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

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

Variety

Rotterdam Tiger Award Winner Paz Fábrega Sets ‘To the Future’ With Spain’s Edna Cinema and Uruguay’s La Mayor Cine Ahead of ECAM Forum (EXCLUSIVE)

Paz Fábrega, the first Costa Rican filmmaker to scoop a VPRO Tiger Award in Rotterdam, for her debut “Cold Water of the Sea (“Agua fria de mar”) in 2010, has secure further funding for her fourth feature “To the Future” (“Al Futuro”) from PUA-the Uruguayan Audiovisual Program, via co-producer Federico Moreira of La Mayor Cine […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Twin Peaks’ Actor Owain Rhys Davies Dies at 44; Family Says It Was Sudden and ‘There Are Still Questions That Remain Unanswered’

Owain Rhys Davies, a Welsh actor who appeared in the “Twin Peaks” reboot, died “suddenly” over the weekend, according to the BBC. He was 44. Davies was best known for playing Agent Wilson in the 2017 reboot of David Lynch’s iconic series “Twin Peaks.” His other credits include the Netflix drama “The OA,” “Alice Through […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)’: How Two Brits Turned a Love Letter to the Big Apple Into an Unlikely Broadway Hit

Jim Barne and Kit Buchan were terrified of being outed as frauds. After all, they were two very British writers creating a very New York musical. And they’d only ever been to the Big Apple as tourists. Turns out, they needn’t worry about appearing as outsiders. Their deep admiration of and fascination with the city […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Mindy Kaling’s ‘Not Suitable for Work’ Is a Bland ‘Friends’ Copycat With Hints of a Sharper Show: TV Review

Mindy Kaling is moving through the stages of life. With Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” the comedy mogul took on high school; with HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” she (literally) graduated to college. Hulu’s “Not Suitable for Work” — Kaling’s first show with sole creator credit since “The Mindy Project,” showrun by […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Nicholas Galitzine Lends Some Spark to a Bloated Nostalgia Trip

Nearly 40 years have passed since the colossal financial failure of Cannon Films’ live-action feature “Masters of the Universe” signaled the cultural falloff of Mattel’s successful sci-fi sword-and-sorcery media franchise — which had, for five years, held undiscriminating Eighties kids like this critic in its thrall, before we mostly moved onto other things. But in […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Netflix Launches Hub Featuring ‘Bridgerton,’ More Book-to-Screen Adaptations Targeting Nine Reader Types

Netflix aims to turn readers’ “To Be Read” lists into subscribers’ “To Be Watched” queues this summer with the launch of its new book-lovers-themed hub Tuesday. Debuting today, the streamer’s “Watch Your Favorite Books” page is described as a “dedicated destination that brings together the best of Netflix’s book-inspired storytelling in one space,” including “Bridgerton,” “The Gray […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

New MMA League Hires Ex-Paramount Network Boss as Content Chief (Exclusive)

Viacom alum Kevin Kay, who worked with Scott Coker on Bellator, shares: "Mixed martial arts is a great story, and the stories of fighters are great stories, but they're not always being told in the right way."

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Nicholas Galitzine Headlines an Exhaustingly Jokey He-Man Movie That’s Mainly for the Hardcore Fans

Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Kristen Wiig and Camila Mendes also appear in this latest cinematic incarnation of Mattel's enduring franchise.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Tomorrow Will Be a Palestinian Day review – work that finds a way out of Gaza’s ruins

Theatre503, LondonHope still resides against horror in this collection of short plays from Palestinian playwrights, poets and artistsWhat are the basic requirements of theatre-making? Actors, writers, resource and rehearsal space, to name a few. What happens when these factors are narrowed to their most dangerous extremities? Companies like Belarus Free Theatre and the Freedom Theatre have shown that theatre does not stop its production even as bombs and bullets assail the building. The work fin

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Tony Awards: Predicting the Winners Using Just Math

This year's category-by-category look at which musicals and plays have the best chance of claiming honors during the June 7 telecast on CBS and Paramount+, based on a model built on historical data.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Inside Ranveer Singh’s ‘Don 3’ Exit, Bollywood’s Biggest Industry Standoff in Years

When top actor Ranveer Singh walked away from “Don 3” in December 2025, he triggered what has become one of Bollywood’s most closely watched industry disputes in years – a conflict that has drawn in around 25 of the film business’s most senior figures, produced a Big Four audit, wound through the Producers Guild of […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

BTS, Benson Boone, Cardi B Among Performers Set for iHeartRadio Music Festival 2026

BTS, Benson Boone and Cardi B are among the acts slated to perform at the iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by Capital One, taking place on September 18-19 at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the event will also include performances from Goo Goo Dolls, Kenny Chesney, Lainey Wilson, Major Lazer, Muse, Snoop Dogg, […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

AI Firm Utopai Studios Launches Enhanced 2.0 Version of Generative Video Platform

Utopai Studios unveiled the second version of its AI video storytelling platform PAI, less than three months after its initial version debuted. The company introduced the generative video platform PAI in March, allowing users to tinker with videos across each step of the creative process. The goal was to produce visual stories without the need […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

SiriusXM to Bring Conan O’Brien, Trevor Noah Podcasts and More to Tubi (Exclusive)

The audio giant has struck a distribution and advertising deal to put podcasts on the free streamer.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026