The Folio · No. 21Friday 25 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Zeta-Jones wore a sheer sequined Zuhair Murad gown to the London premiere of her Prime Video thriller Kill Jackie, in which she plays a former cocaine dealer targeted by assassins.
Film
Wallace and Gromit stop-motion models and other Aardman creations were auctioned to raise money for training the next generation of animators.
Film
The Academy Museum in Los Angeles has unveiled a major survey of horror costumes, props, drawings and posters, timed for the season.
Film
President Macron presented the two longtime collaborators with France’s Legion of Honour during his visit to New York. Scorsese was moved to tears.
Film
Vanity Fair’s first post-festival read on the Oscar race: seven titles look safe, the final three nomination slots are open, and New York’s festival is still to come.
TV
The Happy Valley star will head the cast of Witch Hunt for Netflix, written by Abi Morgan, who created The Split.
TV
Radio Times finds the new Prime Video series a jumbled collection of better shows, despite its Oscar-winning lead. One to skip, or at least to sample first.
TV
Netflix has ordered a second season, with production starting in New Jersey in November. It follows Matthew Rhys’s Emmy win for the first run.
TV
Laurie stars alongside Line of Duty actors in a new crime drama arriving early in 2027.
TV
The BBC series is adapted from Eric Morecambe’s 1980s book and stars a Doctor Who lead alongside Sian Clifford of Fleabag and Ludwig.
Music
U2’s 16th album arrives in November, their first in nearly nine years. It carries Dolly Parton’s last recorded vocal, on a song called Torn, alongside the new single Silencio.
Music
The deluxe edition adds Babylon, Pink Clouding, Cleveland and Patient Zero. It is her first new music since her wedding at Madison Square Garden.
Music
In his only interview since falling ill last summer, the Mercury prize winner talks about finally releasing the album his stroke shelved, and about not having been home since.
Music
The pair have put out a remix of Danceteria together, after a summer of apparent needling over whether the dancefloor was dead.
Theatre
New production photography and footage have been released for the West End run, with the incoming cast in place.
Theatre
New images are out for Bill Kenwright’s long-running production as it goes back on the road this autumn.
Theatre
A first hearing of three numbers from the new Broadway musical, with Esparza playing the astronomer.
Theatre
The Almeida will stage the world premiere of Triumph, a new work by Churchill.
Theatre
The actor, a theatre kid from the age of 11, is starring in a new staging of Rent and talks about why the musical still lands and what child stardom cost him.
Books
The Nosferatu director will direct and produce a new screen version of Shakespeare’s play.
Books
The Station Eleven author links two possible futures and asks whether stability has to cost freedom. A likely book-club fixture this autumn.
Books
The Guardian finds Moriarty’s follow-up to Big Little Lies too long at over 400 pages, with menopause, vaping teens and a stalker failing to raise the stakes.
Books
The YA novelist talks about writing for adults for the first time, the realities of fame, and what he makes of his books’ screen afterlives.
