After being saved from release limbo by Neon, Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman biodrama “Artificial” screened for audiences at the New York Film Festival on Monday. These first crowds are glad it made its way to theaters. “‘Artificial’ is a pitch-perfect dark comedy about the absence of responsibility in the face of apocalyptic certainty,” said @erickohn on X. “Andrew Garfield walks a fine line between movie monster, buffoonish mogul, and evil genius. A fun/scary ride that embodies the paradox at its center.” The film, directed by Guadagnino and written by Simon Rich, follows Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the period when he was fired from and rehired by the company in 2023. “Anora’s” Yura Borisov co-stars as Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientific officer. “Guadagnino guts Silicon Valley with his obsessive pulse & a powerful farce in which Andrew Garfield completely shines,” said @jairojimenez_ on X. “A feverish, visceral corporate drama that proves what is truly artificial was never in the machines, but in the boardroom. An essential film.” Amazon MGM initially lined up “Artificial” before controversially uncommitting to releasing the film on June 19, with speculation brewing that the company’s OpenAI ties contributed to the decision.…

If they can do it to Abe Lincoln with “Oh, Mary!,” why not Anne Frank with “Slam Frank”? The new musical comedy about the Holocaust’s most beloved young heroine opened Monday at the Orpheum Theatre after a brief run off Broadway last year. Songwriter Andrew Fox and book writer Joel Sinensky were reportedly inspired to write the show after a Twitter thread about Anne Frank’s “white privilege” went viral in 2022. As “Slam Frank” sees it, would the diary of Anne Frank have been published if written by a young girl of color, that is, someone named Anita Frank? The satire begins even before that young heroine (Olivia Bernábe) appears. A show within a show, “Slam Frank” kicks off with an artistic director (John Anker Bow) welcoming us to the Orpheum Theatre with a “land acknowledgement” statement. The only problem is, he gets mixed up and can’t remember which indigenous tribes used to live there long before the neighborhood became the East Village. This is the subversive world of “Slam Frank”! No minority group — or no strongly held belief, for that matter — escapes getting slapped down. But fear not: white cis males get the most punishment. As one…

The actor said he “can’t look back and go, ‘Oh, what if?'” on the missed opportunities.

The trailblazing actor and outspoken activist for Latino representation in Hollywood could land the first Oscar nomination of his career.

It sounds like Zak Bagans has another ghost adventure brewing … this time in the Vegas bunker house he just bought, TMZ has learned. The “Ghost Adventures” star dropped $4.5 mil on the 16,000-square-foot property, which boasts painted skies, fake…

Hasan Piker came to the defense of children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel after Fox News warned parents against her content, blasting the network for finding “two people who don’t want children to be slaughtered” unacceptable. The drama started on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show,” when contributor Tomi Lahren weighed in on Ms. Rachel (also known as Rachel Anne Accurso)’s past collaborations with left-wing figures, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “I’d also say this person here on your screen is Hasan Piker in overalls and a stupid headband,” Lahren noted during the conversation. “So, if that’s what you want your kids to be watching, if that’s what you want to be forming their ideas and their world view on, by all means.” Tomi Lahren on Ms. Rachel: This person on your screen is Hasan Piker in overalls and a stupid headband pic.twitter.com/w6b74pvf5Z— Acyn (@Acyn) October 4, 2026 As Lahren went on, she took aim at Ms. Rachel’s appearance, adding, “There she looks age appropriate in that one photo.” “Listen, you can be a leftie and you can be like, a kids’ educator, right? And you can be like, ‘I’m a Democrat,’ whatever,” she continued. “But when you go so…

The first reactions to “The Social Reckoning” are in, and they’re all over the wall. Select audiences saw Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to “The Social Network,” with social media reactions emerging just days before its Oct. 9 release. While many early viewers praised Sorkin’s screenplay and the film’s lead performances, several noted that it lives in the shadow of its 2010 Oscar-winning predecessor. “Thankfully, the film doesn’t simply recycle what worked in the far superior 2010 film (Alexandre Desplat’s score is entirely original), allowing it to stand on its own. That doesn’t mean the comparisons will stop but the far greater problem is that what’s here is neither particularly interesting nor revelatory,” wrote Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture on X. “The performances range from fine to mediocre, while the material feels like it’s arriving five years too late. An eye-rolling film with good intentions but will probably not receive many likes or re-shares.” “I actually liked ‘The Social Reckoning,’ but that’s because Aaron Sorkin knows that filmmaking is ALL about the script and the cast, and he’s tackling a topic that’s just as interesting as the origins of Facebook,” said film critic Edward Douglas on X. “Maybe it’s no ‘The…

It makes sense that investigators need to wait for toxicology results to determine Ken Urker’s official cause of death … at least according to a former FBI investigator. Jennifer Coffindaffer — an ex-FBI agent — sat down with Jakson on TMZ’s…

“The couple is discussing having their own family and Scooter feels strongly on the subject,” says the source.

