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RM, a Superstar With BTS, Gets His Feet Wet As an Art Curator
RM of BTS is curating a fall exhibition at SFMOMA featuring 145 works by Korean artists, a personal project born from his realization that he knew Western masters but not his own country's artists.
Netflix Orders 'Sid & Zoey' YA Gothic Romance
Netflix has greenlit an eight-episode YA gothic romance series titled "Sid & Zoey," created by Jon Kasdan and John Shiban with Bad Robot and Blumhouse Atomic Monster executive producing.
Box Office: ‘End of Oak Street’ Makes $2.5 Million in Previews
Warner Bros.' prehistoric comedy 'The End of Oak Street,' starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, earned $2.5 million in Thursday previews but faces 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' which is projected f
Austria Picks Sandra Hüller's 'Rose' for Oscar Race
Austria has chosen Markus Schleinzer's black-and-white period drama 'Rose' — starring Sandra Hüller as a mysterious, scar-disfigured soldier in a Thirty Years' War village — as its submission for the
‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Sets Disney+ Release Date in September
Jon Favreau's "The Mandalorian and Grogu" will stream on Disney+ starting Sept. 2 after grossing $345 million worldwide in theaters, making it the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars film, below "So
Sebastian Gibbs Returns to Netflix as Series Director
Sebastian Gibbs is returning to Netflix as Director, Original Series after four years at Amazon MGM Studios, in a rare second tour of duty as Netflix-to-Amazon executive flow has recently gone the oth
TV Directors Reject HBO Harry Potter Over Rowling Trans Views
TV directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron publicly rejected HBO's Harry Potter series over J.K. Rowling's trans rights views, revealing they'd been approached. The show continues casting, with a Dec. 2
Ann Oren's 'Objet a' Lands Locarno Premiere, U.S. Deal
Ann Oren's 95-minute erotic arthouse feature 'Objet a' — about surgeons whose disciplined lives unspool into kinky, eco-tinged desire — premiered in Locarno's main competition and landed a U.S. distri
Vile statues, writhing liquorice and kids marooned online: Edinburgh art festival review
The Edinburgh Art Festival sprawls across the city with photography-heavy, hidden-story-focused exhibitions — from Del LaGrace Volcano's 1980s queer nightlife images to Sandra George's posthumously di
Edinburgh Fringe Shows Satirize Comedy Critics as Snobs
Brian Logan reviews two Edinburgh Fringe shows—Andrew Doherty's "Reviewers Welcome … to Die!" and Adam Riches' "The Critic's Way"—that satirize comedy critics as preening, nepotistic snobs, placing th
Busan Film Festival to Honor Founder Director Kim Dong-ho With Korean Cinema Award
Kim Dong-ho, founding director of the Busan International Film Festival, will receive the festival's Korean Cinema Award at its 31st edition on October 6, honoring his decades-long contributions to Ko
McConaughey Returns in 'Rivals of Amziah King' Review
Matthew McConaughey makes his first screen appearance in six years as a mandolin-playing Oklahoma beekeeper in 'The Rivals of Amziah King,' Andrew Patterson's bluegrass-tinged Western that IndieWire s
Alien: Isolation 2 Revealed With New Lead Blake
Creative Assembly unveiled Alien: Isolation 2, a sequel to the 2014 survival horror hit, introducing new protagonist Blake on a windswept planet where the original Sevastopol xenomorph has survived —
Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland Staged at London Barbican
A French choreographer's stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami's 400-page sci-fi novel 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' reaches London's Barbican in October, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara a
200 Tourists a Day: Life Inside TV-Famous Homes
Residents whose homes became famous through TV shows — from Emmerdale and Gavin and Stacey to Ted Lasso and Breaking Bad — are navigating a daily reality of 200 daily tourists, fans trying to walk thr
San Sebastián 2026 Adds Six Films to Golden Shell Race
San Sebastián Film Festival added six new films to its 2026 Official Selection competing for the Golden Shell, including a third directorial effort from Jesse Eisenberg and a new Les Misérables adapta
Manchevski Premieres 'Good People' at Sarajevo Festival
Golden Lion–winning Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski premiered his first feature documentary, "Good People," at the Sarajevo Film Festival, giving voice to survivors of the March 2025 Pulse nigh
Edinburgh Review: The Real Kyle McCarren Musical
A new US musical by Andy Roninson, playing at Edinburgh Fringe, serves as a 'loving but warts-and-all' eulogy to his bandmate Kyle McCarren, who died suddenly at 21, but critics note Kyle himself rema
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is Drawing Tourists to Milan Prompting an 18% Increase in Visitors to the Film’s Locations in Italy’s Fashion Capital
The "Devil Wears Prada 2" sequel is driving a measurable tourism surge in Milan, with international pedestrian traffic at key film locations up 18% and roughly 1.5 million tourists projected for the s
How the Mob Built Hollywood
A new documentary series reveals how organized crime shaped Hollywood from cinema’s origins to the 1990s, detailing mob figures’ infiltration of studios, unions, and film financing through violence, c
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