Variety

Mohsen Gharaei’s Iranian Drama ‘Falling House’ Sells Across Europe After Venice Festival Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei’s “Falling House” has sold to a raft of international territories following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Paris-based company Paradise City Sales has closed a first batch of deals with Jokers Films for France, Wanted Cinema for Italy and Karma Films for Spain, with negotiations underway in several other […]

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Variety

‘American Horror Story: 13’ Trailer: Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters Reprise Iconic Roles in Ryan Murphy’s Horror Anthology

Ryan Murphy’s long-running anthology series “American Horror Story” is back for Season 13, and the new trailer teases Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters’ returns in the all-star season. While Lange will be reprising all four of her former “AHS” characters, Peters will play five different people and Paulson will play six. Lange was […]

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Variety

New York Games Week to Launch in October as First Citywide Video Game Industry Event

The first New York Games Week will take place Oct. 4-11 with video game industry-themed events, showcases, conferences, tournaments, summits, professional mixers and meetups across the five boroughs of New York City. From gaming industry vets Guy Blomberg (Games Industry Gathering), Krysti Pryde (PlayNYC), and Amit Hossain (IGDA NYC) and with support from NYC Mayor’s […]

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The Guardian Culture

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – stories with levity and laughter

The author explores themes of legacy, mortality and loneliness in the first work of fiction since his near-fatal attackFive short stories and five readers make up Salman Rushdie’s collection, The Eleventh Hour, his first work of fiction since the near-fatal attack in 2022 where he sustained life-changing injuries. These tales find the author exploring legacy, mortality, loneliness and the ageing process. In these potentially bleak themes, Rushdie finds levity and laughter, as well as profundity.

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The Guardian Culture

Alex Winter: ‘Michael Winner was the most erudite sociopath I’ve ever met’

The Bill & Ted actor answers your questions about working with Keanu Reeves, whether there will be a fourth instalment and nights out in Brixton with the Death Wish directorYou were born in London but grew up in America. When do you feel most British? DonarudoToranpuThe UK is still my second home. I’ve worked there a lot as an adult. When I’m back in London, I like walking on Hampstead Heath, so I would say that’s where I feel most at home.Having played Marko in The Lost Boys and then John P

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Variety

Toronto Platform Pick ‘Angh,’ With ‘Shetland’ Star Douglas Henshall, Boards Jungle Book Studio for World Sales, Unveils Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Jungle Book Studio has taken international sales rights to “Angh,” the debut feature from Nagaland filmmaker Theja Rio. The film is world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is the sole Indian entry in TIFF’s Platform competition. Set in the remote hills of Nagaland in the early 1960s, it centers on a Konyak […]

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Variety

K2 Media Capital Launches at Toronto Market With a Slate of Cross-Border IP Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

Gayathiri Guliani and Uzair Merchant are unveiling K2 Media Capital, a new entertainment investment and production venture, at the Toronto Film Festival market. The company aims to identify, finance and produce high-value intellectual property that crosses borders and formats. Guliani, a media industry veteran, and Merchant, an award-winning filmmaker and writer, created K2 to meet […]

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Variety

Anna Biller on ‘The Love Witch’ Follow-Up ‘The Face of Horror’ and Her Issues With ‘Obsession’: ‘The Male Point of View Is Always Going to Sell Better’ (EXCLUSIVE)

“Joan of Arc versus Jesus.” That is how Anna Biller, the auteur behind “The Love Witch,” describes the climax of her arresting new film “The Face of Horror” — a Medieval tale of a chauvinist knight, Edward (Jonah Hauer-King), desiring to leave his hopelessly devoted wife, Eleanor (Kristine Froseth), for Isabel (Bella Heathcote), a glamorous […]

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Variety

‘Now You See Me’ Live Show Sets Broadway Debut

The Four Horsemen are taking their talents to Broadway. “Now You See Me Live,” a stage show inspired by Lionsgate’s hit film franchise about thieving illusionists, is opening at New York City’s Al Hirschfeld theater on Nov. 11 for an eight-week run that concludes on Jan. 3. “Now You See Me” follows the mind-bending heists […]

