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Filmmaker John Campopiano has wrapped production on The Farmer And The Shark, a feature documentary about Jaws actor Craig Kingsbury. The film’s synopsis reads: “The Farmer And The Shark focuses on the unique influence Kingsbury had on the film, from both behind and in front of the camera, as the em
2026-05-01 11:52 UTC
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Good afternoon Insiders, welcome welcome. Busy week and we’ve got the rundown for you below. Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter. Sign up here. Saudi Retreat Less washing: The actions of nations like Saudi Arabia led terms such as “sportswashing” and “culturewashing̶
2026-05-01 11:53 UTC
Variety
Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who was hospitalized last month with an unspecified illness, has canceled all U.S. dates for the 2026 tour behind his “Konnakol” album. However, dates in the U.K. and Mexico later this month, which take place before the U.S. tour was scheduled to b
2026-05-01 15:32 UTC
Rolling Stone
Hawke talks about making Maitreya Corso, being influenced by Sadie Sink and Taylor Swift, and much more in our new interview
2026-05-01 15:33 UTC
Variety
The Ridenhour Prize is given each year for displaying courage via journalism, but one of its new recipients on Thursday night showed a little concern about her future. After receiving one of the awards Thursday night in Washington D.C. — they are given to candidates “who persevere in act
2026-05-01 15:36 UTC
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Writer and director Joseph Sperber’s political murder mystery film “Behind Closed Doors” has announced its cast as it begins production in Los Angeles. Elijah Reed (“Doom Patrol”), Nick Samson (“Poser”), Melissa Alce (“Matlock”), Christian Haines
2026-05-01 21:19 UTC
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As Olivia Rodrigo prepares to pull double-duty this weekend on Saturday Night Live, she has support from a fellow musical guest. The 3x Grammy winner, who makes her hosting debut and her third performance as musical guest Saturday on the NBC sketch comedy show, revealed that Jack White left her some
2026-05-01 21:21 UTC
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After starring in multiple Star Wars projects, including Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s lauded recent series Andor, Diego Luna is expanding his relationship with Disney as one of the stars of the live-action Tangled movie, based on the studio’s Academy Award-nominated 2010 animated feature, Dea
2026-05-01 21:24 UTC
BBC News
Henry Cavill, Karen Gillan and Russell Crowe are in Scotland filming a remake of the cult 1980s film.
2026-05-01 21:57 UTC
BBC News
The sequel's stars on what's changed since the original, and why the film still resonates with women.
2026-05-01 23:52 UTC
Variety
James Marsden will host a special reunion episode of “Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat,” in which he will interview the cast of the social experiment series and its unwitting hero, Anthony Norman. Out April 10, the episode will also include never-before-seen footage from the Amazon sh
2026-04-03 14:00 UTC
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YouTube star Alan Melikdjanian, the creator behind the popular channel “Captain Disillusion,” has set a first-look deal with indie streaming service Nebula. Additionally, Melikdjanian’s existing back catalog will now be available for streaming on Nebula. Per Nebula, Melikdjanian’s
2026-04-03 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Grammy-winning R&B star offers an update on his Mutt follow-up and discusses the unique performance he recorded for a new concert series from Delta and YouTube
2026-04-03 14:09 UTC
Variety
Viggo Mortensen will not be reprising the role of Aragorn in Andy Serkis’ “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.” Serkis, who is directing the movie and returning in front of the camera as Gollum, confirmed in an interview with ScreenRant that Aragorn will be recast in the ne
2026-04-03 14:11 UTC
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Comedian Eugene Mirman is on the mend. After a scary car crash in New Hampshire on Tuesday that saw his 2026 Lucid Gravity catch fire, Mirman took to his socials to assure fans that he’s “doing relatively alright, all things considered.” Posting a photo of himself with a bandaged r
2026-04-03 15:15 UTC
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Megan Thee Stallion was greeted by a full house when she returned to Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical last night, two days after she took ill mid-performance and was diagnosed with, among other things, extreme exhaustion. Deadline hears the Thursday evening performance was already headed t
2026-04-03 15:20 UTC
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Glorify and Great American Media have partnered to bring more faith-focused content into the world. The Christian devotional app and entertainment network have set a multi-project slate of content inspired by the media company’s original films and series, the first of which is “The Fabric of Faith,”
2026-04-03 16:00 UTC
Variety
An “Animorphs” TV series is in early development at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively. Bayan Wolcott is attached to write and executive produce the adaptation, with Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian executive producing on behalf of Proximity Media. Iole Lucchese and Cai
2026-04-03 16:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The drummer is also taking it back to 1997 with a new Orange County Drum & Percussion line, available at Guitar Center stores
2026-04-03 16:00 UTC
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No doubt Jennifer Lopez currently is queen of the failing rom-com genre, a once-vibrant Hollywood staple that studios sadly relegated mostly to streaming in recent times. Of course there have been exceptions that made a splash in theaters, notably sleeper hit Anyone but You in 2024. Generally, thoug
2026-06-05 00:59 UTC
Rolling Stone
The icon debuted Confessions II track "Love Sensation," straddled a speaker box, and air-guitared during a historic Pride Month performance
2026-06-05 01:15 UTC
Variety
Andy Cohen has an uncomplicated answer to how he gets everything on his to-do list done. “I just hit my deadlines,” the host, producer and author says nonchalantly, as if his day-to-day consists of sending emails and building pitch decks rather than what it actually entails: emceeing his four-days-a
2026-06-05 15:00 UTC
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Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson met nearly three decades ago on the seminal teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” which launched them and their co-stars, James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams, to global stardom. When Holmes and Jackson reconnected all these years later on “Happy Hours,” a romantic dramedy
2026-06-05 15:00 UTC
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David Ellison has been moving pieces around the board in reshaping the new Paramount Skydance over the past year. But one key division remained out of play in his master media plan — until now. On Friday, Paramount Skydance unveiled Paramount Games Studio, a unified gaming studio that combines
2026-06-05 15:00 UTC
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“Toy Story 5” VFX supervisor Thomas Jordan has been keeping a secret for months. During a SXSW London panel on Friday, he revealed that he’s known about Taylor Swift’s song for the animated film since February. Titled “I Knew It, I Knew You,” Swift’s “
2026-06-05 15:02 UTC
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The first time I saw William Friedkin’s 1980 gay crime thriller “Cruising” may have been decades ago, but I will never forget how surprised I was that a movie like that was made in the 1970s. “Cruising” stars Al Pacino as a straight New York City police officer who goes undercover in the gay leather
2026-06-05 17:14 UTC
Rolling Stone
Actor who also appeared in Ted Lasso was beloved for playing Buffy's mentor and "Watcher" Rupert Giles
2026-06-05 17:19 UTC
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Amazon is making some changes to its nonfiction production team. Months after landing the top unscripted job at the streamer, Levy has tasked Justin Dudek to lead all of its unscripted and doc series production teams as well as MGM Alternative Production. Dudek was formerly SVP, Physical Production
2026-06-05 17:23 UTC
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At a time when superheroes, franchises, and streaming dramas dominate popular entertainment, the Western can seem like a relic of another era. Yet Universal’s retrospective at the MoMA demonstrates why these films remain essential to understanding both Hollywood history and American mythology.
2026-06-05 19:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ed Simpson, chief strategy officer of Calabasas Confidential producer Wheelhouse, is launching his own investment venture in the creator economy world. Simpson, a longtime consigliere to Wheelhouse founder Brent Montgomery, left the company after working with the Pawn Stars producer for 1
2026-06-05 19:00 UTC
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In Memoriam, a new existential dramedy that premieres at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday, proves an ideal vehicle for Marc Maron to flex his acting chops. Mining the insecurities, anxieties and contradictions that have long animated his comedy, Maron here plays Langston, a veteran television actor wh
2026-06-05 19:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Debra Messing has signed with Paradigm for representation. Messing is best known for her Emmy award-winning performance as Grace Adler in NBC’s hit comedy Will & Grace. The David Kohan and Max Mutchnick-created series, which ran for 11 seasons, focused on the friendship between Grace,
2026-06-05 19:03 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about The Boys series finale “Blood and Bone.” After five seasons and many bloody battles, good finally prevailed over evil in The Boys series finale. The Prime Video series cast and creator Eric Kripke recently stopped by the Deadline Studio at
2026-06-05 20:45 UTC
Variety
With the FIFA World Cup literally kicking off next week in the U.S., Canada and Mexico — an unprecedented triple-nation collaboration that makes the last of those countries the first in history to host the soccer tournament a third time — Netflix’s release of “Mexico 86” is opportu
2026-06-05 20:47 UTC
Variety
To give into the hive mind or not? In “Pluribus,” book author Carol (Rhea Seehorn) and 11 other strangers are the only individuals left on Earth after everybody else mysteriously merges into what is called the hive mind – a collective joining of consciousness. Six months since the acclai
2026-06-05 21:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+’s “Land” slate is growing. In a competitive situation, the streamer has nabbed for development Cop Land, James Mangold’s series take on his 1997 Miramax movie. The project, from Paramount Television Studios and Miramax Television, is looking to join Para
2026-06-05 21:08 UTC
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More than 25 years later, Anna Faris is looking back at the reaction to her debut as Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie (2000). The actress, whose Scary Movie 6 return is now in theaters, recently recalled meeting Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt after spoofing their roles in the Scream and I Know
2026-06-05 21:13 UTC
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Production has officially begun on the second season of Mara Brock Akil’s Forever at Netflix. The show has also added three new faces — one series regular and two recurring — to its cast. Malaika Guttoh has joined the cast as a series regular with Avery Wills Jr. (Swagger, Shooting Stars) and Tre Mc
2026-05-08 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The Lighthouse International Film Festival has announced the documentary lineup for its upcoming 18th edition, a slate boasting some of the most talked about nonfiction films of the year. The cinematic event running June 10-14 on Long Beach Island, NJ will feature My NDA, directed by Juli
2026-05-08 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress and country singer Jana Kramer (One Tree Hill, Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story) is set to make her directorial debut on Love Song for My Texas Ranger, an independent, music-driven romantic drama currently in production in Texas. Kramer will also star in the film. She
2026-05-08 14:14 UTC
Variety
After 20 years and two blockbuster films, does “The Devil Wears Prada” director David Frankel really think “that’s all” for Miranda Priestly and her reign as the terrifying editor-in-chief of Runway magazine? “I said, ‘Never again,’ and here we are,” Frankel says with a laugh. “So, I certainly would
2026-05-08 15:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
Jimmy Fallon shared the news about the band's rendition during Ronnie Wood's appearance on The Tonight Show
2026-05-08 15:16 UTC
Deadline
ABC has made the final scripted renewal decision for the 2026-27 season, and it has gone the same way the other nine before it did — with a pickup. The network has renewed its freshman drama series R.J. Decker starring Scott Speedman for a second season. With that, ABC has accomplished a rare
2026-05-08 16:00 UTC
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Steven Knight’s Oasis documentary will hit theaters in September, featuring the first joint interview with the Gallagher brothers in more than 25 years. Disney has officially confirmed the doc and said it will drop for a limited theatrical run including IMAX on September 11, before moving to D
2026-05-08 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: NFL star Cameron ‘Cam’ Heyward is the subject of a new documentary feature from Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor’s Hidden Empire Sports Collective. The untitled feature is being directed by Taylor (Black and Blue, The Intruder) and produced by Roxanne Avent Taylor, Ephraim Salaam, Deo
2026-05-08 16:03 UTC
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ABC said that the the FCC’s efforts to restrict political candidates from appearing on shows like The View amount to a violation of its First Amendment rights, pushing back on Trump-appointed Brendan Carr’s efforts to use his regulatory authority to threaten broadcasters. In a filing wit
2026-05-08 16:04 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Bergara (BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ghost Files) and Kevin Kreider (Bling Empire, The Traitors) will star in Jennifer Zhang’s Cannes-bound feature Trüebadour. Avatar Entertainment will introduce the feature to international buyers, with early conversations on the sci-fi/horror beginnin
2026-05-08 16:06 UTC
Rolling Stone
The artist shared what music everyone should have on their playlist and discussed why she hasn't been on tour in three years
2026-05-08 16:08 UTC
Rolling Stone
The cult-favorite style just got a warm-weather upgrade, with chunky slides and strappy sandals in a range of colors and prints
2026-05-08 16:08 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has selected the four Fellows for its 2026 Writers Incubator, an initiative designed to nurture and provide support to four writers of all genres, including comedy, drama and animation. Selected from over 1,200 submissions, Mateo Gomez, Isa Moon, Chiara Motley and Brandy
2026-05-08 16:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed actress Emeraude Toubia for representation across the board. Toubia is best known for starring in Gloria Calderón Kellett’s Prime Video romantic comedy series With Love, as well as Freeform’s fantasy series Shadowhunters, based on Ca
2026-05-08 16:20 UTC
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Paramount CEO David Ellison will receive a $50 million cash award and restricted stock units, or RSUs, valued at $100 million after the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery closes. In compensation actions “in connection with our pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery,”
2026-05-08 16:20 UTC
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Black Bear and Artists Equity have partnered on the dramatic feature A Woman in the Sun, starring Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek alongside rising star Mia Threapleton. A Woman in the Sun follows a month in the life of Claire Keating, a bartender on Nantucket and part of the island’
2026-05-08 22:00 UTC
Variety
Before “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” there was “Prognosis: Negative,” a film script written by Larry David in the 1980s that was never produced. Thanks to a Reddit user from Rochester, N.Y., a 1983 draft of the screenplay has been uploaded to the internet
2026-05-08 22:02 UTC
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The social satire “Our Hero, Balthazar” has an incredibly dark logline: A young man named Balthazar (Jaeden Martell), who spends time forcing tears for online videos lamenting gun violence, travels to Texas to intervene with a person who he believes to be a potential school shooter (Asa
2026-05-08 22:07 UTC
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Universal’s Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page romance You, Me & Tuscany did $750K in previews at 2,550 theaters from showtimes that began at 2PM. The $18M production is only expected to file in the high single digits this weekend. The Will Packer produced movie comps to the previews of Sony/
2026-04-10 14:47 UTC
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You don’t need to be a tech mogul to watch “The Audacity,” the new AMC drama that tells the story of a Silicon Valley guru who must navigate his way around a consumer data scandal. But if you want to get people to watch the show, a little experience with platforms, devices and potential customer bas
2026-04-10 14:49 UTC
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Vertical has acquired U.S. rights in an early pre-sale deal to Oscar-nominee Andrew Niccol’s crime thriller Lords of War from Oscar-winning studio Vendôme Pictures (CODA), who produced and financed the film. Vertical will show off the pic’s footage at CinemaCon next week in Las Vegas, ahead of
2026-04-10 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Houston rap star is a sparkling diamond in Moulin Rouge!, turning the theater into a nightly Hot Girl summit
2026-04-10 15:06 UTC
Rolling Stone
The actor opened up about his past mental health struggles in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter
2026-04-10 15:09 UTC
Deadline
It’s an energized indie weekend with a high potential crop of new specialty releases from wide to limited, original, and based off a hit video game, a cult horror and Shakespeare. BTS is back in concert with a global livestream and a documentary on Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has strong presales
2026-04-10 18:00 UTC
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Stephanie Elam will leave CNN, where she has worked as a correspondent for more than twenty years over two different stints. Elam has in recent years worked as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. In remarks released via social media, she did not reveal any next steps she might take. “For more t
2026-04-10 18:15 UTC
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The upcoming horror comedy film “Best Friends Forever” has added some fresh blood to its cast. The new names include Aristotle Athari (“Saturday Night Live”), Ally Maki (“Toy Story 4”), Zac Oyama (“Game Changer”), influencer Lynley Eilers and R
2026-06-12 14:15 UTC
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Trevor Phillips, a longtime British writer and anchor and former U.K. politician, has been named senior global affairs correspondent at CBS News, where Bari Weiss, the unit’s editor in chief, has articulated an interest in focusing on provocative voices and thinkers, potentially over tradition
2026-06-12 14:17 UTC
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‘O Horizon’ Review: Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn Are Reunited by App in a Slender AI Allegory
A decade or so ago, the premise of “O Horizon” might have seemed like “Black Mirror” fodder: Fed various photos, videos, messages and personal effects of a dead man, a computer program devises an interactive simulacrum, available at any time for conversation via a phone app,
2026-06-12 15:39 UTC
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Ben Schwartz has joined the cast of “The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event.” Schwartz’s role is unspecified, but photographers captured the actor on the films’ set. He joins an ensemble that includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harrison Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as R
2026-06-12 15:45 UTC
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Joanna “JoJo” Levesque & Mike Colter To Star In Jazz-Infused LA Love Story ‘The Very Thought Of You’
EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Joanna “JoJo” Levesque (Moulin Rouge The Musical!) will star with Luke Cage and Evil star Mike Colter in LA-set drama-romance The Very Thought of You. The stars will also exec-produce the project, which is written and produced by John Zaring (Pursuit of Happiness). Desc
2026-06-12 15:46 UTC
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Jimmi Simpson has joined the upcoming Hulu drama series “Conviction,” Variety has learned exclusively. Simpson will star alongside previously announced lead Elisabeth Moss and fellow cast members Sebastian De Souza and Adam Godley. The show is based on the Jack Jordan novel of the same n
2026-06-12 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s finally happened, and as Michael and Janet Jackson would have sang, ‘it makes ya wanna scream’. The Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has been caught in a landslide as the King of Pop’s biopic, Michael, is now the highest grossing musical biopic ever wi
2026-06-12 18:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
He was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet. But the wake of his conviction, the facts of the case are being overwritten by imagined narratives
2026-06-12 18:01 UTC
Rolling Stone
Wade Robson and James Safechuck claim the late pop star sexually abused them as minors
2026-06-12 18:04 UTC
Deadline
With a streak of blue in her blonde hair and a silver electric guitar pendant teamed with a flower print dress and sneakers, Emmanuelle Seigner has an air of rock chick meets easy femininity as she sits down to talk to journalists in the Taormina Film Festival. The French actress is one of the guest
2026-06-12 18:05 UTC
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The Justice Department said that it concluded that Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,” citing their review of the streaming, linear television and theatrical release marketplaces. In a s
2026-06-12 21:55 UTC
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Roku shares rocketed to a 4-year high on Friday after word emerged that the streaming company is in talks to sell itself to an unnamed media company. The stock surged 20% to close at $143.66, rising another fraction in after-hours trading, after Bloomberg reported that a media company had held acqui
2026-06-12 21:59 UTC
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This weekend, the “Drag Race” universe is expanding and getting ready to slay moviegoers with “Stop That Train.” The disaster movie parody comes via Bleecker Street Films and World of Wonder, delivering 92 minutes of absurd silliness. Helmed by Adam Shankman and produced by World of Wonder co-founde
2026-06-12 22:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen) has inked a deal to direct Six Minutes to Freedom, Kurt Muse and John Gilstrap’s work of non-fiction about the 1989 Delta Force rescue of an American hostage in Panama. With a screenplay by Jared Rosenberg, the film is based on the true s
2026-05-15 16:15 UTC
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The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic romance putting her spin on the tale of Frankenstein, which stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, is set to debut on HBO Max on May 22. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, May 23 at 8:00 p.m. ET, with an ASL version also to be available on [
2026-05-15 16:17 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Camp (The Night Of) is set to join Melissa McCarthy and Connor Storrie in Turpentine, the forthcoming indie thriller from The Penguin and Mare of Easttown‘s Craig Zobel. Character details are under wraps. Based on a script by Justin Varava that made the
2026-05-15 16:45 UTC
Rolling Stone
Looking for the week’s best new music? Check out our Songs You Need to Know playlist
2026-05-15 16:56 UTC
Variety
Christopher Nolan takes viewers behind the scenes of the intimate process of putting together an Imax film in a ’60 Minutes’ interview about “The Odyssey.” In one of two clips exclusively obtained by Variety, Nolan says to “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley,
2026-05-15 18:00 UTC
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As the world’s top international acquisitions executives passed through border control at LAX this week, they weren’t only getting their minds in gear for a week of LA Screenings, but were also thinking how Hollywood’s big merger might change their futures. With Paramount set to ac
2026-05-15 18:00 UTC
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Perfect Crown has become the latest Korean title to break through on streaming. The romantic comedy has driven more than 43M hours viewed globally to-date across Disney+ and Hulu, per the Walt Disney Company. The series has achieved audience growth weekly, including a 43% increase in views in seven
2026-05-15 18:13 UTC
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Glen Powell knows he seems to be everywhere right now — but he makes no apologies for it. “I find that being hard working, it’s something I really admire in my colleagues and other people,” Powell tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I mean, work ethic is something,
2026-05-15 21:00 UTC
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Stephen Colbert is bidding farewell to late-night as The Late Show ends its run on CBS on Thursday, May 21. Ahead of its final week on air, the late-night talk show has announced its guest stars, including Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, and Bruce Springsteen. On Monday, May 18, Colbert will stroll d
2026-05-15 21:02 UTC
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Dennis Rush, former child star best known for his roles as a young Creighton Chaney opposite James Cagney in Man Of A Thousand Faces, and as Howie, Opie’s (Ron Howard) pal on The Andy Griffith Show, has died. He was 74. His longtime friend, actor Keith Thibodeaux, announced Rush’s death
2026-05-15 21:09 UTC
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While Saturday Night Live is constantly going after our current political circus, Colin Jost apparently had the jump on one ridiculous real-life moment. The ‘Weekend Update’ co-host recently claimed that he had a rejected cold open joke as Pete Hegseth reciting Samuel L. Jackson’s
2026-05-15 21:09 UTC
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Paramount today held its first upfront presentation since the company last held court at Carnegie Hall in 2022. The event at the Paramount Theatre on the historic studio lot in Los Angeles, held almost a month ahead of the traditional upfront week, was the first upfront for New Paramount following t
2026-04-17 05:04 UTC
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Larry King is back on CNN — sort of. King, who anchored an evening interview program on the network for a quarter of a century, will be featured anew by CNN, but this time on its streaming properties. “The Best of Larry King,” a curated collection of interviews drawn from archival
2026-04-17 14:00 UTC
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A live-action TV series based on Lee Falk’s classic comic strip “The Phantom” is in the works from “Candy Cane Lane” and “Sidney” filmmaker Reginald Hudlin, Variety has learned. Hudlin will direct and produce the TV series, which is in the development stage at the
2026-04-17 14:08 UTC
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Little more than 50 days into her new job, the biggest news of Priya Dogra’s Channel 4 era has arrived: Ian Katz, the UK network’s longest-serving chief content officer, is stepping down in a few months. With that, one of the biggest jobs in British television has opened up at a crucial,
2026-04-17 14:11 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: A series adaptation of Penn Cole’s bestselling romantasy book Spark of the Everflame is in the works for the screen. Hulu has taken in for development Everflame, a drama based on Cole’s first book in the popular romance fantasy series, The Kindred’s Curse Saga, from Deat
2026-04-17 16:30 UTC
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The project features three new alt-pop tracks, two of which the singer debuted at Coachella last week
2026-04-17 16:31 UTC
Rolling Stone
The East Texas songwriter is earning praise for new album Blue Stars. He'll celebrate by making his Grand Ole Opry debut
2026-04-17 16:42 UTC
Variety
Director Chris Stokes has signed an exclusive 20-picture deal with Turnstr+, a new streaming platform. His forthcoming film, “Forever, This Ring,” will debut when the platform launches on October 2. Taye Diggs, Erica Mena, Loretta Devine, Marques Houston, Malik Whitfield and La’Myia Good st
2026-04-17 17:00 UTC
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“Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” is bringing back original series cast member Jennifer Stone, Variety has learned exclusively. Stone is set to guest star in the upcoming third and final season of the Disney series, which serves as the sequel to “Wizards of Waverly Place.” She w
2026-04-17 17:00 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: The following will reveal plot points from the Season 2 finale of HBO Max‘s The Pitt. Fans of The Pitt‘s nighttime crew have been heard. Series star and executive producer Noah Wyle is aware of how much more time viewers would like to spend with the folks from the Pittsburgh Tra
2026-04-17 17:04 UTC
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CBS dropped a bombshell at its fall 2026 schedule reveal Wednesday by announcing new series NCIS: New York starring LL Cool J and Scott Caan from Emmy-winning The Pitt creator R. Scott Gemmill. This is a very rare scenario where the lead/co-lead of one spinoff in a franchise, NCIS: Los Angeles‘
2026-04-17 17:04 UTC
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Pedro Pascal wasn’t about to sit around and wait for invitation to be a part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show. Instead, the “Last of Us” star reached out to the Grammy-winning superstar’s team. “I wanted to participate in any way – literally a volunteer position, like serving coffee if needed
2026-04-17 17:19 UTC
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French actress Leïla Bekhti has been announced as President of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Jury. She will be joined by Senegalese producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italy’s director Laura Samani, and France’s director Thomas Cailley. Bekhti follows in
2026-04-17 17:23 UTC
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One of the great secret weapons of American film and TV in recent years, solid-gold supporting actor Bill Camp gets a rare and fascinating leading showcase in “Ponderosa” — though in committing to Rob Rice’s quietly sinister and wildly peculiar black comedy, no one could accuse him
2026-06-19 15:24 UTC
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Netflix is staying in business with Ricky Gervais. The streamer has acquired the rights to Legend, which will be recorded during Gervais’ new global stand-up tour, embarking in the UK from September. Netflix has streamed four of Gervais’ previous stand-up specials, including Humanity, Su
2026-06-19 15:25 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer-songwriter shared the news in an emotional social media video on Thursday
2026-05-22 03:25 UTC
Variety
Although Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt are close collaborators, they allegedly had one moment where they disagreed while filming 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” The anecdote comes via co-star Bruce Dern, who spoke with People while celebrating a new documentary about him
2026-05-22 03:27 UTC
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"Here's to Stephen Colbert, a man of great integrity and wit. Onward, friend, to bigger and better things"
2026-05-22 07:01 UTC
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The song, co-written and co-produced by James Blake, follows the singer's recent LP, I’m Only F**king Myself
2026-05-22 07:30 UTC
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Pedro Pina, YouTube’s chief in EMEA, will deliver this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart. Pina will become the first person from an American tech giant to make the annual address, speaking to a room full of executives and commissioners who are still desperately working out how best
2026-05-22 08:00 UTC
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YouTube EMEA VP Pedro Pina will deliver the flagship address at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, having been selected to speak at The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. Pina oversees the European, Middle East and Africa for YouTube, including its business, creator and content ecosystems. In
2026-05-22 08:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The All-American Rejects are launching microdrama series SuperFan. The bite-sized show will run to 31 episodes and will be available on the CandyJar microdrama platform. The plot of the series sees the band kidnapped by a deranged fan who forces them to release new music. The story soon e
2026-05-22 15:33 UTC
Rolling Stone
After a six-year break from solo work, the multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter renews his sound on his third LP LK99
2026-05-22 15:45 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: AAO Entertainment has signed director Adrian Yang for management following the breakout success of his viral narrative short film Passing, which has generated significant industry attention after notching nearly 15 million views on Instagram. Shot and directed by the Chinese-Ame
2026-05-22 15:47 UTC
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"My life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I’ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change," he says
2026-05-22 15:58 UTC
Rolling Stone
"It was a very high honor to have him on the podium for our shows," band says
2026-04-24 16:54 UTC
Rolling Stone
The triple-threat legend talks about revamping a Woody Guthrie classic into an anti-Trump anthem and why older generations are responsible for calling out fascism
2026-04-24 16:54 UTC
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A 26-year-old suspect has been arrested for leaking Paramount+’s “The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender.” The confirmation comes from sources after Singapore’s Strait Time reported on the news. Paramount+ had been investigating the online leak of its upcoming film, and
2026-04-24 16:56 UTC
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Here is Deadline’s annual list of premiere dates for new and returning TV series. Updated daily, the roster covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting throughout 2026, many still listed as TBA (to be announced). It includes series premieres, season debuts, shows return
2026-03-27 12:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer-songwriter describes how she challenged societal norms on her newly announced second LP and single “Dirty Habit”
2026-03-27 13:47 UTC
Variety
Josh Duhamel appeared on a recent episode of Megyn Kelly’s podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and shared his opinion that actors should stay silent on politics. “I have real strong opinions about things but I don’t really talk about it because it’s like, ‘Why would I al
2026-03-27 13:51 UTC
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“Heavyweight,” Christopher M. Anthony’s debut feature starring Jordan Bolger, Nicholas Pinnock and Jason Isaacs, has set its U.S. release. The British boxing drama is getting a limited theatrical release as well as a VOD release starting July 21 in the U.S. Meanwhile, it’s la
2026-03-27 13:54 UTC
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It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and contextualized a genre once called “intellipop” — a cringe and condescending term that has aged very badly, but a
2026-03-27 13:59 UTC
Rolling Stone
Here's how to score up to 40% off Abercrombie & Fitch's best-sellers
2026-03-27 15:10 UTC
Rolling Stone
More than 100,000 people die every year from opioid overdoses — and some believe the new class of drugs could help save those lives
2026-03-27 15:12 UTC
Rolling Stone
With producer Dan Auerbach and guitarist Tom Bukovac, King remembers the late Allmans leader ahead of the forthcoming documentary Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul
2026-05-29 18:35 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Puerto Rican superstar garnered the most pearl-clutching from aggrieved viewers, but a trailer for the horror flick apparently upset a lot of young children
2026-05-29 18:45 UTC
Deadline
The BBC’s triple-BAFTA nominated drama What It Feels Like for a Girl based on Paris Lees’ memoirs is heading to Prime Video in the States. The show launches on the Amazon streamer today to mark the start of Pride Month. Adapted from the memoir by journalist and author Lees, What It Feels Like
2026-06-01 13:18 UTC
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Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama, will be revived on Broadway this winter in a Manhattan Theatre Club production starring Tony winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!, Marjorie Prime), Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day) and Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park, Only Murders in the Building). Produ
2026-06-01 13:19 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Darren Aronofsky has joined the creative team of Dustin Brown’s upcoming feature Solidarity, exploring contemporary migrant realities in the U.S through an intimate portrait of two lives on the margins of L.A., as an executive producer. Elpidia Carrillo (Salvador) and Mantas Valentiejus (
2026-06-01 13:20 UTC
Rolling Stone
Director Chris Smith and former Eternal Values member Hoyt Richards discuss their new HBO docuseries and the charismatic leader that kept people in his grasp
2026-06-01 13:25 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Bang! Bang!, the improvisational interview show hosted by writer and comedian Scott Aukerman, which marks one of the world’s longest-running comedy podcasts, has inked a deal for a multi-year extension with SiriusXM. The three-year agreement continues the production, dis
2026-06-01 13:30 UTC
Variety
Nowhere does royalty like the U.K. so it makes sense that the country is set to welcome an entire musical experience themed around the Disney Princesses. “Disney Princess – The Concert” will debut in Warwick in March 2027 followed by a major tour across the U.K. and Ireland including stops in Swanse
2026-06-01 15:20 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The latest series from Amplify Pictures is ‘Anglers’, an unscripted series from indie filmmakers and wildlife photographers Owen and Quentin Reiser. Danny McBride’s Rough House Pictures is serving as an executive producer on the show, which Amplify has greenlit as part o
2026-06-01 15:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated has secured the rights to Robert R. McCammon’s horror short story Yellowjacket Summer as part of its discretionary fund, enlisting Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus to adapt the screenplay for
2026-06-01 16:00 UTC
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Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, the annual awards-season panel event that puts the spotlight on the year’s best in small-screen nonfiction content. The livestream event that took place Saturday featured nine panels from si
2026-06-01 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The Documentary+ streaming platform has acquired worldwide rights to A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole, a documentary profiling the iconic designer who has combined creative and business savvy with social advocacy. Dori Berinstein directed the film which premiered at the Hampton
2026-06-01 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Marian Koltai-Levine is exiting as Chief Marketing Officer of AGBO, the studio launched by Joe and Anthony Russo. Koltai-Levine, who served four years in the role, will relaunch her independent consultancy from her East Coast base. Her first clients will be the Russos, AGBO and Donald Mus
2026-06-01 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Davis (Sex and the City) and Tig Notaro (Come See Me in the Good Light) have inked deals to join Beach Read, 20th Century Studios’ adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel from Emily Henry, which is shooting this month. Character details are under wraps.
