LONDON —  Thirty-five years after the extraterrestrial monster movie Predator made its first outing, the creature is back in action in the upcoming film Prey.

TRUMPETS, INC.’s popular musical Joseph the Dreamer returns onstage until Aug. 7, at the Globe Auditorium, Maybank Performing Arts Theater, BGC, Taguig City.

TWELVE drag queens will compete to become the first Drag Race Superstar from the Philippines on Drag Race Philippines, premiere on Aug. 17, on discovery+, HBO GO, and WOW Presents Plus.

BEST friends Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman share the same superpowers and fight crime in Metropolis.

KATIE Holmes shares one of her pandemic pastimes with the world in her new feature film Alone Together, as writer, director and star of the movie.

MADRID — Latin American superstar Shakira has rejected a settlement offered by the prosecutor in her €14.5 million Spanish tax fraud case and is now a step closer to going to trial, her media team said on Wednesday.

LONDON — McDonald’s will increase the price of its cheeseburger by 20% in Britain, in the first price hike for the popular item in 14 years as it responds to soaring inflation.

LOS ANGELES — Netflix, Inc. is turning its new spy thriller The Gray Man into a franchise, announcing plans on Tuesday for a sequel and spinoff to the action movie starring Ryan Gosling.

WHEN one thinks of California, one thinks about film stars, tech giants, Rodeo Drive, and all the other things movies have taught us. Living in a Los Angeles suburb as a teenager, this wasn’t quite the California experience for this writer. It was driving down where Pat Nixon grew up, and hearing “Strawberry Fields Forever” while passing by (you guessed it) a strawberry field.

MEXICO CITY —  Diana Kennedy, a British-born food writer whose dedication to Mexico’s culinary heritage helped popularize the richness of the national cuisine in the English-speaking world, has died. She was 99.

HEINEKEN is releasing a smoother beer with a reduced alcohol content called Heineken Silver.

CEBREROS, Spain — When Spanish winemaker Jesus Soto returned to his land for the first time since a wildfire swept through the area, the sight of his charred grapevines left him in tears and feeling as though he had “lost part of my soul,” he said last Thursday.