Variety

Box Office: ‘Backrooms’ Scares Up $38 Million on Friday, Already Shattering Record for A24’s Best Opening Weekend

Kane Parson’s “Backrooms” has already shattered the record for A24’s best opening weekend. Adapted from Parsons’ viral YouTube series, “Backrooms” earned $38 million domestic on Friday from 3,442 theaters, and is projected to gross $85 million to $90 million through the weekend. That’s more than triple the previous record holder, Alex Garland’s thriller “Civil War,” […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Backrooms’ Setting A24 Record With $80M-Plus Opening, ‘Obsession’ Making Box Office History in Third Weekend

YouTube filmmakers are ascendant, with 'Obsession' topping the second weekend of 'Mandalorian and Grogu' and becoming the first film in more than 40 years to increase in both its second and third weekend, outside of Christmas.

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Why TV’s Top Casting Directors Are Betting on Unknowns

The teams behind ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Love Story,’ and more share how thousands of submissions, chemistry reads and instinct shaped the season’s most memorable new performances.

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Kelly Curtis, Actress and Sister of Jamie Lee Curtis, Dies at 69

The daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh starred in the foreign films ‘Magic Sticks’ and ‘The Devil’s Daughter.’

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘America’s sweetheart’: exhibition explores Marilyn Monroe’s complex relationship to stardom

The new exhibition at LA’s Academy museum features some of the star’s most intimate belongings that have never been available for public viewingThere’s an unsettling moment in Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, a new exhibition opening in Los Angeles this weekend, where some of the star’s last recorded words emanate from the gallery walls.Her voice, gentle and unassuming, is taken from a restored audio recording of her final interview, published in Life magazine the day before she died. Continue re

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Hannah Waddingham on ‘Wicked’s’ Madame Morrible Rumors, Her New Action Series ‘Ride or Die’ and Stepping Back Into Rebecca’s Stilettos in ‘Ted Lasso’: ‘I Am Blessed’

Most actors dread a bad review, but Hannah Waddingham credits the critics for catapulting her to the next phase of her career.  It was 2000, and Waddingham had recently wrapped a musical about artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. The show closed early after a panning in the press, but Waddingham’s […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Emily Blunt Says She Is ‘Terrified of AI’ and Refused to Use it on ‘Disclosure Day’

Emily Blunt is “terrified” of AI and chose not to rely on it during a pivotal sequence in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film “Disclosure Day.” The Spielberg-directed sci-fi film follows a Kansas City TV meteorologist, played by Blunt, who is suddenly overcome by a mysterious extraterrestrial force while taping a weather segment live on air. The […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

‘Spider-Noir’ Finale: Nicolas Cage on Who Dies, Those Explosive Fights, The Spider’s Sacrifice and If He’ll Return for a Season 2

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “Spider-Noir,” now streaming on Prime Video. “Spider-Noir” is unlike any superhero saga we’ve ever experienced before. A film noir/superhero hybrid shot in stunning black and white (but also available in color), “Spider-Noir” follows Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage), a grizzled private eye in Depression-era New […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Vanilla Ice Defends Plans to Perform at Trump White House’s ‘Freedom 250’: ‘I’ll Go Play for Putin and I’ll Play in Iran if You Want’

Multiple artists have dropped out of the Donald Trump-backed “Freedom 250” festival this summer. But Vanilla Ice is sticking to his guns and plans to keep his gig at the D.C. event. According to Vanilla Ice, “music is not political” — and he said he would perform for Russian president Vladimir Putin if given the […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Shanghai Film Festival Unveils Golden Goblet Competition Selection

The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, spanning five categories across fiction, documentary, animation, and short film. The festival runs June 12-21. The main competition features 12 titles drawn from 15 countries and territories, all of them world premieres. Among the contenders are Indonesia’s “My Own […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Where to Watch Dmitry Bivol vs. Michael Eifert Boxing Live Online