2026-06-01 16:00 UTC
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Jimmy Kimmel On Late-Night TV Future: “We’re Not Just Dying Of Natural Causes: We’re Being Poisoned”
Jimmy Kimmel is sharing his thoughts on the future of late-night television, and it’s not an optimistic view. In an interview with Vulture, Kimmel insisted that “there are far more people watching late-night TV than there ever were, if you look at the number of views me and my colleagues
2026-06-01 17:06 UTC
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The GOAT isn’t finished. Serena Williams, who amassed 23 major championships and 73 career singles titles before retiring in 2022, is returning to competitive tennis at 44. Williams revealed Monday that she has accepted a wild-card invitation to play in the HSBC Championships in London startin
2026-06-01 17:08 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: After studying the minds of serial killers in David Fincher’s Mindhunter, Holt McCallany will further mine the territory as the lead in Hyde, a noir-tinged thriller from filmmakers Graham and Parker Phillips (Rumble Through the Dark) that has entered production in Bucharest, Romania
2026-06-01 17:12 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars and Truth Or Dare star Lucy Hale is set to star in romantic fantasy feature Vision Board, which Concourse Media is launching ahead of next week’s Cannes market. Written by author Morgan Matson, the film will be directed by Peter Hutchings and marks his third coll
2026-05-04 15:35 UTC
Variety
Willy Loman — washed up, beaten down and trying to ride a little longer on a smile and a shoeshine before he’s kicked to the curb — has been a staple of Broadway since Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” first electrified audiences in 1949 with its searing portr
2026-05-04 15:35 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Schwarzenegger has joined the S. Craig Zahler movie, The Bookie & The Bruiser, where he will star in a dual role opposite Vince Vaughn and Theo James. The Bookie & The Bruiser is set in 1959 New York City and features a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner (James) and an ov
2026-05-04 15:42 UTC
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Amanda Kozlowski, Lionsgate’s longtime executive strategist and interim Head of Marketing, has been appointed to President of Worldwide Marketing of the Motion Picture Group. In her new position, Kozlowski will continue to play a role in shaping the studio’s brand strategy and franchise strategy, in
2026-05-04 17:30 UTC
Variety
Jenna Elfman is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Fox series “The Interrogator.” Elfman will appear alongside series lead Stephen Fry in the show as well as fellow cast members Luke Kleintank and Michael Beach. The series was originally announced in February with a straight
2026-05-04 17:39 UTC
Rolling Stone
The grandson of the revered songwriter Terry Allen, the 23-year-old is bridging generations of Lone Star state artists — and playing Rolling Stone's upcoming Stateside festival
2026-05-04 17:41 UTC
Rolling Stone
"I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants. This, to me, is very disappointing," Cudi says
2026-05-04 17:42 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed reality television star, entrepreneur and DJ Kyle Cooke for representation. Cooke will be represented across film and television, brand partnerships, and digital media, with a focus on expanding his footprint across entertainment and consumer products.
2026-04-06 17:45 UTC
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The final trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 has arrived, featuring an original song, “Runway” by Lady Gaga and Doechii. Watch it above and below. The clip also teases some plot points of the sequel film to the original 2006 film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. At the beginning, Andy Sachs
2026-04-06 17:47 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer, born Montero Hill, will have his criminal case dismissed if he continues his treatment for bipolar disorder and obeys all laws for the next two years
2026-04-06 17:49 UTC
Variety
Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen is giving Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” two thumbs up. Hansen, along with fellow Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, got to see the blockbuster before they set out on their own space expedition; the four-person crew i
2026-04-06 17:56 UTC
Variety
Ashley Hesseltine, the stand-up comic and co-host fo the “Girls Gotta Eat” podcast, has announced her debut comedy special, “Here Comes the Bride.” The marriage-themed hour will debut live on YouTube on April 30 at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a release on Amazon Prime Video on May
2026-04-06 19:15 UTC
Deadline
Kyle Brandt returned to Good Morning Football after taking some time off during the NFL off-season and addressed being part of ESPN after their takeover of the NFL Network. “It’s great to be here. Thrilled to be here on ESPNFLNetwork. Right? That’s our deal. That’s our thing,
2026-04-06 19:17 UTC
Rolling Stone
The news isn't official, but the Emmy-winning actress suggested the series finale was near on The Drew Barrymore Show
2026-04-06 19:23 UTC
Deadline
Arise Artists Agency continues to expand its nonfiction and alternative programming division, bringing on Derek Blum as an Unscripted Agent. Blum most recently spent over two years at Innovative Artists Agency, following a more than six-year tenure at A3 Artists Agency, where he worked alongside Bri
2026-04-06 19:27 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The star of Prime Video’s latest queer drama What It Feels Like for a Girl has declared Amazon’s decision to buy the show in the U.S. “a revolutionary act, an act of protest.” BAFTA nominee Ellis Howard pointed to a political climate in the U.S. that runs counter to the
2026-06-08 13:00 UTC
Variety
This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 p.m. ET. Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott first met as young, eager, internet-savvy members of Broo
2026-06-08 13:00 UTC
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Pedigreed Palestinian producer May Odeh (“Aisha Can’t Fly Away,” “A Useful Ghost,” “Hanging Gardens,”“200 Meters”) has added Jordan’s Rina Khoury from Arab Media Network ‘s Abu-Lughod Studios to her early list of backers of “Chentian,” helmed by “Lemon Tree” and “The Syrian Bride” scribe Suha Arraf.
2026-06-08 13:02 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) has joined the cast of Ethan Almighty, as the feature inspired by the story of a real-life rescue dog whose survival captivated millions shoots in Kentucky. Grammer joins an ensemble cast that includes Sean Patrick Flanery, Selm
2026-06-08 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: SXSW short film prize winner Son of a Bikram is being adapted as a film and TV series. Marginal MediaWorks has boarded the comedic short form, which won a special jury prize at this year’s SXSW and recently premiered at Denver’s SeriesFest. Marginal is partnering with the film
2026-06-08 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Joining Charli XCX on the fall tour will be singer-songwriter underscores, with tour stops in Brooklyn, Washington DC, Austin and Los Angeles
2026-06-08 14:08 UTC
Deadline
Prime Video has droppeed the official trailer for Ride or Die, its upcoming action comedy series starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham. “Deb, I’m an assassin,” Hannah Waddingham’s Judith admits to her longtime best friend
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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The BBC has found its Hercule Poirot. After Deadline revealed last month that the British broadcaster had greenlit a major reimagining of the Agatha Christie detective, the BBC has now confirmed the series — and cast its leading man. Edward Bluemel, known for his work in Killing Eve and Sex Educatio
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
Variety
The universe was trying to send a message to Paul Rudd: Get the hell out of L.A. First came the earthquake, then the mugging, followed by five car accidents in the span of a week. It was the mid-‘90s, not terribly long after the release of “Clueless,” and Rudd had already been contemplating moving t
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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Amazon Prime Video has dropped the explosive first trailer for the action comedy series “Ride or Die” starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham. As previously announced, all eight episodes will premiere on July 15 on Prime Video. It was originally announced in December 2023 that Spe
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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Disney has unveiled a first-look teaser at the film “Descendants: Wicked Wonderland,” along with announcing the movie’s premiere date. “Descendants: Wicked Wonderland” will debut on July 16 on Disney Channel and stream the next day on Disney+. The original soundtrack wi
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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“My Lady Jane” star Edward Bluemel is taking on the iconic role of Detective Hercule Poirot in a new drama series from the BBC and BritBox. Titled “Hercule,” the six-part series follows the Belgian detective — made famous by Agatha Christie — as he solves his first-ever cases
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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A film adaptation of Emma Straub’s “American Fantasy” novel is in development from “Imperfect Women” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss. Optioned by Moss and Lindsey McManus’s Love & Squalor Pictures, “American Fantasy”
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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Descendants: Wicked Wonderland has made it official. Actress, comedian and producer Awkwafina (The Farewell) has joined the cast as Chessy the Cat. Disney also unveiled a new teaser trailer for the latest installment of the successful Descendants franchise, which premieres Thursday, July 16 on Disne
2026-06-08 15:00 UTC
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Universal Television has acquired Catherine Adel West’s new novel “Strangers Behind Closed Doors” for development, Variety has learned exclusively. The novel is due to be released on June 9 by Park Row. LaToya Morgan (“Turn: Washington’s Spies,” “The Walking
2026-06-08 17:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
Previously only available on CD, vinyl, and cassette, the latest LP from Johnny Blue Skies can be streamed with a bonus Procol Harum cover
2026-06-08 17:31 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Terrifier franchise’s Lauren LaVera is set to star opposite Rory Culkin (Waco) in Red Wedding (w/t), a new horror-thriller from director Josh Stolberg and Gulfstream Pictures that has entered production in Birmingham, Alabama. Written by Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, who have pr
2026-06-08 17:32 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Vorteks, the genre label of Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon, has picked up worldwide rights to Michele Fiascaris’ psychological thriller Rain Catcher, starring UK actor Dudley O’Shaughnessy in his first leading feature film role, for a Cannes sales launch. The work, which is in post-pro
2026-05-11 08:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: A live experince firm that has produced concerts for Top Gun: Maverick and David Attenborough’s Ocean has secured a £2.6M ($3.5M) investment. Esk obtained the money via a funding round led by Maven Capital Partners and provided by the Maven Venture Capital Trusts along with the Brit
2026-05-11 08:00 UTC
Variety
Fox has revealed a fall schedule with just two nights of series that aren’t sports or reality TV and no new shows — once again saving the lion’s share of its scripted programming for midseason. That means new freshman entries — including the long-awaited return of “Baywatch,” as well as crime thrill
2026-05-11 13:30 UTC
Variety
Kino Lorber has acquired the Sundance documentary “Soul Patrol.“ The documentary which premiered earlier this year during the film festival, is based on the bestselling memoir by Ed Emanuel. Directed by J.M Harper, the film was an official selection at the True/False Film Festival, Full
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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Schmigadoon! and The Balusters were named the outstanding Broadway musical and play, respectively, by the Outer Critics Circle today. Ragtime was named outstanding musical revival and Death of a Salesman the outstanding play revival. The Outer Critics Circle is the official organization of writers o
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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Fox is touting its strength coming off a successful 2025-26 broadcast season, led by a few new breakout hits for the network. Memory of a Killer tallied 18.4M viewers across platforms in 35 days, ranking as broadcast’s top drama debut of the season among adults 18-49 and delivering the largest
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer (Outcome, Fellow Travelers) has joined Season 2 of Peacock and Sky’s spy thriller drama The Day of the Jackal as a recurring opposite star Eddie Redmayne. Details about Bomer’s character are being kept under wraps but I hear he is playing a villain. On Season 2 of T
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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Tom Burke (The Souvenir) has inked a deal to join Grammy nominee Gracie Abrams in Please, A24’s new film from Babygirl and Bodies Bodies Bodies helmer Halina Reijn. Character details are under wraps, as is the plot of the picture. Reijn’s frequent collaborator David Hinojosa is set to pr
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
Variety
Tom Burke has joined the cast of “Please,” the next feature from “Babygirl” writer/director Halina Reijn and A24. The British star of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “The Souvenir” joins Gracie Abrams in the feature, with the Grammy-nominated singer-song
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. buyer Angel has acquired U.S. rights from AGC Studios to Taika Waititi family film Fing!, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Angel, which operates an audience-driven model, has been taking on higher profile titles in the past 12 months and this is the latest in that mould a
2026-05-11 14:04 UTC
Rolling Stone
“She lives on in our hearts as a visionary, ground-breaking woman whose story is as powerful as it is relevant today," singer said
2026-05-11 14:06 UTC
Variety
French screen legend Isabelle Huppert is set to star in her first British film, “Lineage,” the hot new feature from acclaimed filmmaker Yann Demange (“Top Boy,” “71”). She’ll star opposite Dali Benssalah, Adam Bessa and award-winning global recording artist
2026-05-11 16:18 UTC
Rolling Stone
Abrams' third studio album, co-produced and co-written with Aaron Dessner, will drop July 17, preceded by first single "Hit the Wall"
2026-05-11 16:19 UTC
Variety
Gracie Abrams has announced her third album “Daughter From Hell,” releasing on July 17 via Interscope Records. The singer-songwriter revealed the title of the project on social media on Monday morning. “Whoa whoa whoa,” she wrote in a caption. “Freaking out. I am so rea
2026-05-11 16:23 UTC
Variety
Starting on Friday, June 5, the Nintendo Switch 2 is getting a $50 price increase. The jump comes ahead of the busy summer season, so it’s best to get the gaming console now before the price goes up. Right now, you can get the Nintendo Switch 2 for $449 at Walmart. However, come June 5, [̷
2026-05-11 16:25 UTC
Deadline
SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Comeback series finale ‘Valerie Cherish’ More than 20 years after bringing Valerie Cherish into our living rooms, Lisa Kudrow said goodbye to the leading lady in a touching The Comeback finale. Ahead of Sunday’s concluding episode R
2026-05-11 16:27 UTC
Variety
As Quinta Brunson builds her own TV production company, she knows what she doesn’t want to make: “Slop.” In this age of AI, “slop” has become a term to describe the kind of mindless fare that has started to clog social media and other platforms — projects created without much soul or originality at
2026-05-11 17:00 UTC
Variety
“The Rookie” spinoff “The Rookie: North” has been ordered to series at ABC. Per the official logline, the series stars Jay Ellis as Alex Holland, who “believed his mid-life wasn’t worthy of a crisis. But after a violent home invasion ignites a dormant purpose, Alex batt
2026-05-11 17:00 UTC
Deadline
The Rookie is a franchise again. Spinoff pilot The Rookie: North, starring Jay Ellis, has been picked up to series by ABC just hours before the network is set to unveil its 2026-27 schedule on Tuesday, May 11. I hear the order is for 10 episodes, with the series, from The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley
2026-05-11 17:00 UTC
Deadline
Hosts from MS NOW’s Morning Joe and CNBC’s Squawk Box appeared at the NBCUniversal upfront Monday to vouch for the impact of Versant Media’s programming. For years, the talent’s presence at Radio City Music Hall would have been utterly ordinary. In 2026, though, the talent an
2026-05-11 17:01 UTC
Variety
Seth Meyers closed the NBCUniversal upfront at Radio City Music Hall on Monday morning with plenty of jabs at his bosses. But perhaps his most cutting jokes were reserved for rival CBS and its Paramount Skydance owners. “CBS did not hold an upfront presentation this year because at CBS, upfron
2026-05-11 17:08 UTC
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We’re getting the first look at Prime Video’s upcoming action-adventure series Ride or Die, starring and exec produced by Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham. The streamer has released some of the first photos for the series, which you can see above and below. The series will launch wi
2026-05-11 21:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
As artists, especially those in country music, make philanthropy a part of their identities, Music Community Foundation aims to create a pipeline for them to give on a national level
2026-05-11 21:16 UTC
Deadline
Fox found a new location for its Upfront but had some familiar faces. Jane Krakowski, who hosts Celebrity Name That Tune, for the network pulled double duty, kicking off Fox’s shindig with another song and dance number, much like the one she had performed earlier on Monday at NBCUniversal’s Radio Ci
2026-05-11 21:17 UTC
Deadline
Hedda writer-director Nia DaCosta has been tapped to direct the pilot and second episode of Sex Criminals, Prime Video‘s series adaptation of Image Comics’ title that hails from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Tze Chun, LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios. DaCosta also will executive produce. The new
2026-05-11 21:30 UTC
Variety
Nia DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series “Sex Criminals.” She will also serve as an executive producer on the project. Based on Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s comic book series of the same name, published by Image Comics, the series
2026-05-11 21:30 UTC
Variety
Just hours after she performed a song-and-dance number at the NBC upfront (as her “30 Rock” character Jenna Maroney), “Celebrity Name That Tune” host Jane Krakowski opened the Fox upfront with another song-and-dance number — this time with a fellow Jane, “Celebrity Weakest Link” host Jane Lynch. The
2026-05-11 21:34 UTC
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Allen Family Digital, an affiliate of Byron Allen’s family office, under has a deal to acquire a majority stake in Buzzfeed with Byron Allen becoming chairman and CEO. Current chief executive and founder Jonah Peretti will transition to a newly created role as president of BuzzFeed AI. Under the ter
2026-05-11 21:37 UTC
NPR
President Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports after peace talks with Iran collapsed. And, Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 16 years in power in Hungary.
2026-04-13 11:56 UTC
BBC News
Many critics say the third season of the hit HBO drama doesn't live up to its previous heights.
2026-04-13 12:03 UTC
Deadline
Production has started in Los Angeles County on Season 2 of Prime Video’s spy drama series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, from Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency. Season 1 stars Maya Erskine and Donald Glover are back, with Erskine also joining Glover as an executive producer for Season 2. The duo are
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
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“Euphoria” is back. After a four-year hiatus, creator Sam Levinson was excited to take the high-school characters into adulthood. He says, “They can be in the wider world, and with that freedom comes obvious consequences.” Enter Rue (Zendaya). For the last few years, she has spent her days up to no
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
Variety
Classic The CW lives! Pluto TV has added four of the netlet’s popular circa-2000s and 2010s dramas to its library: Off-net episodes of “Hart of Dixie,” “Arrow,” “The 100” and “Everwood” are expected to join the free ad-supported streamer in the n
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
Variety
Queer Asian-Canadian-American filmmaker Quentin Lee and his Los Angeles-based production banner Margin Films will mark three decades of independent production with Cinemasianamerica, a week-long theatrical retrospective at the Laemmle Royal running May 1–7. The series will stream globally day-and-da
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
Deadline
From this fall, SNL has a new home in Canada. Heated Rivalry streamer Crave will stream SNL a day after it lands and it will be simulcast live on linear nework CTV. The new eps from the 52nd season, which kicks off in a few months, will join Crave’s Saturday Night Live Collection on the [̷
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
How did the world’s biggest band reclaim their crown? By overcoming doubt and returning to their roots on an adventurous new album
2026-04-13 15:00 UTC
Variety
International film distributor, streamer and production company Mubi has snapped up Mexican and Latin American rights to Fernando Eimbcke’s “Flies” (“Moscas”) with plans to release it in cinema theaters. It will mark the first time that Mubi will theatrically release a Mexican film across Latin Amer
2026-04-13 15:01 UTC
Variety
A new “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” are finally in action, as Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series has started production after a monthslong delay. According to sources, Talia Ryder has replaced Sophie Thatcher in the lead role. She will star opposite “Anora” breakout Mark Eyde
2026-04-13 15:07 UTC
Deadline
In this life, you can rest assured there will be taxes, death, and there will be more over-adrenalized filings in the long legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over the making of It Ends With Us and the digital blast radius that allegedly followed. Now, less than six weeks befor
2026-04-13 15:10 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Josh Charles (Best Medicine) is the latest to join The 99’ers, Netflix’s drama telling the inspirational true story of the 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer team, Deadline has learned. Reps for Netflix declined comment, and character details are under wraps. Charles joins an ense
2026-04-13 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The Sony Pictures and Platinum Dunes thriller It Had To Be You is locking in one of the best action directors in town as Sam Hargrave is coming on to helm the pic. Eliza Jane Brazier wrote the script which is based on her novel of the same name. She is also an exec […]
2026-04-13 16:30 UTC
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Damon Lindelof has done a lot of business with Warner Bros over the years, and today the Watchmen creator has put the business of the pending Paramount and WBD merger in a stark bottom line perspective. “Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town,” the Lanterns EP posted Monday
2026-04-13 16:45 UTC
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The first two seasons of Everyone Is Doing Great are coming to Netflix. The streamer picked up exclusive global rights for the series through its licensing deal with Sony Pictures Television. Both seasons will be available exclusively on Netflix on May 11. Created by One Tree Hill’s James Lafferty a
2026-04-13 16:52 UTC
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The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming crime drama Nemesis has been released (above), and it’s setting up a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game between the two lead characters, played by Matthew Law and Y’lan Noel. Nemesis tells the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of wh
2026-04-13 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed international adventurer and TV host Bear Grylls for representation. Grylls rose to prominence as the host of the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild, a series that redefined the survival genre and reached audiences around the world. He currently stars in Running Wild, now in
2026-04-13 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas (Power Ballad) has inked a deal to star in an untitled Netflix rom-com from director Ari Sandel (The DUFF). Penned by Tamara Chestna, a writer with credits like Something from Tiffany’s and Moxie, the film follows a perennial bachelor whose carefree life is upended when h
2026-04-13 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Linda Cardellini (DTF St. Louis) has closed a deal to join Bill Hader in They Know, the horror film for MRC, marking his feature directorial debut. Kicking off production in Los Angeles today, They Know centers on a divorced dad (Hader) who grows suspicious that his ex-wife (Cardellini) i
2026-04-13 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the SXSW debut for his latest feature Never After Dark, filmmaker Dave Boyle has been set to direct a new Untitled feature for Paramount Pictures and producer Walter Hamada’s 18Hz label. Nick Romano will executive produce for 18Hz, as well. Boyle will also rewrite the screenplay
2026-04-13 17:00 UTC
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Peacock is staying in The ‘Burbs, renewing the breakout suburban mystery comedy series, starring and executive produced by Keke Palmer, for a second season. The pickup comes two months after The ’Burbs‘s high-profile launch on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 8. Promoted with spots during the gam
2026-04-13 22:00 UTC
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“Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” achieved Disney+ and Hulu’s most-viewed season premiere of 2026 thus far. The revival of the beloved Fox sitcom hit 8.1 million views globally in its first three days of streaming, according to Disney. The company also notes that i
2026-04-13 22:00 UTC
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Robert Rodriguez is returning to the kids and family space with an original Christmas film at Paramount Animation, Variety has learned exclusively. The deal marks the first big development title for the label’s new leader Jennifer Dodge. “The Naughty List” will be written, directed and produced b
2026-04-13 22:00 UTC
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Investigation Discovery’s Boy Band Confidential includes appearances and never-before-seen interviews from ’NSync, Backstreet Boys, and more
2026-04-13 22:04 UTC
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“Zi,” the latest film from director Kogonada, has been picked up by Parallax Films for international sales outside North America, it was revealed on the sidelines of the Shanghai International Film Festival. The Hong Kong-set feature follows “Columbus” and “After Yang&#
2026-06-15 01:00 UTC
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Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Behaviour Interactive have tapped Thordur Palsson to direct their film adaptation of the horror multiplayer game “Dead by Daylight.” Palsson, an Icelandic native, is best known for creating and directing the nation’s first Netflix Original series, “The Valhalla Mur
2026-06-15 01:00 UTC
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The New York Knicks are taking over “The Tonight Show” with a dedicated episode on Monday. Fresh off their championship victory, the team’s starting five — Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges — will join Jimmy Fallon to celebrate their miracul
2026-06-15 01:00 UTC
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As Knicks fever has taken over the world, the New York City home team is coming to late-night. Following the team’s first NBA Championship win in more than 50 years, they well appear on Monday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a special episode celebrating their unforgettable seas
2026-06-15 01:00 UTC
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Jason Bateman has two vastly diverse limited series in Emmy contention right now: HBO Max’s DTF St. Louis, in which he plays Clark, a guileless weatherman swept up in a murder mystery alongside David Harbour and Linda Cardellini; and Netflix’s Black Rabbit, where his facial-hair-afflicted gambler Vi
2026-06-15 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Institute has named the 10 emerging filmmakers selected for the latest edition of its yearlong Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. Chosen from a pool of more than 1,100, they are Simisolaoluwa Akande, Aicha Cherif, Blake Knecht, Franciszek Korolczuk, Haneol Lee, Jo
2026-06-15 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster‘s extensive fiction and nonfiction backlist of 6,000 titles will now be searchable by film and TV industry figures on The Black List’s material database, opening up a new avenue for vetted professionals to explore published books for adaptation. Available
2026-06-15 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed creator Achieng Agutu, one of the co-hosts of Prime Video’s Influenced. The agency has signed Agutu for global representation in all areas and will “work to secure opportunities across brand partnerships, digital content, strategic business ventures and more.
2026-06-15 16:00 UTC
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Peter Serafinowicz has been cast as Peeves the Poltergeist in HBO’s “Harry Potter” series. The character, a cheeky ghost known for causing trouble in the Hogwarts halls, is a fan-favorite who didn’t appear in any of the original “Harry Potter” movies. Serafinowicz, who is repped by Curtis Brown Grou
2026-06-15 16:54 UTC
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iHeartMedia and Netflix today announced the next phase of their exclusive video podcast partnership with the addition of a new collection of iHeartPodcasts featuring Martha Stewart, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, and Lele Pons. The podcasts will launch as video shows on the streaming service, and th
2026-06-15 16:57 UTC
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‘Sex Criminals’: Pamela Adlon & BD Wong Join Prime Video Series, Kumail Nanjiani’s Casting Confirmed
EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Adlon (Better Things) has been tapped as a series regular opposite leads Imogen Poots and John Reynolds in Sex Criminals, Prime Video‘s series adaptation of Image Comics’ title that hails from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Tze Chun, LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios. BD Wong (La
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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Ron Perlman is set to guest star in the new episode of Dropout’s “Game Changer,” Variety has learned exclusively. Perlman will appear in Episode 3 of the show’s ongoing eighth season, which will debut tonight at 7 p.m. ET. The 10 episode seasons releases biweekly. Exact detai
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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Substack wants to simplify the search for sponsorship revenue for its thousands of newsletter writers. The platform on Monday said it debut a new stage of its native sponsorships program that gives individual creators to strike up partnerships with advertisers such as Yahoo Scout, Whatnot, Granola,
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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“Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer have set their first film under their rich, four-year deal at Paramount. The Duffer brothers will write and direct a new, yet-to-be-titled movie at the studio, dated for wide theatrical release on November 3, 2028. Details about the project
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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Variety will honor Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey with the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at Filmland on Friday, August 14. The award recognizes artists who have broken barriers in the industry and withstood the test of time. McConaughey will accept the honor for his caree
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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Paramount has announced the release date for its first theatrical feature from Matt and Ross Duffer, the duo behind Netflix’s phenomenon Stranger Things. Currently untitled, the film is slated to open wide on November 3, 2028. There are no other details yet on this project, other than it being
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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Netflix will continue its exploration of middle-age relationships with a third season of The Four Seasons, its comedy series created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher & Tracey Wigfield. Jinny Howe, the streamer’s Head of Scripted Series for US and Canada, announced the renewal on stage at the BANFF
2026-06-15 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) has attached to star in Turn the Lights Back On, a comedic family drama marking the feature debut of writer-director Dave Pantano that remains in development. Based on true events and inspired by experiences many families fac
2026-06-15 18:00 UTC
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Three-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro has been elected for the first time to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Board of Governors in the Directors branch. Another director, David Leitch, who was instrumental in pushing for the new Stunts category coming in 2028, also will be joi
2026-06-15 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Disney Branded Television is rebranding itself as Disney Kids & Family. The name change follows a review by Debra OConnell who added oversight of the Ayo Davis-led division as part of her elevation to Chairman of Disney Entertainment Television in March. OConnell and Davis shared the
2026-06-15 18:00 UTC
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the newly elected Board of Governors for the 2026-2027 term year. The new board is comprised of a mixture of new faces to the board, like director Guillermo del Toro and composer Kris Bowers, returning incumbents like actor Lou Diamond Ph
2026-06-15 18:00 UTC
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All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is getting into the musical theater game. The pro wrestling promotion has announced a partnership with the stage show “The Last Match: A Pro-Wrestling Rock Experience.” Under the partnership, “The Last Match” will take over a venue near Tottenham Cou
2026-06-15 18:03 UTC
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The “FX on Hulu” confusion is over — you just might have missed it if you weren’t tuning in closely across both platforms. When Season 5 of “The Bear” debuts on June 25, it will mark the first returning FX on Hulu series that will simultaneously release on linear cable channel FX a
2026-06-15 19:00 UTC
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In the fall of 2024, after a routine colonoscopy, comedian Jeff Ross received an unexpected diagnosis: He had Stage 3 colon cancer and would need to undergo surgery to remove seven inches of his colon, followed by six months of chemotherapy. It’s the sort of revelation that would lead most peo
2026-06-15 19:10 UTC
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Hong Kong cinema stalwart Derek Yee spoke about taking responsibility for nurturing younger generations of filmmakers at Shanghai International Film Festival’s forum on Hong Kong’s “Director’s Succession Scheme.” The panel was joined by filmmakers from younger generatio
2026-06-15 19:14 UTC
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New Orleans icons Cash Money Records and No Limit Records — two of the most legendary labels in hip-hop history — are taking their Verzuz battle last year to arenas nationwide later this year with a tour featuring Master P, Birdman, Juvenile, Silkk The Shocker, Mannie Fresh, B.G, Mia X, Choppa Style
2026-06-15 19:15 UTC
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Anya Taylor-Joy is the latest star to join the cast of “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.” The new film is directed by and starring Andy Serkis, who returns to play Gollum, alongside Ian McKellen (as Gandalf), Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Lee Pace (King Thranduil). Taylor‑Joy joins
2026-06-15 19:15 UTC
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Rosie O’Donnell will bring her solo show Common Knowledge to New York City next month, with performances beginning July 22 at the Daryl Roth Theatre Off Broadway. The 12-show engagement is currently scheduled to run through August 8. O’Donnell announced the engagement on her Substack, wr
2026-06-15 19:18 UTC
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BTS fans can soon get a deeper look inside some of the group’s most beloved songs. “BTS Lyrics Inside,” a new official book from the K-pop superstars, is set to be released Sept. 15 through Running Press Adult and is currently available to pre-order. The 184-page hardcover is desig
2026-06-15 19:27 UTC
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Animayo Gran Canaria, Spain’s foremost animation film festival, has awarded its top prizes to family-themed “18 Months” and “Because Today is Saturday.” Both features will go on to compete at the Oscars given that Animayo remains the first and only animation festival in Spain recognized by the Acade
2026-06-15 19:27 UTC
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MiniMax has launched Hub, a multimodal AI video generator that consolidates image creation, video, voiceover, music and editing into a single platform. Xu Lüyang, from the product operations department of MiniMax, introduced the tool at the Shanghai International Film Festival. “We used to ope
2026-06-15 19:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Live Nation Studios has commenced the SoCal production of Youth Juice, a new horror-comedy starring Gideon Adlon (Euphoria), Luna Blaise (Jurassic World), Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.). Written by Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan, two of the scribes behind Netfli
2026-06-15 19:34 UTC
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David Boreanaz has revealed that his son Jaden appears in the pilot of NBC’s The Rockford Files, and roughed him up along the way. The actor has also spoken about how James Garner’s daughter Gigi gifted him one of the late star’s sets of worry beads after he took on the iconic role
2026-06-15 21:54 UTC
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New York Knicks stars Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby will visit NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to celebrate the team’s championship victory. Towns will mark his second interview on Late Night Tuesday, June 16. He previously appeared as a guest on January 6. Anunoby will make hi
2026-06-15 21:57 UTC
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When Schitt’s Creekended in 2020, many wondered what its creator, actor and writer Dan Levy would do next. “When you do something for so long and it touches people in such meaningful ways, you’re left thinking, ‘Who am I? What do I want?’” says Levy, who has since made his directorial film debut wit
2026-06-15 22:00 UTC
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival has been good for actresses across the board, and if the percentage of female directors doesn’t seem to be moving very far forward, the types of female-fronted story reaching the Competition are definitely progressing. Jeanne Herry’s Garance — also known by the rathe
2026-05-18 12:47 UTC
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Demand for the collab led to crowds storming Swatch stores around the world but there are other ways to get your hands on the new release
2026-05-18 12:55 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 20 years after the Nicolas Roeg movie starring Kelly Reilly and Donald Sutherland, a small screen version of Fay Weldon’s supernatural novel Puffball is in development. Deadline understands Firebird Pictures has optioned the 1980 novel, with Morgan Lloyd Malcom, an Olivier Award-wi
2026-05-18 13:00 UTC
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The director opens up about making his film on John Lennon's final interview, why that conversation still resonates, and his use of AI as a creative tool
2026-05-18 13:00 UTC
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The singer-songwriter — who collapsed onstage at last year's event — will headline alongside Zara Larsson, Muna, and Brandi Carlile
2026-05-18 15:06 UTC
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The Adventure Time animated franchise is leaving the Warner Bros. Discovery ecosystem for the first time — the latest spinoff, Adventure Time: Side Quests, will be released on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S. The animated series is set to premiere June 29. Side Quests, produced by Cartoon Network
2026-05-18 15:10 UTC
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Eric Bentley’s 1972 play Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been will be revived for a summer-long Off Broadway run at New York City Center Stage I, and will featuring a starry rotating cast that will include at various points David Krumholtz, Billy Eugene Jones, Andrew McCarthy, Sally Murphy, Jay O. Sand
2026-05-18 15:13 UTC
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Baylen Dupree, star of TLC reality series Baylen Out Loud, is excited for fans to see her wedding and has teased some “chaos” in the upcoming season. The third season of Baylen Out Loud launches on Tuesday, May 19 and the Warner Bros. Discovery cable network is also preparing for an Emmy campaign. T
2026-05-18 17:47 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed comedian, actor, author, and digital creator Zarna Garg for representation in all areas. With more than four million followers and billions of views across platforms, Garg has built a global fanbase through her sharp, deeply relatable observations on family, culture, and mo
2026-05-18 18:00 UTC
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The Scooby-Doo franchise is expanding with the new anime series Yokoso Scooby-Doo, a Tubi Original set in Japan. Two franchise stars will voice their characters for the series: Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. In the series, while visiting Japan on the ultimate foodie advent
2026-05-18 21:49 UTC
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“There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity,” a big bucks court losing Elon Musk stamped his feet and proclaimed today of his now estranged OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Tos
2026-05-18 21:49 UTC
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Prime Video is not stopping with its YA book adaptation momentum. The streamer has several projects in the works and rolling out this summer, and Boys of Tommen is its latest big project boosted by Booktok. For everything we know about the upcoming college-set series adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s book
2026-05-18 21:51 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Rita Ora (He Bled Neon) has joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studios’ dramedy Honeymoon with Harry, opposite Kevin Costner, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Sarah Pidgeon. No word yet on the role to be played by Ora. She returns to work with Amazon after starring alongside Henry Cavill and Sterlin
2026-04-20 16:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Leonberg, the director of last fall’s buzzy supernatural horror title Good Boy, has inked a deal to direct Ankle Snatcher, an adaptation of the same-name short story from New York Times bestselling horror author Grady Hendrix, for Sony Pictures. Leonberg is also set to do a rewr
2026-04-20 16:20 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd) has inked a deal to join comedian Bill Burr in Bender, the coming-of-age comedy shooting in Ireland this summer. Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls, Bender is based on the late-’70s, post-punk Dublin coming-of-age experiences of Adr
2026-04-20 16:20 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Spaceballs star Bill Pullman will make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut, joining the already-announced Kenneth Branagh and Helen Hunt in a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard penned by Laura Wade, a playwright who’s also an EP and writer on Disney+ hit series Rival
2026-04-20 16:37 UTC
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TaleSphere Studios Developing Live-Action Anthology Series ‘The Vault’ Celebrating Stan Lee’s Legacy
EXCLUSIVE: TaleSphere Studios is developing The Vault, a teen-focused live-action anthology series that will be made in tribute to Stan Lee — the visionary behind Marvel Comics, who passed in November 2018. Created and licensed under the Stan Lee brand, the show will reflect his legacy of heart, ima
2026-04-20 16:39 UTC
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Elizabeth Moss is in the Emmy race, praise be. The Emmy-winning star of “The Handmaid’s Tale” will be submitted in the guest drama actress category for her reprisal of June Osborne in Hulu’s spinoff “The Testaments,” Variety has exclusively learned. Moss will submit Episode 103, “Daisy,” as her offi
2026-04-20 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Play Dead, the WWII thriller from Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra, which we scooped last February. A deal figure wasn’t disclosed. Starring Noah Jupe (Hamnet) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Oppenheimer), Play Dead follows a shell-shocked soldier who, after seein
2026-04-20 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed creator and entrepreneur Ben Azelart for representation. A former competitive skateboarder turned media powerhouse, Azelart has a highly engaged youth audience, with 80M+ followers across platforms. On YouTube alone, he has over 50M subscribers and 12B+ total views. Azelart
2026-04-20 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera has signed with Buchwald for representation. De la Reguera is widely recognized for creating, writing, showrunning, and starring in the Prime Video comedy series Ana, which is loosely based on her life. The bilingual series, which ran for three seasons,
2026-04-20 17:05 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Rising L.A. comic Leslie Liao has announced that her debut hour special, Silky Smooth, is out now for exclusive early access via 800 Pound Gorilla, with a YouTube release slated for Tuesday, April 28 at 5 p.m. PST. In Silky Smooth, Liao explores the chaotic stages of adulthood, scheduling
2026-04-20 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: David Lyons (The Beast in Me) and Tobias Menzies (F1 The Movie) are set to star alongside Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas in Safe Houses, Apple TV’s new eight-episode thriller series from Gideon Raff. Inspired by the espionage novel by Dan Fesperman, Safe Houses is set in the aft
2026-04-20 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Austin Amelio (The Walking Dead, Hit Man) has joined the recurring cast of FX’s The Lowdown for Season 2. Previously announced Season 2 additions also include Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones. From creator Sterlin Harjo, the first season of The Lowdown follows the gritty exploits of
2026-04-20 18:00 UTC
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Christina Applegate has shared a message after reports she was hospitalized. In a new social media post, the Married with Children alum expressed gratitude for all the messages of support and promised to share more updates soon. “Thank you for the outpouring of love and well wishes,&
2026-04-20 18:04 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Mediawan has launched Wonderland Junior TV, a free FAST and AVOD channel dedicated to making available the best European kids, preschool and family entertainment in the U.S. Offering free access to more than 1,700 episodes for kids, preschoolers and families, the launch schedule will feat
2026-06-22 13:30 UTC
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are returning to the world of Judith Kerr’s “Mog” picture books for Channel 4’s animated special “Mog’s Bad Thing.” Cumberbatch will reprise his role as Mr Thomas opposite Foy as Mrs Thomas while “Bridgerton’s” Adjoa Andoh also returns as the narrator alongs
2026-06-22 13:31 UTC
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Tim Roth, Sofia Carson and Kate Beckinsale are among the top talents booked to attend the upcoming ninth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, which will be held June 25-28 on the island of Sardinia. Roth, who most recently starred in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” and R
2026-06-22 14:21 UTC
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Adam Wexler, who launched fantasy sports operator PrizePicks, has launched unscripted production shingle EightState Studios, with an eye toward creating original series and documentaries. First up, the company is working on an untitled eight-episode live unscripted competition series set to premiere
2026-06-22 14:30 UTC
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Paul Feig derided AI as technology that “literally no one of us asked for,” framing it as merely an “amalgamation of what we leave behind.” In contrast, he said, “We are HI. We are human intelligence.” Humanity, he said, is “our superpower,” and people
2026-06-22 14:31 UTC
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Ninel Conde is the next Latin star to be featured in Vix’s docuseries Sin Filtro, following installments starring Chiquis and Gloria Trevi. JK Media Group has begun production on the unscripted series, which will star Conde, a singer and actress known for telenovelas such as Rebelde,
2026-06-22 15:00 UTC
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ABC is taking to the airwaves to warn viewers of the FCC’s crackdown on The View and the agency’s unusual demand that the network’s stations seek early renewal of their broadcast licenses. The spots, which will start airing on Monday, are the latest pushback from The Walt Disney Co
2026-06-22 15:00 UTC
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Universal Pictures has revealed the Illumination animated movie Not Alone, which will star Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez. The studio has set an April 16, 2027 wide release for the project, taking the place of the Untitled Illumination Event Film. The announcement was made during the Annecy Film
2026-06-22 15:00 UTC
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Storied animation producer Bonnie Arnold gave short shrift to those who are snobbish about her beloved discipline at Annecy today. The Toy Story and How to Train Your Dragon producer, who started out in live action with the likes of Dances with Wolves and The Addams Family, had some simple words for
2026-06-22 15:02 UTC
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Studiocanal has unveiled a first look at Romeo Beckham in his acting debut “Forty Love,” directed by renowned fashion photographer Pierre-Ange Carlotti. “Forty Love,” which marks the first directorial outing of Carlotti, is produced by Hugo Sélignac and Paco de Bary
2026-06-22 15:07 UTC
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Over a decade ago, Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Viviane D’Avilla traveled to India looking to develop a photography project based on the country’s culture and spirituality. There, she met members of the Indian Hijra community, a legally recognized third gender encompassing those who are tran
2026-06-22 15:13 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Uppendahl (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, The Beauty) has been set to direct the pilot episode of Prime Video’s Bishop, a thriller drama from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. Uppendahl will also executive produce. Bishop follows homicide detective Bishop Graves
2026-06-22 17:34 UTC
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Probably not his divorce from Bunnie Xo, if the country star's onstage message last week is to believed: “This is the only time I will ever speak about it," Jelly said during a performance
2026-06-22 17:36 UTC
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Paramount Skydance on Monday promoted two veteran labor relations execs, Nicole Lang and Sheldon Kasdan, to lead a new standalone division responsible for navigating the company’s relationships with entertainment unions. Both have long tenures with the company. Lang has been head of industrial
2026-06-22 17:45 UTC
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Every good party starts with expert hosts. This weekend, audiences will receive “The Invite,” Olivia Wilde’s couples dramedy, which revived a sleepy Sundance in January thanks to a riveting four-hander with her costars Penélope Cruz, Ed Norton and Seth Rogen. The film thawed out critics and au
2026-06-22 19:51 UTC
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With the success of Kpop Demon Hunters, Netflix is bringing feature animation squarely under the domain of Hannah Minghella. Previously, the Sony and Bad Robot Production exec oversaw both live-action family and animation. Minghella, who was already overseeing animation, gets the new title of Head o
2026-06-22 19:56 UTC
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The president has made a fortune since retaking the White House. His sons and other family members aren't doing too bad, either
2026-04-27 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes has announced that her seventh stand-up special, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes: Ugly Baby, is set to premiere on YouTube on Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 10 — at 12 p.m. PT. Self-produced and self-financed, Ugly Baby marks Johnson-Reyes’ directorial debut.
