Entertainment - Monday, June 29, 2026

Comcast’s plan to split from NBCUniversal isn’t expected to draw much in the way of antitrust scrutiny. After all, the companies are essentially de-consolidating. But after Monday’s news of the move, questions remain as to what the company will face, perhaps not so much for the split but if either of the two new entities […]

New Order announced Monday that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be joining their show at Primavera in Chile in November “due to personal health reasons.” “Circumstances make it impossible,” the band said in an Instagram post. That leaves frontman Bernard Sumner as the only original member of the seminal post-punk band who will […]

Disney+ is heading into July with a packed lineup of premieres, returning favorites and major live sports. July kicks off with “Disney Celebrates America,” a 24-hour special in honor of the Fourth of July. ESPN broadcasts begin early, including Wimbledon games and, later in the month, WNBA games. On the entertainment side, new and returning […]

What the politician and the comic have in common became clear at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony, where the winner was called “underrated.”

EXCLUSIVE: Chase Yi (Mythic Quest) has landed a lead role in the new Paranormal Activity movie from Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Paramount Pictures, Deadline has learned. Plot and character details for the next installment in the found-footage franchise remain under wraps as the project moves forward as a priority title for Paramount Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic. Ian Tuason, […]

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety’s Jack Dunn breaks down a rough weekend for “Supergirl” and a big frame for “Toy Story 5” and “Michael.” And Todd Spangler explains why Comcast is hauling out the corporate meat cleaver to separate NBCUniversal and Sky from the core Comcast cable […]

Ms. Chase was the voice of Lilo and also played the child villain in the horror film “The Ring.” She died in Los Angeles this month.

Marvel boss Kevin Feige once said back in 2017 at a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 presser that when it came to the studio’s embrace of deeper character comic book stories like Black Panther and Ant-Man, “The biggest risk was not [in] doing them. The biggest risk would have been doing Iron Man 1, 2, 3, […]

Carl Rinsch, the director of “47 Ronin,” was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison, receiving half of the government’s recommended sentence after Judge Jed Rakoff considered evidence of his mental health struggles from Keanu Reeves and other character witnesses. In December, a jury convicted Rinsch of wire fraud and money laundering charges after […]

EXCLUSIVE: Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect franchise) and Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) have wrapped on the Los Angeles shoot for The American Winner, a satirical horror film marking the debut feature of Iranian writer-director Farbod Ardebili. Hailing from Bad Grey and Plain Text, The American Winner follows a megalomaniacal tech billionaire (Borg) who manipulates markets from his residence while […]