Entertainment

The $2B acquisition of Africa’s MultiChoice has helped Canal+ post higher half-year revenues and earnings. Unaudited total group revenues saw revenues grow 40% to €4.29 billion ($4.88 billion), though without MultiChoice the growth shrinks to just 1.4% year-on-year compared to 2025’s €3.07B. Similarly, adjusted EBIT (before exceptional items) was up 68% to €433M, from €257M, […]

Deadline • 1 hour ago

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has finally been unveiled to members of the film press, who are calling Tom Holland’s fourth standalone movie “a grounded Spider-Man tale” that is “thrilling, heartfelt and confidently character driven.” Fandango correspondent Erik Davis shared a glowing review on X, writing that director Destin Daniel Cretton’s sequel “feels deeper, more thoughtful […]

Variety • 3 hours ago

Zendaya stunned the red carpet at the “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Los Angeles premiere in a black satin Ashi Studio corset with a sweeping architectural train, putting an exclamation point on a press tour that the young star used as her personal runway. “It’s kind of an abstract way to present the spider,” Law Roach, […]

Variety • 4 hours ago

Tom Holland teased Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the Los Angeles premiere of the Sony Pictures film based on the Marvel superhero. The actor explained why this fourth installment is different from the other three chapters of his Spider-Man. “It’s more mature, and it’s a darker theme,” he told Deadline on the red carpet. “And […]

Deadline • 5 hours ago

After recovering from a life-threatening stroke, a fame-hungry musical comedian contends with a worse fate: She might just be average.

NYT Arts • 6 hours ago

Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs and footage from recording sessions and music videos. The suit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles and reviewed by Variety, targets a group of unnamed John Does for phishing scams […]

Variety • 7 hours ago