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Turkish Drama "Hear The Yellow" Sweeps 72nd Taormina
Turkish drama "Hear The Yellow" by director Banu Sıvacı swept the 72nd Taormina Film Festival on Sunday, winning best film, director, actor, and actress under a Jane Campion–led jury.
Box Office: Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Opens to $44 Million, ‘Masters of the Universe’ Suffers 71% Drop, ‘Obsession’ Keeps Shattering Expectations
Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film 'Disclosure Day' debuted to $44 million domestically, while YouTube-creator horror breakouts 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms' continued shattering studio records at a weekend
Boy George Recalls Trapping Label Execs to Land Virgin
A new clip from Alison Ellwood's "Boy George & Culture Club" documentary reveals how the band weathered homophobic heckling and record-label rejection, eventually landing a Virgin Records deal after a
Hirst Unveils Bloodaxe, Reveals Cathar Dream Project
"Vikings" creator Michael Hirst unveiled his new 10th-century historical drama "Bloodaxe" at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, while also revealing a long-held dream project about medieval Cathar h
'Minotaur' Wins Sydney Film Prize After Cannes Grand
Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Minotaur,' winner of the Cannes Grand Prix earlier this year, claimed the AUD$60,000 Sydney Film Prize as the 73rd Sydney Film Festival closed Sunday with record-breaking attenda
YouTube Horror Films Top Studio Box-Office Records
Two horror films made by YouTube-raised filmmakers under 30 — 'Backrooms' and 'Obsession' — opened within a week of each other in May and each became their studio's highest-grossing release ever, outp
Domingo, Pidgeon Unpack Euphoria's Ali and Love
In a Variety and CNN Actors on Actors conversation, Colman Domingo and Sarah Pidgeon unpack their respective roles in Euphoria, Netflix's The Four Seasons, and FX's Love Story, with Domingo revealing
Aldeburgh opens with semi-staged Pelléas et Mélisande
A semi-staged Pelléas et Mélisande opened the Aldeburgh Festival with conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and director Rory Kinnear placing the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on the same platform as the sing
Guardian Curates David Hockney's Greatest Works
The Guardian has curated a photo gallery of David Hockney's most iconic paintings, spanning his homoerotic early works, California pool series, landmark queer portraits, and double portraits of close
Atlantis Play Brings 2055 Managed Retreat to Welsh Stage
Emily White's 'Atlantis' dramatizes the real-life 'managed retreat' of Welsh village Fairbourne, where a 2014 council decision to abandon sea defences by 2055 inspired the play's 2011–2039 timeline. T
Honor Debuts Robotic Camera Phone at Shanghai Film
Honor debuted its Robot Phone — a device with a self-moving, retractable AI camera co-developed with cinema camera maker Arri — on the Shanghai International Film Festival red carpet, where it served
‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creations
Sculptor Anish Kapoor opens a career-spanning solo exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery this week at age 72, unveiling new monumental works including the 31-part red structure "Ha Makom" alongside i
Yan Siyu Debut 'Outside the Room of My Own' Debuts at SIFF
Chinese filmmaker Yan Siyu's debut feature 'Outside the Room of My Own,' starring French actress Lucie Zhang, is screening a work-in-progress cut at SIFF Project during the Shanghai International Film
Peru Police Disguise as World Cup Mascots in Drug Raid
Peruvian police disguised themselves as the 2026 World Cup mascots — Clutch the Bald Eagle and Maple the Moose — to surprise and arrest a suspected drug trafficker nicknamed "Pichichi" in Lima, recove
Amy Adams Killed SNL Sketch to Shield 'Enchanted' Fans
Amy Adams revealed on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" that she blocked a graphic sketch pitched by Andy Samberg during her 2008 SNL hosting gig, unwilling to risk the young fans who had just embraced he
Wanda Sykes: Bill Maher Confronted Me Over Globes Joke
Wanda Sykes revealed on a podcast that Bill Maher confronted her backstage at the January Golden Globes, called her roast "stupid," and then asked her onto his podcast — an invitation she flatly decli
Tyra Banks Sues Netflix Over ANTM Docuseries Editing
Tyra Banks has sued Netflix for defamation, alleging producers of the 'America's Next Top Model' docuseries 'Reality Check' selectively edited her four-hour interview to falsely portray her as someone
Fat Joe Wrote a Triumphant Summer Hit. He Hopes It Soundtracks a Knicks Victory
Fat Joe released "Victory Lap (Him)," the first single from his forthcoming Cool & Dre-produced album, as the Knicks sit one win from their first championship since 1973. He spoke with Rolling Stone a
10 Ways David Hockney Reshaped Modern Art
David Hockney's six-decade career — from a working-class Bradford art school defector to a digital art pioneer — rewired how we see perspective, Los Angeles, and the boundaries between photography and
Lena Dunham's Too Much Inspired a Real-Life Proposal
Watching the casual wedding finale of Lena Dunham's Netflix series 'Too Much,' a woman with a 10-year partner who had long opposed marriage phoned him to propose — he said yes, and they're marrying in
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