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Here’s a brief roundup of our coverage of the entertainment industry from the past week. ASPIS review: A creepy, strange fairy tale with a Soviet aesthetic. In an alternate Soviet Union, scientists have learned to enter parallel realities. Players must solve puzzles, fight monsters, and try to save their family along the way. Enshrouded review:...

Cillian Murphy has played Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders and won an Oscar for his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. His other credits include 28 Days Later, Inception, and Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy. Now, one of Murphy’s earlier science-fiction films is finding an audience on streaming charts. The 2007 thriller...

Flight Risk brought Mark Wahlberg and director Mel Gibson together for an action thriller set largely aboard a plane. The film was Gibson’s first as a director since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge. When Flight Risk reached theaters in January 2025, it was widely considered a box office flop. It made $48 million worldwide against a $25...

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is unsure whether he will watch HBO’s new adaptation of the beloved franchise. Honestly, I don’t know if I will [watch it]. I’ve already seen it, and I spent a lot of time making Harry Potter … and I don’t really watch TV. I haven’t seen Breaking Bad or Mad...

Andy Serkis says returning to Gollum has left him holding imaginary conversations with the character in the middle of the night. Serkis will reprise the role in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, which he is also directing. In a recent conversation with USA Today about his memoir, the actor said every...

Juan Atkins performs at the Electronic Music Awards at Willow Studios on September 21, 2017 in Los Angeles. Michael Tullberg/Getty Images U.S. streams of techno founder Juan Atkins’ catalog rose 1,285% in the week following his death on Oct. 31, according to Luminate. His catalog received 86,000 U.S. on-demand streams from Oct. 30 to Nov....

Toho has announced a fourth season of SPY x FAMILY and a second feature film, both set for 2027. The first poster for the new season contains clues about events in the upcoming episodes. Image credit: Tatsuya Endo, Shueisha / Spy x Family Project Based on Tatsuya Endo’s manga, the anime follows spy Loid Forger,...

Del Casher, the session musician and wah-wah pedal inventor who worked with Gene Autry and Frank Sinatra, died Oct. 1 at age 88, his family announced this week. According to the story, Casher demonstrated the pedal to Frank Zappa during a 1966 jam session with the Mothers of Invention. Zappa later gave one to Jimi...

Rosé at the 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala held at LACMA on Nov. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. Michael Buckner/WWD ROSÉ performed four songs, including a cover of The Killers, at the 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala on Saturday, Nov. 7. The Los Angeles event celebrated Dune director Denis Villeneuve and artist Vija Celmins. Clips from the...

Director James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) and producer Peter Safran are stepping down from their leadership roles at DC Studios, according to media reports. Gunn and Safran took the helm in 2022. Since then, their projects have included “Superman,” “Supergirl,” “The Flash,” “Lanterns,” and “Clayface.” Their final project, a “Superman” sequel, is set for...