Variety

Studio TF1 Smashes Doc Records With ‘Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold,’ Rolls Out ‘Surface’

Studio TF1 is celebrating recent successes at home and abroad with Sacha Vucinic and Xavier Marchand’s sports documentary “Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold” and Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun’s mystery drama “Surface.” While the doc series on French Olympic swimming champion Leon Marchand and his life in the wake of four gold-medal wins at the Paris Olympics has scored […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV has never been so nerve-jangling: 10 years of the agonising Motherland

The rage, the wine, the power mums, the PTA horror – the BBC sitcom was a spot on send-up of life at the school gates. A decade on, we remember its most awkward bitsIf Uncut Gems was about the school run instead of gambling debts, it would look like Motherland. It is now 10 years since the BBC sitcom jangled the already frayed nerves of all parents watching and turned Anna Maxwell Martin into the most frazzled woman on television in the name of skewering middle-class motherhood.Whether she was m

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Laura Poitras Shares the Desperate Vision Behind Her ICE Documentary ‘They’re Here’: “What’s Happening in the United States Is a Nightmare”

Speaking in Venice ahead of the film's world premiere, the Oscar-winning filmmaker and co-director Rachel Lauren Mueller described how their doc uses the language of horror and dystopian cinema to challenge the normalization of ICE violence in Minneapolis.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ Review: A Handsome Ode to an Oft-Disrespected Sport

The title of “Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing” is the closest that Erik Shirai’s documentary comes to a joke at the expense of its subject: sumo wrestling, the Japanese sport largely known in the western world for the ample size and minimal clothing of its practitioners, and not an awful lot beyond that. In all other […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Belgian Royalty Series ‘King of Hearts’ Secures Key VRT Backing (EXCLUSIVE)

Enterprising Flemish broadcaster VRT has boarded the historical coming-of-age drama series ‘King of Hearts’ from Giles Coulier, whose company, De Wereldvrede, is behind such hits as 2019 series “War of the Worlds” and Prix Europa winner, “Albatros.” As continental royalty series hit ratins and sales – think “Maxima” – “King of Hearts,” currently in development, […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

End of the Road festival review – Pulp and CMAT lead indie landmark’s joyous birthday party

Larmer Tree Gardens, WiltshireHitting 20, this festival has grown into a warm, genre-hopping powerhouse where fringe experimental acts are greeted as warmly as the star headlinersThere is a celebratory feeling in the air at End of the Road festival this year as it turns 20. The piano stage has been turned into a giant birthday cake with candles on top, one man is dressed as a toilet to commemorate the porcelain anniversary, and Jarvis Cocker leads a spirited singalong of Happy Birthday while wis

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

The Next James Bond Has Been Picked, Says Gary Oldman, Whose ‘Fingers Are Crossed’ for ‘Slow Horses’ Co-Star Jack Lowden

Gary Oldman’s connection to the world of James Bond may be unknown, but the actor claims to have some key information about the casting of the next 007. According to the Oscar-winning acting icon, the hotly-disputed and widely-debated hunt to find the next superspy is over, and he’s hoping his “Slow Horses” co-star Jack Lowden […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘SNL UK’ Adds ‘Such Brave Girls’ Star Freddie Meredith

The comedian joins the cast ahead of the season two premiere on Sep. 12 with host Jeff Goldblum.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Tom Rothman on Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Blockbuster Success, Being Outbid for ‘Obsession’ and More

Sony’s Tom Rothman took a bit of a victory lap with the studio’s boffo success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which has become the highest-grossing film of 2026 to date. Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, spoke Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, an international film and entertainment conference […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘SNL U.K.’ Adds Freddie Meredith to Cast

“Saturday Night Live U.K.” has added a new castmember for its second season with Freddie Meredith joining the gang. The comedian has previously starred in “Such Brave Girls” and “Big Boys.” Meredith, who recently won an award for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show “Need a Light?”, joins returning castmembers Hammed Animashaun, […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Pamela Anderson Speaks Out on Overcoming Hepatitis C in Powerful Speech at amfAR Venice: ‘I’m Not a Victim. I’m a Victor’

When Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late ’90s, there was no cure. “It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me — that I probably had around 10 years to live,” the “Baywatch” star recalled in a moving speech at the amfAR Gala in Venice. “I’m sure that colored […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ira Sachs, Jordan Firstman and Diego Luna Among San Sebastian’s Film Talks Lineup

'Josephine' filmmaker Beth de Araújo and Argentine director Benjamín Naishtat will also sit down for discussions on their creative processes at the Spanish film festival.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ellen Burstyn on Being “Recognized” by Marilyn Monroe, Changing Roles for Women With ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’

The 93-year-old Oscar-winning star is in Venice with two films, and to receive a honorary Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Gary Oldman Says a James Bond Has Been Picked — and He’s Hoping It’s Jack Lowden

"They have made their choice, but they have not announced it yet," Oldman says of the upcoming casting for Amazon MGM Studios' new Bond film.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

In the Shadows of Nuremberg review – trial-adjacent thriller aims to be Russian answer to Saving Private Ryan

A trivial personal plotline and a strain of maudlin patriotism undermine Nikolay Lebedev’s shaky telling of the Soviet side of the storyTaking place in the wings of the Nuremberg trial, this Soviet-side political thriller, first released back in 2023, features a scene in which the crowd turns on a boa-draped Hollywood floozy in town to entertain the troops. A case of mea culpa for director Nikolay Lebedev, who trivialises the momentous issues emerging from the courtroom by dressing the legal stu

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Female-Driven, Premium Period Dramas Spearhead Latest French Fiction Revolution

It’s been almost 240 years since France started its very first Revolution. But fear not, French TV producers still have what it takes to bring yet another one to modern fiction, blending hints of past, present, and future. From Toronto-bound “Alice” recently boarded by SND to France Télévisions genre-bending thriller “Swapped” and Wild Bunch’s latest […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Screen Industries Adopt Five Thematic Declarations at Lumiere Summit, Setting Terms on AI, Piracy, Gender, Education and the Environment

Countries, screen industry bodies and rights organizations adopted five thematic declarations at the Lumière Summit on Monday at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, establishing shared frameworks across artificial intelligence, piracy, image education, gender equality and environmental sustainability. Among the signatories are France, the Republic of Korea, SACEM — the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Real Swansea Accent Is Loud and Proud in Trailer for AMC+’s ‘Kill Jackie’

The Welsh Oscar-winner plays Jackie Price in the series adaptation of Aidan Truhen's novel 'The Price You Pay.'

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target

Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or moralityLance Oppenheim is the acclaimed documentary-maker who has made his feature debut with a strangely overwrought and heavy-footed drama-thriller, which for all its elaborate neon-lit atmosphere of noir danger isn’t at all sure what it wants to say about media or morality, or anything else.The subject is the controversial top-rated US TV reality

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was likeHere is an archive-compilation documentary from Sergei Loznitsa, a hypnotic panorama of early 1970s life across the vast reaches of the Soviet Union, or maybe we should call it the Soviet empire. Loznitsa gives it the Latin title Imperium, perhaps to recall the Romans before their decline and fall. His material is taken from

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026