The Guardian Culture

Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Warner)From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous​ yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial lifeBarely three minutes of Muse’s 10th album has elapsed before a choir make an appearance: a choir that isn’t singing so much as chanting in Latin, like something you might hear on the soundtrack to an occult-themed horror film. “Sanctus!” they cry. “Dominus!” And, inevitably, “Lucifer!”The choir are harder to hear than you might think,

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Sony Pictures Television, IMG Licensing to Develop Global Licensing Program for Entire ‘Breaking Bad’ Franchise (Exclusive)

The multi-year collaboration will deliver consumer products, brand partnerships and immersive experiences for all the Walter White fans out there.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ricky Gervais Pitches Animation Debut ‘Alley Cats’ at Annecy Masterclass: “I Could Make This Forever”

The Netflix animated sitcom from the creator of 'The Office' and 'Extras' follows the adventures of a group of feral foul-mouthed felines.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Tubi to Provide Creatorverse Lineup to Amazon’s Fire TV (EXCLUSIVE)

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has found a host of new screens for its Creatorverse lineup of shows. The service is bringing its suite of creator-led shows and movies to Amazon’s Fire TV platform, giving those with Fire TVs or tablets a front seat to shows starring creators such as Bob the Drag Queen, Celina […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

AI Music Platform Suno Reveals Incubator Program For Indie Artists

The company said it'd give indie artists grants in the controversial company's latest bid to curry favor with the music community.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Ricky Gervais Talks Netflix’s ‘Alley Cats’ as Annecy Sings Him ‘Happy Birthday’: ‘I Hope You Like Cats. And Swearing’

Ricky Gervais is ready for Netflix’s “Alley Cats.” “I hope you like cats. And swearing,” he told the audience at Annecy. The viewers serenaded him before the screening of the first two episodes, singing Happy Birthday.’ In the show, the comedian and creator of “The Office” and “After Life” decided to turn his attention to […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Virginie Efira to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Virginie Efira, the Belgian-born, France-based actress who was recently in Cannes with lead roles in two competition films: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden” and Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales.” Efira will be feted by the Swiss fest, which is Europe’s preeminent event dedicated to indie cinema, with its Leopard Club Award. She […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

‘Dept. Q’ Season 2 Adds Aisling Franciosi, Greg Wise and More to Cast as Production Starts in Scotland

The second season of “Dept. Q” is officially underway, with the Netflix crime series starting production in Scotland and adding 10 cast members. Matthew Goode is set to return as DCI Carl Morck alongside his rag-tag team of Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne as DC Rose Dickson and Jamie Sives as DS James […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Genre-Bending Stories, Trailblazing Co-Productions Head Annecy’s MIFA Feature Pitches

The Annecy Animation Festival, now in full swing, offers a vibrant mix of world premieres and unique screenings aimed at animation fans and industry execs alike. For the latter, the MIFA Feature Pitches are undoubtedly a festival centerpiece. Showcasing projects of independent filmmakers across the globe, these highly anticipated pitch sessions consistently serve as the […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Marginalized for her ‘immense ambition’, the genius of director Elaine May is finally being recognized

As a new retrospective opens, collaborators of the Mikey and Nicky film-maker explain how she blazed a trail for female directors in HollywoodIn 1975, after more than two years of sifting through footage, Elaine May was still in the weeds editing her deeply personal gangster film, Mikey and Nicky, and Paramount Pictures and its CEO Barry Diller were losing patience. In a desperate move to retain control, the director sold the film out from under Paramount to Alyce Films, a phoney production comp

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Anthony Boyle, Sam Claflin, Tom Hollander and Josh Finan Among Ensemble Joining Keira Knightley and Alicia Vikander in Dark Comedy ‘The Worst’ (EXCLUSIVE)

With shooting now underway in the south of France on dark comedy “The Worst,” the production has added a major cohort of names to its already buzzy cast. Sam Claflin (“F.A.S.T.,” “Daisy Jones and the Six”), Tom Hollander (“Gosford Park,” “The Night Manager”), Anthony Boyle (“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,” “The Altruists”), Josh Finan […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

James Murdoch-Backed Art Basel Owner Pushes Into Media Events Business (Exclusive)

MCH Group, in which the Fox scion is the largest shareholder, is launching an event titled the Jupiter Festival with an eye toward becoming a stop on the thought leader circuit.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Virginie Efira to Receive Locarno Leopard Club Award

”Bold yet thoughtful, instinctive yet ironic, she offers contemporary cinema a fresh perspective that continually reinvents itself.”

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Comcast-Owned Sky Agrees on Terms to Buy ITV’s Broadcast and Streaming Unit (Report)

Sky, the Comcast-owned U.K. pay-TV operator, has agreed on terms to buy British broadcaster ITV’s media and entertainment division, which is its network arm. Reuters reported the development on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the negotiations. As part of the £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) deal, ITV Studios – the standalone production unit – would […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller and Christine Tremarco Join BBC Beatles Drama ‘Hamburg Days’

Set in the early 1960s in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli red light district, the six-parter follows the Beatles' team-up with two young German artists.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

In ‘The Lion at My Back,’ A Teenage Asylum Seeker and a Cypriot in Her 40s Form an Unexpected Bond (Exclusive Clip)

The second feature from Cypriot writer, director and producer Tonia Mishiali, world premiering in the Crystal Globe competition at Karlovy Vary, shows that family feelings can blossom in unlikely places.

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Furious review – dial-shifting dadsploitation mayhem as father goes in search of kidnapped daughter

There’s more than a whiff of Taken in Kenji Tanigaki’s exhilarating martial-arts movie, in which a handyman goes after some evil people traffickers It keeps happening: every few years, usually during a run of lethargic Hollywood spectacles, the Overton window of screen violence gets recalibrated by a muscular wonder from the east. Thundering along in the bloody footsteps of the Raid films and the Hindi punch-’em-up Kill, this martial-arts showcase from Japanese-born, Hong Kong-based director Ken

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

Mubi to Publish Lost ‘Faust’ Bible on Centenary of F.W. Murnau’s Silent Cinema Classic (EXCLUSIVE)

Arthouse distributor, streamer, production company and — since 2015 — publisher Mubi is set to release a book about the silent era classic “Faust” containing material that was until recently thought lost. “The Faust Bible: The Making of F.W. Murnau’s Masterpiece” is being published by Mubi Editions, presented in partnership with la Cinémathèque française, which will publish globally […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Gary Oldman to Receive Edinburgh TV Fest’s Golden Icon Award (Exclusive)

The Oscar-winning actor has seen a late-career revival with his turn as shambolic spy Jackson Lamb in 'Slow Horses.'

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026

Variety

ACM Honors Event Sets Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley, Leslie Fram and Other Country Heavyweights for Special Awards

The lineup of country music heavyweights due to receive special awards from the Academy of Country Music this summer has been set, with Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley and Eric Church among the stars being feted at the 19th annual ACM Honors program. It will take place Aug. 19 at the Pinnacle in Nashville. Others being […]

entertainment  Jun 25, 2026