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Ahead of this years much-anticipated Phineas and Ferb Season 5, the series creators have released teaser art from the show. Per Variety, the animated series co-creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff Swampy Marsh were also scheduled to reveal more information about the upcoming season at a panel at New York Comic-Con. The shows fourth season concluded in 2015.

Phineas and Ferb which follows step-brothers and their adventures during their 104 days of summer vacation, was created by Povenmire and Jeff Swampy Marsh and first premiered in 2008. In 2023, Season 5, which will have 40 episodes, was green-lit by Disney.

The series also spawned two feature films, the first of which premiered in 2011: Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension. 2020 brought with it the second movie, Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Candace Against the Universe.

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Sabrina Carpenter dropped her sixth album, “Short n’ Sweet,” on August 23, but it’s her most consequential release yet, coming on the heels of two breakthrough hit singles: “Espresso,” which has so far peaked at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Please Please Please,” her first chart-topper. The new album includes those two blockbusters, but how do the other 10 tracks compare?

Thus far, “Short n’ Sweet” has a strong MetaCritic score of 78 based on 14 reviews counted thus far: 12 are classified as positive and two are mixed, but none are negative. Jem Aswad (Variety) is especially fond of the collection, calling it “the powerful next step in her evolution as an artist, person and persona.” It “seals her arrival as a pop superstar,” according to Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone). Charles Lyons-Burt (Slant) writes, “Carpenter and her collaborators, who include Jack Antonoff on a third of the songs, deftly integrate an evolving tapestry of sounds,...

It’s natural when in a long term relationship to question the different ways you act around your partner at various points in your life. Filmmaker Peter Collins Campbell’s short Variations on a Theme takes those questions of self-awareness to a whole new level, however, by making them literal in the form of a science fiction style concept about a couple who start to investigate the ability they have to physically split their bodies into many different versions of themselves. It’s an engrossing, philosophical and technically-impressive short film that despite its relatively small budget looks completely seamless in its visual effects work. Dn last spoke to Campbell a few years ago for his absurdist comedy Summer Vacation, and invited him back to our pages today for a chat about the journey he went on making Variations on a Theme, learning how it started from a desire to impulsively...

Famous for its surreal genre-mashing and cross-gender casting, “Summer Vacation 1999”'s (1988) cultish elements recall the beginnings of shonen-ai (boy's love), one of many queercoded creative spaces that have been veiled for heterosexual enjoyment. Before our time of identity politics and labels, representations of gender and sexual fluidity wove itself into existence by sheer will and unquenchable desire. Today, in the restored catalogs of festivals such as Queer East, we look back in celebration, but also with a mixed sense of wonder, empathy and relief. In Shusuke Kaneko's futurist romantic-mystery, three boys reel from the return of their supposed-dead schoolmate to their countryside boarding school, igniting tensions and unrequited desires. “Summer Vacation 1999” breathes life into a depiction of queer spaces as innocent, fleeting and beautiful, forever scarred into memory.

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The first wave of bands has been unveiled for the 2024 edition of The Fest, an annual punk gathering in Gainesville, Florida. Hot Water Music, The Bouncing Souls, Streetlight Manifesto, Matt and Kim, Superchunk, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Joyce Manor, and more are playing the three-day event set for October 25th-27th.

This year marks the 22nd edition of the festival. Among the other acts on the bill are Cloud Nothings, Cursive, Fucked Up, The Flatliners, Mustard Plug, Scream, You Blew It!, Big D and the Kids Table, and dozens more. Tickets go on sale next Monday (April 22nd) at 10 a.m. Et via The Fest’s official website.

It will be a hometown show for Hot Water Music, who are playing a special 30th anniversary set. Meanwhile, Bouncing Souls are performing four albums over two sets.

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For 2024, Queer East Festival launches its fifth year milestone with a remarkable line up of film screenings, arts and performance events across London from 17 to 28 April 2024 and then across the UK later in the year. The programme includes contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special anniversary and retrospective screenings that showcase a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia and their diaspora communities.

Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...

NewFest and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) have announced the fourth annual lineup for their “Queering the Canon” retrospective film series, this year subtitled “Besties.”

This year’s lineup of films screening at Bam in downtown Brooklyn (April 11 – 15) includes a 4K restoration of Rose Troche’s lesbian classic “Go Fish,” the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Brian Sloan’s queer romantic comedy “I Think I Do,” 35mm screenings of Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” and F. Gary Gray’s “Set It Off.” The “Go Fish” screening will be accompanied by a Q&a with Rose Troche in person along with star Guinevere Turner.

The repertory series was created by NewFest, co-curated by NewFest’s Nick McCarthy (director of programming) and Kim Garcia (technical director and programmer), and is presented in partnership with Bam.

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Powered by “Barbenheimer,” 2023 box office in Spain surged 31% to €487.5 ($541.1 million), still 18.2% below a pre-pandemic average of €596 million ($661.6 million) over 2015-19.

At 74.9 million tickets sold, admissions rose 26%, 24% down on pre-covid cinemagoing, according to Comscore Movies Spain, which announced 2023 results through Dec. 29 on Friday.

“2023 was the third consecutive year of box office recovery in Spain,” David Rodríguez, Comscore Movies general manager for Spain and Portugal, told Variety.

That said, Spain’s 2023 recovery looks set to continue down on France’s and Germany’s and most especially the U.K.’s, but in line with Italy’s.

“Economies in Northern Europe are stronger and Covid-19 restrictions on cinema attendance lasted longer in Spain and Italy,” said Rodríguez.

As all over the world, war in the Ukraine, Gaza and above all Hollywood’s double strike, which pushed back key releases to 2024 and 2025, created “turbulence,” frustrating a more powerful B.O. rally in Spain, he added.

"Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" lacks the magic of the previous films without Adam Sandler's voice as Dracula. "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" is an enjoyable film with a hilarious romance and incorporates more zany humor. "Hotel Transylvania 2" surpasses the original with a refined formula, themes of inclusion, and Adam Sandler's best performance as Dracula.

The Hotel Transylvania series has been a consistent favorite among younger viewers since its inception, with each animated film bringing in an impressive figure at the box office. The films put a lighter, more silly spin on the famous Universal monsters like Dracula and the Wolfman, with all the classic monsters coming together under the roof of Dracula's hotel. Though each installment in this quirky franchise has been a delight in its own way, they weren't all created equal, especially as we dive into the later installments.

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October TV Alert! Dive into our essential Halloween TV Guide for 2023 and catch the most anticipated screenings this spooky season. This guide is your passport to the best horror movie premieres, spooky specials, and halloween horror movie marathons TV and streaming have to offer. We’ve compiled all of the mega-hits from AMC Fearfest, SyFy, Shudder, crowd-favorite Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween, and more!

Whether you’re a die-hard horror fan or just in for the October vibes, there’s bound to be something perfect to get you into the Halloween spirit this season. Whether you want to watch all of the Halloween films backward, or stressed-out bakers making giant Halloween disasterpieces while a big clock on the wall yells at them, we’ve got ya covered! And for our global audience, use this timezone converter link to align your screams with the screen’s. Please note: schedules are subject to change.