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Hollywood, K-drama, global streaming and festival news — the outside stories India is actually talking about.
The Sandra Bullock-Nicole Kidman sequel topped the charts at home and abroad but landed well under the studio's overseas targets, leaving a $75 million budget looking shaky.
Netflix's live-action Scooby-Doo: Origins has finished shooting in Atlanta, with a real Great Dane playing the iconic pup for the first time. McKenna Grace, Tanner Hagen and Abby Ryder Fortson lead a teen cast headed for a 2027 global release.
Jay Baruchel plays daredevil Ken Carter in Michael Dowse's new period comedy about a botched rocket-car jump over the St. Lawrence River. Variety's review calls it slower and less funny than the 1981 documentary it's based on.
Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, starring Anthony Ippolito as a young Sylvester Stallone fighting to get his script made his way, premiered at TIFF to sharply divided reviews from Variety and TheWrap.
Director Roshan Sethi, who still practices as a radiation oncologist part of the year, has made a genre-mashing thriller with Michelle Yeoh that critics are already tipping for a sequel.
HBO has locked in 2028 for House of the Dragon's fourth and final season, with cameras rolling in 2027, while a theatrical Aegon's Conquest film and Rings of Power Season 3 keep the Thrones universe expanding on every front.
Pierce Brosnan tells The Times the next James Bond might not be any of the actors currently rumoured for Denis Villeneuve's reboot, calling the field wide open with plenty of good hats in the ring.
Céline Dion kicked off a 16-date residency outside Paris on Saturday, her first full concert in six years. The singer, visibly emotional, opened with the French track On ne change pas before an estimated 30,000-strong crowd.
Sean Astin's Sam delivering his 'even darkness must pass' speech to Elijah Wood's Frodo in The Two Towers remains one of fantasy film's most quoted moments, outlets note, decades after release.
Rylee Arnold, gearing up for a new season of Dancing with the Stars, says she is grateful for the long-distance stretch ahead with boyfriend Walker Lyons, a BYU tight end, calling it a test that strengthens the relationship.
The 83rd Venice Film Festival closed with Woman Unknown taking the Golden Lion over festival favourite Possible Love, a decision Maggie Gyllenhaal's jury defended even as critics called it the wrong pick.
ABC is swapping its Tuesday night anchor. High Potential, its streaming-record procedural, steps aside for R.J. Decker, a new PI drama based on Carl Hiaasen's novel Double Whammy, premiering September 15.
Zack Snyder made an independent film called The Last Photograph, shooting parts of it himself in Colombia while sick with COVID, and it premieres at TIFF this weekend with no studio or streamer attached.
Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson's cartel-chase thriller Runner opened to $2.5 million on Friday across over 2,500 North American theatres, with an A- CinemaScore suggesting word of mouth could carry it further despite a modest start.
Anna Biller's first film in ten years, The Face of Horror, premiered at TIFF's Midnight Madness section, reworking the Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan into a medieval revenge tale starring Kristine Frøseth and Jonah Hauer-King.
Alita: Battle Angel, the $405 million cyberpunk blockbuster James Cameron developed before Robert Rodriguez directed it, is getting a second life on digital platforms years after its muted critical reception at release.
Speaking at TIFF, Obsession co-producer Haley Nicole Johnson said the film's rise from a $15 million Focus Features sale to a $500 million hit has been overwhelming, as fellow horror producers debated what comes next for the genre.
Cody Lightning's TIFF premiere Smudge the Blades flips the underdog hockey movie formula, casting actual young hockey players and centring the racism Indigenous athletes face on and off the ice in Canada.
Barbarian, the 2022 thriller that made an Airbnb basement genuinely terrifying, is leaving HBO Max on September 30. Director Zach Cregger follows it up with Resident Evil on September 18.
Eknath Shinde's vada pav break on a London street has gone viral, capping a UK visit where he pitched Maharashtra to investors, met Virat Kohli and picked up several honours.
Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black across the film franchise, says HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series will feel more satisfying than the movies because it keeps far more of the books intact.
Goldenvoice's inaugural Ocean Way Festival on the Santa Monica beach, headlined by The Killers, Olivia Dean and Jack White, has been called off after storm erosion left too little usable sand to host it safely.
Lady Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky were photographed walking with their newborn in Northern California, the first sighting since reports surfaced that the couple had quietly become parents.
Fear Street, the Three Colors trilogy, the Before films and Back to the Future all solve the same problem differently: how do you make a third movie feel inevitable instead of tacked on?
Chicago Med returns October 7 with a three-month time jump, an unresolved Hannah-Dean romance, and Sarah Ramos's Caitlin Lennox absent from the first five episodes while the actress is on leave.
Strange New Worlds went full soap opera in "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass," with Deidre Hall guesting and the cast learning to act deliberately badly. Christina Chong also confirmed her dog Runa's Season 1 cameo won't be the last.
Bengal-born filmmaker Anuparna Roy is back in Venice's Orizzonti competition with her second feature, a story of four migrants on Mumbai's margins, a year after becoming the first Indian to win the section's Best Director award.
The creative team behind Pasadena Playhouse's sold-out Amadeus is back with Dürrenmatt's The Visit, starring Jefferson Mays as a man his former lover wants dead for the right price.
Quiver Distribution has picked up North American rights to the feature version of Long Day's Journey Into Night, with Jessica Lange and Ed Harris leading the O'Neill adaptation ahead of its September 25 release.
With the Emmys set for September 14, this year's top nominees across drama, comedy and limited series categories are overwhelmingly original creations, not adaptations of existing books, films or franchises.