Variety

‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Sets Disney+ Release Date in September

A galaxy far, far away is about to get closer than ever. “The Mandalorian and Grogu” will be available to stream on Disney+ starting Sept. 2 after grossing $345 million worldwide in theaters this summer. That total made it the lowest grossing live-action “Star Wars” movie (below the $393 million haul of “Solo”). Directed by […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

‘Lioness’ Season 3 Opens With 7.1 Million Viewers in Three Days, Up From Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

The Season 3 premiere of “Lioness” hit 7.1 million viewers in its first seven days of streaming. That total, which comes from Paramount’s internal data, puts the Aug. 2 episode significantly above the audience Season 2 reached with its debut in 2024. According to preliminary data from Nielsen, “Lioness” Season 2 was the second-most-watched streaming […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Brandy, Halle Bailey, Auli’i Cravalho Join Legendary Disney Voices for ‘Disney Princess: The Ultimate Concert Celebration’ – Stream Online Here

Disney fans are in for a treat this Sunday as the Mouse House unites ten of its most memorable characters and voices for “Disney Princess: The Ultimate Concert Celebration.” The Wonderful World of Disney special airs Sunday, Aug. 16 at 8 p.m. on ABC and features highlights from the D23 Expo taking place this weekend […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How ‘Walter Boys’ Star Noah LaLonde Went From Hockey Player to Heartthrob

The 28-year-old might have grown up on the ice, but he later found his footing in front of the screen, notably with his breakout role in Netflix's 'My Life With the Walter Boys,' which just dropped its third season.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Black Mirror’ Director Says She Rejected HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’: “Absolutely F***ing Not”

Directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron posted on social media that they turned down the series over J.K. Rowling's trans views: "Say 'no' to funding transphobia."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Loki’ Directors Say They Rejected HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Due to J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia: ‘Absolutely F—-ing Not’

Not everyone wants to climb aboard the Hogwarts Express, it transpires. Top TV director Ally Pankiw has posted on Instagram a screenshot from a text exchange with a rep in which she scoffed at the notion that she would consider enrolling with HBO’s forthcoming series adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels. The reason? Rowling’s […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Cinema Guild Takes North American Rights on Éric Baudelaire’s ‘For the Moon’ Ahead of New York Film Festival Launch (EXCLUSIVE)

Indie distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights for documentary “For The Moon” (“Car la Lune”), directed by Éric Baudelaire, that will premiere in the Currents section of the upcoming New York Film Festival. The film is a collaborative work created with five visually impaired students at the National Institute for the Young […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

LISTEN: Retired Athletes Blake Griffin and Ryan Kalil Return to Sports as Team Owners and TV Producers in YouTube Docuseries ‘We Are Osos’

Never tell Ryan Kalil or Blake Griffin to stay in their lanes. Since moving on from their playing days in the NFL and NBA to running the production company Mortal Media, they’re about to add a few more jobs to their resumes: co-owners of a Mexican-league football team and co-stars of a new unscripted series […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

‘Objet a’ Review: Ann Oren’s Wickedly Kinky Curiosity Eroticizes Everything From Mushrooms to Mushroom Cuts

“Objet a” was Lacan’s term for the lack, the absence, that sets our desires into motion; an object-cause rather than a physical object. If it were the latter, a more apt title for Ann Oren’s delicious new film would be “Object A to Z,” given the impressively vast range of things — everyday and obscure, […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Critics Pick Summer TV’s Beauties and Bores

A globe-conquering sports event, a searing feminist thriller and a refreshing YA drama emerged among the season’s winners. Others missed the mark.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Vile statues, writhing liquorice and kids marooned online: Edinburgh art festival review

Various venues, EdinburghFrom queer narratives to secret histories, this year celebrates the underground and the unheralded. Our writer uncovers so many stories, he feels like ColumboBy the time you’re done with Edinburgh art festival you’ll have uncovered so many hidden stories you’ll feel like Columbo. We’re talking queer narratives, secret histories, undiscovered archives: the whole festival is a celebration of the underground and unheralded. You can’t walk into a gallery without learning abo

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Ana Vaz Discusses the Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the Work of Yoko Hayasuke and Preferring to Be a Mother Rather than a Zombie

“When you begin again, you repeat everything,” reflects experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz, thinking of her home country Brazil and the setting of her new feature, “Hanabi,” in Japan. “There’s a normalization of the state of catastrophe and disaster necessary for the system to perpetrate itself. It needs catastrophe in order to exist.” In the wake […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Christine Vachon Jokes She Likes Pedro Pascal Better Than Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ ‘De Noche’

The prolific indie producer spoke at an Edinburgh Film Festival session, where she also touched on the queer film landscape: "We have 'Heated Rivalry' which couldn't be a bigger hit, and we still have politicians campaigning on who gets to use what bathroom."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

ABC and NBC to Add 11 More NBA Games This Season, Further Squeezing Hollywood

Another 33 hours or so of broadcast TV airtime will be handed over to live games, with original network programming and reruns losing out.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A critical mauling: Brian Logan on comedy critics being portrayed as horrible snobs

Two Edinburgh fringe shows feature savage send-ups of reviewers. Is this petty revenge or do they have a case? Our writer finds one ‘a hoot’ – and thinks the other let him off lightlyNo one ever built a statue to a critic, they say – but plenty of art gets made about them. There was Wild Bore at the Traverse a few Edinburgh fringes back, an eye-catching performance-art attack on the notion of critical authority. There was Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, Sheridan’s The Critic, and the 70

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Busan Film Festival to Honor Founder Director Kim Dong-ho With Korean Cinema Award

Kim Dong-ho, founding festival director of the Busan International Film Festival, has been named the recipient of the 31st BIFF’s Korean Cinema Award. The honor goes to figures whose work has shaped Korean cinema and helped raise its profile abroad. Kim began his career at the Ministry of Culture and Information, now the Ministry of […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Orchestra was playful and punchy, before elegant Gershwin and noirish BarberIt’s been a busy week for Wynton Marsalis. Fresh from opening the Edinburgh festival with his monumental 1999 jazz symphony All Rise, the Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer saw the UK premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra at the BBC Proms. And if the former is Marsalis at his most earnestly, sprawlingly ambitious, the latter finds him almost r

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Sentimental Value’ Screenwriter Gets Backing For Next Directorial Feature

Eskil Vogt, a dual Oscar nominee for for Best Original Screenplay for 'Sentimental Value' and 'The Worst Person in the World,' is prepping his next film as a director, the psychological thriller 'Untitled.'

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Accept My Plea for Burial’ Will Explore Moral Conflicts of Ordinary People Through a Somali Lens

Mohammed Sheikh, who brought the project to Locarno Open Doors, where it won one of the two main awards, discusses his cinematic story about such universal themes as "loss, grief, love, family, justice."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage

A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic taleTatsuya Fujiwara is no stranger to London’s Barbican theatre. It was here nearly 30 years ago that one of Japan’s biggest film stars, now 44, made his stage debut. He was just 15, plucked out of an audition of more than 5,000 hopeful youngsters by the revered theatre

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026