Tom Hardy Hits the Streets of NYC to Film 'Venom: The Last Dance'

Many will be cheering on Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson today during the NFL opening season game against the Kansas City Chiefs. While watching, you may be wondering about his dating history and love life, including if he has a girlfriend.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer When PlayStation‘s “Astro Bot” launches Friday, it will give PS5 owners access to a brand new, fully fleshed out story starring the little robot whose previous claim to fame was teaching gamers all the cool new features for the Sony gaming console launched in 2020 through pre-loaded title “Astro’s Playroom.” Four years later, Astro has broken out of his playroom and is on a bigger mission: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sony Interactive in an easy-entry platformer that features more than 150 cameos of beloved PlayStation characters from across mega hits and deep cuts, including “God of War,” “Ratchet & Clank,” “Ape Escape” and many more. However, the original idea for the game from Team Asobi was simply to give Astro a bigger space adventure game with more to do, while sprinkling in a few PlayStation references and characters here and there.

Mark Sutherland Reading and Leeds Festivals always deliver one of the U.K.’s wildest weekends, but this year’s event was even more full of incident than usual. The set by Lana Del Rey (pictured above) was cut short by organizers, who later apologized; Reneé Rapp walked off stage after being drenched when accumulated rainwater was blown off the stage roof (again prompting an apology); and there was the small matter of the Oasis reunion effectively being announced at the end of Liam Gallagher’s set. But if things were pretty tempestuous on stage, they were even stormier off it — literally.

Nicknames are a playful part of friendship, even for the royals.The young Princess Charlotte, despite her Royal status as third in line to the throne, is no different - and has been given a charming nickname by her chums. Keen on giving their daughter a slice of normal life, Prince William and Princess Kate ensure that nine year old Princess Charlotte experiences an upbringing typical for a girl her age. She's known as Charlotte Cambridge at school, reflecting her parents' connection to the title, but her friends have given her an affectionate nickname that she's totally smitten with.

Keith Urban has quite the opinion on Miley Cyrus’ voice!

Terra Twin frontman and The Rings Of Power star Maxim Baldry has spoken to NME about his band’s “muscular, trashy” new EP ‘Static Separation’ and balancing music with his acting life.Baldry, who plays Númenórean warrior Isildur in The Rings Of Power, formed Terra Twin from his bedroom in New Zealand, whilst shooting season one of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy epic back in 2020. The London-based indie quartet (completed by guitarist Lewis Spear, bassist Jonny Thwaites and drummer Alex Wadstein) have today (September 5) shared the EP’s jagged, thumping lead single ‘The Recogniser’ – their first via Leeds-based label Dance To The Radio.“We wanted to elevate our sound and make it a bit more muscular”, Baldry told NME of ‘Static Separation’, which is due out in February 2025.

With the momentum of stardom in her favor after Netflix’s Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jenna Ortega will surely take on more Hollywood projects following Season 2 of Wednesday, which is currently in production.

TV On The Radio opened for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden.Then, they disappeared.Until now.On Thursday, Sept. 4, the trailblazing indie rockers took the stage at a surprise Vans Fashion Week event where they performed six of their biggest hits — including the blistering “Wolf Like Me” and otherworldly “Staring At The Sun” — in front of a recreated version of shuttered Lower East Side bar Max Fish.Thankfully, that brief set won’t be their only live show this year.Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton (Dave Sitek won’t be joining them on this run) announced they’re striking out on a short 20-year anniversary tour celebrating the expanded reissue of their essential debut album “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes.”As of now, there are only seven North American concerts on TV On The Radio’s tour itinerary; that includes four back-to-back-to-back-to-back gigs at New York City’s Webster Hall on Monday, Nov.

Alex Morgan shared some very big personal news!

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Keke Palmer is set to star in a TV adaptation of the dark comedy film “The ‘Burbs,” which has been ordered straight-to-series at Peacock. Celeste Hughey (“Palm Royale,” “Dead to Me,” “High Fidelity”) will adapt the film for television. Seth MacFarlane is set to executive produce, as will Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment, with Imagine having produced the film.

Jeremy Kyle is currently defending his eponymous show, The Jeremy Kyle Show, in court as an inquest for the death of participant Steve Dymond goes on, who is believed to have taken his own life seven days after filming for The Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019. While Steve's episode was never aired, and the show was cancelled shortly after, an unaired clip has now been released and shown to the court.

