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Justin Bieber will bring his comeback to Coachella. A Dragon's Den villain will crash Hollywood. And B.C. will transform into feudal Japan, ancient Scandinavia and a zombified Pacific Northwest.

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1 Justin Bieber Will Headline Coachella

The world’s biggest music festival will go by a new moniker this spring: #Bieberchella. Four years after he stepped away from music to focus on his health—and social media spats—the boy wonder from Stratford, Ontario, came back big in 2025. He released Swag and Swag II, topped the Billboard charts and signed a record-breaking, seven-figure deal to headline Coachella. For Bieber, it’s a flex that quashes nagging questions about how he would fare in his post-Scooter Braun era. (He split from his longtime manager and mentor in 2023.) For Beliebers, it’s a reason to flock to the desert: festival passes sold out in three days.

2 Ryan Gosling Will Save Humanity

If the trailer’s reception is any sign (400 million views in the first week, an all-time record), Project Hail Mary will be the summer blockbuster to beat. Adapted from a novel by Andy Weir (the author of The Martian), the film follows a middle-school science teacher who gets recruited on a Hail Mary space mission to save humanity. It’s the latest big swing from the $8.5-billion Amazon-MGM merger and was the centrepiece of the studio’s debut at CinemaCon last spring, proving that Gosling’s gravitational pull is as strong as ever.

3 Kevin O'Leary Will Become A24’s Newest Star

Chalamet, Paltrow and—wait—the mean judge from Dragon’s Den? It was a big surprise when the Canadian tycoon and Trump-intimate got cast in