Variety

‘Club Kid’ Trailer: Jordan Firstman Is a Party Promoter With a Surprise Son in His A24 Cannes Sensation

After making a splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — and sparking a studio bidding war that culminated in a $17 million sale from A24 — Jordan Firstman’s film “Club Kid” has its first trailer. Firstman wrote and directed the film, which stars Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Reggie Absolom. It follows […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Will the future of gaming be powered by upstart indie developers?

As gaming’s biggest publishers retreat into safer bets, a new generation of independents are building an alternative from the ground up• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereDuring the 1990s, a new strata of independent film studios and distributors revitalised the Hollywood movie machine. The likes of Miramax, New Line Cinema and October Films challenged the ageing behemoths of the industry and pushed forward offbeat directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Darren Aronofsk

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

RFK Jr.’s Son Conor Kennedy Put on Russia’s Most Wanted List

A Moscow court charged Kennedy with acting as a "mercenary" for the brief period he volunteered to serve with Ukraine forces.

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

Emily Watson Says Growing Up in a Religious Cult Almost Stopped Her From Starring in ‘Breaking the Waves’: ‘I Was Like a Piece of Wire That Had Been Unplugged’

Emily Watson is one of the most lauded actors working today, having earned multiple Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, as well as winning a Silver Bear in Berlin, a European Film Award and a SAG Award. But growing up in a religious cult almost ended her illustrious career before it even began.  Speaking at […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Ihsane review – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui leads us from brutal tragedy to euphoric harmony

Festival theatre, EdinburghThe choreographer combines a homophobic killing from 2012 with a remembrance for his father in an often rapturous show about healingIn 2019 at the Edinburgh international festival, the Swiss director Milo Rau staged an intense theatrical investigation, La Reprise: Histoire(s) du Theatre (I), recreating a homophobic killing in Belgium. The murder of Ihsane Jarfi, seven years earlier, had made headlines and the news disturbed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui who was ju

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

Catherine Zeta-Jones Thriller Series ‘Kill Jackie’ Sets October Release Date on Prime Video

Catherine Zeta-Jones’ highly anticipated thriller series, “Kill Jackie,” has set a premiere date on Prime Video. The Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures production will release all eight episodes Oct. 2 on the streamer in the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Canada. The series will air on AMC+ in the U.S. this […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Over/Under review – beautiful coming of age story of female best friends set across five summers

There’s an astonishing naturalism about the two leads, navigating the ups and downs of adolescence, bodily changes and learning to use tamponsPractically any woman who had a best female friend in early adolescence will be able to relate to this fragile, thoughtful drama about two American children, Violet (Emajean Bullock) and Stella (Anastasia Veronica Lee), living through the ages of nine to 13, a time as packed with incident as it is simultaneously uneventful and reassuringly dull. Unlike Ric

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Pawel Pawlikowski Cannes Winners Among El Gouna’s First 10 Titles for Ninth Edition

El Gouna Film Festival has revealed the first 10 titles for its ninth edition, set to run Oct. 15-23, in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt. The lineup spans work from established auteurs and first-time feature directors, drawing from festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Karlovy Vary. Among the titles is Hamaguchi […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Why Emily Watson Will Never Quit the Sarajevo Film Festival

This year's jury president and Honorary Heart recipient opens up about her decades-long devotion to the Bosnian festival: "It's [about] resistance, survival... Rather than a whole load of cynical sales agents."

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

The Beatles Ink Licensing and Merch Deal With Universal Music Ahead of Biopics

The Beatles rights-holding company Apple Corps has come together with Universal Music Group to ink a wide-ranging licensing and merch deal for all things related to the fab four. It will include physical and digital merchandise, licensing, and e-commerce. “The Beatles embody music’s power to change the world, and that influence makes them one of […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

San Sebastian Film Festival to Open With Fatih Akin’s ‘Ghost Song’

The movie will be part of the Spanish festival's competition lineup.

