Variety

China’s Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue as Ximalaya Integration Marks New Audio Push

China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group posted total revenues of RMB8.93 billion ($1.32 billion) for the second quarter of 2026 – a 5.8% year-over-year gain – as its music services arm delivered double-digit growth and the newly integrated Ximalaya platform began contributing to the bottom line. Music-related services revenues reached $1.12 billion, up 11% year-over-year, with […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Never Had a Chance review – a slice of gritty British Asian life with a side of drug dealing and addiction

Two likely lads in their 20s deal with problematic lives that dramatically intersect in this persuasive London dramaThis gritty crime drama unfolds entirely within the Punjabi community in London’s Hounslow district, a plausible demographic situation in which white people are so peripheral to the story that they are little more than extras. In fact watching this well-crafted, if somewhat melodramatic, debut for director Jazz Bhalla makes one wonder why there aren’t more films made in the UK with

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Lucy Liu Boards ‘Reset,’ Sci-Fi Short Being Developed Into a Feature, as EP (Exclusive)

Set in a near-future society where citizens are physically reset to six years old at the age of 65, the short stars Olivia Liang and Sam Song Li. Watch a trailer that THR can exclusively premiere.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Monica Bellucci Has ‘Never’ Done Anything Like ‘Ketticè’: ‘I Was on Set in My Pajamas With a Knife in My Hand and Slippers on My Feet’

Do you think Monica Bellucci has done it all? Think again. “I’ve never done anything like that,” she tells Variety about her role in “Ketticè.” Directed by Giovanni Tortorici, the film premiered at Locarno.  “I was on set in my pajamas with a knife in my hand and slippers on my feet. This woman has abandoned her […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Films Boutique Nabs Mani Haghighi’s ‘I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies’ Ahead of New York Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has acquired worldwide rights to Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies,” which is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival. Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the 12-Day War and the subsequent […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Isaac Mizrahi on stage, style and the legacy of Unzipped: ‘Fashion has no real spine any more’

The designer defined the glory days of 90s style with a wit that made him every supermodel’s best friend. As he gears up for a new cabaret show, he’s as outspoken as everThere’s a lot to look at in Isaac Mizrahi’s studio in New York’s Greenwich Village: sketches, bulletin boards, fabrics, memorabilia, heaps of books, a Golden Girls puzzle set. But my eyes lock in on two dolls, Snoopy and his sister Belle (who knew!), clad in ballet-style tutus and embroidered vests. “I think I designed those,” h

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Spin Cycle review – romcom hits full speed as couple air their dirty laundry

Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh There is crackling chemistry between Zofia Zerphy and Rhiannon Bell while their washing gets done but this play remains a puzzleNames go missing like lost socks in this laundry-based, amnesia-laced romcom. With crackling chemistry but a holey structure, Zofia Zerphy’s Offie award-winning story of a queer meet-cute asks what you hold on to once a relationship is over, and whether it’s ever better to forget the mistakes you both made.In the liminal space of a la

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

‘The Chosen’ Star Jonathan Roumie to Voice Banijay Live’s ‘Luminiscence’ Experience at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Banijay is expanding its “Luminiscence” immersive experience franchise in the U.S. with an installation at New York’s iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral that opens Oct. 1. To take viewers through the experience as narrator, the Banijay Live unit behind the “Luminiscence” business has tapped an actor who has logged more than a few miles in Jesus’ […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa review – Nobel laureate’s final novel is a love letter to Peru

This fascinating, eccentric book becomes a quirky primer on Peruvian music and cultureWhen I Give You My Silence was published in Spanish in 2023 its author, the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, rightly predicted that it would be his final novel. He died last year at the age of 89. I Give You My Silence may have been completed with the spectre of death approaching, but there is nothing morbid about this book, which is an eccentric love letter to Vargas Llosa’s native country and, in p

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Momo and the Time Thieves review – kids’ fantasy jaunt sticks the boot into capitalism

This new adaptation of Michael Ende’s 1973 novel contains some neat parables for our digitally nihilistic age, but even a mystical tortoise can’t save it it from monotonyMomo – the 1973 fantasy novel by German author Michael Ende, who also wrote The Neverending Story – has been adapted in live and animated forms before, in 1986 and 2001. This latest version, too, is ostensibly a live-action film – but it’s been made with so many visual effects it might as well have been a cartoon. Still, the res

