One Battle After Another and The Studio lead Actor awards nominations

One Battle After Another and The Studio lead the nominations for this year’s Actor awards.The Actor awards were previously known as the Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards but were renamed last year. The name change was to provide “clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about”, according to those involved.Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy thriller received seven nominations for cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn, as well as for the acting and stunt ensemble.The $130m budget film was also named best picture at last weekend’s Critics Choice awards and leads the nominations for this weekend’s Golden Globes

Kimmel on Trump’s whitewashing of January 6 anniversary: ‘Don’t give in to this revisionist history’

Late-night hosts observed the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and recapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s first day in a US court.Jimmy Kimmel opened his monologue on Tuesday, 6 January, with an acknowledgment of the date: “Five years ago today, after losing what eventually judges from both sides in cities all around the country unanimously declared to be a free and fair election, Donald Trump tried to overthrow our government in a pathetic and illegal attempt to stay in the White House,” he said. “And there’s no other way to put it. You cannot look at the facts objectively and come to any conclusion other than that.“He tried to force the vice-president to claim voter fraud and refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory, which even his own vice-president refused to do,” he continued

Dolly, Dreamgirls and Daniel Radcliffe: the biggest Broadway shows of 2026

The year 2025 found Broadway at an inflection point – New York theater finally fully rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, as the 2024-2025 season became the highest-grossing of all time, with $1.89bn in tickets sold thanks in part to a new generation of stars and fans. But with a record box office came record ticket prices, as Hollywood stars from Denzel Washington to George Clooney commanded sums pushing four figures for orchestra seating. This year feels relatively less Hollywood-y, though no less starry, with a healthy mix of revivals, new material and buzzy transfers on the calendar. Here are 12 of the most anticipated Broadway shows in 2026

Jon Stewart on Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela: ‘This is all exhausting’

Late-night hosts tore into the Trump administration’s surprise military attack on Caracas, capture of president Nicolás Maduro and vague plans to “run” Venezuela.Jon Stewart wasted no time in his first Daily Show appearance of 2026, immediately digging into Donald Trump’s shock decision to remove Maduro from power in the early hours of 2 January, which more than a dozen countries condemned as a “crime of aggression” to the UN.“Now, obviously, this is actually a very fraught moment for the world,” he said on Monday evening. “It is highly unusual for any government, any sovereign nation, to violate the airspace and territory of another sovereign nation and hit the grab and go on their president.“Look, no one knows how this operation is gonna work out,” he added

‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia

Programming was very open back in the 1980s. You had to teach yourself, either from magazines, or by swapping tips. When you wrote a video game, you submitted it on a floppy disk to a publisher, like a book manuscript. In my freshman year at Yale university, I sent Deathbounce, an Asteroids-esque game for the Apple II computer, to Broderbund, my favourite games company. They rejected it, but took my next effort, Karateka, a side-scrolling beat-’em-up

The Guide #224: Bondage Bronte, to more comeback tours – what will be 2026’s big cultural hitters ?

Welcome to 2026! I hope you are enjoying the final dribblings of the festive break, before reality bites on Monday. As is now tradition (well, we did it once before), this first newsletter of the new year looks at some of the big questions we hope will be answered in the next 12 months, across film, TV, music and games. Hopefully it will double up as a decent primer for the year ahead too, though for a more exhaustive rundown check the Guardian’s 2026 previews for film, music, TV, gaming, stage and art. Right, let’s get on with it:A storyline likely to rumble on through the year is the proposed purchase of Warner Bros by Netflix, which will require government approval (certainly not a given), not to mention all manner of contractual fine-tuning, before that big red N gets stamped on Warners’ famous water tower. Just enough time then for Hollywood’s greatest wrangler of spectacle, and newly installed head of the Director’s Guild, Christopher Nolan to demonstrate the value to Netflix of putting mass-market movies on the biggest screens possible