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The Blumhouse horror film, with Chastain in a dual role, is projected to top the weekend box office even as early critics call it 'more silly than scary.'
The Facebook-whistleblower drama is drawing praise for Jeremy Strong's Zuckerberg but faces a soft opening-weekend outlook next to its 2010 predecessor.
The Toronto-born poet and classicist becomes only the second Canadian-born writer honored with literature's biggest prize, for a body of work that has spent decades blending verse, essay and grief into new forms.
The 54th annual festival added a panda, a parrot and a diamond-ring balloon to its skies, with organizers calling this year's special-shapes lineup the largest ever assembled for the event.
Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama begins previews at Lincoln Center Theater in its first-ever Broadway revival, with Bradley Whitford now playing the officer across the table from the role he originated three decades ago.
Two past winners and three newcomers made the cut as Mary Beard's panel narrowed the 2026 Booker Prize to six novels, with a winner due at a London ceremony on November 9.
Matthieu Blazy conjured Chanel's ghosts, Jonathan Anderson chased weightlessness at Dior, and a gold-drenched Saint Laurent show fueled talk that Anthony Vaccarello is ending his decade-long run, as the spring/summer 2027 season wrapped in Paris.
The Paris museum's new exhibition, organized with London's National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, traces the 17th-century Spanish painter's career through Jan. 25.
Edwidge Danticat, Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among 25 finalists across five categories, with two books on the translated-literature and poetry shortlists drawn from the war in Gaza.
The psychological thriller opened at No. 1 with an estimated $32.6 million and a C+ CinemaScore, the latest sign that Colleen Hoover's novels have become a reliable engine for Hollywood adaptations.
More than 10,000 entries from 112 countries were whittled down to this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists — among them a head-butting lion cub and a squirrel that won't leave an owl alone.
The rapper and actor joins DJ Khaled, Megan Thee Stallion and other industry donors underwriting four-year scholarships at the Long Island University program.
The director will serve as executive producer alongside longtime producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, aiming for a tone closer to the films he helped shape in 2007 and 2009.
The actress, who won her only Oscar for her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando and later matched wits with Cary Grant for Alfred Hitchcock, died Tuesday at her Los Angeles home.
A tiny Gertrude Abercrombie canvas, picked up for pocket change in Michigan, shattered the Chicago surrealist's auction record at Freeman's this week.
The R&B singer's first top-10 album on the Billboard 200 caps a resurgence fueled by last year's sleeper hit 'Nasty.'
Marking the centenary of her death, 'The Choice of Independence' gathers nearly 80 works tracing the American painter's path into the heart of French Impressionism.
Andrew Garfield's uncanny turn as the OpenAI chief anchors a docudrama that critics are already calling the real sequel to 'The Social Network.'
A Manhattan museum's collection yielded 15 looted Greek antiquities, from Bronze Age bracelets to a Roman-era bust, in the latest return by a years-long trafficking investigation.
The Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson thriller drew a solid opening day, but reviews of the Colleen Hoover adaptation were sharply mixed.
The Baltimore hardcore band's first network television performance came during a breakout year that included its first two Grammy Awards.
The pop superstar's first full headline tour in nearly a decade rolled through Los Angeles this weekend, with Live Nation calling ticket demand unlike anything in its North American touring history.
Drew Henry and Kai Nesselrath made their runway debuts at Courrèges and Carven this week, each inheriting a house unsettled by recent creative-director exits.
The Smiths guitarist's fifth solo album arrives three weeks before his biggest headline date yet, a sold-out Wembley Arena show.
Four shortlisted artists turn Middlesbrough's MIMA into a run of immersive, theatrical rooms, with the prize's £25,000 to be awarded in December.
A seashell still life bought on a whim in Kalamazoo was authenticated as a lost Gertrude Abercrombie — and became the priciest work of her career.
A new site-specific commission by the Turkish artist combines embroidery, batik and archival photographs to trace women's labor along the Cornish coast.
The Japanese artist's new free installation wires umbrellas, kettles and ripening fruit into a system driven by humidity and air, marking 20 years of commissions in the gallery.
The designer behind Adele's arena tours, the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony and the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show opens her first major European retrospective in London, built around a full-scale replica of her own studio.
Ollie Collard interviewed 70 people in under 57 hours to raise money and awareness for a mental health charity.
A new exhibition opening this weekend in Queens marks seven decades since Armstrong's first visit to Ghana, on the eve of the country's independence.
