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

Hollywood Reporter

Sabu’s ‘Arrested Memory’ Turns a Kidnapping Thriller Into an Amnesiac Cop Comedy

The cult director discusses the creation of his Taiwan-set action-comedy, a deliberate riff on Kurosawa's 'High and Low,' and why shooting outside Japan left him "invigorated."

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

France Launches Global Initiatives to Support Independent Cinema and Establish Framework for Alliance of State Film Commissions: Lumiere Summit

Top filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Rebecca Zlotkowski, Jafar Panahi, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Tarik Saleh and Jia Zhang-ke have signed on to take part in the International Resilience Initiative for Independent Screens unveiled Monday during the Lumiere Summit in France. The French government has launched what has been dubbed IRIS as a bid […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Emmanuel Macron Calls for Global Initiatives to Protect Film and Warns About Dangers of Social Media as Lumiere Summit Opens

Emmanuel Macron called for global initiatives to protect the future of cinema and he sounded the alarm about the threats to artistic expression posed by the endless scroll of social media platforms during his opening speech at the Lumiere Summit on Monday. The French president delivered heartfelt remarks that stressed the urgency of the need […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Swiftly enchanted’: why Bedknobs and Broomsticks is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder that Disney’s kids fantasy is more than a Mary Poppins knock-off“Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!” – the four incantatory words I blame for receiving a shonky Paul Daniels Magic Set as a child in the 80s. In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it’s the spell that Angela Lansbury’s patriotic Nazi-vanquishing witch Eglantine Price casts to transform people into fluffy rabbits; a trick I yearned to pull off.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

France TV Distribution Unveils Female-Led Actioners in Le Havre Lineup

France TV Distribution is presenting four new TV movies, including two female-fronted action thrillers, a light crime drama and a dramedy, at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, which runs Sept. 7-10. The sales company’s muscular lineup already includes the historical drama “Swapped,” about a young wet nurse in 19th-century Paris forced to secretly […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

France and Korea Launch $1.16 Billion Screen Industry Financing Partnership at Lumiere Summit

France and Korea have each pledged €500 million ($581 million) to a joint initiative designed to strengthen the global screen industries, with the first funding instruments deploying from 2027 through 2031. The Lumière Partnership, unveiled Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, is open to additional countries and will prioritize companies with the ambition and […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Toho Europe, Indonesia Film Fund, Cinepolis Pact Among Deals Unveiled at Lumiere Summit

Monday’s Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence generated a cluster of industry announcements alongside its headline declarations, with deals spanning co-production financing, distribution, exhibition and education. Toho Europe, the regional arm of Tokyo-based entertainment group Toho Co., Ltd. – founded in 1932 and best known internationally for the “Godzilla” franchise – announced a new branch in France. […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Heritage Foundation ALIPH Targets Ukraine, Syria and Indonesia in New Film Rescue Program

With only an estimated 20% of the world’s film heritage safeguarded, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage is making its first move into cinema. Announced Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, ALIPH’s new Program for the Safeguarding of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Heritage at Risk will bring together emergency intervention, preservation, physical […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026