2026-04-27 16:01 UTC
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John Lee Hancock is gearing up for the shoot of courtroom drama Monsanto starring with Jonathan Bailey and Laura Dern in Germany. The drama revisiting the real-life legal battle against chemical giant Monsanto will star Bailey as attorney Brent Wisner who led a lawsuit against the US company Monsant
2026-04-27 16:05 UTC
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Two-time Oscar-nominated producer Stacey Sher, who’s behind more than two dozen critically acclaimed films such as Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Erin Brockovich, has signed a first-look deal with MGM Television. Under the pact, Sher will develop and produce television s
2026-04-27 17:00 UTC
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The record, arriving in the place of the ostensibly scrapped Love in Real Life, is set to drop in June
2026-04-27 17:01 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Laura Lekkos has come aboard to adapt Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestseller Expiration Dates, which is in development at Amazon MGM Studios with Emma Roberts set to star. Deadline first told you about the project. The novel follows a woman who receives paper slips from the u
2026-04-27 22:15 UTC
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The general sale to the "Summer of Live" deal starts on April 29 with over 4,000 shows, but there are multiple ways to get early access
2026-04-27 22:21 UTC
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\Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment came to Jimmy Kimmel’s defense, after President Donald Trump again called for ABC to fire the late-night host over a joke he made last week in his monologue. First Lady Melania Trump also urged the network to “take a stand” agai
2026-04-27 22:24 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from HBO Max’s The Pitt Season 2. Dr. Cassie McKay has had a slightly less stressful second season, at least personally; however, this has not taken away from the important work and care that actress Fiona Dourif has put into bringing the
2026-03-30 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has snapped up film rights to The Marriage Bargain, Jennifer Probst’s bestselling romantic comedy novel published by Entangled Publishing, enlisting Laura Lekkos (Relationship Goals) to adapt the screenplay. The project is notable in that it represents the first
2026-03-30 16:30 UTC
Deadline
The BBC’s acting boss has urged staffers to recognize the “pressure” placed on Scott Mills’ team following the swift sacking of the top radio presenter. Mills’ exit was revealed this morning following allegations over his personal conduct, which we understand involve a past relatio
2026-03-30 16:41 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: 42.6 Years, the romantic comedy with genre elements starring Andy Samberg that was announced back in 2023, has moved from Amazon MGM Studios to Focus Features for distribution. While Samberg was originally set to star opposite Jean Smart, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning star of HBO Max
2026-03-30 16:43 UTC
Variety
More than 25 years ago, Todd Milliner and Paul Velten met as aspiring actors in Chicago. Now, with two decades of industry experience under their belts, the duo is formally reuniting to launch their latest venture, Summer98, a cause-first marketing agency that combines their respective expertise in
2026-03-30 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Berto Colón (The Penguin, Power Book II: Ghost) and Hart Denton (Riverdale, 13 Reasons Why) have been cast in the Paramount+ series Dutton Ranch, the Beth and Rip Yellowstone spinoff series created by Chad Feehan, based on characters created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. Dutton Ranc
2026-03-30 17:00 UTC
Variety
“Danny Go!” is going to Netflix. Five episodes of the beloved children’s program are coming to the streamer on April 6, including songs like “Ka-Pow! Superhero Dance” and adventure games like “Escape From Tiger Island.” Per Netflix, “The educational sh
2026-03-30 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Daly, former President of Critical Content and A. Smith & Co. Productions, is launching her own banner. Daly has established Studio82 to produce unscripted and scripted series. It comes five months after Daly left the American Ninja Warrior producer. The focus for Studio82 will
2026-03-30 17:02 UTC
Variety
Welcome back to the world of “Euphoria.” Ahead of the long-awaited premiere of the HBO drama’s third season on April 12, a second trailer has been released. Released in January, the first trailer confirmed a five-year time jump after Season 2, which aired in 2022. The footage revea
2026-03-30 17:11 UTC
Deadline
Exactly two years after Lionsgate’s opened the Paul Feig near-$400M grossing R-rated hit The Housemaid, the pic’s sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, will open on Dec. 17, 2027. Like the first film which was mega female Christmas counterprogramming to tentpole Avatar: Fire & Ash, H
2026-03-30 18:00 UTC
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Coming off his Oscar-nominated turn alongside Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value, Stellan Skarsgård will next star opposite her sister, Dakota Fanning. Skarsgård has joined Apple TV’s upcoming Alex Cary thriller drama headlined and executive produced by Dakota Fanning, which Elle Fanning also e
2026-03-30 18:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Billy Noonan was there for John and Carolyn’s early days, the wedding, and the very end. Here’s what he has to say about the Ryan Murphy series
2026-03-30 18:07 UTC
Rolling Stone
Buckingham recently spoke of a "resurgence of connection between Stevie and myself," but does that mean a Fleetwood Mac tour? A Buckingham/Nicks project? A one-off celebratory event?
2026-03-30 18:08 UTC
Deadline
Writer-producer Ed Solomon squeezed in a quick trip to the west coast over the weekend before returning to work on his upcoming drama series The Spot, a Hulu project filming in Westchester, NY. He came to the Sonoma International Film Festival in California’s wine country for a screening of The Chri
2026-03-30 19:49 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer posted a video of himself saluting one of the aircraft, which reportedly circled his home four times
2026-03-30 19:49 UTC
Rolling Stone
George Clinton, Erykah Badu, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Hanson were among those who performed selections from inducted recordings
2026-05-09 16:24 UTC
Rolling Stone
The musician’s “I Keep on Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night” follows “Rock Music” and is only available via vinyl and on Instagram
2026-05-09 18:01 UTC
Deadline
SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the entirety of the first season of The Boroughs now on Netflix. The tight-knit group of neighbors in the eponymous retirement community where The Boroughs takes place have mostly survived the show’s first season, but not completely unscathed. Created by Jeffrey Addis
2026-05-23 01:22 UTC
Deadline
It’s a big year for Zendaya, with four movies and a long-anticipated third season of her hit show. The Golden Globe winner recently recalled juggling production on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three and the third season of HBO’s Euphoria.
2026-05-23 01:29 UTC
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Hunting season is upon us as a new season of Netflix’s hit sapphic murder mystery is in the can, with another on deck. The Hunting Wives star Dermot Mulroney, who plays Jed Banks in the Rebecca Cutter-created series, recently revealed that the cast and crew has “completed Season 2”
2026-05-23 02:04 UTC
The Hill
President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. married influencer and model Bettina Anderson on Thursday, just over five months after announcing their engagement. The two married in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to Palm Beach County marriage records. Real estate attorney Brad McPherson, who has worked wi
2026-05-23 02:51 UTC
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Grizzwald ‘Grizz’ Chapman, the fan-favorite 30 Rock star who played Grizz on the NBC sitcom for its seven-season run, has died. He was 52. The actor’s longtime rep Saideh A. Brown told TMZ that Chapman died on Friday. Other details, including a cause of death, were not immediately
2026-05-23 02:52 UTC
Variety
“The Secret Agent” breakout Tânia Maria has joined Leonardo Lacca’s “Sábado Morto” (“Dead Saturday,” in literal translation). Produced by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux’s banner Cinemascópio, the film stars Jesuíta Barbosa (“Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso”) and is curren
2026-05-23 16:01 UTC
Rolling Stone
The song is only available on her Instagram account and limited edition 7” vinyl
2026-05-23 16:04 UTC
Deadline
With Dutton Ranch losing its creator and showrunner nearly a month before its premiere, Christina Voros has shared her reaction. The Paramount+ show’s executive producer and director praised Chad Feehan for “creating a world for these characters to move into” with the Yellowstone s
2026-05-23 16:14 UTC
Deadline
Before Warner Bros Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca takes the stage at the Produced By conference this afternoon, the studio has unveiled that the title to the Legendary co-production Minecraft sequel is A Minecraft Movie: Squared. As previously announced Jared is returning to helm with stars
2026-05-30 16:40 UTC
Variety
Producers Jason Blum and James Wan opened the Produced By conference on Saturday with a declaration that the film business is strongly rebounding from the post-COVID doldrums. The pair spoke with enthusiasm as their Blumhouse-Atomic Monster studio is riding high on the success of two buzzy box offic
2026-05-30 16:40 UTC
Deadline
Jimmy Donaldson has finally created a spectacle. Now known more commonly as MrBeast, the content creator got his start doing outrageous challenges on YouTube, including a nearly 24-hour-long video of Donaldson counting to 100,000. Other early videos included attempting to break glass using a hundred
2026-05-30 16:43 UTC
Deadline
As Spencer Pratt films his latest reality show about his bid for Los Angeles mayor, the stakes have never been higher. The Hills alum recently said he plans to leave LA altogether if he loses the June 2 primary or the Nov. 3 election, but if he wins, Pratt “will rebuild” after losing his
2026-05-17 17:01 UTC
Variety
Peter Jackson is finally weighing in on Ryan Gosling’s infamous recasting in “The Lonely Bones,” the director’s 2009 adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel. Gosling was originally cast as the father of Saoirse Ronan’s lead character but revealed to THR in 2010 that he
2026-05-17 17:06 UTC
Variety
With more than 50 years of clay animation, Aardman unveiled a glimpse of a bright future this year at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, which opens June 21. The studio’s legendary trio, co-founders Peter Lord, David Sproxton and fellow director Nick Park, took the stage earlier today in Anne
2026-06-21 16:51 UTC
Variety
Richard Gere originally turned down the part of Bosko, the CIA’s London bureau chief in Paramount+ series “The Agency,” he tells Variety. It was only after showrunners Jez and John-Henry Butterworth re-wrote the part following extensive notes from Gere that the screen icon agreed to come on board. T
2026-06-21 17:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian pubcaster CBC has renewed its version of the groundbreaking unscripted format The Assembly. The announcement of a second season comes on World Autism Day, and will feature an expanded cast of more than 30 neurodivergent and autistic adults who interview celebrities – often asking
2026-04-02 15:30 UTC
Variety
The live-action “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV series is now officially in development at Peacock, Variety has learned. Based on the LitRPG book series of the same name by Matt Dinniman, the project was originally acquired by Universal International Studios in early 2025, though no network or
2026-04-02 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Catapult Film Fund has named its 2026 Research Fellows, a distinguished group of five filmmakers who will receive $10,000 each to develop their documentary projects. The cohort includes Isabel Castro (Mija, Selena Y Los Dinos), Oscar-nominated producer Lauren Domino (Time), Oscar-shortlis
2026-04-02 16:00 UTC
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Universal has acquired domestic theatrical rights to Six The Musical Live!, the recorded edition of the popular stage show, and will release the film through Focus in cinemas on August 14. Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, the production reimagines the wives of Henry VIII as pop icons. The
2026-04-02 16:00 UTC
Deadline
Sean Gamble, chief executive of the nation’s third largest theater chain, saw his total compensation rise about 10% in 2025 from the year before to $10.8 million. The pay package includes $1 million in base pay; $6.5 million in stock awards; $3.2 million in non-equity incentive compensation (like a
2026-04-02 16:01 UTC
Deadline
Olivia Rodrigo has confirmed the title of her third studio album and set a release date for this June. The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum has revealed that her new album is titled You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love. The album is set to be released on June […]
2026-04-02 17:30 UTC
Variety
There’s a casting shakeup at “The Pitt.” Variety has learned exclusively that Ayesha Harris, who plays senior night shift resident Dr. Parker Ellis, has been promoted to series regular going into the show’s third season. In addition, Supriya Ganesh, who has played senior resi
2026-04-02 17:30 UTC
Deadline
The 12th edition of the Saudi Film Festival, which was due to have taken place in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province city of Dhahran from April 23 to 29, has been postponed to June 25 to July 1. No reason was given in a statement released on Thursday announcing the postponement, but it comes as S
2026-04-02 17:41 UTC
Deadline
Louis C.K. is set to headline a show at the Hollywood Bowl, as part of Netflix Is A Joke Fest, on May 5, festival organizers announced on Thursday. The news comes ahead of the release of Ridiculous, his latest stand-up special, which he directed and exec produced alongside Lea Cohen Zuckerman and Br
2026-04-02 17:42 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has acquired U.S. streaming rights to The Voice of Hind Rajab, director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated film based on the true story of a young Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The haunting narrative feature includes the actual voice recordings of Hind Rajab as
2026-04-02 17:44 UTC
Deadline
HBO Max’s critically acclaimed medical drama The Pitt will look a bit different when Season 3 premieres in 2027. Supriya Ganesh will not return as Dr. Samira Mohan, the character she’s played since Season 1. This should come as no surprise to fans watching Season 2, as Mohan has really s
2026-04-02 18:22 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Euphoria Season 3 has already outdone itself, and the first episode doesn’t even premiere for 10 more days. The second trailer, which debuted online Monday, hit 157M views within 48 hours, Deadline can reveal exclusively. That makes it the most-watched returning original trailer in
2026-04-02 19:30 UTC
Deadline
Paramount+ is continuing to march into the reality world. The streamer has ordered Team Moms, exec produced by Kim Kardashian. The series will follow the world of nationally competitive youth baseball through the Legendary Prep Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. The series follows the coaches, founders
2026-04-02 19:37 UTC
Rolling Stone
The usually unfiltered artist held his first U.S. concert in five years, saying little about the controversy surrounding him after years of antisemitic rhetoric made him a social pariah
2026-04-02 19:37 UTC
Deadline
Bruce Springsteen has the support of his union in the latest set-to with President Donald Trump. After Trump, in a Truth Social message, called Springsteen a “[b]ad, and very boring singer” who “looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plas
2026-04-02 19:38 UTC
Deadline
Zendaya wants to work with Ryan Coogler in the future, a dream she has had since watching his directorial debut, Fruitvale Station. The Drama star was a guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show when the host asked whether there was someone she wanted to work with but hadn’t yet. “I would love t
2026-04-02 19:51 UTC
Rolling Stone
The denim brand's t-shirt drop features designs inspired by the hip hop trio's underrated 1998 album, Hello Nasty
2026-04-02 21:31 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: MediaHedge, the parent company of Atlanta-based finance platform FilmHedge (Dead Man’s Wire), is launching a film and TV joint venture fund with a New York asset management firm. FilmHedge, which lends money against pre-sales and tax credits, has worked on movies including Gus Van S
2026-04-02 21:32 UTC
Variety
David Harbour has been killing it lately. The 50-year-old’s imposing physical presence has long made him a natural fit for superhero and genre roles across film and television. From the titular half-demon in the 2019 reboot of “Hellboy” to the Russian super-soldier Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinemat
2026-04-02 21:40 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Jost is branching out to scripted series. The Saturday Night Live veteran has teamed up with writer-producer Alex Barnow (The Goldbergs, Power: Origins) for a drama, which has landed at Peacock for development. Jost is executive producing and attached to star in the untitled series,
2026-04-02 21:42 UTC
Variety
Sony Pictures is mulling a biopic of legendary news man Walter Cronkite, Variety has learned. The “Spider-Man” studio has tapped screenwriter David Rothley to adapt esteemed academic Douglas Brinkley’s 2012 biography “Cronkite,” sources said. Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown chair in humaniti
2026-04-02 21:46 UTC
Variety
The Season 2 finale of “Paradise” reached 4.3 million viewers in its first three days of streaming on Hulu and Disney+. That total marks a 35% increase in viewership compared to the season premiere, which was released on Feb. 23, and marks the biggest audience “Paradise” has
2026-04-02 21:50 UTC
Variety
Jeff Shell’s legal team is engaged in preliminary talks with Paramount Skydance on a possible exit from the media giant, where currently serves as president. If Shell remains at the company, he will most likely transition to a different, more advisory role, according to a source with knowledge
2026-04-02 21:51 UTC
Rolling Stone
During her brief time in the group, Lahav played violin on "Jungleland," and sang choir-like background vocals on "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"
2026-04-02 21:52 UTC
Variety
Ted Danson said he will “apologize for the rest of my life” over a roast of Whoopi Goldberg he did in blackface in 1993. Speaking on W. Kamau Bell’s podcast “Who’s With Me?,” the “Cheers” and “The Good Place” actor opened up about the incid
2026-06-04 09:51 UTC
Variety
Universal Music Greater China has signed Jason Zhang, one of the most commercially successful artists in Chinese-language pop, in a wide-ranging deal spanning recorded music, artist management, live performance and international strategy, structured in partnership with Zhang’s personal label,
2026-06-04 09:52 UTC
Deadline
If the film world has the Oscars and Palme d’Or as measures of excellence, the highest accolade in the restaurant world is the Michelin star. But as an interviewee in Adrian Choa and Michael Boccalini’s Feast or Famine: The Quest for the Michelin Star points out early on in the documentary, an Oscar
2026-06-04 09:58 UTC
Deadline
Netflix EMEA chief Larry Tanz has warned against a “one size fits all approach” to rights retention around Europe that risks benefitting huge indies backed by “private equity or sovereign wealth.” Speaking at the Enders TMT Leaders Conference, Tanz committed to breaking Netfl
2026-06-04 09:59 UTC
Rolling Stone
The rising singer-songwriter's second album shows off a bedroom-pop sound that’s as influenced by indie confessionals as R&B valentines
2026-06-04 15:03 UTC
Variety
The first time Keith David visited Venice, he remembers finding a corner inside the cavernous grandeurof Doge’s Palace. Back in Rome, he had been starstruck by the fact that Julius Caesar had walked the same streets. But at the Doge’s Palace, he wanted to feel that prestige for himself with the anci
2026-06-04 15:05 UTC
Rolling Stone
Iranian-French creator's career straddled comics and film
2026-06-04 15:15 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive first look at the trailer for The Tropic Sun and His Eyes ahead of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. Filmed in Haiti’s northern Cap-Haïtien region, the movie follows Ruben, a young man (Stevenson Jean) who embarks on a journey to reconnect with hi
2026-06-04 16:02 UTC
Variety
Ellen Pompeo is staying in business with Hulu and her “Good American Family” collaborator Katie Robbins with the dramedy pilot “Chicks.” Variety has confirmed that Pompeo will star in and executive produce the pilot under her Calamity Jane banner along with Laura Holstein. Ro
2026-06-04 16:08 UTC
Variety
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II wasn’t going to waste his one “Marvel buck.” This is the same man who walked away from a George Miller’s “Furiosa.” The move was necessary. Six straight years of work — “The Get Down,” “Aquaman,” “Watchmen,”
2026-06-04 16:15 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone‘s Kelsey Asbille is set to star opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in The Kellys, the action film from Thunder Road that Amazon MGM has acquired for worldwide release on streaming, as we first reported yesterday. Character details are being kept under wrap
2026-06-04 16:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
Track will feature on upcoming compilation of all previously unreleased material, Timeless
2026-06-04 16:18 UTC
Deadline
Euphoria seems to have held fairly steady across its third and final season, delivering 8.7M viewers in three days for the series finale, HBO says. That’s a slight uptick from the premiere, which amassed 8.5M viewers in three days, but the network didn’t specify if this is the best audie
2026-06-04 16:29 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Salem, a former Midwestern high school teacher who is now a full-time stand-up, is launching a new podcast with All Things Comedy, titled After School Snack, on June 11. The podcast sees Salem attempt to circumvent his lack of culinary skills as he recreates his guests’
2026-06-04 16:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Season 3 cast of Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors is growing. Joshua Jackson (The Affair, Doctor Odyssey) has been cast in a major recurring role, joining previously announced Michelle Monaghan, a new series regular, in the upcoming season. Jackson’s casting news co
2026-06-04 16:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has halted pre-production on its untitled epic drama about ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal starring Denzel Washington in the titular role with his frequent collaborator Antoine Fuqua directing. The film was planning to shoot later this year in Italy but insiders now say thin
2026-06-04 16:30 UTC
Variety
Fresh off winning the audience award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Clio Barnard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” has secured a raft of international sales, with Paris-based sales company Charades handling worldwide rights. The film, which earned the top audience prize in the Cannes sidebar,
2026-06-04 17:52 UTC
Variety
Forbes lists are largely a status symbol for the 1%, but as the business publication has expanded its purview — and as the music business has grown legit billionaires — its lists and criteria have grown. Pegged to its four-year-old Iconoclast conference is an “Iconoclast 50” list released on Wednesd
2026-06-04 17:55 UTC
Variety
FX has greenlit “The Marriage Plot,” a limited series based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ 2011 novel of the same name. Sadie Sink will star in the project, which is written by Will Arbery and directed by Hiro Murai and will stream on Hulu. Per the official descriptiom, “The Marriage
2026-06-04 18:00 UTC
Variety
A trailer has been released for “Death Boom,” the forthcoming documentary exploring the multi-billion dollar death care industry. The film will make its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Festival on June 9 in New York. From director Jessica Chandler, “Death Boom” will investigate the most press
2026-06-04 18:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM is eyeing a sequel to The Last Sunrise, its forthcoming film adaptation of the bestselling romance novel from the After series’ Anna Todd, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps for the studio declined comment. We’re told that screenwriter Anna Kla
2026-06-04 18:16 UTC
Deadline
Sharon Horgan has claimed that studio executives usually give tougher notes on female characters, revealing that she often has to battle against the desire to “soften our edges.” Reflecting on her interactions with studio chiefs at SXSW London, the BAFTA-winning Bad Sisters star said: &#
2026-06-04 18:24 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has signed filmmaker Markian Tarasiuk for representation following the breakout success of his feature directorial debut, Hunting Matthew Nichols. Tarasiuk directed, starred, and has a story by credit on the mockdoc found-footage horror film, which received multiple fest
2026-06-04 18:25 UTC
Variety
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” showrunner Alex Kurtzman has been vocal about his love for luxury fashion designer Alexander McQueen. It was one name that came up in conversations with the show’s costume designer, Avery Plewes, when they were brainstorming ideas for the series’ wedding episode. The se
2026-06-04 18:26 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Coming off their characters’ antagonist relationship on Prime Video’s The Boys, Chace Crawford and P.J. Byrne are set to play brothers on a new series, which is in development at the Amazon streamer, Deadline has learned. The project, titled We Once Were Men, is written by Mat
2026-06-04 19:20 UTC
Deadline
When Haley Z. Boston sat down to write Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, she wasn’t working from a detailed outline. Instead, the creator followed her instincts, allowing the story’s twists, mythology and emotional revelations to emerge as she went. That unconventional approach woul
2026-06-04 19:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Starz has ordered Power: Legacy to series with franchise stars Joseph Sikora and Michael Rainey Jr. returning as their original characters Tommy Egan and Tariq St. Patrick, respectively. Gary Lennon (Power, Euphoria), who most recently concluded his run as showrunner of Power Book IV: For
2026-06-04 20:00 UTC
Deadline
Claire Foy has revealed that she was kept on her toes by the “electric” Richard E. Grant while filming Savage House. The Emmy-winning star of The Crown joked that working with Grant in the 18th-century period romp was like “constantly teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.&#
2026-06-04 20:01 UTC
Variety
In writing an album that is largely about loss and calling it “Good Grief,” singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is clearly playing with the wording of that common phrase, finding a way to make it feel literal, not like an oxymoron. That carries over to the similarly titled documentary, R
2026-06-04 20:03 UTC
Deadline
Edward Bernays, a calm, courtly man renowned as the “Father of Public Relations,” would likely have been confounded by the erratic public behavior of today’s billionaire CEOs. Bernays preached his doctrine of ”engineered consent” to rescue stumbling CEOs. Since he died in 1995, however, his “e
2026-06-04 20:08 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan) and Sophia Adler (Harlan Coben’s Shelter) are set to star in Deborah Kampmeier’s upcoming independent feature drama, Holy Whore. Filming is due to get underway in Mexico this summer on the project, which marks a first feature in six years for Ka
2026-06-04 20:12 UTC
Rolling Stone
In a new Dateline special airing Friday, June 5, at 10 p.m. ET, the news program will dive deeper into the Mangione investigation
2026-06-04 20:12 UTC
Variety
Starz has greenlit the “Power” sequel “Power: Legacy,” Variety has confirmed. The series will follow the reunion of Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) and Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr.), the son of Tommy’s late friend James “Ghost” St. Patrick. More to come&
2026-06-04 20:14 UTC
Variety
Many advertising executives say it’s too early to figure out whether the annual “upfront” sales season will be robust for video companies. Alan Moss thinks he’s already in the moment. “The upfront market is strong this year,” says Moss, vice president of global sales for Amazon Ads, during a recent
2026-05-07 13:00 UTC
Variety
“Princess,” a canine-driven romantic comedy starring Lucy Hale and Adam Demos, has wrapped production as Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl. prepares to ramp up world sales at Cannes with an exclusive first-look image just released. The film, which is directed by Lina Roessler (“So Much for Love,” “Best Sellers”
2026-05-07 13:00 UTC
Variety
"Hit Me Hard and Soft" is a concert film that doesn’t look and feel like other concert films. It’s a genuine experience, because of a combination of the show itself and the way Cameron has filmed it.