Ten novels, chosen from 451 submissions, lead the field ahead of an Oct. 6 cut to finalists and a November ceremony.
Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' dropped by Amazon after its $50 billion OpenAI deal, finally gets its world premiere Monday with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman.
The EGOT winner will be celebrated at the San Diego International Film Festival's 'Night of the Stars' tribute on Oct. 13, joining past honorees Annette Bening, Patrick Stewart and Mark Hamill.
An investigation into a September incident in which women were pulled from their posts during a religious delegation's visit found management failures, prompting the Paris monument's director general to resign.
Previews begin Oct. 1 at the Imperial Theatre for an autobiographical one-man show named for the address of the house Crystal's family held for 46 years before last year's Los Angeles wildfires.
Gilroy's first original feature since his 'Michael Clayton' era pairs Pascal with Olivia Wilde in a non-linear, music-driven drama that world-premieres Friday as the festival's Centerpiece selection.
Athena Leong and Sevy Swift met over a shared love of the brick, then teamed up to assemble the 11,695-piece Lego World Map faster than any pair before them.
The 464-page novel, out today from Riverhead, trades Gilded Age finance for a stateless future New York powered by black-market electricity.
The Emmy winner joins Ed Harris and Allison Janney in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, with previews starting tonight at the Hudson Theatre.
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's 300,000-square-foot Exposition Park museum opened Sept. 22 after 17 years in the making. A week on, reviewers are still fighting over what "narrative art" even means.
Joe Macken spent 21 years building an 890,000-structure model of New York from balsa wood; a viral TikTok clip turned it into a Museum of the City of New York exhibit closing October 12.
The 64th edition, running through Oct. 12 at Lincoln Center, opened with Gray's semi-autobiographical crime drama starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson.
Disney's expanded cut of the 2019 blockbuster drew an estimated $26 million to lead a crowded weekend, edging out a sturdy second frame for Resident Evil and a strong debut for Heart of the Beast.
Snoop Dogg hosted a Peacock Theater ceremony where Swift's 'The Fate of Ophelia' won Video of the Year and pushed her past 30 career trophies, while Madonna collected seven awards and the night paused for tributes to Dolly Parton.
New entries drawn largely from Trinidad and Tobago, plus one from Bermuda, trace centuries of migration, folklore and food through the islands' English.
In a new interview, the country star recalled being unable to reconnect with her longtime friend and collaborator after missing a call placed weeks before Parton's death in August.
The Knicks' NBA Finals MVP became the first basketball player to host 'Saturday Night Live' since LeBron James, ushering in a reshuffled cast alongside musical guest Katseye.
The film-diary app beloved by 30 million cinephiles has become the target of a crowded auction, with a legacy newspaper and a Hollywood indie studio circling a company that a decade ago was a side project for two film-obsessed New Zealanders.
A shuttered 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has reopened as an art gallery disguised as a corner store, selling pre-tangled USB cords, chip-bag purses and a landline iPhone that only plays U2.
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart return as finalists on a six-book list that judges' chair Mary Beard says ranges from the hilarious to the 'frighteningly strange.'
Twenty-six objects spanning 12 centuries, including the storied Baptistery of Saint Louis, open today at the National Museum of Asian Art in a first-of-its-kind loan from Paris.
The surprise single arrives as part of a deluxe reissue of 'The Life of a Showgirl,' with a Dakota Johnson-and-Colin Farrell music video set to debut Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards.
A24's fictionalized reckoning with Chris Hansen's reality-TV sting operation arrives in theaters to strong reviews and a public rebuke from Hansen himself.
"I Am Tony" gathers nearly four decades of the video artist's work exploring Black identity, spanning the newly expanded Bowery museum through early January.
An eight-member cast launches a 48-date arena tour tonight in Palm Desert, California, blending three Disney Channel movie franchises into one live show.
Roughly 3,000 people grilled at once at Loftus Versfeld stadium on Heritage Day, hoping to reclaim the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous barbecue.
The stars' first onscreen reunion since 'True Detective' arrives as a meta-comedy about a decades-old family secret, and reviewers can't agree on whether the joke lands.
Six years after 'Chilombo,' the singer's fourth studio album tops the Billboard 200, powered by a Kendrick Lamar reunion and a return to her Los Angeles roots.
