Variety

Music’s Legal Elite 2026: Meet the Attorneys Who Help the Stars Shine

They may not make the music or mastermind the marketing campaigns, but — duh! — the music business wouldn’t and couldn’t exist without lawyers. The best of them oversee the mega-million deals and catalog sales of superstars, protect the  creative work of human beings against AI and other entities that would steal it, prevent young […]

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The Guardian Culture

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film

Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice-of-yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?The Wimbledon lawn tennis championships are not generally a hotbed of crime. Yet this year, unprecedented infringements ocurred. Eleven players were fined a total of £34,000 for “audible obscenities” and “racquet abuse”. Meanwhile, a spectator at the men’s singles final called a heckler a “bumbaclat” before in

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Variety

‘Avatar’ Sequel Film ‘Aang: The Last Airbender’ Revives the Animated Franchise With Breathtaking Visuals: TV Review

It’s a shame most fans of the “Avatar” franchise won’t have the chance to see its first animated feature on the big screen. (M. Night Shyamalan’s risible 2010 live-action film will be acknowledged here and here only.) “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” is the first official release from Avatar Studios, the shingle set up half […]

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Variety

The Pool Films Acquires Tokyo-Based Photographer and Director Xavier Tera’s Debut, ‘The Color of the Sun,’ Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Paris-based The Pool Films has taken world rights to coming-of-age drama “The Color of the Sun,” which marks the feature film debut of Tokyo-based photographer and commercials director Xavier Tera, who has collaborated with the likes of Harry Styles, Kaytranada and Rosalia. “Color of the Sun,” which will soon launch from the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Sales Veteran Fred Tsui to Lead Hong Kong International Film Festival

The Moebius Entertainment founder and longtime Media Asia sales chief succeeds Albert Lee on Sept. 23, ahead of the festival's 51st edition next spring.

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Hollywood Reporter

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty After London Nightclub Attack

The singer plead guilty to affray, which in the U.K. is a public order offense where the defendant uses or threatens unlawful violence against another person.

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Variety

Rebel Wilson Defamation Case Ruling Appealed by ‘The Deb’ Star Charlotte MacInnes

Charlotte MacInnes has appealed her defeat in a defamation case against Rebel Wilson, challenging the findings that Wilson’s Instagram posts were not defamatory and did not cause serious harm to her reputation. MacInnes filed her notice of appeal on Thursday, one day after Justice Elizabeth Raper dismissed her defamation and breach-of-confidence claims in the Federal […]

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Variety

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty Over ‘Vicious and Unprovoked’ Attack at U.K. Nightclub

Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray in the U.K. in relation to a “vicious and unprovoked” attack at a London nightclub in 2023. His co-defendant, Omololu Akinlolu, also pleaded guilty. The U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service (similar in function to the District Attorney) described Akinlolu, a Florida rapper also known as HoodyBaby, as Brown’s vocal […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Spain Scores World Cup Docuseries at Prime Video

The four-part series boasts exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Spain's journey to World Cup glory, including from matches against Argentina and France.

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The Guardian Culture

‘An anthem for the co-dependent’: Bad Magpie’s corvid carnage with a side of existential angst

Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havocAmid the gleeful anarchy of Bad Magpie’s debut trailer, there’s a striking note of melancholy. The game’s protagonist – a wounded corvid that creates havoc wherever she goes – calls out forlornly as a flock of her kind passes above, with a conspicuous gap in their formation.Milktooth games designer and co-founder Daisy Fernandez has h

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The Guardian Culture

‘I know what it’s like to be vulnerable’: musician This Is Lorelei AKA Nate Amos on addiction and finding peace

The singer-songwriter and Water from Your Eyes guitarist was unstoppably prolific, despite a growing dependence on substances. Now sober, he reflects on his new album and the songs that helped him turn his life roundFor most of his life, Nate Amos made music just to get through the day. There was plenty of it: dozens of self-produced albums and EPs uploaded – since his This Is Lorelei project launched in 2012 – to what was then a plucky, independent platform called Bandcamp. Now 35, he

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The Guardian Culture

‘You can’t paper over the cracks of history. It will haunt you’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her race-horror thriller

