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Kit Harington Joins HBO Harry Potter as Lockhart
Kit Harington, who previously voiced Gilderoy Lockhart in Audible's 'Harry Potter' audiobooks, has been cast in HBO's TV adaptation in the same role for Season 2, replacing Nicholas Hoult who exited d
‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic
A new 4K restoration of Madness's 1981 semi-fictional origin film 'Take It or Leave It' is bringing back to light a self-financed guerrilla production in which Stiff Records boss Dave Robinson fired h
California, Nashville Declare Sept. 25 Dolly Parton Day
California, Nashville, Portland, San Francisco, and two Texas counties have all designated Sept. 25 — a date chosen as a nod to Dolly Parton's '9 to 5' — as Dolly Parton Day, with each jurisdiction pl
Peter Krause’s ‘Line of Fire’ Is a Promising and Engaging NBC Procedural Drama: TV Review
NBC's new procedural "Line of Fire," created by Joshua Safran and loosely inspired by Jenna Bush Hager's Secret Service experiences, follows a family of federal agents across the Secret Service, Marsh
Chile's 'Erratics' Premieres at San Sebastián
Chilean director Thomas Woodroffe's debut feature 'Erratics' — a speculative ghost-cinema piece starring Denis Lavant as a French filmmaker trapped in a Patagonian glacier for a century — world premie
Brad Pitt Returns as Cliff Booth in Fincher's Tarantino Sequel Trailer
Netflix dropped the first trailer for David Fincher's 'The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,' with Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning stuntman role in a 1977-set sequel to Tarantino's 'Once Up
Brad Pitt Returns In 'Cliff Booth' Trailer From Fincher
David Fincher's first trailer for 'The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth' dropped, reuniting Brad Pitt with the Oscar-winning role in a 1977-set sequel written by Tarantino, premiering in Imax Nov
Calista Flockhart: Fans Still Thank Me for Ally McBeal
Calista Flockhart reflects on the enduring cultural footprint of her 90s sitcom Ally McBeal, recalling how she stumbled on the script while performing Chekhov in New York and still encounters fans who
How much is being close to your favorite artist worth? Superfans are reshaping the concert industry
Superfans are paying thousands for VIP concert experiences — barricade access, soundchecks, meet-and-greets — driving an estimated $4 billion annual opportunity for the live music industry while raisi
Celebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!
A ranked retrospective of Rachel Cusk's 10 best books traces her career arc from her 1993 Whitbread-winning comic debut "Saving Agnes" to her forthcoming 2026 novel "Life of M," placing the formally r
Ministry Of Time Adds Akhtar, Hinds And Eight More
A24's BBC adaptation of Kaliane Bradley's novel Ministry of Time adds Adeel Akhtar, Ciarán Hinds, and eight more actors to its cast as filming continues on the six-part London-set series.
Eagle Eye Drama to Adapt Barbara Cartland Bio
Eagle Eye Drama has acquired the television rights to Matthew Sweet's newly published biography of Dame Barbara Cartland, the 20th-century 'Queen of Romance' novelist who sold close to a billion books
Organ Couriers Become Hollywood's New Action Heroes
Hollywood is recasting medical organ couriers as action-movie protagonists, with films like 'Runner' and a new 'Resident Evil' installment leading a 2026 trend that filmmakers explicitly tie to post-p
Novelist Maha Harada Debuts as Director at San Sebastian
Bestselling Japanese novelist Maha Harada, 64, makes her feature directorial debut with "In My Father's Room," premiering in competition at San Sebastian before moving to Busan, with pre-sales already
Snapes Mocks MPs' Eurovision Inquiry with 'Nul Points'
Guardian music critic Laura Snapes published a sardonic opinion column dismissing a parliamentary inquiry into the UK's repeated Eurovision Song Contest failures, arguing that British politics itself
Kayla Christensen Wins World of WearableArt Supreme Prize
New Zealand artist Kayla Christensen won the 2026 Supreme Wow award at Wellington's World of WearableArt festival for "Sacred Nightfall," an intricately stitched tapestry summoning a night goddess fro
John Farnham tribute: Céline Dion, Chris Martin and Hugh Jackman honour ‘living legend’ at livestreamed concert
More than 120 Australian and international artists gathered at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena for a John Farnham tribute concert that the ailing 77-year-old watched from home, raising money for Head and
Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Grossed More in Its Opening Weekend Than the First Film Made in Its Entire Run
Zach Cregger's reimagined 'Resident Evil' earned $108.3 million worldwide in its opening weekend, surpassing the 2002 original's entire theatrical run. The result cements Cregger as one of Hollywood's
La Bola Negra wins Toronto people's choice award
Spanish queer drama La Bola Negra won Toronto's people's choice award — the first foreign-language film to take the prize since Lebanon's Where Do We Go Now? in 2011.
A24's SCP Movie Stumbles Over Creative Commons Licensing
A24 announced a V/H/S horror anthology film set in the SCP Foundation universe, but the studio is claiming 'worldwide rights' to a property organized under a Creative Commons license that legally prev
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