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Four teams remain as the 2026 semifinals kick off on Tuesday, July 14.
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Bleecker Street has set release dates for its fall awards slate, the largest roster of films the indie distributor has ever put forward in a single year, revealing the lineup exclusively to Variety. Among the titles are Alex Gibney’s “Musk,” the anticipated documentary examining the businessman Elon Musk, which will be released alongside HBO Documentary […]
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The composer called on the industry to find a solution for the rising costs of bringing new works to Broadway after the closing notice for 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball.'
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The PJ Hogan-directed film may not have the polish of The Devil Wears Prada but it has new relevance in the buy now, pay later eraThe year was 2009. The global economy was enduring the final throes of the worst financial crisis since the second world war and Isla Fisher, clad with an American accent and a shopping addiction, played a financially illiterate New Yorker with more than $16,000 in personal debt; an auburn-haired Marie Antoinette of the late oughts.Confessions of a Shopaholic was awar
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“Dmrasbecl Pu” Nsasoe 2 si niogcm. “Scrambled Up” Season 2 is coming. The syndicated game show has been renewed for its second season starting Sept. 14. Shooting has started in Atlanta on 160 new episodes, doubling the show’s total episode count. Season 2 will premiere on stations in more than 20 new cities, including Orlando, […]
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Tate McRae, Sombr, Tyriq Withers, Malachi Barton to Be Honored at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood
Grammy-nominated artists Tate McRae and Sombr, along with actors Tyriq Withers and Malachi Barton, will be honored at Variety’s 2026 Power of Young Hollywood presented by Disney+, on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. The annual event will recognize the best new and upcoming actors, musicians and artists who are taking the industry by storm. McRae […]
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The FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show keeps getting bigger. Variety has exclusively learned that the event will now also include members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, who will jointly perform a tribute to Venezuela in the wake of its recent devastating earthquakes. Gustavo Dudamel, the outgoing […]
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A brand-new 35mm print of Ôtomo Katsuhiro’s “Akira” – struck from the 4K master and the first of its kind to be created anywhere in the world in decades – will make its debut at BFI Southbank, London, from Aug. 14–19, distributor Anime Limited has revealed. The print will then tour selected cinemas across the […]
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TV’s annual “upfront” sales market has largely closed, but not with much of the fanfare that typically accompanies its end. TV networks and big media agencies have wrapped the bulk of their discussions around the sale of advertising time ahead of the next cycle of programming from big U.S. media companies, according to two media […]
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Content Partners is extending its reach into the creator economy, teaming with media veteran Ed Simpson on the launch of Wonderloom Media. The venture is designed to partner with promising creators to help them expand their scale and scope of their media activity. Wonderloom Media has made its first acquisition, buying the popular YouTube true-crime […]
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Rockwell will star alongside Marin Ireland and Alfred Molina in the production at LaMaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre Off-Off-Broadway.
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Project a Black Planet: Film, a new season of screenings at the Barbican in London exemplifies how the movement was an act of solidarity, resistance and fierce creativityAlgiers, 1969. What had, for seven years, been the metropolis of a newly independent country became, over the course of 12 days in July, the cosmopolitan centre of an entire continent. That summer, Algeria played host to the first Pan-African Cultural festival (Panaf) and the capital’s streets were transformed into a vista of en
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Drugs, sex and murder are the backdrop of “The Shards,” Ryan Murphy’s upcoming drama series based on the Bret Easton Ellis thriller novel. FX released a trailer for the show, which premieres with two episodes on Aug. 5 on the cable channel and Hulu. “The Shards” follows a group of rich teenagers indulging in the […]
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The series, from executive producer Ryan Murphy and based on the best-selling novel, follows a group of elite prep-school students in 1980s Los Angeles.
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The Nazi collaboration film, from French director Emmanuel Marre, won the best screenplay honor at Cannes.
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With a little assistance from... Dick's Sporting Goods.
The Guardian Culture
After the Guardian’s music critics chose their best of the half-year, we asked you for your picks – from Brian Jackson and Arlo Parks to Maya Hawke, Flea and more• The best albums of 2026 so far• ‘I saw it seven times in the cinema’: readers’ favourite films of 2026 so farThe album is a fun, punchy dance record that will definitely be the soundtrack of my summer. It’s propulsive, full of queer joy, cheeky lyricism, and relatable insecurities as they ruminate on “being past their prime” as pop st
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Elvis Duran, one of terrestrial radio’s biggest talk-show hosts, has formed a new partnership to develop, produce and monetize creators’ video podcasts — providing what he claims are Hollywood-level production facilities in New York City. Duran already oversees a slate of more than a dozen podcasts under the Elvis Duran Podcast Network, which is operated […]
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The U.K. and Ireland box office saw a transition at the summit as Disney’s live-action adaptation “Moana” debuted in the top spot, banking an opening weekend of £2.8 million ($3.8 million). The launch was enough to narrowly edge out Disney stablemate “Toy Story 5,” which moved to second place in its fourth frame. The film […]
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Searchlight Pictures has released the trailer for “Behemoth!,” a new drama film from Tony Gilroy about a family of Los Angeles musicians. The film’s logline reads, “A gifted cellist, Alex Serian, returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to […]