2026-05-07 13:00 UTC
Variety
Kate del Castillo’s Teresa Mendoza is coming back to Telemundo in the 2026-27 season to deliver a fourth installment of “La Reina del Sur.” Another drama franchise, “El Señor de los Cielos,” is back for Season 10 as Telemundo stocks its lineup to capitalize on what it h
2026-05-07 13:01 UTC
Variety
Ludi Lin has spent the better part of a decade punching, kicking and fire-bending his way through some of Hollywood’s biggest action franchises. He is very good at it. He would also like to do something else. Three days before this interview, Lin had been in Indonesia for the premiere of ̶
2026-05-07 13:10 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: ITV and ZDF’s space mystery First Woman has rounded out its main cast. Ben Miles (Andor, The Crown), Jimmy Akingbola (Bel-Air, The Tower), Kathryn Gallagher (Woman of the Hour, You), Christian Ochoa Lavernia (In the Grey, Neuromancer), Shazad Latif (Wuthering Heights, Nautilus) and
2026-05-07 15:00 UTC
Deadline
A new group of couples are preparing to have their relationships tested after Netflix renewed Temptation Island for a third season. The renewal comes less than a month after the second season dropped on the platform. The dating series has performed well for the streamer with the second season hittin
2026-05-07 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Day of the Jackal producer Carnival Films has promoted Nigel Marchant to Co-Executive Chair. Marchant will now serve alongside founder Gareth Neame running the Universal International Studios-backed drama indie. He will work with Neame shaping Carnival’s strategic direction and
2026-05-07 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a nice genre package. Allison Williams (M3gan) and Michelle Randolph (Scream 7) are set to star in sci-fi survival thriller Homewrecker from leading French genre filmmaker Xavier Gens, known for directing Netflix’s hit shark movie Under Paris and on series including Lup
2026-05-07 15:12 UTC
Deadline
Paramount+ has dropped the official trailer for Season 19 of Criminal Minds: Evolution, which finds Elias Voit back to help find a killer who idolizes him. The trailer also gives us a quick glimpe of Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie, who is set as a guest star in the upcoming season. In additio
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
Variety
Golloria George, a leading beauty and lifestyle digital creator, has signed with UTA for global representation in all areas. UTA said it will work to secure opportunities for her across digital media, brand partnerships and strategic business ventures. Golloria has more than 3.3 million followers on
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
Deadline
E! is sticking with pop culture nostalgia with its latest series. The Versant-owned network has ordered mixology competition series Cocktail Wars hosted by former NSYNC members Lance Bass and Joey Fatone. The ten-part series, which will premiere this summer, pits a group of mixologists against
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Ginnifer Goodwin has been cast as a series regular in The Probability of Miracles, the upcoming adaptation of Wendy Wunder’s best‑selling novel. The series currently stars Melissa Collazo and Henry Eikenberry with Rina Mamoun and Katie Lovejoy serving as showrunners. Lovejoy is also writi
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
Deadline
The History Channel is honoring veterans in a new video series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The cable network is launching Mission To Honor: A 250th Salute To American Veterans. The series, which will launch this spring on the linear network, digital and social, will al
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Following their recent success with the comedy Pizza Movie, which held the #1 spot for a week on both Hulu and Disney+ following its SXSW premiere, American High is reuniting with co-star Peyton Elizabeth Lee on Second First Date, a new film that they’ve enlisted Matt Sacca to write
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
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Peacock is developing the murder mystery series “Keep Your Friends Close,” Variety has learned exclusively. The project hails from writer and executive producer Leo Richardson. Garcelle Beauvais will also executive produce, along with FilmNation. Universal Television is the studio. The l
2026-05-07 16:00 UTC
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Marketing agency MDRN Logic has launched a gaming division, Good Luck Have Fun (GLHF), following the company’s recent acquisition by Terry Hines & Associates. Led by CEO Erica Coates, GLHF debuted Thursday with a splashy first project: the PlayStation MLB “Future You” campaign featuring fo
2026-05-07 16:03 UTC
Variety
Harry Styles gets down in his red gym shorts and white tennies in the music video for “Dance No More,” the latest single to be culled from his album “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.” The video puts the lie to the song’s title by featuring more nonstop choreograp
2026-05-07 16:11 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Rex Bressler has locked cast for The Avoidant, his feature directorial debut, shooting in Los Angeles in mid-May. The call sheet includes Adam Goldberg (The Equalizer), Robin Tunney (The Craft), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), Ian Ousley (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Carmela Z
2026-05-07 16:14 UTC
Variety
Being President of the United States could not prepare Barack Obama for Larry David. In a new teaser for the HBO sketch series “Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” Obama states “I have sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled
2026-05-07 16:21 UTC
Variety
“Jury Duty” successfully pulled off its Season 1 conceit, where all but one person are hired actors. (Who can forget Ron Gladden?) But Season 2 provided new challenges for the show’s producers. This time around, the show moves away from the courtroom, trying its luck with a “Company Retreat.”
2026-05-07 16:22 UTC
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HBO and Sky’s legal drama War has already cast its second season. George Kay’s show, which was given a two-season order from the off, has brought in Marisa Tomei (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Kelly Macdonald (Lanterns) and David Harewood (Sherwood) to lead the next case in the returning s
2026-05-07 16:45 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Gallagher (The O.C.) is set to join Andie MacDowell in The Right Side, the independently produced comedy series from Max Talisman and Lynne Kamm, currently gearing up for production in New York. The project puts Gallagher and MacDowell on screen together for the first time in many y
2026-05-07 16:47 UTC
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Paradise City Sales has boarded Andrea Pallaoro’s latest feature “The Echo Chamber” ahead of the Cannes Film Market, with UTA Independent Film Group co-repping the film for North America. Starring Alicia Vikander alongside Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon, the project was penned by Bern
2026-05-07 16:47 UTC
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“The Housemaid” author Freida McFadden’s upcoming thriller “The Divorce” has been optioned by Studiocanal, following a competitive book auction. Studiocanal and Working Title will co-produce the film adaptation, which is in early development. “The Divorce,”
2026-05-07 17:15 UTC
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“I have sat across the table from some of the world’s most intractable leaders and wrestled with some of the globe’s most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David.” Those words from Barack Obama at the beginning of a new teaser for Life, Larr
2026-05-07 17:28 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Daniels, Joel Edgerton, Caleb Mclaughlin And Nnamdi Asomugha are set to join Rachel McAdams in the Netflix’s Untitled AI Thriller with Joseph Gordon-Levitt directing. Netflix landed the package last October with plans to go into production this summer. Rian Johnson and Ram Berg
2026-05-07 18:00 UTC
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Apple TV’s Murderbot blends science-fiction, comedy, human emotion and many more elements, so the music is just as eclectic. Composer Amanda Jones conducted a performance of some of her designs at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television, then shared some of her designs. For example, Jones use
2026-05-07 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Lizzy Caplan (Fleishman is in Trouble, Masters of Sex) has joined the cast of Apple TV’s The Morning Show for Season 5. She will play Gwen, a passionate and uncompromising Broadway theater director. Caplan is the latest big-name recurring cast addition to Season 5, following Jeff Da
2026-05-07 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) is set to lead Mother’s Helper, an erotic thriller written and to be directed for MRC by Bridget Moloney. Milo Callaghan (The Rainmaker) and Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will also star. Mother’s Helper centers on a woman (Woodley) s
2026-05-07 18:00 UTC
Variety
Kelly Clarkson is returning to “The Voice” for Season 30. She joins fellow judge Adam Levine, who sat on the panel alongside Clarkson in Season 29. The “Stronger” hitmaker and original “American Idol” winner first appeared on the blind audition singing competition
2026-05-07 18:12 UTC
Variety
Anyone who missed out on the very tough-to-get tickets for Hayley Williams’ current tour of theaters will soon get a shot at picking up seats for a run of shows she’s doing in amphitheaters in the fall … although all indicators are that even these more sizable venues may prove to b
2026-05-07 19:14 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is staying in the cozy crime space with a Season 3 renewal for Murder in a Small Town. In the new 10-episode installment, returning leads Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk will be joined by Peter Gallagher (The O.C., Grace and Frankie) who has been tapped as a series regular. While
2026-05-07 19:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Chris O’Dowd (State Of The Union), Oscar winner Jane Fonda (Book Club), Oscar nominee Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Oscar nominee John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie) and BAFTA winner Tom Hollander (Feud) will lead political thriller Ceasefire, set against the backdrop of the Northern
2026-05-07 19:28 UTC
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For Siddharta Khosla, the composer behind the scores of shows including Hulu’s Paradise and Only Murders in the Building, the winning words to get the gig for soundtracking Apple TV’s Imperfect Women were Twin Peaks. When meeting with series creator Annie Weisman, Khosla used that reference in his p
2026-05-07 20:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment has acquired exclusive adaptation rights to the 1952 classic High Noon starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly from revered film producer Stanley Kramer. The film won four Oscars and became known as one of the greatest American films ever made. Teton Ridge Entertain
2026-05-07 20:00 UTC
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Mark Hamill revised a social media post featuring an image of a dead Donald Trump after the White House labeled the actor as “sick” and claimed that it was the type of rhetoric that has inspired assassination attempts against the president. Hamill wrote on Bluesky, “Accurate Edit f
2026-05-07 20:05 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Last year, Rob Eric, who was previously Chief Creative Officer at Queer Eye producer Scout Productions and Bachelor in Paradise director Ramy Romany launched From The Creators Productions. The pair have followed that up by signing with WME. The agency will rep the pair across all areas. E
2026-05-07 20:07 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Will Patton is set as a lead opposite Matt Dillon in MGM+’s upcoming drama series The Magnificent Seven from Heroes creator Tim Kring, a reimagining of the classic 1960 Western film. Patton, the star of Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga movies and Armageddon, joins the
2026-05-07 20:10 UTC
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Finneas O’Connell, who won an Oscar for his work on James Bond song “No Time To Die,” is best known for producing songs such as sister Billie Eilish’s Grammy-winning “Bad Guy.” The musician is also responsible for scoring the second season of Netflix’s Beef, and he closed out
2026-05-07 20:30 UTC
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Starz posted a mixed first quarter as it celebrated one year as a standalone company after separating from Lionsgate. It continues to juggle OTT and linear as it fine tunes programming including with new owned originals. The stock has surged this year. It popped after the numbers, up more than 3% in
2026-05-07 20:35 UTC
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Academy Award winner Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) and Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal (Aftersun), the stars of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, are reuniting in Hold On To Your Angels, written and to be directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlin (Beasts Of The Southern Wild). Plan B (Moonlight) will
2026-05-07 20:37 UTC
Rolling Stone
This year’s first Grand Tour kicks off on May 8. Here’s where to livestream the three-week race without cable
2026-05-07 20:39 UTC
Rolling Stone
Why Fresh Clean Threads is the best way to restock your T-shirt arsenal this summer
2026-05-07 20:41 UTC
Variety
Horror movies have always reflected the social climate of their times. From post-WWI trauma in the ’20s to feminism and bodily autonomy in the ’70s to 9/11 anxieties in the early aughts, even if the films weren’t overtly political, they reflected real-life jitters. Today, as social media continues t
2026-04-09 15:29 UTC
Variety
Noah Wyle really loves Hollywood. The actor, a third-generation Angelino, grew up just north of Hollywood Boulevard and has taken thousands of steps over the stars on the Walk of Fame. “There was a point in time where I had blocks and blocks of those names memorized, and I could do them with m
2026-04-09 15:30 UTC
Variety
Fresh off the heels of its blockbuster adaptation, Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” has a new deluxe edition available online. The new book release features an intricately designed stenciled edges, new cover art on a premium jacket, full-color illustration endpapers and a custom-sta
2026-04-09 15:32 UTC
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Michael J. Fox said that he is “OK” after CNN posted a remembrance of the actor, which has subsequently been taken down. “The package was published in error; we have removed it from our platforms and send our apologies to Michael J. Fox and his family,” the network said in a
2026-04-09 15:42 UTC
Variety
Bentley Kyle Evans’ Harvest Studios has partnered with Duane Martin on the four-episode multi-cam comedy “Boo’d Up,” Variety has learned exclusively. Evans (“Martin,” “The Jamie Foxx Show”) will executive produce the series via Harvest Studios and dire
2026-04-09 16:30 UTC
Variety
Kim Dickens (“The Better Sister”), Paul Sparks (“Physical”) and Rob Corddry (“The Audacity”) have been enlisted for Jaume Collet-Serra’s upcoming psychological thriller “An Innocent Girl.” The Netflix film stars Kerry Washington (who also executive pro
2026-04-09 16:30 UTC
Variety
The Onyx Collective pilot “Southern Bastards” at Hulu has cast Kevin Bacon in a lead role, Variety has learned. In addition, Reinaldo Marcus Green (“King Richard,” “The Punisher: One Last Kill”) has come onboard to direct and executive produce the pilot, taking ov
2026-04-09 16:30 UTC
Variety
Anonymous Content has brought on Liza Burnett Fefferman to serve in the newly created role of chief communications and marketing officer. Fefferman was most recently executive vice president of communications for Paramount’s Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, but departed the company following its
2026-04-09 16:30 UTC
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Anonymous Content has brought in former top Paramount communications executive Liza Burnett Fefferman as Chief Communications and Marketing Officer. The management and production company’s President and CEO Darren Walker made the announcement at a companywide town hall this morning. This is a
2026-04-09 16:30 UTC
Deadline
Even as Ryan Gosling launched his “Hail Mary” and Super Mario re-discovered his “Galaxy,” the bets were piling up on Kalshi: Which movie would win the summer? Or would there be a winner at all? The mega-hits of seasons past reflected a comfy consensus in our pop culture, but
2026-04-09 21:00 UTC
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Donald Trump laid into four media figures and podcasters who had been strident supporters, yet have blasted the president for his decision to go to war with Iran and for his ceasefire agreement to try to end it. In a 485-word Truth Social post, Trump railed against Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Canda
2026-04-09 21:04 UTC
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Tony Award-winning actress Lena Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) returns for Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, stepping back into the role of Ali Cooper as the Apple TV drama deepens its exploration of wealth, identity and the fragile dynamics holding its central characters together. With th
2026-04-09 21:06 UTC
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Summer begins May 1 with 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2, which after arriving on three-week tracking this morning, is eyeing a $66M+ opening. Presales we hear are double that of Wuthering Heights (which had a four-and-half-week advance ticket sales window). Devil Wears Prada 2&#
2026-04-09 21:07 UTC
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Despite a growing number of games placing women at the center of their stories, Black female protagonists remain a rarity in the industry. That’s something Kingston, Jamaica-based indie developer Glen Henry hopes to help change with Duppy Detective Tashia, the latest project from his studio, S
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
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The Peaky Blinders sequel series has unveiled a fresh wave of cast including stars from Game of Thrones and All Her Fault. Conleth Hill joins as Clemmy Keeler, the fierce patriarch of the Keeler gangster family who rival the Peaky Blinders’ ambition to rebuild Birmingham. Meanwhile, Daniel Monks, wh
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
Variety
The upcoming “Peaky Blinders” sequel starring Jamie Bell and Charlie Heaton is rounding out its cast with a number of new additions. “Game of Thrones” star Conleth Hill has boarded as patriarch of the rival Keeler gangster family, Clemmy Keeler, who is set to go toe to toe with the Peaky Blinders as
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
Variety
Staffers have taken to calling it “Black Thursday.” On May 28, a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at “60 Minutes,” the longest-running and highest-rated news program in the country, were unceremoniously shown the door. Correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as well
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
Variety
“Only Murders in the Building” Season 6 has added eight recurring guest stars to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively. The new cast members are: Martin Freeman (“Sherlock,” “The Responder”), Geri Halliwell-Horner (“Gran Turismo,” “Sex and th
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
Variety
"The Leader," as a dramatic experience, is creepy as hell, but as written and directed by Michael Gallagher, it’s also authentic and sharply told, and it’s inquiring about the right things — namely, why would people descend to this, and what, if anything, does it have to say about us?
2026-06-11 14:38 UTC
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The Festival, the inaugural three-day outdoor Broadway-themed event along the Hudson River about 90 miles north of New York City, has announced its line-ups with performance rosters that include Christopher Jackson, Adrienne Warren, Alex Newell, Mandy Gonzalez, Reeve Carney, Lauren Patten and a 30th
2026-06-11 14:41 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Winkler, aka ‘The Food Guy’ to his 12.3M TikTok followers, has signed with Independent Artist Group (IAG). The lifestyle creator has built a sizeable digital following through food-focused content, an outsized personality and multi-platform reach. Since gaining traction
2026-06-11 14:45 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Bad Seeds also played some rarities at the concert, including the first performance of "Stranger Than Kindness" in more than a decade
2026-06-11 14:47 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios, the self-described “values-based,” audience-backed company known for releasing left-field 2023 blockbuster Sound of Freedom, is marking a new chapter with its first festival world premiere. Young Washington, a narrative look at the American president’s ori
2026-06-11 14:49 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Hot off his breakout turn as John F. Kennedy Jr. in FX’s Love Story, Paul Anthony Kelly has inked a deal to join The Housemaid’s Secret, Lionsgate’s sequel to its recent holiday box office hit The Housemaid, based on the bestseller by Freida McFadden. Kelly joins a cast
2026-06-11 16:55 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has landed Music Theories, a new comedy series from Michael Vlamis and Kyle Anderson, who are set to write and executive produce, with American Vandal‘s Dan Lagana aboard as executive producer and showrunner. Hailing from studio Sony Pictures Television, Mus
2026-06-11 17:00 UTC
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Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Closer and O.5.10 actor Clive Owen has revealed he is set to work with Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi and is also in final talks for an Italian shot-movie by a big name local director. Owen teased the upcoming projects in a roundtable with journalists at
2026-06-11 17:00 UTC
Variety
When Season 2 of “The Pitt” began, the only thing Supriya Ganesh had mapped out with show creator R. Scott Gemmill was that her character Dr. Samira Mohan had some major friction with her mother. And she was immediately excited to dive in. “I think she centered a lot of her life plans around going [
2026-06-11 17:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
A judge dismissed the complaint after ruling that the security guard and his lawyer willfully failed to comply with court orders
2026-06-11 17:15 UTC
Variety
British actor Clive Owen, who is in Sicily as the recipient of the Taormina Film Festival International Award, revealed he is currently working on a project with “The Tribe” director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi. Although more details, including the project’s name, are under wraps, the actor said he’s “e
2026-06-11 17:17 UTC
Variety
Giovanni Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based production and finance company, has expanded its executive ranks and has appointed Teodros “Ted” Horning to the role of creative executive. In his new role, Horning will help oversee Giovanni Entertainment’s film and new media slate, cove
2026-06-11 17:23 UTC
Variety
There are plenty of good-luck charms the superstitious can credit with helping the Knicks pull off the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history on Wednesday night: Jordyn Woods’ orange ostrich purse, which she’s carried to every winning game of the postseason; Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet’s matc
2026-06-11 17:28 UTC
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“The Bold and the Beautiful” creative chief Bradley Bell is getting into the microseries biz. Bell has partnered with microseries studio/platform aTwist to launch “Hollywood Starlet” this summer. The series will star microdrama vets Bella Mraz (“Faceless”), Molly
2026-06-11 17:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is developing Six Days To Sunday, an hourlong family drama from Grace & Frankie writers Brendan McCarthy and Alex Kavallierou and Marta Kauffman’s Okay Goodnight. Written by McCarthy and Kavallierou, in Six Days To Sunday, when middle-aged siblings with broken marriages,
2026-06-11 17:30 UTC
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Stephen Spinella and Jason Veasey have been promoted to series regulars of Fox’s Best Medicine, ahead of the show’s second season, premiering this fall. Spinella and Veaset play husbands Greg Garrison and George Brady, respectively, co-proprietors of Port Wenn’s favorite eatery, The Sal
2026-06-11 17:30 UTC
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Nothing quite like “the claw,” as it is called, has ever been constructed on the White House grounds: The giant overhang covers the ring for Sunday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship event, occurring on Donald Trump’s 80th birthday and billed as one of the Freedom 250 events ce
2026-06-11 17:53 UTC
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Hazelwood-heads unite, we are one step closer to witnessing Lili Reinhart’s Olive Smith and Tom Bateman’s Adam Carlsen onscreen. The Love Hypothesis is coming to Prime Video September 23. Based on the book by Ali Hazelwood, the love story follows Olive Smith (Reinhart), PhD candidate stu
2026-06-11 17:56 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is tripling down on the creative team behind its hit limited series All Her Fault. In a highly competitive situation, Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, has won the rights to develop All Her Fault author Andrea Mara’s latest bestselling novel, Such a Ni
2026-06-11 18:00 UTC
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Two months after Jeff Shell was axed as president of Paramount over accusations of loose lips and more, the ex-exec and the David Ellison-run conglomerate have settled with the self-styled professional gambler who threatened to bring the whole house of cards down. “Plaintiff R.J. Cipriani here
2026-06-11 18:02 UTC
Variety
The team behind Amazon Prime Video’s “Off Campus” is denouncing fans of the YA romance series who have “engaged in targeted harassment” toward cast members and their loved ones. “The Off Campus community is built on a shared love of storytelling — and on respect f
2026-06-11 18:24 UTC
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Quiver Distribution has acquired domestic rights to “Kill Code,” a cyberpunk action thriller that stars Frank Grillo, Tyrese Gibson and Harvey Keitel. Justin Price wrote and directed the picture, which also stars Franzi Schissler. The company will release “Kill Code” on July
2026-06-11 18:25 UTC
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The first season of Beast Games, the competition series from YouTube’s top creator MrBeast, started with 2,000 contestants and broke several Guinness world records as Jeffrey Randall Allen walked away with $10 million in prize money. But for Season 2, MrBeast and his crew realized viewers wanted to
2026-06-11 18:30 UTC
Variety
Paul McCartney appeared on the latest episode of “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast (via The Daily Beast) and touched on Trump’s America when discussing the power of music to bring divided audiences together. “Particularly these days, you do something like ‘Hey Jude’ and you see t
2026-05-14 11:33 UTC
Variety
Freya Allan, who stars in “The Witcher” and was a lead in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” and María Pedraza, who appeared in “Money Heist” and “Elite,” have joined the cast of “Europa,” from Bjorn Franklin and Johnny Marchetta, the filmmaking duo behind “Salvable,” starring Shia LaBeouf. The fi
2026-05-14 11:34 UTC
Deadline
Comcast’s UK-owned pay-TV giant Sky is reshuffling its unscripted pack. Shirley Jones has been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Entertainment Commissioning at the SNL UK network, with Barbara Lee will leave her role as a commissioning editor in October after 14 years. Her exit fol
2026-05-14 11:43 UTC
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Billy Idol, the recently announced 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd American Music Awards in recognition of “his incomparable career, body of work, and unparalleled contributions to music, honoring his lasting legacy an
2026-05-14 14:00 UTC
Variety
Matthew McConaughey sat before a roomful of aspiring young actors and filmmakers this February at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. He was speaking at Variety and CNN’s town hall that featured the “Dallas Buyers Club” Oscar winner alongside his “Interstellar” co-star Timothée Chalam
2026-05-14 14:00 UTC
Deadline
Although a relatively new concept for many in Hollywood, artificial intelligence has been on Natasha Lyonne’s mind for years, quite possibly since she was a kid studying the Talmud at a Jewish private school in New York City. “I feel that I understand how it formed my brain as a tween,” she says. Sh
2026-05-14 14:00 UTC
Variety
Ahead of its world premiere as a special screening in Cannes, Steven Soderbergh’s doc feature “John Lennon: The Last Interview” is now launching in the market. Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary-backed sales and production company 193 has boarded the film, which features exclusi
2026-05-14 14:02 UTC
Variety
Even the most casual soccer fan knows “The Hand of God,” Argentine legend Diego Maradona’s controversial goal against England in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The volleyball-like palm strike should have been disallowed, but paved the way for some of the most magical sporting moments shortly thereafter. H
2026-05-14 14:05 UTC
Variety
Pete Townshend — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, solo artist and legendary main songwriter for the Who — has partnered with powerhouse publisher Primary Wave Music in a nine-figure deal that sees the company acquiring certain publishing rights, along with name, image and likeness assets and the “exploi
2026-05-14 14:06 UTC
Variety
Popular French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch has assembled an international cast led by Noomi Rapace (“Mother,” “Prometheus”) and Maryam Touzani (“Razzia”) for his next film, “Run, With No Tears,” a psychological thriller which will shoot in French an
2026-05-14 14:09 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock has joined Paul Rudd in the voice cast of Goodnight, Lamby, the live-action-animation hybrid short film from artist and filmmaker Dustin Yellin. Produced by Darren Aronofsky and Justin A. Gonçalves, the film is debuting next week as part of the Cannes Classics lineup at the Can
2026-05-14 14:16 UTC
Rolling Stone
The band played its first-ever late-night TV performance “This Is a Call" on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995. They were also his last-ever musical guest in 2015, playing his favorite son “Everlong"
2026-05-14 14:22 UTC
Deadline
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to k
2026-05-14 14:28 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the landmark relocation of its Sundance Film Festival to Boulder, Sundance Institute has appointed Bloomerang PR as its Colorado Agency of Record, announcing new programming set for this summer. Jenny Bloom’s Denver-based Bloomerang will lead regional media strategy and sup
2026-05-14 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege tells the story of Easy Company, a unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers that was tasked with holding a district in Helmand province in July 2006 during the war in Afghanistan. That story, by Major Adam Jowett, who led the unit, is [&#
2026-05-14 17:01 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery has signed on for an undisclosed role in John Wick spinoff Caine, directed by and starring martial arts legend Donnie Yen as the blind assassin. Montgomery joins Yen and Rina Sawayama, who will also reprise her role as Akira. While Montgomery’s role
2026-05-14 17:05 UTC
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PBS Masterpiece has handed detective drama Maigret a second season, with filming already underway in Budapest. Benjamin Wainwright is reprising the titular role, with Stefanie Martini returning as Madame Louise Maigret and Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok and Reda Elazouar also back as ‘Les Maigre
2026-04-16 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Sarah Isgur, author of Last Branch Standing, on why liberals and conservatives upset with the Roberts Court should direct their ire toward Congress
2026-04-16 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Bennett is joining General Hospital in the role of Joe Fitzpatrick, making his debut on the ABC soap opera starting in May. Bennett is best known for playing the heartthrob Aaron Samuels in 2004’s Mean Girls. The actor is all grown up and has realized his lifelong
2026-04-16 15:00 UTC
Variety
The New Wave era of spiky but danceable pop tunes and sharp colorful looks may feel like it happened a million years ago, but to everyone’s surprise, the 45-year old musical movement has never really gone away. First popularized as MTV was becoming massively popular, 1980s music endured as the
2026-04-16 15:15 UTC
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Paramount on Thursday released the official trailer for Street Fighter, the Kitao Sakurai-directed adaptation of the classic Capcom video game. The studio rolled out the ambitious-looking footage ahead of its presentation at CinemaCon, where it will show off the pic to cinema execs this morning ahea
2026-04-16 15:17 UTC
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Brian Williams will host a podcast series for Netflix, set to debut later this year. The former MSNBC host and NBC News anchor has been largely absent from media platforms since he exited the news channel at the end of 2021. He did anchor 2024 election night coverage for Amazon Prime, an effort by t
2026-04-16 15:24 UTC
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A revival of the hit 2000 musical The Full Monty will be staged on Broadway next season in a Roundabout Theatre Company production to be directed by Leigh Silverman (Suffs, Yellow Face), with casting to be announced. The project was one of three 2026-2027 Broadway productions and three Off Broadway
2026-04-16 17:00 UTC
Variety
Hulu is bringing back its Get Real House for the second year in a row — and this time, it’s not just a party for those in attendance in Los Angeles. The event, which features announcements, discussions, and of course, a party, will live stream on Hulu on Wednesday, April 22, at 4:30 p.m. PT. [
2026-04-16 17:00 UTC
Variety
The Overlook Film Festival, which specializes in the horror genre, has announced its audience and jury prize winners for its 10th annual edition. Held April 9-12, the 2026 festival welcomed 96 filmmaker guests to New Orleans and hosted 25 sold-out screenings and events with over 8,000 attendees. The
2026-04-16 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith (House Of The Dragon) and Imogen Poots (Chronology Of Water) are attached to star in mystery-thriller The Salamander Lives Twice, which Embankment Films has boarded for sales ahead of the Cannes market. House Of The Dragon and Doctor Who Smith will play a “debonair strang
2026-04-16 17:08 UTC
Variety
The noise of political and artistic pressure be damned — David Ellison just wants to go to the movies. The Skydance mogul made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon on Thursday, directly addressing global movie theater owners and making some big promises for his vision about a combined Paramount-
2026-04-16 17:13 UTC
BBC Sport
Chris Sutton takes on boxer Molly McCann and The Boo Radley's frontman Sice Rowbottom plus the BBC readers and AI with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.
2026-04-16 17:39 UTC
Variety
The Directors Guild of America has announced the 79th annual DGA Awards will take place Saturday, Jan. 30, 2027, honoring directorial achievements across film, television and documentaries. The upcoming ceremony will take place nine days after the announcement of the 99th Academy Awards nominations,
2026-04-16 20:36 UTC
Rolling Stone
As Hollywood continues to fight for ticket sales, filmmakers tell Rolling Stone romances could offer relief — if studios would take it
2026-04-16 20:41 UTC
Variety
Trucks provide much of the outright color in “Colors of White Rock.” Rolling metal rectangles in pillarbox red, royal blue and bottle green, they glaringly clash with the dun khaki expanses of the Gobi Desert as they roar down its lonesome highways — the surrounding sands so vast and emp
2026-06-18 13:57 UTC
Variety
“The Great American Journey,” hosted by actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, will premiere on Aug. 22, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States independence. “The Great American Journey” will air weekend mornings on NBC’s “The More You Know” and be available to stream on Peacock and NBC.
2026-06-18 13:58 UTC
Deadline
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson‘s upcoming comedy series Brothers finally has a release date at Apple TV. The series will debut on September 23 with the first two episodes, the streamer revealed Thursday. That will be followed by one new episode every Wednesday through November 4. Star
2026-06-18 14:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Niecy Nash is moving into the world of true-crime. The All’s Fair star has teamed up with her daughter Dia Nash to launch a true-crime video podcast series. The pair have signed up with Pave Studios, founded by former Spotify executive Max Cutler, to produce the original series, which wi
2026-06-18 14:00 UTC
Variety
“The Art of Sound,” the documentary series co-produced by L-Acoustics and Black Meteor, returns with its second episode — arriving in two parts and built on the series’ premise: that sound is not decoration, but a fundamental force shaping human biology, emotion, and culture. Part I, featuring Houst
2026-06-18 14:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian distributor VVS Films has promoted Claire Peace-McConnell to the newly created role of Vice President, Theatrical Distribution. In the position, she will help lead the company’s theatrical distribution strategy across sales, PR, and exhibitor marketing. She will continue to spear
2026-06-18 14:08 UTC
Rolling Stone
"This lets us reclaim those songs again," says the band's Cody Braun of the new EP Alternate Routes
2026-06-18 14:10 UTC
Deadline
We have the nominees for the 10th annual Black Reel TV Awards, with Ryan Coogler’s Disney+/Marvel drama Ironheart leading the field with 10. ABC comedy Abbott Elementary is next with nine noms, followed by HBO’s creepshow IT: Welcome to Derry and Netflix telefilm Ruth & Boaz with sev
2026-06-18 16:00 UTC
Variety
The overall market is down, but Fox is up. Despite Madison Avenue pressures on TV’s annual “upfront” ad-sales market and a projection that advertisers’ budgets will be tighter than in years past, Fox Corp. has scored more commitments for its sports, news and entertainment pro
2026-06-18 16:00 UTC
Variety
Once a month, the Criterion Collection announces new titles set for release in the future. New information drops around the middle of the month for releases that would come out about three months later. These announcements are highly anticipated among movie fans and cinephiles, while there’s a
2026-06-18 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Russo Brothers’ AGBO production studio has made a trio of promotions in its film and TV team including Michael Disco to President, Kassee Whiting to EVP, and Alessandra Mamán to SVP. Disco will continue to expand AGBO’s slate and set creative and production strategy. At AG
2026-06-18 16:01 UTC
Deadline
Disney’s live-action take of animated hit Moana is looking at an $85M North American opening when it bows on July 10. This is all according to three-week pre-release tracking this morning. Dwayne Johnson returns in the flesh to play the demigod he portrayed as a cartoon, Maui. Catherine Laga&#
2026-06-18 17:11 UTC
Rolling Stone
Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, and more also on hand for opening of Obama Presidential Center and Library in Chicago
2026-06-18 17:13 UTC
Variety
The Television Academy has announced that Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear”) and Jeff Hiller (“Somebody Somewhere”) will present the nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards on July 8. The nominations ceremony will stream live from the Academy’s Wolf Theatre in the
2026-06-18 17:13 UTC
Variety
Variety and Google TV will host two exclusive events during Cannes Lions designed to explore the intersection of entertainment, technology, and culture through keynote conversations and industry discussions. On June 23, The Industry Innovators Cocktail Hour will feature a keynote conversation with B
2026-06-18 17:14 UTC
Deadline
Black Bear has set an Oct. 23 limited theatrical release of their Sundance pick-up, Wicker. The Tango and Topic Studios financed feature was directed by Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer and stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård, and Emmy winners Peter Dinkla
2026-06-18 17:15 UTC
Deadline
Today marks the first anniversary of Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters release, and the streamer said today that the animated flick has spent every week since then on its top 10 most-watched list. The streamer said the film has clocked 600M views since its debut and hit the top 10 in all 93 countri
2026-06-18 17:19 UTC
Rolling Stone
Artist's Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour is now highest grossing and best-selling tour in history to ignore the states, and his ticket sales have pushed him past $1 billion in gross sales
2026-06-18 17:20 UTC
Variety
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson as signed a new multi-year overall deal with Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television, Variety has confirmed. As part of the new pact, Brunson and her Fifth Chance Productions shingle will develop, write and executive produce pr
2026-06-18 17:21 UTC
Variety
Charles Melton, the star of “Beef” and “May December,” will join Matt Damon in the new movie from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmaker duo known as the Daniels. The project, which is described as an “event film,” marks the pair’s follow-up to R
2026-06-18 17:25 UTC
Deadline
Tracy Letts (A House of Dynamite), John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane), Lola Kirke (Sinners) and Colton Ryan (The Girl From Plainville) are among 14 actors rounding out the recurring cast joining Netflix and Sony Pictures Television’s The God of the Woods, a TV series adaptation of the be
2026-06-18 17:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day is bringing some Ka-Pow and Boom to advance tickets sales to use comic-book lingo: The Tom Holland starring, Destin Daniel Kretton directed sequel we hear has posted the best first day presales in five years, and the best overall fo
2026-06-18 17:34 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired Alisha Fernandez Miranda’s memoir My What If Year, with America Ferrera set to produce a feature adaptation. Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) is writing the screenplay, with Connor DeSha to exec produce via his and Ferrera’s Take Foun
2026-06-18 17:35 UTC
Variety
Apple Original Films will make an animated feature adaptation of the popular children’s book “Little Santa.” The project will be directed by Peter Baynton, who recently landed an Academy Award for Apple’s animated short “The Boy the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.” The film will feature original
2026-06-18 18:00 UTC
Variety
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Lord of the Flies,” now streaming on Netflix. Fans of William Golding’s classic 1954 book “Lord of the Flies,” about a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island, will surely anticipate Piggy’s (also kno
2026-06-18 18:00 UTC
Variety
Fox is dramatically upscaling its creator lineup, adding seven new creators — and a host of new shows — to the company’s creator-focused division in a bid to create “long-lasting, durable” intellectual property, the head of the division told Variety. Fox Creator Studios has signed deals with C
2026-06-18 18:00 UTC
Variety
Jo Koy will host a multi-episode comedy showcase series titled “Martin Lawrence Presents: Pass Tha’ Mic.” The event will be filmed in front of a live audience on Aug. 29 and 30 at the Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Created by “Def Comedy
2026-06-18 18:00 UTC
Deadline
For Taylor Swift, Toy Story 5 was so good, she almost immediately found the inspiration for an original song. The Grammy winner recently shared a video from the “hectic day” that she wrote and recorded the song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ for the movie’s soundtrack the same
2026-06-18 21:09 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy winner Jeff Daniels is joining previously cast Oscar winner Brendan Fraser in the cosmic sci-fi thriller Starman. Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Wakely, who is writing and directing, will roll cameras this summer. Daniels will play Ed Watkins, the protective and powerful co-lea
2026-06-18 21:16 UTC
Rolling Stone
Hundreds of thousands, if not many more, fans flocked to lower Manhattan earlier today for the first-ever championship parade for the New York Knicks. On hand were not only the 2026 Knicks and their families but also the mayor, Zohran Mamdani, Governor Kathy Hochul and a slew of the team’s mos
2026-06-18 21:22 UTC
NPR
In Washington state and Hawaii, residents can now get mifepristone and misoprostol from Planned Parenthood to keep in their cabinets in case they need to end a pregnancy at a later time.
