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Boston Film Festival Opens With Hollywood Vampires Doc
The 42nd Boston Film Festival (Sept. 17–21) opens with a documentary tracing Alice Cooper's 1970s "drinking club" origins of the Hollywood Vampires. The five-day lineup also features multiple world pr
'I Love Lucy' to Receive TV Academy's First Legacy Award
"I Love Lucy" will receive the Television Academy's inaugural Legacy Award on Sept. 6 during night two of the three-part 78th Emmy Awards, honoring the 1951–1957 sitcom for helping invent both the sit
ARIA Bans AI-Generated Tracks From Australian Charts
ARIA, Australia's music industry trade group, will exclude wholly AI-generated songs from its weekly charts and music awards starting Friday, allowing only tracks it deems 'substantially human made.'
Meghan Trainor Signs With United Talent Agency
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor has signed with United Talent Agency for full-service representation spanning touring, film, digital, theatre, and brand deals, following a year that in
Belgium Picks Dhont's 'Coward' for Oscar Race
Belgium has chosen Lukas Dhont's WWI drama 'Coward,' which won the best actor prize at Cannes, as its submission for the international feature film Oscar at the 99th Academy Awards.
Anthony Boyle Cast as Hired Seductor in Sky's 'Charmer'
Anthony Boyle will lead Sky Original drama "Charmer," an eight-episode Working Title/Story Films series about a professional seducer-for-hire whose assignment turns personal ahead of a client's weddin
MK2 Films Boards Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Venice Doc ‘NAZA’
MK2 Films has boarded NAZA, a new documentary by Oscar-winning No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, set to premiere at Venice and exposing the Israeli intelligence systems behind mas
Korea Picks Lee Chang-dong's 'Possible Love' for Oscars
Korea's film council has selected Lee Chang-dong's 'Possible Love' as its entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, marking the director's fourth film to represent the country.
Soft Spot: wine-glass circus pours skill but lacks fizz
Swedish circus duo Stina Otterström and Arttu Lahtinen perform an hour of wine-glass acrobatics at Edinburgh's Zoo Southside through 30 August, impressing with technical skill but lacking tonal variet
Claudia Rankine's 'Triage' asks: witness or act?
Claudia Rankine's hybrid new book 'Triage' uses a decades-long friendship and a campus game of falling to the ground to wrestle with the central question of whether witnessing or acting is the right r
BIFF Unveils 31st Korean Cinema Today, On Screen Lineups
The 31st Busan International Film Festival unveiled its Korean Cinema Today and On Screen lineups, spotlighting Na Hong-Jin's Cannes-competing "Hope" in the film slate while Netflix claims two of thre
41st Imagen Awards Honor Andy Garcia at Beverly Hilton
The 41st annual Imagen Awards honored Andy Garcia with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his four-decade career at The Beverly Hilton, where he delivered an acceptance speech and closed the evening wit
Spa Weekend Directors Lucas & Moore on Theatrical Comedy
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the screenwriting duo behind "The Hangover" and "Bad Moms" franchises, joined the Crew Call podcast to discuss their new Black Bear theatrical comedy "Spa Weekend" and why s
Taylor Swift Debuts Memory Mashup at Grammy Museum
Taylor Swift performed a surprise six-minute solo piano mashup of 'I Knew It, I Knew You,' 'All Too Well,' and 'August' at the Grammy Museum's Clive Davis Theater, a video of which was released Monday
Field of Vision Releases Ukraine War Doc *When It Started to Burn*
Field of Vision released a new documentary titled *When It Started to Burn* on Ukrainian Independence Day, chronicling civilian resilience in Kyiv through the lens of a woman organizing resistance eff
Blumhouse Sets 'Sleepover' With Jacob Chase for 2027
Blumhouse Atomic Monster has set Jacob Chase, director of "Insidious: Out of the Further," to direct the Universal horror film "Sleepover," now dated for Oct. 8, 2027.
Goodbye Dandelion review – ode to a fabulous friendship with a 50-year age gap
Sibling duo Maddie and Marcus Rice present a storytelling show at the Edinburgh Fringe about Maddie’s transformative friendship with Darcy O’Shea, an 87-year-old artist and piano teacher 50 years her
Frankie Thompson's Horrible Things: Edinburgh Fringe review
Frankie Thompson's Edinburgh Fringe show "Horrible Things" uses lip-sync and audience-interaction stunts to satirise male cultural figures — from a young Jacob Rees-Mogg to Frank Sinatra — framing com
BBCSSO Performs Strauss’s Elektra in Electrifying Concert
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra delivered a powerful concert performance of Strauss’s *Elektra*, led by Karina Canellakis, with standout vocal and dramatic performances from three leading women in
Europol: European Museum Heists Growing More Violent
Europol warned that European museum heists are growing more violent, with thieves using guns, explosives, and physical force in operations that appear to involve newly recruited crews rather than trad
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