Entertainment Industry Moves

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has acquired the feature adaptation of Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s oral history I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution which Patti Cake$ filmmaker Geremy Jasper is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jim Hecht (Winning Time). Neon picked

EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has hired talent agent Brian Sacripanti and promoted Celine Biancardi to agent in the same department. “Innovative has long prided itself on impeccable culture and a truly 360-degree approach to client representation, and Brian and Celine both repres

EXCLUSIVE: Nippon TV, the Japanese broadcaster, is stepping up its unscripted business in the U.S. and has hired former ITV America exec Nick Ower to help. Ower joins as director of development and sales, unscripted. He joins after nearly ten years at the Love Island and Hell’s Kitchen producer. He

Oprah Winfrey is setting up shop at Amazon. The media potentate’s Harpo Entertainment has signed a comprehensive multi-year deal with the tech giant. As part of the agreement, Wondery will have exclusive distribution and advertising rights to The Oprah Podcast on audio and video. The show is a

Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivison unveiled a surprise overhaul of its ad-sales structure Monday — with just weeks to go before the TV industry opens its annual “upfront” marketplace. The company replaced Tim Naividad, who had been in place since June of 2025, with a vet

Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna are officially releasing their Coachella duet. The song, titled “Bring Your Love,” is dropping on Thursday at 3 p.m. PT, the pop stars revealed in a joint Instagram post. The song is rumored to be part of Madonna’s forthcoming album, “Confessions

“She thinks big,” says Sabrina Impacciatore of her delightfully catty character in The Paper, in which the Italian actress plays Esmeralda Grand, managing editor of the Toledo Truth Teller and TTT Online. Conceived as a Halloween dress-up icon, Esmerelda exists almost entirely to thwart the idealist

EXCLUSIVE: WME Motion Picture Group Agent Niki Montazaran is joining Cinetic Media as Senior Manager where she’ll be based in the LA office expanding the firm’s representation with preeminent filmmaking and lit talent. Throughout her career at WME, and previously at the Motion Picture Li

Chris Berend, after leaving NBCUniversal News Group, is joining Hearst Magazines as chief content and experience officer. In the newly created role, Berend will be responsible for leading Hearst Magazines’ editorial strategy, content creation and programming across all platforms for publications inc

EXCLUSIVE: Kat Bird has signed with UTA for representation. A Los Angeles native, Kat Bird is a comedian, actress, and host of the Kat Bird Pod. Her debut Don’t Tell Comedy set, released just five months ago, has already surpassed 350,000 views, introducing her to a growing

The cinematic LP, out July 31, also features Kehlani, Orville Peck, Leon Bridges, and Jamie Foxx

Anmol Malhotra, a 10-year veteran of Snap, has been promoted to the role of global head of content and partnerships. He assumes the role after Jim Shepherd, formerly Snap’s senior director of global content partnerships, recently exited to join Meta as senior director of content partnerships.

EXCLUSIVE: Another Mr. Smith slot on the Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2 roster has been filled. Actor-comedian Matt Rogers (No Good Deed) has been tapped as one of the title characters in the upcoming second installment of Prime Video’s spy drama series from Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress, producer, and entrepreneur Emma Roberts for representation. Roberts has built a television career spanning comedy, drama, and genre series. Her longstanding collaboration with Ryan Murphy includes performances across multiple installments of American Horror Story,

Netflix has greenlit the adult animated comedy series “Dealies,” Variety has learned exclusively. The official logline for the show states, “A savant salesman. A gentle gladiator. A quiet virtuoso. A summoner of the divine. And the poor soul who hired them. All part of the staff at

Actress and producer Emma Roberts, the “American Horror Story” who also recently produced the hit series “Tell Me Lies,” has signed with United Talent Agency for representation. Roberts’ production company, Belletrist, produced Hulu’s “Tell Me Lies,” w

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald is expanding its footprint in the branding, digital, and creator representation space with the launch of a new division, Buchwald Creators. Max Nagler has been tapped to lead the division, after joining Buchwald as Vice President of Branding & Creators in 2025. With the launc

Season 5 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show has begun adding new faces to its already stacked cast. Season 4 left off with a major character and actress making their departures about midway through. Already, three names have been added to the mix of the news network world and beyond. For everything we k

EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic has inked The Machinist and The Call filmmaker Brad Anderson for representation across all media. The director continues to be represented by Paradigm. Anderson recently helmed espionage thriller Beirut, penned by Tony Gilroy and starring Jon Hamm, which premiered at the Sundance