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Tom Cruise's audacious 'Digger' opens to divided reviews and a tepid box-office outlook

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu's satire about a catastrophe-causing tycoon marks Cruise's first adult drama in over a decade, but early tracking points to a modest opening weekend for the $135 million Warner Bros. release.

Chris Hansen says he hasn't ruled out suing A24 over 'Primetime'

In his first interview since watching A24's hit dramatization of 'To Catch a Predator,' the broadcaster said his lawyers are 'itchy' to challenge the studio, while NBC issued a new statement defending the film.

Zoe Kazan revisits her grandfather's film with a new "East of Eden" on Netflix

Zoe Kazan's seven-episode adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, led by Florence Pugh and streaming globally from October 1, reworks the story her grandfather Elia Kazan filmed in 1955 and restores a central character his version left out.

Venom frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant, who helped invent black metal, dies at 63

Conrad "Cronos" Lant, the bassist and singer who fronted Venom for most of its 48-year history and whose band gave extreme metal's most notorious subgenre its name, has died at 63, the band said. No cause of death was given.

Woody Allen begins his 51st film in Madrid, backed by Spanish public money

The 90-year-old director, who has had no American studio distributor since 2019, appeared alongside Madrid's regional president Thursday as cast and funding were confirmed for an untitled comedy whose public financing requires the city's name in its title.

"You Can See Everything," filmed in secret over roughly three years starting just before Elizabeth Holmes reported to federal prison, premiered at the New York Film Festival on Tuesday, with A24 set to open it in theaters Oct. 16.

Disney's new premium-screen brand notches an early win as "Avengers" re-release tops the box office

More than half of ticket buyers for the re-released "Avengers: Endgame" chose Disney's untested Infinity Vision screens over standard showings, an early signal for a format the studio built after "Avengers: Doomsday" lost its IMAX slot to "Dune: Part Three."

Paramount Skydance sells $44 billion in bonds as Warner Bros. Discovery deal hits its deadline

Paramount Skydance opened a $44.4 billion bond sale this week to finish financing its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, just as Wednesday's contractual deadline arrived for a fee that starts accruing to sellers for every day the deal stays open.

Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley join Tom Holland's Fred Astaire biopic

Sony Pictures has set Sabrina Carpenter as Ginger Rogers and Margaret Qualley as Adele Astaire opposite Tom Holland in its long-gestating biopic of dancer Fred Astaire, directed by Paul King.

Dennis Haskins, TV's Principal Belding on 'Saved by the Bell,' Dies at 75

The actor who spent 15 years playing Principal Richard Belding across "Saved by the Bell" and its spinoff has died at 75, his agent confirmed Monday, drawing tributes from castmates and the Tennessee university where he later finished the theater degree he had set aside decades earlier.

Netflix becomes exclusive home of WWE programming in Japan, ending Abema's three-year run

Starting October 1, Raw, SmackDown, NXT and WWE's premium live events move to Netflix in Japan at no added cost, closing one of the last gaps in the streamer's push to become the wrestling promotion's global home.

A24's 'Primetime' scores third-biggest opening in studio history as the real Chris Hansen disputes his portrayal

Robert Pattinson's turn as "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen drove a $19.2 million opening weekend for A24, even as the real Hansen calls the film "detached from reality" and gives Pattinson's performance a "D."

Cregger's "Resident Evil" Reboot Becomes First in Franchise to Cross $100 Million Domestically

Zach Cregger's R-rated reboot of Capcom's zombie-outbreak franchise topped $100 million domestically in ten days and $196.5 million worldwide, a stronger and longer-legged run than any of the seven prior "Resident Evil" films managed.

AEW star PAC, wrestling's 'Man That Gravity Forgot,' dies at 40 after final match

Benjamin Satterley, who competed worldwide as PAC and, in WWE, as Neville, died less than 48 hours after his last match at AEW's All Out pay-per-view, prompting tributes from across the wrestling industry.

Avengers: Endgame Encore Retakes No. 1 at the Box Office, Building the Bridge to Doomsday

Disney's re-release of the 2019 blockbuster returned to the top of the North American box office with $86 million worldwide, using new footage and a first-of-its-kind theater certification program to set up December's Avengers: Doomsday.

Olivia Rodrigo opens 86-date 'Unraveled' tour with rain, a dissolving dress and a birthday song for her mom

The pop star's global arena run began Friday in Hartford with a six-act, no-encore set built around 'The Cure' and a surprise tribute to her mother, while her third album keeps generating chart records months after its debut.

Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Becomes the Longest-Running No. 1 Song in Billboard Hot 100 History

The 23-year-old country singer's crossover hit notches a 23rd week atop the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Mariah Carey's holiday classic to set the longest reign in the chart's 68-year history.

Madonna Opens MTV VMAs for a Record Fifth Time as Nirvana Receives Video Vanguard Honor

Leading all nominees with a career-high 13 nods, Madonna returns to the VMA stage for the first time in 23 years at a ceremony relocated to Los Angeles, where Snoop Dogg hosts and Nirvana and Taylor Swift receive newly minted legacy honors.