Christopher Nolan that he considered his commitment to Slow Horses as more important than his appearance in Oppenheimer.The fourth season of the Apple TV+ spy drama arrived this week, with the first two episodes available to stream now. Oldman’s lead character of Jackson Lamb is back, and now the actor has said that his devotion to the role came at no expense – not even one of the biggest films of 2023.Oldman portrayed the US President Harry S.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Just days after Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” hit No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, Island Records has promoted Jackie Winkler — who signed Carpenter to the label — senior vice president/ head of A&R, the company announced on Thursday. Based in Los Angeles, Winkler will report directly to Imran Majid and Justin Eshak, Co-CEOs of Island Records.

EastEnders viewers got more than they bargained for when Chrissie Watts, played by the fabulous Tracy-Ann Oberman, made a shocking return to the soap. Having been as iconic presence on Albert Square from 2004 to 2005, Chrissie charmed her way into viewers' hearts over 218 memorable episodes as Dirty Den's (Leslie Grantham) other half.

Netflix have a new slate of content heading your way – check out the new additions for September below.One of the month’s most anticipated new arrivals will be the concluding half of the new season of Emily In Paris. The rom-com drama returned for its fourth season last month, with the first five episodes dropping on August 15.On September 12, the remaining five episodes of the season will be added for Netflix subscribers, with Lily Collins’ marketing executive Emily Cooper’s narrative arc coming full circle.Netflix have also secured the festival hit His Three Daughters, a drama film starring Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne as three estranged sisters who return home to care for their ailing father.Directed by Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers), it will receive a limited theatrical run from September 6 and then premiere on Netflix on September 20.Two hit US reality shows are returning this month too: the eighth season of Selling Sunset arrives on September 6, while the first four episodes of the latest season of The Circle will be out on September 11, with the remaining eight to follow later in the month.One of the most anticipated new film releases will be Rebel Ridge, directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Blue Ruin).

Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new global structure for the company’s worldwide studio tours, retail destinations, touring exhibitions, and all location-based experiences, bringing together the existing licensed entertainment and owned and operated teams into a single worldwide division called Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.

Marvel’s latest live-action show, “Agatha All Along,” is right around the corner and will premiere September 18 on Disney+. The series is, of course, a spin-off of Marvel’s “WandaVision” and was also created by the same showrunner, Jac Schaeffer.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. As we inch closer to the release of “Wicked,” set to hit theaters Nov. 22, dozens of brands are following the Yellow Brick Road to lucrative collaborations, limited-edition releases and other olive-green hued merch to celebrate the highly anticipated Broadway adaptation.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the sixth installment in the Wallace & Gromit stop-motion franchise from Aardman Animations, is set to world premiere on the closing day of AFI Fest, screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre, as part of the festival’s Red Carpet Premieres section, on October 27.

There is a disconcertingly ambivalent tone to Sicilian Letters, a very handsomely presented game of cop cats and mafioso mice flying the RAI quality-drama banner. On the one hand, there is the mob movie’s requisite number of murders, betrayals, overnight widows and irredeemably corrupt public officials. There is the expected childhood flashback showing the nastiest honcho in the Cosa Nostra learning his trade by doing something horrible to an animal. All this, and yet Sicilian Letters, directed by Favio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza,  is more of a romp than a revengers’ tragedy. 

TORONTO – The more you consider Nick Hamm’s “William Tell,” a gala world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, the more you realize how utterly wild it is. Set in 1307, it centers on a legendary archer, the title character (Claes Bang), and chronicles how this humble farmer in the Swiss Alps became a symbol of resistance against an evil Austrian kingdom.

TMZ on Thursday.His cause of death is unknown at this time.Rich Homie Quan’s family told the outlet they are heartbroken and shattered by his unexpected death.The rapper’s real name was Dequantes Lamar. He burst onto the mainstream hip-hop scene in 2013 with his instant hit, “Type of Way.” The single peaked at no.

Johnny Depp fans have been speculating that the actor has taken steps to fix his teeth, based on a new video on social media.A clip has been posted online of the Pirates Of The Caribbean star mixing drinks behind the bar of a venue in Exuma, Bahamas, in which his sparkling white teeth are on display.“Jacksparrow meets the killerbartender of Exuma Bahamas,” wrote the worker in question alongside the video. “Once in a lifetime moments with Mr.