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The State of Us’: Samuel Bottomley Breaks Callum Scott Howells Out of Hospice for One Final Hurrah in Edinburgh-Bound Indie (Exclusive Clip)

From British filmmaking duo Jake Harvey and Ollie Gardner, the movie examines the profound fragility — and sanctity — of male friendships in a landscape where the manosphere looms large.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

George MacKay, Louisa Harland, Nathalie Emmanuel and Eric Kofi Abrefa Join ‘The Animals’ From ‘Supercell’ Star Calvin Demba (EXCLUSIVE)

Calvin Demba, the British actor, writer and director best known on screen for the Netflix hit “Supercell,” has lined up an impressive cast list for his second short film behind the camera, “The Animals.” George MacKay (“Rose of Nevada,” “Sense and Sensibility”) stars alongside Louisa Harland (“Renegade Nell,” “Derry Girls”), Nathalie Emmanuel (“Game of Thrones,” […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Frankie McNair: Huge Ass Mindset review – a stellar comic finds laughs in the darkest places

Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghWith charisma and craft, the Australian standup discusses childhood sexual abuse in a show with a healing qualityIf fringe audiences know Frankie McNair’s work at all, it’s as a purveyor of vaporously insubstantial nonsense-comedy – see her 2023 show Relax Your Knees, which made a brief London visit. So it’s quite the pivot to Huge Ass Mindset, nominated for best show at the Melbourne comedy festival, which addresses the least frivolous topic possible: child sexua

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

RTL Group Posts 3.9% Revenue Rise as Streaming Side Grows, Though Fremantle Continues to Suffer

European media conglomerate RTL Group on Tuesday posted first-half figures showing strong growth in streaming, with revenue up 3.9% to €2.9 billion ($ 3.3 billion), while revenues from its linear TV side and its Fremantle content business were down. The acquisition of pay-TV operation ‌Sky Deutschland from Comcast in June has also increased the group’s revenue base. […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Virtue and a Sledgehammer – take a literal hammer to your past

What do you do when you return to your home town, with your dead mother in your car boot, to find the inhabitants have been turned into robots?In the boot of her car, Pratelle carries the corpse of her mother and a giant sledgehammer. Her mission is simple: take the hammer to her home town. As you enter shops and homes through the door and leave them through the opposite wall, it becomes clear that the robots who either attack you or flee are all digital versions of your old neighbours.Pratelle,

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal

Jaw-dropping documentary Whatever It Takes details an aggressive stalking campaign targeted towards a couple whose reporting criticized the tech companyWhen Massachusetts husband-and-wife team Ina and David Steiner launched their reporting careers covering Silicon Valley at the turn of the century, the tech beat was still cozy enough to feel personal. The startups were still emerging from garages, and the journalists covering them were often filing stories from their own kitchen tables. Ebay was

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

‘House of the Dragon’ Star Fabien Frankel Joins Short Film ‘Love Unlimited’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Fabien Frankel, currently seen on screens as the dashing, honor-obsessed knight Ser Criston Cole in “House of the Dragon,” is ready to take on a very different role. The British actor is set to star in “Love Unlimited,” the debut short drama from actor Olivier Huband (“A Discovery of Witches,” “Becoming Elizabeth”). Frankel will also […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Fancy a Nobbly Bobbly? Or a Jelly Terror? The eye-popping guide to the greatest ice lolly wrappers ever

From Fonzie to Elvis to the Daleks, from a Mini Milk to a Seaside Saucy to a Freak Out … incredibly rare vintage ice lolly wrappers have now been memorialised in a 96-page, nostalgia-inducing delightSeven years ago, Jonny Trunk entered the house of a hoarder in Stockport that was bursting at the seams with a goldmine of British ephemera from the last half century. “You couldn’t get into the house,” recalls Trunk, who is an avid pop culture collector, as well as a writer, DJ, broadcaster and reco

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

RTL Boss Clement Schwebig on the Hybrid Future of European TV: “Scale Is Essential”

As RTL doubles down on streaming and consolidation, its CEO makes the case for a hybrid TV model — and why Europe’s broadcasters need to get bigger to compete with Netflix, Amazon and the tech giants.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The End of Oak Street’: First Reactions

David Robert Mitchell's sci-fi survival feature, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, hits theaters on Aug. 14.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026