Variety

Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul Celebrated for Grace and Resilience at Race to Erase MS Gala: ‘I Live It Openly’

Disney executive Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul opened up Friday night about her extraordinary journey of coming to grips with multiple sclerosis as she was honored Friday at the annual Race to Erase MS gala. Bulochnikov-Paul spoke from the heart as she described the surprise of receiving the diagnosis. As a senior executive at Disney and as the […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

‘Interview With the Vampire’ Transforms Into ‘The Vampire Lestat’ for a Gloriously Glam Season 3: TV Review

Throughout the third season of AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire,” characters speak with equal parts dread, anticipation and awe of something called the “Great Transformation.” The phrase has its own meaning within Anne Rice’s lush, grandiose world of bloodsuckers and spell-casters as interpreted by creator and showrunner Rolin Jones. But it’s also a meta description […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Box Office: ’Scary Movie’ Stuns With $55M, ‘Masters of the Universe’ Lands at $29.3M

'Backrooms’, now A24’s top-grossing title of all time, and Focus stand-out ’Obsession’ take the No. 3 and No. 4 slots with $25.9 million and $25.6 million, respectively.

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Jafar Panahi’s One-Year Prison Sentence Upheld by Iranian Court

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has upheld a one-year prison sentence against Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi who in December had been sentenced in absentia on charges of engaging in propaganda activities against the Iranian state. Panahi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili announced the decision by the court to reject the director’s appeal during a press briefing in Tehran on […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Iran Court Upholds Prison Sentence, Travel Ban for Jafar Panahi

An Iranian court upheld its original verdict against the Oscar-nominated director of 'It Was Just an Accident,' finding him guilty of “propaganda against the regime.”

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Box Office: ‘Scary Movie’ Scores Franchise-Best $55 Million Opening, ‘Masters of the Universe’ Stumbles With $29.3 Million

It’s a horror trifecta. Paramount’s “Scary Movie” ruled at box office with $55 million in its opening weekend, extending an unexpected streak for, well, scary movies in the height of summer movie season. The R-rated parody was joined at the top of North American charts by “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” two horror films that captured lightning […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Scott Pelley Details Events Leading Up to His ’60 Minutes’ Firing, Calls for Removal of Bari Weiss at CBS News Amid “Subtle Political Bias”: “CBS News Is on Fire”

"We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it," he told The New York Times in his first interview since his dismissal. "We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. They don’t know what they’re doing."

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Tribeca 2026 After Hours: A Guide to the Fest’s Best After Parties and Events

As New York City braces for a stretch of 80-degree days this week, Tribeca’s 25th anniversary edition is also bringing some serious heat to New York’s after-hours circuit. Running June 3-14, this year’s festival opened with Questlove’s new Earth, Wind & Fire documentary and a live performance from Earth, Wind & Fire and The Roots at […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Atonement review – guilt and love battle for an unhappy ending

Chichester Festival theatre This stage version of Ian McEwan’s devastating class novel shows inspiring touches and the cast play adeptly, yet the tale’s emotional sweep feels underpoweredIan McEwan’s novel begins with a play. It is written by 13-year-old Briony Tallis, who has a gift for telling stories. It is perhaps appropriate that Briony’s tale – the one she is constructing through the course of McEwan’s novel – has been adapted for the stage itself now, although it is a hard act to follow t

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Paul Anthony Kelly and Patrick Ball on Surviving ‘The Pitt’ Panic Attacks, Going Left-Handed to Become JFK Jr. and Playing Emotional TV Heartthrobs

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. Paul Anthony Kelly plays his first-ever professional acting role in “Love Story,” where he takes on the role of John F. Kennedy Jr. in […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Kaouther Ben Hania on Funding Paradoxes and How “Every Movie Is Political”

The Oscar-nominated Tunisian director behind 'The Voice of Hind Rajab,' during a SXSW London appearance, also discussed the Western thirst for Global South trauma.

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Tribeca Festival Condemns Palestinian ‘Dog Rape’ Joke Made on ‘The Wedding Entertainer’ Red Carpet: ‘Human Suffering Should Never Be Mocked’

The Tribeca Festival has condemned the jokes made on the red carpet of “The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan)” by comedian Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky about the rape of Palestinians, calling them “offensive and unacceptable.” In a clip that was widely shared on social media, drawing outrage, Gold noted that the […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Scott Pelley Presses Paramount to Remove CBS News Chief Bari Weiss: ‘CBS News is On Fire’

Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley suggested in an interview with The New York Times that CBS News parent Paramount Skydance remove Bari Weiss as the leader of the news division, alleging in an emotional exchange that “television’s not her thing” and her inexperience with the medium and her belief that mainstream media is biased […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Far right groups prey on it’: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

A decade after The Lonely City was first published, the writer reflects on what’s changed – and how the feelings that drove them to write their bestseller are key to understanding our turbulent politicsI first had the idea of writing a book about loneliness in 2012. I was 35 and had just moved to New York City when I became lost in a labyrinth of isolation and misery. A love affair had ended abruptly while I was still sky-high with expectation, buoyant with relief that I was finally enterin

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. She goes on: “In the first place not all people need or want three meals each day. Many of them feel better with two or one and one-half, or five.”Fisher wrote her book ostensibl

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Marriage of Figaro review – Danielle de Niese’s slick direction weds finery with fun

Wild Arts Summer Opera festival, Layer Marney Tower, Essex A touring show was quite a challenge for the opera star’s first directorial gig, but dynamic singing, charismatic orchestral play and clever stage jokes pull it off brilliantly‘Four boxes, six screens, four chairs and a tree”: the sum total of scenery for Wild Arts’ new English-language production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is modest by operatic standards. This staging needs to travel light, since it’s destined for performances in mo

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hilarious or a nightmare? Exhibition displays the worst album covers ever

Museum hosts the collection of Steve Goldman, who buys records based on the sheer awfulness of the sleeve“It is like the invasion of the bunny body snatchers,” says JT Thompson, the former lead singer of the 1970s US rock band Peter Rabbitt, as he looks at what is regarded as one of the world’s worst record covers.The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces morphed on to rabbit bodies, with Thompson emerging, like a terrible dream, smiling from a t

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Dynamo vs Houdini’ Series Coming to Sky as Illusionist Retraces Legendary Magician’s Steps

On Saturday night, Dynamo attempted "the most ambitious and dangerous stunt of his career," escaping a burning car suspended 100 feet against the New York City skyline, while bound in a straitjacket.

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso?The first song I fell in love withWhen I saw Night Boat to Cairo by Madness on Top of the Pops as an 11-year-old, something happened to me on a molecular level. There was something about the way they moved.The first single I boughtI Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats, from Swales Music in Haverfordwest, a 15-mile bus trip from the little fishing village in west

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Ariana Grande Setlist: Every Song Played at ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Tour’s Opening Night in Oakland

After a six-and-a-half-year layoff between tours, Ariana Grande has made a long-awaited return to the concert stage, with her “Eternal Sunshine” tour kicking off at the Oakland Arena Saturday night. Variety was on hand for the show and has the full setlist, below; a full review will follow on Sunday.. The name of the tour […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026