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Andrew Lau produces and Liu Ye plays Mao as Crossing restages the Chishui River gambit

Crossing turns one of the Chinese Red Army's most-studied campaigns — the four feint-and-cross maneuvers along the Chishui River — into a summer war tentpole. Directed by Xu Zhanxiong and produced by Infernal Affairs veteran Andrew Lau, it hands the role of Mao Zedong to Liu Ye and bets that battlefield strategy, not sacrifice, can carry a blockbuster.

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Movies

Bill Skarsgård as Tony Kiritsis with a shotgun and his hostage banker in Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire (2026)

Bill Skarsgård holds a banker and a city hostage on the air in Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire

Carla Gugino stars in Daniel Stamm supernatural horror film Lockbox 2026

Carla Gugino guards a hunted cousin in Daniel Stamm’s supernatural Lockbox

Dayo Wong and Sammi Cheng in a nightclub dance scene from the Hong Kong comedy Night King

Hong Kong’s box-office recovery is homegrown as ‘Night King’ outdraws Hollywood

A still from Hideaki Anno's EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)², a winged statue standing in a still orange sea beneath a blood-red sunset.

GKIDS revives Death (True)², the Evangelion film Hideaki Anno kept refusing to finish

TV Shows

X-Men '97 season two key art as Marvel Animation's mutant team returns to Disney+.

X-Men ’97 Returns for Season 2 on Disney+, Its Heroes Scattered Across Time

Marvel Animation’s acclaimed revival returns to Disney+ for a second season that breaks its own team apart, throwing the X-Men across time — from ancient Egypt to the far future — as Apocalypse rises. New head writer Matthew Chauncey takes over from Beau DeMayo, while the legacy voice cast returns for a nine-episode run.

Isakapatnam on Prime Video: a 1990s port war, and a strongman undone by his own daughter

Key art from Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, returning for its third season on Crunchyroll.

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Returns for Season 3 on Crunchyroll

Survival of the Thickest: Netflix Sends Mavis Out as Michelle Buteau Directs Her Own Finale

Super Subbu on Netflix sends a reluctant teacher to deliver the lesson his village forbids

Sports

A floodlit, empty football pitch at dusk seen from high in the stand, the white line markings forming clean geometry across the green grass.

World Cup 2026: the Contenders Who Can Break Down a Deep Defence, Ranked — and the Favourites Who Can’t

The last 16 has exposed the real dividing line at the World Cup, and it is not talent — it is whether a side can break down a deep, compact defence. Ranked on that single tactical axis, from Spain’s positional machine to a Brazil built for space it no longer gets, the hierarchy of favourites reshuffles.

A lone football supporter in a red-and-white checkerboard shirt sits with his head bowed in an emptying stadium stand under floodlights.

World Cup 2026, Round of 32: Spain, Portugal and Switzerland Advance — and Modrić’s Last World Cup Ends in Toronto

Football supporters in red, white and blue celebrating in a packed stadium at night

World Cup 2026, Round of 32: England, Belgium and the United States Advance — but Only One of Them Controlled the Game

Jubilant Mexican football supporters in green celebrating in a packed stadium, waving a green-white-red tricolour flag under floodlights.

World Cup 2026, Round of 32: France, Mexico and Norway Advance as the Favourites Hold and the Road to the Final Narrows

Technology

Google loses its final EU appeal — the €4.1 billion Android fine is permanent

Phantom Blade Zero maps Hong Kong cinema to PS5 combat and ships this October

Analysis

Madonna Confessions II: why the unanimous critical praise demands an explanation

Open-pit lignite mine of Megalopolis, Greece, excavation basin of the Marathousa 1 paleolithic site

Archaeologists named the Stone Age for its most durable material. The wood disagrees

Real Madrid gave Mbappé a renewal bonus it refuses to offer Vinicius Junior

Music

Album cover for Vaiana: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dwayne Johnson lead Disney’s 13-track Vaiana live-action score

For Disney’s live-action Vaiana, Lin-Manuel Miranda returns to the franchise he helped define — this time handing the songs to Dwayne Johnson and debut lead Catherine Laga’aia to perform on camera. Thirteen tracks. A composer’s architecture tested against voices built for something other than musical theater.

Muse – The Wow! Signal: still from the Nightshift Superstar official music video

Science

Diagram showing how seismic waves from marsquakes travel through Mars's crust and mantle, allowing NASA's InSight mission to map the planet's hidden internal layers and detect the compositional boundary at 24 km depth

Business

Empty factory floor with a lone worker in a hard hat walking toward a distant exit door — symbolic of the June 2026 US labor force participation collapse, the lowest since March 2021

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Indie

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will showcase the debut solo exhibition in Europe featuring the works of Firelei Báez – Denmark

Music

Nina Simone: The Only-Known Live Recording of ‘You’ve Got To Learn’ – Album is out now!

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