Entertainment
SXSW 2027 Announces Venue Changes, Adds Podcast Festival
The 2027 SXSW Film and TV festival will (temporarily) look different, as another of the festival’s signature venues undergoes renovations.
The multidisciplinary festival announced that its signature film venue, Austin’s Paramount Theatre, will be out of commission for its 2027 edition due to construction. As a result, some film premieres and red carpets will move to the music venue ACL Live for 2027 before returning to the Paramount in 2028.
While SXSW uses a variety of local venues for screenings, including the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar and the Zach Theater, the Paramount and its iconic marquee represent the festival’s unofficial center. The historic venue typically hosts all of the festival’s biggest film premieres from its Headliners section.
By this point, SXSW attendees are used to venue changes. The Austin Convention Center, which always held the majority of the festival’s panels and speakers, closed for redevelopment in late 2025. The 2026 festival spread its programming around the city to accommodate the construction, with the convention center currently expected to reopen in time for the 2029 edition.
SXSW also announced a major new addition to its 2027 programming: a podcast festival. The new section, which runs from March 17-21, will feature live tapings and conversations with podcast industry leaders. It represents a major new pillar of SXSW standing alongside its concurrent tech, film, music, and comedy festivals.
“2026 proved that we can evolve the event while preserving the discovery, connection, and creativity that make it special. We heard amazing feedback from attendees, with 2027 PanelPicker submissions and Music and Film & TV festival applications up by as much as 50 percent so far,” Greg Rosenbaum, SVP of programming at SXSW, said in a statement. “For 2027, we’re building on what worked by creating more intentional hubs across downtown Austin, giving growing communities like podcasting a bigger platform, and making it easier for attendees to find the ideas, people and opportunities that matter to them. There is much more to come as we continue to build toward SXSW 2027.”
SXSW runs from March 15-21, 2027 in Austin, Texas. Badges are on sale now.
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Entertainment
Rosie O’Donnell Name-Drops Natalie Harp in Trump Jab on ‘Kimmel’
Rosie O’Donnell very subtly touched on the fascination surrounding Donald Trump’s relationship with White House assistant Natalie Harp, referencing both of them at the start of her monologue.
Specifically, O’Donnell kicked off Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” which she is guest hosting for the week, with a special message for the president.
“A special hello to those of you watching from home and from the White House,” O’Donnell said at the top of the show. “But I do have some bad news for President Petty Roosevelt. That’s all I’m going to say about you tonight, sweetheart.”
After a round of applause from the studio audience, O’Donnell let one more zinger rip, noting, “You got to realize it’s time to hang up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in.”
This comment prompted a big reaction from the crowd, who could be heard gasping in delight while erupting into applause.
She added: “Time to go nighty night.”
Watch O’Donnell’s Trump comments and the rest of her monologue below. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
O’Donnell’s mention of Harp came amid growing questions about Trump’s dynamic with the White House staffer. The drama started when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) suggested in a speech Sunday that Trump simply “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”
While conservative media responded by blasting Ossoff’s remark as misogynistic and problematic, liberal media capitalized on the moment to dig deeper into Trump and Harp’s bond.
For instance, CNN’s Erin Burnett had Harp’s estranged brother Preston on “OutFront” Tuesday, where he suggested his sister may have an “unhealthy obsession” with the president after learning she reportedly jumped into an SUV trunk to remain close to Trump.
The conversation drew ire from Trump’s son Eric, who blasted the interview as “absolute trash.”
“Natalie is an incredible young woman — a cancer survivor, a genuinely good person, and arguably one of the hardest-working people in the White House,” he added. “She’s deeply committed to my father, to her job, and to this country. From the looks of it, she got all the family genetics. @CNN continues to be a joke.”
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Entertainment
Fallon Pokes Fun at Trump’s Friendship With Kim Jong Un: ‘Their Bellies Bump’
Jimmy Fallon took aim at Donald Trump’s friendship with Kim Jong Un during Wednesday’s monologue after the president said he plans to meet with the North Korean leader soon.
“Well, guys, today, President Trump announced that later this year he expects to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time since 2019,” Fallon started off at the start of Wednesday’s broadcast of the “Tonight Show.” “Man, you know you’re depressed when you’re texting an old hookup from seven years ago.”
After holding for a laugh, Fallon joked that Trump and Kim “could meet in November,” but that it all depended on “how their couple’s Halloween costume goes.” Fallon then did his best Trump impression, quipping to the crowd, “I’m chips. He’s guacamole.”
The late night host then drew the audience’s attention to a photo from the last time Trump and Kim met. In the image, the two leaders are seen shaking hands, with their stomachs nearly touching during the friendly moment.
Fallon couldn’t help but call out this tidbit, quipping to his studio audience, “I think it’s cute how their bellies bump like the two soon-to-be moms at lamaze class.”
This wasn’t the only jab Fallon made at Trump, as he called out the president for his latest update in the Iran War.
“Meanwhile, the big news this week is that Trump said that he’s no longer talking to Iran,” Fallon shared. “After months of negotiations, he announced that they’re not speaking. Check out what happened on his last call with the Ayatollah.”
The “Tonight Show” editors then cut to a mock scene, in which a parodied version of Trump attempted (and failed) to give Iran’s leader the silent treatment.
Watch the bit play out in Fallon’s monologue footage above.
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
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movies
Naomi Watts to Receive Zurich Fest Golden Eye Award
The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will honor two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts this year with a Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife.
In the ’60s-set drama, based on a true-story, a young New York Times journalist, played by Tye Sheridan, tracks down a man he suspects of being a Nazi officer living secretly in Queens (Luke Evans). But when the reporter befriends the suspect’s elegant and enigmatic wife (Watts), the implications of his investigation become much more unsettling.
The Housewife will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival before heading to Zurich. Watts will accept her Golden Eye honor in person in Zurich on Sept. 26 and take part in a ZFF masterclass.
“Since her breakthrough in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time,” said Zurich Festival CEO Christian Jungen, announcing the honor on Thursday. “Her greatest performances thrive on the tension between glamour and darkness, between what a character reveals and what she conceals — making her the kind of character actress Hitchcock would have loved.”
In The Housewife, said Jungen, Watts “masters this ambiguity as an elegant and mysterious woman [and] delivers one of the most compelling performances of her career.”
Watts is a two-time Academy Award nominee, nominated for best actress in 2004 for her turn as a grieving mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams; and in 2013 for her role as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami in J.A. Bayona’s The Impossible. On the small screen, her performance as Baby Paley in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Feud earned her an Emmy nomination for best actress in a limited/anthology series or TV movie.
Previous winners of Zurich’s Golden Eye Award include Kristen Stewart, Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson. The 2026 Zurich Film Festival runs Sept. 24 – Oct. 4.
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