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DreamWorks' Forgotten Island, starring H.E.R. and Liza Soberano, treats Filipino folklore as franchise-worthy IP with a full theatrical release and tentpole marketing — Southeast Asian mythology just graduated from diversity checkbox to studio bet.
Audiences are protective of the classics they love, but still long for new films that capture that same sense of comfort. View Entire Post ›
Mouse on Mars's posthumous collaboration with Lee 'Scratch' Perry is billed as the dub pioneer's definitive final album—and it's evidence that experimental electronic artists are doing the archival work reggae institutions never bothered with.
Mob Entertainment's Poppy Playtime Chapter 5 sold 275,000 units in its first week, proving indie horror's episodic model can generate sustainable revenue without AAA budgets or live service traps.
Queen II gets the deluxe boxed set treatment 52 years after its release. Brian May called it the band's biggest leap — and the reissue confirms what every legacy act already knows: catalog revenue beats new material every time.
Jocelyn Bioh and Whitney White reunite for the Broadway premiere of School Girls this fall, testing whether theater's interest in African stories extends beyond immigrant narratives to stories set in Africa itself.
The Oscars drew 17.9 million viewers despite Sinners and One Battle After Another leading the nominations — a four-year low that suggests blockbuster nominees can't save the awards show format anymore.
Five years prior to his death in 2025, Val Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, in “As Deep as the Grave.” But Kilmer, who was battling throat cancer, was too sick to ever make it to set. “He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says […]
Alexander Elkholm's new exhibition captures queer London at rest, not in resistance—a shift that marks one of the most significant transformations in LGBTQ+ visual culture, and raises questions about who gets to make quiet work.
CONDUCTOR opens in Brooklyn April 30 as New York's first "global majority" art fair — but the progressive framing obscures a straightforward commercial bet on undervalued markets.
Gaggl is hiring digital creators to host TV formats designed for audiences whose storytelling fluency comes from Fortnite and Twitch, not Friends. Backed by Fremantle, it's rethinking how television works when the host is the format.
“Stranger Things” fans will soon be able to return to Hawkins through a whole new medium. Arrow Films and Netflix have teamed up to release “Stranger Things: The Complete Series” for Blu-Ray and 4K UHD, available for pre-order now. Releasing on July 27 in the UK and July 28 in the U.S. and Canada, t
Peter Thompson, the West End publicist who made Cats, Phantom, and Les Misérables into global phenomena, died at 81. His career defined an era when Broadway publicity was a craft, not an algorithm.
The fashion designer and artist is reviving an existing concept by designing a booth that looks like her home, and inviting 44 friends to fill the store.
Zach Bryan paid $12.1 million for Jack Kerouac's On the Road scroll manuscript — then donated it to public display. It's country music's latest move to build cultural credibility beyond Nashville.
CBS News Radio is shutting down after nearly a century. The closure reveals how legacy media is dismantling the infrastructure that built its credibility — because trust doesn't scale like content.