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Variety

Drew Barrymore Will Court Social-Media Crowd With Long-Form Interviews on YouTube

Drew Barrymore will break free of the conventions of TV talk as she launches the seventh season of her CBS-produced daytime program. Barrymore and her producers are launching a second program – a YouTube interview series – that will function both as a segment for TV and a stand-alone attraction for digital viewers. “Personal Space” […]

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The Guardian Culture

The Odyssey and Spider-Man make for record-breaking summer box office worldwide

The biggest May to September of all time was recorded in US cinemas, with the UK enjoying a 56% rise in audiences, outstripped by an 88% lift in the Middle East and AfricaAs well as celebrating their wedding, the actors Tom Holland and Zendaya have something else to toast: their two summer blockbusters – The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day – have officially made box office history.The films were credited as the driving force behind the US’s biggest summer season of all time, taking $4.761b

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The Guardian Culture

Lise Davidsen: Verdi album review

(Decca)Focusing on five Verdian heroines (and anti-heroines), the soprano has chosen roles that fit her formidable vocal talents perfectly. Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra provide detailed accompaniment for these striking portraitsAt some point, any star soprano worth her salt will try her hand at a Verdi album. Lise Davidsen avoids the fate of those who attempt to encompass the composer’s entire cast of leading ladies, focusing instead on five who fit her vocal talents lik

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Variety

Dreamkite Chief Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann on AI Opportunities and Industry Concerns: ‘AI Production Will Create a Lot of New Human Jobs’

Earlier today, Variety announced that international media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, an AI production company. We spoke to Higuchi-Zitzmann about the venture. Are the projects on your slate short-form or will you also be working on feature-length films and series?We’d like to start with short-form […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Elon Musk Threatens Legal Action Over Alex Gibney Documentary, Blasts “Boring Hit Piece”

Musk's attorney declares "we have no choice but to put you on formal legal notice" as the tech titan slams the buzzy documentary on X as a "false film."

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Hollywood Reporter

Emmys 2026: Who Will Win … and Who Should Win

The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg and Daniel Fienberg debate the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 14.

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Variety

Ella Langley Leads 2026 CMA Awards Nominations With Nine, as Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves Also Score Big Tallies

In perhaps the least surprising development in recent CMA Awards history, Ella Langley emerged at the front of the pack when nominations for the 2026 telecast were announced Thursday morning, scoring nine in all, just one shy of the all-time single-year record set by Alan Jackson in 2002. Miranda Lambert has this year second-most nominations, […]

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Variety

Amazon’s AWS Now Lets Streamers Deliver up to 11 Live Feeds on One Screen

Personalized multiview livestreams — the ability to watch multiple video feeds on one screen — have become a popular and much-requested feature by customers, particularly for sports. Now AWS, Amazon’s cloud-services division, is launching a new service that will let streamers deliver up to 11 feeds in a single personalized channel. On Thursday, AWS took […]

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Hollywood Reporter

AI Is Deflating Hollywood’s Microdramas Scene

Phone-centric soaps kept underemployed cast and crew in Los Angeles afloat after the strikes. With AI-generated verticals now flooding the apps, auditions – and hopes – are evaporating.

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Variety

‘Why Did I Get Married Again?’ Review: Taraji P. Henson Joins the Gang for a Tyler Perry Sequel That Sells the Next Generation Short

It’s been nearly 20 years since “Why Did I Get Married?”, the original Tyler Perry movie that first introduced these characters and their variously troubled relationships — and 16 years since the sequel to that film, “Why Did I Get Married Too?”. So it feels only normal, at the start of this latest outing for […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Monica Dolan Shares How She Prepared to Portray the Woman Who Uncovered an Irish Mass Grave Scandal in ‘The Lost Children of Tuam’: TIFF

The English star discusses spending time with the lady at the heart of the story, working with a voice coach despite having Irish parents, and pulling triple Toronto duty, thanks to 'Onwards and Sideways' and 'Elsinore.'

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