Talk Fuse

    Topic: Entertainment

    Entertainment brings together the latest from film, television, music and gaming, tracking everything from big studio releases and streaming hits to the smaller stories behind the scenes. Expect a mix of reviews, interviews and features that look at how films and shows come together, the choices actors and musicians make along the way, and how decisions by studios and networks play out once viewers get involved.

    The topic also keeps an eye on the business and cultural side of the industry: how streaming services are reshaping what gets made and watched, the sometimes tangled relationship between entertainment and technology, and the moments when a franchise, format or platform doesn't go the way its backers hoped. Older films, shows and songs feature too, revisited with the benefit of hindsight on decisions that looked different at the time.

    For readers, it's a way to keep up with what's actually worth watching or listening to, understand the reasoning behind the projects that shape popular culture, and see how the industry's bigger shifts affect the entertainment on offer day to day.

    • Elton John among stars who lose UK phone-hacking court case

      Elton John, Prince Harry and a group of high-profile British public figures have lost their long-running High Court case against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, in a judgement handed down on Tuesday 7 July. The claimants alleged that the newspapers had unlawfully gathered information about them by…

    • The Dybbuk: Guttenberg, Grant and Bierko cast in horror film

      Steve Guttenberg, Beth Grant and Craig Bierko have been cast in the lead roles of a new horror film, The Dybbuk, a contemporary adaptation of S. Ansky’s classic play. The project marks the feature directing debut of writer-director Lee Amir-Cohen, who developed it alongside writer-producer Ashley Bua, with filming having recently wrapped in Los Angeles.…

    • Chat Pile unleash devastating new song titled PEN I S MALL

      American noise-rock band Chat Pile have released a new track titled ‘PEN I S MALL’, taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Who Loves The Sun’. Described by the band as their heaviest song to date, the roughly six-minute piece of industrial-tinged hardcore continues the group’s bleak, capitalism-critiquing tone that has drawn attention within the heavy-music…

    • Waterdeep-set Project Fantasy to continue as IO Interactive shuts Istanbul studio

      IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series, has confirmed it will continue developing its fantasy RPG, Project Fantasy, independently after Xbox withdrew its financial backing. The move matters because it keeps a major project alive and preserves IOI’s status as one of the few fully independent AAA developers and publishers, but it has come…

    • Dolly Parton musical A True Original heading to Broadway

      Dolly Parton has announced that her stage production, Dolly: A True Original Musical, will transfer to Broadway this winter, with the country star revealing the news herself in a video posted to her social media accounts on Tuesday 7 July. The show charts Parton’s life and career, and the singer stressed that it focuses on…

    • Trust Me, I’m a Doctor first look reveals Abbie Cornish as Anna Nicole Smith

      Variety has published an exclusive first look at “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor”, a film in which Australian actress Abbie Cornish plays the late model and reality star Anna Nicole Smith. Written and directed by Thane Economou, the movie is based on the memoir of Dr Sandeep Kapoor, Smith’s physician, who was charged with several…

    • Alabama Shakes to release new album after 11-year gap

      Alabama Shakes have announced I Must Be Dreaming, their first album in 11 years, which will be released on 28 August via Island. The record follows the trio’s 2015 LP Sound & Color and marks a significant return for the band, who reunited for a surprise live set in December 2024 and have been touring…

    • Dolly Parton musical to open on Broadway with December previews

      Dolly Parton’s biographical stage show, now titled “Dolly: A True Original Musical”, is heading to Broadway, with previews beginning at the St. James Theatre on 7 December 2026 and an official opening night set for 19 January 2027, the country-pop star’s 81st birthday. The production, which had its world premiere in Nashville in the summer…

    • Karlovy Vary: David Chase reflects on Sopranos regrets and unmade HBO LSD drama

      Speaking to reporters at the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, The Sopranos creator David Chase discussed both his celebrated past work and his forthcoming HBO project. He confirmed he is in the early “story stage” of Project: MKUltra, a limited series adapting John Lisle’s nonfiction book about the CIA’s Cold…

    • Xbox layoffs reach Obsidian, developer of The Outer Worlds 2

      Microsoft’s latest wave of Xbox layoffs has reached Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds 2, which has reportedly lost around 25% of its staff. The cuts form part of a broader reduction announced on Monday that will see 3,200 Xbox employees let go by the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year, including 1,600 in…