Sebastian Stan almost played Stefan Salvatore in “The Vampire Diaries,” but he turned in down. The “Fjord” actor said he was offered Paul Wesley’s role in The CW series in an interview with Joshua Horowitz on the “Happy, Sad, Confused” podcast Monday. “I didn’t do it. And then the show went on to be super, super successful,” he said. But Stan said he did not regret his decision. The actor was just coming off of “Kings” as Jack Benjamin, a womanizing young man in front of the kingdom’s press, who was secretly gay. “I felt really burnt out,” he said. “The idea of thinking ‘Oh, I’m just going to sign up again for something that probably is not going to get to the second season.’” (“Kings” was canceled after one season.) @happysadconfused Can you imagine #SebastianStan in #THEVAMPIREDIARIES ♬ original sound – joshuahorowitz Stan said that he thinks he was offered the role because his film “The Covenant” was also set in a supernatural world. “I feel grateful in a way because I don’t know if I was really ready for that kind of exposure when I was younger,” he said. “Emotionally and mentally, I know what I went through…

Night two mirrored the geometry of opening night without repeating a song, reached deep into the band’s catalog and saved one spectacular “Enter Sandman” for last

Kylie Jenner has got her kids rising and shining.  The Kardashians star gave fans an inside look at a day in her life, showing how she woke up her and ex Travis Scott’s kids Stormi, 8, and Aire,…

Dua Lipa! Ayo Edebiri! Pedro Pascal! Photographer German Larkin gets up close and personal with all of the stars at Chanel in Paris.

Nicole Kidman is hitting Paris Fashion Week with a big bang—literally. When the Practical Magic star attended Chanel’s Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2027 show on Oct. 5, she put a spell on onlookers…

Just 47 days after its theatrical release, Sony’s superhero smash hit claimed the title of highest-grossing film in North American box office history. Here’s how to stream it from home.

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Ariana Madix is not pleased with this Love Island bombshell. The Love Island USA host called out the dating show’s Australian counterpart after she was featured in an AI-generated video promoting…

The “Sterling Point” star gets takes Vogue along as she gets ready for the show.

CHAM founder Christy Cham tells ET how she gives basics a twist with ’90s supermodel-inspired silhouettes.

Kinnaman plays CIA officer John Nixon interrogating Saddam Hussein (played by Waleed Zuaiter) to locate WMDs he never had in the eight-part TNT series ‘High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam.’

The teen died of suicide on Sept. 29.

The couple’s 1-year-old daughter, Aurora, was also reportedly at the intimate viewing.

Halle Berry is firing back at Olivier Martinez, calling BS on his claim she was violent toward their 13-year-old son … saying she’s a domestic violence victim and advocate, not a perpetrator. Halle filed a voluminous response to Martinez’s…

The Oscar winner accused her ex-husband of turning their son against her.

Faist also discusses the relationship between Cathy (Florence Pugh) and the Trask brothers, and the appeal of the triangular dynamics he’s explored in both ‘Challengers’ and now, Zoe Kazan’s Netflix miniseries adaptation.

Douglas also detailed his friendship with Reiner after the director’s death in 2025.

Demi Moore looked back on the controversial record-breaking $12.5 million payday she received for 1996’s ‘Striptease.’

The actor is also set to lead Netflix’s adaptation of the Harlan Coben novel ‘The Woods.’

The band shares snapshots from their back-to-back homecoming shows in New York.

Donald Trump is calling for the arrests of media outlets over their coverage of his latest rallies. In a new Truth Social post, the president called out news organizations like The New York Times and “other Artificial Media Outlets” for allegedly being dishonest in covering the attendance at his rallies. He posted video of people in lines trying to get into his arenas before calling for the arrests of those writing about low numbers. “The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — and yet these people were still trying to get in,” Trump wrote on Monday. “The New York Times said, ‘There were empty seats’ when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country. When Bernie Sanders has 500 to 1,000 people, they make it sound like it’s the biggest event that ever took place. When PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP has 50,000 people, they make it sound like nobody showed up!” Trump kept his latest Truth Social tirade going into a second post. He explained that reportedly empty upper areas of…