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A review argues that Sophie Thatcher's performance carries 'Her Private Hell.' The film leans on her presence more than its plot. Critics have been divided on the rest of the production.

Opening statements began in a Las Vegas courtroom in the trial of Duane 'Keefe D' Davis, the 63-year-old man prosecutors say was the 'shot caller' in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. Fans lined up outside the courthouse for the start of weeks of testimony. The case revisits one of the most scrutinized unsolved killings in music history.

One superfan's $15,000 spending on Beyonce tickets illustrates how far live-event pricing has climbed. Dynamic pricing and resale markets have pushed premium seats out of reach for most fans. Economists say the concert market has decoupled from ordinary entertainment budgets.

Actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in 'Heroes' and played country singer Juliette Barnes on 'Nashville,' died at 36. She began acting in commercials before she was a year old. Audio from the 911 call indicates she was found unresponsive from an apparent cardiac arrest.

A rescued foal that was calmed by music has learned to trigger instruments and is featured on an album debut. Handlers say the sessions helped the animal settle. The recordings are being released to support the rescue.

Disney opened its D23 fan event with a trailer for VisionQuest. The presentation set the tone for the studio's upcoming slate. Fans reacted online through the weekend.

At 90, the singer behind "A Man Without Love" says a daily pool routine is what keeps him touring. He described the workout as the reason he is still standing on a stage at all.

Mourners filled the streets of the Welsh village where Bonnie Tyler grew up as the singer's coffin was carried home. Fans sang her anthems along the route in a farewell that turned a small community into a stage one last time.

The former Disney Channel star said a stay at a monastery reoriented his life and career away from what he called Hollywood's secular default. He now builds projects around faith and family.

Mel Gibson revealed that the two forthcoming sequels to "The Passion of the Christ" will be performed in English rather than ancient languages and will unfold in a non-linear structure. The films aim to carry the story past the crucifixion into the resurrection.

Barbara Lavandeira described finding her brother, the blogger Perez Hilton, in a state of distress on Aug. 4, and said the family remains hopeful as he faces a long road to recovery.

Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, are accused in a new federal lawsuit of defrauding investors in Wondermind, the mental health startup the two founded together.

The Kennedy Center's board voted to inscribe President Trump's name on the building again and to add a 'Trump Plaza,' while also voting to close the Washington arts complex's main campus for a $250 million renovation. The closure vote comes three months after a federal judge temporarily blocked a similar plan, and a smaller addition will stay open in response to the court order.

More than 200 golden Mozart statuettes were stolen from a public art installation in Salzburg, months after the composer's 270th birthday. It is not the first time miniature statues of composers have been taken.

The St. Louis public broadcaster Nine PBS has sued the storage company Iron Mountain, saying it was blocked from accessing its own archival data.

The Eurovision Song Contest will head to the Black Sea city of Burgas in 2027 after Bulgarian singer Dara won this year's contest.

A grand jury indicted Nick Reiner in the stabbing deaths of his parents, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, with prosecutors alleging he was lying in wait. The special circumstance allegation opens the door to a life sentence without parole. The case has drawn intense attention because of the family's standing in Hollywood.

A court ordered the Kennedy Center to pay $252,480 to a performer who canceled after the institution's leadership was replaced, ruling the contract was still binding. Several artists withdrew in the same wave. The decision gives the others a template.

Rosie O'Donnell told Amy Poehler's podcast that sexual orientation is as fixed as eye color, pushing back on the idea that identity is chosen. The remark drew responses from both directions online. O'Donnell has been living in Ireland since the last election.

Barack Obama is starting a podcast devoted to books, arriving just as his party enters the final stretch of the midterm campaign. Allies wanted him on the trail instead. His team frames the show as a longer-term cultural project.

Joan Jett underwent orthopedic surgery for fractured vertebrae, forcing the cancellation of her remaining 2026 concerts including a September appearance at the Bourbon & Beyond festival.

The trial of Duane Davis, known as 'Keefe D,' opens Monday, nearly three decades after Tupac Shakur was shot to death in Las Vegas in 1996. Davis was charged in 2023 with orchestrating the killing, and the case will finally test in court a version of events that has circulated for years in interviews and books.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' collected $144.5 million domestically in its second weekend, according to studio estimates, while Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' set a new career high for the director.

A new London gallery show features the paintings of Marc Padeu, who reworks Renaissance compositions and relocates them to the cocoa plantations of his native Cameroon.

Madonna remembered William Orbit, the producer who shaped her Ray of Light era, calling him a genius and otherworldly collaborator. Orbit’s ambient textures redefined late-1990s pop.

Comedian Jamie Kennedy pushed back after a wave of online abuse, arguing that the same critics policing his jokes excuse far worse from their own side. He said the industry’s fear of that mob is what actually kills comedy.

A Taylor Swift track used in a Trump TikTok post went silent after a rights claim, the latest instance of musicians’ catalogs colliding with political content. Licensing rules, not politics, usually decide these disputes.

