Savannah Guthrie returned to the Today show on Monday — this time, for real (and for good).

Industry watchers fearing the encroachment of generative AI may be expecting Tilly Norwood to show up in the next Fast & Furious movie or an AI-generated screenplay to end up on the Black List. But the realities of that kind of AI takeover of Hollywood are hindered by multiple barriers to entry, including labor contracts, ongoing copyright questions and actual consumer interest.

“I know him,” Larry David conceded, when asked about his friendship with former President Barack Obama during a Friday SXSW panel. “Don’t look down on him because of that. We play golf together from time to time.”

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Despite critical acclaim and early awards accolades for his starring role in Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet suffered his second best actor loss at a high-profile Oscar precursor awards show in a week, losing the Actor Award to Sinners‘ Michael B. Jordan after losing the BAFTA Awards’ best actor prize to surprise winner Robert Aramayo of I Swear.

The star-studded BAFTA Film Awards 2026 ceremony in London on Sunday also put a spotlight on Donna Langley, chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment and the first British woman to run a major Hollywood studio. The top executive, born and raised on the Isle of Wight in the U.K., took to the stage to receive the British Academy’s highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, to a standing ovation before highlighting cinema’s power to bring people together.

Emin Alper’s drama charts the escalation of violence in an isolated village community in the Turkish mountains following the return of an exiled clan.

Markus Schleinzer’s fine-grained portrait depicts a fictionalized composite character who passes herself off as a hardy male farmer, drawn from hundreds of comparable cases throughout history.

Plans have been approved to build a 3,000-seat theatre on the Greenwich Peninsula.

Shrinking just started rolling out episodes of its third season and a fourth has already been ordered so there’s no end in sight for the Apple TV series as of right now. But if for some reason, Harrison Ford’s career ended with the critically acclaimed hit show, the iconic actor would be cool with it.

Savannah Guthrie has put her Winter Olympics coverage plans on hold amid the search for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie.

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Award-winning writer, director and actor Lydia Cornell is best known for her starring role on the hit ABC series Too Close for Comfort as Emmy legend Ted