2026-05-21 17:29 UTC
Variety
Ahead of the theatrical release of the franchise’s fifth and final movie, all three seasons of the original “Jackass” TV show has returned to Paramount+ with “restored original” episodes. At the end of 2025, the series was temporarily removed from Paramount+ at the requ
2026-05-21 15:02 UTC
Variety
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a major recorded-music and music-publishing licensing agreements that will enable Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters. The tool will be powere
2026-05-21 15:09 UTC
Variety
Palestinian director Rakan Mayasi is in Cannes with his first feature “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep,” about two Bedouin sisters named Rim and Jahawer contending with patriarchal rituals in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Shot without a script and with a cast of non-professionals, Mayasi’s feat
2026-05-21 15:10 UTC
Variety
Indian actor Supriya Pathak Kapur will make her directorial debut with “Our Story,” a loose biographical feature co-written with her daughter Sanah Kapur and developed as a collaboration between her banner Rabasusah and Australian production company Films and Casting Temple. The project
2026-05-21 15:14 UTC
Deadline
As Paramount seeks approval from an array of antitrust authorities for its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Democrats are turning to another front in their opposition: The foreign investors in the transaction. Paramount has disclosed that total foreign ownership of the combined company would b
2026-05-21 15:26 UTC
Variety
Sébastien Laudenbach isn’t afraid to take on Bizet’s iconic “Carmen” in his latest animation, “Viva Carmen,” and make it more child-friendly. “It’s not a film ‘adapted’ for kids, but it’s accessible to them,” he told Variety. Set in Seville in 1845, it follows teenage Salva who works as an assi
2026-05-21 16:01 UTC
Variety
After a string of dramatic roles, Oscar winner Julianne Moore is walking toward the light as executive producer and star of a new Netflix comedy film. The untitled project hails from Higher Ground, the production venture founded by Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s described as a multi-generational st
2026-05-21 16:15 UTC
Variety
“Cliffhanger,” a reimagining of the Sylvester Stallone climbing thriller starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan, is shoring up a new strategy for its summer theatrical release, multiple insiders told Variety. The fate of the film, helmed by action director Jaume Collet-Sera (“Carry On”), has been a
2026-05-21 16:28 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of launching Reign, Run-A-Muck, a creator-led, multi-platform world of women’s sports company, is expanding the universe with the development of Courtside, a modern sports romantic comedy set in the world of professional women’s basketball. Courtside is being developed with d
2026-05-21 16:30 UTC
Variety
Hailed by critics as “grippingly offbeat,” “as extravagant as it irresistible” and “impactful and very funny,” French director Sarah Arnold’s Too Many Beasts” (“L’Espèce explosive”) has scooped this year’s Europa Cinemas Label for best European film at the 2026 Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight
2026-05-21 16:31 UTC
Deadline
What a cliffhanger this is turning out to be. The Cliffhanger reboot, which has been stuck on a ledge following Row K’s woes, is heading towards a new domestic home and that home could be Tom Quinn’s Neon. Rumor on the street is that the film could be a prized title for a revamped versio
2026-05-21 16:35 UTC
Deadline
Spotify is out with a handful of buzzy new initiatives including a new Reserved feature that sets aside a pair of concert tickets for artist’s biggest fans on the platform and a new AI tool with Universal Music Group allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participati
2026-05-21 16:35 UTC
Variety
We have a winner! Lucas Acher’s “Laser-Cat” has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes. For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sent by film schools all over the world. Directed by 12 women and 9 men, they represent 15 countr
2026-05-21 16:38 UTC
Variety
“This land has too many love stories buried in its fields,” says the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in a brief dramatized appearance at the tail end of “The Black Ball” — a film otherwise content just to channel his spirit as it exhumes the suppressed inner lives of gay m
2026-05-21 16:50 UTC
Variety
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, are the most influential creative duo currently working in Spain. The two are behind the hit series “Veneno” and “Dressed in Blue,” with their thriller “La Mesías” acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival and prized at France’s Series Mania
2026-05-21 16:50 UTC
Deadline
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Thursday designed to address fears of massive job displacement from AI. Newsom’s action came amid as President Donald Trump was preparing to sign his own executive order. But that ceremony has been postponed, Trump told reporters. A
2026-05-21 16:50 UTC
Variety
View TV Studios, the production and distribution company behind View TV ONE, has closed a deal to acquire U.S. rights to “Gray,” AGC Television’s espionage thriller, starring Patricia Clarkson, Rupert Everett and Lydia West. The eight-part series will premiere on View TV ONE in the 9 p.m
2026-05-21 17:00 UTC
Variety
Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros. Television have optioned the brand new Steven Rowley novel “Take Me With You” with plans to adapt it as a series, Variety has learned exclusively. The book was just published on May 19 by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House. No writer is currently at
2026-05-21 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Courtney A. Kemp has signed a new, multi-year overall deal with Apple TV. Kemp is the storyteller behind the “Power” Universe, as well as the recently premiered crime drama Nemesis. Under the new deal, Kemp and her production company, End of Episode, will develop and create series exclusi
2026-05-21 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: English actress Sadie Soverall (Every Year After) is being eyed for a lead role in Brady Corbet’s next film, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps for Corbet and Soverall declined comment. We’re told that Soverall has not yet inked her deal but is the choice for her part, which
2026-05-21 17:04 UTC
BBC News
US forecasters say 2026 is likely to produce fewer named storms than normal but warn it only takes one hurricane to cause devastation, as Ben Rich explains.
2026-05-21 17:08 UTC
Deadline
All seven Tony Award nominees in the Best Musical and Best Musical Revival categories will perform at the 79th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the show’s producers announced today. The Broadway productions set to perform are Best Musical nominees
2026-05-21 17:21 UTC
Deadline
New York-based distribution company-2 Special has acquired all North American rights to Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva which has just scooped the main Grand Prize at Cannes Critics Week. The film follows a group of high school students on a class trip to Naples amid the charged landscape of Pompeii. In t
2026-05-21 17:28 UTC
Deadline
HBO has dropped the first trailer for Questlove’s Earth, Wind & Fire documentary. The feature doc examines the enormous cultural influence of the legendary soul group Earth, Wind & Fire. The official synopsis reads: “Acclaimed producer, director, and musician Ahmir “Questlo
2026-05-21 17:29 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is hunting legendary mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a new docuseries narrated by Ben Affleck. The streamer has ordered three-part docuseries Hunting Whitey Bulger (w/t) as part of its growing empire of true-crime titles. Bulger has been the subject and inspiration for a numb
2026-05-21 17:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Adventure Media has signed WWE star Danhausen for management in all areas. Danhausen debuted in WWE in February 2026 at the Elimination Chamber PLE, and since then, has rapidly become one of WWE’s top breakout stars. He made his Wrestlemania debut at this year’s Wrestleman
2026-05-21 17:30 UTC
BBC News
The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year.
2026-05-21 17:37 UTC
The Guardian
Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global healthA US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the situation worse, c
2026-05-21 17:41 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Married comedians Bruce Gray and Kelly Ryan have teamed up for Hold Your Peace, a new podcast with All Things Comedy that launches today. Episodes will air weekly on Thursdays, as Gray and Ryan get together with their funniest friends to talk about what pisses them off as they t
2026-05-21 17:51 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Kelli Berglund (Heels, Now Apocalypse) has been cast in a series regular role in Hulu’s upcoming Prison Break series. Berglund will play Cheyenne, a female inmate at one of the deadliest prisons in America. Priscilla Delgado played Cheyenne in the pilot. In Hulu’s Prison Break, a so
2026-05-21 18:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Schulz is set to join the cast of the Apple Original Films pic Running from director Gavin O’Connor. The film also stars Spike Fearn, Brian Tyree Henry and Rhea Seehorn with Bill Dubuque penning the script. The film is co-production between Makeready and Waffle Iron Entertain
2026-05-21 18:00 UTC
Variety
Production has wrapped on “See Bot Run,” a horror-comedy mockumentary from Pluto Labs Films starring “Adults” breakout Amita Rao. “See Bot Run” follows “the overworked and underpaid employees of a struggling tech startup on the day of a high-stakes AI product launch that could make them millio
2026-05-21 18:03 UTC
Deadline
UK director Clio Bernard has clinched the People’s Choice Audience Award at parallel Cannes section Directors’ Fortnight. Starring Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew and adapted from the book of the same name by Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lig
2026-05-21 18:14 UTC
Rolling Stone
The música mexicana singer shares how he embraced new sounds and tapped some of the biggest voices in Latin music for sophomore album
2026-05-21 18:17 UTC
Rolling Stone
Students at multiple universities torched tone-deaf commencement speakers who tried to tout the benefits of AI
2026-05-21 18:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are going to need help from James Austin Johnson to solve their latest problem in the Season 5 finale of CBS’ Ghosts. In a new clip from the upcoming two-parter, which Deadline can reveal exclusively, Sam and Jay are seeking to designate
2026-05-21 18:43 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Libby Kay (Nautilus) has joined the cast of USA Network’s The Rainmaker for Season 2. In a recurring role, Kay will play Megan Grenier, the razor-sharp right hand to cutthroat attorney Amanda Vonn (Merle Dandridge). Based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Rudy Baylor (Milo
2026-05-21 19:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios is eyeing a Choose Your Own Adventure movie, based on the long-running interactive book series, with Radio Silence (Ready or Not franchise) on board to direct and produce. Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will work from a script by Tom Bis
2026-05-21 19:00 UTC
Deadline
Lionsgate Studios blew past Wall Street forecasts for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in March as The Housemaid buoyed results at the motion picture group. Segment revenue of $651.9 million and sprofit of $187.1 million grew by 23% and 39%, respectively, year-over-year, with the ancillary performanc
2026-05-21 20:25 UTC
Rolling Stone
The annual awards ceremonies will take place in Nashville during AmericanaFest this summer
2026-05-21 20:29 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Clarke is being eyed to join the cast of Michael Mann’s Heat 2 from Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps for Amazon and the actor declined comment, and what role Clarke will play is not yet clear. While sources say there ar
2026-05-21 20:30 UTC
Variety
Revenues increased and profits rebounded during Lionsgate’s most recent quarter thanks to the box office success of “The Housemaid.” Overall revenues hit $906.5 million, which compared favorably to the $865.6 billion in revenues that Lionsgate reported a year ago. The rise in sales
2026-05-21 21:03 UTC
Variety
The landmark 50th season of “Survivor” wrapped up with a live finale on Wednesday night that reached 5.8 million viewers. Measured by Nielsen, that total marks the most-watched “Survivor” finale since Season 40, subtitled “Winners at War,” concluded with 7.6 milli
2026-05-21 21:28 UTC
Variety
Zendaya isn’t one to talk much about her relationship with maybe-husband Tom Holland, but she reveals a glimpse of her love for him in the new issue of Elle magazine. In the last year or so, they shot “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” together as well as Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” However, they di
2026-05-21 21:29 UTC
Variety
Blue Finch Films has taken on worldwide sales rights to “American Dollhouse,” John Valley’s horror feature that world-premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival, and will introduce the title to buyers at the Cannes Film Market. The U.K.-based sales and distribution outfit is partneri
2026-04-23 09:00 UTC
Variety
Top Spanish free-to-air channel Antena 3, part of commercial broadcaster Atresmedia, behind “Money Heist,” “Veneno,” “Locked Up,” “Velvet,” “Alba” and “Ángela,” has unveiled first-look images of “Ágata and Lola,” its big new prime-time series. The series is produced by Atresmedia and the Banij
2026-04-23 09:01 UTC
Variety
Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”), Thabo Rametsi (“Silverton Siege”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist,” “Ink”) are set to star in “The Road Home,” about South African jazz legends, Miriam ‘Mama Africa’ Makeba and Hugh Masekela,
2026-04-23 12:00 UTC
Variety
The first Super Bowl to air on Walt Disney media properties in two decades is months away, but the company has so far tapped popular hosts like Scott Van Pelt and Stephen A. Smith as well as famous animated characters including Buzz Lightyear and Iron Man to call attention to the next Big Game. Now
2026-04-23 12:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks has boarded international sales on the German comedy No Hit Wonder and will introduce the title at the upcoming Cannes Market. No Hit Wonder is a Warner Bros Germany and Pantaleon title. The film debuted at last year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. The film was released in Germany
2026-04-23 12:07 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sheila McCarthy (The Miniature Wife, Women Talking) and Megan Follows (Reign, The Way Home) have joined the cast of Yaga, the next big drama series at Canadian streamer Crave. They’ll be joined in the show, which stars Heated Rivalry‘s Hudson Williams and Carrie-Anne Moss, by
2026-04-23 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
An early storyline in Michael centered on allegations made by 13-year-old Jordan Chandler. It was nixed after filmmakers learned it violated terms of a $20 million settlement
2026-04-23 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The new series debuts today with a conversation between Armin van Buuren and Adam Beyer, while Twigs and Byrne's episode will air next week
2026-04-23 13:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan’s digital media company Uncensored is teaming with Time Studios to co-produce and distribute a new ongoing long-form interview series, hosted by Morgan, to debut this summer. The series will see Morgan engage in in-depth conversations with influential figures across spo
2026-04-23 13:00 UTC
Deadline
Nearly two years to the day after the Tony-winning Kimberly Akimbo closed on Broadway – and just ahead of the production’s final stop on a national tour – the musical has recouped its investments, producers announced today. With a Broadway capitalization of $7 million, Kimberly Aki
2026-04-23 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
With "absolute black" contrast, Xgimi's latest projectors look like a promising option for home theater enthusiasts
2026-04-23 13:01 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Ex Machina Studios and K5 International are breathing new life into Alex Proyas’ passion project Heaven, which K5 will be pre-selling at the upcoming Cannes market. I, Robot, The Crow and Dark City filmmaker Proyas hasn’t directed a film in a decade, since The Gods Of Egypt, b
2026-04-23 13:07 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: To Leslie star Andrea Riseborough and Adolescence‘s Ashley Walters will front an out-of-this-world ITV thriller drama, First Woman. Deadline hears ITV Studios-owned Mammoth Screen, Blade Runner 2099 firm Alcon Television and ZDF in Germany are attached to co-produce the six-part lun
2026-04-23 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill, Grey’s Anatomy) has been cast in Hulu’s upcoming TV series adaptation of Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies. She will recur as Allison, a stylish Tribeca architect and mother. Production on the series, from This Is Us duo Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, is curren
2026-04-23 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Jinny Howe, Netflix’s Head of U.S. and Canada Scripted Series, will keynote at the Banff Media Festival. She has been named the first keynote speaker at the Banff Summit Series, which is part of the 47th Banff Media Festival taking place June 14-17 at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta, Canada. H
2026-04-23 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Studiocanal has teamed with Flora Films on The Road Home starring Emmy, Grammy, Tony winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo (Wicked, Harriet), multi-award winning South African actor, writer, director and producer Thabo Rametsi (Silverton Siege), and Academy Award Nominee Guy Pear
2026-04-23 15:19 UTC
Rolling Stone
The actor tells Rolling Stone about the punk energy infusing modern Broadway, his turn in Oh, Mary!, and why Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains a cult classic
2026-04-23 15:27 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) and Tracy Letts (A House of Dynamite) have signed on for roles alongside Vanessa Kirby, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Tom Pelphrey in Apple’s sci-fi action-thriller Liminal. Directed by Louis Leterrier, Liminal is based on the AWA graphic novel Telepaths b
2026-04-23 15:45 UTC
Variety
Diana Ross will no longer appear in “Michael” due to “certain legal considerations,” according to Kat Graham, who was hired to play the legendary Supremes singer in the upcoming music biopic about Michael Jackson. “Ahead of the April 24 release of the Michael Jackson fi
2026-04-23 15:48 UTC
Deadline
Agent Hannah Davis has joined CAA’s Motion Picture Literary department. She comes to the agency from WME, where she began her career, starting as an intern before joining the mailroom in 2013. She was promoted to agent in 2017. Davis represents a roster of writers, directors, and producers, i
2026-04-23 16:00 UTC
Variety
Have a little sympathy for Candace Parker. As the WNBA great gets ready to offer her take on some of the biggest games in the league’s next season, she may face challenges in figuring out where to look. WNBA players return to the court after pushing for a more robust collective bargaining agreement
2026-04-23 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Matt and Ross Duffer, creators of Netflix’s cultural phenomenon Stranger Things, are set to receive the Visionary Tribute at this year’s Gotham Television Awards, taking place on Monday, June 1st at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The ceremony’s Visionary Tribute
2026-04-23 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a spell since Godspell debuted its Toronto production in 1972 with a cast of then-unknowns. In the interim, virtually every performer in that now legendary production went on to a huge career in entertainment: Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber
2026-04-23 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: WME’s signing spree continues, as they’ve now inked Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who will be repped at the agency by Elan Ruspoli. Fiennes Tiffin is a British actor who can currently be seen playing the title role in Guy Ritchie’s Prime Video series Young Sherlock, which premier
2026-04-23 16:07 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: SNL alum Emil Wakim has inked a deal to bring his first full-length comedy special to Netflix. A premiere date has not yet been disclosed. Wakim will tape the hour in October. The news comes as Wakim is scheduled to perform as part of the platform’s Netflix Is a Joke festival, with
2026-04-23 16:31 UTC
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A Clueless TV series with Silverstone attached to star and executive produce is no longer in development at Peacock, Deadline has confirmed. The streamer announced in April 2025 that the project was in the works with Silverstone attached to reprise her signature role as Cher. The Gossip Girl duo of
2026-04-23 16:41 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Lake Bell has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. Bell was most recently seen in HBO’s The Chair Company, from Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin and produced by Adam McKay. The series premiered globally in October 2025, was recently renewed for a second season, and earned two nom
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
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Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, Emmy winners Adolescence and The Pitt, in-the-zeitgeist shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Pluribus and Heated Rivalry, and news and interactive specials touching on the war in Gaza, immigration, ICE and the Los Angeles wildfires are among the winn
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing The Nanny Diaries, a series based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the 2007 feature adaptation of the novel, is executive producing the project, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
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Disney Entertainment Television Communications EVP Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul has been named as the recipient of Race to Erase MS’s 2026 Medal of Hope. She will be recognized at the 33rd annual Race to Erase MS Gala, hosted by The Bachelor host and ESPN sports analyst Jesse Palmer, which will take
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Cinemas nationwide will soon be rocking to the story of one of music’s greatest talents. Subtext, in association with Rolling Stone Films, today announced the domestic theatrical release of Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul directed by James Keach. The documentary will open Wednesday, Ju
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
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“Fruit Ninja VR” will sweeten up the esports competition at the Global Gaming League’s “SZN Zero Championship” this Friday when the video game takes center stage during the battle between Howie Mandel and NE-YO’s gaming teams. Streaming this Friday, the finale of
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The band has announced a fresh slate of dates starting in September and wrapping in November
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Jenn Levy joined Amazon earlier this year as Head of Unscripted and Documentary Television. The exec has now set her senior leadership team and rebranded its division. Former Disney exec Tiffany Faigus and ex-Netflix exec Ariane Wu have joined the streamer and Levy has rebranded the divis
2026-04-23 17:11 UTC
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The second episode of “Euphoria” Season 3 hit 8.5 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max in its first three days, matching the viewership of the season premiere. Statistics for both episodes were measured by Warner Bros. Discovery and refer to viewership in the U.S. alone. WBD notes that
2026-04-23 19:46 UTC
Rolling Stone
Actress Kat Graham, who played the Supremes leader, says "legal considerations affected a few scenes, including the ones I filmed"
2026-04-23 19:49 UTC
Variety
“Fear Factor: House of Fear” has been renewed for Season 2, Fox announced Thursday. Johnny Knoxville will return to host the competition series. A reboot of the popular 2000s show that ran for seven seasons, on “Fear Factor: House of Fear,” a group of strangers living together in a remote location
2026-04-23 19:49 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Industry veterans Jon Mason and David Lewis have launched Mason-Lewis Entertainment, a New York-based talent and literary management company repping artists across film, TV and theater. The pair previously worked together at Buchwald, where Lewis eventually became head of the talent divis
2026-04-23 19:59 UTC
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Top Bollywood star Ajay Devgn is set to headline “Chauhaan,” an action entertainer presented by Jio Studios and produced in association with Colour Yellow Productions, marking his debut collaboration with filmmaker Aanand L. Rai. The title was unveiled Thursday on what would have been th
2026-06-25 11:11 UTC
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Genndy Tartakovsky is developing a “Conan the Barbarian” series with Cartoon Network Studios and Prime Video – suggesting the animation great is firmly back in the Warner Bros. fold having spent a few years developing features with Sony, returning earlier this year with a new season of “
2026-06-25 11:11 UTC
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Veteran Italian director Daniele Luchetti — whose “The Ties” opened the 2020 Venice Film Festival — is back behind the camera on “Your Little Matter” (“Dove Non Mi Hai Portata”), a drama about a young writer looking into her parents’ dark past led by rising Italian talent Tecla Insolia. Italy&
2026-06-25 11:17 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Peppa Pig is famed for her love of jumping in muddy puddles, but the company behind the hit children’s TV series has created a different kind of splash with its approach to AI. Hasbro, the U.S. entertainment giant that acquired the Peppa Pig brand in 2019, is asking child actors on
2026-06-25 11:17 UTC
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The creative team behind Netflix’s Ghostbusters animated series want their show to “feel like our characters could walk off the television, onto a movie screen and interact with the pre-existing characters.” Launching next year and titled Ghostbusters: Night Shift, the latest in th
2026-06-25 12:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
On Canal Street with the self-described evangelist, who insists her latest pivot isn’t a reinvention: “I’m just myself.”
2026-06-25 12:00 UTC
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LISTEN: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Exec Producer Justin Halpern Juggles Multiple Series and His Debut Novel
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, writer and showrunner Justin Halpern speaks with Variety’s Michael Schneider about the road to writing his first novel “Get Lost,” which will be released next month by Hachette’s Cardinal imprint. Halpern also updates Schneider on a fe
2026-06-25 12:00 UTC
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Ray Winstone is a former SAS operative haunted by a botched mission in Prime Video’s Danger Money. The action-comedy series from Harry and Jack Williams features The Gentlemen star in his first Amazon role. He will play Alan ‘Razor’ Sharp, a former SAS operative haunted by a botched miss
2026-06-25 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has posted a slew of international deals for Spanish directorial duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes breakout La Bola Negra. In Europe, the film has sold to Benelux (Cinéart), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Germany and Austria (Pandora Film), Greece (Rosebud), UK & Irel
2026-06-25 15:00 UTC
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“The idea of a public space is at risk of disappearing,” said Boris Razon, Arte France’s Editorial Director, speaking to international non-fiction marketplace Sunny Side of the Doc earlier this week. Another guest speaker at the same event knows this all too well from bitter personal experience; in
2026-06-25 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Real Young and Lazy Horse are a group of New York DIY lifers who play four-hour sets for the sheer love of it. It's made them one of the most fun live acts in rock
2026-06-25 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The King of New York said this is "a story about discovering that success doesn’t happen overnight"
2026-06-25 15:03 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald is adding to its footprint in the sports space with the signing of former NBA star, producer, and media personality Baron Davis for representation in all areas. The agency will rep Davis in film, TV, branding, business development, publishing, media rights, voiceover, and non-fic
2026-06-25 15:15 UTC
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Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur, said he’s more “worried about human greed” than about musicians being replaced by robots. “Right now is the time for the dreamer, not the regurgitator of yesterday’s imaginations — new imagination beca
2026-06-25 15:19 UTC
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The actor will play a washed-up golf pro whose son might surpass his legacy if he doesn't lock in soon
2026-06-25 15:21 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ella Balinska is the newest addition to Beach Read, 20th Century Studios’ adaptation of the New York Times bestseller from Emily Henry, which is in production in Toronto. Balinska’s role is being kept under wraps. She joins an ensemble led by Phoebe Dynevor and Patri
2026-06-25 16:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Patti Smith Group guitarist previewed songs from his new album, which he discussed with Michael Imperioli
2026-06-25 16:36 UTC
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NBC is doubling down on natural history. The network has renewed its Tom Hanks-narrated wildlife series The Americas for a second season. The Toy Story star will return to narrate the second season, which will premiere in 2028. The Americas explored untold wildlife stories across the continent from
2026-06-25 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s We Were Liars has added 8 new actors to its recurring cast: Riley Voelkel, Madeleine Arthur, Jaelynn Thora Brooks, Layla Douglas, Callan Potter, Aidan Shaw, Shaun Sipos, and Brendon Tremblay. Additionally, Emerson MacNeil will return in the recurring role of Bonnie, Ma
2026-06-25 17:00 UTC
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Música mexicana star Xavi has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group, the company announced Thursday. The signing follows the release of his sophomore album, “Dosis,” and the single “La Diabla,” which surpassed 1 billion streams worldwide. Last year, Xavi
2026-06-25 17:27 UTC
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Leanne Morgan wants her fans to know that she hasn’t gone Hollywood. Sure, she just released her second Netflix stand-up special, “Unspeakable Things,” and she recently wrapped production on the second season of her Chuck Lorre-produced sitcom, “Leanne” — which, no big deal, shoots on Warner Bros.’
