Entertainment - Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Warner Bros. is in early development on a Rick and Morty movie, with franchise veteran Jacob Hair in talks to direct, Deadline can confirm. Plot details are under wraps. Dan Harmon, who co-created the Adult Swim show with Justin Roiland, has alluded to plans for a “a super badass” feature-length episode for a number of […]

A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.

“Beaches, A New Musical” will play its final Broadway show on May 24 after just 28 previews and 38 regular performances at the Majestic Theatre. “Beaches” began previews on March 27 and opened at the Majestic on April 22. Since then, the show has struggled to sell enough tickets to justify production costs. Reviews for […]

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]

“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.

Warner Bros. new specialty label Clockwork is in exclusive negotiations for a North American deal for starry Western “The Brigands of Rattlecreek,” directed by Cannes jury president Park Chan-Wook. The long-gestating project, which was one of the buzziest packages in Cannes, is set to star Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei. Clockwork […]

Andy Garcia’s passion project Diamond sparked a nine-minute ovation in Cannes on Tuesday evening as the star set down at the festival in the company of co-stars Vicky Krieps and Rosemarie DeWitt. Billed as a love letter to L.A. and a homage to the film noir of the past, the quirky whodunnit is written and […]

Nicholas Galitzine may have seen all his strict dieting and hard work at the gym pay off to transform into He-Man for “Masters of the Universe,” but he didn’t mind when that training came to an end. “I had to go into a movie three weeks later where the director said, ‘I need you to […]

Andy Garcia’s long-gestating passion project “Diamond” earned a warm seven-minute long standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night, bringing a dose of old-school Hollywood glamour to the Croisette with a sprawling ensemble cast led by Vicky Krieps and Rosemarie DeWitt, who were on hand for the premiere. Garcia was visibly moved as […]

He helped create Buckwheat, Mister Robinson and other characters Mr. Murphy played on “Saturday Night Live,” and was a writer of films like “Coming to America.”