Entertainment - Sunday, August 9, 2026

Ben Jones, the actor turned politician best known for playing Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” died on Sunday from a heart attack, according to his wife Alma Viator. He was 84. Viator announced her husband’s death in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon. With a photo of Jones holding his dog, she wrote, […]

Variety • 35 days ago

If there’s anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it’s land a punch line. There are a lot of them in “Lost Weekend,” her first solo record in six years, and she doesn’t waste any time in getting to the first of the album’s many great jokes. Possibly the most quotable couplet comes right in […]

Variety • 35 days ago

Independents posted impressive numbers this weekend, another good one for moviegoing but competitive with blockbuster commercial films in the marketplace. Tony and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma are notable newcomers with CatVideoFest 2026 landing in the top 10 and a sweet debut for doc Cookie Queens. A24’s Tony cooked with one of the […]

Deadline • 35 days ago

David Sackeroff, an Emmy-nominated production designer and art director known for his work on classic shows like “Seinfeld,” “Alf” and “Carol & Company”, died July 10 on Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 81. Sackeroff was born on November 8, 1944. He spent his childhood constructing miniature puppet theaters and developing a fascination for spatial storytelling. […]

Variety • 35 days ago

SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Netflix movie The Last House As Wagner Moura traps fans at home with his new movie The Last House, he can’t help but recall the isolation of the COVID pandemic. While discussing the ending of the Louis Leterrier-helmed Netflix film, now available to stream, the Oscar nominee said […]

Deadline • 35 days ago

As the Bayreuth Festival celebrates 150 years, Wagnerians from around the globe brave heat, hard seats and a complex history for a unique music tradition.

NYT Arts • 35 days ago

Forget the woes of a potential Paramount-WBD merger, the summer domestic box office is on fire, just $14.8M away from crossing $4 billion. This is all according to Rentrak. For for the period of May 1-Aug. 9, the summer B.O. stands at $3.985B. The last time the North American box office crossed $4B was 2023 […]

Deadline • 35 days ago

Ariana Grande has earned her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with “Petal,” which bows in the top spot with 295,000 equivalent album units, her best opening-week figure this decade. “Petal” and its songs and videos have been the topic of considerable conversation — before and after the singer’s declaration that she […]

Variety • 35 days ago

When it comes to Paramount’s legal wrestle with the AG’s antitrust case over the Melrose lot’s possible merger with Warner Bros, the key is to divide and conquer with exhibition. Deadline knows that Paramount has made a written commitments with at least one of the top two circuits, specifically, Regal for for 30 films annually […]

Deadline • 35 days ago

Our film critic Alissa Wilkinson reviews “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” dissecting its argument not to discard your favorite films that may not have aged well.

NYT Arts • 35 days ago

When “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” director Jane Schoenbrun described their vision for the bloody one-take sequence in which Little Death (Jack Haven) massacres an entire summer camp — all set to Counting Crows’ 1996 rock ballad “A Long December” — they said it should feel like a Michael Bay movie. “That’s the one […]

Variety • 35 days ago

Years before they were onscreen buds in The Wrong Girls, Alia Shawkat and Kristen Stewart were jamming together as the titular rock “Queens of Noise” in 2010’s The Runaways. At a recent screening for their upcoming Dylan Meyer-written/directed Neon stoner comedy, which premieres Aug. 14 in theaters, Shawkat recalled they “were children” on the set […]

Deadline • 35 days ago