Variety

FCC Slammed by Former Agency Officials Over Review of ABC’s Licenses: ‘An Assault on Free Speech Disguised as Regulatory Process’

The FCC and its current chairman, Brendan Carr, were blasted by former heads of the agency and other officials as pursuing a campaign to “censor Disney’s and ABC’s speech” with its highly unusual early review of spectrum licenses for eight ABC-owned TV stations. In a filing Tuesday with the FCC, the officials — who served […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Food Network Sets New Bobby Flay Fine-Dining Competition Series ‘The Line’ for Fall Debut (EXCLUSIVE)

Food Network is leaning into the rise in popularity of restaurant culture with a new fall competition series that follows celebrity chef Bobby Flay as he leads a restaurant cooking line team trying to execute a fine-dining menu in real time for real diners. Titled “Bobby Flay’s The Line,” the show will feature Flay along […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Season 2 First Look Promises More Murder and Mayhem

Paramount+ has unveiled first-look images at “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2. The second season of the series, which does not yet have a premiere date, will see Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) once again playing the titular killer of killers as he battles fellow serial killers in New York City. Check out the new images below. […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Tony Gilroy’s Pedro Pascal Starrer ‘Behemoth!’ to World Premiere at NY Film Festival

The Searchlight film, also starring Olivia Wilde, will get a December theatrical release.

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Canal+ Group’s Revenue Jumps 40% as MultiChoice Deal Boosts Earnings and Subscriptions

Canal+ Group, the parent company of “Paddington” producer Studiocanal, saw its revenue climb 40% to €4.3 billion ($4.8 billion) for the first half of 2026, boosted by the acquisition of MultiChoice which has significantly expanded the pay-TV group’s footprint across Africa. The group, which is listed at the London stock exchange, said it had already […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

How Lan Hongchun’s Teochew Film ‘Dear You’ Turned a Forgotten Postal Tradition Into China’s Unlikely Hit: ‘Dialect Is Never Going to Be a Liability as Long as You Have Great Ideas’

Four people. One letter. An ocean between them. To send a letter home from Bangkok in the 1950s, an overseas Chinese laborer needed four people: himself, a scribe to put his words on paper, a reader to decode it at the destination and the person waiting to hear it read aloud. Lan Hongchun built a […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Reply AI Film Festival Unveils Jury Featuring ‘The Lion King’ Director Rob Minkoff, ‘Twilight’ Helmer Catherine Hardwicke and More

The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival — a competitive event dedicated to shorts made using AI that runs in tandem with the Venice Film Festival — has unveiled its selection and announced its prestigious jury headed by Italian Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores. The 10 works, produced using new technologies and AI tools, […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Art Detectives’ Renewed for Season 2 by Acorn TV

Stephen Moyer is running out of family members to lock up.

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Black motorcycle clubs come alive in the summer: ‘The best way to build community is on two wheels’

Building on decades-long traditions, Black bikers host rides, picnics and other gatherings nearly every summer weekend to celebrate community and freedomThe trip was only supposed to be a Memorial Day weekend girls’ getaway to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for Patrice “Foxy” Johnson. But once Johnson and her crew arrived, they inadvertently found themselves in the middle of an annual bike week where several thousand riders had convened. Johnson watched the “backpacks”, or the women who rode on t

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Topless modelling never aligned with me’: inside Everyone’s Seen My Tits, the play by a former page 3 model

As she brings her memoir to the Edinburgh festival, Keeley Hazell talks about trauma, exploitation, the hollowness of the high life – and her new career as a writer on Ted LassoThere was a time in the mid-2000s when it felt as though “everyone” had seen her topless, says Keeley Hazell. Page 3 was a staple of the tabloid press, lads’ mags were booming and she was one of the country’s most recognisable glamour models. “There was excitement, but also a lot of shame and embarrassment,” the softly sp

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

PalesTEENian review – engaging story of mixed identity is a bit of a muddle

Riverside Studios, London Joe Haddad’s solo show tilts between family comedy and football fandom as well as the horrors of the Gaza war but never quite finds its focusJoe Haddad’s solo show is a kind of self-referential standup set which tells us about his journey into comedy. It encompasses the negotiation of his dual identity as a Palestinian south Londoner and becomes a coming-of-age story.Born in Croydon, with Arab Christian parents from Jerusalem, he

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Can Anyone Other Than Christopher Nolan Shoot a Film Entirely on Imax?

Back in May 2025, it was revealed that Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” ” would be the first feature film shot entirely with Imax 70mm cameras. That announcement sparked interest from other filmmakers. As “The Odyssey’s” box office sails to one-week total of $200 million, with Imax 70mm screenings sold out for weeks in advance, a source […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Bangkok International Content Market Bows With Strong Debut, Logs Over $65 Million in Deals

Thailand’s first purpose-built international content marketplace wrapped its debut edition this month with an estimated THB2.2 billion ($65.5 million) in business value generated across three days of structured deal-making and co-production talks. The Bangkok International Content Market 2026 – known as BICM2026 – ran earlier this month at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero

Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmateJust a few weeks ago, Tom Holland was telling us that his role as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey was his “last chance to play a boy”. Well, Holland is back as the supposedly scrappy, gawky, arachnid young superhero Spider-Man. Not Spider-Boy admittedly, and these days Holland is actually a chunkier and more stacked Spidey than previously, flexing s

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Trailer Reveals All-Star Cast For Film Adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s Bestseller

Thuso Mbedu, Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Regina King, Damson Idris, Lashana Lynch, Amandla Stenberg, Tosin Cole and Viola Davis star in Gina Prince-Bythewood's Africa-set fantasy film.

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Trailer: Jason Sudeikis’ Beloved Coach Takes On Women’s Soccer

Apple TV has unveiled a new trailer for “Ted Lasso” Season 4 ahead of its Aug. 5 release date. The new season picks up as Jason Sudeikis’ titular Ted is facing a new challenge: coaching a second division women’s soccer team. Alongside Sudeikis, Season 4 sees the return of Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Trailer: Magical African Fantasy Novel Comes to Life With Damson Idris, Cynthia Erivo, Viola Davis and More

Paramount has released the trailer for “Children of Blood and Bone,” which hits theaters Jan. 15, 2027. “In the epic fantasy world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people,” the logline reads. “She and her brother ally with the daughter and son […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Variety

Rhiannon Giddens Signs With WME (EXCLUSIVE)

Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, one of the leading artists in the roots and Americana realm, has signed with WME for representation in music worldwide, she and the agency announced Tuesday. The move comes as Giddens prepares to unveil her seventh studio album, “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers,” on Sept. 18 on Nonesuch […]

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout are names we know, but there’s a welcome element of surprise elsewhere Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead Booker prize longlistThis year’s Booker longlist is led by two previous winners. Twelve years on from A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James returns to Jamaica in The Disappearers, out in September: a polyphonic epic of a murderous mob attack on a gay theatre group in 1988 Kingston, and the two-decade aftermath of

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review: Tom Holland Bares His Soul in a Superhero Installment That Balances Self-Reflection With Action

Zendaya and Jacob Batalon return alongside franchise newcomers Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal and Mark Ruffalo in Destin Daniel Cretton’s web-slinger entry.

entertainment  Jul 28, 2026