In a title bout for multiple light heavyweight championship, Russian Dmitry Bivol takes on German boxer Michael Eifert in a 12-round match. What’s on the line? Bivol’s IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight title belts. At the end of the contest, one of these fighters will have both titles — or it will end with […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Variety

Here’s Where to Watch the 2026 UEFA Champions League Final Live Online

The 2026 UEFA Champions League Final feature two clubs competing for a chance to hoist the European Champion Clubs’ Cup. The final takes place on Saturday, May 30. The final match features Arsenal F.C. taking on Paris Saint-Germain F.C. at Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary with kick-off at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. Additionally, indie […]

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Take That review – stadium redux of Circus tour has maximal razzle-dazzle

St Mary’s Stadium, SouthamptonElephants, clowns, aerialists hanging by their hair … the Big Top concept doesn’t let up at this hugely enjoyable outing for a boy band with hits to spareTake That have never been shy when it comes to repackaging their past. In 2018, they followed two official best-of collections with Odyssey, a Stuart Price-produced curio in which they “re-imagined” their greatest hits. Around the same time, band captain Gary Barlow – now overseeing just two teammates, Mark Owen an

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Euphoria mirrors the nihilism of a generation raised on Andrew Tate and Bonnie Blue

As its third season ends, Sam Levinson’s HBO show reflects the grim future that gen Z faces. Its rage-bait is precisely the pointThe third season of Euphoria has been almost impossible to ignore for anyone with a smartphone. The HBO drama, which started off in 2019 following a group of hedonistic, privileged teens, has evolved into television’s answer to rage-bait, creating moments that are specifically designed to dominate the news feed with memes and outrage. Even before we reach the season fi

entertainment  May 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Kazakhstan Cinema Is Ready to Make a Splash at SXSW London. No Need for Borat!

With 'Sicko' and 'Becoming' among the feature lineup, along with a short, the event's head of screen Anna Bogutskaya explains why the Central Asian country, and the broader region, warrant attention.

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling

From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to lifeSpread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere in the world: a permanent national home for an art form that shapes everything from c

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art | Isabel Brooks

They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhaustedVisiting an art gallery always goes the same way for me. I look at one artwork. I look at the next artwork. And then the next. What was the first one again? Was it of a farm? Who knows? I reach the inevitable conclusion: there are simply too many paintings. After about 15 minutes I’ve had enough and don’t want to look at any more art; by the time I reach the gift shop

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

I couldn’t understand my mother’s dementia – until a character from Rivals showed me the way

When my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, one remark in Jilly Cooper’s romp made me realise how much my happiness is tied to her wellbeingAs a longtime Jilly Cooper fan, I lapped up the TV adaptation of Rivals. There were so many fantastic moments: Maud O’Hara arriving at her own party dressed up to the nines, riding on a camel; David Tennant, as TV mogul Tony Baddingham, smashing up the Corinium Studios set when his arch enemy Rupert Campbell-Black scores a key point in their rivalry. My most

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Guide #245: UK garage means summer, and a surprise Mis-Teeq reunion is bringing the heat

In this week’s newsletter: Yes, it’s technically still spring, but with garage already pumping out and the 00s legends making a comeback, it’s time to celebrate the often-overlooked women who defined the genre• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereHello everyone. I’m Coco Khan, covering for Gwilym this week, and I’m officially calling it. Summer is here.No, I’m not a meteorologist or an astronomer – rather, I rely on a measure I’ve developed over many summers: the UKG Index.

entertainment  May 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Cape Fear: Amy Adams is incredible in this twisty remake of the classic Scorsese thriller

Javier Bardem and his co-star are brilliant as the duelling pair at the heart of a dread-packed psychological drama – where evil lurks in plain sightThe 1991 revenge thriller Cape Fear boasts many famous moments. A teddy bear rigged with fishing wire. A drowning man speaking in tongues. But the image I cannot shake is the back of a sailboat, piloted by a lawyer who is being hounded by Max Cady, a rapist he once sent to jail. The boat is called Moana. It makes sense – throughout Polynesia, moana

entertainment  May 30, 2026