• Taylor Swift is performing at the MTV Video Music Awards. Swift made the announcement Wednesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It will be the pop star’s fourth time performing on the show. Neither Swift nor a Thursday news release gave details about what she plans to perform, but new music is likely as the singer prepares to release a new album. She has a live-stream scheduled for Monday, presumably to announce details. The 24-year-old pop star has a relationship with the awards show, from arriving in a princess carriage to troubles with Kanye West and an on-air hug from Beyonce. Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Usher, Iggy Azalea, Ariana Grande and Maroon 5 also will perform on the Aug. 24 MTV broadcast from Los Angeles.
• Today host Savannah Guthrie has a new daughter. Vale Guthrie Feldman was born Wednesday morning, weighing in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces. The Today anchor gave birth at a New York hospital with husband Mike Feldman by her side. The big news was delivered by Guthrie’s co-anchor Matt Lauer on Thursday’s edition of the NBC morning show. Guthrie and Feldman, a communications strategist, were married in March. The new bride used her wedding as the occasion to announce that she was expecting her first child.
• The New York Film Festival has announced a lineup heavy on the hits from May’s Cannes Film Festival, including David Cronenberg’s grimly dark Hollywood satire, Maps to the Stars, and Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film, Goodbye to Language. Bennett Miller’s wrestling drama, Foxcatcher, and Mike Leigh’s J.M.W. Turner bio-pic, Mr. Turner, also will screen at the 52nd New York Film Festival. The slate was announced Wednesday by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The annual festival runs Sept. 26 through Oct. 12. Also going to the festival are: Clouds of Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart, the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night and Sundance award-winner Whiplash. Previously announced were festival opener Gone Girl, the centerpiece Inherent Vice and the closer Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.