Variety

French President Emmanuel Macron Calls on YouTube to Finance Content and Warns of Growing Threat to Cultural Model (EXCLUSIVE)

French President Emmanuel Macron said the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, which he co-chaired with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday, was deliberately held at a moment of dramatic upheaval for the entertainment business, from the growing dominance of YouTube and TikTok to AI and media consolidation. Speaking to Variety at the event, he […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Macklemore Says His Call to ‘Free Palestine’ Is Not a ‘Criticism’ of Jewish People: ‘None of Us Will Be Free Until We Are All Free’

Macklemore is speaking out about his call to “Free Palestine,” which the rapper made while opening for Ed Sheeran on Friday night at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. “To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you,” Macklemore said on […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Hombre Al Agua’ Review: Gael García Bernal’s Chaotic Mexican Dramedy Has a Hard Time Staying Above Water

The star of 'Amores Perros' and 'Y tu mamá tambíen' directs and acts in a midlife crisis flick about a Cuban émigré in Mexico trying to hold onto his family, career and sanity.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman’ Review: Iraq’s Oscar Submission Offers a Patriotic Anthem to the Kurdish Peshmerga’s Fight Against Islamic State

The trope of the lone action hero with near-superhuman strength gets a gender switch in “No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman,” a visually impressive drama about a resourceful female Peshmerga sniper. Although selected as Iraq’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, the third fiction feature from Norwegian-Kurdish helmer Halkawt Mustafa (“Red […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Liam and Noel Gallagher Soak Up London Love at U.K. Premiere of ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’

"Be prepared," said writer Steven Knight alongside the Gallagher brothers ahead of the screening. "It's an emotional film."

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Portuguese Artists Drop Out of Jerry Seinfeld-Headlined Festival

Multiple acts have announced that they are no longer participating in the festival set to take place in October: "We will celebrate justice, freedom and joy with you on another occasion."

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Drop: A Snowfall Saga’ Review: FX’s ‘Snowfall’ Spinoff Offers a Promising, if Uneven, ’90s Hip-Hop Odyssey

Gail Bean and Isaiah John reprise their roles in Malcolm Spellman's new drama, which blends music and crime in South Central circa 1991.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Katie Lee Biegel on Telling the Story of the People Behind Windows on the World Restaurant in CNN Doc Short

The Food Network star talks executive producing 'Top of the World,' about the history of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and embarking on her post-'Kitchen' chapter in food media.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Elon Musk Documentary Teaser Asks If Billionaire Is the ‘Greatest Living Inventor’ or a ‘Fascist’ Who ‘Has Lost His Mind’

The first teaser trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated Elon Musk documentary “Musk” has been released. The film will world premiere out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 8 before continuing to the Toronto International Film Festival. In the 48-second teaser, montages of spacecrafts and astronautical devices fill the screen […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Elsinore’ Director Simon Stone, Basking in Telluride’s Glow, on Making a Movie About Love of the Theater, the Peak AIDS Era, and Being ‘100% in the Service of Andrew Scott’

The Telluride Film Festival casts a wide net, as almost all festivals of its ilk do, but if it has had any speciality that stands out among many, it might be the well-earned tearjerker. There is as much crying at Telluride every year as there isn’t in baseball, but with the festival’s emphasis on top-line […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Hirokazu Koreeda Opens Up About His Tender Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Look Back’: “I Was Tearful the Entire Time I Made This Film”

The live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s wildly popular manga features remarkable performances from its young leads and is premiering in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

From a paediatric doctor to a podium dancer: meet the 2026 stars of The Great British Bake Off

Yes it’s going to be the Nigella Show – but we need to make sure the bakers get a look-in too. Here are this year’s cohort, ranked from worst to bestThe new contestants of this year’s Great British Bake Off don’t know how lucky they are. Usually when a new intake arrives, all eyes are on them. After all, this is a show with such a long and storied history that its audience is primed for the slightest culinary mistake.But this time around the contestants will enjoy a temporary reprieve, because t

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

ID’s ‘O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil’ Excavates O.J. Simpson’s Thwarted Reality TV Comeback

The documentary looks back at the making and undoing of 'Juiced,' a hidden-camera prank show.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

MPA Signs Two Lumiere Summit Declarations, Joins Roundtables With Presidents Macron and Lee

The Motion Picture Association signed two declarations at the Lumière Summit on Monday, adding its name alongside those of governments and private sector organizations worldwide to the Lumière Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image and the Declaration on Strengthened International Cooperation in the Fight Against Film and Audiovisual Piracy. The summit […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Look Back’ Review: Once Past the Over- Preciousness of a Child’s World, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Manga Adaptation Becomes a Moving Tribute to Friendship

There’s barely an adult in sight in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Look Back,” where anyone out of school age is marginalized practically to the point of superfluidity. Like much in the first half of this sweet — at times too sweet — adaptation from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga of the same title, also made into an animated film […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Some Reflections Gloria Steinem Shared At Her Last Public Event

In July, the late icon hosted a two-night live series called "Yes to the Unknown," in which she emphasized community: "What’s precious is your feeling of being understood. You can’t live without that.”

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Summer Box Office Breaks All-Time Record With $4.67 Billion

Need proof the movies are really, truly back? The summer box office was already the biggest since COVID upended the industry in 2020 — and now the season has become the highest-grossing of all time. Domestic ticket sales from May 1 through Labor Day on Sept. 7 stand at $4.76 billion, according to Rentrak. Revenues […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

When Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock First Made Magic

Kidman and Bullock starred as sister witches in 1998’s ‘Practical Magic’ but couldn't conjure up box office success.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Alpha Gang’ Review: Cate Blanchett, Chris Pine and an All-Star Cast Play Space Aliens in David and Nathan Zellner’s Endearingly Goofy Sci-Fi Spoof

Among the greatest cinematic mysteries of our time, when it’s harder than ever to make movies, is the fact that David and NathanZellner continue to realize their uncompromisingly DIY, endearingly childlike vision through an indie filmography that only seems to grow in scale and purpose. It’s a welcome miracle that the duo who once captured […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Spiral review – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is hilarious as a demon cutting a deal with a vain matriarch

Venice film festival: Tedeschi gives a career best performance as the mysterious stranger who visits a wealthy Italian family to prey on their pampered weaknessesEveryone in the movie business has earnestly learned to call film-makers “storytellers”, despite the fact that film-makers don’t necessarily have to deliver conventional narrative and that so many of them are in any case no good at the old-fashioned business of storytelling. But this last point certainly doesn’t apply to Italian direct

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026