The Guardian Culture

‘The song got us signed but I hated it’: how Haircut 100 made Fantastic Day

‘In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’If I’d been sitting down when I wrote Fantastic Day, it would have been a different song, but I was standing up in front of a chocolate-brown wall with the names of all my favourite punk bands scribbled on it. I was envisioning the future. It was 1978, and my family had moved across London to a place c

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Xbox Slashing 3,200 Jobs In “Most Significant Restructure” in Platform’s History

"Our business today is not healthy," Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warned in a memo to staff Monday.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Underground Monk Show: inside Edinburgh fringe’s cult comedy of the highest order

This late-night escapade became a word-of-mouth festival favourite. The show’s creators discuss the method behind its madness – and why you’ll laugh without knowing whyDeep within the cavernous Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, robed monks stand ominously on stage after midnight. It’s 2024, halfway through the Edinburgh fringe, and nobody really knows what’s happening. But in this dungeon-like sweatbox we’re about to experience a work in progress that is equal parts joyous and utterly un

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 Staffers in ‘Most Significant Restructure’ in Company’s History

Xbox is set to layoff 1,600 staffers Monday and up to another 1,600 over the next year in what new CEO Asha Sharma calls the “most significant restructure” in the Microsoft-owned company’s history. In addition, four Xbox studios — Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions, which collectively employee approximately 350 people […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

‘The Black Demon: Atlantis’: The Making of a Shark Thriller at 8,600 Feet Above Sea Level in Colombia

When the producers of shark thriller “The Black Demon” decided to make a sequel, making it in Colombia was a no-brainer. Mucho Mas Media, led by Javier Chapa, had already shot three other movies in the country with local production company Jaguar Bite. The first pic they shot in Colombia, golf drama “The Long Game,” […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

TV’s ‘Fall of Rome’ Broken Down by Scott Free’s David W. Zucker, Talking With ‘Wednesday’ Exec Producer Steve Stark at Italian Global Series Fest

The global immediacy of TV and some not so welcome knock-on effects proved the focus of one of the biggest panels at this year’s Italian Global Series, featuring David W. Zucker, chief creative officer at Scott Free, and Steve Stark, chairman and executive producer at Toluca Pictures (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fargo,” “Vikings,” “Wednesday”). Zucker, who […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’

Tilly Norwood, the AI “actor” who sparked a frenzy of anger in Hollywood and across the wider industry in late 2025, is set to front her first feature film. “Misaligned,” announced by Particle 6, the AI-focussed studio behind Norwood, is described as a comedy-drama telling a “coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.” Set inside […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Lauryn Ajufo to Lead Revival of Michaela Coel’s Landmark Debut Play ‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Lauryn Ajufo, the British actress who landed a British Independent Film Award nomination for “Boiling Point,” is set to step into the role that first launched Michaela Coel’s career in an upcoming revival of Coel’s landmark semi-autobiographical one-woman debut play. “Chewing Gum Dreams,” originally developed by Coel as her final-year show at the Guildhall School […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

ITV Braces for “Thorough and Comprehensive” Antitrust Review of Sky Takeover

Comcast-owned Sky has closed a deal to buy the U.K.'s leading free-TV network for $2.1 B. ITV argues the mega-merger is needed to compete with the likes of Netflix and YouTube.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Ali Fazal on Guddu Pandit’s Return in ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’, the Haunting World of ‘Raakh’ and Refusing to Be Typecast

Ali Fazal has spent a decade and a half deliberately refusing to sit still. He credits his mother for it. Bombarded with world cinema from an early age, he came out of college convinced the industry was bigger than what he’d been shown, and he built a career designed to prove it. “I have to […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Versant Extends Golf Game With Plans to Acquire Full Swing for $530 Million

The New York Times Co. has games. Disney has theme parks. And Versant Media has golf. In an era when more traditional media companies are looking beyond the usual flows of revenue, Versant on Monday unveiled plans to purchase Full Swing, a sports technology firm that lets customers, coaches and athletes make use of simulations […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Versant Inks $530 Million Deal for Sports Tech Company Full Swing

The tech company, best known for its advanced golf simulators, will expand the Golf Channel owner's presence in the tech and analytics space.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Colombia’s Bogota Audiovisual Market Welcomes Netflix, France, Discusses the Impact of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Colombia’s burgeoning Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM) opens its doors even wider to welcome young wannabe producers from Central America, the Caribbean and Andean countries this year, thanks to an alliance with Netflix. In past years, only Colombian producers participated in the training and networking sessions. This time, out of the 40 participants, with ages ranging […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Harry Styles Breaks World Record as 12-Night Run at Wembley Comes to Emotional End

Styles paid tribute to his former One Direction bandmates while on stage at the historic London venue, telling 80,000+ fans: "I wouldn't be here without [them]."

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

ITV Boss ‘Hopeful’ Sky Acquisition Will Clear Regulators: ‘The Market Has Changed So Fundamentally’

Following news on Monday morning that NBCUniversal-owned Sky is acquiring 70-year-old British public service broadcaster ITV, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall joined a series of calls with investors and media to talk through logistics. On the investor call following the announcement, McCall said the sale reflects years of the ITV board weighing its strategic options — […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama

Writer-director Mads Mengel’s film about a seaside christening disrupted by a previously shunned relative is shot in the spirit of Dogme 95Danish actor Trine Dyrholm gives a magnetic performance with all guns blazing in this intensely painful, uncomfortable but also sometimes uncomfortably funny film from writer-director Mads Mengel; it is about a dysfunctional family and is shot in a freewheeling handheld style with lots of looming extreme closeups, a film in the spirit of Thomas Vinterberg’s D

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare

Karlovy Vary film festivalIntimate documentary interviews Scorsese, Tarantino and Stone as well as Richardson’s family – with staggering home movie footage, tooPerhaps he looks more like Gandalf now, in his 70s, with a kind of beatific grandfatherly calm. But legendary cinematographer Robert Richardson – three time Oscar winner for JFK, The Aviator and Hugo – got his “white devil” nickname when his long white hair was a little less unruly than it is now, and more of a sensual accessory for a fie

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Netflix France Chief Pauline Dauvin Slams Expanded Investment Obligations: ‘These New Rules Go Too Far’

Netflix France’s vice president of content Pauline Dauvin has warned that France’s newly expanded investment obligations for streamers risk turning cultural diversity into a “checklist,” arguing that rules designed to broaden creative output could threaten editorial freedom and weaken the country’s production ecosystem. In an op-ed published in Le Monde and titled “More Obligations, Less […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Kevin Costner’s ‘Dances With Wolves’ Set for New Restored Director’s Cut That Will Launch at Locarno

Kevin Costner’s 1990 Western “Dances With Wolves,” about an American Civil War soldier who forges a relationship with a group of Lakota Indians, is getting a new 4K restoration that will launch at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival. The cult classic, which earned Costner the best director prize at the 1991 Oscars, along with six […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How the Sky-ITV Deal Will Transform British Broadcasting

The acquisition — which will combine the U.K.'s biggest free-to-air commercial networks with its biggest pay-TV network — will see another British public service broadcaster come under U.S. ownership.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026