Bronze armor looted from Crete six decades ago and works tied to dealers under criminal investigation are returning to Athens, the latest chapter in a provenance overhaul that has reshaped one of the world's largest museums.
More than 70 artists filled the shelves of Inconvenience Store with handmade goods, from pre-tangled USB cords to a rotary phone that only plays U2.
A nearly 180-work exhibition in Paris pairs Cézanne's paintings with Matisse, Picasso, Lichtenstein and dozens of others who absorbed his influence.
The 64th edition kicks off at Lincoln Center with a Cannes-premiered crime drama starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson.
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart return to a shortlist they once won outright, as judges call this year's six finalists "writing at its best."
The country singer's slow-building single has now matched Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' for the longest No. 1 run in Billboard Hot 100 history.
Critics call the Rick Rubin-guided conversation series candid but shapeless, four days into its four-week rollout on HBO and HBO Max.
The Spanish-language epic beat a Sylvester Stallone biopic and a Judy Heumann drama to win the festival's top audience prize, a distinction that has predicted several of the last two decades' Best Picture winners.
Joe Macken's 800,000-structure model of New York City went from a TikTok video to a special exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
The singer's fourth studio album, released Friday, leans into distortion and '90s alt-rock influences with help from Hayley Williams, Chino Moreno and Turnstile's Brendan Yates.
Four supporting acts quit Sheeran's Loop Tour within a day of Macklemore's removal, turning a booking dispute into one of the music industry's biggest controversies of the year.
The Sony reboot, directed by 'Weapons' filmmaker Zach Cregger, posted the biggest previews in the 24-year-old franchise's history and the best reviews it has ever received.
Netflix's true-crime anthology returns for a fourth season with its first female subject, drawing praise for its cast and skepticism for its camp.
Ten novels, winnowed from 451 submissions, will be cut to five finalists next month before a November ceremony crowns the winner.
The pop star's tenth studio album, released under the single name Miley, doubles down on four-on-the-floor grooves and her engagement to producer Maxx Morando — and draws a split verdict from critics.
Conagra's “Blaze Crew” unveiled a nearly 70-pound Slim Jim spanning more than a football field and a half at the company's Omaha campus, beating its own previous record by 116 feet.
The TIFF Tribute Awards gala honored 10 names including Rogen, Mirren and Fan Bingbing, days before the festival closes with its influential People's Choice Award.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's long-awaited sequel opened to $30 million, ending 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day's' six-week run atop the chart — but on the low end of what Warner Bros. had projected.
Apple TV's freshman horror-comedy swept every category it competed in at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, toppling a record set just last year and turning a first-season gamble into the most decorated comedy in Emmy history.
A patron who gave only his first name walked into Concord Public Library with a Gilded Age magazine that had sat in his house for decades. Thanks to a timely fine amnesty, he owed nothing.
Apple TV+'s spy drama combines two Mick Herron novels for the first time as MI5's outcasts discover they've been erased from the agency's books.
The country crossover hit notches a 22nd week atop the Billboard Hot 100, matching 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' as the chart's longest-reigning No. 1 ever.
Nolan's three-hour epic passes $1.68 billion worldwide, dethroning 'Jurassic World' as Universal's biggest release and becoming only the 17th film ever to cross $1 billion overseas.
London's Science Museum marked 60 years of the franchise by gathering the largest group ever to hold Spock's Vulcan salute at once.
The nine-time Emmy winner known as the 'Sultan of Sequins' spent six decades dressing Hollywood's biggest stars, from Carol Burnett to Cher.
The auction house beat out Christie's to consign a trove of Impressionist masterworks by Van Gogh, Cézanne and Degas assembled by the late Argentine collectors Nelly and Carlos Blaquier.
Sony's web-slinging sequel has already passed Avengers: Endgame domestically and sits roughly $1.4 million behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens' 11-year-old North American record.
Apple TV+'s horror-comedy swept six trophies and Matthew Rhys became the first performer to win lead-acting Emmys in three genres, as Mariska Hargitay hosted the first female-fronted ceremony in 15 years.
The 'Guttural Scream at the Sea' gathering paired a judged screaming contest with a mass release of rent anxiety, AI dread and general frustration, aimed straight at the Pacific.
Multiple outlets report the singer and her fiance are now parents, though the couple and their representatives have yet to confirm the news.
The Bullock-Kidman reunion dethroned 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' with an estimated $28 million to $30 million opening, even as critics and moviegoers rated it worlds apart.
