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Exclusive: Activist Artists Management has signed Chilean actress Renata González Spralja (The Wave) for representation, with Bernie Cahill and Justin Deanda to run point for the new client.

Most recently, Spralja wrapped production on The Wave (La Ola), a musical feature directed by Oscar and Goya winner Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman). Produced by Pablo Larraín’s Fabula, the film inspired by a true story from 2018 tells the story of a Chilean student who gets involved in a feminist movement on her university. Suddenly, she finds herself becoming a central figure in the movement.

Previously, Spralja worked with Larraín and Fabula on Llévame al Cielo (Take Me to Heaven), the first Chilean Disney+ series, which is slated for release worldwide this year. She made her screen debut opposite Giancarlo Esposito in Blackbird, a four-episode English-language marketing miniseries produced by Fabula for Nissan, and continues to be represented by Constanza Arena...

Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's involvement in the new Star Wars film signifies a refreshing change and an embrace of diversity in the franchise. Daisy Ridley's hints about the story of the upcoming Star Wars film have only heightened anticipation and intrigue among fans. Despite challenges, including recent strikes, the film is moving forward with Obaid-Chinoy's commitment and promises to honor the Star Wars' legacy while breaking new ground.

Daisy Ridley has shared an intriguing insight into how her new Star Wars movie came about, and how the film will take her story as Rey in "a different direction." While there have been many Star Wars projects that have attempted to do "something different" with the franchise, and it has not always been well received, but it seems that Ridley is happy for her return to try and buck that trend.

Ridley recently spoke to AlloCiné about a hastily arranged...

Warning: contains spoilers for Venom #12!Marvel's Sleeper has officially overcome Venom’s traditional weaknesses. Symbiotes like Venom are immensely powerful, possessed of great strength and endurance, but they also have two extremely common weaknesses: fire and sound. Numerous foes have used these to best Venom and other symbiotes, and Peter Parker even originally repelled the symbiote suit by exposing it to a tolling bell. However, Venom's spawn Sleeper has found a way around these limits, declaring itself the "most powerful symbiote."

Sleeper first appeared in 2018’s Venom #165, created by Mike Costa and Mark Bagley. Sleeper is the seventh symbiote to spawn from Venom and was originally intended to bond with Spider-Man villain the Scorpion. Venom thwarted this effort, deciding not to bond Sleeper with a host for the time being, so as to avoid it becoming corrupted. Venom left Sleeper in the care of the Alchemax Corporation, but Sleeper eventually broke away.

Items from roster of Emi artists will raise funds for earthquake relief.

By Gil Kaufman

Katy Perry

Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

As Japan continues to dig out from the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a huge roster of musicians has offered up rare personal items for an eBay auction benefitting the Red Cross' relief efforts.

The auction, which runs from April 5-21, features Emi artists, including Katy Perry, 30 Seconds to Mars, the Beatles, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Gorillaz, deadmau5, Lady Antebellum and Kylie Minogue.

Among the more than 140 items up for sale are a pair of Coachella tickets with a meet-and-greet with the Chemical Brothers (current bid $504), a signed Lady Antebellum acoustic guitar ($569), a signed Katy Perry poster ($91), Chris Martin's Viva la Vida tour jacket and gold disc ($1,090), a meet-and-greet with 30 Seconds to Mars ($301), a signed LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening vinyl ($100), a signed Coldplay Viva la Vida...

Wow, y'all, pickings are slim tonight. And I don't mean in the "there's nothing good on" sense, I mean there's nothing on. Good, bad, indifferent or otherwise. At least nothing new, I guess there may be some interesting re-runs happening somewhere. I hope you've got books or some DVDs to keep you busy otherwise, god forbid, you might actually have to interact with other people and we all know how much those of us who spend time on the internet hate that. As best I can tell from movies and TV shows, we're all either super genius teenagers who "hack" in some kind of competitive fashion or lonely obese men in basements with no lights stuffing our face with some variety of neon-colored snack food and soda who like to pretend we're nubile 21 year old women with fabulous social lives who also somehow manage to have time to talk dirty...

From early Lollapalooza to this year's Coachella, hip-hop has always had a place at major U.S. music gatherings.

By Gil Kaufman

Eminem

Photo: John Shearer/ WireImage

American music fans had to chuckle back in 2008, when former Oasis co-founder Noel Gallagher raised a giant stink about Jay-z headlining the venerable Glastonbury Festival. Honestly? Hip-hop doesn't belong at big festivals? C'mon, Noel.

Well, we'll see how much water that big cup of righteous indignation holds in the next few days as fans of Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival weigh in on the news that not one, but two hip-hop legends — Eminem and Lil Wayne — will top a bill that features a dozen other rappers sprinkled in among the usual cadre of jam-friendly acts, indie faves and the usual classic rock big fish.

While Bonnaroo's organizers have long shunned the "jam-band" festival tag, the annual steamy gathering on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee,...

Halloween week just keeps rolling on tonight with a whole slew of new Halloween themed episodes for your viewing enjoyment. I actually don't have a lot of time for TV this week since forces have conspired to make me Extra Super Mondo Busy but I appreciate that it's all happening and most of it I'll be able to see on Hulu. It is actually the thought of Halloween that's dragging me through the worst parts; that Sunday night I'll get to dress up in something I'd never wear otherwise and go out to the giant street party that is Miami on Halloween and try and break my record for variety of containers to drink alcohol out of in one night. Last year was a highlight, since I ran into some sexy lumberjacks carrying around sweet tea vodka in syrup bottles. Anyway, here's your Wednesday night TV:

8:00pm: "America's Next Top Model...