Nearly 50,000 Orange County residents remain evacuated; Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency.