EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘Whisperings of the Moon,’ ‘Silver’ and ‘Zumeca’ Among 2026 Slamdance Film Festival Award Winners
Films including “Whisperings of the Moon,” “Silver” and “Zumeca” were among the winners at the 32nd Slamdance Film Festival. Dedicated to celebrating emerging filmmaking talent from around the world, the in-person awards ceremony took place on Feb. 25 at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles. This yea
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘The Bear’ Is Ending With Season 5 At FX
Sources have confirmed to Deadline that the Jeremy Allen White-led comedy drama will end with its upcoming fifth season.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Lionsgate Exec On Hollywood M&A: “We’ve Got a Scarce Asset”
COO Jimmy Barge told an investors conference the 'John Wick' studio is a better look to potential suitors after its break up with Starz and as industry consolidation pushes up library content valuations.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Padma Lakshmi on Building Her Own Cooking Competition After Being ‘Burnt Out’ by ‘Top Chef’: ‘I Didn’t Want to Go Back to Just Being Talent’
Padma Lakshmi didn’t think she’d ever return to cooking competition shows. In 2023, when she stepped away from the Bravo touchstone “Top Chef” after hosting for 19 seasons, Lakshmi was “burnt out” and ready to focus on other projects — like “Taste the Nation,” her Hulu travel series tracing American
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Harry Styles Doesn’t Owe Us His Grief - Vulture
Harry Styles reflected on his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne’s death in a conversation with Zane Lowe.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan to Reunite at Oscars for Rob Reiner Tribute; New Details Revealed
“When Harry Met Sally” co-stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan will reunite at the Oscars to honor Rob Reiner. Sources tell me that details now include Crystal talking about the late filmmaker and actor during the In Memoriam segment. Ryan will be on the stage at the same time along with other stars of
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Music Industry Moves: Create Music Group Completes $450 Million Fundraise, Company Valued at $2.2 Billion
Create Music Group has announced the successful completion of its latest funding round, valuing the company at $2.2 billion and securing over $450 million of new equity and debt capital to support its continued expansion. Create, which was founded in 2015, remains majority-owned by its founders, wit
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Maggie Gyllenhaal on How She Crafted Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale’s Looks in ‘The Bride!’
The filmmaker broke down how she put her own spin on Frankenstein and The Bride while at the film's New York premiere on Tuesday.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 A Beloved Actor’s Face Is Now Unrecognizable. But It’s Us Who Should Be Looking in the Mirror. - Slate
His extreme transformation spawned a spate of worldwide conspiracy theories.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 How Director Carl Houston Mc Millan Moved Mountains and Got Gear Up Into a Cave to Put Lesotho on the Map With ‘Kabelo’
Exactly a year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Lesotho as an African nation that “nobody has ever heard of,” but it’s precisely in this ruggedly beautiful mountain kingdom that Carl Houston Mc Millan set and made his independent film “Kabelo.” The Sesotho-language feature, directed by M
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘Traitors’ Star Maura Higgins on Acting Aspirations, Manifesting ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and When She’s Getting That Birkin
The last-standing Faithful of season four is unpacking that rollercoaster of a finale and what she got that’s better than winning the show.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Terry Crews and Jermaine Harris to Star in Coming-of-Age Dramedy ‘Inauguration Day’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Terry Crews and Jermaine Harris are set to star in “Inauguration Day,” a coming-of-age film set in a high school on Jan. 20, 2009, the day of President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Described as a “socially resonant dramedy,” the movie is executive produced by Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur w
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘The Bear’ to End with Season 5, Jamie Lee Curtis Says
“The Bear” is ending with its upcoming fifth season, according to recurring guest star Jamie Lee Curtis. The actress recently posted a photo of herself and co-star Abby Elliott from the set of Season 5 that got fans talking about whether the FX show was reaching its finale. In her caption, Curtis wr
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Joburg Film Festival Encourages All Filmmakers to Express Their Views: ‘A Space Where Politics and Artistry Meet’
Following the brouhaha around whether art should be divorced from politics at the Berlinale, the organizers of the 8th Joburg Film Festival at Tuesday night’s opener were adamant that all voices and viewpoints are welcome, noting that African filmmaking is inherently political. Hundreds of filmmaker
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 John Leguizamo Joins Scarlett Johansson in New ‘The Exorcist’ Horror Movie for Blumhouse, Universal (Exclusive)
Mike Flanagan, known for his Stephen King adaptations 'Gerald's Game' and 'Doctor Sleep,' is writing and will direct the feature film.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 L.A. Council Approves Some Measures to Streamline Film Permitting
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to streamline some film permitting procedures and seek an audit of FilmLA, the regional permitting body, as it tries to address a dramatic downturn in local production. Councilman Adrin Nazarian has sought for the last year to respond to production compla
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Harry Styles Says the “Greatest Way” to Honor Liam Payne Is By “Living Life to the Fullest”
"It's so difficult to lose a friend. It's difficult to lose any friend, but it's so difficult to lose a friend who is so like you in so many ways," the three-time Grammy Award winner told Apple Music's Zane Lowe of his late One Direction bandmate.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Sean “Diddy” Combs Shaves Six Weeks Off His Federal Prison Sentence After Rehab Stint
The rap mogul’s 50-month sentence for Mann Act violations has been reduced as he nears the two-year mark of his ongoing incarceration.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Slava Tsukerman, Director of Cult Indie Hit ‘Liquid Sky,’ Dies at 85
Slava Tsukerman, the Russian-born writer and director of the stylish 1982 cult hit “Liquid Sky,” died Monday. He was 85. The video distributor Vinegar Sky was among those of his associates announcing his death. Liquid Sky’s statement on social media said, “We are saddened to learn of the passing of
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Charter CEO Says California Regulators Hampering Cox Merger Approval
Chris Winfrey told an investors conference the deal has FCC and Department of Justice clearances, but Golden State regulators have yet to sign off on the $34.5 billion acquisition ahead of a key deadline.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 Mike Richardson Out as CEO of Dark Horse Entertainment After 40 Years
Embracer, the video game holding company that bought Dark Horse in 2022, is installing a gaming exec as interim CEO.
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 French Box Office Jumps 20% as ‘Marsupilami,’ ‘Guru’ and Other Local Hits Power Early 2026 Rebound
After a lackluster year that saw the French box office drop by nearly 15% and become dominated by Hollywood blockbusters, 2026 is kicking off with a quartet of ambitious French films driving a 20% jump in theatrical admissions. The rebound is being fueled by an unusually diverse slate of local produ
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip
Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It’s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l’amour fou, a renegade take-off on the "Frankenstein" mythology. And while the movie doesn’t entirely work — it lumbers along and blows fuses; it has plenty of flesh and blood but not enough storytelling spine — there’s a
EntertainmentMarch 4, 2026 ‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Get Their Freak on in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bludgeoning Feminist Frankenstein Spin
Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.