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Isabel Davis Named Director of BFI Filmmaking Fund – Global Bulletin

LOTTERY LEADER Isabel Davis has been appointed director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Funds, overseeing some £20 million ($26.8 million) a year in support for U.K. independent filmmakers. Davis joins the British Film Institute from Screen Scotland, where she has served as executive director for eight years, and begins a five-year fixed-term contract in […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Tom Holland Is Filming Fred Astaire Biopic Next and Plans to ‘Do All of the Dancing’ Himself: ‘I’ve Got So Much Work to Do’

Tom Holland is on the second of two consecutive blockbuster press tours in the space of a month – first for “The Odyssey” and now for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” – but the actor is already gearing up for his next role: Fred Astaire. Holland, who is set to play the debonair dancer in an […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

‘Oasis,’ Exploring Fear, Exclusion and Violence, Picked Up by Totem Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival. The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production. The film centers on a school where a viral video of a […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Comcast Q2 Boosted by World Cup, Profits at Peacock

Comcast said its second quarter was boosted by revenue tied to World Cup telecasts on the company’s Spanish-language Telemundo network as well as the Peacock streaming service, which achieved profitability for the first time, but the company still faced headwinds in its cable and broadband business and saw profit in the period decline due to […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Whoopi Goldberg Slams Transphobic Critics of Elliot Page’s Casting in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘Then Don’t Go See It… Why Do You Care Who’s Cast in It?’

Whoopi Goldberg used Tuesday’s episode of “The View” to push back on conservative anger over Elliot Page’s casting in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” dismissing a clip of commentator Ben Shapiro calling the choice a mistake. Shapiro called Page’s role an “absolute puzzler” before pointing out that he is “about 5’2 and 105 pounds soaking wet […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition

Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details Continue reading...

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The music in Nolan’s Odyssey is as well-crafted – and bloodlessly unmemorable – as the movie itself

Ludwig Göransson’s meticulous score uses instruments of the era to create an earthy, raw and bleak soundscape, but it merely supports the portrayal of an uncomplicated heroA few weeks ago I came across a video of Professor Armand D’Angour, associate professor of classics at Oxford university. He explained how, through groundbreaking research involving fragments of melody and rhythms found on papyrus and stone and the reconstruction of ancient instruments, it is now possible to hear for the first

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The end of Heartstopper is a bittersweet loss – it’s never felt scarier to be young and queer | Alim Kheraj

The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rightsAfter six books, three seasons of television and a film-length finale, Heartstopper has come to an end. Often dubbed the most wholesome show on TV, Netflix’s adaptation of Alice Oseman’s young adult LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, which itself began life as a web comic, is a legitimate cultural phenomenon, turning its two leads – Kit Connor and Joe Locke – into household names, while racking up tens of mi

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Venice Unveils 2026 Lineup (Updating Live)

Danny Boyle's Rupert Murdoch biopic 'Ink' will open the 83rd Biennale on Sept. 2.

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Venice Film Festival Reveals 2026 Lineup (Updating Live)

The Venice Film Festival is about to reveal its 2026 lineup, promising a plethora of buzzy titles from international directors. Like Cannes this year, Venice is expected to have a lighter Hollywood presence than in previous editions. But that does not mean there won’t be a robust roster of awards contenders. As previously announced, the […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Daniel Wu on ‘Cold War 1994,’ ‘Twilight of the Warriors’ and Coming Home to Hong Kong: ‘The Craft Still Challenges Me’

Daniel Wu received the Best from the East Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, capping a stretch that has put him back at the center of Hong Kong’s two biggest franchises: “Cold War 1994” and the “Twilight of the Warriors” series. “Cold War 1994” is the third installment in the “Cold War” series, […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Sarajevo Film Festival Unveils Competition Programs With 21 World Premieres, Six International Premieres

The Sarajevo Film Festival, the leading festival for South-East European cinema, unveiled the lineups for the four competition sections on Thursday, which include 21 world premieres, six international premieres, one European premiere and 23 regional premieres. The 32nd edition runs from Aug. 14 to 21. The narrative feature films section includes nine films from South-East […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Brazil Begins Three Days of Mourning After Luiz Carlos Barreto, Its Legendary Film Producer, Dies at 98

Luiz Carlos Barreto, one of the driving forces of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s and 1970s, died in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, July 22, at the age of 98. In reaction – and it’s a measure of the huge regard with which Barreto was held in his native Brazil and beyond – […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Matt Rife Sets Four-Night Comedy Cruise for 2027

The superstar comedian will be joined by some all-star stand-up pals on Suite Rife on Deck, set to hit the open water on MSC Poesia from Feb. 10-14. Rife promises "only cool people, only good vibes."

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’

The painter, sculptor and performance artist has devoted his life to making art available to the masses. Now with a new exhibition, the centenarian discusses inequality, inspiration, and why he won’t be stopping any time soon‘Life is short, art long,” says Ken Turner, reading from a book of aphorisms by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. And he’s half right, really, because at 100 years old – and very possibly the world’s oldest performance artist – art might have been long, but life hasn’t be

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Brave New Love’ Dives Into Lust, Infidelity, Motherhood, Shame and Societal Norms (Exclusive Clip)

Kathrine Thorborg Johansen, Simon Sears, Anders Danielsen Lie and Angeliki Papoulia feature in writer-director Maria Bäck's film about a woman caught up in the chaos of societal norms and bodily fluids that is world-premiering in the Locarno 2026 international competition.

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: documentary reveals the shocking truth behind model family blogger Ruby Franke

First of a three-part series exposing the hidden horror behind a picture-perfect image created for the cameras. Plus Adeel Akhtar traces his roots in Who Do You Think You Are? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoAt its peak, Ruby Franke’s parenting YouTube channel was earning £100,000 a month. But, as this documentary series shows, her ostensibly model family was a house of cards. As her ex-husband puts it: “The devil knocked and we opened the door.” Their downfall culminated in Franke’

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

Variety

Courtney Stodden Is Fighting for Something Bigger Than Jason Alexander’s Apology

It took fourteen and a half years, but Jason Alexander finally apologized. On Wednesday, the “Seinfeld” actor issued a public apology to Courtney Stodden for a “comedy” sketch the two filmed together wherein Alexander, who was 52 at the time, fondled a 17-year-old Stodden’s breasts with a cell phone and said that when she turned […]

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We didn’t care what the client wanted!’: Sheffield’s Designers Republic on their art for Aphex Twin, Pulp … and Pringles

Their eye-popping designs burst out of Sheffield in 1986, making them the toast of the music scene. Founder Ian Anderson reveals why some fans think his art is worth remortgaging the house forForty years ago in Sheffield, Ian Anderson founded one of the most influential UK design companies by mistake. “The name the Designers Republic was a joke, because we weren’t designers,” he recalls. “Early on, everything we did was in black and white because we didn’t know how to make it colour.”With co-fou

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston review – you will cringe so hard you turn to cheese

The actor emotes his way through Vesuvius’s catastrophic eruption in a docudrama that is embarrassing and exhausting – but undeniably entertaining. Prepare to be Hiddlestoned!There’s such a fine line between “cheese” and “cringe”, is there not? Come, walk it with me and Tom Hiddleston in Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston. Let’s see how many of us survive the eruptions of embarrassment that attend our journey!This is a National Geographic documentary-drama, which means that even the factua

entertainment  Jul 23, 2026