Variety

Kirill Sokolov to Direct Animated Feature ‘Alone in the Ocean,’ About Freediver Slava Kurilov’s Famed Escape From Soviet Union (EXCLUSIVE)

Kirill Sokolov, the Russian filmmaker known for violent dark comedies such as “Why Don’t You Just Die!” and his recent Hollywood debut “They Will Kill You,” is set to direct his first animated feature. Backed by Lazy Sunday and The Media Company, “Alone in the Ocean” will be based on the “extraordinary life and legendary […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ina Garten Is a YouTuber Now

The cookbook author and 'Barefoot Contessa' host will launch an interview podcast called 'Happy Hour' in partnership with Vox Media.

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots actsThis year’s Reading and Leeds festival lineups are a testament to the catholic tastes of a generation who have little regard for musical tribalism or the concept of genre: brash pop stars rub up against drum’n’bass acts, underground rappers, meat-and-potatoes indie bands and much more.What at least 70% of those acts have

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Li Jin Hao: Falling from a Moon review – Mr Nostalgia is now the man of the moment

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn his award-nominated show, the standup ruminates on myth and memory with some lovely observations‘There’s a moment when that ends,” muses Li Jin Hao, “and this begins …” As well as being jam-packed with swoonsome one-liners like that, Li’s show traces the tension between this and that; the draw the past exerts on this self-proclaimed Mr Nostalgia, versus the necessity of living in the present. Beginning with a yearning sun-and-moon myth learned at his granny’s kne

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Housewives’ Star Jen Shah Finishes Federal Prison Sentence: “I Feel Blessed. I Feel Free” (Exclusive)

The former 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star shares a statement with THR about her release: "For a very long time, I wasn’t in a position to speak for myself while my story continued to be told around me. There is a lot people know about my story, and there is also a lot they don’t."

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

New York Post Inks First-Look Film and TV Deal to Mine Archives (Exclusive)

The pact with Crazy Legs Productions will see the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid develop movie, series, documentary and streaming projects based on its reporting and archives.

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A gallery glow up, spooky sculpture and a magical modern – the week in art

A grand survey of light art illuminates Durham, St Ives gets macabre and London goes big on land art – all in your weekly dispatchVictory Over the SunA Russian futurist spectacle from 1913 gives this grand survey of light art its title. Luminous works by Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer and many more mark the opening of Durham’s new art gallery. • The Light, Durham, until 17 January Continue reading...

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Variety

Tatiana Huezo, Elisa Miller Bring New Films to the Morelia Film Festival’s 12th Impulso Morelia

A mix of established and first-time Mexican filmmakers are presenting their upcoming projects at the Morelia Film Festival’s 12th Impulso Morelia, which features works-in-progress in varied stages of post-production. Out of the six entries, selected from around 90 submissions, three are women, led by Tatiana Huezo (“Tempestad,” “Prayers for the Stolen”) and Eliza Miller (“Hurricane […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Apple TV Hikes Prices as Streaming Inflation Continues

The streaming service now costs $14.99 per month, with Apple One rising to $21.95 per month.

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Clown Show review – after 250 years, the American dream explodes over one anarchic night

King’s theatre, Edinburgh The pranks and pratfalls in Geoff Sobelle’s show mark the US’s 250th anniversary with nihilistic excessThey are a forlorn lot, this bunch who shuffle glumly to the front of the stalls. In white face, funeral veils, mismatched jodhpurs and tailcoats, they gaze across the auditorium to the timeless strum of a folk song. They cheer up after the curtain rises and – to audience applause – their big top reveals itself in all its weatherbeaten glitz.This is where these motley

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A kids TV star to Jimmy Carr: who will host the new Top Gear?

A new series has finally been confirmed, with Carr rumoured to be the next Clarkson. But there are others ready to take the wheel, including a Cbeebies host, a Celebrity Traitors favourite and a motor-head modelTop Gear is the show that cannot die. Nothing can kill it; not the dryness of the original, the violence that ended the Clarkson era, or the horrifying crash that brought its most recent incarnation to a halt. And so, inevitably, yesterday the BBC confirmed that Top Gear was being resurre

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Variety

Apple TV Hikes Price of Streaming Service in U.S. Effective Immediately

It’s going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch “Ted Lasso” and other Apple TV originals: The tech giant is hiking the streaming service’s subscription price yet again, following an industrywide trend of regular rate hikes. The subscription price for Apple TV will increase in the U.S. for new and existing subscribers beginning […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ride the ‘Meteorite’! Two Women, Smuggling Mobiles Into a Prison, Journey Through an Amusement Park (Exclusive Trailer)

Oh yeah, the amusement park is built on the grounds of a drug lord’s former estate in Colombian filmmaker Sebastián Múnera's feature directorial debut, which premieres in the Venice Critics' Week.

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

Before The Witcher 4 arrives in 2028, CD Projekt Red is returning us to the world of The Witcher 3 for one last foray. Looks like wind’s still howlin’The game that graced us with Bathtub Geralt, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, arrived more than a decade ago. So it was a touch surprising this summer when developers CD Projekt Red announced a new expansion to the venerable adventure, titled Songs of the Past, for next year. It will release alongside a full remaster of the original game, which will be fr

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Variety

Ali G Movie Backlash Intensifies in the U.K. as Campaigners Try to Get Film Pulled From Cinemas

Ali G’s grand return has not exactly been met with an overwhelming cause for celebration, at least not from various corners of his home soil in the U.K., where a campaign has been launched aimed at stopping the character’s latest outing from hitting cinema screens. Following the release earlier this week of the trailer for […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Variety

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux and More Sign Open Letter Calling for Venice Film Festival to Take ‘Concrete Action’ in Support of Palestine

Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and directors Isabel Coixet and Matteo Garrone are among signatories of an open letter issued on Friday calling for the Venice Film Festival “to take concrete action in support of Palestine.” The open letter comes from the Venice4Palestine collective that took a similar initiative last […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky new role

The star has long been French cinema’s favourite tousle-haired Adonis, which makes his latest performance – as a schlubby, stay-at-home dad – all the more surprising. ‘I appreciate people laughing at me,’ he says‘Even though I’ve been working in film for over 20 years, I still have this desire to look beautiful on screen,” says Louis Garrel, on a video call from his bed inside a boat off the coast of Corsica. The French film star is lying on his stomach, occasionally kicking up his bare legs, ru

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash

News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocksIf any science-fiction saga looked beyond recovery, it was the Alien franchise. For the 38 years that followed James Cameron’s Aliens, film-makers contrived to find every imaginable way of not making a good Alien film. They tried killing everyone the audience cared about before the opening credits, marooning Sigourney Weaver on a planet populated entirely by bald British chara

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

Variety

BBC Names Chris Sussman Director of Comedy

The BBC has a new comedy head. Chris Sussman, formerly director of scripted series at Netflix U.K. and prior to that head of comedy at BBC Studios, has rejoined the broadcaster as its director of comedy, where he’ll be responsible for leading what the BBC says is the “U.K.s largest generator of original British scripted […]

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?

The UK prime minister clearly still adores the band. Perhaps he’s attracted to songs about sham justice and murderous meat factories, shot through with nihilism and exquisite despairAs an origin story, Andy Burnham: Smiths Fan has a lot going for it. It’s plainly authentic: he can name the time he saw them live (Salford University, Queen Is Dead tour, 1986). A cynical young man in a hurry might fake that now, but not back when he first said it, in 2013. Asked by Labour Uncut for his desert islan

entertainment  Aug 28, 2026