Entertainment - Sunday, July 26, 2026

For fans who haven’t yet seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, don’t expect Odysseus to have a meet-cute with Penelope. While the 2x Oscar winner’s ancient epic adaptation has already crossed the $600M global mark, he confessed he’d be “terrified” to jump genres and take on a romantic-comedy, explaining why it would be “one of the […]

Deadline • 15 hours ago

Marvel boss Kevin Feige recently told Empire how David Jonsson was cast as the next Black Panther. He explained that “The Long Walk” star met with “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler in a “secret meeting,” and that the Oscar winner quickly identified Jonsson as his next leading man. “We hadn’t started a search yet,” Feige […]

Variety • 17 hours ago

Tadej Pogacar is in rare company after winning a record-tying fifth Tour de France. Only four others are credited with the achievement: Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil. (American Lance Armstrong stood on the winners podium seven times, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after a […]

Deadline • 16 hours ago

Gracie Abrams has earned her first No 1 on the Billboard 200 with her third album “Daughter From Hell,” bowing atop the chart with 124,000 equivalent album units. The singer-songwriter announced the album back in May, along with the release of its first single “Hit the Wall.” Her last project, 2024’s “The Secret of Us,” […]

Variety • 19 hours ago

Courtney Shah, the seven time Jeopardy! winner who went on to compete in the show’s Tournament of Champions, died at home on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer. That, according to local radio station, KLOG, which cited confirmation from the college where Shah taught. She was 52. Shah was best-known for her seven-game run […]

Deadline • 18 hours ago

Maya Jama is a multifaceted personality as the host of Love Island UK and is set to star in Netflix’s The Gentleman Season 2. As Jama expands her talents into other areas, there have been rumors that she is looking to step away from the ITV2 dating series. “I never know,” Jama told Deadline. “[The UK […]

Deadline • 19 hours ago

Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and filmmaker, has quietly become a key player behind many of President Trump’s plans to transform Washington and its cultural legacy, as our reporter Zachary Small explains. Mr. Taylor consulted on the White House’s scathing report on the Smithsonian, though the White House said he “didn’t write a word.”

NYT Arts • 1 day ago

Tom Holland is having a great time doing the press circuit for both “The Odyssey” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” because he’s fond of the movies. That hasn’t always been the case. On the July 22 episode of Dish Podcast, Holland spoke with hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett about the press cycles surrounding films […]

Variety • 20 hours ago

Bleecker Street’s Hadestown: The Musical swept to the second biggest opening for a live show capture since Hamilton, pushing $9.7 million in a terrific debut on 1,949 screens. Due to “extraordinary response and demand,” the distributor said its new event cinema label Crosswalk and partner LD Entertainment are expanding the initial five-day run and continuing […]

Deadline • 19 hours ago

Saïd Boumazoughe gets a “created by” credit just below director Bob Colaers at the end of “Attack on Paradise,” amplifying the fact that this project is very much the Belgian-Moroccan star’s realized personal fantasy of an action vehicle. That translates into something a lot like “Die Hard,” with elements of “Assault on Precinct 13,” “High […]

Variety • 21 hours ago

Daniel J. Kim (“Cobra Kai”) and Danielle Kennedy (“The ’Burbs”) have joined the cast of “Drive Thru Magic,” the upcoming scripted fiction podcast from actor, writer and director Briggon Snow (“The Bright Sessions”). The project is produced by Atypical Artists and executive produced by Lauren Shippen. “Drive Thru Magic” is a gay romance drama set against the unlikely backdrop of […]

Variety • 21 hours ago