2026-06-25 17:31 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Good American Family creator Katie Robbins has signed an overall deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the Hulu limited series starring Ellen Pompeo. Under the pact with 20th TV, a part of Disney Television Studios, Robbins will develop, write and produce series for all linear netw
2026-06-25 17:45 UTC
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The singer-songwriter's fourth album goes deep into his feelings without over-intellectualizing them and finds a secret weapon in Clairo
2026-06-25 17:50 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye and Daithí Ó Haragáin have joined Brie Larson in the Sony Pictures’ thriller Skeletons. JT Mollner is directing the pic. Kyle Gallner is also on board. The film is a modern take on the creature horror film told from the perspective of a young boy who slowly beg
2026-06-25 20:00 UTC
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Chris Berend a digital-media executives who has had a hand in helping to create new distribution platforms for NBC News journalism and properties including “Today,” is leaving the company after a seven-year tenure. In a memo sent to staffers Thursday, Berend said he would soon be “
2026-06-25 20:01 UTC
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Warner Bros. Discovery has set April 23 at 10 am ET for a special meeting of shareholders to vote on the media giant’s sale to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, a key step forward in the process. WBD said it started mailing definitive proxy statements to shareholders ahead of the meeting where sto
2026-03-26 11:48 UTC
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Italian producer Aurelio De Laurentiis, nephew of late great movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis, on Thursday will host the U.S. premiere of “Ag4in” a doc chronicling the SSC Napoli soccer club’s 2025 fourth Italian Serie A championship victory. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is set to attend the gala even
2026-03-26 11:52 UTC
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In a world where false narratives feel more prevalent than ever, Tahar Rahim is searching for truth. The French-Algerian actor is gearing up for the U.S. release of Cannes Competition title Alpha from Titane helmer Julia Ducournau, which Neon is releasing on Friday, while next month s
2026-03-26 11:53 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed British actress Fola Evans-Akingbola for management. Evans-Akingbola is best known for her breakout role as Secret Service agent Chelsea Arrington in The Night Agent, Netflix’s hit action-thriller series from Shawn Ryan, based on the Matthew Quirk novel of the same
2026-03-26 16:15 UTC
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UTA has elevated 35 to Partner across 23 departments and multiple offices, the agency announced on Thursday. The new partners are across the following divisions: Filmed Entertainment, UTA Live (consisting of Comedy Touring, Music and Speakers), Creators, Klutch Sports Group, Sports and Brand Insight
2026-03-26 16:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Chua-Tran (Heartbreak High) has joined the cast of the Netflix film Gundam from Legendary, sources close to production tell Deadline. Details regarding who Chua-Tran will play and the plot of the film are under wraps. In addition to Tran, the cast also includes Sydney Sweeney, Noah
2026-03-26 16:15 UTC
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Danielle Deadwyler has found her partner for Hulu’s X-Files reboot as Himesh Patel is set to join Hulu’s reboot of the classic TV series. The show recently received a pilot greenlight at Hulu. Deadwyler is set as the co-lead in the project, from Onyx Collective and 20th Televis
2026-03-26 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Omari Hardwick, the actor known for anchoring Starz’s Power franchise, as he steps into a new chapter spanning two major series and an expanding producing slate for his company Bravelife Productions. Hardwick follows his agent Ryan Muckenthaler, who came over to Ver
2026-03-26 16:30 UTC
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Himesh Patel is set for a lead role in Ryan Coogler’s “The X-Files” reboot pilot at Hulu, Variety has learned. Patel will star alongside previously announced cast member Danielle Deadwyler in the pilot, which was formally picked up at Hulu back in February. The official logline for
2026-03-26 16:30 UTC
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Miley Cyrus will receive a special honor during the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 18 finale set to air on Friday, April 17, on MTV. The Hannah Montana star will receive the Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor established in 2023 whose first recipient was Bob Mackie. Other legends who ha
2026-03-26 16:30 UTC
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Anne Hathaway versus cosmic dinosaurs? Consider us intrigued. Hathaway stars alongside Ewan McGregor in “The End of Oak Street,” which is set to be released theatrically in North America on August 14. The cast also includes Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, and, per the end of its first t
2026-03-26 16:37 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Even with his hit sci-fi adventure Project Hail Mary continuing to break records at the box office, Ryan Gosling looks to be orbiting his next big project. Sources tell Deadline Gosling is set to star in Universal Pictures’ untitled event film directed by Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Dani
2026-03-26 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Mikayla Starrels has joined WME as a digital agent. Based in the Los Angeles office, the agent will work closely with WME’s digital department to provide clients with a nuanced perspective on how creators drive culture, engage audiences, and build long-term brand value. Starrels bri
2026-03-26 17:00 UTC
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Fisher Stevens-Produced Rainforest Doc ‘We Are Guardians’ To Expand Streaming Footprint On Earth Day
EXCLUSIVE: Fisher Stevens’ Amazon Rainforest Doc We Are Guardians will launch on several platforms on April 22, which, appropriately, is Earth Day. We Are Guardians counts Leonardo DiCaprio among its exec producers, alongside Jennifer Davisson and Phillip Watson from Appian Way. The feature doc foll
2026-03-26 17:01 UTC
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Logan Clark Has Cast ‘The Masked Singer’ & ‘Beast Games’, Now He’s Developing His Own Reality Series
EXCLUSIVE: Logan Clark’s The Casting Collective, which has found reality stars for series including Fox’s The Masked Singer and Amazon’s Beast Games, is moving into development. The Casting Collective is looking to develop and produce its own slate of unscripted formats across competition series, mu
2026-03-26 17:12 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: A24’s Peaked has landed another buzzy name in Grammy-winning pop star Dua Lipa. Character details are under wraps. In the film directed by Molly Gordon from a script by Allie Levitan, she’ll star alongside both. Peaked follows the two girls who traumatized you in high school a
2026-03-26 17:18 UTC
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Lebohang Morake, the Grammy-winning South African composer who performed the iconic opening chant in “Circle of Life” at the start of Disney’s “The Lion King,” is suing the comedian Learnmore Jonasi for “allegedly damaging his reputation by intentionally misrepres
2026-03-26 17:19 UTC
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United Talent Agency has promoted 35 staffers to partner status, elevations that span 23 departments and multiple offices. Hired from an existing group of agents and executives, the UTA 2026 Partner Class is credited by UTA CEO David Kramer with championing clients, building teams, and supporting UT
2026-03-26 17:44 UTC
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Warner Bros. has quietly unveiled the first teaser for The End of Oak Street, their new sci-fi film formerly known as Flowervale Street from It Follows helmer David Robert Mitchell. Little has been known to this point about the plot of the film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. But the trai
2026-03-26 17:47 UTC
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Damson Idris has signed on to lead and executive produce a new Netflix series titled The Lords’ Day. The series synopsis reads: On the State Opening of Parliament, British spy Harry Jones (Damson Idris) finds himself inside the iconic building amidst a lockdown. As the siege escalates, loyalties are
2026-03-26 17:52 UTC
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Move over Emmys, the Oscars are coming. Starting with the 101st Academy Awards, which is already set to disrupt the usual order of things Oscar-wise with its move from ABC to YouTube, the ceremony and broadcast will also be coming from a new venue. Well not new exactly since it is the same place the
2026-03-26 17:59 UTC
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Two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Colman Domingo will make his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live on April 11. He’ll be joined by musical guest Anitta in her first SNL appearance as well. A busy Domingo will next be seen in Netflix’s The Four Seasons and HBO’s Euphoria. On t
2026-03-26 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: BET has renewed The Ms. Pat Show for a sixth season. The series will be among the first of the network’s original series to stream on Paramount+, which becomes the new streaming home for BET content beginning in June. Led by the titular comedian Patricia “Ms. Pat” Willia
2026-03-26 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing Opposing Counsel, a legal drama based on Sheldon Siegel’s critically acclaimed book series, from Lauren Fields (The Flash), Morgan Faust (The Company You Keep, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Rideback. Written by Fields and Faust, Opposing Counsel is described
2026-03-26 18:00 UTC
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Harry Treadaway (Mr. Mercedes) has landed a series regular role in Bishop, Amazon MGM Studios’ new thriller from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. While we’re told Treadaway will play the part of Wyatt, further details are under wraps. As previously announced, Joel Kinnaman an
2026-03-26 18:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Before the Pink Moon rises, we’ve gathered all of the details for the highly anticipated follow-up to Guts
2026-03-26 20:47 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: After wrapping on Vegas: A Love Story, a romantic thriller we scooped starring Maika Monroe and Brandon Sklenar, Ramin Bahrani is staying in the thriller genre with The Rancher, a Netflix film based on a spec by Melanie Toast, which he will rewrite and direct, with Toby Jaffe producing fo
2026-03-26 20:57 UTC
Rolling Stone
The highly anticipated single arrives after the pair debuted the track live at the beginning of March
2026-03-26 22:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Lee, who has recurred as Colter’s friend and newly minted tech whiz Randy on CBS’ Tracker, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming fourth season. Lee first joined Tracker in Season 2. He was first introduced as Bobby’s (Eric Graise) charismatic and charming
2026-03-26 22:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Brazilian superstar recently dropped the single "Pinterest," while Domingo is gearing up for Michael and the new season of Euphoria
2026-03-26 22:04 UTC
Variety
The governess is thoroughly ungoverned in “Victorian Psycho,” a grisly ostensible horror comedy from director Zachary Wigon that’s neither frightening nor funny enough to pass muster — and not quite outrageous enough to garner the kind of notoriety it’s aiming for, either. A shot of lurid genre ener
2026-05-28 12:50 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: A TV drama chronicling the early life of Céline Dion is in the works. Growing Up Dion [working title] marks the first time the “My Heart Will Go On” singer’s family has formally supported a dramatized adaptation of her childhood, with her brother Jacques Dion producing a
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: AI Studio Staircase Studios AI and Made by Us Studios are teaming on a joint venture to develop and produce Ollie the Octopus, an animated children’s series centered on social-emotional learning for kids ages 4–8. Based on an original idea by Made by US Co-CEO Tanya Cohen, with story and
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at In The Hand Of Dante, the latest feature film from Julian Schnabel, which debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival. The film features an international cast of A-listers, including Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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Terry Moran is accustomed to reporting from across the nation. Getting all that journalism served up? That’s where he’s had to learn a few things. “Logistics, equipment…all that stuff is ‘old dog, new tricks,'” quips Moran during a recent interview. Moran used to
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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Mubi has released the official trailer and artwork for Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama was among the festival’s standout titles this year, eliciting plenty of critical praise and being tipped as an awards season co
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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Walt Disney Co. CEO Josh D’Amaro, Sony Group Corp. president/CEO Hiroki Totoki and Liberty Media president/CEO Derek Chang are among new executives joining the Paley Center for Media’s board of trustees, while new names to the Paley Los Angeles Board of Governors include Imagine Entertai
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
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Variety’s first-ever Women’s Impact Report U.K. showcases the executives and talent that led from across the pond, driving top features and television series, winning awards and leading companies to greater things.
2026-05-28 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The long-running franchise's newest release, '007 First Light,' combines cinematic action and literary depth for an unparalleled spy fantasy
2026-05-28 15:18 UTC
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Disney’s Josh D’Amaro is among a group of senior executives who have been added to the Paley Center for Media’s board of trustees. Along with D’Amaro,. other execs joining the board include Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang, Spotify Co-CEO Alex Norström, and Sony Group Corp. CEO
2026-05-28 15:21 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Matthew Miele is currently directing a new feature documentary on the life, career, and theatrical legacy of three-time Emmy and three-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane. The film will trace Lane’s remarkable body of work across stage and screen while following him throug
2026-05-28 15:24 UTC
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When the ticketing system opened for booking at 8am, four days before its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Ken Russell’s The Devils sold out all 452 seats at the Salle Buñuel in under 60 seconds — 55 years after it was first released. Except, the truth is, Russell’s film, an adapt
2026-05-28 16:11 UTC
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CBS News is replacing the executive producer of 60 Minutes, with Tanya Simon exiting and Nick Bilton named to lead its top-rated newsmagazine. “Nick is one of the most entrepreneurial journalists of our time and the perfect leader for one of the most entrepreneurial news brands of all time,
2026-05-28 16:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jen Kober is set to release her first full-length special, Uber Famous, with Comedy Dynamics on June 2. The special, filmed in Kober’s hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, finds her at her most honest and joyful — sharing stories about family, identity, unexpected
2026-05-28 16:19 UTC
Rolling Stone
Popularized by JFK Jr. in the Nineties, the paperboy cap helped inspire Brixton's first collection
2026-05-28 16:27 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The courthouse or the boardroom could be the next venue for Sharyn Alfonsi and CBS News now that the seasoned journalist has been pink slipped not just from 60 Minutes, but the Bari Weiss-led division too. One day after going public with the end of her decade long role at the acclaimed ne
2026-05-28 16:47 UTC
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Tony Award nominees The Lost Boys and Cats: The Jellicle Ball have extended their Broadway engagements, releasing blocks of tickets into the new year. The Michael Arden-directed The Lost Boys, nominated for 12 Tonys including Best Musical, has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 202
2026-05-28 16:48 UTC
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Olivia Rodrigo is addressing the comments she received over a babydoll dress she wore during a recent performance. The “Drop Dead” singer performed at an event on May 8 and was subjected to criticism over her outfit, which she is now pushing back on, as some said she was sexualizing chil
2026-05-28 16:57 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The first trailer for the final season of All American has arrived. Deadline can exclusively reveal the footage, which sees many of the characters at major crossroads as the series approaches its conclusion. That’s not surprising, considering the events in the Season 7 finale during
2026-05-28 17:00 UTC
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Worlds are colliding for NBC News’ Hallie Jackson. The Washington-based anchor and correspondent on most weekdays can be seen leading a two-hour program, “Hallie Jackson Now,” that live streams on the NBC News Now service. And on Sundays, she is behind the desk for “NBC Nightly News.” Starting Monda
2026-05-28 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Andie MacDowell and Kevin Bacon have joined the cast of Beach Read, 20th Century Studios‘ adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel from Emily Henry. Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger currently star with production set to start next month. Published in 2020, Beach Re
2026-05-28 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed outdoor creator Steven Rinella and his media company MeatEater. Rinella’s MeatEater show ran on the Sportsmen Channel for six seasons before switching to Netflix in 2018, and he has presented the likes of Hunting History for History Channel. He is known for posting co
2026-05-28 17:00 UTC
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Fox Entertainment’s recently formed Fox Creator Studios and comedian Tom Segura’s YMH Studios are joining forces. FCS and YMH have entered into a strategic multi-project partnership to develop, finance, and produce a broad slate of original content to be released via YMH Studios’ direct-to-consumer
2026-05-28 17:01 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer, 82, is playing more dates on his solo career than the Who did on their North American farewell tour, and in a wide-ranging interview, he says he's not giving up anytime soon
2026-05-28 17:41 UTC
Variety
Tom Hardy was not fired from “MobLand,” Variety has confirmed. Despite rumors swirling since last week that the actor would not return for a third season, sources confirmed discussions are underway to find a way for Hardy (who plays gangster Harry Da Souza in the Paramount+ show) to come
2026-05-28 17:41 UTC
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The main characters on HBO’s “Industry” — Harper (Myha’la), Eric (Ken Leung), Yasmin (Marisa Abela), Rishi (Sagar Radia) and even Sweetpea (Miriam Petche) — are a band of outsiders in the conservative (e.g. white man’s world) of finance. A Black American woman, a Chinese-American man, a media heires
2026-05-28 17:45 UTC
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Netflix Animation Studios feature production workers have officially voted to ratify their first Union contract with The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839), with an overwhelming 89% in favor of ratification. The first contract with the guild establishes wage minimums, dismissal pay, and workplace pro
2026-05-28 17:47 UTC
Deadline
It may come as a surprise to those who have seen Rafael Nadal lift trophy after trophy over his head, but the tennis champion doesn’t see himself so much a winner as something else – a competitor. That’s one of the many revelations in the four-part documentary series Rafa, premiering on Netflix this
2026-05-28 17:48 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Starboard Entertainment has acquired Wardcliffe, a pandemic thriller from writer-director David Ferino. Starboard picked the film up at this year’s Cannes Market. Inspired by real events, Wardcliffe stars Joel McKinnon Miller (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) alongside Shane Coffey (Pretty Litt
2026-05-28 17:49 UTC
Rolling Stone
The rapper says artists were not told about any political involvement with the event before the lineup was announced.
2026-05-28 17:54 UTC
Variety
Mary McDonnell has joined the “Baywatch” reboot as a guest star. “The Boroughs” star will recur as Gayle, the mother of Stephen Amell’s protagonist Hobie Buchannon. The character is described as a “sophisticated woman with a wryly funny presence.” “She
2026-05-28 18:00 UTC
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Tony Shalhoub has joined the upcoming CBS drama “Einstein” in a recurring guest star role, Variety has learned. The role reunites Shalhoub with Andy Breckman, who developed “Einstein” from a German format and previously created the hit USA Network series “Monk,” i
2026-05-28 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 is bound to have a friend with moviegoers. A lot of moviegoers. Three-week tracking for the Andrew Standon and McKenna Harris co-directed animated feature is at $150M, which if those numbers stick will be a record opening for the franchise ahead of Toy Sto
2026-05-28 18:00 UTC
Variety
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Deli Boys” Season 2, which premiered May 28 on Hulu with all six episodes. Hulu’s crime comedy “Deli Boys” ramps things up in its second season, as Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) try to run their late father’s coc
2026-05-28 23:00 UTC
Deadline
You’re Killing Me is getting another go-round. Acorn TV has renewed the popular murder mystery series starring Brooke Shields, Amalia Williamson and Tom Cavanaugh, for a second season. The news was revealed Thursday by Shields and Williamson during an ATX Television Festival panel in Austin, T
2026-05-28 23:00 UTC
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Horror thriller “Mother Knows Best” has recently wrapped production in Auckland, New Zealand after shooting under the radar, with Frankie Adams (“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” “The Wrecking Crew”) leading the cast. Rhona Mitra (“The Last Ship,” R
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Charades have acquired international sales rights for Canadian director Leah Nelson’s Alzheimer’s-themed animated feature debut Tangles, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and Seth Rogen in the voice cast, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes. They will launch world sales in Canne
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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It was no April Fool’s joke when Fortnite announced on April 1 that it would enable developers to create “Star Wars”-inspired islands in Unreal Editor for Fortnite and Fortnite Creative. Starting May 1, developers will be able to take characters, templates, tools and gameplay featu
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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The Rolling Stones are re-launching their rum brand with a new focus on a country close to their hearts — and decades-spanning careers. First unveiled in 2023, the band’s Crossfire Hurricane Rum rum was inspired by the rockers’ longtime association with Jamaica, which has spanned c
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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Leo Woodall continues to cement his status as one of the U.K.’s most in-demand actors since breaking out in “The White Lotus.” The “One Day” and “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” star has now been set as the lead alongside co-star Clémence Poésy (“The
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
Deadline
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, will close the Screen Festival component of SXSW London in June. The movie will arrive in London fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard s
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriter Armando Bo’s (Birdman) feature adaptation of Camila Sosa Villada’s well-received novel Las Malas is set to begin production next month in Córdoba, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay. Cast in the Spanish-language film is led by previously announced Oscar nominee K
2026-04-30 13:00 UTC
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav saw his 2025 pay package triple to $165 million from $51.9 million the year before on option awards valued at $109.6 million. The grant was part of an amended employment agreement with the chief executive last year as a one-time bonus when the company was plan
2026-04-30 13:06 UTC
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Sony has released the trailer for the upcoming horror film “Resident Evil.” Based on Capcom’s hugely popular horror video games, “Resident Evil” is co-written by Shay Hatten and “Weapons” helmer Zach Cregger, who also serves as director. The film does not feature established characters f
2026-04-30 13:07 UTC
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Alauda Ruíz de Azúa’s San Sebastian and Goya best film winner “Sundays” (“Los Domingos”) has been co-acquired for U.S. distribution by Outsider Pictures. The deal announcement comes just weeks after “Sundays” swept picture, director, actress (Patricia López Arnaiz), supporting actress (Nagore Aranbu
2026-04-30 13:13 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer on finding love, grieving loss, and building something new
2026-04-30 14:00 UTC
Variety
WestEnd Films has boarded world sales on “Ignition,” a high-concept thriller starring Emmy-nominated Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones,” “The New Look,” “Practical Magic 2”) and written and directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Erskine (“Cop
2026-04-30 14:00 UTC
Deadline
Sony has dropped the first trailer for their Resident Evil film from Weapons and Barbarian helmer Zach Cregger that was previewed in room only at CinemaCon earlier this month. The trailer finds star Austin Abrams trudging through a snowy night and up to a dark, empty house. He had a problem on the r
2026-04-30 14:07 UTC
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David Allan Coe, the country singer-songwriter who helped define Nashville’s “outlaw” sound of the 1970s and ’80s, and wrote “Take This Job and Shove It,” the song that would become the anthem of disaffected workers during the economic upheaval of the decade, died at a
2026-04-30 14:09 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo is currently on a two-track tear of shows with A-list stars exploring a world such as Limitless with Chris Hemsworth and Tucci in Italy and blue-chip wildlife titles that dive deeper in the natural world such as Ocean with David Attenborough and Secrets of the Bees. The latter is
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
Variety
Jesse Collins Entertainment has got this Emmy thing down. The live TV production shingle has signed on for a fourth year in a row to produce the Primetime Emmys — this time, helming the 78th Emmy Awards for NBC and Peacock on Monday, Sept. 14. This now means Jesse Collins Entertainment will have gon
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson and set to open Sept. 22 in Los Angeles, has announced its inaugural exhibitions. With more than 1,200 objects total, the installations will span more than 30 galleries and occupy approximately 100,000 square f
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
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André Bishop, Jules Fisher and James Lapine — three towering figures of the theater community — are this year’s recipients of the 2026 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. The honor places the trio of legendary artists among past recipients including Harvey Fierstein, Ca
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
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Shareef O’Neal, an entrepreneur and former athlete, has joined the roster of UTA, which will work to secure opportunities for him across sports media, unscripted television, digital media and more. The signing comes as O’Neal, Shaquille O’Neal’s son, is poised to launch a revamp of
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: As Prime Video is preparing for the May 13 Season 1 premiere of Off Campus, Amazon MGM Studios has been quietly casting the second installment of the college-set romantic drama series based on Elle Kennedy’s bestselling book series, which received an early renewal in February. India Fowle
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Martinez has been tapped to join Days of Our Lives in the role of Javier “Javi” Hernández. The role of Javi was portrayed by Al Calderon, who left the Peacock sudser to join NBC’s Brilliant Minds. Martinez’s first episode on DOOL will air on June 30, 2026. Ja
2026-04-30 16:00 UTC
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Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, has not directly weighed in on the backlash over the agency’s move to force Disney’s ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses on an accelerated schedule — a move that comes as President Trump has called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired
2026-04-30 16:01 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Blumhouse will be launching sales at the Cannes market on their reboot of horror franchise sensation The Blair Witch Project. We can confirm online reports from earlier this year that up-and-coming horror director Dylan Clark has been set to helm the new “imaginingR
2026-04-30 16:02 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of her breakout debut feature How to Have Sex, a coming-of-age drama that won the Un Certain Regard prize in its 2023 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Molly Manning Walker has inked a deal to direct the film Not Another F**king Wedding for A24 and Plan B. No word yet [&#
2026-04-30 16:07 UTC
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Peacock’s competition series The Traitors scored six nominees to lead the pack for a third year in a row at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards, which revealed its noms list Thursday. Winners of the eighth annual awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming wil
2026-04-30 16:29 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress, producer, and entrepreneur Jessica Alba has inked with CAA. Golden Globe-nominated for her work in the series Dark Angel, co-created by James Cameron, Alba most recently exec produced and starred in the Netflix thriller Trigger Warning, which debuted at #1 in 67 countries and has
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of his Netflix thriller Apex, Taron Egerton has found a new agency to call home as he has signed with WME in all areas. This comes after his survival thriller Apex, where he stars opposite Charlize Theron, earned him strong reviews for scene-stealing villain in the
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
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BET today revealed that comedian and online creator Druski will host this year’s BET Awards. The 2026 installment airs live on Sunday, June 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. With the selection, Druski becomes the event’s youngest-ever host, eclipsing Kevin Hart, who previously held the distinction. “I
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
Variety
American High is partnering with Netflix to bring their viral short-form series “Minimum Wage” to the streamer. Variety has learned exclusively that Netflix has given “Minimum Wage” a 28 episode order, with the show set to launch on Netflix later this year. Each episode will
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
Deadline
As ABC has renewed its two remaining comedy series, Scrubs and Shifting Gears, the network has passed on its sole comedy pilot for next season, Do You Want Kids?, starring Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel. The move was not surprising. As Deadline has reported, the Sliding Doors-style single-camera pilot
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
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Actor Taye Diggs and partners Autumn Federici, Shelby Stone, James Black, and Troy Brookins on Thursday announced the launch of Microhouse Films, a mobile-first vertical storytelling platform putting distribution in the hands of filmmakers, which is set to launch this spring. Developed to support th
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
Deadline
And then there was one. ABC has renewed its remaining comedy series, Scrubs and Shifting Gears, for the 2026-27 season. For the Scrubs revival, this counts officially as a second season, for the Tim Allen sitcom, it’s a third season. The pickups, which have been fully expected, leave one curre
2026-04-30 16:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
The singer-songwriter's 18th album is full of fantastical imagery, moving emotions, and callbacks to her storied career
2026-04-30 16:32 UTC
Deadline
“This was based on DEI conduct, not speech,” said Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr today as the agency has launched a sudden and suspicious license renewal review of ABC stations after another fracas between Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel. “The FCC has rules on the books.” “You ca
2026-04-30 16:42 UTC
Variety
A TV series adaptation of Anika Jade Levy’s critically acclaimed debut novel, “Flat Earth,” is in the works at Vice Studios with Levy as co-creator. Published by Catapult Books in the US and Little, Brown in the UK in November 2025, “Flat Earth” is described as “a
2026-04-30 17:00 UTC
Variety
Two weeks before “Off Campus” premieres on Prime Video, the college romance series has announced two new cast additions for Season 2. India Fowler (“Fear Street: Prom Queen”) will appear in the series regular role of Grace Ivers, the love interest of John Logan, played by Antonio Cipriano. The show’
2026-04-30 17:03 UTC
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Josh Penn, the Academy Award-nominated producer behind “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” has launched Serenade, a new production company focused on documentary and narrative films. Serenade’s first film, “The Oldest Person in the World,” was directed by Sam Green and premi
2026-04-30 17:07 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Scott Stuber has set Patrick Chu as Head of Television at his production company which is relaunching the United Artists label with Amazon MGM Studios. Reporting directly to Stuber, Chu will lead the company’s TV department, overseeing development and production of the TV slate, which inc
2026-04-30 18:17 UTC
Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl wrote and directed the video for the Your Favorite Toy cut, while his daughter Harper handled the casting
2026-04-30 18:28 UTC
Variety
Recently premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, “Ulya” is a biopic of Latvian-born basketball phenomenon Ulyana Semjonova, who played and won many medals and championships for the Soviet Union from the late 1960s until well into the 1980s. Yet her tragedy, as director Viesturs Kairišs
2026-06-02 15:47 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Following its recent expansion into new areas including sports, news and lifestyle talent, 3 Arts Entertainment has hired Make Management founder Hannah Satzke to broaden its fashion & beauty representation business. Satzke will serve as a Manager and be based in the New York office
2026-06-02 15:59 UTC
Variety
Sophia Meloni’s “Chop Cheese” starring Christopher Meloni and Michael Gandolfini and Michael Bruce’s “Kiloran Bay” starring Alan Cumming are among the short films set to screen at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. ShortFest will return to the Festival Theaters from June 23 throug
2026-06-02 16:00 UTC
Variety
The “Life Is Strange” TV series at Amazon Prime Video has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively. Billy Barratt (“Responsible Child,” “Invasion”), Emily Carey (“House of the Dragon,” “Wonder Woman”), Esther McGregor (&
2026-06-02 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sarnoski, the filmmaker behind titles like Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, is set to direct the pilot of The Chain for HBO and will also serve as executive producer of the buzzy limited series, based on the New York Times bestseller by Adrian McKinty.
2026-06-02 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Singer-songwriter P!NK (Alecia Moore), author and producer Glennon Doyle, and Olympian, author and soccer star Abby Wambach are joining Sara Bareilles: Good Grief as executive producers ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at Tribeca Festival. The film directed by Josh Alexander docu
2026-06-02 16:00 UTC
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Keshet International has appointed former Amazon MGM Studios development executive Liz Cohen as EVP, Scripted for Keshet Studios, its U.S.-based production arm. In her role, Cohen will oversee the development, packaging and production of Keshet Studios’ scripted projects across broadcast, cable and
2026-06-02 16:00 UTC
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Filming is underway in Florida on A Land Remembered, a TV series adaptation of the best-selling historical novel by Patrick D. Smith. Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, Bupkis), Lily McInerny (Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, Palm Trees and Power Lines) and William Catlett (A Thousand and One, Abigail) star in th
2026-06-02 16:25 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Dark Matter author and series creator Blake Crouch and writer-producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry have signed with CAA for representation. In addition to Dark Matter, Crouch is the author of numerous novels, including Recursion and Upgrade, all New York Times bestsellers. His books have been tra
2026-06-02 16:30 UTC
Variety
In “Black Rabbit,” which is currently streaming on Netflix, Jason Bateman and Jude Law play Brooklyn-born brothers who reunite and get in business together. However, the two soon spiral into destructive patterns as they contend with their estrangement. To date, the show has earned nomina
2026-06-02 16:30 UTC
Variety
Billy Magnussen, Simon Helberg and more stars from AMC’s “The Audacity” convened for Variety‘s Behind the Show presented by AMC to discuss what drew them to the dark comedy and its extreme relevance today. Magnussen stars as Duncan Park, an “audacious data-mining CEO,” and explains that he w
2026-06-02 16:57 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Texas punk rock band plays the House of Blues on July 16, with Snooper opening
2026-06-02 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the July 9 premiere of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reboot, Rachelle Lefevre (North by North) and Charlotte Sullivan (Law & Order: Organized Crime) have inked deals for series regular roles in Season 2. Lefevre will play Eva Beadle, the town schoolteacher that
2026-06-02 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The country star poked fun at the technical difficulties that caused him to bust out his best angry Billy Joel impression at a recent show in Denver
2026-06-02 17:20 UTC
Deadline
Ernest Chambers, a prolific TV writer-producer whose 60-year career working on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, My Three Sons, The Dyke Van Dyke Show and dozens on specials and variety shows landed him 11 Emmy nominations, has died. He was 97. A family representative told Deadline that Chambers di
2026-06-02 17:23 UTC
Deadline
“It’s as improbable to get this on the air as it seems,” Ponies co-creator David Iserson says about landing a series order for the 1970s, Moscow-set spy series he co-created with his longtime The Spy Who Dumped Me screenwriting collaborator Susanna Fogel. Ponies follows two secreta
2026-06-02 19:01 UTC
Deadline
Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout drama series scripts in 2026 Emmy contention. In his follow-up to the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown headlined by Kate Winslet, Brad Ingelsby made his return to the network with Task, a crime drama that lands him i
2026-06-02 19:05 UTC
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Following the massive success of War Machine, Netflix is moving forward with a new installment in the franchise as Patrick Hughes is back to direct the sequel and co-write the pic with James Beaufort. Hughes also is onboard to produce along with Todd Lieberman through his Hidden Pictures, Range Medi
2026-06-02 19:05 UTC
Variety
“Stop That Train” director Adam Shankman defended the RuPaul Charles-starring film after social-media chatter over the weekend accusing the filmmakers of relying on generative AI — calling such claims “patently not true.” “Every shot in ‘Stop! That! Train!’ was made by human hands!
