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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A new musical comedy starring Newfoundland's Alan Doyle and set for next year's Charlottetown Festival replaces the sought-after petrochemical factory in the movie "The Grand Seduction" with a humble french-fry factory.

In its heyday, Le Château had nine stores along a roughly three-kilometre stretch of Ste-Catherine Street in Montreal. The Canadian retailer was a staple of nearly every mall and shopping district in the country, with 240 locations at its peak.

Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst admired one another before they’d ever met, but it was Campion who made the first move. She was enamored of Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and wrote Dunst a letter.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — People in the Netherlands can get to know their future queen a little better with the publication Tuesday of an authorized book about Princess Amalia three weeks before her 18th birthday.

When you think about holiday shopping, your mind probably goes to big-box retailers before your neighborhood bookstore or antique shop.

TORONTO — In more than 15 years of filmmaking, Jason Reitman says he's never been asnervous about a premiere than he is with this week's release of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Maná will play a concert residency next year at The Forum in Los Angeles, a city they consider their second home and in which they have broken audience records.

HOUSTON (AP) — Calls for an independent investigation into what led to 10 deaths at the Astroworld music festival went unheeded Monday, as Houston-area officials instead chose to direct a county administrator to conduct a review with other government

A Connecticut judge found Infowars host Alex Jones liable by default Monday in a defamation lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over the conspiracy theorist's claims that the massacre was a hoax.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — TWICE, the nine-member K-pop band with over 9 million Twitter followers, says they feel their growing popularity overseas.