The Guardian Culture

Mark Williams: ‘I browsed tractor magazines with Robbie Coltrane on the set of Harry Potter’

The star of The Fast Show and Father Brown – as well as the original Arthur Weasley – on friendly death eaters, famous Brummies and Chinese trainsWhat were the best and worst moments shooting the Harry Potter films? bumble1The worst part was being away from home and the long hours. The best bit was the work and talking to the other actors. I look back with great fondness on that. I remember saying to Alan Rickman that the collective noun for actors is an anecdote.Michael Gambon was the king of s

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

WGA Slams Scott Pelley’s Firing and CBS News’ ‘Cruel and Needless Layoffs’: ‘A Profound Contempt for the Journalism Profession’

The head of the Writers Guild of America East union blasted Paramount-owned CBS News for recent “cruel and needless layoffs,” its firing of “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley and the shutdown of CBS News Radio. In a message to members Thursday morning, WGA East president Tom Fontana decried the “assaults on CBS News, an institution […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Olivia Rodrigo Was ‘Enraged’ at Trump’s White House for Using Her Song to Promote ICE: ‘What They’re Doing Is Awful, Barbaric and Cruel’

Olivia Rodrigo told Dazed magazine in a new interview ahead of the release of her third studio album that she was “enraged” last fall when she was scrolling on her phone and discovered that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security was using her song “All-American Bitch” to promote ICE deportations. “It was so deeply disturbing to […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘60 Minutes’ Tear Down: The Dueling Views on Bari Weiss’ Rebuild Plan

Firings, hirings, mic-drop news meetings — Hollywood Reporter senior editors Alex Weprin and Steven Zeitchik make sense of all the drama.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Helen Mirren, Russell Crowe, Scott Eastwood Set for Italy’s Taormina Film Festival That Unveils Lineup Mixing Crowdpleasers, More Esoteric Movies

Helen Mirren, Russell Crowe, Scott Eastwood, and Gore Verbinsky are among top talents set to attend Italy’s upcoming Taormina Film Festival that has unveiled the lineup for its upcoming 72nd edition that will mix crowdpleasers with more esoteric quality fare. Crowe, as previously announced, is expected to make the treck to the storied fest in […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘Savage House’ Review: Putridly Funny Black Comedy Revels in Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant’s Decay

Faces are saved, barely, as the body goes wholly to ruin in “Savage House,” a mordantly amusing tale of pretense, profligacy and the literally maddening pressures of the English class ladder — written and directed with surgical cruelty by, as it happens, an American. Arriving 12 years after his debut, the derivative indie romcom “The […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The Lost ‘Airbender’: How Paramount’s Movie Hack Spiraled Into a Crisis

In a major breach in April, someone leaked a copy of the next ‘Avatar’ installment, prompting a panic at the studio. Now the alleged culprit — a 26-year-old hacker who also hit the NFL — has been arrested in Singapore and signs point to a screening company being infiltrated. 

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘Scary Movie’ Review: The Sixth ‘Scary Movie’ Has a Few Choice Gags, but Mostly It’s So Meta It’s Meh

The script is by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez (the film even makes jokes about how many Wayans there are), and they have bound themselves to the Ghostface saga as if it were the only thing that mattered in horror. The killer keeps popping up, as in a "Scream" film, and that sustains the tone of comic aggression. But the knockabout violence has the effect of steamrolling the wit.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘I’m the Craziest Bitch You Ever Met’: Sharon Stone and Keke Palmer on Why ‘Euphoria’ Should Be Shown in High Schools, Men’s Rights and AI’s Lack of Originality

Sharon Stone and Keke Palmer’s chemistry is electric from the second they meet — they start gabbing well before the cameras begin rolling and keep going after the director calls “cut,” exchanging phone numbers and making plans to dine and work together. Stone, who is 68 and has been an industry icon since 1992’s “Basic […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Investing in Mental Health Will Create a More Sustainable and Profitable Music Industry (Guest Column)

The issue of mental health in the music industry, and the roles labels, management and other companies can play in helping to keep artists healthy, has been a point of contention for many years. This guest post advocates strongly for a more involved and evolved role for the industry. Dr. Aprilia West PsyD, MT, PCC […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Barack Obama Joins Malcom Gladwell on Podcast Series About Reconstruction Era’s ‘Unfinished Promise’

President Barack Obama is one of the prominent voices featured in a new podcast, “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise,” hosted by author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell. The eight-part audio series from the History Channel is produced in collaboration with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company, Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries and Audible. It’s available starting […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Snap Acquires AR Firm Illumix in Bid to Boost Augmented Reality Efforts (EXCLUSIVE)

Snap, parent of Snapchat, has acquired spatial augmented reality company Illumix in a bid to boost its AR efforts. The company’s interest was spurred by Illumix’s work in scaling its mapping technology and building it out for real-world experiences. As part of the deal, Snap will adopt Illumix’s technology and platform as it seeks to […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The Untold Saga Behind an Infamous Male Supermodel Cult

Once the world’s highest-paid male model, Hoyt Richards gave his last penny to a socialite conman who claimed to be an alien and preyed on the sexy and susceptible. A new HBO doc tells only half the story.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

“It’s A Sickness”: Nikki Glaser, Wanda Sykes and the Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable

Marc Maron, Leanne Morgan and Julio Torres also swap stories of fear, “f***ability” and the surprising pressure on comedy special fashion choices.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

You Can’t Handle Leslie Jones at a 10

The energetic 'Life Part 2' comic — who's still sifting through comments on social media and has thoughts on the future of 'SNL' — explains that she's always holding back just a little.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Barack Obama, Malcolm Gladwell Debut New Podcast About America’s Reconstruction Era

The series will be released on Audible on Thursday, with all episodes released widely at a later date.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Scary Movie’ Review: The Wayans Brothers’ Slasher Spoof Franchise Should Have Been Left for Dead

Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall are back, mixing legacy characters with fresh faces in peril in this sixth installment, dubbed a “rebootiquel.”

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sing when you’re winning: the 20 greatest songs about football – ranked!

​As World Cup fever begins, we go beyond terrace chants and team anthems to look at footy-mad songwriting, from Cardiff rap to Zimbabwean rumbira ... and Rod StewartAh, fathers and sons and football. Here, Rod gets teary-eyed remembering how his dad used to cheer him from the touchline: an inessential but sweet and heartfelt song. Though Rod once told me that he tended to shout at his own son from the touchline, because he never tracked back. Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Meet a Female Trucker and a Metal Snake Winding Through the Gobi Desert in ‘Colors of White Rock’

The documentary from Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig, exploring the environmental and human costs of mining in Mongolia, premieres at Tribeca.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I’d rather read a book’: Tarantino criticises ‘flavourless sausage factory’ Hollywood

Pulp Fiction director writes in Sight and Sound that ‘since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death’Quentin Tarantino has criticised contemporary Hollywood, calling it “a flavourless sausage factory”.Writing in Sight and Sound magazine, Tarantino said that “since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death”. He added: “Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or ju

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026