Hollywood Reporter
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.
The Guardian Culture
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
Variety
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 […]
Variety
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 […]
Variety
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 […]
Hollywood Reporter
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."
The Guardian Culture
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
Hollywood Reporter
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."
Variety
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 […]
The Guardian Culture
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
The Guardian Culture
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
Variety
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 […]
Hollywood Reporter
The private eye drama starring Colin Farrell premieres June 19.
Hollywood Reporter
Intrusive fan votes, questionable production decisions and stale locations have led to disappointing installments, and the prognosis for improvement is mixed.
Hollywood Reporter
Verizon's Dan Schulman, TikTok U.S. chief Adam Presser, Spotify's Alex Norstrom, Sony's Hiroki Totoki and Xbox chief Asha Sharma also joined the board.
Variety
CNN has sued Perplexity, alleging the AI company infringed the news network’s copyrights and trademarks by illegally copying and distributing content without its consent. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Perplexity of scraping more than 17,000 of CNN’s stories, photos, videos and other content […]
Variety
Olivia Ponton is launching a new era for her book podcast — and as part of that, the influencer and model is looking to recast the blonde stereotype to show that someone can be both obsessed with fashion and beauty as well as intellectually curious. Ponton is renaming the show from “Booked & Busy” to […]
Variety
Imax has been in an enviable position since the great box office reset. It’s no secret that movie theater attendance has languished in post-pandemic years. But when audiences have opted to go to cinemas, they’ve gravitated toward premium moviegoing options like Imax to distinguish the big screen experience from watching a film at home. To […]
Variety
Rage Against the Machine co-founder and longtime activist Tom Morello has announced the “Power to the People” festival — described as a “non-partisan celebration of peace, justice, solidarity, music, and community action” — taking place Saturday, October 3, 2026 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, near Washington D.C. The concert will feature Foo Fighters, […]
Variety
Genre is in ascension, and Fantasia’s Frontières and the Toronto Festival’s TIFF: The Market are making sure Canadian filmmakers can reach for the top this fall. Frontières, the international genre co-production market organized by Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, is teaming up with TIFF: The Market to crack open a new genre market showcase at the […]