2026-06-02 19:09 UTC
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Published July 2, 2024, Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods will be appearing on small screens in television form. Voted Book of the Year by Book of the Month subscribers and subtly endorsed by Taylor Swift when she listened to the audiobook format in Disney+’s six-part docuseries The End of an Era, th
2026-06-02 19:16 UTC
Variety
For all the stigma and turmoil that President Trump has brought onto the Kennedy Center, the people who are most harmed are the people who work there — including the National Symphony Orchestra, the very existence of which is imperiled by the callousness and confusion surrounding the president’s att
2026-06-02 19:48 UTC
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Saint Harison was in the midst of working on a project that told the story of his upbringing when the fallout from a relationship hijacked his creative process. “As you can tell from the songs, it was one of those,” he says — meaning a relationship checkered with issues, which he explore
2026-06-02 19:58 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has struck its first international deal for buzzy physical comedy gameshow Let’s Play Ball. Heated Rivalry streamer Crave has picked up the format for French Canada and will make a bumper 10 x 60-minute version of the show that sees celebrities push giant balls across
2026-06-02 20:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The untitled Snowfall spinoff series is no longer untitled. The series, starring the mothership’s Gail Bean and Isaiah John, is named The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, Deadline has learned. It will premiere later this year on FX and Hulu and will be available on Disney+ internationally. Th
2026-06-02 20:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Curry Barker’s next movie from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Focus Features, Anything But Ghosts, will also star Superstore and The Mindy Project actor Chris Reinacher. Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. The news comes in the wake of Barker’s curr
2026-06-02 22:53 UTC
Rolling Stone
The physical releases promises 'elevated packaging, curated bonus content, and exclusive materials' from the hit show
2026-06-02 22:57 UTC
Variety
Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Andrius Blazevicius’ “How to Divorce During the War,” a beautifully directed portrait of a couple navigating the dissolution of their marriage during the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The film made it
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
He made his name writing beautifully open songs about everything from his home state to his mental health. Now he has millions of fans, and he's still processing it all
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: 11:11 Media, the media production company founded by Paris Hilton, has teamed with Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of four Saw films, on a new horror feature titled Road To Reality. Bousman will direct the film from a screenplay by Katina Nikou. The story is said to be set within the “i
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
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A24 has unveiled the first trailer for Tony, its biopic of chef Anthony Bourdain starring The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, which is slated for release in theaters in August. Directed by Matt Johnson, the filmmaker behind Blackberry and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Tony finds a 19-year-
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Variety
When she first started putting the pieces together for her upcoming album, Tori Kelly took a write-what-you-know approach. “I was pretty clear on what I wanted to say, which were three pillars: My faith, my marriage and then motherhood,” the singer-songwriter tells Variety about “G
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Variety
Attention, soccer fans: Fox Sports may have the summer job of your dreams. Executives at the Fox Corp.-backed sports-media outlet aren’t looking for the next Colin Cowherd or Tom Brady. Starting Tuesday, however, they will have their eyes peeled for a sports fan who can watch every minute of the 104
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Variety
A24 has released the first trailer for the upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony,” starring “The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa in the starring role. The film is set in 1976, when a young Bourdain has a life-changing experience working and living in Provincetown, Mass. Bourdain, the
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Variety
The entire 10-season run of true crime series “World’s Most Evil Killers” has landed at Radial Entertainment, with Seasons 9 and 10 set to debut on the company’s FilmRise channel this month, pushing the franchise to 200 episodes and more than 150 hours of programming. Both new seasons – each formatt
2026-05-05 13:00 UTC
Variety
Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) and Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) will next star in “Impunity,” an espionage thriller from award-winning Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez (“The Settlers”). Shot between U.K., Spain and Chile, in Spanish and English, the film is set against the backdrop of one of the legal
2026-05-05 13:05 UTC
Rolling Stone
In his first project since Adolescence, creator Jack Thorne tackles the famed English novel and the corrupting power of influence
2026-05-05 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The director detailed two sequences where AI was used to create funny, surreal images to complement portions where Lennon and Yoko Ono speak in more abstract, philosophical terms
2026-05-05 14:13 UTC
Variety
Neon, the Oscar-winning studio behind “Parasite” and “Anora,” has acquired U.S. rights to “King Snake,” the next film from “Loving” and “Mud” director Jeff Nichols. FilmNation Entertainment fully financed the Southern gothic horror film and
2026-05-05 15:29 UTC
Variety
Disney’s “The Devil Wears Prada 2” debuted at No. 1 at the U.K. and Ireland box office with £9.3 million ($12.6 million), according to Comscore. Universal’s “Michael” moved to second place in its second weekend, adding $9.4 million for a cumulative $31.2 million. The studio also held third place wit
2026-05-05 15:29 UTC
Variety
Eiza González (“3 Body Problem,” “Baby Driver”) and Brandon Sklenar (“The Housemaid,” “F.A.S.T.”) are set to enter the world of competitive bodybuilding in “Iron Jane,” based on a screenplay by Lissette Feliciano (“Women is LosersR
2026-05-05 15:30 UTC
Deadline
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for go
2026-05-05 15:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
Guy Cohen starred in one of the most famous music videos of the late Nineties, and lately he's been back with the band onstage
2026-05-05 15:36 UTC
Deadline
Neon has taken U.S. rights to Jeff Nichols’ next movie King Snake. A Southern gothic horror, King Snake follows a young couple (Margaret Qualley and Drew Starkey) who inherit an Arkansas farm where they face real-world problems and supernatural forces, battling physical and metaphysical demons
2026-05-05 15:45 UTC
Variety
James Murdoch, a media and tech investor who is the younger son of Rupert Murdoch, is reportedly in advanced negotiations to buy Vox Media-owned New York magazine and Vox’s podcast network. Murdoch’s Lupa Systems investment firm is in talks with Vox Media about a deal but it “could still
2026-05-05 15:47 UTC
Variety
Diabolical: “The Boys” fifth and final season finale is going to be available to view in movie theaters using 4DX technology. “In two weeks, we’re going out with a bang,” the show’s official X account announced Tuesday. “Literally, because ya might vibrate watchin
2026-05-05 15:48 UTC
Rolling Stone
In the crowd as the jam band heroes bring one of their biggest live experiences ever to the Las Vegas venue
2026-05-05 15:51 UTC
Rolling Stone
According to new data shared with Rolling Stone, the pop star has amassed over 140 million listeners in the weeks since his two headlining sets
2026-05-05 15:51 UTC
Variety
Whitney Leavitt is leaving “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” The reality star-turned-actress announced the news on Sunday in the middle of her final performance of “Chicago” on Broadway. She has been leading the revival as Roxie Hart since early February, and used a monolog
2026-05-05 15:52 UTC
Variety
Paris- and Berlin-based international sales company Salaud Morisset has closed key European deals on Eivind Landsvik’s debut feature “Low Expectations,” which stars singer-songwriter Marie Ulven a.k.a. Girl in Red. The film will have its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Among the fi
2026-05-05 15:57 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Musical microdrama is coming. Playback, starring Hannah Stocking, America’s Next Top Model winner Sophie Sumner, Amber Laird, Royce Lundquist and Sarah Sampino, has released a trailer for the musical dropping April 17. The show comes from microdrama powerhouse Holywater Tech and is
2026-04-07 15:00 UTC
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Tension abounds in the trailer for Richard Gadd’s Half Man, which dropped Tuesday as buzz continues to build for the BBC-HBO drama launching April 23. Click above to watch Gadd and co-star Jamie Bell face off in a story about brotherhood, friendship, loyalty, anger and violence down the decades. Gad
2026-04-07 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is gearing up for more Canada Shore. The streamer has renewed the first-ever Canadian version of the hit franchise and cameras will roll this summer. Following a cast of 20-somethings from all over Canada, the first season launched in January and drove more Canadian Paramount+
2026-04-07 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Donald Trump and the board of the Kennedy Center have responded to a congresswoman’s lawsuit contending that the addition of the president’s name to the center and the plans for a two-year closure are within their legal authority. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), an ex officio member of the boa
2026-04-07 15:02 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Former Concourse executive Grant Mohrman has launched U.S. sales and production firm Gravel Lake Entertainment with Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin’s upcoming film The Thing That Hurts as its debut sales title. Filming is due to begin later this month in France and Belgium on Desplechin&
2026-04-07 15:12 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World, Kaos) is developing a series at Amazon MGM Studios based on Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey’s New York Times bestselling book, So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All. Moennig and Hailey, both best known for s
2026-04-07 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Bronx rapper was charged with disorderly conduct and a traffic violation
2026-04-07 17:06 UTC
Rolling Stone
‘Disclosure Day’ finds the great director once again staging close encounters with interstellar visitors — and crafting a conspiracy thriller that doubles as a career retrospective
2026-06-09 16:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The superstar’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” is being furiously added to rotation. “Given the right song, country radio will support her again,” says an insider, “and it looks like she delivered in a huge way”
2026-06-09 17:11 UTC
Rolling Stone
The president lashed out at Stephen A. Smith following a Knicks loss and a frosty reception by fans at Madison Square Garden
2026-06-09 17:12 UTC
Rolling Stone
Group teases upcoming LP with title track and “See Out Loud,” and set tour dates
2026-06-09 17:18 UTC
Variety
Paramount CEO David Ellison recently vowed to “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl that the newsmagazine would have “editorial independence,” according to three people familiar with the matter, the latest sign the media conglomerate is trying to tamp down tensions around t
2026-06-09 18:53 UTC
Variety
Looks like Vans is the latest brand to jump on the Knicks bandwagon — and we’re not mad about it! The California sneaker brand swapped out their signature black-and-white checks for orange and blue in a new Knicks-themed version of their Classic Slip On shoe. The new release is part of a
2026-06-09 19:19 UTC
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When Linda Cardellini first auditioned for DTF St. Louis, she was given 15 pages to acquaint herself with. “It was a lot of text for an audition,” she says. “One of the scenes, I think, was eight pages long.” But creator Steven Conrad’s audition scenes would turn out to be the best indication of wha
2026-06-09 20:12 UTC
Deadline
Nicholas Galitzine (Masters of the Universe) is set to play supermodel Hoyt Richards in a new film that Gus Van Sant is in talks to direct, Deadline can confirm. Details as to the feature take on Richards’ story are being kept under wraps. No word yet on other creative attachments to the as-ye
2026-06-09 20:20 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Devon Hammonds is taking a step up after Sony Pictures Television restructured one of its unscripted divisions. The studio promoted Hammonds to Head of Nonfiction. This comes after Eli Holzman, who was President of Sony Pictures Television, Nonfiction and Co-President Aaron Saidman exited
2026-06-09 20:36 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Renna is bringing the gang back together. He and many of the original cast members from The Sandlot are re-teaming on a new comedy series from Renna and Kyle Howard, to be produced through their prodco Hambino Media. The series marks the first official reunion of the original cast
2026-06-09 21:57 UTC
MarketWatch
Super Micro looks to raise equity as it faces staggering AI demand but also an intense cash burn
2026-06-09 22:17 UTC
Deadline
Netflix has revealed for the first time how much it spent on content over the past decade, with Ted Sarandos saying “while other entertainment companies pull back, we’re leaning in.” Marking 10 years since it started making content outside of the States, the streamer revealed that it spe
2026-05-12 10:00 UTC
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Not many American actors make the transition from TV to movies, but even fewer cross over from Hollywood to Europe. Four years ago, while still a bankable name in commercial studio franchises, Woody Harrelson swanned effortlessly into the international arthouse, playing the Marxist captain of a doom
2026-05-12 10:00 UTC
Variety
What’s good for Netflix is… good for the world? In January 2016, the streaming giant expanded its service to an additional 130 countries and territories, reaching more than 190 overnight. Now it’s touting the economic impact and cultural influence the company claims to have generat
2026-05-12 10:00 UTC
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“Game of Thrones” star Michelle Fairley and “Industry’s” Conor MacNeill have joined the cast of Channel 4’s upcoming Anthony Boyle drama “Close to Home.” Fairley will play Dearbhla while MacNeill plays Marty. They join “Masters of the Air” star Boyle as Sean alongside Jessica Reynolds (“A Woman of S
2026-05-12 10:00 UTC
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The official biopic of England soccer legend Ian Wright is in development, with #Merky Films to co-produce and Stormzy named as executive producer. The script was penned by Tom Wilton (“Muscle,” “Bump,” “A Love Letter to M”), who is attached to direct. Wright was Arsenal’s second-top goal scorer and
2026-05-12 11:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The 80s-set vampire thriller Flesh Of The Gods, starring Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura, has started production in the Canary Islands, Spain, with the second half of the shoot scheduled for Cologne, Germany. Esmé Creed-Miles (A Head Full of Ghosts), Roland Møller (Citadel) and Alba Bap
2026-05-12 11:07 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary TV has optioned the rights to develop a series based on sorority recruitment coach Trisha Addicks’ debut book The Rush Bible. While Addicks’ book, released Tuesday, is a “straight-talking guide for any panicked young woman (or, let’s get real, her mom) facing rush,&#
2026-05-12 15:00 UTC
Variety
Popular web sketch comedy company Smosh has hired former MTV Entertainment Studios exec Cory Midgarden as the brand’s first-ever chief content officer. In his newly created role, Midgarden will oversee Smosh’s content strategy and development, talent and casting, brand and marketing, and partn
2026-05-12 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
"The energy has been incredible every night," says Journey founder Neal Schon. "Seeing these crowds sing these songs with us after all these years has been powerful"
2026-05-12 15:09 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps is set to play Oscar nominee Rooney Mara’s flame in Paris-set drama Quest For Love, which HanWay is selling at the Cannes market. Written and to be directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is in Us All), Mara will star as the lead Maris, a woman who &
2026-05-12 16:50 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: It was an online phenomenon in the early 2010s and a licensing behemoth, and now Moshi Monsters is being reimagined for the late 2020s. MInd Candy, the company behind the brand, is working former Netflix exec Alexi Wheeler on a new animated action-comedy series. The show will mark Moshi M
2026-05-12 16:53 UTC
Rolling Stone
Kelvin Evans accepted a deal that comes with a five-year sentence one day after his trial began in Atlanta
2026-05-12 16:57 UTC
Variety
Since the TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s “Off Campus” novels was announced in 2024, fans of the massively popular book series have been wondering: Who is going to play Hannah Wells? The answer is Ella Bright, the 19-year-old, British actress who will be gracing our screens when al
2026-05-12 19:15 UTC
Variety
Persol and Brooklyn Bridge Park have announced a partnership to present Movies With A View, the park’s long-running free outdoor film series, for its 26th season this summer. The series, which draws thousands of New Yorkers to the Brooklyn waterfront each week for screenings against a backdrop
2026-05-12 19:22 UTC
Rolling Stone
The R&B stadium tour kicks off in June and runs through December
2026-05-12 19:27 UTC
Rolling Stone
Springsteen and the E Street Band's first stop at New York's Madison Square Garden is a furious reminder of the power of his catalog — and his rhetoric, too
2026-05-12 19:27 UTC
Deadline
Paramount defended its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is considering a challenge to the transaction. In a letter to Bonta last week, Paramount’s chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, said that the combined companies would have the incen
2026-05-12 19:29 UTC
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Netflix’s latest animated original Swapped made a major leap in the Netflix Top 10 hitting 38.7 million views during the May 4-10 window, a single-week record for any animated original at the studio. This marks a major leap after premiering the following week with 15.5 million views. The previ
2026-05-12 19:29 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Ealy (Power Book II: Ghost) is set to star opposite Matt Dillon and Will Patton in MGM+‘s upcoming eight-episode drama series The Magnificent Seven from Heroes creator Tim Kring, a reimagining of the classic 1960 Western film. Ealy will play Vin Tanner. The role was played by Stev
2026-05-12 19:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
The musician and activist joined Hands Off NYC at 26 Federal Plaza and performed Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land"
2026-05-12 19:41 UTC
Deadline
TommyInnit, who runs the most popular Minecraft channel on Twitch, is leading the first series and channel to emerge from Sony’s new digital arm with guests including Stephen Fry. 100 Questions with Tom Simons will feature the Minecraft supremo under his real name alongside interviewees as he is giv
2026-04-14 08:00 UTC
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Oliver Savell, who has been twice BAFTA nominated for his role as a young Alan Carr in Changing Ends, is leading the BBC’s adaptation of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The adaptation, which is being overseen by One Day author David Nicholls with writers including Caitlin Moran, come
2026-04-14 08:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who, The Diplomat), Chizzy Akudolu (Tommy & Tuppence, Holby City) and Kerry Howard (Him and Her, Bad Apples) are among the six actresses making up the cast of Grace Link’s indie TV series Locker Room Talk. Link (Geek Girl, Bulletproof), Florence Andrews (Hou
2026-04-14 08:00 UTC
Variety
The Tribeca Festival has announced the HBO original documentary “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World)” will open the 25th annual festival on June 3. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the film will be screened at the Beacon
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
Variety
Janus Films has secured all U.S. distribution rights to “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s adaptation of Yonezawa Honobu’s prize-winning historical novel, ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Cannes Premieres section. Janus will reveal theatrical re
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Nurse Blake is expanding his But Did You Die? Tour, launched last year, with shows in over 35 North American cities set for fall. Now spanning over 100 shows across the U.S. and Canada, the tour has Blake diving into the wild things patients and their families say and do at hospi
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jasmeet Dutta is back as Canada’s premiere millennial social media star in the trailer for Late Bloomer Season 3, but his work-life balance looks more out of whack than ever. As the trailer for the Crave comedy-drama series begins, streamer Jasmeet (Jasmeet Raina) is in an introspec
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
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Jason Reitman has been set to deliver the commencement address during this year’s graduation ceremony for the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The event, to take place May 15 at the Shrine Auditorium, will also see Wicked and Wicked: For Good cinematography Alice Brooks receive the Mary Pickford
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
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Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to The Samurai And The Prisoner, the latest feature by Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, set to debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Samurai And The Prisoner is adapted from the novel by Honobu Yonezawa. The film was produced by Shochiku in
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
Variety
The 1979 cult classic “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” gets a new physical media release from the Criterion Collection. And while the comedy is streamable on Prime Video and Peacock or rentable online on Apple TV, the film has better picture and audio quality, premium artwork and a w
2026-04-14 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Tom McCarthy’s untitled Sony Pictures Classics drama has now wrapped with joining cast including Noah Robbins, Zach Woods, Nina Arianda, Mary Catherine Garrison, Michael Chernus, Dylan Baker, Michael Cerveris, and Alan Aisenberg
2026-04-14 15:03 UTC
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Baahubali: The Eternal War, a CGI animated spin-off set in the Baahubali universe, will be among nine upcoming animated features showcased in the Annecy International Film Festival’s Work in Progress (WIP) lineup in June. Lead produced by Arka Mediaworks, the animated feature follows murdered P
2026-04-14 15:05 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Scott Foley for representation in all areas. Foley can currently be seen in the recurring role of Dr. Seth McDale on ABC’s Will Trent, which was just renewed for a fifth season. Recently, Foley made his return to the big screen in the box office hit Scream 7, and starred
2026-04-14 16:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
As costs soar, experts say Live Nation’s dominance of the touring market isn’t ending anytime soon
2026-04-14 16:21 UTC
Deadline
MPA President and CEO Charlie Rivkin applauded theatrical exhibition for strong ties to U.S. communities and trust built up over the years, including with families, due in part, he said, to a movie ratings system that Instagram recently borrowed to slap on its teen accounts. In his annual address at
2026-04-14 16:27 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Colombian singer made history on Sunday night as the first Latina to headline the festival in California
2026-04-14 17:15 UTC
Deadline
With Stranger Things coming to an end with the highly anticipated fifth season, which recently reached the halfway mark of filming, the Duffer Brothers have moved forward full steam ahead with their next big project — The Boroughs. The show’s main players have been cast. The series, created by Jeffr
2026-04-14 17:16 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot (Superwoman) and Isla Fisher (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) have joined Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in Doug Liman-directed thriller Bitcoin. Ahead of the Cannes market, Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 is launching sales on the film, which has previously been called Ki
2026-04-14 17:21 UTC
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His & Hers is now one of Netflix’s most popular TV series of all time. The mystery thriller starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal eked past the first season of The Night Agent to land at No. 10 on the streamer’s most popular list with 98.2M views since its release on January 8, ac
2026-04-14 19:00 UTC
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Film Independent said Tuesday that Juan Devis, the producer and former chief creative officer at the Los Angeles media company behind public broadcasters PBS SoCal and KCET, has been named president of the nonprofit arts organization. The hire formally completes the search fills to fill the spot hel
2026-04-14 19:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Schwarzenegger continues his streak of landing high-profile roles as he is set to star opposite Phoebe Dynevor in Beach Read, 20th Century Studios‘ adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel from Emily Henry. Published in 2020, Beach Read is a romantic
2026-04-14 19:00 UTC
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On the heels of The Madison‘s strong launch, Paramount+ has renewed Taylor Sheridan’s drama series starring Michelle Pfeiffer for a third season. As Deadline has reported, while a second season of The Madison was never officially announced, it was quietly filmed last fall and is in the c
2026-04-14 19:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
The former Van Halen frontman and perpetual showman tells us how he ended up singing "Jump" at his first Coachella
2026-04-14 19:32 UTC
Rolling Stone
The blues-rock band kicks off their second tour since reuniting as a trio this week, with dates across North America
2026-04-14 19:40 UTC
Deadline
January 2026 brought us People We Meet on Vacation, and it looks like the next Emily Henry adaptation to take shape will be Beach Read. With the two leads now cast, production on the feature film based on the first of Emily Henry’s adult romance novels that came out in 2020 will likely start product
2026-04-14 21:01 UTC
Variety
Nicolas Cage and Osgood Perkins are expanding the “Longlegs” universe with a second installment of the new horror movie franchise. Perkins will write, direct and produce the yet-to-be-titled movie, with Cage starring and producing. Plot details are being kept under wraps. The Hollywood R
2026-04-14 21:08 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Canadian producer Attraction has added former Just For Laughs boss Bruce Hills to its ranks for an international, English-language programming push. Hills will become an executive producer and strategic advisor to the Montreal-based company, primarily working on continued expansion of Eng
2026-06-16 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Any diehard Nate Bargatze fan should be familiar with his magician-comedian father, Stephen Bargatze, who’s often served as his opener. But those unfamiliar can get acquainted via Out in a Minute, the elder Bargatze’s debut magic special, which premieres on Nateland
2026-06-16 14:00 UTC
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Disney+ is returning for more Rivals. The streamer’s biggest European original starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer, which airs on Hulu in the States, will be back for a 12-episode season after Season 2 dropped to solid ratings and a strong set of reviews. Disney+ said of Season
2026-06-16 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Levy will continue his globe-trotting for Apple TV. The streaming service has renewed The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy for Season 4, following the Schitt’s Creek star as he delights in discovering new frontiers. Levy said: “After three seasons on the show I have just a
2026-06-16 14:00 UTC
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Paramount+ has released the official Season 4 trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and it certainly takes us to those strange new worlds. In the trailer, we see the crew coming face-to-face a roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex in a prehistoric world and and at one point, appearing in a Western episode.
2026-06-16 14:00 UTC
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The Recording Academy has updated some rules and categories for this year’s Grammy Awards, the organization announced today, with one change impacting the Best New Artist category: Nominees in that category will now be able to submit a total of four times, one more submission than was previous
2026-06-16 14:28 UTC
Variety
There’s been something sinister afoot in provincial France in recent years. Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies. Seedy psychosexual drama has leached into the soil of Alain Guiraudie’s farmlands and fore
2026-06-16 14:28 UTC
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Hit history doc-series Apocalypse is heading to antiquity for its next installment with a focus on the Battle of Actium which laid the foundations for the birth of the Roman Empire. Mediawan label Imagissime is currently producing the new season in partnership with Mediawan Kids and Family. Thomas M
2026-06-16 14:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
Something Better Change looks at frontman Joey "Shithead" Keithley's run for reelection in British Columbia
2026-06-16 14:58 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: François Arnaud (Heated Rivalry) has joined the cast of the upcoming Hulu limited series Count My Lies in a recurring role. Arnaud will work closely alongside Lindsay Lohan’s character, Violet, as her friend Danny. In Count My Lies, from Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, when comp
2026-06-16 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Zimmern’s Intuitive Content is cooking up another season of live-fire food show Life of Fire and is doubling down on the show fronted by BBQ pitmaster Pat Martin. Life of Fire has been renewed for a third season by the Outdoor Channel. The ten-part series is currently in pre-produc
2026-06-16 15:00 UTC
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The spirit of Samuel Beckett is alive and well in what will surely — and most deservedly — be the biggest family movie of the year. Beautifully rendered and tightly scripted, it’s a very modern comedy that hits almost all its satirical targets. And yet it does all this with a deep strain of melancho
2026-06-16 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: John Lee Hancock has added six to the cast of his new Netflix courtroom drama surrounding U.S. chemical company Monsanto: LaKeith Stanfield (Roofman), Julia McDermott (who also stars in the streamer’s upcoming film The 99’ers), David Duchovny (See You When I See You)
2026-06-16 16:00 UTC
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Beef may not be autobiographical, but for creator Lee Sung Jin the anthology series certainly provides an outlet for his frustrations. “That’s probably how I get it all out of my system,” chuckles the jovial writer. Season 2, Lee says, was inspired by real life, after witnessing an argument that his
2026-06-16 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Matt Charman’s Amazon crime thriller Dirty has found its latest lead. Samantha Morton, who stars in Chris Nolan’s upcoming epic The Odyssey, has been cast alongside Phoebe Dynevor in Dirty. The series follows trainee Detective Eva Bennett, played by Dynevor, who returns to Manchester and
2026-06-16 16:00 UTC
Variety
Louis C.K.’s next comedy special “Ridiculous” will debut on Netflix on June 30. In a trailer released by the streamer, the comic tells the story of admitting his elderly father into a retirement home. “My sisters and I put him in a home,” C.K. jokes, “because he w
2026-06-16 17:43 UTC
Rolling Stone
We went hands-on with Sennheiser's latest headphones, and they're an impressive alternative to big players like Bose and Sony
2026-06-16 17:44 UTC
Variety
As many industry insiders struggle to find a path forward through the changing entertainment landscape, Victor Elizalde, founder of Viva Pictures, has his own approach to bringing family animation to audiences.Elizalde’s model at Viva disrupts the way business has been done in the past. The company
2026-06-16 17:45 UTC
Variety
It’s hard to change a game that’s been running for 50 seasons. For this installment of Variety’s Making a Scene presented by HBO Max, the team behind CBS’ 50th season of “Survivor” came together to break down a moment that did just that: a coin flip created by YouTuber
2026-06-16 18:40 UTC
Variety
As Season 1 of Hulu’s “Paradise” came to an end, showrunner Dan Fogelman alerted his co-music supervisors, Tom Wolfe and Manish Raval, that Graceland was going to be featured in the new season. The dystopian show’s sophomore season kicks off in Memphis, Tennessee, long before the extinction-level ev
2026-06-16 18:45 UTC
Variety
John Lee Hancock’s legal drama about the landmark legal trial against U.S. chemical company Monsanto just added more star power. LaKeith Stanfield, Julia McDermott, David Duchovny, Melonie Diaz, Bilal Hasna and Greg Kinnear have signed on to join previously announced stars, Jonathan Bailey and
2026-06-16 18:45 UTC
Variety
Since Apple TV’s price hike last year, it’s been particularly helpful to find workaround ways to sign up for the streamer at a more affordable price. Right now, Prime Video is offering its Apple TV+ add-on for only $5.99/a month for the first two months with this early Prime Day deal. Th
2026-06-16 18:48 UTC
Variety
On screen, Robin Hood has been robbing from the rich to feed the poor for nearly as long as movies have been made. The likes of Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery have put their imprint on the character, portraying him as everything from a swashbuckling rogue to a battle-hardened crusader.
2026-06-16 18:51 UTC
Rolling Stone
Since meeting in 2015, and marrying a year later, the couple have been extremely candid about the highs and lows of their marriage
2026-06-16 20:12 UTC
Variety
The BBC’s most-watched show since May last year, “The Other Bennet Sister” has also proven to be a sizeable hit on BritBox in the U.S. And the success of the show has taken its star Ella Bruccoleri by surprise, she tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. “Everyo
2026-06-16 20:13 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Below Deck Down Under still has the wind in its sail following the Season 4 finale. The fourth season, which concluded on June 1, is now averaging 3.1M total cross-platform viewers after 35 days, according to a combination of Nielsen data and internal metrics from NBCUniversal. As the fin
2026-06-16 20:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
“He said, ‘I’m so grateful to my mother that I was introduced to your music. You’ve been the queen to me ever since,’" Twain says
2026-06-16 21:28 UTC
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The feet. Martha Graham did not stick her dancers into dainty ballet slippers. No, her dancers and Graham herself in performance, went barefoot. And the foot was flexed – taut and expressive – not elegantly pointed as in classical ballet. This is just one of the ways Graham revolutionized what is ge
2026-06-16 21:30 UTC
Rolling Stone
After Colbert purposely played "Linus and Lucy" on The Late Show finale without permission, CBS agreed to a licensing fee that'll be donated to the World Central Kitchen
2026-06-16 21:30 UTC
Variety
In yet another alliance forged between European and Latin American producers at Cannes, France’s Lilith Films has boarded Chilean drama “A Woman Wants to Die” (“Una mujer quiere morir”), a co-production involving Chile (Niña Niño Films), Argentina (Gualicho Cine) and Brazil (Superfi
2026-05-19 08:23 UTC
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European fans of dragons and magical students: HBO Max has got you covered. The streaming service is launching podcasts for Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, with the latter debuting today, as part of a plan to superserve the fandoms of major franchises. From June, HBO Max will debut several franchi
2026-05-19 08:28 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: British broadcaster and presenter Anita Rani is launching a podcast, Sisters of Defiance, next week through her new production house, Illuminaunty Productions. The series will include guests such as Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who waived her right to anonymity in one of the most horr
2026-05-19 08:30 UTC
Variety
If our addiction to our phones — thus, our incessant need for distractions and entertainment — is any indication, humankind increasingly refuses to surrender to boredom, even though a great deal of life is made up of ordinary, nothing moments that we ought to embrace rather than avoid. In his gentle
2026-05-19 08:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Veteran literary scout Philippa Donovan wants to reverse engineer the books-to-screen market through her new business, Two Script Studio. The operation will create ‘reverse adaptations’ to allow producers and screenwriters to turn screenplays into novels at an early stage of d
2026-05-19 13:11 UTC
Variety
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai joins the Tribeca-bound documentary “The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony” as an executive producer. The coming-of-age documentary, directed by Habiba Nosheen, focuses on three Pakistani girls navigating the margins of society and carving out space f
2026-05-19 13:15 UTC
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South Park‘s most recent season generated no shortage of headlines last year, and now we know when the mayhem will begin anew. Season 29 of the continuing misadventures of Cartman, Kyle, Stan and the rest of the gang — and likely Donald Trump, Satan, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, et al. —
2026-05-19 15:31 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: VMI Worldwide posted a raft of deals for romantic comedy Perfectly Imperfect starring Dermot Mulroney, Malin Akerman and Brian Austin Green. The film has sold to Turkey (Limon Yapim), Israel (Red Cape Distribution), Greece (Spentzos Films), Airlines, excluding North America (PictureWorks)
2026-05-19 15:35 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Secret Garden, the David Attenborough-fronted natural history series that recently rated big on the BBC, is being pitched into the U.S. as a format. Plimsoll Productions is taking the unusual step of shopping a natural history program to networks and streamers as a format after Secret Gar
2026-05-19 15:50 UTC
Variety
One of the first things you notice about “Minotaur” is how much space there is in it. Uncrammed domestic interiors give the camera enough room to scrutinize details in stalking, unimpeded pans; modern gray office suites appear half-furnished and half-empty, as if the company is either mo
2026-05-19 15:50 UTC
Variety
It would seem that even an archive as thoroughly curated as that of the late, legendary novelist-essayist-screenwriter Joan Didion still bears some surprises. In 1967, the Saturday Evening Post assigned Didion to interview the Grateful Dead in their Bay Area rehearsal space at the height of the Summ
2026-05-19 15:51 UTC
Variety
Premiering in Cannes ahead of its competition slot in Annecy, “Lucy Lost” is something of a passion project for Xilam founder Marc du Pontavice. Years ago, the French producer acquired the rights to Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel “Listen to the Moon,” which follows a young girl who washes ashor
2026-05-19 15:53 UTC
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Peacock is doubling down on mobile games with the launch of a Law & Order crime game. The streamer is launching Law & Order: Clue Hunter, which will give fans the opportunity to step into the role of investigator. The game, which launches today, is the first mobile game built in partner
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: When Bogdan Nesvit and Anatolii Kasianov, the founders of Ukrainian microdrama behemoth Holywater Tech, visited the offices of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, they were immediately struck by a poster hanging on the wall. Montgomery’s office was bedecked with Walt Disney’s famous 1957 flow
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
Variety
Maddie Ziegler has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Ziegler, who is 23, first rose to prominence at age 8 as a star of the Lifetime reality series “Dance Moms” for seven seasons from 2011 to 2016. By the time she was 11, her work on the show had caught the attention of [&
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The murder of Elizabeth Short – otherwise known as the Black Dahlia – in 1947 has remained one of the highest-profile unsolved crimes in LA history. It has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries, movies and films including Brian De Palma’s 2006 feature starring Scarlett Johanss
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Felicia Prinz has left Verve where she had been for 13 years, most recently as Partner and Head of the Television Literary Department. She is going to Range where she will be a Partner and a manger in the film/TV division. Prinz is joining another recent hire, Nishika Kumble, who was name
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
Variety
NBCUniversal is officially rolling out its first mobile game with Wolf Games, dubbed “Law and Order: Clue Hunter.” The game is now available on the Peacock mobile app. Per the official description, “Clue Hunter” will give fans of the storied franchise a chance to play detecti
2026-05-19 16:00 UTC
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Pedro Almodóvar has never shied away from making movies close to himself and the act of making movies themselves. With his latest, Bitter Christmas, he creates the parallel stories of a successful writer-director who is experiencing creative block, and a group of people 22 years earlier who may or n
2026-05-19 16:22 UTC
Variety
Editor and director John Ottman is set to direct “Billy & Me”, a feature film chronicling the formative years of Billy Joel. “Billy & Me” tells the origin story of Joel before fame, before the hits — and, significantly, before “Piano Man,” the 1973 song an
2026-05-19 16:23 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Nateland Entertainment, the production company of Nate Bargatze, has expanded its podcast network with the signing of Anjelah Johnson-Reyes’ Funjelah. The company also this morning announced the launch of Life of Dad, a new pod hosted by Tom Riles, Mike James and Lee
2026-05-19 16:27 UTC
Variety
Distribution rights to the inspirational sports documentary “Stronger Than You Think,” which tells the story of Paralympic star swimmer Ali Truwit, have been acquired by Sox Entertainment. Truwit made international headlines at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris when she competed (and wo
2026-05-19 16:30 UTC
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Power Book III: Raising Kanan fans have been waiting at the edge of their seats since the Season 4 finale cliffhanger to discover if the titular Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis) killed his mother, Raq Thomas (Patina Miller). Wait no more. The first trailer for the fifth and final season of the hit Starz c
2026-05-19 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Verve Partner and veteran television agent Chris Noriega has been appointed Head of Television Literary. He replaces Felicia Prinz who left the agency to become a manager and Partner at Range Media Partners. Noriega will oversee Verve’s Television Literary team, working across premium scr
2026-05-19 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Long Beach native Snoop Dogg is set to return to his roots, starring opposite Nope‘s Brandon Perea in a boxing drama called The Faith of Long Beach. Written and to be directed by Snowfall‘s Eric Amadio, The Faith of Long Beach follows a soft-spoken street fighter raised in a L
2026-05-19 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions is teaming with Channing Powell (Tales of the Walking Dead) to develop a series adaptation of the 4MK books by J.D. Barker. Set in Chicago, Barker’s novels follow Detective Sam Porter as he hunts the elusive Four Monkey Killer, a murdere
2026-05-19 16:55 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Tia Mowry (Family Reunion, The Game) is reuniting with Lifetime as the star and executive producer of the new movie Single Black Tenant, which will premiere on June 27 at 8/7c as part of the network’s Ripped From The Headlines slate. Inspired by actual events, Single Black Tenant ce
2026-05-19 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Chiklis has inked a deal to join Tyrant, David Weil’s culinary thriller for Amazon MGM Studios, led by Charlize Theron, Julia Garner and Demi Moore. No word yet on the role to be played by Chiklis. Currently in production in Los Angeles, Tyrant is billed
2026-05-19 18:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: aTwist, the microseries studio and platform founded by Jana Winograde, Susan Rovner and Lloyd Braun, is moving into the unscripted business. The company has hired Josh Silberman, who currently serves as showrunner for CBS’ America’s Culinary Cup, which produced by Rovner’s Aha Studios. Si