Ed Sheeran's Gillette Stadium Shows Canceled by Storm After Weeks of Macklemore Fallout

A nor'easter shut down the final Massachusetts dates of Ed Sheeran's already-strained tour, days after Robert Kraft barred Macklemore over pro-Palestinian remarks and a state inquiry forced Ticketmaster to offer refunds. Macklemore has since announced a benefit tour of his own.

Saturday Night Live Opens Season 52 With Jalen Brunson Hosting

The Knicks guard headlines the show's premiere alongside musical guest Katseye, as two new featured players join a reshaped cast.

A24 and The New York Times Emerge as Bidders for Letterboxd in Sale Valued Above $300 Million

The film-logging platform, majority-owned by the holding company Tiny since 2023, has drawn a widening field of suitors including Sony, Netflix and Paramount as its user base climbs past 29 million.

64th New York Film Festival Opens With James Gray's 'Paper Tiger,' Starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson

James Gray's Brooklyn-and-Queens crime drama, greeted with a 10-minute ovation at Cannes in May, opened Lincoln Center's 17-day festival on 35mm as distributor Neon builds an Oscar campaign around it.

Marina Vlady, Cannes Best Actress and Godard Muse, Dies at 88

The French screen icon, who won Cannes' top acting prize in 1963 and later chronicled her decade-long marriage to Soviet balladeer Vladimir Vysotsky, died at home on Thursday, her family told AFP.

A24 film revisiting 'To Catch a Predator' opens as Chris Hansen disputes his own portrayal

Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen in "Primetime," a dramatization of the "To Catch a Predator" sting operations that opened nationwide Friday. Hansen says the film distorts who he is; its story returns to the 2006 case that ended the original series.

Taylor Swift Teases Self-Directed 'Patient Zero' Video With Dakota Johnson, Colin Farrell Ahead of VMA Honor

A 13-second preview aired exclusively on CBS Mornings ahead of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, where Swift will also become the show's most-awarded artist in history with a newly created directing honor.

Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in New York Retrial

A Manhattan judge imposed the sentence for the 2006 assault of former "Project Runway" assistant Miriam Haley, closing out the New York case that began the reckoning which became the #MeToo movement.

Thai teen rocker Nene Royal becomes first Thai winner of 'America's Got Talent'

Sixteen-year-old Phuket guitarist Rattikarn Amloy, known as Nene Royal, won the $1 million prize on 'America's Got Talent' Season 21, prompting an official congratulatory statement from Thailand's government within hours of the result.

Two Past Winners, One Debut Novelist Make the Cut for 2026 Booker Prize

Judges narrowed a field of 163 submitted novels to six finalists on Tuesday, pitting former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart against a science-fiction veteran and a first-time novelist, with the £50,000 prize to be awarded in November.

Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Breaks All-Time Billboard No. 1 Record, Passing Mariah Carey

The country ballad's 23rd week atop the Hot 100 makes it the longest-running No. 1 single in the chart's 68-year history, surpassing Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You.'

Greenville County officials say fentanyl and four other drugs contributed to the actress's death last month, weeks after she left a rehabilitation program.

Naomi Watts uses San Sebastián honor to challenge Hollywood's verdict on aging actresses

Accepting the San Sebastián Film Festival's Donostia Award, the 57-year-old actress recalled being told her career would end at 40 — then pointed to this year's Emmy winners as proof the industry has moved on, as her Holocaust drama "The Housewife" heads toward a second honor in Zurich.

New Found Glory Guitarist Chad Gilbert Dies at 45 After Five-Year Cancer Battle

The founding guitarist of New Found Glory, who kept writing and recording through years of cancer treatment, died September 20 with his wife and mother at his side, the band said, closing out a three-decade run in one of pop-punk's defining bands.

Santa Monica police are investigating the death of Presley Gerber, who had spoken publicly about his struggles with addiction and mental health, as a suspected overdose.

Netflix wins Toronto's top audience prize for the first time with queer Spanish epic "La Bola Negra"

The Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi film, inspired by an unfinished work by Federico García Lorca, becomes the first Netflix production to take the Toronto film festival's top prize, a longtime forecaster of the Academy Awards' best-picture race.

Eugenio Zanetti, Oscar-winning production designer of 'Restoration,' dies at 79

The Argentine-born designer, who won the Academy Award for art direction in 1996 and later built sets for "What Dreams May Come" and "Last Action Hero," died suddenly in Buenos Aires while preparing an opera he had designed for the city's Teatro Colón.

Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' ties Mariah Carey's all-time Hot 100 record

The Alabama singer's breakup ballad has spent a 22nd non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, matching "All I Want for Christmas Is You" for the longest reign in the chart's history.