Marta Balaga Taylor Russell broke down while presenting Ellen Burstyn with the Liberatum Pioneer Award in Venice. “Everyone in this room knows how incredible you are. I’ve been so affected by your life and your characters, and no, it’s not part of my speech,” she said on Thursday, tearing up.

A quirky home has come on the market after being turned into a fantasy land by its Disney-obsessed owner. From the outside, the property appears to be a normal semi-detached home but once you step inside it is rather eye-opening.

Selome Hailu Amazon Prime Video has ordered a docuseries about the popular Lisa Frank brand titled “Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story.” According to its official description, “Glitter and Greed” will examine “the neon-hued world of Lisa Frank Inc., a brand that defined girlhood for a generation of Americans only to seemingly disappear overnight. Behind the rainbows and psychedelic illustrations, we unravel a nostalgia-soaked, stranger-than-fiction tale that takes us into the hidden world that has been lurking at the heart of the company for decades.” The four-part series features over twenty interviews with insiders and enthusiasts of Lisa Frank Inc., along with multiple journalists.

Linkin Park have shared the details for their upcoming livestream ahead of their huge announcement later today (September 5).The nu-metal icons – comprised of surviving members Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Dave Farrell and Joe Hahn – are set to unveil some major news tonight in front of a live audience in Los Angeles which will also be livestreamed.Shinoda recently took to his X/Twitter account to tweet: “Don’t be late. Livestream tomorrow: 3pm PT at LinkinPark.com.” The link directs fans to the band’s official website where the landing page has a live stream video embedded which will go live at 11pm BST tonight (September 5).Don’t be late.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “The Masked Singer” is back later this month, and Variety has the first look at one of the opening performances — as well as a reveal of two more costumes. First up, here’s “Ship,” who performs a slowed down, moody version of Bastille’s “Pompeii” in the season premiere episode airing Wednesday, Sept 25th on Fox.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Joker: Folie à Deux” director Todd Phillips recently told Variety for a cover story that the goal in making the anticipated sequel to 2019’s “Joker” was “to make it feel like it was made by crazy people. The inmates are running the asylum.” It appears the director got his wish in part from his leading star Joaquin Phoenix, who would throw out the script on a whim and gather with Phillips and co-star Lady Gaga in his trailer to rewrite entire scenes from the ground up. “We’d very often meet in Joaquin’s trailer and sometimes we would just tear the script up and start all over,” Gaga recently told Vanity Fair for her own cover story.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Fox Entertainment has sealed a deal with TV scribe Hank Steinberg, the exec producer behind the network’s upcoming miseason drama “Doc.” Under the agreement, the latest in what Fox calls its “broadcast direct deals,” Steinberg will develop new scripted dramas to be produced and owned by Fox for the network. The deal was announced Thursday by FOX Television Network prexy Michael Thorn.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “9-1-1: Lone Star” is officially set to end with its upcoming Season 5 at Fox. The final 12-episode season of the drama series is set to premiere on Sept. 23, with the series finale now set for early 2025.

The Masked Singer will return for season 12 in Fall 2024 and filming has already happened for the new installment of the hit Fox franchise!

Coronation Street fans have branded a past exit a 'mistake' as Jack P Shepherd responded to being reminded of his show past. The actor commented on a post from former co-star Paula Lane as she marked nine years since filming something special with the David Platt actor.

The Greens and The Blacks aren’t the only factions facing off in “House Of The Dragon.” THR reports that there’s another conflict behind the scenes between series co-creators George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal that could lead to some serious fallout.

M. Night Shyamalan is back on the Hollywood map thanks to “Trap,” “Knock At The Cabin,” and his Apple TV+ series “Servant.” Now Max hopes his name will help launch a long-gestating movie to new heights.

Olivia Rodrigo, Tool, Justin Timberlake, Shawn Mendes and Rüfüs Du Sol have been announced as headliners for the Lollapalooza 2025 South American dates.Lollapalooza Chile, Lollapalooza Argentina and Lollapalooza Brasil will also see the likes of Benson Boone, Foster the People, Tate McRae, Parcels, Zedd, Charlotte de Witte, Teddy Swims, The Marías, Mon Laferte, Fontaines D.C. and many more take over their stages during their weekends.The Chile edition will take place on the weekend of March 21 – 23 at Parque Bicentenario de Cerrillos in Santiago.