Variety

RioFilme Sets Shanghai Festival Mission: Partnerships, Content, Growth

It’s been a minute since the hit 1976 Brazilian telenovela “The Slave Isaura” (“A Escrava Isaura”) captivated a record 300+ million viewers in China but RioFilme is aiming to make a splash this year with three titles at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival. Backed by the state-owned film agency, “Luiza’s Desert” (“O Deserto de […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

‘Grantchester’: 10 Seasons of ‘Gorgeous’ Vicars, So Many Murders and What’s in Store for Its Final Season: ‘I’m Going to Defy Anyone Not to Openly Weep’

“Grantchester” begins its final season on June 14, with crime-solving vicars who seem to face far too many murders for one small British village. Variety spoke with the core cast members about staying with the same sharply written, witty and emotional show for 11 seasons, spanning the prim 1950s to the swinging ‘60s. It may […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Box Office: Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Opens to $44 Million, ‘Masters of the Universe’ Suffers 71% Drop, ‘Obsession’ Keeps Shattering Expectations

“Disclosure Day,” a sci-fi adventure from Steven Spielberg, opened to No. 1 at the domestic box office with $44 million from 3,824 theaters. Those ticket sales were above estimates of $35 million, though below the $50 million that rival studios argue a film of this scale should earn in its debut to justify its price […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

‘Vikings’ Creator Michael Hirst on Dream Project About Medieval Heretics and New Show ‘Bloodaxe’: ‘It’s a New World’

Get ready for “Bloodaxe.” “We shot the first season last year and it’s spectacular,” writer and executive producer Michael Hirst, best known for “Vikings,” tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. The second season of the historical drama – set in the 10th century – is already in the works.  While “Vikings” fans will flock to […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Cannes Winner ‘Minotaur’ Takes Top Prize at Sydney Film Festival

Andrey Zvyagintsev claimed the Sydney Film Prize on Sunday night for “Minotaur,” his thriller set against the backdrop of contemporary Russia, as the 73rd Sydney Film Festival wrapped its 12-day run at the State Theatre with what organizers described as the highest-selling festival in the event’s history. The AUD$60,000 ($42,200) prize – awarded for work […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Colman Domingo Tells Sarah Pidgeon He Wishes ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 ‘All Came Out at Once’ as They Unpack Ali and Rue, ‘Love Story’ Fashion and More

This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. Colman Domingo and Sarah Pidgeon are true thespians. Both from theater backgrounds, they approach their television work with a certain grandeur […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Pelléas et Mélisande review – luminous semi-staging but Debussy’s elusive opera keeps its secrets

Snape Maltings, SuffolkThis year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraTrying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the platform with the singers, is even trickier. For the opening performance of this summer’s Aldeburgh festi

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs: David Hockney’s greatest works – in pictures

From his taut, sun-kissed portraits of LA to his vast psychedelic Yorkshire landscapes to his 70m iPad Normandy epic – here’s our pick of the artist’s best works Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

David Kemp obituary

Artist who built up an imaginative and playful picture of the world using the detritus of defunct industrial plantsIn 1981 the artist David Kemp went to live in Cornwall, settling in the village of Botallack, on a rugged, far-western clifftop, capped by a clutter of ruined tin mines. He adapted an old building to use as a workshop, and began painting old furniture with crazy, surrealistic scenes of temples, sea views, beasts and breasts.Although this sold well, he became increasingly interested

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A Life in Four Seasons review – dancers of all ages have spring in their steps

Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonPerformers representing the four seasons of life – and a wide range of styles – dance to a ravey remix of VivaldiIt was a great idea: a dance through the four seasons of life, with performers whose own ages range from spring to winter, set to a reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Neat. It’s amazing to see older dancers who can bring all the textures of their experience to the stage. But the thing with such a wide-ranging cast, who all specialise in differ

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

The New York Knicks Just Did the Impossible

This doesn’t feel real.   All New York Knicks fans have known for the last 53 years is heartbreak and humiliation. We were cursed. Jordan. Starks’ 2-18 in Game 7. Reggie. Ewing going down. Missing out on Steph by one pick. Rebuffing Jeremy Lin. Phil Jackson. Amar’e’s knees. The Unicorn jumping ship. The Zion draft. […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Berlin, Toronto and Hong Kong Film Festival Chiefs Gather at Shanghai to Champion New Talent

The leaders of three of the world’s most influential film festivals told Shanghai on Sunday that the role of the festival circuit in discovering and developing new voices has never been more critical – and that personal connection, not data, remains the truest compass for identifying talent. Tricia Tuttle, director of the Berlin Film Festival, […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Atlantis review – Welsh climate crisis drama is a parable for our times

Theatr Clwyd, MoldEmily White’s lyrical, if contrived, play is based on a real coastal village whose residents are being made climate refugees by rising sea levelsIn 2014, residents of Fairbourne in Gwynedd discovered the local council had decided that maintaining sea defences was longer be tenable. Instead, as part of a process of “managed retreat”, this small coastal Welsh village would be abandoned to the sea by 2055.This timeline has since shifted and been disputed, but while the village is

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Honor and Arri’s Robot Phone Debuts on Shanghai Film Festival Red Carpet

Smartphones have crossed into robotic territory. Chinese brand Honor used the opening red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival to debut its Robot Phone, a device that marries AI interaction with a high-resolution camera that extends from the phone body like an antenna, moves on its own, and retracts when not in use. The […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creations

As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great artIn Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in London – 11 studio assistants, nine people in the offices, three stone masons at a yard in Battersea – and

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Virginia Woolf Inspires Yan Siyu’s Shanghai Project ‘Outside the Room of My Own’

“Outside the Room of My Own,” a debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Yan Siyu starring Lucie Zhang, is showing a work-in-progress cut at SIFF Project during the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film follows Yuan Chengge, a writer burned out by life in Beijing, as she travels to Chengdu and then onward to the village […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households‘He changed the world just by looking at it’David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash, his most famous painting, reproductions have become a visual motif in gay domestic life. I’ve seen framed poste

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Variety

Knicks NBA Championship Merch Includes Official Locker Room T-Shirt, Signed Jalen Brunson Basketballs

The New York Knicks are the 2026 NBA champions. The Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs by a score of 94-90 Saturday, winning the NBA finals series 4-1 and lifting the Larry O’Brien Trophy for the first time since 1973. Now, fans can take home a piece of the action with official Knicks NBA winners […]

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Seth MacFarlane on His ‘Ted’ TV Series, When to Expect a ‘Family Guy’ Movie and Why “The Emmys Are So F***ed Up”

In front of an audience at the Newport Beach TV Fest, the prolific multi-hyphenate admitted, "There's a lot of things that are weird about the Emmys that make me think, 'Is anybody watching anything, or is this people just checking boxes while they're f***ing shaving?'"

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Spike Lee, Timothée Chalamet Celebrate Knicks’ NBA Finals Win: “Way Rather This Than the Oscars”

The New York team won its first title since 1973 with a 94-90 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Texas Saturday night.

entertainment  Jun 14, 2026