Variety

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Bring Their Fiery, Trump-Slamming Set to Washington, D.C.: ‘Let ‘Em Hear You in the F—in’ White House!’: Concert Review

On Wednesday night at a sold-out Nationals Park in this nation’s capital, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had just reached the end of “Streets of Minneapolis,” the song the Boss wrote about the ICE murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the resistance put forth by the citizens of Minneapolis and St. […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

‘Off Campus’ Season 2 Sets Allie and Dean as Central Couple

“Off Campus,” Amazon Prime Video’s popular new young adult romance series has set the central couple for its second season. Season 2 will focus on Allie Hayes and Dean Di Laurentis, played by Mika Abdalla and Stephen Kalyn, respectively. “We are so excited to continue Allie and Dean’s story as our primary romance of Season […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

“It Was a Fantasy Wet Dream”: John Badham on the Wild Making of ‘Saturday Night Fever’

A fired Oscar-nominated director. Fake call sheets to outrun screaming John Travolta fans. A disco palace built with aluminum foil and Christmas lights. The director revisits the chaotic, improbable production of the 1977 classic on the latest episode of 'It Happened in Hollywood.'

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Mika Abdalla and Stephen Kalyn to Lead ‘Off Campus’ Season 2 as Dean and Allie’s Romance Takes Center Ice

The Prime Video romance series, based on the Elle Kennedy novels, follows the romantic dealings of members of the Briar University hockey team and centers around a new couple each season.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Showbiz Foils: USA Fencing Courts Hollywood on the Road to the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

En garde! Fencing is having a moment in America, and USA Fencing is looking to ride that momentum into the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Leaders of USA Fencing, the governing body for fencing in the U.S. and part of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have been making the rounds in Hollywood of late as […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Metropolis Cinema Chief Hania Mroue on Opening a Festival in Beirut Amid Israeli Air Strikes: ‘Not Only Are We Surviving the War,’ but We’re Creating ‘Something That Has Meaning’

Hania Mroue, founder and director of Beirut’s beloved Metropolis Cinema — Lebanon’s only arthouse movie theater — is planning to host the second edition of the South Screens (Écrans du Sud) Film Festival on Thursday evening, just as Israel is stepping up air strikes in Lebanon. Mroue is forging head despite an airstrike Thursday afternoon […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Guy Fieri to Host ‘Guy’s Feast Club’ YouTube Talk Show Series From Food Network (EXCLUSIVE)

Guy Fieri has another Food Network show in the works — but this one has a digital twist. Titled “Guy’s Feast Club,” the talk-show style food program will debut Thursday, June 11 at 7 p.m. ET exclusively on Food Network’s YouTube channel. Per the description for the show, “From local joints to home-cooked spreads, Fieri […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Inside Variety’s Night in the Writers’ Room

Variety’s annual A Night in the Writers’ Room event took place on May 7 in Los Angeles with intimate conversations and behind-the-scenes insights of some of the biggest shows on television. See the portraits below.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Young MC Exits Freedom 250 Concert Series Over Trump Connection

The rapper is following the lead of Morris Day, while C+C Music Factory weighs whether to perform at the National Mall bash amid backlash.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Lamp made out of eggshells cracks prestigious furniture award

Judges for the Australian Furniture Design award were impressed by the lamp’s versatility, ‘and how tactile it is’Joanne Odisho, a Melbourne furniture designer collects thousands of discarded eggshells from local cafes. Then she sterilises them, dries them and puts them through a Nutribullet.These are the first steps in creating the novel material Odisho uses to make her Mod-u lamps, a collection of configurable Jenga-esque lighting pieces, which recently won her the coveted Australian Furniture

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Kristen Stewart’s Biarritz Film Festival Jury Brings Together International Talent

Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues has assembled an eclectic international lineup of rising actors, filmmakers and auteurs for the jury of its fourth edition which will be presided over by Kristen Stewart. Stewart, whose directorial debut “The Chronology of Water” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025, will be joined on the jury […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Suki Waterhouse on How Motherhood, Nostalgia and Robert Pattinson as a Muse Inspired Her Sublime New Album ‘Loveland’

Suki Waterhouse is feeling nostalgic. On a gloomy spring afternoon, the 34-year-old meets me at a cozy Notting Hill pub across the street from the flat where she lived for most of her 20s. Her manager booked a table under a pseudonym, but at 2:30 p.m., the establishment is empty except for a few old […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Sets October Release, Including on Switch 2; First Trailer Reveals ‘Full-Scale Invasion of South Korea’ Storyline

Lock and load: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” has been unveiled as the next mainline game in the Microsoft-owned Activision’s massive war-game franchise. Per the official description for the game, “Set against a rapidly escalating global conflict centered on the Korean Peninsula, ‘Modern Warfare 4’ pushes the series into darker and more dangerous territory […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

BritBox Took Its Boldest Swing Yet With ‘The Other Bennet Sister.’ It’s Catapulted the Platform to the Big Leagues

In an exclusive interview on the period drama's record-breaking popularity — and why it's fueled a breakout moment for the North America streamer — BBC Studios' CEO of direct to consumer tells THR: "There aren't others who are as aggressive as we've become in helping to finance the next wave of British television."

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A girl’s best friend: Marilyn Monroe remembered by her closest confidants

Four days before what would have been her 100th birthday, Hollywood legends look back on their friendships with a woman who, underneath the studio sheen, was warm, supportive and empatheticYou can judge a woman by the people she surrounds herself with. For the last few months I’ve been talking to the people Marilyn Monroe surrounded herself with, during her eventful 36 years on earth. Ostensibly and primarily, I was doing this to make a radio documentary, which begins on what would have been her

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Nate Bargatze on Debut Movie ‘The Breadwinner,’ Its Discounted Tickets and His Much-Discussed Emmys Gig

The stand-up veteran, whose family-friendly film hits theaters Friday, tells The Hollywood Reporter about riding a horse for the Sony feature: "It could act better than I could."

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Disney, Philips Launch Themed MRI Machines Using ‘Beloved Stories and Characters’ To Comfort Children Undergoing Scans

Disney has collaborated with Dutch health-tech multinational Philips to create themed MRI scanners for children undergoing imaging procedures. The scanners, which launched this week in the U.S. and U.K. among a handful of other countries, will see Disney stories and characters integrated into Philips Ambient Experience for MRI to create an immersive environment resulting in […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘The biggest myth? That I got kicked out of Sister Sledge’: Kathy Sledge on sibling rivalry, Chic and disco’s political power

One of disco’s biggest stars answers your questions, recalling tours with Rick James, inspiration for Destiny’s Child and what she wished she asked Michael JacksonYou have been an active contributor to an astounding canon of music. What was the essential ingredient that made it all happen? eamonmcc The first word that comes to mind is passion – for the music, for what I do. If you get to be the voice of a song like We Are Family, which is here for generations to come – to me, it’s more than a s

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail

Nash Ensemble/Booth/Farnsworth/Cottis(Onyx)Soprano Claire Booth and baritone Marcus Farnsworth celebrate the influential British composer’s kaleidoscopic soundworld with this collection of four song cycles It’s hard to think of a single figure who has been so influential on contemporary UK classical music for so long as Colin Matthews, who turned 80 earlierthis year. This release from the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Jessica Cottis, showcases his works for voice and chamber group.What’s striking

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Real-Time AI Video Startup Reactor, Founded by Ex-Apple Engineers, Raises $59 Million From Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo and Others (EXCLUSIVE)

Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results. Now comes a Silicon Valley startup that says it can produce gen-AI video (and other outputs) in real time — a potentially groundbreaking advance: San Francisco-based Reactor, co-founded by Alberto Taiuti and Bryce […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026