Variety

RIAA, Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and Other Groups Launch New Labeling Program for AI Music

A collection of groups representing musicians and the music industry at large — including the RIAA, IFPI, the Grammys and SAG-AFTRA — have banded together for a new labeling program that aims to provide a unified front on indicating whether a song has been produced with AI. The groups on Friday introduced two suggested labels, akin to […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political

Pitlochry Festival theatreMaureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty rulerYou know when you walk into a room then forget why you came in? Maureen Beattie does that at the start of this gender-swapped version of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She strides on, catches herself, half wanders back, turns on her heels and goes out another way altogether. A little later, she needs a moment to remember the name of Goneril, her da

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report

Could Letterboxd, the popular film-review social network, end up in the clutches of Netflix or another big entertainment corporation? Letterboxd, founded in 2011, has been shopping itself to interested parties in recent months. The app and website (which also recently launched an online video-rental service) is majority-owned by Canadian holding company Tiny, which acquired a […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ Recalled by Director Nicholas Meyer

In the build-up to the Italian Global Series Festival’s sneak-peeking “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 4 and celebration of “Star Trek” at 60, Nicholas Meyer spoke to Variety about his time with the franchise, famously having directed “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” as well as the current landscape of television, having co-created […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Batman Part II rumours hint he’s flying into even darker and weirder territory

Introducing a new sadistic psychopath and a corrupt secret society of Gotham grandees would mean Harvey Dent takes a backseat to Victor Zsasz and the Court of OwlsMatt Reeves’ The Batman was a strange beast from the beginning. Perhaps not comic-book weird in the usual sense – no cosmic portals or rubber nipples here – but strange all the same. This was a Gotham where Bruce Wayne seemed to have been styled by the ghost of Kurt Cobain, the Riddler appeared to have escaped from a David Fincher evid

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jeffrey Wright: “America Wants to Be a Beacon of Real Freedom, Not Hypocritical Freedom”

The U.S. star, at Karlovy Vary to receive the President's Award on Saturday, also said that "this idea of genuine freedom [is something that] we take for granted" and film can express "common humanity."

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

‘Fruit Gathering’ Director on Exploring ‘Conditional’ Female Connection and Bringing the First Myanmar Premiere to Karlovy Vary

In “Fruit Gathering,” director and writer Aung Phyoe consciously avoided exploring the “social” impact of the relationship between two suppressed women, creating a sense of alienation but also deep intimacy. The film, which is premiering at the Karlovy Vary festival as part of the Crystal Globe competition and is co-produced by Myanmar, Czech Republic and […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

‘Learning to Breathe Under Water’ Review: A Shark in the Roof Covers a Hole in the Heart in an Empathetic Crowdpleaser

A 25-foot fibreglass model of a shark — or its rear half, at least — adorning the roof of an otherwise ordinary terraced house in suburban Oxford, England, the Headington Shark is the kind of local curiosity that makes any casual passersby think, “There must be a story there.” And there is: It’s a work […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Neon Circling U.K. Distribution Launch

Indie distribution darling Neon is said to be eyeing a launch in the U.K. According to sources, the U.S company — which also has an international sales operation — is considering planting a flag across the Atlantic, with former Studiocanal U.K. boss Danny Perkins reportedly consulting for them about a potential U.K. operation. Neon, renowned for its […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Meta AI Can Now Use Your Instagram Photos Without Consent. SAG-AFTRA Urges App Users to Opt Out: ‘Take Action to Protect Your Likeness’

SAG-AFTRA is urging its members and all Instagram users to take action against Meta’s new Muse Image model, which has been woven into the Instagram app and makes public accounts susceptible to AI generations of their content. Per Wired: “All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt— if it’s public […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We didn’t develop heads until we’d evolved an arse. I like that’: Chris Packham’s epic ode to evolution

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get sick of him holding up rocksIt’s impossible to meet Chris Packham without getting into a good mood. This is largely down to his contagious enthusiasm for the natural world, but on this occasion may also be his canary yellow polo shirt and stand-up-as-if-electrocuted hair. His new five-parter, Evolut

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036In 2036, the actor Samuel West will take to the stage to perform Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s pensive monologue in which an old man, hunched over a reel-to-reel recorder, listens back to the voice of his younger self. West will be 69, the age of Krapp in t

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Japanese Boy Band Psychic Fever Wants You to Know They’re All ‘Different’: ‘We Don’t Want to Fit in a Box’

Four years after its debut, Psychic Fever built its second full-length album around a simple idea: none of its seven members sound, look or think alike, and that’s exactly the point. The members of Psychic Fever – Kokoro, Weesa, Tsurugi, Ryoga, Ren, Jimmy and Ryushin – released their second full-length record, “Different,” July 10 through […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Vertical Media Takes its Place Alongside Film and TV as a Powerful Audiovisual Language

One week from today, on July 17, I will take my family to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” We will watch it in IMAX, shot on cameras built for the movie. My teenagers and I will turn our phones off and give the expected blockbuster our undivided attention. Millions of other families will do the […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Anthony Hopkins to Release Debut Classical Album That He’s Been Composing Over Six Decades

The 88-year-old Oscar winner said: "Music was my first desire, my first wish."

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Gen Z Leans Hard into Nostalgia to Spur Music and Content Discovery: Study

The heart-tugging pull of nostalgia tugs hardest on Gen Z, according to a study involving three generations of consumers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. “Then is Now: A Study on Modern Nostalgia” surveyed 1,800 people, evenly divided among the U.S., U.K. and Australia and among Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z consumers. The study […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain – the week in art

Tate Modern hosts a major exhibition of Ana Mendieta, Constable turns 250 and the accidental beauty captured by unattended online cameras – all in your weekly dispatchAna Mendieta Neolithic monuments inspired this Cuban-born American artist to create her ephemeral, raw, poetic works that embrace nature in a truly original way. • Tate Modern, London, from 15 July to 17 January Continue reading...

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Sublimation by Isabel J Kim; Last Day of a Prior Life by Andrés Barba; Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay; The Carrier by Ruth Newton; Time to Burn by Ellery LloydSublimation by Isabel J Kim (Picador, £18.99)This debut novel from an award-winning Korean-American short fiction writer is a fantastical reimagining of the immigrant experience. Here, anyone who crosses a border not intending to return creates an “instance”: a duplicate self who continues life at home. Reintegration

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Add to playlist: the fluid club deconstructions of Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL and the week’s best new tracks

Housesharing brought the south London trio’s sounds – classical vocals, violin, clubby production – together as they bled through the walls, to shapeshifting effectFrom South LondonRecommended if you like FKA twigs, James K, Anysia KimUp next Debut album Underlight out nowThere are many ways to deconstruct club music. On Bristol label Illegal Data, releases might take explosive approaches to scary (Ship Sket) and whimsical (Mun Sing) extremes. More recently, the same label finds Stolen Velour, F

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Nike Releases New Limited-Edition Air Jordan 7 Retro ‘Miró’ Sneakers: Here’s Where To Buy a Pair Online

When Michael Jordan played for Team USA on the Dream Team during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was wearing a pair of now-iconic Nike Air Jordan 7 sneakers on his feet. And in 2008, to celebrate the gold medal win, the sports apparel company dropped a colorway in the style of renowned Spanish […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026