Entertainment News Summary: 'Peterloo' to Venice, 'Crazy Rich Asians' still rocking US

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Killed for asking for a vote: Mike Leigh brings 'Peterloo' to Venice

In 1819, mounted troops charged, swords drawn, into a pro-democracy protest in northern England, killing over a dozen people and wounding hundreds in what became a landmark event in the struggle to win common people the right to vote. There were, of course, no cameras to record it, but journalists at the clash at St. Peter's Field in Manchester compared the devastation to the battlefield at Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated four years before, and dubbed it the Peterloo Massacre.

Box Office: 'Crazy Rich Asians' heads for huge Labor Day weekend

The summer 2018 box office is officially ending on a high note. An August surge is thanks partially to "Crazy Rich Asians," the Warner Bros. romantic comedy that is still doing crazy good business in North America. Jon M. Chu's film will top the domestic box office for the third week in a row with estimates showing it could make another $27 million to $30 million over Labor Day Weekend. It generated a three-day tally of $22 million in 3,865 locations, dropping just 10 percent in its third outing and bringing its domestic total to $110 million.

Bishop sorry for embrace of Ariana Grande at Aretha funeral: report

The bishop who officiated at Aretha Franklin's funeral has apologized for being "too familiar" when he embraced singer Ariana Grande after her tribute to the Queen of Soul. Bishop Charles H. Ellis III of the Greater Grace Temple was criticized by many social media users for appearing to touch the side of the Grammy-nominated artist's breast after she sang at the funeral in Detroit on Friday.

Who's the mystery actor in horror remake Suspiria? Not me, says Tilda Swinton

He is a key character in the remake of 1970s horror movie "Suspiria", but no one has heard of the actor playing elderly psychiatrist Jozef Klemperer, and there are rumors he is actually co-star Tilda Swinton in disguise. Ahead of the film's world premiere on Saturday, Swinton, known for her remarkable physical transformations in films, read out a message from the actor, Lutz Ebersdorf, supposedly a 82-year-old retired performance artist and psychoanalyst, who chose not to attend the Venice Film Festival.

Coen brothers return to True Grit country with six tales of the Old West

Coen brothers fans get six movies for the price of one in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", an anthology of Western stories starring, among others, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tyne Daly and Tom Waits. The movie, by the team that pulled off an acclaimed remake of the John Wayne Western "True Grit" in 2010, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week where it is one of three Netflix movies competing for the Golden Lion.

U2 cancel concert mid-show after Bono loses voice

Irish rockers U2 canceled a concert in Berlin on Saturday after frontman Bono lost his voice a few songs into the show. The band had kicked off the European leg of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour on Friday at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in the German capital.

Dakota Johnson trained during '50 Shades' shoot for 'Suspiria' dances

If Dakota Johnson had to work hard to prepare for the erotic "Fifty Shades", it was nothing compared to the physical demands of "Suspiria", a horror movie in which much of the fear comes through her ability to dance like a woman possessed. A remake of the 1970s cult classic, "Suspiria" is set in a dance school in Berlin where Johnson's character Susie, a naive young hopeful from the cornfields of Ohio, arrives to find strange powers at work.

Brothers called Sisters show no mercy in star-studded Western

"We're good at what we do," Joaquin Phoenix tells his partner-in-crime John C. Reilly after they have killed so many cowboys they have lost count, in the comedy Western "The Sisters Brothers" that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday. The reason they are so good, apart from being handy with a pistol, is their complete lack of conscience in taking a man's life, something Phoenix's character Charlie Sisters attributes to the genes the brothers inherited from their abusive father.

'Charlie Says' tells Manson story from view of women he sent to kill

Charles Manson did not wield the knives in the 1969 murder spree that ended the Californian hippy dream, so what drove the people who did so on his orders? That is the question posed in "Charlie Says" which premiered in Venice on Sunday. "Doctor Who" star Matt Smith plays Manson, a wild-eyed petty criminal who sets up a hippy commune where his followers worship him like a messiah, clinging to every word of his incoherent prophecies of Armageddon.

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