Variety

‘Jet Lag: The Game’ Season 19 Finale Heads to Regal, Picturehouse Movie Theaters as Nebula Expands Cineworld Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)

Popular travel-competition web series “Jet Lag: The Game” is flying into select Cineworld-owned theaters for its Season 19 finale Oct. 3. On the heels of the series’ Season 19 premiere event at Picturehouse Cinemas in London in August, the upcoming finale will screen at select Regal, Picturehouse and Cineworld locations across the U.S. and U.K. […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade Will Commemorate 9/11 on Fox News After Covering it 25 Years Ago

Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade are preparing for a reunion of sorts that neither is eager to remember. On September 11, 2001, both Fox News Channel personalities were working on air as news organizations throughout the New York area were trying to cover devastating attacks by terrorists on the two massive skyscrapers at the World […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The Fix Is Not In: Can Sports Gambling’s Trust Crisis Be Solved?

If the outcomes of games are called into question, the whole system falls apart: “The nightmare scenario for the leagues is that people see professional sports as professional wrestling.”

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Inside Robert Pattinson’s Eerie Chris Hansen Transformation in ‘Primetime’: “A Reconfigured Egregore”

The actor goes in-depth on the hot-button A24 film for the first time, alongside director Lance Oppenheim: “Every day Rob would come in and would do something that felt like he was almost jumping off a cliff.”

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

AI Giant Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is making a big new bet on an open-source AI future. On Thursday, Huang announced that Nvidia, a major supplier of hardware to power AI applications, reached a deal to acquire Hugging Face — which operates a platform for building AI open-source models — for $12.93 billion. “Together, we […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Tom Hardy Officially Returns for ‘MobLand’ Season 3 Following Spat Behind the Scenes

After months of unconfirmed reports about Tom Hardy’s status on Season 3 of Paramount+ series “MobLand,” we finally have an official answer: he’s back. The streamer today confirmed one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets – that the show is coming back for a third season – and with that also acknowledged Variety‘s report from June […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Norah O’Donnell, On Rise at CBS News, Returns to Morning Duty

Norah O’Donnell is back in a place where many people feel she always belonged — as one of the top anchors of CBS News. On Tuesday, A.M. viewers will see O’Donnell alongside Gayle King and Nate Burleson on “CBS Mornings,” in a new trio that CBS News executives believe will stabilize the program’s ratings and […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Paolo Strippoli on His Venice Thriller ‘The Spiral’ and Directing Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as a Demonic Character Who Does ‘Truly Horrible Things’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Paolo Strippoli, who is Italy’s hottest young helmer of genre movies, is back at Venice Film Festival with “The Spiral.” The high-concept thriller stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as a demonic character called The Stranger, who entices a young mother played by Jasmine Trinca into forging a Faustian pact. “The Spiral” centers on a mother-daughter relationship […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Fun, flirty and fried to perfection: farewell to Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube show that helped kill off TV

Amelia Dimoldenberg’s series helped turn YouTube into a world-beating phenomenon. As it bows out, we remember its best bits – from mocking MC Ghetts to that sizzling tension with Billie Eilish and Andrew GarfieldWhen Amelia Dimoldenberg posted a video to social media this week, telling an unknown companion “we need to talk”, it felt like a monumental announcement was on the horizon. And so it came to pass. Chicken Shop Date, Dimoldenberg’s YouTube series, is coming to an end.The press release co

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Lesley Manville Takes on Cold War Poland in ‘Winter of the Crow’ Trailer as Cohen Sets Thriller’s U.S. Release Date (EXCLUSIVE)

Lesley Manville battles snow and spies in the trailer for upcoming Cold War thriller “Winter of the Crow,” from director Kasia Adamik and set against the turmoil of 1981 Warsaw. Alongside releasing the official trailer, Cohen Media Group has also announced that the film will release theatrically nationwide on Oct 9. Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Werner Herzog Reveals Touching Reason Behind ‘Bucking Fastard’ Dedication to David Lynch Ahead of Venice Premiere

Kate and Rooney Mara, who play sisters with a deep and spooky bond in the German's new film, joined the director for a press conference with co-stars Domhnall Gleeson and Orlando Bloom.

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage

Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellionIran is a prison and everybody is inside: cons and non-cons; parents and their children. That’s the message hammered home, never subtly but with terrific force and conviction, throughout the course of Mohsen Gharaei’s hothouse domestic drama, which plays in the Orizzonti section in Venice. It’s about a low-level jailer, crushed by life, who returns from the

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jack O’Connell Braves the Venice Heat (and Gets Sweaty) in Dior Look by Jonathan Anderson

The 'Ink' star slipped in and out of a tuxedo overcoat while hitting the red carpet for the world premiere and opening ceremony on Wednesday night.

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Present Laughter review – gender-switched Coward comedy dazzles in 70s New York

Theatre Royal BathAntihero actor Garry becomes a magnificent new kind of beast as Gerri, played with blistering hilarity by Tracy-Ann ObermanThe reputation of Noël Coward’s plays has involved escaping restrictions: his recorded clipped, waspish tone in key roles and a perception that, at a time when gay men’s careers and lives were at risk, the dramatist could not be socially and emotionally truthful.Seven years ago, in an Old Vic revival of Coward’s 1942 off-stage comedy Present Laughter, Andre

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

How Rooney and Kate Mara Learned to Speak in Unison for Werner Herzog’s ‘Bucking Fastard’: ‘It Happened Quite Naturally’

Sisters Rooney and Kate Mara learned to speak in unison for Werner Herzog’s drama “Bucking Fastard,” something that came “surprisingly” easily for them. The film follows two sisters who are so close they “speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams,” according to the synopsis. Herzog, the influential German filmmaker of […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

What we’re reading: Irvine Welsh, Janice Hallett and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsI’ve been enjoying Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. The premise that love and art are the only things that make life worthwhile pulses beautifully through this novel and its two protagonists, spanning decades of their obsession with both, and each other. The tragedy is they are not sufficient alone for a relationship to survive to the exclusion of everything else (namely capitalis

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!

On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampageNot a first-person-shooter BFG, alas, but one of Steven Spielberg’s worst films, reducing Roald Dahl’s story to digital pap. Mo-cap Mark Rylance, whose cutesy ungrammatical babbling should have been left on the printed page, is the 24ft Big Friendly Giant who kidnaps an orphan girl, Sophie. Ugh. Big Creepy Giant, more lik

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

The Guardian Culture

La Mesías review – this utterly bizarre TV show is unforgettable

Finally landing on Mubi, this Spanish mega-hit about six sisters drilled into becoming viral Christian pop stars is wildly ambitious, blackly funny and a true triumph. Oh, and there are UFOs tooAt Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in 2024, nestled alongside the likes of Pulp and Charli xcx was an unusual addition to the bill. Stella Maris arrived on stage as haunting home movies, religious iconography and glittery gifs popped up on the screen behind them. Part-Haim, part-Heaven’s Gate, the s

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Variety

Colman Domingo to Emcee Kering’s Caring for Women Dinner

Colman Domingo will emcee the fifth annual Caring for Women Dinner on Sept. 10 at The Pool in New York City. Paris Hilton will DJ at the after-party.  Domingo is an actor, writer, director and producer, earning two Academy Award nominations, as well as co-chairing the 2025 Met Gala, which raised funds for The Costume Institute.  […]

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Everest: The Other Side’ Review: A Frustrating, Guiltily Compelling Portrait of the Triumph and Tragedy of Extreme Mountaineering

‘Free Solo’ Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi again hit the slopes for a National Geographic doc about people risking it all to climb to the top of the world — and then ski back down.

entertainment  Sep 3, 2026