Variety

Atlanta-Based Liaison Pictures Joins France’s Because the Night Productions on Locarno Match Me! Title ‘Behemoth Ann Holds a Seance’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Henry Hinkel’s Atlanta-based Liaison Pictures, behind Charlie Kaufman’s “How to Shoot a Ghost,” has joined France’s Because the Night Productions on the doc-feature “Behemoth Ann Holds a Seance,” currently taking part in Locarno’s Match Me! networking platform. Directed by Isidore Bethel, Vicki Bethel and Daniel Hymanson, “Behemoth Ann Holds a Seance” remembers Arthur Douglas […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Olivia Wilde Says She Fought for ‘The Invite’ to Get a Cinema Release: “They Bribe You to Not Take Theatrical”

The big-name actor-director spoke out during a press conference at the Locarno Film Festival.

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Supposing: review – only ancient Greek rage will suffice in our exasperating times

Traverse theatre, EdinburghA modern, secular woman is transformed into a Hellenic heroine as she sees visions of the future in Zinnie Harris’s minimalist dramaIf you found Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey too bombastic, you might prefer your Greek drama filtered like this. Written and directed by Zinnie Harris, Supposing: could scarcely be staged more simply. Designer Alisa Kalyanova outlines a white-edged circle on the floor of an otherwise empty space. It could be the hole on the high street th

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Swings into Second Weekend With $43 Million on Friday

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” showed no signs of slowing down as it entered its second weekend in cinemas. “Brand New Day” added $43 million at the North American box office on Friday from 4,487 theaters. By Sunday, the Marvel-Sony tentpole should swing to $143 million, which represents about a 60% decline from its record-breaking $360 […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Swinging to Best-Ever 10-Day Start With $143M Second Weekend

Tom Holland's blockbuster looks to deliver one of the top sophomore frames in history as it faces newcomers 'One Night Only,' 'Super Troopers 3' and 'Ice Cream Man.'

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

Yash’s ‘Toxic’ Trailer Unveils Dual-Role Father-Son Conflict at Core of Gangster Epic

The official trailer for “Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups” has been released, presenting Yash in dual roles as Raya and Ticket – a father and son positioned on opposite sides of a conflict that drives the film’s narrative engine. The trailer establishes the film’s visual ambition through high-octane action sequences and production design that spans […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

How ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s’ Climactic Fight Scene Secretly Evokes Jean Grey’s Phoenix

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” now playing in theaters. As “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” director Destin Daniel Cretton delved deep into development, he spent time figuring out which villains would be most exciting to watch in an action sequence. “Brand New Day” has no shortage of villains, from The Scorpion […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘My Life With the Walter Boys’ Star Ashby Gentry on Alex’s Healing Journey, New Love Triangle and “Picking Up the Pieces” in Season 4

The actor reflects on his character’s emotional evolution in season three, from navigating heartbreak to finding purpose in rodeo and unexpected connections.

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Does Guthrie Family Have Grounds to Sue Pima County Over Alleged Investigation Missteps?

Attorneys disagree about whether there's a case there. And that's if the family even wants to take another highly public step after the tragedy.

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

[seagull] review – silence proves golden in innovative if puzzling shot at Chekhov

Studio theatre, EdinburghMagnificently expressive performances make this ambitious sign-language production feel viscerally new. But what’s with the square brackets?The silence in this adaptation “after” Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is startling. Performed straight through at two and a half hours, the intakes of breath, tears, screams of anguish and, of course, the gunshots when they come arrest the senses. So do the intermittent spoken words, which sound almost like an intrusion, and occasional

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

‘Ketticè’ Review: An Amusing, Original Portrait of Adolescent Ennui Against a Backdrop of Adult Cluelessness

Monica Bellucci’s sneer is a thing of wonder, so why have so few directors used it properly? When allowed full rein to her sense of irony, as given her by Giovanni Tortorici in “Ketticè,” Bellucci has few equals in her ability to project self-aware drama queen with just the right dose of camp icon. Hers […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A Trial: After An Enemy of the People review – Wagner Moura upends Ibsen and keeps us guessing

Lyceum theatre, EdinburghAt the Edinburgh international festival, the Narcos star and director Christiane Jatahy transform the 1882 classic into a resonant, fourth wall-breaking eventThis dramatised trial takes Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a man’s campaign to expose the secret scandal of contaminated water in his town and turns it into a modern day interrogation: of speaking out versus remaining silent, of a family at war and of fiction and reality itself.In fact, is this a drama at all? It st

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A kids’ film taught me the power of delusion – and helped me chase my standup dreams

The protagonist of A Little Princess wills reality to bend to her desires. Comedians need that same idiot confidence when we’re starting out, or else we’d all give upExplore the rest of our coverage of the Edinburgh festival 2026I was 28 the first time I did standup. It was an open-mic competition where the audience decided the winner. As I held the tiny gold trophy, I decided to quit my job the next day. Some people might call that crazy, and it probably was. But I’d been honing that delus

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘She’s the voice of a really particular moment’: how Phoebe Bridgers became her generation’s defining songwriter

The US songwriter’s third album has drawn rave reviews, she counts Taylor Swift as a fan and pop bears the imprint of her wit and pathos. Her peers explain how she did itThis week, indie star Phoebe Bridgers releases her long-awaited third album, six years since her pandemic-era breakthrough. Alongside a slew of glittering reviews for Lost Weekend, including five stars from the Guardian, with it comes her first solo charting single in the UK – although the Californian musician’s influence runs f

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Can’t stop smiling!’ The wait is over for epic Game of Thrones prequel The Mad King

New play, which has been a decade in the works, opens at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon after five previews were cancelledA winter of discontent is anticipated by the embattled characters in Game of Thrones, but the Royal Shakespeare Company is banking on a glorious summer with its world premiere of a prequel to the hit TV series based on George RR Martin’s fantasy novels.The new play, The Mad King, arrives 30 years to the month after the original publication of A Game of T

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Monica Bellucci Plays a Mother Who Yells and Is the “Victim of a Social Role” in Luca Guadagnino-Produced ‘Ketticè’

At Locarno, the Italian icon lauded the two young stars and filmmaker Giovanni Tortorici for their work on his second feature and shared that her character has forgotten about "her femininity."

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ Making to be Chronicled in Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Maharaja Tomare Selam’

Indian National Award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherji is bringing to screen the making of Satyajit Ray’s “Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne,” one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated classics, in a new film titled “Maharaja Tomare Selam.” Jeetu Kamal, Ritwik Bhowmik, Rudranil Ghosh, Satakshi Nandy, Sairity Banerjee and Arijit Dutta star in the film, produced by Hoichoi Studios […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history. With it you need no armies of typists and artists to spread your propaganda. It can enable

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Variety

‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming’ Review: An Affecting Trans Relationship Drama Brings Fresh Perspective to the War in Ukraine

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has prompted a wealth of urgent nonfiction filmmaking documenting the harsh realities of life under siege, but comparatively little dramatic storytelling — a space that the new German-Ukrainian production “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming” occupies with bold formal imagination and a commitment to illuminating lives neglected in wider views of […]

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

No, Brian Eno Is Not Behind the Film Soundtrack for ‘At Night.’ Experimental Musician Elvin Brandhi Is.

The Locarno-premiering film by Beatrice Gibson is her first feature soundtrack, and she shares insights into its collaborative creation, whether she may return for more film work and her upcoming album.

entertainment  Aug 8, 2026