The Folio · No. 17Monday 21 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson opened their Los Angeles museum of illustrated storytelling on Saturday night, with Kim Kardashian, Robert De Niro and Christopher Nolan among the guests. Variety has the room and the outfits.
Film
Presley Gerber, the model son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and older brother of Kaia, has died at 27. The family confirmed the news on Sunday.
Film
The Spanish epic, already a hit out of Cannes, takes Toronto’s audience prize, historically the surest early pointer to the Best Picture race. IndieWire has the full list of winners.
Film
The Weapons director’s video game adaptation took more in three days than the first Resident Evil film made in its entire run, making Cregger one of the industry’s reliable hitmakers.
Film
In his new memoir, Never Say Die, Quan describes opening his first residual cheque as a child actor on Temple of Doom and not quite believing the number.
TV
Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe take over from Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman for the new BBC series, which paired up its celebrities at the weekend.
TV
Apple pulled the series three days before its September 2025 premiere. It now has a date, more than a year late, with Chastain as an undercover investigator of online extremists.
TV
Netflix has ended the Serenity, South Carolina drama. Stars JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Jamie Lynn Spears and creator Sheryl J. Anderson have all posted farewells to the show and its fans.
TV
Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth lead a six-part ITV series that Radio Times calls pointed, unsettling and hard to second-guess. Close to Jess’s day job, and worth a look for that alone.
TV
Ella Bruccoleri and Donal Finn return for a three-part special continuing the Mary Bennet story, with a first-look image released at the weekend.
Music
Cee-Lo Green and Danger Mouse are touring together again for the first time since 2008, with UK dates included in the run.
Music
Dion opened her Paris residency at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre. Vanity Fair has gathered the wardrobe from the first night.
Music
It is her first Billboard 200 chart-topper in a 15-year career, and the first R&B album by a woman to reach No. 1 this year.
Music
The track features Yoko Takahashi and builds on A Cruel Angel’s Thesis, the Neon Genesis Evangelion theme. He played it live as the tour opened.
Music
The run opens on 8 December at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, part of the venue’s On the Steps series, then takes in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne.
Theatre
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation is at the Arcola in London. The Guardian finds it slick but hampered by its own cleverness.
Theatre
Ned Bennett’s ambitious new staging of the Mark Haddon adaptation is at Birmingham Rep, with Alex Keenan as Christopher.
Theatre
At the Minghella theatre in Reading, soprano Claire Booth’s mouth is isolated against black to carry Beckett’s racing monologue, with operatic flourishes added.
Books
The first full-length Miss Marple novel since Agatha Christie’s last, written 50 years on. The author explains how you follow the Queen of Crime without impersonating her.
