The King

With HBO Max turning into Max, Warner Bros. Discovery is introducing a higher-priced plan — $19.99 per month — with an expanded bouquet of 4K Ultra HD content aimed at pushing customers to the pricier package. On Monday, the company announced that the 4K tier will feature more than 1,000…

Tudor, or not Tudor. That is the question in “Firebrand,” a revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr (played here by Alicia Vikander), that features all the pageantry you’d expect from a lavish costume drama, while showing the ahistorical audacity to call “Time’s Up” on the gluttonous…

Heretic has acquired world sales rights to “Sweet Dreams,” the sophomore feature from award-winning Bosnian Dutch director Ena Sendijarević (“Take Me Somewhere Nice”). Set on a remote Indonesian island during the waning days of the colonial era, the film centers on Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife, Agathe,…

Fresh from the mushroom kingdom, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is sitting pretty and mustached atop the box office for a record breaking five-week streak. In honor of the latest wild success of this legacy brand, we’re taking a look at the Super Mario characters as zodiac signs.

Ahead of the “Coronation Concert” – aired on the BBC on Sunday as the climax of the weekend’s royal celebrations – all the talk was of who wasn’t going to perform. Multiple A-listers (Adele, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles et al.) were reported to have declined official invitations, and their wariness…

“I name you King Sausage Fingers the first… #Coronation,” one snarky royal watcher posted on Twitter.

The most sacred moment of King Charles III’s coronation will take place just before the St Edward’s Crown is placed on his head, when the Archbishop of Canterbury anoints the monarch with holy oil from gold spoon dating back to the twelfth century. But it’s a moment that won’t be…

As the pomp and pageantry are underway in London, some are raining on King Charles III’s coronation parade. London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested republican protesters at Trafalgar Square. The protests appeared to be peaceful, according to reports, and the protesters were arrested while unloading placards. Shelly Asquith, health, safety and…

The coronation of King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla, set to take place in the U.K. on Saturday morning local time, is likely to be the last major royal event for at least a decade, with thousands of guests attending Westminster Abbey in person and hundreds of millions…

Warning: This story contains spoilers from “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” now streaming on Netflix. “Queen Charlotte” may be an extension of the “Bridgerton” universe, but its brand-new story by Shonda Rhimes is quite different, with a much more serious tone. “The series in itself is like a different beast,”…

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “The Pope’s Exorcist” currently playing in theaters. Director Julius Avery has “only seen parts” of William Friedkin’s classic “The Exorcist.” “I’m not a massive aficionado of exorcist movies,” he tells Variety. Yet despite that, his latest release, “The Pope’s…

SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 4 of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. After standing united against their father for so long, it’s a Roy Sibling Battle Royale on “Succession” once again. Last week’s episode delivered a series-best bombshell that had the entire “Succession” world…