LOS ANGELES — Imagine Four Weddings and a Funeral without Hugh Grant?

COLOGNE, Germany — Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham return as agent Hobbs and outcast Shaw in Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, their own spin-off in the hugely successful film franchise.

RAPPER Jay-Z, jam band Dead & Co. and folk rocker John Fogerty have pulled out of next month’s Woodstock 50 music festival after the organizer relocated the event to Maryland.

THE Grammy Award-winning a capella group Pentatonix has announced that Manila will be one of the stops on the Pentatonix: The World Tour. The Philippine concert will be on Feb. 8, 2020 at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City. Tickets will go on sale starting on Aug. 3.

IMAGINE waking up in a world where everything is the same, with one exception: Nobody has ever heard of The Beatles or any of their songs.

KOREAN superstar Jay Park will return to the Philippines in September for the Manila leg of his Sexy 4Eva World Tour.

DRAGON STAR VARNIR is far from a typical Japanese role-playing game. In fact, it’s anything but run of the mill, eschewing the notion that demand for releases in the genre is fueled by entertaining gameplay and not depth of narrative. For Compile Heart, in particular, it represents a striking departure from the norm; instead of going for yet another Hyperdimension Neptunia offering that would have been gobbled up by a solid base of loyal fans, anyway, the Tokyo-based developer saw fit to churn out an entirely original intellectual property that calls to mind the dark and gruesome undertones of the early works of the Brothers Grimm.

THIRTY signature pieces from 15 prominent fashion designers and photographers in the country were gathered together in one collection to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of local fashion brand, Plains & Prints.

BALLOON animals are usually a feature at children’s parties. Unless they are by American artist Jeff Koons.

LONDON -- French designer Jean Paul Gaultier brought his lively and eccentric Fashion Freak Show to the London stage last week, a musical production looking back on his life from childhood classroom sketches to the Paris haute couture catwalks.

JAPAN’S unusually long and cool rainy season has dampened demand for apparel, furniture and other goods, with some retailers already reporting steep drops in merchandise sales.

THE Japanese seem to have a golden touch when it comes to design and manufacturing. If one looks at examples of Japanese design, the result is almost always intuitive, as if they have read the customer’s mind. The little touches they add, and a deep understanding of ergonomics solve problems people didn’t even know they had: for example, knife handles with certain angles that allow for cutting in any direction, or else rounded corners in simple objects like toasters so as not to seem obtrusive (or painful when one hits their hand against it). They have a skill in taking something foreign -- like jeans or whiskey -- and improving upon it, making it seem even better than the original.