CHARLI XCX

Robert De Niro was the honored guest at the 28th annual amfAR Gala Cannes, where one lucky guest won an auction to have lunch with the actor and a piece of his family history.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a Charli XCX album release, an erotic thriller on Hulu starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, and a series about the rise and fall of the business WeWork, which promoted the concept of shared workspaces.

The highly transmissible variant has again upended life in the U.S., as officials warn of a coming spike in cases and people race to get booster shots and coronavirus tests during the winter holidays.

People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 Paul Rudd has been inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus meant there was no live audience to see it happen.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

This combination photo shows Demi Lovato performing at the o2 in east London, on June 25, 2018, left, and Tom Petty performing during the Vegoose music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 28, 2006. Documentaries about Lovato and Petty are among the films set to premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival this year. (AP Photo)Documentaries about Demi Lovato, Tom Petty, Selma Blair and Charli XCX are among the films set to premiere at next month's South by Southwest Film Festival. They held a makeshift virtual festival later that spring in collaboration with Amazon Prime Video, although some opted out. The Sundance Film Festival on Monday said that its virtual festival reached an audience about 2.7 times larger than its typical in-person gathering.

Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens. In a statement, U.K. label Transgressive said the musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday morning. "Tragically, our beautiful Sophie passed away this morning after a terrible accident," the statement said. "True to her spirituality she had climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell." Burak Cingi/RedfernsA police spokesperson Athens confirmed that Sophie slipped and fell from the balcony of an apartment where she was staying and no foul play was suspected in her death.

British singer-songwriter Charli XCX, who had been pursuing a successful but more conventional pop career, abruptly changed direction with the release of her Sophie-produced 2016 EP, “Vroom Vroom.” Charli, who with collaborator A.G. Cook was awarded Variety’s Hitmakers Innovator award in December, said she had long been seeking a more aggressive pop sound in her music. “It was only when I met Sophie and then A.G. that I finally found what I was searching for,” she said. “We just immediately spoke the same language -- we didn’t even have to talk.”

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES— “Enola Holmes”: It’s somewhat fitting that “Stranger Things” breakout Millie Bobby Brown gets her first starring role in a Netflix film, “Enola Holmes,” coming to the streamer Wednesday. — The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was supposed to take place in June in Tennessee but was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, though, the festival is launching Virtual ROO-ALITY, a three-night live broadcast featuring new performances as well as content from the Bonnaroo archive. The two-hour film will be available at 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday at pbs.org/frontline and on YouTube at 9 p.m. EDT.

Charli XCX just let the cat out of the bag. "So here it goes over the past year, I've been making and starring in a TV show about my favourite band (who I put together) - Nasty Cherry." Nasty Cherry is made up of Gabbriette Bechtel, Chloe Chaidez, Georgia Somary and Debbie Knox-Hewson, whom Charli calls "unashamedly real and also badass." I'm With the Band: Nasty Cherry arrives on Nov. 15 on Netflix. RELATED CONTENT: Charli XCX on Why Shes Nervous to Drop Her New Album (Exclusive) Embed Code RestartCharli XCX Gets Backlash From Taylor Swift Fans After She Offers Candid Thoughts on Opening for Her on TourNetflix Christmas Movies and TV Shows Debuting in 2019 -- See All of ThemKerry Washington Is a Mother in Crisis in 'American Son' -- Watch!

Charli XCX is facing the ire of the Swifties! Another user chimed in by mentioning a few of Charli's other hits, writing, "Charli XCX should be in fact embarrassed people only know Boom Clap & Fancy. "I'm actually so disappointed regarding the recent comment made by Charli XCX," yet another fan wrote. The five year olds outsold pic.twitter.com/NjkHhRYPod Georges (@georgesluver) August 6, 2019Im actually so disappointed regarding the recent comment made by Charli XCX. RELATED CONTENT:BTS Members and Charli XCX Drop a 'Dream Glow' CollaborationTaylor Swift Drops More Clues About Her Upcoming AlbumAmanda Seyfried Is Down To Do a Duet With Taylor Swift After 'Mean' Cover (Exclusive)