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The New Kindle Is Down to $100 for Amazon Prime Big Deals Day
Amazon's 2024 Kindle is on sale for $100 during Prime Big Deals Day, positioned as a reading-focused alternative to the flashier tablets dominating the event.
Supermutant Magic Academy Debuts First Footage at
Cartoon Network Studios' 'Supermutant Magic Academy,' adapted from Jillian Tamaki's 2015 Eisner Award-winning webcomic, debuted its first footage at Annecy ahead of a planned Adult Swim run, pitched b
ElevenLabs Drops AI 'Odyssey' Audiobook With Caine Voice
ElevenLabs has released a fully AI-generated, 13-hour audiobook of Homer's "The Odyssey" narrated by a licensed replica of Michael Caine's voice, timed to arrive weeks before Christopher Nolan's film
A24 Drops The Debut Trailer Starring Moore, Giamatti
A24 released the first trailer for The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg's R-rated musical comedy follow-up to his Oscar-winning A Real Pain, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife turned method actor opposi
Olivia Rodrigo Announces Daisy Chain Fields Festival
Olivia Rodrigo announced the Daisy Chain Fields Festival for Aug. 29 in Irvine, California, an all-women, for-charity event where every artist on the bill performs for free and 100% of net proceeds go
Brooke Shields Named Host of ABC's 'Hearts of Heroes' Season 8
Brooke Shields has been named the new host of "Hearts of Heroes," replacing Ginger Zee as the first-responder series returns for Season 8 on ABC's "Weekend Adventure" kids block beginning July 11.
Buddy Guy 90th Birthday Concert Set for Oct. 1 at
Blues legend Buddy Guy will celebrate his 90th birthday with a star-studded concert at Radio City Music Hall on October 1, featuring Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Jon Batiste, and more than 20 other artis
Jane Fonda Stars in Greenpeace's First Feature Doc 'Gaslit'
Katie Camosy's feature directorial debut, the Greenpeace USA-produced documentary "Gaslit," follows Jane Fonda on a road trip through oil and gas communities in the Southern U.S. and is screening at t
Sholay 'Films in Concert' World Premiere Set for Royal
The 1975 Bollywood classic "Sholay" will receive its "Films in Concert" world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall on Oct. 10, with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performing R.D. Burman's
'Born to Lose' Debuts at Raindance With Arnold, Pidgeon
Director Joseph Zentil's feature debut 'Born to Lose,' starring Dylan Arnold and Sarah Pidgeon, premieres in competition at Raindance Film Festival — a small-town Kentucky biker drama inspired by a fr
DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Casts Lea Salonga as
DreamWorks debuted 'Forgotten Island' at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, casting Lea Salonga as a Filipino folklore villain in what its directors called a 'love letter to Filipino cu
France TV Boards BBC & PBS Nature Doc 'An Hour On
French public broadcaster France Télévisions has boarded BBC Two and PBS's four-part natural history series 'An Hour On Earth,' which uses pioneering filming to capture nature's fleeting magic hours a
Heatwave watchlist: nine films for a UK scorcher
The Met Office has issued a red warning ahead of the UK's likely warmest June day on record, prompting a curated watchlist of nine heat-themed films from 'Do the Right Thing' to 'Interstellar.'
Madonna Biopic Scrapped Over Universal Budget Dispute
Madonna has revealed that her long-gestating biopic was cancelled after she fell out with Universal over the film's budget, despite her proposal to move production to Serbia to cut costs.
Hoffman, Binoche, Wright & Richardson Honored At
The 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will honor Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, Jeffrey Wright, and cinematographer Robert Richardson, with Hoffman, Binoche, and Richardson receiving Cr
Agnieszka Holland to Direct Non-Linear Dietrich Biopic
Agnieszka Holland is set to direct 'Berlinweh – Yearning for a Home,' a non-linear Marlene Dietrich biopic structured around four pivotal days across four different decades, produced by the same team
Steve Kirby's kitchen-table revolution in Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough's Industrial Coast label has cultivated a radical, DIY arts scene in a post-industrial town, drawing young artists with 50p tickets, 24-hour noise sets, and a kitchen-table ethos run by
Kevin Bacon to Star in Amazon MGM Horror 'Summoner'
Kevin Bacon has signed to star in Summoner, a new Amazon MGM horror film that follows a man called to a witness protection property to confront a demon, marking writer Jeremy Slater's directorial debu
Cammock Withdraws NPG Artwork After Churchill Famine Row
Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her video installation from London's National Portrait Gallery after a week of pressure from 50 peers who objected to her characterization of Wi
Edinburgh Festival Goes Phone-Free Under Benedetti
Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti has declared the festival "phone-free," announcing a "lights down, phones off" policy that stops short of pouches-style total bans but requir
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