Variety

Clockenflap’s Justin Sweeting and Woozi Studio’s Mia Min Yen on Asia’s Live Music Boom at Golden Melody Festival: ‘No Longer Is a Fan Just Buying a Ticket, But Investing in a Memory’

Each year, Taiwan’s Golden Melody Festival conferences, which take place before the Golden Melody Awards, bring together local and international music industry experts across a series of keynotes and panels covering topics ranging from the global market and music production to extended economic value and industry trends. The festival’s first market presentation, titled “The Rise […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Comcast Bosses Say NBCU-Cable Separation ‘Absolutely Not’ Designed to Pursue M&A Deals; ‘We’ve Now Simply Changed Our Mind’ That the Businesses Are Better Together

More than 15 years ago, Comcast took its first steps toward taking over NBCUniversal. Now it’s unwinding the media business from the broadband and TV pipes, planning to spin off NBCU and Sky into a stand-alone entity. So what changed in the intervening years? Mike Cavanagh, Comcast co-CEO who is set to become chief exec […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Comcast Bosses Say NBCU-Cable Separation ‘Absolutely Not’ Designed to Pursue M&A Deals; ‘We’ve Now Simply Changed Our Mind’ That the Businesses Are Better Together

More than 15 years ago, Comcast took its first steps toward taking over NBCUniversal. Now it’s unwinding the media business from the broadband and TV pipes, planning to spin off NBCU and Sky into a stand-alone entity. So what changed in the intervening years? Mike Cavanagh, Comcast co-CEO who is set to become chief exec […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Director Nader Saivar on Working With Jafar Panahi on Karlovy Vary-Bound ‘Hijamat’ and Situation in Iran Where ‘There Is a Sort of Aversion Towards Religion Among the Young Generation’

Iranian auteur Nader Saeivar – who has been collaborating with Jafar Panahi since 2017 – will soon be at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival with Berlin-set drama “Hijamat” that centers around a man named Karam, whose secret romantic relationship with a man sends shockwaves through his deeply religious Muslim family. Saeivar, who won the best […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The Karlovy Vary Film Festival Is Supersizing Its Main Arrival Area: “Red Carpet for Everybody!”

Head of production Petr Lintimer lauds the big effort that staff and the 1,500 volunteers put into the venerable Czech fest, which is celebrating 60 editions and 80 years, adding to its special atmosphere.

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Quincy Jones emailed saying, ‘Hey man, I need to have a word’: how Jacob Collier made In My Room

‘Stevie Wonder and Prince played all the instruments on their albums – but in recording studios. There wasn’t an instruction manual for doing it all in a back room at home. And then it won two Grammys’I grew up as one of the YouTube generation, with the idea that you could create your own fanbase by making videos. So when I was about 17, I filmed myself in our family back room doing Stevie Wonder covers like Isn’t She Lovely, made up of six layered vocal parts sung by different versions of me, o

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Dan and Phil on Going Back on Tour After Finally Revealing Their Relationship: ‘We Just Want to Go on Stage and Be Completely Ourselves’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Last fall, Dan Howell and Phil Lester broke the internet. In a 46-minute video titled “Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship? The Truth,” the OG British YouTubers finally revealed — after 16 years of speculation — that they’re a couple, and have been since they started making videos together in 2009. The news made […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Skinny Confidential’s’ Lauryn Bosstick Signs With WME (Exclusive)

Bosstick will work with WME to expand across television, unscripted content and brand partnerships.

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Kevin Spacey Speaks Out on Sexual Assault Trials and Says His Career Is Rebounding Out of Hollywood Jail: ‘I Feel Much More Welcomed’

Kevin Spacey told Bill Maher that he is reemerging from Hollywood jail after his career was derailed in by dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment. “I feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,” Spacey said on Maher’s “Club Random” […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Salman Rushdie to Receive Liberatum Cultural Honor at London Ceremony

Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author of “Midnight’s Children” and “The Satanic Verses,” will be presented with Liberatum’s 14th Cultural Honor at a ceremony in London on July 8. The event simultaneously marks the international cultural diplomacy organization’s 25th anniversary. Liberatum, founded in 2001, positions the honor as both a tribute to Rushdie’s literary legacy […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Vertical Streamer ThumFlix Sets Launch at House of Reux Alongside Four Acquisitions and India Co-Pro (EXCLUSIVE)

House of Reux is launching ThumFlix, a mobile-first vertical streamer, while adding four international titles and a new India co-production to its slate. ThumFlix, set to launch later this year from the Atlanta-based company, will carry premium short-form scripted content and is intended to open new monetization and distribution channels for independent filmmakers worldwide. The […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

‘Werwulf’ Trailer: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Transforms Into a Werewolf in Robert Eggers’ New Gothic Horror Movie

There doesn’t need to be a full moon for this creature to arrive. Universal has released the trailer for “Werewulf,” which will debut in theaters on Dec. 25. The logline reads, “In 13th-century England, a mysterious creature stalks a foggy countryside as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality for the villagers.” The trailer teases Aaron […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

TV Ratings: Fox Sports’ World Cup Pregame Show Is Way Up Too

Like the matches themselves, the pregame has more than doubled its audience from 2022.

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

Penelope Keith, British Actor Known for ‘The Good Life,’ Dies at 86

Penelope Keith, the British actor best known for her roles in sitcoms such as “The Good Life,” has died. She was 86. The BBC reported her death from cancer, citing a statement from Keith’s family. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home in […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Beyond human: Montpellier Danse festival delivers one feat after another

This year’s celebration of contemporary dance in the French city is bold, baffling and breathtaking, with some high-voltage performersLaunched in 1981, the pioneering Montpellier Danse festival changed the face of contemporary dance, in France and beyond. In 2024, its own face changed when long-term figurehead Jean-Paul Montanari was succeeded by a four-person directorship of Hofesh Shechter, Jann Gallois, Dominique Hervieu and Pierre Martinez – though the programme currently continues its ethos

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Michelle Wolf: The Best Job in the World review – motherhood, mischief and The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s menopause

Watford Palace theatreThere’s plenty of devilment as the Pennsylvanian flies the flag for the magnificence of women and riffs on pregnancyThe Best Job in the World, Michelle Wolf’s touring show is called. Whether that refers to motherhood (chief among Wolf’s current occupations) or standup (her profession) is left to us to decide. That parenting might be described in those terms prompts a very sardonic response from the Pennsylvanian, whose ear is keenly attuned to society’s dubious regard for m

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Billy Budd review – Clayton’s Vere is the devastating heart of vivid staging

Glyndebourne, SussexThis revival of Michael Grandage’s atmospheric production of Britten’s opera has numerous fine performances: Thomas Mole and Sam Carl are persuasive as Billy and Claggart, and Allan Clayton’s luminous Vere is a standoutBrutalist grey, its deck gently curved, HMS Indomitable looms over Michael Grandage’s production of Britten’s Billy Budd. Half-skeleton, half-cage, the ship is relentlessly claustrophobic, its hard edges softened only by coils of rope, hammocks and Paule Consta

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Variety

The ‘Off Campus’ Effect: Streamers Smitten With Scripted Romance Over Dating Shows, Research Shows

Streaming platforms are smitten with romance – predominantly the scripted kind. New research from Ampere Analysis shows that 83% of first-run romance commissions in the first half of 2026 were scripted. Of those, 40% were adapted from books, which has been the case since 2025 (since 2023 the number of book adaptations has increased by […]

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How Celyn Jones Lit Up North Wales With the Fabulously Mad ‘Madfabulous’: “It’s Not a Moment, It’s a Movement”

The director talks bringing the flamboyant, tragic Henry Paget — the 5th Marquess of Anglesey — back to life in 'Madfabulous,' a Welsh Pride Month release that's packing cinemas in Bangor.

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Penelope Keith, British Sitcom Star Best Known for ‘The Good Life,’ Dies at 86

The show, which went by 'Good Neighbors' in the U.S., ran from 1975 to 1978 and won Keith a BAFTA.

entertainment  Jun 29, 2026