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

The Guardian Culture

Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol

Opera Holland Park, LondonA concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong castIt always lifts the spirits when the little company that could, does. Over the last 30 years, Puccini has been a mainstay of Opera Holland Park’s artistic vision with, in recent years, notable stagings of Le Villi and Edgar. Now it’s the turn of Turandot, the only one of the composer’s works to elude th

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Priyanka Chopra Jonas Has a New Career Goal

At Cannes Lions, the superstar and entrepreneur says she's looking "to bring in my English-language career that variety to my characters that I have been able to do in India.”

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Pass the sick bag! Why I published a book on the art of the airline essential

One evoked a hellish trip from Delhi after passengers had drunk unsanitary water. Another conjoured up an era when planes were thick with cigarette smoke. And one man collected them all …If, a few years ago, someone told me that I would spend most of my 2026 scanning hundreds of airline sick bags, I would have wondered what had gone wrong with my life. Especially if you also told me I’d become a keen enthusiast for the beauty of their designs. But, as it turns out, making my new book Sicko has b

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Jill Schlesinger Offers Frank Financial Talk in CBS News’ ‘Money Moves’ Podcast

Jill Schlesinger isn’t afraid to tell you how to really handle your dollars and cents. The former head of an investment advisory firm, Schlesinger has served as a business analyst for CBS News since 2013, helping to translate complex financial issues for everyday viewers and listeners. Now she’s going to take her blunt advice to […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Taylor Swift Sings ‘Love Story’ With Lainey Wilson in Surprise Performance at Travis Kelce’s Tight End University

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance at fiancé Travis Kelce’s Tight Ends & Friends concert on Tuesday night to sing her hit “Love Story” with Lainey Wilson. The event, presented by Sports Illustrated and Reese’s, took place as part of Kelce’s Tight End University in Nashville, where the football player brings his fellow tight ends […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sting review – historical crimes against women spill back into the present

Young Vic theatre, London Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger as an archive researcher finds herself trapped in modern-day misogynyOn the hottest day of the year, a conflagration. The Young Vic’s studio space fills with smoke as records of violence against women across the centuries are consumed by flames.Even before the fire, Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger. Ash (an outstanding Adelle Leonce) barrels into

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Science Saru Studio’s ‘The Ghost in the Shell,’ Bound for Prime Video, Looks to Capture the Future Through Hand-Drawn Visions of the Past

Ahead of the Annecy Animation Festival premiere of “The Ghost in the Shell,” the new adaptation of the famous manga by Masamune Shirow, director Mokochan emphasized the human element that went into making this cyberpunk sci-fi series set in a world where humanity and technology are inextricably linked. “Ghost in the Shell” is set to […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy

Danish shaggy-dog story about a man with a dissociative disorder has a fun premise but wastes it on lots of goofy, humourless violenceAnders Thomas Jensen is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and veteran of the Dogme 95 years at Denmark’s Zentropa Studios. He now brings us this slapstick-violent black comedy and shaggy dog story of gruesome silliness. It is well acted but relentlessly and bizarrely unfunny. So unfunny as to be almost funny, but not really, in that the unfunniness approache

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

’Batman: Knightfall,’ Starring Anson Mount and Michael Mando, Premieres to Thunderous Applause at Annecy

For comic book fans of a certain age, “Knightfall” is one of the biggest Batman story arcs ever published by DC Comics. The arc is infamous for having the Caped Crusader’s back broken by the super steroid-enhanced genius Bane. It served as a major source of inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” and […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes

Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s donePicture the scene: it’s July 2025 and I’m DJing at a festival called Loveshack. I’m not fretting about losing the crowd to a different stage because there isn’t one: we’re in a barn in the Welsh countryside. The dress-up theme is 90s icons, and below me Joanna Lumley is talking to Andre Agassi while a cop from the B

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How Slovak Star-Turned-Ambassador and Karlovy Vary Honoree Magda Vasaryova Is Like Eric Cantona

KVIFF calls the Renaissance woman "one of the greatest Slovak actresses of all time," with her award also honoring "the unique artistic connection between the Czech and Slovak filmmakers."

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘The American experiment is clearly ongoing’: Netflix series examines how the US was founded

In a new docuseries, names including Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton reflect on America’s originsThe first episode of The American Experiment ends with the song Devil’s Spoke by Laura Marling – the chorus of which has Marling ominously warning, over a rousing folk refrain: “All of this can be broken.”This may seem like a dark message for a historical docuseries celebrating the nation’s founding – particularly ahead of its 250th anniversary. Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Dieselpunk Animated Series ‘MechWest’ Lands Global Distribution Deal With Toonz (EXCLUSIVE)

Toonz Media Group has signed a worldwide distribution agreement for “MechWest,” an independently produced CG-animated action-adventure series created by Dave Gallagher and produced by AnimSchool Studios. The company is presenting the series to international buyers at the Annecy Animation Festival. Set in the dieselpunk frontier world of Meridian, “MechWest” follows Pearl West, a teenage girl […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best American LGBTQ+ books, chosen by authors

From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, Michael Cunningham, Hilton Als, Eileen Myles and others share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie charactersYou could debate what the best American LGBTQ+ book is until the cows come home, but experts at least tend to agree on the first one: 1870’s catchily titled Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor. Compared with the well-worn classics of the Britis

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Kin by Tayari Jones review – a haunting tale of motherlessness

Two friends, united by their missing mothers, come of age in segregation-era America, in a cautionary tale about the limits of loveAnnie and Vernice (or Niecy, as Annie calls her) are “cradle friends”, brought up in their home town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in 1950s America. The protagonists are defined by their motherlessness and their diverging drives to escape their individual tragedies and pre-written destinies. In this haunting novel of motherhood and sisterhood, Tayari Jones writes i

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Dear You review – enjoyable Chinese romdram crosses generations as it tracks down a missing husband

Director Lan Hongchun’s family saga feels like a good old-fashioned novel as it goes in search of a man who has disappeared in ThailandWith a story that ranges from the 1940s to the present and, although mostly set in Bangkok, revolving largely around Teochew-speaking Chinese from Guangdong, this generations-spanning drama feels like a good old-fashioned novel. A romantic beach read, perhaps, the kind in which coincidences and random accidents cause misunderstandings that last for decades until

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026

Variety

Annecy Winner Upamanyu Bhattacharyya’s ‘Heirloom’ Closes French Co-Production With Condor Films, Lands CNC Grant (EXCLUSIVE)

The Indo-French animated feature “Heirloom” has formalized its French co-production with Paris-based Condor Films and secured the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde grant. The period family fantasy marks the debut feature of Upamanyu Bhattacharyya. Bhattacharyya previously won the City of Annecy Award in 2020 for his short “Wade.” Set in Ahmedabad in 1960, “Heirloom” […]

entertainment  Jun 24, 2026