July 2026

Naomi Osaka posted three words on Instagram Tuesday, and the numbers told a quick story. Her caption read “Just out there yapping lol,” and close to 20,000 people hit like. For longtime followers of her off-court presence, that reaction makes a lot of sense. Osaka is one of the most accomplished athletes of her generation….

Becky G dropped a two-word update on Instagram this week and sent her followers scrambling for context. “Strummingbird sorted,” she wrote, adding a raised-hands emoji and two new hashtags – #thisandatan and #cidergang. That’s the whole post. It genuinely hits different when an artist this plugged-in keeps things that compact. “Strummingbird” is a new name…

Pedro Pascal confirmed a collaboration with writer-director Tony Gilroy on Instagram Wednesday, and the internet promptly activated its Avengers-level hype protocols. His caption read “Such a tease.” with the hashtags #Behemoth and #TonyGilroy. That’s the whole post. Pascal put a major new project on the map with two words and two hashtags. No studio had…

Demi Moore posted a photo on Instagram today, tagging luxury house Balenciaga with a caption that read “Moments in time before @balenciaga.” The image appears to have been taken backstage or in a pre-show setting. It’s the kind of post you look at twice – once to appreciate it, and once to wonder what it…

UPDATED with more details: ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday, after ABC News and NBC News said earlier in the day that they would only carry the address on their streaming sites. Trump’s address tonight began at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and…

EXCLUSIVE: India’s theatrical market is one of the few in Asia that has outstripped pre-pandemic revenues, despite the growth of streaming, the slowdown in the Hollywood pipeline and all the other factors that have hampered box office in other international territories. In 2025, box office reached a record-breaking $1.48BN, due to a string of Hindi…

Netflix launched a number of new reality series in the first half of the year and it turns out viewers were most turned on by its age-shifting dating escapades. Age of Attraction, from Velvet Hammer Media, was the streamer’s top-performing new unscripted series over the first six months of 2026, per the streamer’s biannual “What…

ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro confirmed the Disney division will bid on World Cup rights for the 2030 tournament. “We had the World Cup for two decades and it was a big part of ESPN’s identity and DNA,” the exec said during a CNBC-hosted conference Thursday at Fanatics Fest in New York. “Of course we’re interested”…

Donald Trump lashed out at ABC and NBC, the two networks that chose not to carry his speech live on their broadcast platforms, as he delivered a 25-minute long speech full of claims that included China obtaining voter registration data and the “deep state” withholding that intelligence from him. Without evidence, Trump claimed that ABC…