Variety

Locarno’s Alliance 4 Development Welcomes Queer Musical, Eco Body Horror and Bruce LaBruce’s Melodrama with Monica Bellucci and Béatrice Dalle

Alliance 4 Development, Locarno’s co-development platform for film projects from Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland, has presented this year’s projects.  The line-up includes Bruce LaBruce’s first French-led feature, “Third Take.” It’s a “female melodrama” starring Monica Bellucci and Béatrice Dalle as two actresses who reunite for a film shoot destined to “become the epiphany of […]

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Variety

‘The Traitors’ India Season 2 Unveils Trailer With Karan Johar and 21-Celebrity Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video India has unveiled the trailer for the second season of “The Traitors,” the unscripted celebrity competition series hosted by Karan Johar, set to debut exclusively on the platform on Aug. 13. New episodes will drop every Thursday. Filmed against the backdrop of Suryagarh Palace in Jaisalmer, Season 2 features 21 celebrity contestants drawn […]

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoğlu review – how to fix the system

The Nobel-winning economist takes aim at elites for no longer meeting the needs of the massesIn 2009, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel published an essay with the portentous title The Education of a Libertarian, in which he announced: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Since the 1920s, he wrote, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women” had rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” an oxymoron. To be fair,

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Variety

Aymar Esse, Director of Open Doors World Premiere ‘My Father’s Kora,’ Discusses Challenges of Queer Cinema in Senegal

“My Father’s Kora” (“La Kora de Mon Père”), a Benin-Switzerland-Germany production, will have its world premiere Aug. 9 at Locarno’s Open Doors section, which has focused on 42 countries of the African continent since 2025. The film follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans man who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father’s […]

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Jon Hamm’s offbeat adult animation lands in the UK

The star voices a maverick cop in new cartoon Grimsburg. Plus: the finale of Scottish crime drama Granite Harbour. Here’s what to watch this evening10.15pm, Sky OneA triple bill of this adult cartoon starring Jon Hamm, which quietly debuted in the UK last week. Hamm plays police detective Marvin Flute, who has moved back to his home town to reconnect with his family and continue solving bizarre crimes. This time, there are easy laughs to be had as he finds himself accused of murdering a judge an

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

What Is It Like to Portray Nazi Heinrich Himmler? Martin Müller Shares His Experience on ‘I Is Another’

The film, starring Claes Bang and Valerie Pachner, debuts at Locarno, and director Felix Randau heard concerns that he may give a platform to a villain, but says: "If you ignore evil, it will grow in the dark."

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘These cooks ripped each other apart’: Dominic Sessa on playing Anthony Bourdain, kitchen bullies and the joys of being a 70s barfly

After his breakthrough in The Holdovers in 2023, Sessa has gone back to the 70s again for Tony, the biopic of bad-boy chef and Kitchen Confidential author Bourdain. And, he says, a big part of him would like to stay thereDespite being just 23, Dominic Sessa is perhaps as intimately acquainted with the 1970s as those who grew up then. Although the New Jersey-born actor has only starred in five films, two of them are marinated in the fashions, sounds and mores of the decade. In his new movie, Tony

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Silence of the Lambs review – Hannibal Lecter’s daring stage outing is a shock to the system

Curve, LeicesterThere are electrifying – and also queasy – moments in this version of the classic 90s horror about the interrogation of a psychotic psychiatrist by an FBI rookieSoon after the hostile reception of the theatrical version of Trainspotting, another landmark 1990s movie, The Silence of the Lambs, attempts a similar manoeuvre. In this case, director Nikolai Foster is surely sensible not to turn this source material into a musical. And adapter Gina Gionfriddo is working not from Jonath

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

T-Mobile Offering Free Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, $1,900 Phone Seen Throughout ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

Fresh off its silver screen debut and record-breaking pre-order numbers, the buzzy new device is coming to T-Mobile customers at no cost. Here's how to claim the carrier's best phone deal to date.

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Scores Biggest First Week in Box Office History

Tom Holland and Zendaya's unstoppable blockbuster is now the fastest film to make a half-billion domestically.

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Morgan Freeman Will “Overlook Some of the Glitches” in a Script If They “Pay You Enough”

As for whether he has any plans to retire as he approaches 90 years old, the Oscar winner said, "If you can get out of bed and don’t fall down when you do it, then you just count your blessings and keep moving."

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Variety

‘The Big Bang Theory’ Star Melissa Rauch on Her Larger-Than-Life Surprise Role on ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” Season 1 Episode 3, now streaming on HBO Max. Things get witchy in Episode 3 of “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,” and a scary, 60-foot Bernadette (Melissa Raush) makes a guest appearance. The aptly titled episode, “Spoiler: Bert Is Magic,” kicks off […]

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Now, Autonomy by Max Easton review – a sardonic yet compassionate take on millennial apathy

The author’s third novel to chronicle life in Sydney’s west follows a group of flawed friends trying to sustain meaning amid an ‘erosion in the world’If any part of Australia can lay claim to being the country’s literary nexus, it is western Sydney. The wide wing of suburbia is both home to and the subject of granular attention for an ever-growing list of acclaimed writers: Yumna Kassab, Peter Polites, Luke Carman, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Felicity Castagna – to name just a few. Each of them refl

entertainment  Aug 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Eli Roth Talks the Unrated Gamble of ‘Ice Cream Man’ and What He Hopes the Town Learns From ‘Obsession’

More than twenty years after co-writing a script everyone said was too subversive to be made, the filmmaker launches his genre-driven media company with that very movie (and no studio notes).

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Creators Get Slammed for Taking OpenAI Luxury Trip, Company Welcomes “Healthy Debate”

Dubbed "Summer Camp," the posh event took place at Auberge Collection's Wildflower Farms in New York. One creator called it "the dreamiest weekend" before deleting the clip once the backlash grew.

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Brady vs. Manning’: Documentary Film in the Works About NFL Rivalry (Exclusive)

Adapting Greg Myers' best-selling book, the project will examine Tom Brady and Peyton Manning's memorable match-ups that captivated football fans for years.

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Peter Katsis, Manager For Jane’s Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey, Dies at 69

Katsis died of complications from congestive heart failure, a representative said.

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Variety

LISTEN: Fear, Loathing and Endless Potential: AI4 Conference Takes Stock of Transformative Technologies

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Corbin Bolies reports from Las Vegas where he is covering the AI4 conference with a slew of top leaders and true believers. The excitement around generative AI is still as hot as the temperature in Sin City, but the polarizing effect of the technology is evident as […]

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Variety

‘Michael 2’ Eyes Filming Start ‘Towards the End of this Year’ or Early 2028 as Lionsgate Teases Release Date

Lionsgate is working on the sequel to “Michael” and hopes to start rolling the cameras soon on the second biopic about Michael Jackson. The studio hopes to begin production in late 2026 or early 2027, Lionsgate’s motion picture chief Adam Fogelson said on Thursday’s earnings call, with the hopes of releasing the final product at […]

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Giorgia Whigham Joins Kevin Bacon in Amazon MGM Horror Thriller ‘Summoner’ (Exclusive)

Jeremy Slater, the longtime genre writer behind 'Mortal Kombat II' and 'The Umbrella Academy,' is making his directorial debut with the feature.

entertainment  Aug 6, 2026