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

Yami Gautam Dhar’s ‘Nayyi Navelli’ Sets October Release From Amazon MGM Studios, Colour Yellow (EXCLUSIVE)

Amazon MGM Studios and Colour Yellow have set “Nayyi Navelli,” an Indian fantasy family entertainer starring Yami Gautam Dhar, for release in cinemas this October, timed to the Dussehra festival period. Balaji Mohan directs from a script by Himanshu Sharma and Divy Nidhi Sharma. Aanand L Rai and Sharma produce through Colour Yellow, marking the […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

San Sebastián Sets Fatih Akin’s ‘Ghost Song’ as Opening Night Film  

“Ghost Song” (“Geister”) from multi-prized German auteur Fatih Akin (“In the Fade”), has been set as the opening night film at this year’s San Sebastián Film Festival. A world premiere, “Ghost Song” is hailed by the San Sebastián Festival as “a poetic drama about loss and longing,” It will bow at San Sebastián on Sept. […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Jim Crow must go’: the artists and everyday heroes who fought injustice – in pictures

Turn the Volume Up! at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University highlights the activism of everyday people who have confronted injustice. New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, quoting the Bronx rapper KRS-One’s song Turn the Volume Up during his election-day victory speech inspired the name of the exhibit. Featuring work by artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls, the show examines how protests and collective action can create and inspire social change. Turn the Volu

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

After 25 years, I’m breaking up with The Sims. Here’s why you should, too | Jordan Erica Webber

Now that Jared Kushner and the Saudi Investment Fund have bought The Sims’ publisher, EA, it’s unlikely to remain a game celebrating diversity and inclusivitySometimes it feels as though horrific world events and the malicious entities behind them are reaching into every aspect of our lives, from heatwaves that keep me shut away indoors, to generative AI that makes it increasingly difficult to trust what I read online. I can no longer even retreat into my favourite video game without funding hum

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

‘House of the Dragon’ Directing Mentorship Alum Marcus Anthony Thomas Sets Cast for British Psychological Thriller ‘Cast Me!’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Marcus Anthony Thomas, who completed a directing mentorship on “House of the Dragon,” has started production on his directorial feature debut. Now shooting in London, psychological thriller “Cast Me!” will be led by rising star IIniki Mariano in her debut feature role, with Samuel Adewunmi (“The Last Tree”), Stella Gonet (“Spencer”), Dean-Charles Chapman (“1917,” “Game […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Variety

Sci-Fi Horror Comedy ‘Flapjax’ Boards Blue Finch Films for Sales Ahead of Fantastic Fest Bow (EXCLUSIVE)

“Flapjax,” Rocko Zevenbergen’s sci-fi horror comedy, has landed a worldwide sales deal with Blue Finch Films ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest next month. The U.K. sales and distribution company will launch sales on the title at the newly formed industry market at the Toronto Film Festival. Blue Finch Films picked up the […]

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Sandra Wollner and ‘Everytime’ Hit Sarajevo on the Festival Circuit: “You Can Feel the History Here”

The Austrian filmmaker also touches on possibly casting a Hollywood name and why she is pragmatic about the future of European cinema: "I don’t think culture is an 'added value,' a kind of luxury item. It’s part of how a society understands itself."

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Shapes and ladders: Edinburgh fringe’s dance shows reach for the sky

With brute strength and beauty, party tricks and personal revelations, this year’s dance and circus programme has ambition and a spirit of togethernessIf you want to be wowed by technical prowess, I recommend taking a trip to see a couple of New York pole dancers, Donna Carnow and Gina Alm, in their Edinburgh fringe show Dusk/Night/Dawn. The pair are wildly impressive performers with just one piece of apparatus, a hanging pole suspended above the stage, on which they climb and spin and balance s

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Brad Pitt Joins Wim Wenders’ Peter Zumthor Doc as Executive Producer (Exclusive)

Pitt threw support behind the Swiss architect, a key figure in his bid to design the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

entertainment  Aug 19, 2026