A generation of Chilean performers is building careers on the training model, choreography and fan culture exported by K-pop. The result is a Spanish-language scene with unmistakably Korean production values.

Netflix’s latest Harlan Coben adaptation piles improbability on improbability and mostly gets away with it on sheer momentum. It is a thriller that works best if you never stop to check the plot’s math.

The reality star and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate said on X that he is working with the president on a 25 percent federal film tax credit, an idea Hollywood unions have wanted for years and never had a champion for in this administration. Studios have said little; the proposal would put Washington directly into a subsidy war states have waged among themselves.

Sophia Laforteza is leaving Katseye, months after bandmate Manon Bannerman went on hiatus — the second departure this year from a group built by a globalized, high-pressure trainee system. Fans are asking what the churn says about the model that produced the group in the first place.

Barry Manilow called off his Lexington show 45 minutes before it was to begin, citing unforeseen circumstances amid his ongoing recovery from lung cancer. The singer has kept touring through treatment.

Having just raised subscription prices, Disney+ and Netflix are both studying free, ad-supported alternatives aimed at price-sensitive viewers. Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leaning into the strategy as the streaming market saturates.

Bear Grylls describes the conversations he had with the cast of "The Chosen" while filming "The Chosen in the Wild," including what Jonathan Roumie carries in playing Jesus. Dallas Jenkins and others opened up in ways Grylls says surprised him.

The album that marked the Beatles' creative turning point hits 60 with its reputation somehow still growing. Six decades of listening have not exhausted what the band did in a few months of 1966.

Joyless salmon patties, cheap graphics and long policy detours add up to a cooking show curiously uninterested in food. The result is less a program about cooking than a delivery vehicle for the health secretary's worldview.

Police responded to the Miami-area home of blogger and podcaster Perez Hilton after reports that he harmed himself during a live TikTok video. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office confirmed he was taken to a hospital.

Pastor Bob Beltz says he hopes a new film about William Wilberforce shows younger Christians what durable cultural engagement actually looked like. His pitch lands at a moment when many believers have concluded the effort is not worth the trouble.

Comedian Bowen Yang is the latest actor cast in the lead role of the Broadway hit "Oh, Mary!," continuing the show's run of men playing Abraham Lincoln's wife. The casting is either the joke or the point, depending on who you ask.

An exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights how the artist Nick Cave turns everyday objects into the foundation of large-scale work, building sculptures and soundsuits that function as memorials to his ancestors. The show traces the way found buttons, ceramic birds and salvaged furniture accumulate into something monumental. Cave describes the practice as a way of keeping people present rather than representing them.

A reappraisal of one of Hayao Miyazaki's films argues that its enduring power comes from refusing to sort characters into heroes and villains, instead treating moral confusion as the normal human condition. The essay reads the director's work as a quiet rebuke to the clean allegiances of most animated storytelling.

David Ellison publicly defended the Paramount deal and argued he can "be trusted as a steward of CNN," pushing back on newsroom anxiety that the network will be reshaped to suit its new owner's politics. The reassurance lands amid a broader consolidation wave that is putting a handful of legacy news brands under the control of a small group of billionaires and their families.

NPR's August roundup gathers 13 new releases spanning literary fiction, memoir and reported nonfiction, aimed at the stretch of late summer when attention runs short and ambition runs shorter. The selections lean toward propulsive books rather than doorstops.

Studios and production houses are using generative AI far more widely than their public statements admit, according to workers across visual effects, storyboarding, dubbing and script coverage. The gap exists because contracts negotiated after the 2023 strikes require disclosure the industry has little incentive to make, and because the tools are now embedded in software artists already use. The result is a de facto adoption that no one wants to be first to announce.

Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set on August 4, 2026 — the date arrived this week. The story follows an automated house that goes on cooking meals and reading poetry to a family incinerated in a nuclear flash, and it has aged into an unnervingly precise parable about machines that keep performing service long after the people they served are gone.

For the first time in the chart's history, country songs occupy all five of the top Billboard positions, a milestone that caps a multi-year migration of the genre from regional format to the center of American pop. The sweep reflects both streaming behavior and a broader appetite for music with plainspoken, traditional themes at a moment when mainstream pop has fragmented.

A Broadway performer was dropped from a lead role after past comments about transgender issues resurfaced online, reopening the argument over whether stage casting should turn on an actor's stated views. Producers have not detailed the decision, and the actor has not publicly retracted the remarks.

Fenix Flexin’s hit “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether the track was machine-generated, with some claiming detection tools prove it. The fight is less about one song than about whether audiences will care once the answer arrives.

Ariana Grande has pulled out of an upcoming musical and says she will take a break from the public eye, an unusually complete withdrawal for one of the most visible performers of the past decade. No timeline was given for a return, and collaborators on the production are scrambling to recast a lead role built around her.

The first official teaser for Season 6 of “The Chosen” offers a glimpse of how the series will portray the crucifixion, centering on Jesus’ suffering, the grief of His followers, and the betrayal that sets His final hours in motion. It is the most consequential stretch of story the show has attempted.