President Johanna Faries revealed the long-rumored adaptation at BlizzCon's opening night on the franchise's 30th anniversary, with no studio, cast or release date yet attached.
Two truckloads of stout vanished from a depot near Liverpool this week, the latest in a string of brazen beer heists on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist's Sept. 25 LP features Serj Tankian, Kneecap and Beartooth, led by a single about Dutch resistance fighters who fought the Nazis.
Siân Heder's follow-up to "CODA" drew a standing ovation as the Toronto festival launched TIFF: The Market, a federally backed push to grow beyond premieres alone.
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive Monday with "The Pitt" and "Hacks" leading the field, a new Legacy Award for "I Love Lucy," and the first solo woman hosting the ceremony since 2011.
Scientists matched the yellow hue and prolific egg-laying of a newly found mountain lizard to Syrax, the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art closes its member preview days today, capping a 16-year, three-city odyssey to build a permanent home for Lucas's personal collection.
The 24-track album earned 99,000 equivalent units in its opening week, extending the rapper's run of top-10 debuts to eight straight projects.
A24 smuggled "You Can See Everything" into Telluride without warning. Now the three-year chronicle of Elizabeth Holmes's final weeks before prison is drawing rave reviews and forcing awards strategists to rewrite the fall calendar.
The Guinness World Records 2027 edition catalogs a car barely wider than a doorway, a nearly six-foot-tall working hairdryer, and a Canadian man who has recovered 90 percent of his skin in tattoos up to 40 times over.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reunite for a belated sequel to the 1998 cult favorite, with Warner Bros. hoping nostalgia can turn a soft-opening original into a real franchise.
MTV timed the announcement to the anniversary of the band's instrument-smashing 1992 VMA performance, making Nirvana just the ninth act to receive the career-achievement honor.
The 77-year-old singer says doctors linked his normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis directly to years of loud live performances, and that a shunt implant has already improved his memory and balance.
The artist behind the duct-taped banana and a meteor-struck pope brings three decades of museum pranks to the Neue Nationalgalerie.
TIFF's 51st edition kicks off Thursday with roughly 200 features and a compressed sprint into the fall awards season.
The real-life married couple's onscreen marriage in crisis became one of the festival's most emotional premieres.
The 900-year-old chronicle of the Norman Conquest opens at the British Museum on Thursday, with every ticket through December already sold out.
The 54-year-old house's first-ever artistic director unveils his opening collection Sept. 10, a day after Ralph Lauren and Coach jump the official calendar.
The 51st edition arrives Sept. 10 with directorial efforts from Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Rock and Rebel Wilson, plus a late, unexpected entry from Zack Snyder.
Nearly a decade after its off-Broadway triumph, the pageant satire begins performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre with a cast led by Patina Miller and Denée Benton.
Paris's landmark tower reopened Tuesday after employees protested the removal of female staff during a Hindu delegation's visit, prompting apologies and a promised investigation.
The 20th-anniversary edition of Beyoncé's sophomore album folds in an estate-approved Selena Quintanilla duet that has drawn both praise and pushback — and a defense from her widower, Chris Pérez.
More than 130 galleries from roughly 30 countries showed in Seoul, but dealers leaned into younger artists and lower price points as economic uncertainty tempered spending.
The London comedian says a short run of farewell episodes is coming before she closes the show that turned an awkward chicken-shop interview format into a global sensation.
A West Loop bar turned Chicago's most notorious liqueur into a charity fundraiser and a bid for a Guinness World Record, with the governor pouring shots behind the bar.
The Colorado festival's Labor Day lineup pairs a hushed Mike Leigh family drama with Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman in Simon Stone's 'Elsinore,' plus tributes to John Malkovich and Sandra Hüller.
Stephen Colbert's farewell season and a first Emmy for 'Antiques Roadshow' also stood out as the Television Academy handed out categories it cut from next week's main broadcast.
Lance Oppenheim's 'Primetime' recasts the 'To Catch a Predator' host as a tragic antihero, drawing raves from critics even as the real Chris Hansen weighs a lawsuit.
A dance-battle craze born from a video-game reference has jumped from social media feeds to beaches and plazas across Latin America, drawing bans in some cities and enthusiastic embraces in others.
Months after a spinal condition turned one round-bodied Seattle raccoon into an internet phenomenon, the tributes keep multiplying — from a city proclamation to a numbered collectible figurine.