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Seydoux Leads Kreutzer's 'Gentle Monster' Drama
Director Marie Kreutzer's 'Gentle Monster,' a Cannes-premiering thriller starring Léa Seydoux as a concert pianist confronting her husband's alleged crimes, opens in select theaters October 30 before
Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them
Spotify will tag AI-generated artist identities as "AI personas" on profiles and playlists starting in September, and will block them from personalised algorithmic recommendations by default in a bid
Ari Emanuel’s Mari Acquires ATG Entertainment, Theater Owner Behind ‘Wicked’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Productions
Ari Emanuel's events company Mari is acquiring ATG Entertainment from Providence Equity Partners, expanding an entertainment empire that already includes WME and TKO into theater venue ownership.
Netflix Teen Thriller ‘The Body’ Sets November Release Date, Drops First Look Photos (TV News Roundup)
Netflix has set a Nov. 11 premiere date for Quinn Shephard's teen thriller "The Body" and announced expanded casting for its upcoming hockey series "The Sticks," led by Scott Bakula and Logan Marshall
Ari Emanuel's Mari to Buy ATG Theaters for $6B
Ari Emanuel's newly formed events company Mari has agreed to acquire UK-based theater giant ATG Entertainment from Providence Equity Partners in a deal the FT values at £4.5B ($6B), pending regulatory
Lithuania Picks 'How to Divorce During the War' for Oscar Race
Lithuania has selected Andrius Blaževičius' 'How to Divorce During the War' as its entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film at the 99th Academy Awards on March 14, 2027.
Spotify tags AI Personas, pulls them from recs
Spotify will tag AI-generated artist profiles with 'AI Persona' badges starting mid-September and exclude that music from editorial and algorithmic recommendations by default, while still letting user
Disney+ Lands Global Formula E Streaming Rights in 144 Markets
Disney+ has secured global streaming rights to the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship across 144 markets, with U.S. coverage routed to ESPN+ as the league prepares to debut its next-generation GEN4
Paley Center Launches PaleyFest Award, Names First Honorees
The Paley Center for Media is debuting the PaleyFest Award during PaleyFest NY (October 8–14) to mark its 50th anniversary, naming Billy Crystal, 'American Horror Story,' 'Dexter,' 'Tulsa King,' 'Mars
Dwayne Johnson Drops 'Your Dad,' Explores Music Career
Dwayne Johnson is exploring a serious music career, debuting 'Your Dad' — a song co-written with American Idol winner Iam Tongi that he originally couldn't bring himself to record because of his compl
Spotify Adds 'AI Persona' Badge to Flag AI Artists
Spotify will roll out an 'AI Persona' badge in mid-September to flag artist profiles determined to be AI-generated, relying on both artist self-disclosure starting Aug. 11 and its own human-reviewed e
China’s Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue as Ximalaya Integration Marks New Audio Push
Tencent Music Entertainment Group reported $1.32 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 5.8% year-over-year, with music services revenue growing 11% and newly acquired Ximalaya contributing its first fully co
Bellucci Calls 'Ketticè' Role 'Unlike Anything' She's Done
At the Locarno premiere of Giovanni Tortorici's "Ketticè," Monica Bellucci tells Variety her role as a frustrated 2012 Palermo aristocrat is unlike any she's played — a tragicomic character who scream
Vargas Llosa's Final Novel: A Quirky Love Letter to Peru
The late Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's final novel 'I Give You My Silence' frames an eccentric love letter to Peru through a music journalist's quixotic mission to write the biography of a dead
Barker Recounts 2008 Plane Crash in 'Louder Than Fear' Trailer
Travis Barker's upcoming Hulu documentary 'Louder Than Fear' confronts the trauma of a 2008 plane crash that killed four people, his resulting painkiller addiction, and the overdose death of fellow su
Netflix's Mourinho Doc: Three Parts, Little Revelation
A new three-part Netflix docuseries on José Mourinho, directed by Joe Pearlman, draws criticism for its subject's refusal to fully open up despite the format's demands for introspection.
Nussen Adapts Calvino's Meta-Novel for Edinburgh Fringe
Los Angeles performer Gregory Nussen has adapted Italo Calvino's famously meta-textual 1979 novel 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller' into a one-person Edinburgh Fringe show that uses the novel's pos
Films explore ageing artists’ ego as defence against irrelevance
A new wave of films explores ageing male artists grappling with creative stagnation and narcissistic defences, revealing ego as a shield against fears of irrelevance and mortality.
After Party review: Glam-ma's death-day farcical before emotional turn
A Traverse Edinburgh review finds Morna Young's 'After Party' — about an 80-year-old planning her death the day after her birthday bash — uneven: a flat, farcical first act gives way to a more emotion
Harriet Richardson Debuts Creep at Edinburgh Fringe
Performance artist Harriet Richardson makes her standup debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with *Creep*, a storytelling hour that dissects an obsessive online exchange with an older comedian, blending pers
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