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

The Guardian Culture

You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond

The most complex female relationship is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essaysRachel Aviv has a profound interest in the vagaries of human psychology: Strangers to Ourselves, her last book, profiled five people whose psychiatric states resisted straightforward explanation, testing the limits of the mental health system. A Pulitzer finalist, Aviv has become known for rigorous, penetrating journalism that is as empathic as it is insightful. Now comes You Won’t Get Free of It

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Nimrods review – Green Day’s early years inspire teenage kicks in amiable punk road movie

San Francisco’s pop-punk pioneers Green Day loom large in this fun, puppyish film about a scrappy band desperate to meet their idolsInspired by their own youthful rowdy escapades – “our early days of driving around in a van, tired, hungry, out of gas, out of money, struggling, creating trouble” – here is an amiable road-movie comedy about, soundtracked by and briefly featuring Californian pop-punk stalwarts Green Day. Like them, it is more pop than punk: a fundamentally sweet and puppyish teen c

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

‘Pacifiction’ Director Albert Serra on His New Film ’Sixteen Moments of My Life’ and Why He’d Love to Have Directed Elvis Presley

Don’t call Albert Serra’s new film, “Seize moments de ma vie” (“Sixteen Moments of My Life”), a concert film. Premiering out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the film documents a one-off performance by screen legend Ingrid Caven at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. “I will never shoot a concert unless […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Congo Boy’ Is an Autobiographical and Musical Refugee Drama. Its Director Has More in the Works.

Rafiki Fariala discusses his film, which Locarno booked for its big outdoor square after its Cannes Un Certain Regard world premiere, his mixing of genres, and what he is working on next.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Mourinho review – if he didn’t want to open up, maybe he shouldn’t have starred in a docuseries…

Football manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining…Among his previous credits, the director of this mini-series Joe Pearlman can count the revelatory and hilarious 2018 film, Bros: After the Screaming Stops. That documentary worked brilliantly because its subjects seemed so sweetly but devastatingly lacking in discretion or self-awareness that everything they said landed like a line from a Chris

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

QFWFQ review – If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is taken in a bold new direction

Summerhall, EdinburghGregory Nussen spins Italo Calvino’s surrealist authorial intrusions into a fascinating, playful and political showHow to adapt an unadaptable novel famed for its postmodern surrealism and authorial intrusions? For Los Angeles performer Gregory Nussen, there can be only one solution: a play built out of postmodern surrealism and authorial intrusions.That is what becomes of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller as filtered, refracted and reinvented by Nussen and

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

‘Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO’ Director Kamiyama Kenji Built His New Series Around a Metaphor for AI Fears: ‘Will We End Up Being Used by It?’

Kamiyama Kenji says the alien threat driving his new “Gundam” anime is a direct metaphor for humanity’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence. The director, known for “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” and “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” tells Variety he built “Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO” around that […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Locarno: The Filmmakers Behind ‘Piluk,’ From the National Film Board of Canada, Discuss the Language of Animation

With a world premiere in the Locarno Film Festival’s Pardi di Domani selection of short and medium-length films, the filmmakers behind “Piluk” saw the production as a chance to tell a story with the simplest possible textures: pencil, paper and the human voice. Produced by Marc Bertrand and Jelena Popović of the National Film Board […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘The Odyssey’ Battle Atop U.K., Ireland Box Office

Sony’s superhero blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” retained its top spot at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a second consecutive week, taking £10.1 million ($13.6) over its sophomore frame. The film’s cumulative total is now $87.4 million after 13 days of release. Universal’s epic “The Odyssey” held firm in second place during its […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Gramado Film Festival Hosts the First International Meeting of Cities

The First International Meeting of Cities will take place Aug. 12-14 at the Gramado Film Market and will gather municipal-level authorities from such major towns as Medellín, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Maricá and fest-host Gramado as well as representatives of Brazilian and Ibero-American organizations to discuss how the creative economy — particularly the audiovisual […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Gramado Film Festival Launches New Talent Drive

The first Residency for Young Filmmakers, a new feature of the Gramado Film Market taking place Aug. 17-19, will count with the participation of 60 filmmakers aged between 18 and 35, selected from more than 200 applications. Participants are required to have work experience on at least one film, mostly in the fields of production, […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Variety

Heritage Monday at the Locarno Film Festival Sees a Future in the Past

Heritage Monday has become a popular fixture at the industry section of the Locarno Film Festival, reflecting the growing interest in film restoration and retrospective programming. This year’s edition was specifically devoted to the challenge of gaining new young audiences for older films. The panel, moderated by Sung Moon of the Jeonju International Film Festival, […]

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas

Offerman leads a talented cast, but this preschool picture book spinoff fails to inspireGrumpy Mr Fish (Nick Offerman) has a reputation for being a sourpuss, but when he teams up with baby sea dragon Pip (Nina Oyama) to locate a wish-granting fish, it’s pretty much guaranteed that we will discover some sort of heart of gold lurking beneath his gloomy exterior. Not that a picture book for the two to four-year-old crowd can’t be expanded into a satisfying narrative feature film universe, but this

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A bit on the nose! The world’s longest-running photography exhibition – in pictures

Now on its 167th edition, the Royal Photographic Society’s annual show features moving explorations of kinks, visual disorders … and long-snouted clowns Continue reading...

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

European Broadcast Giant RTL Group Bets on Streaming to Fuel Growth

The boom in streaming revenue in the first half made up for declines in the traditional TV ad business and at production division Fremantle.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!

The Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play makeAs a latecomer to Game of Thrones, I am struck by how many people tell me it is “very Shakespearean”. It is as if they need to justify its heady escapism and heavy reliance on bonking and brutality. But its debt to the Bard – apart from the rivalry between the houses of Lannister and Stark – rests mainly on the casting. Watching the first 11 episodes,

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Love me, love my bruised ego: what the narcissist-artist film tells us about the fear of ageing

Bitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers all depict geniuses aware of their waning acclaim and terrified it will endEntertainment culture is so preoccupied with nowness that last month we were inundated with speculation about how directors under 30 topping the box office would change the industry. The flipside of a youth obsession is the conviction that age will increase irrelevance, and this is something that a new crop of films about ageing artists is zeroing in on. Specifically, Bitte

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ann Hui to Receive Busan Film Festival’s Camellia Award

"Now that I'm nearly eighty… the prize comes just in time," says the Hong Kong New Wave master, who will accept the Chanel-backed honor at Busan's opening ceremony on Oct. 6.

entertainment  Aug 11, 2026