Hollywood Reporter

How Colin Hanks Made a John Candy Documentary Without the Usual Celebrity Scandal

The director of the Prime Video film explains why he rejected easy drama in favor of a richer look at the man who helped to define a generation of comedy with ‘Home Alone,’ ‘Uncle Buck’ and ‘Cool Runnings.’

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Permut Presentations Making Movie About ‘Sing Sing’ Star JJ Velazquez and ‘Dateline’ Producer Dan Slepian’s Fight to Overturn Murder Conviction (EXCLUSIVE)

Permut Presentations has acquired the life rights of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who served a nearly 24-year sentence for a murder he did not commit, as well as to NBC News journalist Dan Slepian’s reporting on Velazquez. The company is planning to make a narrative feature about Velazquez’s decades-long relationship with Slepian, who was a senior […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Will Arnett Joins Kristen Stewart in Amazon Series ‘The Challenger’ as NASA Official George Abbey

Will Arnett will star opposite Kristen Stewart in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video limited series about NASA astronaut Sally Ride and the Challenger shuttle disaster. The series was officially picked up at Amazon in March with Stewart attached to play Ride. The show is ispired by Meredith E. Bagby’s book “The New Guys.” The official […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time

Newport Street Gallery, LondonWhite may be a talented musician but as a visual artist, he’s a nonstarter. Not even the collaborations with Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst can save this showNobody can phone it in like a famous conceptual artist. Invited to customise one of rock star Jack White’s amplifiers, Ai Weiwei has inscribed the F-word in buttons of various sizes and colours across its front. It’s a cynical, contemptuous gesture, but also a marvellously louche one, reminding you of the dangerous

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Plans Food Truck Pop-Up for Emmy FYC (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video’s “Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” is heading to Westfield Fashion Square this Friday for fans to experience a work outing with the Rockin’ Grandma’s Hot Sauce crew. As one of several “Jury Duty” FYC events taking place over the next week, the “ultimate company retreat” will feature a themed food truck with walking […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Tina Fey Has Found Her Cozy Place With Netflix Hit ‘The Four Seasons’

After years of reinvention, the '30 Rock' creator has landed somewhere unexpected: a show where grief is funny, characters actually change and the laughs-per-minute benchmark no longer applies.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty characters

Written for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her careerWhat else can you call it but star quality? It was that – that ineffable, incalculable thing that makes certain actors on film seem almost holy – which made Marilyn Monroe one of the icons of cinema, perhaps the icon. That, coupled with her untimely death, which meant Monroe never grew any older on screen, is surely why she endures even now, 100 years

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

BET Forms First-Ever Advisory Board, Tapping Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Founder Bob Johnson and More

Paramount Skydance’s BET has formed its first board of advisers, saying the group of six “cultural icons, business leaders and industry visionaries” will help guide the brand’s “continued evolution as a force at the intersection of media, community and culture.” The six members on the inaugural BET board of advisers are: BET founder Bob Johnson; […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Will Arnett Joins Kristen Stewart in ‘The Challenger’ Drama at Prime Video

He'll play NASA official George Abbey in the limited series.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Netflix’s U.K. Unscripted Chief Warns of Dangers of Using AI in Reality Shows: ‘It’s Hard Now to Tell What Is Fake and What Is Real’

Syeda Irtizaali, Netflix’s recently appointed U.K. director of unscripted, told an audience at SXSW London on Tuesday she doesn’t want to use AI in unscripted television. Describing Netflix as a “tech-forward company,” she said that she was “very relaxed about people using AI as a tool to bring ideas in,” describing AI as a “really […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Owain Rhys Davies, ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival Actor, Dies at 44

The veteran stage and screen performer played Agent Wilson in David Lynch’s 2017 reboot and also appeared in Netflix’s ‘OA’ and the ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ movie.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

MSG Entertainment Is Betting On a Summer Boom for Live Experiences

The owner of Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall is launching a campaign to highlight its lineup of more than 100 shows this summer, the most in MSG's nearly 60 year history.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Tribeca Boss Jane Rosenthal Defends Premiering AI-Made Film About Iran Protests: ‘It Should Be Seen Right Now at This Time’

Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal is defending the fest’s decision to premiere “Dreams of Violets,” a fully AI-generated film about the Iranian civilian resistance. “I think people need to read the director’s [Ash Koosha’s] statement,” Rosenthal told Variety at the festival’s 25th anniversary cocktail reception in lower Manhattan Monday night. “The director is Iranian […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Tom Holland Called Sony Pictures Boss to Delay ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Filming So He Could Star in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘A Tough Pill to Swallow’ at First

Tom Holland revealed to GQ magazine as part of the publication’s summer cover story for “The Odyssey” that he had an “uncomfortable conversation” with Sony Pictures boss Tom Rothman about delaying the production of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” so that he could film Christopher Nolan’s epic instead. When Nolan first offered him the role of […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

SXSW LondonWolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble castHere is an adaptation, written by Justine Waddell, of Virginia Woolf’s peculiar and tonally elusive work that is all about the quarterlife crisis of a headstrong, well-born young woman in Edwardian London faced with the necessity of getting married. What emerges is a wayward, unworldly fantasia, a four-leaf clover of a film

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Sakanishi Miiku Makes His Tribeca Debut With a Film About What We Forget, Clip Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

Sakanishi Miiku has been thinking about forgetting for most of his life. His debut feature, “Memorizu,” world premiering in competition at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 before a theatrical release in Japan later in June, follows Yuta, a man who travels to a rural Kyushu town to help his ailing photographer father-in-law while staying […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Mediawan, BYD Unveil Special ‘Miraculous Chibi’ Episode (EXCLUSIVE)

Mediawan and BYD, which recently partnered to develop and finance international premium content, have unveiled the first project out of their pact: a special episode of the “Miraculous Chibi” series featuring BYD’s new electric vehicle, the BYD Dolphin Surf. The episode, titled “Watt a Dream Date!,” launches worldwide on YouTube on Tuesday. It marks the […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Why YouTubers Are Turning Hollywood Upside Down

This past weekend marked a tectonic shift in Hollywood that’s sent shock waves across the industry. “Backrooms,” a horror film born out of a 4chan creepypasta and produced for around $10 million, opened to an extraordinary $81 million, smashing records for distributor A24; and “Obsession,” a horror film made on a budget of $750,000, grossed […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Motion Picture Association Awards to Honor ‘Hunger Games’ Director Francis Lawrence (EXCLUSIVE)

The Motion Picture Association will honor Francis Lawrence with its 2026 MPA Creator Award. Lawrence is best known for directing five films in the “Hunger Games” franchise, as well as “The Long Walk,” an adaptation of a Stephen King novel that was a hit when it opened last fall. His credits also include “I Am […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Alice and Steve’ Review: Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker Light Up Hulu’s Sharply Funny, Unexpectedly Touching Comedy

A 50something woman enters a feud with her best friend (and ex) after he starts dating her 26-year-old daughter in this British series.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026