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NBA champ Brunson to host season premiere of SNL
Jalen Brunson, the newly minted NBA Finals MVP who ended the Knicks' 53-year title drought, will make his Saturday Night Live hosting debut on the show's season premiere Sept. 26, with pop group Katse
Laika’s ‘Wildwood’ Set to Open AFI Film Fest
Laika's animated film "Wildwood," a project Travis Knight said he carried for 16 years, will open the 40th AFI Fest on Oct. 21, marking the film's U.S. premiere with a voice cast led by Peyton Elizabe
Variety Names 2026 '10 Actors to Watch'
Variety unveiled its 2026 class of 10 Actors to Watch, spotlighting emerging talents including Jaafar Jackson, Inde Navarrette, and Ray Nicholson ahead of an October celebration at the Newport Beach F
Dolly Parton's Sister Reveals She Hid Cancer From Family
Dolly Parton's sister Stella revealed on CBS Mornings that the country icon hid her cancer from most family before dying at 80 on Aug. 25, saying she 'could not bear negative things' and wanted fans a
‘Place To Be’ Review: 93-Year-Old Ellen Burstyn Shines Teaming With Taika Waititi And A Wayward Pigeon In Kornél Mundruczó’s Touching Road Movie – Venice Film Festival
Kornél Mundruczó's 'Place to Be' premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, where 93-year-old Ellen Burstyn — who also received the Golden Lion Life Achievement Award — plays a widow wh
The Rainmaker Season 2 Premieres October 16 on USA
USA Network sets a Friday, October 16 premiere for Season 2 of its Grisham-adapted legal drama The Rainmaker and drops the full trailer, with Rudy Baylor tackling cases involving children's lives, a c
Liars Return With First Album and Song in Five Years
Angus Andrew's Liars return March 5, 2027 with 'A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans' on Mute — a politically charged record drawn from a Kalamazoo air crisis and titled after a real Michigan preemption law.
Ellen Burstyn's 'Place to Be' Earns 6-Minute Venice Ovation
Ellen Burstyn, 93, received a six-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival for her lead role in Kornél Mundruczó's road-trip drama "Place to Be," premiering the same week she is awarded the fes
SNL Season 52 Hosts: Brunson, Johnson, Gillis, Navarrette
Saturday Night Live unveiled its Season 52 host lineup, with NBA champion Jalen Brunson hosting the Sept. 26 premiere and horror-film breakout Inde Navarrette anchoring the Halloween episode alongside
Elon Musk Calls Gibney’s Four-Hour ‘Musk’ a Hit Piece
Elon Musk attacked Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk” as a biased “hit piece” and boring after its Venice premiere, while disputing Ashley St. Clair’s claim that he offered her a $40 million N
IMDb Adds First 'Digital Creator' Professional Category
IMDb is adding a new "Digital Creator" professional category on both IMDb and IMDbPro—the platform's first dedicated designation for internet content creators, complete with sub-professions like Strea
'Gail' TIFF Doc Centers Our Lady Peace Superfan
Documentary 'Gail,' premiering at TIFF, reframes the rock-doc formula by following Bronx subway worker Gail Lichtman — who has attended 150+ Our Lady Peace concerts over 30 years — as she chases the b
‘Jackass: Best and Last’ Sets Paramount+ Release Date
The Jackass franchise officially ends with "Jackass: Best and Last," which streams on Paramount+ on September 24 after a June 26 theatrical run, with Johnny Knoxville and the original crew reuniting f
Thunder Road and Lit Launch TR/AK Media Venture
TR/AK is being built as an ambitious independent media venture around original IP, top creative talent and a large story library. Its launch formalizes the long-running collaboration among Thunder Roa
Wicked Films Paired With Live Orchestra on Concert Tour
Wicked will return as a live-to-film concert experience, pairing both Wicked films with a live orchestra performing John Powell and Stephen Schwartz's score. The tour launches in January across nine c
‘Call My Agent! The Movie’ Premieres in Paris as Ted Sarandos Touts Netflix’s ‘Vital’ Role in France Amid Regulatory Fight
Ted Sarandos pitched Netflix as 'vital' to France's entertainment industry at the 'Call My Agent!' movie premiere — while Netflix, Amazon and Disney challenge France's new sub-quota and windowing rule
Neurosis Add Fall Tour Dates Behind New Album
Neurosis added seven new North American dates this fall behind their comeback album 'An Undying Love for a Burning World,' with support from Uniform, Primitive Man, and Great Falls, plus a Boston stop
Amazon Prime Video Rolls Out AI Lip-Sync on Maxton Hall
Amazon Prime Video has rolled out its first AI-powered lip-syncing technology on the German YA series 'Maxton Hall,' aligning actors' mouth movements with human-dubbed audio across all three seasons a
‘Disclosure Day’ Sets Peacock Streaming Release Date
Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film "Disclosure Day" begins streaming on Peacock on Oct. 9, roughly four months after its June 12 theatrical debut that earned $241 million worldwide.
'48 Hours' Launches First Video Podcast Series
Erin Moriarty hosts "The Woman in the Woods," "48 Hours"' first video podcast — a six-part investigation into Mindi Kassotis, whose friends were told she'd died before a dismembered body resembling he
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