Variety

Netflix’s U.K. Unscripted Chief Warns of Dangers of Using AI in Reality Shows: ‘It’s Hard Now to Tell What Is Fake and What Is Real’

Syeda Irtizaali, Netflix’s recently appointed U.K. director of unscripted, told an audience at SXSW London on Tuesday she doesn’t want to use AI in unscripted television. Describing Netflix as a “tech-forward company,” she said that she was “very relaxed about people using AI as a tool to bring ideas in,” describing AI as a “really […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Owain Rhys Davies, ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival Actor, Dies at 44

The veteran stage and screen performer played Agent Wilson in David Lynch’s 2017 reboot and also appeared in Netflix’s ‘OA’ and the ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ movie.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

MSG Entertainment Is Betting On a Summer Boom for Live Experiences

The owner of Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall is launching a campaign to highlight its lineup of more than 100 shows this summer, the most in MSG's nearly 60 year history.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Tribeca Boss Jane Rosenthal Defends Premiering AI-Made Film About Iran Protests: ‘It Should Be Seen Right Now at This Time’

Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal is defending the fest’s decision to premiere “Dreams of Violets,” a fully AI-generated film about the Iranian civilian resistance. “I think people need to read the director’s [Ash Koosha’s] statement,” Rosenthal told Variety at the festival’s 25th anniversary cocktail reception in lower Manhattan Monday night. “The director is Iranian […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Tom Holland Called Sony Pictures Boss to Delay ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Filming So He Could Star in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘A Tough Pill to Swallow’ at First

Tom Holland revealed to GQ magazine as part of the publication’s summer cover story for “The Odyssey” that he had an “uncomfortable conversation” with Sony Pictures boss Tom Rothman about delaying the production of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” so that he could film Christopher Nolan’s epic instead. When Nolan first offered him the role of […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

SXSW LondonWolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble castHere is an adaptation, written by Justine Waddell, of Virginia Woolf’s peculiar and tonally elusive work that is all about the quarterlife crisis of a headstrong, well-born young woman in Edwardian London faced with the necessity of getting married. What emerges is a wayward, unworldly fantasia, a four-leaf clover of a film

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Sakanishi Miiku Makes His Tribeca Debut With a Film About What We Forget, Clip Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

Sakanishi Miiku has been thinking about forgetting for most of his life. His debut feature, “Memorizu,” world premiering in competition at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 before a theatrical release in Japan later in June, follows Yuta, a man who travels to a rural Kyushu town to help his ailing photographer father-in-law while staying […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Mediawan, BYD Unveil Special ‘Miraculous Chibi’ Episode (EXCLUSIVE)

Mediawan and BYD, which recently partnered to develop and finance international premium content, have unveiled the first project out of their pact: a special episode of the “Miraculous Chibi” series featuring BYD’s new electric vehicle, the BYD Dolphin Surf. The episode, titled “Watt a Dream Date!,” launches worldwide on YouTube on Tuesday. It marks the […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Why YouTubers Are Turning Hollywood Upside Down

This past weekend marked a tectonic shift in Hollywood that’s sent shock waves across the industry. “Backrooms,” a horror film born out of a 4chan creepypasta and produced for around $10 million, opened to an extraordinary $81 million, smashing records for distributor A24; and “Obsession,” a horror film made on a budget of $750,000, grossed […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Motion Picture Association Awards to Honor ‘Hunger Games’ Director Francis Lawrence (EXCLUSIVE)

The Motion Picture Association will honor Francis Lawrence with its 2026 MPA Creator Award. Lawrence is best known for directing five films in the “Hunger Games” franchise, as well as “The Long Walk,” an adaptation of a Stephen King novel that was a hit when it opened last fall. His credits also include “I Am […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Alice and Steve’ Review: Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker Light Up Hulu’s Sharply Funny, Unexpectedly Touching Comedy

A 50something woman enters a feud with her best friend (and ex) after he starts dating her 26-year-old daughter in this British series.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Alice and Steve’ Review: Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker Light Up Hulu’s Sharply Funny, Unexpectedly Touching Comedy

A 50something woman enters a feud with her best friend (and ex) after he starts dating her 26-year-old daughter in this British series.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Rotterdam Tiger Award Winner Paz Fábrega Sets ‘To the Future’ With Spain’s Edna Cinema and Uruguay’s La Mayor Cine Ahead of ECAM Forum (EXCLUSIVE)

Paz Fábrega, the first Costa Rican filmmaker to scoop a VPRO Tiger Award in Rotterdam, for her debut “Cold Water of the Sea (“Agua fria de mar”) in 2010, has secure further funding for her fourth feature “To the Future” (“Al Futuro”) from PUA-the Uruguayan Audiovisual Program, via co-producer Federico Moreira of La Mayor Cine […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Twin Peaks’ Actor Owain Rhys Davies Dies at 44; Family Says It Was Sudden and ‘There Are Still Questions That Remain Unanswered’

Owain Rhys Davies, a Welsh actor who appeared in the “Twin Peaks” reboot, died “suddenly” over the weekend, according to the BBC. He was 44. Davies was best known for playing Agent Wilson in the 2017 reboot of David Lynch’s iconic series “Twin Peaks.” His other credits include the Netflix drama “The OA,” “Alice Through […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)’: How Two Brits Turned a Love Letter to the Big Apple Into an Unlikely Broadway Hit

Jim Barne and Kit Buchan were terrified of being outed as frauds. After all, they were two very British writers creating a very New York musical. And they’d only ever been to the Big Apple as tourists. Turns out, they needn’t worry about appearing as outsiders. Their deep admiration of and fascination with the city […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Mindy Kaling’s ‘Not Suitable for Work’ Is a Bland ‘Friends’ Copycat With Hints of a Sharper Show: TV Review

Mindy Kaling is moving through the stages of life. With Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” the comedy mogul took on high school; with HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” she (literally) graduated to college. Hulu’s “Not Suitable for Work” — Kaling’s first show with sole creator credit since “The Mindy Project,” showrun by […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Nicholas Galitzine Lends Some Spark to a Bloated Nostalgia Trip

Nearly 40 years have passed since the colossal financial failure of Cannon Films’ live-action feature “Masters of the Universe” signaled the cultural falloff of Mattel’s successful sci-fi sword-and-sorcery media franchise — which had, for five years, held undiscriminating Eighties kids like this critic in its thrall, before we mostly moved onto other things. But in […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Netflix Launches Hub Featuring ‘Bridgerton,’ More Book-to-Screen Adaptations Targeting Nine Reader Types

Netflix aims to turn readers’ “To Be Read” lists into subscribers’ “To Be Watched” queues this summer with the launch of its new book-lovers-themed hub Tuesday. Debuting today, the streamer’s “Watch Your Favorite Books” page is described as a “dedicated destination that brings together the best of Netflix’s book-inspired storytelling in one space,” including “Bridgerton,” “The Gray […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

New MMA League Hires Ex-Paramount Network Boss as Content Chief (Exclusive)

Viacom alum Kevin Kay, who worked with Scott Coker on Bellator, shares: "Mixed martial arts is a great story, and the stories of fighters are great stories, but they're not always being told in the right way."

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Nicholas Galitzine Headlines an Exhaustingly Jokey He-Man Movie That’s Mainly for the Hardcore Fans

Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Kristen Wiig and Camila Mendes also appear in this latest cinematic incarnation of Mattel's enduring franchise.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026