She paved the way for Bridgerton, lit up Black Mirror’s most joyful episode – and now she stars in a grisly supernatural horror about slavery. The Belle star talks about Possession, partying with Prince and why she loves to shake things upGugu Mbatha-Raw seems blissfully immune to the heat. London is pushing 40C on one of those heatwave mornings when everyone is wearing the weather: damp collars, flushed faces, hair slicked to foreheads. Arriving at the cafe of the central London hotel where we

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Variety

India’s Paid Music Subscribers Could Hit 30 Million by 2028, EY-IMI Report Finds

India’s paid music streaming subscriber base could grow to between 28 million and 30 million by 2028, up from an estimated 14 million as of December 2025, according to the EY and the Indian Music Industry (IMI) “How India Listens, Streams and Pays for Music” report, released Friday in Mumbai. The report draws on a […]

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The Guardian Culture

If Deadpool wants to be a true Marvel superhero, is it time he grew up and stopped joking around?

Ryan Reynolds’ sarcastic superhero is rumoured to be in Avengers: Doomsday – but how is he going to fit in the MCU proper when he spent all of his previous film mocking it?How do you solve a problem like Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Deadpool & Wolverine found a way: rather than integrate the bloodthirsty, fourth-wall-breaking merc with a mouth into the rather more sanitised world of Thor, Iron Man and Spider-Man, Shawn Levy’s 2024 film chose to lampoon it from the outside inste

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Hollywood Reporter

Charter TV Subscriber Losses Narrow to 21,000 in Second Quarter

The cable and internet giant also shed 172,000 Internet customers and added 400,000 mobile line subscribers ahead of merging with Cox Communications.

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Variety

Kino Rebelde Boards Locarno Title ‘September Afternoon’ for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Kino Rebelde has picked up international sales rights for “September Afternoon” by writer-director Nicolaas Schmidt, which has its world premiere in the Cineasti del Presente competition section at the Locarno Film Festival. The film is described as a work that “transforms the romantic idea of the summer retreat into a quiet meditation on contemporary resignation, […]

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Variety

Edinburgh Industry Program Features Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh and Bruce Dern and an Inaugural UK Film Conference

Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh, Ken Burns, Christine Vachon and Bruce Dern have boarded the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s 2026 industry program, a talent-heavy five-day lineup anchored by the inaugural UK Film Conference, billed as a state-of-the-nation summit for British independent cinema. Unspooling Aug. 14-18 at EIFF’s Festival Hub at Central Hall, the program folds starry […]

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Variety

Edinburgh Industry Program Features Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh and Bruce Dern and an Inaugural U.K. Film Conference

Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh, Ken Burns, Christine Vachon and Bruce Dern have boarded the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival’s 2026 industry program, a talent-heavy five-day lineup anchored by the inaugural U.K. Film Conference, billed as a state-of-the-nation summit for British independent cinema. Unspooling Aug. 14-18 at EIFF’s Festival Hub at Central Hall, the program folds starry […]

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The Guardian Culture

Bedlam dreamscapes, digital-age aliens and a summer pastoral – the week in art

The terrifying visions of Richard Dadd, UFOs, aliens and Van Gogh’s troubled peasant woman – all in your weekly dispatchRichard Dadd: Beyond BedlamTerrifying creatures of the night and surreal dreamscapes galore – and those are just the “sane” canvases this Victorian artist painted before he was confined to Bedlam, where his visions became truly unsettling. • Royal Academy, London, 25 July to 25 October Continue reading...

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The Guardian Culture

Add to playlist: the ramshackle, soulful twang of Twisted Teens and the week’s best new tracks

The New Orleans country-punk duo are on a hot streak, about to release their third album in a year, and the crunchy, literate hooks keep comingFrom New OrleansRecommended if you like Parquet Courts, Sheer Mag, Royal HeadacheUp next Holy Cross Tigers out later this yearNot one but two of the year’s best albums so far are authored by a ragtag, deeply charismatic band from Louisiana named Twisted Teens, who bear Pynchonian names – Caspian Hollywell and RJ “Razor Ramone” Santos – a console steel gu

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