Variety

New Animated Series ‘Adventure Time: Bubblegum and Marceline’ Gets HBO Max Order (EXCLUSIVE)

In some of the biggest news to come out of Annecy this year, “Adventure Time” has a new spinoff: animated series “Adventure Time: Bubblegum and Marceline” which, in another Annecy announcement, has been given a 10-episode straight to series order from HBO Max.  The new “Adventure Time” spinoff is being produced in partnership with Cartoon […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies

Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical – way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and get moving. Plus: a prime minister’s musical legacy?Professor Bettina Varwig wants to get us moving – and feeling, and listening, but primarily moving. The University of Cambridge academic says classical audiences today are “asked to leave our breathing, pulsing, feeling bodies at the door”. In conce

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

German war hero Annika at her farm for struggling veterans: Jan Kraus’s best photograph

‘She was in Germany’s biggest battle since the second world war, but the army took years to recognise her PTSD. Annika now runs a farm with pigs and geese where struggling veterans come to stay’Annika Schröder’s story is an amazing one. She was in the military here in Germany for almost 20 years. She joined when she was young, adventurous and needed to earn money – they let her do fun things like jump out of an aeroplane and drive a tank. But then she got deployed to Afghanistan, and within a mo

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Phoebe Bridgers Announces New Album, ‘Lost Weekend’

As expected, Phoebe Bridgers has announced her third full-length solo album, “Lost Weekend,” arriving August 14 on Dead Oceans. The announcement follows a series of concerts where the singer debuted her first new material in three years, culminating in a phone-free show at New York’s Madison Square Garden and the unveiling of a fall tour […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Netflix’s ‘The American Experiment’ From Tom Hanks Proves the Nation Has Always Been on Shaky Ground: TV Review

On the cusp of the 250th anniversary of its founding, the United States of America is at a crossroads. For those invested in the history of our nation, it’s clear this isn’t the first time the country has stood on the edge of something unprecedented, nor will it be the last. From director Brian Knappenberger, […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Pluto Film Acquires Comedy ’Chica Checa’ Ahead of Karlovy Vary Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

International sales outfit Pluto Film has acquired comedy “Chica Checa,” which is making its world premiere at the upcoming Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival. Written and directed by Šimon Holý, “Chica Checa” explores a widow’s journey as she deals with her son’s hidden identity as a drag queen. But both mother and son discover that […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Netflix Teases ‘The One Piece,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ Series, Sets Date for Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn,’ Previews Animation Slate at Annecy

In what has turned in the last years as the most-watched Wednesday Annecy showcase, Netflix today revealed new details of its upcoming animation slate for 2026 and beyond, fresh off the Annecy Bonlieu theater stage where a wave of guests enchanted animation fans from all over the world. Headlining this presentation, two-time Academy Award winner […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Apple Products Go on Rare Sale for Prime Day, Including iPads, MacBooks, Airpods and More

Apple deals are always among the most sought-after discounts during Prime Day — largely because they don’t happen that often. Unlike many tech brands that regularly slash prices on their own sites, Apple rarely runs traditional sitewide sales, which makes Amazon’s annual Prime Day event one of the best times of the year to save […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Shari Redstone’s Sipur Appoints Amazon MGM Studios Exec Ludovic Attal as President

Shari Redstone’s production outfit Sipur has appointed former Amazon MGM Studios executive Ludovic Attal as president. Attal, who will work alongside Sipur co-founders Emilio Schenker and Gideon Tadmor, is the latest senior hire since the appointment of Legendary Entertainment’s Deborah Kaufmann as chief of global content in February. “Bad Boy” producer Sipur has been embarking […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘F1’ and ‘Pluribus’ Among Location Managers Guild International Awards Nominees

“One Battle After Another,” “F1” and “Pluribus”  are among the movies and television shows nominated for the Location Managers Guild International awards. The 13th annual LMGI Awards, set for Aug. 22, and will be held at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The LMGI Awards received a record number of submissions from around the […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Netflix Unveils ‘Ray Gunn’ First Look, ‘Ghostbusters: Night Shift’ at Annecy

Streamer sets December Oscar push with Brad Bird’s noir sci-fi and Cannes acquisition 'In Waves'.

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Priyanka Chopra Jonas Says ‘Obsession’ Shows How Hollywood’s Barriers Are Falling: ‘Ideas Are Your Currency’

Speaking at the Cannes Lions conference on Wednesday, Priyanka Chopra Jonas shared her thoughts on becoming a producer, her desire to expand her career in the U.S. and cited the low-budget horror smash hit “Obsession” as a marker of how barriers to entry for talent and filmmakers have fallen. “I feel like if you have an […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion

The Pit, Barbican, LondonGreg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniaturesLove comes with strings attached in Greg Doran’s tragic romance. First performed 22 years ago, this enchanting production of Shakespeare’s great poem of unrequited love is now tenderly narrated by Simon Russell Beale. With masterful puppetry and a playful air of seduction, there’s no wonder this conjuring of Venus’s pursuit of the handsome Ado

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

‘King of the Hill’ Season 15 Screening Wows Annecy as Mike Judge Promises Not to Age Hank Again

Hank Hill (Mike Judge) may no longer be working for Strickland Propane, but he is still a firm believer in good old combustion engines and American machinery. So when he finds a strange electric truck parked right outside of his home, all hell breaks loose. This is the premise of an episode of Season 15 […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism

From trippy swirls to blood-soaked slabs, a new book mines gothic and renaissance art for the supernatural significance of the precious rockWhen we think of marble, we think of it as a desirable commodity: of luxurious interior decoration, from deluxe kitchens to the most corporate of foyers – and of a roaring global market. Yet in the centuries prior to the enlightenment brought about by science and the birth of geology, marble captured the popular imagination as a mysterious, living structure

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Alex de la Iglesia Set to Make His Animation Debut With ‘Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn’

Álex de la Iglesia, the renowned Spanish film-TV director (“Day of the Beast,” “The Last Circus,” “30 Coins”) is set to make this animation debut, helming the animated feature “Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn.” Set up at the Canary Islands’ 3Doubles Producciones, behind Goya Award nominees “SuperKlaus” and “Norbert,” and Bizkaia-based Sumendi […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood and Big Tech Are Preparing For War

Meta wants to steal TV viewers, Amazon and Apple are meddling with content, and traditional media companies are pursuing megadeals to try and survive.

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Passion Paris, ADN Team Up on Hit Webtoon ‘Hero Killer’ Animated Series (EXCLUSIVE)

Following up Monday’s teasing announcement, Passion Paris and ADN have confirmed they have entered into co-production on an animated series adaptation of the globally acclaimed webtoon “Hero Killer,” to be helmed by “Moonlit Bamboo Forest” director David Pagaille. The announcement was made today at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and joins a strong line-up […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

‘Invincible’: Jack Quaid Joins Voice Cast as Prime Video Reveals Early Season 6 Renewal

Big news for “Invincible” fans: Jack Quaid will be joining the voice cast in Season 5 and the show has already scored an early Season 6 renewal. During Prime Video’s first-ever panel at Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday, executive producer and co-showrunner Robert Kirkman revealed that Quaid will play Gravitator/Chris and shared a first-look image […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jack Quaid to Voice Gravitator in ‘Invincible’ Animated Series

The character will appear in season 5 of Robert Kirkman's superhero spoof, alongside Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh and J. K. Simmons.

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026