Variety

Priyanka Chopra Jonas Says ‘Obsession’ Shows How Hollywood’s Barriers Are Falling: ‘Ideas Are Your Currency’

Speaking at the Cannes Lions conference on Wednesday, Priyanka Chopra Jonas shared her thoughts on becoming a producer, her desire to expand her career in the U.S. and cited the low-budget horror smash hit “Obsession” as a marker of how barriers to entry for talent and filmmakers have fallen. “I feel like if you have an […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion

The Pit, Barbican, LondonGreg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniaturesLove comes with strings attached in Greg Doran’s tragic romance. First performed 22 years ago, this enchanting production of Shakespeare’s great poem of unrequited love is now tenderly narrated by Simon Russell Beale. With masterful puppetry and a playful air of seduction, there’s no wonder this conjuring of Venus’s pursuit of the handsome Ado

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

‘King of the Hill’ Season 15 Screening Wows Annecy as Mike Judge Promises Not to Age Hank Again

Hank Hill (Mike Judge) may no longer be working for Strickland Propane, but he is still a firm believer in good old combustion engines and American machinery. So when he finds a strange electric truck parked right outside of his home, all hell breaks loose. This is the premise of an episode of Season 15 […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism

From trippy swirls to blood-soaked slabs, a new book mines gothic and renaissance art for the supernatural significance of the precious rockWhen we think of marble, we think of it as a desirable commodity: of luxurious interior decoration, from deluxe kitchens to the most corporate of foyers – and of a roaring global market. Yet in the centuries prior to the enlightenment brought about by science and the birth of geology, marble captured the popular imagination as a mysterious, living structure

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Alex de la Iglesia Set to Make His Animation Debut With ‘Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn’

Álex de la Iglesia, the renowned Spanish film-TV director (“Day of the Beast,” “The Last Circus,” “30 Coins”) is set to make this animation debut, helming the animated feature “Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn.” Set up at the Canary Islands’ 3Doubles Producciones, behind Goya Award nominees “SuperKlaus” and “Norbert,” and Bizkaia-based Sumendi […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood and Big Tech Are Preparing For War

Meta wants to steal TV viewers, Amazon and Apple are meddling with content, and traditional media companies are pursuing megadeals to try and survive.

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Passion Paris, ADN Team Up on Hit Webtoon ‘Hero Killer’ Animated Series (EXCLUSIVE)

Following up Monday’s teasing announcement, Passion Paris and ADN have confirmed they have entered into co-production on an animated series adaptation of the globally acclaimed webtoon “Hero Killer,” to be helmed by “Moonlit Bamboo Forest” director David Pagaille. The announcement was made today at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and joins a strong line-up […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

‘Invincible’: Jack Quaid Joins Voice Cast as Prime Video Reveals Early Season 6 Renewal

Big news for “Invincible” fans: Jack Quaid will be joining the voice cast in Season 5 and the show has already scored an early Season 6 renewal. During Prime Video’s first-ever panel at Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday, executive producer and co-showrunner Robert Kirkman revealed that Quaid will play Gravitator/Chris and shared a first-look image […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jack Quaid to Voice Gravitator in ‘Invincible’ Animated Series

The character will appear in season 5 of Robert Kirkman's superhero spoof, alongside Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh and J. K. Simmons.

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol

Opera Holland Park, LondonA concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong castIt always lifts the spirits when the little company that could, does. Over the last 30 years, Puccini has been a mainstay of Opera Holland Park’s artistic vision with, in recent years, notable stagings of Le Villi and Edgar. Now it’s the turn of Turandot, the only one of the composer’s works to elude th

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Priyanka Chopra Jonas Has a New Career Goal

At Cannes Lions, the superstar and entrepreneur says she's looking "to bring in my English-language career that variety to my characters that I have been able to do in India.”

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Pass the sick bag! Why I published a book on the art of the airline essential

One evoked a hellish trip from Delhi after passengers had drunk unsanitary water. Another conjoured up an era when planes were thick with cigarette smoke. And one man collected them all …If, a few years ago, someone told me that I would spend most of my 2026 scanning hundreds of airline sick bags, I would have wondered what had gone wrong with my life. Especially if you also told me I’d become a keen enthusiast for the beauty of their designs. But, as it turns out, making my new book Sicko has b

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Jill Schlesinger Offers Frank Financial Talk in CBS News’ ‘Money Moves’ Podcast

Jill Schlesinger isn’t afraid to tell you how to really handle your dollars and cents. The former head of an investment advisory firm, Schlesinger has served as a business analyst for CBS News since 2013, helping to translate complex financial issues for everyday viewers and listeners. Now she’s going to take her blunt advice to […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Taylor Swift Sings ‘Love Story’ With Lainey Wilson in Surprise Performance at Travis Kelce’s Tight End University

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance at fiancé Travis Kelce’s Tight Ends & Friends concert on Tuesday night to sing her hit “Love Story” with Lainey Wilson. The event, presented by Sports Illustrated and Reese’s, took place as part of Kelce’s Tight End University in Nashville, where the football player brings his fellow tight ends […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sting review – historical crimes against women spill back into the present

Young Vic theatre, London Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger as an archive researcher finds herself trapped in modern-day misogynyOn the hottest day of the year, a conflagration. The Young Vic’s studio space fills with smoke as records of violence against women across the centuries are consumed by flames.Even before the fire, Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger. Ash (an outstanding Adelle Leonce) barrels into

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Science Saru Studio’s ‘The Ghost in the Shell,’ Bound for Prime Video, Looks to Capture the Future Through Hand-Drawn Visions of the Past

Ahead of the Annecy Animation Festival premiere of “The Ghost in the Shell,” the new adaptation of the famous manga by Masamune Shirow, director Mokochan emphasized the human element that went into making this cyberpunk sci-fi series set in a world where humanity and technology are inextricably linked. “Ghost in the Shell” is set to […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy

Danish shaggy-dog story about a man with a dissociative disorder has a fun premise but wastes it on lots of goofy, humourless violenceAnders Thomas Jensen is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and veteran of the Dogme 95 years at Denmark’s Zentropa Studios. He now brings us this slapstick-violent black comedy and shaggy dog story of gruesome silliness. It is well acted but relentlessly and bizarrely unfunny. So unfunny as to be almost funny, but not really, in that the unfunniness approache

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

’Batman: Knightfall,’ Starring Anson Mount and Michael Mando, Premieres to Thunderous Applause at Annecy

For comic book fans of a certain age, “Knightfall” is one of the biggest Batman story arcs ever published by DC Comics. The arc is infamous for having the Caped Crusader’s back broken by the super steroid-enhanced genius Bane. It served as a major source of inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” and […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes

Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s donePicture the scene: it’s July 2025 and I’m DJing at a festival called Loveshack. I’m not fretting about losing the crowd to a different stage because there isn’t one: we’re in a barn in the Welsh countryside. The dress-up theme is 90s icons, and below me Joanna Lumley is talking to Andre Agassi while a cop from the B

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How Slovak Star-Turned-Ambassador and Karlovy Vary Honoree Magda Vasaryova Is Like Eric Cantona

KVIFF calls the Renaissance woman "one of the greatest Slovak actresses of all time," with her award also honoring "the unique artistic connection between the Czech and Slovak filmmakers."

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026