Arts, entertainment, media, and lifestyle
The Brisbane Street Art Festival has been cancelled for 2026 after organisers failed to attract sufficient government or corporate funding, in a blow to one of Australia's biggest public art events.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Nicole Kidman's new Prime Video series Scarpetta premieres March 11, arriving at a deeply personal moment after her mother's death and divorce from Keith Urban.
Rachel Thornbury 
Prime Video has cast Tatum Grace Hopkins and Maisy Stella as Max and Chloe in its live-action Life Is Strange series, with Charlie Covell set as showrunner.
Jake Nguyen 
Warner Bros. is developing a Game of Thrones feature film with Andor writer Beau Willimon, reportedly centred on Aegon the Conqueror — but the studio's $110bn acquisition by Paramount adds serious uncertainty.
Sophia Vargas 
The directors of The Mummy 4 have effectively confirmed the 2008 threequel is non-canon, with Weisz's return speaking louder than any official statement.
Mitchell Tan 
Four new cast members have been announced for Amazon's live-action God of War series, filling out the ranks of Thor's family and Odin's Asgardian court.
Sophia Vargas 
Horror legend Bruce Campbell has publicly announced a cancer diagnosis, describing it as treatable but incurable, and cancelling summer convention appearances.
Megan Torres 
The 37th Alliance Française French Film Festival arrives in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane with four standout films that capture the full range of contemporary French cinema.
Yuki Tamura 
Neve Campbell and director Kevin Williamson discuss why genuine fear is non-negotiable on screen as Scream 7 hits cinemas worldwide.
James Callahan 
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have reopened their Beijing bureau after six years away, with correspondent Lisa Visentin filing from inside China for the first time since 2020.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
DC's Superman/Spider-Man #1 arrives March 25 with a star-studded creative lineup, marking the 50th anniversary of comics' original crossover event.
Zara Mitchell 
Lead composer Leo Kaliski says Blizzard feels 'lucky and happy' to be keeping generative AI out of WoW: Midnight's score, as debate over AI in game development intensifies.
Sophia Vargas 
Catherine O'Hara won a posthumous Actor Award for The Studio, with co-star Seth Rogen delivering a moving tribute to the late comedy legend at the 32nd ceremony.
Jake Nguyen 
Delta Goodrem will represent Australia at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna this May, performing her new cinematic ballad 'Eclipse' to an estimated audience of 160 million viewers.
Mitchell Tan 
The Australian Museum in Sydney is set to host 'Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches', an award-winning exhibition exploring the biology, history, and cultural mythology of blood-feeding creatures.
Yuki Tamura 
Chile's national comfort dish combines sweet corn, spiced meat and a golden baked crust in a way no other recipe quite does. Here's everything you need to know.
Ella Sullivan 
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon was taken from her mother at three weeks old. Six of nine siblings shared the same fate. Now she leads Australia's First Nations opera scene.
Sophia Vargas 
Stardew Valley hits 50 million copies sold at 10, but fans are divided over update 1.7's surprise romance candidate: Pelican Town's awkward blacksmith, Clint.
Oliver Pemberton 
Cryptica casts players as Ari Harper, searching for a sister who vanished with a documentary crew in Antarctica, where melting permafrost has unleashed a hallucination-inducing fungus.
Yuki Tamura 
Markiplier's self-financed horror film Iron Lung has grossed $50 million worldwide, forcing Hollywood to reckon with the audience power of YouTube creators.
Ella Sullivan