FCC clears Gulf sovereign funds to hold nearly half of Paramount Skydance

The FCC's Media Bureau waived its foreign-ownership cap to let sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi hold nearly half of Paramount Skydance's equity, clearing a hurdle in its pending Warner Bros. Discovery takeover even as a separate antitrust fight keeps the $110 billion deal frozen.

Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Reboot Opens to Franchise-Record Numbers and Rare Critical Praise

The ground-up reinvention of Capcom's video game franchise drew $8.8 million in Thursday previews and a 96 percent critics' score, a sharp reversal for a series long dismissed by reviewers.

Miley Cyrus Returns to Dance-Pop Roots on New Album 'Bass Persuades'

The singer's tenth studio album, released Friday under the mononym Miley, marks her label debut at Atlantic Records and a deliberate pivot back to club-ready pop.

James Cameron's Lightstorm buys AI-driven 3D studio Outsyders

The acquisition unites native stereoscopic capture with AI-powered 2D-to-3D conversion, the latest move in a two-year buying spree as Cameron bets that new headsets and glasses-style displays, not movie theaters, will revive a format whose box-office fortunes collapsed after 2010.

Olu Jacobs, actor who helped build Nollywood into a global industry, dies at 84

The RADA-trained performer who moved from British stage and television to Nigerian screens around 1990 has died at 84, prompting condolences from Nigeria's president, Lagos state's governor and the Actors Guild of Nigeria.

Macklemore, Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft Pledge $5 Million After Tour Rift Over Gaza Remarks

The rapper's removal from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour over onstage remarks supporting Palestinians triggered a wave of exits by other performers — and, this week, competing million-dollar donations from Macklemore and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Beyoncé's 'B'Day' reissue dethrones Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' on R&B albums chart

A 20th-anniversary reissue of Beyoncé's 2006 album ended a 17-week run for Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' atop Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart and pushed the set back into the Billboard 200's top ten.

Tony-winning composer Duncan Sheik hospitalized in critical but stable condition

The composer behind 'Spring Awakening' remains in critical but stable condition at a New York hospital, according to a family statement, as two productions featuring his music move toward their fall openings.

'Dancing With the Stars' season 35 premiere draws biggest audience in six years

The ABC ballroom competition opened its 35th season to 6.67 million viewers, a 24 percent jump over last year, extending a ratings recovery that has also brought the show its first Emmy nomination in a decade.

Paramount signals it may leave California as merger deadline nears, then goes quiet

Paramount Skydance told state officials it would announce an exit from California this week over its stalled Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but the statement never came, leaving Los Angeles bracing for an outcome no one can yet confirm.

Apple TV's 'Slow Horses' Returns for Season Six With New Showrunner — and a Season Eight Already Locked In

The Emmy-nominated spy drama premiered its sixth season Wednesday under a new head writer, a day after Apple TV confirmed the show will run for an eighth season adapting Mick Herron's most recent novel.

Universal Music sues DistroKid over AI "slop" and copyright infringement

UMG accuses the DIY distribution platform of flooding streaming services with undisclosed AI-generated tracks and knowingly infringing releases, a day after DistroKid declined to join a new industry anti-fraud pledge.

Celine Dion returns to the stage after six years, opening a 26-date Paris residency

Dion performed her first full concert since revealing she has stiff-person syndrome, opening a sold-out residency near Paris that will run in two legs through next spring.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' closes in on all-time box-office record

Sony's fourth Tom Holland-led Spider-Man film has taken in $935 million domestically, within about $1.5 million of the North American record held by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" since 2015.

Widow's Bay and Matthew Rhys make history at 78th Emmy Awards

Apple TV+'s freshman horror-comedy set an all-time record with 14 Emmys, and star Matthew Rhys became the first actor to win lead acting trophies in comedy, drama and limited series, at a ceremony hosted by Mariska Hargitay.

Toronto film festival honors Penélope Cruz, Helen Mirren and Seth Rogen at Tribute Awards gala

TIFF's eighth annual Tribute Awards gala drew ten honorees to Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Sunday, in a fundraiser that has become a fixture of the festival's second week.

May el-Toukhy's "Woman Unknown" Wins Venice's Golden Lion

The Danish-Egyptian director becomes only the eighth woman to win Venice's top prize, capping a competition where she was the sole female director and where her star, Mathilde Arcel, also took the best actress award.

Celine Dion Returns to the Stage in Paris, Four Years After Rare Diagnosis

The singer opens a 26-date residency outside Paris on Saturday, her first full concert in six years, following a 2022 diagnosis of stiff person syndrome.

Jay-Z reunites with Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams in Paris

The rapper's 30th-anniversary tour brought two rarely-seen collaborators onstage together for the first time in more than a decade during a sold-out show at Stade de France.

Oasis reunion documentary opens in US theaters as Gallagher brothers give first joint interview in years

"Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger," Disney's documentary on the band's 2025 reunion tour, opened wide in North America on September 11 carrying an unusual asset: Liam and Noel Gallagher sitting down together on camera for the first time in more than 15 years.