Variety

‘The Black Demon: Atlantis’: The Making of a Shark Thriller at 8,600 Feet Above Sea Level in Colombia

When the producers of shark thriller “The Black Demon” decided to make a sequel, making it in Colombia was a no-brainer. Mucho Mas Media, led by Javier Chapa, had already shot three other movies in the country with local production company Jaguar Bite. The first pic they shot in Colombia, golf drama “The Long Game,” […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

TV’s ‘Fall of Rome’ Broken Down by Scott Free’s David W. Zucker, Talking With ‘Wednesday’ Exec Producer Steve Stark at Italian Global Series Fest

The global immediacy of TV and some not so welcome knock-on effects proved the focus of one of the biggest panels at this year’s Italian Global Series, featuring David W. Zucker, chief creative officer at Scott Free, and Steve Stark, chairman and executive producer at Toluca Pictures (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fargo,” “Vikings,” “Wednesday”). Zucker, who […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’

Tilly Norwood, the AI “actor” who sparked a frenzy of anger in Hollywood and across the wider industry in late 2025, is set to front her first feature film. “Misaligned,” announced by Particle 6, the AI-focussed studio behind Norwood, is described as a comedy-drama telling a “coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.” Set inside […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Lauryn Ajufo to Lead Revival of Michaela Coel’s Landmark Debut Play ‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Lauryn Ajufo, the British actress who landed a British Independent Film Award nomination for “Boiling Point,” is set to step into the role that first launched Michaela Coel’s career in an upcoming revival of Coel’s landmark semi-autobiographical one-woman debut play. “Chewing Gum Dreams,” originally developed by Coel as her final-year show at the Guildhall School […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

ITV Braces for “Thorough and Comprehensive” Antitrust Review of Sky Takeover

Comcast-owned Sky has closed a deal to buy the U.K.'s leading free-TV network for $2.1 B. ITV argues the mega-merger is needed to compete with the likes of Netflix and YouTube.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Ali Fazal on Guddu Pandit’s Return in ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’, the Haunting World of ‘Raakh’ and Refusing to Be Typecast

Ali Fazal has spent a decade and a half deliberately refusing to sit still. He credits his mother for it. Bombarded with world cinema from an early age, he came out of college convinced the industry was bigger than what he’d been shown, and he built a career designed to prove it. “I have to […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Versant Extends Golf Game With Plans to Acquire Full Swing for $530 Million

The New York Times Co. has games. Disney has theme parks. And Versant Media has golf. In an era when more traditional media companies are looking beyond the usual flows of revenue, Versant on Monday unveiled plans to purchase Full Swing, a sports technology firm that lets customers, coaches and athletes make use of simulations […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Versant Inks $530 Million Deal for Sports Tech Company Full Swing

The tech company, best known for its advanced golf simulators, will expand the Golf Channel owner's presence in the tech and analytics space.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Colombia’s Bogota Audiovisual Market Welcomes Netflix, France, Discusses the Impact of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Colombia’s burgeoning Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM) opens its doors even wider to welcome young wannabe producers from Central America, the Caribbean and Andean countries this year, thanks to an alliance with Netflix. In past years, only Colombian producers participated in the training and networking sessions. This time, out of the 40 participants, with ages ranging […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Harry Styles Breaks World Record as 12-Night Run at Wembley Comes to Emotional End

Styles paid tribute to his former One Direction bandmates while on stage at the historic London venue, telling 80,000+ fans: "I wouldn't be here without [them]."

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

ITV Boss ‘Hopeful’ Sky Acquisition Will Clear Regulators: ‘The Market Has Changed So Fundamentally’

Following news on Monday morning that NBCUniversal-owned Sky is acquiring 70-year-old British public service broadcaster ITV, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall joined a series of calls with investors and media to talk through logistics. On the investor call following the announcement, McCall said the sale reflects years of the ITV board weighing its strategic options — […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama

Writer-director Mads Mengel’s film about a seaside christening disrupted by a previously shunned relative is shot in the spirit of Dogme 95Danish actor Trine Dyrholm gives a magnetic performance with all guns blazing in this intensely painful, uncomfortable but also sometimes uncomfortably funny film from writer-director Mads Mengel; it is about a dysfunctional family and is shot in a freewheeling handheld style with lots of looming extreme closeups, a film in the spirit of Thomas Vinterberg’s D

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare

Karlovy Vary film festivalIntimate documentary interviews Scorsese, Tarantino and Stone as well as Richardson’s family – with staggering home movie footage, tooPerhaps he looks more like Gandalf now, in his 70s, with a kind of beatific grandfatherly calm. But legendary cinematographer Robert Richardson – three time Oscar winner for JFK, The Aviator and Hugo – got his “white devil” nickname when his long white hair was a little less unruly than it is now, and more of a sensual accessory for a fie

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Netflix France Chief Pauline Dauvin Slams Expanded Investment Obligations: ‘These New Rules Go Too Far’

Netflix France’s vice president of content Pauline Dauvin has warned that France’s newly expanded investment obligations for streamers risk turning cultural diversity into a “checklist,” arguing that rules designed to broaden creative output could threaten editorial freedom and weaken the country’s production ecosystem. In an op-ed published in Le Monde and titled “More Obligations, Less […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Kevin Costner’s ‘Dances With Wolves’ Set for New Restored Director’s Cut That Will Launch at Locarno

Kevin Costner’s 1990 Western “Dances With Wolves,” about an American Civil War soldier who forges a relationship with a group of Lakota Indians, is getting a new 4K restoration that will launch at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival. The cult classic, which earned Costner the best director prize at the 1991 Oscars, along with six […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How the Sky-ITV Deal Will Transform British Broadcasting

The acquisition — which will combine the U.K.'s biggest free-to-air commercial networks with its biggest pay-TV network — will see another British public service broadcaster come under U.S. ownership.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travel

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with spaceWearing a shiny silver spacesuit, Alan Shepard clutches his helmet and looks like an archetypal blue-eyed American hero. The 1961 portrait by Bruce Stevenson paid tribute to the first US astronaut in space. It also planted a seed.James Webb, the then administrator of Nasa, saw the painting and was inspired to start the space agency’s own art programme, believing that ar

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee

Two couples start to fall apart during a midwinter break, involving a lot of shouty dialogue that’s neither realistic nor funnyThe interesting premise in this laborious and dispiriting relationship dramedy sadly leads nowhere; all we get is strained shouty dialogue and mugging performances in a film which succeeds neither in being funny or realistic.Alexandra Daddario (from TV’s The White Lotus) is Debs, a book editor with dreams of being an author herself; her platonic best pal from college is

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Variety

Secret Cinema Boss on ‘Grease’ Returning and Record-Breaking ’Pirates of the Caribbean’ Pre-Sales: ‘When People Step Into This Room, They’re Going To Be Beside Themselves’

When TodayTix acquired Secret Cinema in 2022 for a reported $100 million, it marked a new era for the company, which started life as a ragtag bunch of film enthusiasts trying to bring movies to life. Originally, the screenings were kept secret (hence the name) and staged in out-of-the-way locations with audiences only finding out […]

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Film Set in World’s Largest Female Exclusion Zone Among Queer Projects in Development in Karlovy Vary Spotlight

Also pitched were a movie flipping a classic horror trope on its head, an exploration of a pre-colonial world and the story of a gay couple wanting their love to survive war for a mix of genres and geographies at KVIFF Industry Days.

entertainment  Jul 6, 2026