“The Walking Dead: Dead City” may be a dark show, but it’s also a fitting festival opener, argues Cécile Menoni, executive director of Monte-Carlo Television Festival. “It felt like a natural choice for this anniversary edition,” she tells Variety. “Beyond its success, it is a franchise that has genuinely shaped contemporary television culture. Beneath the post-apocalyptic … Read more
Edko Films’ action thriller “The Furious” claimed the number one spot at the China box office during the June 12–14 weekend, unseating a long-running local juggernaut with an RMB76.1 million ($11.2 million) frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Having debuted on June 11, the film has amassed a cumulative total of $13.9 million. Directed … Read more
The same hat and scarf seen on the players during their Stanley Cup team photo are now available to purchase online If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Carolina Hurricanes are your 2026 Stanley Cup champions. The ‘Canes defeated … Read more
Rory Kinnear will play economist and Bloomsbury Group figure John Maynard Keynes in the world premiere of “The Standard of Living,” a new play by three-time Olivier Award winner James Graham, producers Brian and Dayna Lee and director Nicholas Hytner revealed Monday. Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova, making her West End debut, will star alongside … Read more
Ahead of the release of “Toy Story 5,” The Walt Disney Company EMEA has launched a new short-film titled “The Magic of Movies: Jessie Saves the Day” as part of a philanthropic campaign supporting local hospitals. Featuring some familiar faces, the short features a nervous young girl about to undergo an X-ray on her foot, … Read more
We are all merely the playthings of a callous God. If there’s one thing that both the people in and the people watching Oliver Laxe‘s extraordinarily strange and nerve-wracking “Sirât” can agree on, it must be that. For the characters on this purgatorial journey from the middle of nowhere to the back end of beyond, … Read more
As the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival gets underway, the spotlight is fixed on Hong Kong screen icon Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who presides over the Golden Goblet Awards as jury president. Leung’s presence, together with 12 world premieres in the Main Competition, marks SIFF’s distinction as mainland China’s sole FIAPF-recognized A-list festival. “We have long … Read more
“You need to be happy,” reads graffiti spray-painted on a ruined building swamped in trash in Cuba’s capital Havana. And for 100 minutes, as Morocco held local favorites Brazil to a draw, Cubans complied and put their troubles aside as football’s World Cup came to state television on Saturday — two days late. In a … Read more
At no point has the Trump presidency more closely resembled a scene out of “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge’s 2006 satire about a Philistine society that abhors intellectualism, than on Sunday night, as the White House played host to UFC Freedom 250 — a series of MMA brawls on the South Lawn ostensibly meant to commemorate the … Read more
The US government’s order for Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful artificial intelligence models has sparked a wave of criticism from both advocates and opponents of AI regulation. On Friday evening, the San Francisco-based company announced that the US Department of Commerce had ordered it to suspend Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for “national security” … Read more