Variety

Disney Urges ‘View’ Audience to Get Involved With Company’s FCC Debate

Disney wants to bring another element into its ongoing squabble with the Federal Communications Commission: its fans. In a new campaign that launched Monday, the entertainment conglomerate urged the audience tuning into “The View” to offer public comment as the company grapples with unorthodox pressure from the Trump administration. The Federal Communications Commission, led by […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Hillary Clinton Blasts 2016 Election Loss to Trump in Netflix Docuseries: ‘The Electoral College Is an Abomination’

Hillary Clinton is still very unhappy with the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite winning the popular vote by nearly three million votes, the former secretary of state and first lady lost the electoral vote — and thus, the presidency — largely thanks to the ex-reality star and real estate scion carrying three […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Comedian Moshe Kasher Diagnosed With Tonsil Cancer: ‘My Life Has Been Terror’ but ‘I Will Be Okay’

Moshe Kasher has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer, the comedian revealed on Instagram. “Three months ago … I found a bump on my tonsil,” Kasher posted on Sunday. “It was cancer, which did not rule so hard.” Kasher, a stand-up comic who recently appeared in “The Pitt,” was in Savannah, Georgia, at the time, working […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

PrizePicks Founder Adam Wexler Launches EightState Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Adam Wexler, who launched fantasy sports operator PrizePicks, has launched unscripted production shingle EightState Studios, with an eye toward creating original series and documentaries. First up, the company is working on an untitled eight-episode live unscripted competition series set to premiere Aug. 11 on YouTube. The project, which also comes from Deviants Media Studios, will […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ricky Gervais’ ‘Alley Cats’ Netflix Trailer: And You Thought Heathcliff Terrified the Neighborhood…

"Nine lives, zero f***s."

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Tim Roth, Sofia Carson, Kate Beckinsale to Attend Filming Italy Sardegna Festival

Tim Roth, Sofia Carson and Kate Beckinsale are among the top talents booked to attend the upcoming ninth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, which will be held June 25-28 on the island of Sardinia. Roth, who most recently starred in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” and “Seven Snipers,” is expected to make the […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy

‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insults that were hurled at me every time I went out because I had long hair and wore eyeliner and nail polish. I’d walk into a bar and people would react vociferously, or guys would think I was a girl then get really aggressive when they found out my name was Brian. I thought I could regain some power

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Jonny Greenwood on Why His New Album With Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express Took a Decade to Make and ‘Hoping to Do Another’ Radiohead Tour

It took Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood more than a decade to follow acclaimed 2015 album “Junun.” A musician died. A pandemic intervened. And then there were the visas. “Ranjha,” released last month via World Circuit/BMG, reunites Greenwood with Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur — who divides his time between Israel and India — and their […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Cannes Breakout Comedy ‘Jim Queen’ Closes Key Deals Ahead of Annecy Screening (EXCLUSIVE)

Film sales and finance outfit Global Constellation has closed a first raft of sales on Cannes breakout animated comedy “Jim Queen,” which will be screening at the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival. Following its buzzy premiere in Cannes’ Midnight Screening slot, the film has sold to Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Benelux (O’Brother), Germany (Capelight Pictures), […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform

Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visibleAt the Seven Sisters Latin Village in north London, construction is under way.The market, which has become a centre for the British Latino community and has fought off a long battle against redevelopment, is paying homage to the biggest Latino star on the planet: Bad Bunny (real name Benito Martínez Ocasio). Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

It’s Not TV. It’s Instagram: App Is Testing Longform, Episodic Storytelling on TV

The Meta-owned company is going decidedly retro by experimenting with time-honored video formats with its creators.

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Disney’s New Asia Streaming Boss on K-Drama, Sports and the Untapped Japan Opportunity

In his first interview since switching teams from Netflix, Tony Zameczkowski shares Disney's strategy across the Asia-Pacific region and why the company will always "run its own race."

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez to Voice Star in Universal and Illumination’s ‘Not Alone’

Chalamet teased a "new movie announcement" on his Instagram story over the weekend ahead of the news out of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Louis C.K., Stephen A. Smith to Honor Bill Maher at Kennedy Center Event

The Mark Twain prize ceremony is set to air on Netflix July 21.

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy to Voice Animated Special ‘Mog’s Bad Thing’ for Channel 4, Lupus Films (EXCLUSIVE)

Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are returning to the world of Judith Kerr’s “Mog” picture books for Channel 4’s animated special “Mog’s Bad Thing.” Cumberbatch will reprise his role as Mr Thomas opposite Foy as Mrs Thomas while “Bridgerton’s” Adjoa Andoh also returns as the narrator alongside Amelie Law as Debbie and Teddy Skelton as […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy

The Grange festival, Northington, HampshireDavid Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pitThe year 1724 found Handel at the very height of his popularity. Giulio Cesare, written for a handpicked cast of the finest singers, may lack the psychological depth of Tamerlano, the year’s other premiere, but rarely had the composer come up with such an infectious score. A gung-ho tale of colonial c

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Fully AI-Generated Series ‘Journey To The West’ In Development by Utopai Studios and Huace

AI firm Utopai Studios and the Chinese production company Huace have teamed up for a fully AI-generated adaptation of the Chinese literary classic “Journey to the West,” the first project in their strategic partnership. “Journey to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years“ will explore the “untold origin” story of how the 1592 mythological book’s protagonist […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star

Roundhouse, LondonIn her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsisHayley Williams swaggers on stage with a guitar and begins gleefully raging about her antidepressant of choice. Mirtazapine, a pop-punk ode to the drug that “makes me eat” and “makes me sleep”, swiftly rouses the audience into a boisterous singalong. Her chemistry with the crowd is so potent that it’s easy to forget this is Williams’s first Lon

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

James Phelan: Showman review – an amazing pick’n’mix of telepathy and magic

Underbelly Boulevard, LondonAudience members become unsuspecting mind-readers, and numbers disappear from their memory, in this hugely entertaining showAn audience member is on stage, their feet hypnotically glued to the floor. Under the influence of magician and mentalist James Phelan, we’ve just seen them unable to count to 10, or remember their own name. Now Phelan has a finger to their brow, to channel into their head the unspoken thoughts of another punter sat in the auditorium. A woman in

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026

Variety

Sony’s Bestselling OLED TVs Are All Up to $300 on Best Buy Right Now

Sony’s latest Bravia TVs are built for viewers who want a true home-theater upgrade without compromising on brightness, contrast or everyday usability — and they’re all up to $300 off on Best Buy through July 5. The Bravia 9 sits at the top of the lineup as Sony’s flagship 4K Mini LED TV, designed to […]

entertainment  Jun 22, 2026