Writing the summary…
As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business

Original reporting
PC Gamer: read the full reportRelated stories

Princess Diana’s Brother Says Kristen Stewart’s ‘Spencer’ Was ‘Terrible’ but ‘I Was Intrigued by How Good She Was at Capturing Diana’
Princess Diana’s younger brother Charles Spencer said Kristen Stewart nailed it in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer but called the movie terrible during an interview with Tina Brown at a McNally Jackson Books Event. Spencer, whose bombshell memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister has reignited tensions with the royal family and sparked a legal dispute with Piers […]
Audrey Hobert Embarks on a Soul-Searching Journey in New ‘Phoebe’ Video
The pop artist will open for Charli XCX next year

Ava DuVernay’s Doc ‘14th’ to Submit New Original Song by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper for Oscars Consideration (EXCLUSIVE)
Ava DuVernay’s nonfiction sequel “14th” is set to world premiere as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 9, and Variety can exclusively reveal that the film will feature a new original song, “Makings of Tomorrow,” written and performed by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper. Netflix will mount an Oscar […]

Chuck Lorre Uses ‘Georgie Mandy’ End Card to Troll Trump’s White House for Saying He Needs Psychiatric Help: ‘I Don’t Disagree’
Chuck Lorre is responding to the White House’s recent swipe at him, in a medium where he’s often not been shy in sharing his opinions: His post-episode vanity cards. At the end of Thursday night’s Season 3 premiere of CBS’ “Georgie Mandy’s First Marriage,” Lorre addresses, via his production company vanity card, a recent […]

Steve Martin and Alison Brown on Reinventing Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ as an All-Star Bluegrass Tune… With Added Lyrics About Buc-ee’s and Sasquatch
Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road was so ubiquitous for so long that you might’ve been happy to imagine you’d heard the last of it. But a cover version has just been released that’s pretty much guaranteed to make you pleased that road has turned out to be a roundabout. Steve Martin and Alison Brown […]

Audrey Hobert on Charting Her Pop Career and Ignoring the Noise: ‘Whether It’s Positive or Negative, It’s Not True’
Audrey Hobert is standing on a chair, wearing Groucho glasses and an enormous trench coat and faux-strumming a banjo. She looks 10 feet tall. She moves across the stage as if dancing alone in her bedroom, and she sings every song in her catalog and then plays her biggest hit, “Sue Me,” one more time, […]