2026-05-19 18:30 UTC
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Blackpink’s Jennie is doing it again, teaming up with Apple’s Beats for a new collaboration featuring an unreleased track. The song is featured in the campaign video for a special edition of the Beats Solo 4, which is now available in Onyx Black. “Already did that once and I’
2026-04-21 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Grammy-winning rapper got clean in April 2008, previously telling Rolling Stone that he "knew I had to change my life"
2026-04-21 14:11 UTC
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Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has unveiled the first round of voice castings for his upcoming TV and video game franchise, “Absurdverse,” ahead of formally revealing a first look at the project next month at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival. Described as an “interconnected com
2026-04-21 15:00 UTC
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Has David Zaslav saved Warner Bros., or is he about to bury it? That’s the crux of an angry debate in Hollywood as Paramount Skydance moves closer to acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, CNN, TNT, HGTV and more. The $110 billion deal, reached in Febr
2026-04-21 15:00 UTC
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The 2026 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its television and podcast lineup, featuring a combination of world premieres, live tapings, and exclusive conversations. Taking place June 3–14 in New York City, the 25th edition of the annual festival will host a special ‘Survivor 50’ panel featuring popular
2026-04-21 15:00 UTC
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Suki Waterhouse has revealed that her third album, titled “Loveland,” is set to release on July 10 via Island Records. After unveiling the record’s dreamy first single “Back in Love” last month, the indie-pop singer-songwriter will drop another song, “Tiny Raisin,
2026-04-21 15:00 UTC
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A crew member on Universal’s live-action sequel “How to Train Your Dragon 2” has suffered a severe injury following an accident that occurred off-set in the U.K. earlier this month, Variety understands. The individual, understood to be working as a special effects technician, sever
2026-04-21 15:06 UTC
Rolling Stone
The president and his administration keep insisting that gas prices aren't a problem, even as they admit they might remain high
2026-04-21 16:21 UTC
Variety
Where in the “Michael” world is Janet Jackson? The music superstar is nowhere to be seen as a character in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic about her late brother. “I wish everybody was in the movie,” Jackson sibling LaToya Jackson told me Monday night at the film’s premiere at the Dolby Theatr
2026-04-21 16:22 UTC
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A special effects technician working on Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 has lost multiple fingers on one hand after an accident during production. The crew member severed multiple fingers during an accident involving a saw in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree, where the film is c
2026-04-21 16:25 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Baby Reindeer breakout Nava Mau has teamed with Level Ground, producer and independent distributor of the Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted feature doc Union, to launch a fellowship supporting a cohort of trans and queer filmmakers and filmmakers of color in creating the
2026-04-21 17:50 UTC
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Before Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams were Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, Quinn founder Caroline Spiegler booked the budding actors for her audio erotica app. She reached out to their teams after seeing the trailer for Crave’s “Heated Rivalry.” HBO Max hadn’t even made its distribution deal f
2026-04-21 17:57 UTC
Rolling Stone
The late musician's upcoming vault songs are billed to be from a previously unreleased album project
2026-04-21 17:59 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Andria Spring has joined Hammerstone Studios (By Any Means, At the Sea) as SVP Post-Production. Specializing in post-production, finance, and overall project management, Spring comes to Hammerstone following nearly a decade at Bron Studios, during which she rose from Head of Post-Producti
2026-04-21 18:44 UTC
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Jorma Taccone’s newest film looks a bit different than the work he’s known for. Taccone, one-third of the aughts “Saturday Night Live” collective The Lonely Island, is known for comedy: In addition to the many, many digital shorts he and his friends have made for “SNL,” Taccone directed 2010’s
2026-04-21 18:53 UTC
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A new take on “The Blair Witch Project” will haunt theaters next fall. Lionsgate, which is backing the reboot of the supernatural thriller, has slated the movie for Sept. 24, 2027. Plot details have not been revealed, but Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson has previously
2026-06-23 15:23 UTC
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Paramount+ has commissioned a docuseries about shamed “X Factor” judge Tulsa from Dorothy Street Pictures, the producers behind Victoria Beckham doc “Victoria” and Pamela Anderson doc “Pamela: A Love Story.” Tentatively titled “Tulisa: The Reckoning,” the unscripted series will follow the former pop
2026-06-23 15:29 UTC
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Netflix has unveiled Fool Night, an anime based on the Kasumi Yasuda manga, while revealing a first look at The One Piece. Atsushi Yukawa’s series was unveiled at a Netflix Anime session at Annecy this afternoon, with new looks at a number of big shows and movies. Fool Night, Kasumi YasudaR
2026-06-23 15:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Rick Glassman in all areas, with an eye toward accelerating his momentum across comedy, television, podcasting, and beyond. A stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster, who is the newest paid regular at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, Glassman was recently seen
2026-06-23 15:59 UTC
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Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy, Hellboy) has joined Prime Video’s Cross for Season 3, in a reunion with showrunner Ben Watkins, following their collaboration on Hand of God. In a recurring role, Perlman will portray Herschel Zamora, who is a cop first and everything else second. Following a seri
2026-06-23 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: As he awaits the final season launch of his Netflix YA juggernaut Outer Banks, Chase Stokes has closed a deal to join Dennis Quaid in Thunder Road, AMC’s NASCAR drama series from Marco Polo‘s John Fusco. Shooting this summer, for a 2027 launch on AMC and AM
2026-06-23 16:00 UTC
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A road trip from Denver to Telluride sounds delightful, what with all that gorgeous mountain scenery. But it turns madcap in Welcome to the Fishbowl, the film directed by Sheryl Glubok which just held its world premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas. Natalie Gold (Succession), Jeremy
2026-06-23 16:00 UTC
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Miss USA and Miss Teen USA will return to airing on The CW. The network has struck a multi-year deal with BDE Miss USA, which now owns the competitions, to air the two events in August. This comes after the network did not air the competition last year as a result of changes to the […]
2026-06-23 16:00 UTC
Variety
As the U.S.-Israel-Iran war enters its fourth week, amid air strikes that comprise Gulf states and Lebanon, early indications are that the conflict’s impact on moviegoing in the affected Arab countries is, quite surprisingly, not catastrophic. In terms of movie theatre closures, there hav
2026-03-24 13:54 UTC
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“Hello Kitty Island Adventure” has set the launch date and revealed a first look at its next paid downloadable content (DLC) update, “City Town.” Debuting April 16 from Sanrio and developer Sunblink, “City Town” is described as “a rainbow metropolis” f
2026-03-24 14:00 UTC
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Hi, Bob! In advance of its long-awaited Season 5 return, Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” has been renewed for a sixth and final season. The news also comes in advance of the premiere of spinoff series “Star City,” which takes a look at the alternate space race story line f
2026-03-24 14:00 UTC
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AI Platform Wrapbook Launches $800,000 Grant Program to Support U.S. Film and Television Productions
Wrapbook, an AI platform for managing production payroll, spend, and accounting, has unveiled a program offering up to four grants of $200,000 each, totaling $800,000, to qualified film and television productions filming in the United States. The program is designed to directly support productions c
2026-03-24 14:00 UTC
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The Punisher TV special starring Jon Bernthal has been titled The Punisher: One Last Kill and will launch on Disney+ from May 12. Marvel confirmed the news on social media this morning alongside a new poster. Bernthal’s Frank Castle, a.k.a. the Punisher, who returns as the character in D
2026-03-24 14:05 UTC
Rolling Stone
Boy Band Confidential, which premieres on ID April 13 & 14, features interviews with Lance Bass, AJ McLean, Nick Lachey, and Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, among others
2026-03-24 15:55 UTC
Variety
The HBO Max drama pilot “American Blue” has added five new cast members, Variety has learned. Kelly Jenrette (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “All The Sinners Bleed”), Carlito Olivero (“Step Up: Highwater,” “East Los High”), Onye Eme-Akwari (“The Good Doctor,” “Outer Banks”), Je
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
Deadline
The Milo Ventimiglia-led pilot for HBO Max American Blue has cast Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale), Carlito Olivero (East Los High), Onye Eme-Akwari (The Good Doctor), Jess Gabor (Shameless), and Eddie Kaye Thomas (The Beauty) in major roles. We exclusively announced the project was in the works
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Dynevor is continuing to build a build a diverse and robust upcoming slate as she is set to star the Amazon International series Dirty. The eight episode series will appear on Prime Video. Matt Charman created the show and will serve as showrunner, writer and exec producer alongsid
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
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“Criminal Minds: Evolution” has been renewed for Season 20 ahead of the Season 19 premiere, Variety has learned. Paramount has also set the Season 19 premiere date, with the newest season of the long-running drama series set to premiere on May 28 on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
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Tubi is adapting a spooky teen classic. “Remember Me,” a 1989 Christopher Pike YA novel, is getting a film adaptation via Tubi. Brec Bassinger (“Final Destination Bloodlines”) and Charlie Gillespie (“Sidelined 2: Intercepted”) will star, with “Match” d
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
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Quite a bit of news for Criminal Minds: Evolution Tuesday morning. Paramount+ has renewed the hit series for a 20th season for premiere in 2027, and set May 28 for release of the upcoming 19th season. We’re also getting a first look at the new season in the teaser above. Season 19 also will fe
2026-03-24 16:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
TSA's funding has been blocked, ICE agents have been deployed, and long lines continue amid the congressional funding standoff
2026-03-24 16:01 UTC
Deadline
Video game publisher Epic Games is laying off 1,000 workers, citing a drop in engagement with its signature title, Fortnite. In a memo to employees (read it in full below), CEO Tim Sweeney noted that the cuts are “unrelated to AI.” He said the layoffs will be paired with $500 million in
2026-03-24 16:02 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Good Walk Entertainment, the production company founded by former top Comedy Central executives Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau, has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, the duo will develop and produce scripted comedy and drama series for the indie stu
2026-03-24 16:15 UTC
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Sarah Aubrey lifted the cauldron lid on the Harry Potter TV series today, saying it is represents “a financial investment that normally you wouldn’t make with a television show.” Aubrey, who is Head of Original Programming for HBO Max, was on stage at Series Mania in Lille when she began
2026-03-24 16:17 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the July 31st release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, where he reprises his role as Mac Gargan/Scorpion from 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, Michael Mando has closed a deal to join Netflix and Legendary’s live-action Gundam movie, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Netflix
2026-03-24 16:23 UTC
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Zack Fox has signed with CAA for representation. The actor and artist recently starred as Swett in Alex Russell’s breakout film “Lurker,” a music industry thriller that won the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. And he recurs in “Abbott Elementary̶
2026-03-24 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman (The Idea of You, Crash) and her Welle Entertainment banner are teaming with Netflix to develop a feature adaptation of the bestselling novel The Favorites by Layne Fargo. Kate Gersten, the writer of Gia Coppola’s lauded drama The Last S
2026-03-24 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners is announcing a slew of promotions across the company. Evan Winiker is joining the ranks of managing partner for Range and is one of the first managing partners within Range Music. Winiker joined the company in 2021, having previously been a manager at Full Stop and t
2026-03-24 16:30 UTC
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Many books will provide backbone to both theatrical and streaming releases in 2026. From the long-awaited rom com film adaptation of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation, which hit Netflix in January, to the Ridley Scott-directed adaptation of The Dog Stars starring Jacob Elordi, Josh Brol
2026-03-24 17:41 UTC
Variety
Thierry Frémaux often says he returns to Cannes each year like an athlete ready to defend the festival’s title as the reigning champion. In 2026, which marks his 25th year at the festival, that metaphor lands with particular force. As Hollywood navigates a period of upheaval, marked by consolidation
2026-03-24 17:41 UTC
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Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) has joined Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo series as a series regular, Deadline has learned. No word yet on the role he’ll be playing. Hauser joins following the casting of the show’s core four: Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy
2026-03-24 17:45 UTC
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The live-action “Scooby-Doo” series at Netflix has cast Paul Walter Hauser in a series regular role, Variety has learned. Hauser will appear in the untitled series alongside the previously announced Mystery Inc. gang of Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones, Tanner Hagen as Norville “Shaggy” Rog
2026-03-24 17:45 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Emily Bader (People We Meet on Vacation) and Logan Lerman (Oh, Hi!) are set to star in a 13 Going on 30 reboot coming together at Netflix, with Jennifer Garner aboard as executive producer. The project reunites Bader with Brett Haley, the director of her hit Netflix rom-com People We Meet
2026-03-24 17:46 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Anastasia and Drizella are finally coming out from under the shadow of Cinderella. Disney is making Stepsisters, a live action film that focused on the evil stepsisters who abused Cinderella and got theirs when her foot fit the slipper. Fresh from Disney’s Chip n’ Dale: Rescue
2026-03-24 17:48 UTC
Variety
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Kate Aurthur details the 21-year, three-season journey that Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King have been on with “The Comeback” as the offbeat comedy series takes its final lap on HBO. More to come Listen to Daily Variety on iHea
2026-03-24 17:52 UTC
Rolling Stone
The 15-time major champion will make an appearance at the Los Angeles Golf Club for his Jupiter Links TGL team
2026-03-24 17:52 UTC
Deadline
From 87North (The Fall Guy, Bullet Train) comes a new women-led action project, formerly titled Ballerina Overdrive, and now known as Pretty Lethal. The cast has rotated a bit since the project was first announced out of Berlin’s European Film Market. For everything we know about Pretty Lethal
2026-03-24 19:08 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jessie Williams has boarded the Wayfarer Studios, Misfits Entertainment and Mediawan documentary, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, as EP. Williams joins alongside Alicia Keys and recording artist Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean who we previously told you about. UTA is representi
2026-03-24 19:08 UTC
Rolling Stone
Hov argues that rap battles may no longer serve hip-hop's growth in a new interview with GQ
2026-03-24 19:09 UTC
Rolling Stone
Your Pain Is My Joy will be released in August
2026-03-24 19:15 UTC
Deadline
Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone is underway on new movie White Lies, which marks his first narrative feature in a decade. Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer) stars in the movie, which Deadline can confirm and reveal more details about today. The Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July and JFK director has
2026-03-24 20:00 UTC
Variety
Bob Dylan’s touring continues to appear never-ending, to use the catchphrase that fans long ago applied to his near-constant bouts of road work. Now the west coast will be the beneficiary of that, as Dylan has added a fresh string of dates to his itinerary that include a batch of shows in Cali
2026-03-24 20:00 UTC
Variety
OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora
2026-03-24 20:29 UTC
Variety
It’s been another crazy week for Casey Bloys. On Monday, the HBO and HBO Max chief jetted into London to press the flesh in advance of the streaming platform finally launching in the U.K. His visit came just days after he was spotted having lunch with Netflix boss Ted Sarandos in Hollywood, instantl
2026-03-24 21:15 UTC
Variety
Epic festivals such as Coachella, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and more are announcing dates and lineups by the day. Next up is Coachella, which returns to Indio’s famed Empire Polo Grounds this year for two weeks (April 10-12 and April 17-19) with headliners Justin Bieber,&
2026-03-24 21:20 UTC
Deadline
Netflix is launching MED, a medical drama out of Brazil. The streamer announced a slate of new Brazilian originals today as the Rio2C film and TV confab got underway. MED will be Netflix’s first medical drama from Brazil. Clara Moneke will star and Paranoid is the production company, the same label
2026-05-26 08:51 UTC
Variety
Paddington Bear has found a new pair of writers to come up with his next big screen adventure and looks to have secured a director as well. Variety can exclusively confirm that Armando Iannucci, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated Scotsman best known for creating hit satirical shows “VeepR
2026-05-26 09:00 UTC
Variety
If you’re a sports fan, then ESPN is a must-watch for its around-the-clock sports news, analysis coverage and highlights. It’s also the home for pro sports, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA and other leagues. With the network, you can watch games and matches online with its official st
2026-05-26 16:00 UTC
Variety
Former Searchlight Pictures executive Terence Sheridan has joined JustWatch in its Los Angeles office, where he will serve as Senior VP of Media Strategy. With more than 15 years of experience in media, digital advertising and media strategy for major film releases, Sheridan will help bring JustWatc
2026-05-26 16:00 UTC
Variety
Sam Elliott is one of the most recognizable actors working today. Just don’t tell him that. “We went to this thing at the Directors Guild the other day, and it seemed, to me, so over the top that they were talking about me being iconic,” Elliott says. “What I feel like is that I’m just […]
2026-05-26 16:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Directed by Ivy Meeropol and in select theaters May 22, Ask E. Jean chronicles the journalist's storied career and her experience suing Donald Trump for sexual misconduct twice — and winning
2026-04-28 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The White Lotus has filled its unexpected vacancy, and series creator Mike White did not look far to do it. Oscar winner Laura Dern, a longtime collaborator and friend of White’s, has joined Season 4 of his HBO series set in France. She replaces Helena Bonham Carter who left late la
2026-04-28 15:00 UTC
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The YA series “Sterling Point” has an official premiere date at Amazon Prime Video. The series will debut all eight episodes of its first season on Aug. 5. Variety exclusively reported the show was in the works at Prime Video in January 2025. The cast includes Ella Rubin, Keen Ruffalo, J
2026-04-28 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Blink49 Studios has set up a joint venture with iconic Canadian comedy brand Yuk Yuk’s. The pair will work together to develop and produce a slate of live and digital comedy projects, tapping into Yuk Yuk’s five decades as a major player in the Canadian comedy landscape. The c
2026-04-28 15:00 UTC
Variety
“Masters of the Universe” stars Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes and Idris Elba star in a new PSA for Save the Children. The Mattel and Amazon MGM Studios spot encourages fans of the comic book hero and moviegoers “to give back and harness their very own power.” The PSA premieres Tuesday, April 28,
2026-04-28 15:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The 21-year-old admitted to planning an ISIS-inspired attack on Eras Tour shows in Vienna in 2024
2026-04-28 15:01 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter, actor and producer Will Jeffs and producer John Hauber have launched film and TV production banner Red Imp Films. Operating out of Toronto and London, the company aims to develop, package, finance and produce film and TV projects for the global market. The company’s de
2026-04-28 15:05 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has added five series regulars to the cast of Nick Paley’s upcoming coming-of-age mystery Phony. Joining previously announced series regulars Connie Britton and Sam Nivola are Meera Syal as Sharla, Grace Brennan as Mallory, Mahaela Park as Chloe, Maliq Johnson as Vogel and Colter Lee
2026-04-28 19:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The staff at Futuro Media Group is calling on management to voluntarily recognize their desire to organize with the Writers Guild of America East. In a letter obtained by Deadline on Tuesday, the 15-member bargaining unit behind the Pulitzer Prize- and Peabody Award-winning podcast, radio
2026-04-28 19:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling British author Adele Parks is having her novels turned into a TV series for the first time. Parks has struck a deal with Studiocanal-backed Strong Film & Television for a domestic thriller based on the interconnected characters who appear across Our Beautiful Mess, Playing
2026-03-31 09:00 UTC
Variety
Jonathan Lynn, the BAFTA-winning co-creator of “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister,” has some blunt words for anyone searching for political satire in the current American moment: don’t bother looking. “What’s happening in America is truly beyond satire
2026-03-31 09:09 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Mark Rosenblatt, the Olivier Award-winning theater and film writer and director whose debut play Giant opened last week on Broadway in a critically acclaimed production starring John Lithgow. Giant, which features Lithgow as children’s book author Roald Dahl, won the
2026-03-31 13:00 UTC
Deadline
Apple TV has released a first look at its upcoming new limited series, Cape Fear, with a teaser trailer (above) and first-look photos (below). The 10-episode project will premiere on Friday, June 5, with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through July 31. The Cape Fear se
2026-03-31 13:00 UTC
Deadline
The second season of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series will premiere on June 25, two years and four months after the debut of Season 1. Returning cast Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Elizabeth Yu, Momona Tamada and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, with Maria Zhang and Da
2026-03-31 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Directed by Nia DaCosta, the short film finds the breakout Heated Rivalry star coming to the (creepy) cottage
2026-03-31 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
An attempt to talk about the new Zendaya and Robert Pattinson movie without revealing why everyone is losing their minds over it
2026-03-31 13:05 UTC
Deadline
The 30th Annual Webby Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, with winners to be announced on April 21 in New York and recognized May 11 at a special anniversary awards ceremony hosted by The Daily Show correspondent Josh Johnson in New
2026-03-31 13:45 UTC
Variety
India’s Jio Studios and Mumbai Film Company have released the first look teaser for “Raja Shivaji,” following its theatrical preview alongside “Dhurandhar: The Revenge.” The historical action drama, which chronicles the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, is now avai
2026-03-31 13:45 UTC
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Donald Trump has unveiled a video rendering of his presidential library, a skyscraper proposed for downtown Miami. Like many of his buildings, the name “Trump” is emblazoned on the top. The rendering also shows space for a decommissioned Air Force One, something that is featured at the R
2026-03-31 13:57 UTC
Variety
Mario and Luigi are about to turbocharge the box office. “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” is aiming for $175 million to $180 million in its first five days of release. Since its predecessor, 2023’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” was enormously popular, exhibitors and inde
2026-03-31 14:48 UTC
Variety
The “Heated Rivalry” phenomenon is headed to the stage. “Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody” will run Off-Broadway this spring following eight sold-out concert performances earlier this month. Inspired by the hit show about hockey and gay romance, “Heated R
2026-03-31 14:50 UTC
Rolling Stone
To draw their wildly successful touring career to a close, the band has had to sort through decades of complicated history
2026-03-31 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Fifty years after one of the most unforgettable nights in hockey history, a new documentary will bring the story of the Philadelphia Flyers vs. Soviet Central Red Army game of January 11, 1976 back to the city where it happened. Cold War in Philly will premiere there this spring with a sp
2026-03-31 16:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The first full trailer for the June 26 release gives the best glimpse yet of Jason Momoa as the intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo and includes David Corenswet's Superman
2026-03-31 16:03 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The first family of Sons of Anarchy, Katey Sagal and Kurt Sutter, have set up their next collaboration. Tickets have gone on sale for Khorus Harmonia, a new limited-run choral concert conceived and led by Sagal, with a book and staging by Sutter. Choral arrangement and direction is being
2026-03-31 16:05 UTC
Deadline
The Horror Section’s Ice Cream Man from Eli Roth will hit theaters on Aug. 7 via Iconic Events Releasing in what will be a 2,000 theater break. Ice Cream Man follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results. The fil
2026-03-31 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress Annie Gonzalez has signed with Luber Roklin Entertainment for management. A two-time Imagen Award nominee, Gonzalez can currently be seen starring alongside Kelly Rowland, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, and Robin Thede in Relationship Goals, a romantic comedy from Amazon MG
2026-03-31 16:38 UTC
Variety
For Grace Gummer, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. FX’s anthology drama “Love Story” may center on the cultural mythology of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and their tragic deaths in July 1999. But by the end of its nine-episode arc, it’s Gra
2026-03-31 16:59 UTC
Variety
Xavier Samuel has joined the upcoming Amazon Prime Video cop thriller series “Bishop” in a series regular role, Variety has learned. Samuel will appear alongside previously announced series lead Joel Kinnaman and fellow cast members John Malkovich, Jordana Brewster, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
2026-03-31 17:00 UTC
Variety
Netflix’s “Age of Attraction” will turn 2. The dating show that sets out to prove whether age is really just a number has been renewed for a second season on the streamer. Hosted by 44-year-old “Bachelor” alum Nick Viall and his wife, 26-year-old Natalie Joy, “Age of Attracti
2026-03-31 17:00 UTC
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“All these rooms … this place builds them.” Wait, say what? “It’s like a maze — it just goes on and on.” Here’s the first full trailer for Backrooms, A24’s sci-fi horror film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sentimental Value Oscar nominee Renate Re
2026-03-31 17:07 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith’s next A24 horror film is rounding out its cast with Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Fabien Frankel (Task, House of the Dragon), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket, Monster: The Ed Gein Story), and Emory Cohen (Marty Supreme, The Place Beyond the Pines). The c
2026-03-31 19:00 UTC
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Shopping-oriented FAST channel Amazon Live is joining the lineup of one of the leading free streaming platforms, Samsung TV Plus. With more than 100 million monthly active users, Samsung TV Plus leverages the strength of the Samsung smart-TV business. Samsung has the top market share among a fragmen
2026-03-31 20:07 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Spyglass is currently developing the eighth installment of the Scream franchise with Lilla and Nora Zuckerman writing. The Zuckerman sisters most recently served as showrunners for the hit Peacock series Poker Face and have worked as writers and co-executive producers on popular series in
2026-03-31 20:22 UTC
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Universal Music Latin America has announced three key strategic appointments, under the leadership of Jesús López, chairman & CEO of Universal Music Latin America and Iberian Peninsula. Alfredo Delgadillo has been promoted to CEO & President, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, assuming ove
2026-03-31 20:27 UTC
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YouTube is coming back to TV upfronts week with Trevor Noah serving as emcee of its 2026 Brandcast presentation for advertisers, along with a big group of YouTube creators including Dude Perfect and Alex Cooper providing testimonials about the power of the platform. To cap off the evening, singer Ch
2026-04-01 13:00 UTC
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Anna Faris has been sort of a gamer since at least 2003, when she says she “became crazy about puzzles.” “But now I get to play them on my phone,” she tells me. I am talking to “The House Bunny” and “Mom” star just a couple of days before she’s set to team up with […]
2026-04-01 13:00 UTC
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YouTube is heading back to the Upfronts with a new tranche of creators. The Google-owned service will host its Brandcast on May 13 at Lincoln Center. The event will be hosted by Trevor Noah, who has 4.5M subscribers on the platform and recently launched his feature-length stand-up special The Lost S
2026-04-01 13:00 UTC
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Range Sports has acquired Short Game Chef, a subscription service that provides golf instruction. Financial terms were not disclosed. Short Game Chef was founded by Parker McLachlin, a former PGA Tour winner and provides resources to help golfers of all levels improve where it matters most –in
2026-04-01 16:15 UTC
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“Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther” and “Bridgerton” have one thing in common – Exceptional Minds. The North Hollywood-based non-profit training academy works to bring young adults on the autism spectrum into the digital arts. When it was founded over 15 years ago, its core mission was to crea
2026-04-01 16:15 UTC
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“I’m singin’ to an empty chair,” Julia Steiner sings on “Just Want You to Know the Truth,” the eight-and-a-half-minute centerpiece of her band Ratboys’ latest album, aptly titled “Singin’ to an Empty Chair.” It references a common therapy method in which a patient communicates with an open seat, and
2026-04-01 16:15 UTC
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“Tires” has added four new cast members for its upcoming third season at Netflix. Variety has learned exclusively that Rachel Blanchard, Garret Dillahunt, Anjelica Bette Fellini, and Matt Walsh are all set to appear in the new season of the comedy series. They join returning stars Shane
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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SFFILM has announced the program for the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival, taking place April 24 through May 4. The lineup includes 79 programs from 40 countries, featuring performers such as Tilda Swinton, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Rudd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more. The festival kicks off a
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
"Johnny Blue Skies" will kick off his "Mutiny for the Masses" run of arenas in September
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
Variety
Paramount has appointed Allie McLarty to the newly created role of senior VP of global communications. She will report to Brooke Robertson, the studio’s executive VP of global communications. McLarty previously served as Paramount Global’s senior VP of corporate and financial communicati
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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Nearly three years into her time at Paramount, Allie McLarty is taking on the newly created role of SVP, Global Communications, Studios, reporting into EVP, Head of Global Communications, Brooke Robertson. Paramount’s Chief Communications Officer Melissa Zukerman revealed the news in an intern
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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Sky’s limited series Amadeus will premiere in the U.S. Friday, May 8 on Starz. Starz acquired U.S. rights to the drama in January in a deal with Sky parent NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution. Based on Peter Shaffer’s 1979 award-winning play and adapted by Black Doves and Giri/Haji scribe Joe
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Disney and Nat Geo will honor Earth Month with a global, enterprise-wide initiative encompassing themed programming, immersive activations and more. Led by National Geographic, “Step Into Wonder” will feature content and experiences “designed to inspire a deeper connecti
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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AMC showed off its latest drama series The Audacity last night with creator Jonathan Glatzer comparing the Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg-fronted show to Peyton Place if it was set in a tech bubble. Glatzer, who previously worked on AMC’s Better Call Saul and HBO’s Succession, spoke at the LA pr
2026-04-01 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: On April 27, cameras are set to start rolling in Wilmington, NC on The Summer I Turned Pretty, the movie followup to the wildly popular Prime Video series. But as Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad (Christopher Briney), Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and the rest of the gang return to the picturesque
2026-04-01 17:06 UTC
Rolling Stone
With hoodies and tees representing Illinois, Arizona, UConn, and Michigan, here’s where to shop the lineup before tip-off
2026-04-01 19:41 UTC
Rolling Stone
Consider these pieces a consolation collector's item
2026-04-01 19:41 UTC
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu director and producer Jon Favreau will be the headliner this year at CinemaCon’s Creative Community Luncheon, which in years past has featured such talent as Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, Edgar Wright, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Elizabe
2026-04-01 19:44 UTC
Variety
Noah Wyle, Amy Poehler and Regina King will make appearances on this year’s Project Angel Food telethon Lead With Love: Going the Distance. The special will air live on KTLA 5 on June 27 from 7-9 p.m. PT. The lineup also includes Adam Brody, Brooke Shields, Janelle James, Jason Ritter, Valerie Berti
2026-06-03 14:48 UTC
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Alfie Williams, the British teenage actor who enjoyed a major breakout last year thanks to his lead role in “28 Years Later,” has landed U.S. representation. Following what it described as a “highly competitive situation involving all major agencies,” Gersh has now signed the
2026-06-03 14:50 UTC
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The future of “60 Minutes” could well hinge on two people with deep ties to CBS News’ past. Many staffers and producers at the beleaguered newsmagazine are left wondering whether Lesley Stahl and Bill Whitaker, two CBS News veterans who have been with the news division now controlled by Paramount Sk
2026-06-03 14:50 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Cortez Smith, best known for playing Nuck on Showtime’s hit series The Chi, has signed with Exclusive Artists Agency for representation and Untamed Artists LA for management. Smith has portrayed Nuck, the street-savvy, master manipulator villain on the show for six seasons. The eighth and
2026-06-03 14:52 UTC
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CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss defended the network’s decision to fire 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, telling staffers on Wednesday that after attempting to engage with him “we had to part ways.” Nick Bilton, who Weiss tapped as the new executive producer of the newsma
2026-06-03 14:55 UTC
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NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has partnered with Archie Comics to develop “Vengeance Unchained: The Legend of Black Caesar,” a new comic book series about the rise of the mythological West African pirate. Stephanie Williams will write the series, while Ray-Anthony Height and Studio Sky-Tiger wil
2026-06-03 15:00 UTC
Variety
Hoon Lee has signed with Anonymous Content for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. He continues to be repped by Peikoff Mahan. Lee currently stars in the popular Apple TV series “Your Friends and Neighbors” in the role of Barney Choi. He has appeared in both seasons of the s
2026-06-03 15:00 UTC
Variety
Disney has started to move Super Bowl commercial time in earnest, but only after a round of squawking that would have impressed Donald Duck. After pressing advertisers to pony up $10 million for a 30-second spot as well as a $10 million “match” for other inventory tied to its 2027 broadcas
2026-06-03 16:50 UTC
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Second Stage Theater, coming off a successful season with acclaimed productions of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw, will anchor its upcoming 48th season around a Broadway line-up to include a modern re-telling of the musical The Fantasticks and a new play from Brand
2026-06-03 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Mason Thames has signed on for a role in Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Caine, directed by and starring martial arts master and the franchise’s actor Donnie Yen. Thames joins Yen and Rina Sawayama, who will also reprise her role as Akira, and Dacre Montgomery, previously announced. C
2026-06-03 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Kimberly McCreight is extending her streak of all of her books getting optioned for film or TV. Her upcoming novel Someone Else’s Husband, which has made several lists of Summer 2026’s most anticipated titles, has been preemptively acquired by Lionsgate Television
2026-06-03 17:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the release of her Netflix rom-com Voicemails for Isabelle, produced by Sony Pictures, Leah McKendrick has landed a major new project with the studio: a biopic on global country-pop star Shania Twain, which she’ll direct from her own original script. Plot details
2026-06-03 17:07 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Days after the launch of its new Netflix reality series Calabasas Confidential, Wheelhouse production label Spoke Studios has promoted Gardner Reed to President. Reed has been with the Brent Montgomery-run company since its creation in 2018 and was previously promoted to SVP, Development
2026-06-03 17:16 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Kent (The Babadook, The Nightingale) has set sci-fi tale The Girl Who Was Plugged In as her next feature with Sophie Thatcher (Companion, Heretic, Yellowjackets) in dual lead roles. Details have been unveiled on the long-awaited third feature from Kent as Goodfellas gears up to l
2026-05-06 14:48 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, which was produced by Andrew Watt, has many songs looking back on Macca's early days, including one about his friendship with John Lennon
2026-05-06 14:49 UTC
Variety
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “Daredevil: Born Again,” now streaming on Disney+. Daredevil is going from Hell’s Kitchen to maximum security prison. Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) revealed his identity to the world in the blockbuster Seas
2026-05-06 16:00 UTC
Variety
Starting in 1991, director John Singleton releases his debut film “Boyz n the Hood” at age 23. Over the next 10 years, Singleton released a loose trilogy with “Poetic Justice” and “Baby Boy.” And now, the Criterion Collection released a premium box set with all th
2026-05-06 16:00 UTC
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Telemundo and the U.S. Soccer Federation have extended their Spanish-language media rights partnership through 2030, extending a deal that saw the NBCUniversal-backed outlet snare the valuable relationship from rival Univision in 2023. Under terms of the new deal renewed, Telemundo will present more
2026-05-06 16:00 UTC
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Josh Johnson’s debut HBO special, “Symphony,” will premiere on May 22. The stand-up hour will air on the cabler and be available to stream on HBO Max starting at 8 p.m. Per HBO, the special “highlights the comedian’s unique point of view and signature creativity as he reflect
2026-05-06 16:00 UTC
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The kitchen is closing. The fifth season of “The Bear” will be its last, FX announced, while revealing a June 25 release date for the final installment of the culinary dramedy. Keeping with tradition, the season will not be coursed out; all eight episodes will be available to binge on Hu
2026-05-06 16:00 UTC
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Variety has announced its 2026 list of 8 API Up Next in Entertainment. The annual list curated in collaboration with Gold House celebrates Asian Pacific Islanders across entertainment and highlights rising global talent. The group comprises visionaries making strides in their respective fields
2026-05-06 16:05 UTC
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The wives are still hunting. And now, it’s for the Emmys. Variety has learned exclusively that the Lionsgate and 3 Arts Entertainment produced series, which streams on Netflix, will submit in the comedy categories for consideration for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards. Add it to the gro
2026-05-06 16:10 UTC
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Prime Video has released a teaser trailer for “Elle,” the prequel series to Reese Witherspoon’s comedy “Legally Blonde.” “Elle” will give fans a glimpse into the life of a high school-aged Elle Woods when Season 1 releases on the streamer July 1. It has already be
2026-05-06 16:10 UTC
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James Marsden is set to star in the thriller series “Disavowed” at Apple TV, Variety has learned. The logline for the show states that it follows “legendary CIA Case Officer Brad Griffin (Marsden), who is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin respons
2026-05-06 20:00 UTC
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s deal to be acquired by Paramount Skydance is supposed to create a behemoth of a company that includes everything from the CBS television network to the “Lord of the Rings” franchise. But as Aragorn said in that massive epic, today is not that day. A large f
2026-05-06 20:04 UTC
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Groundbreaking hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa’s further pursuit of the copyrights to its first four albums continues to receive vigorous pushback from Universal Music Group, with the company filing a new brief as the case winds its way through an appeals court. Last May, Salt-N-Pepa filed suit against th
2026-05-06 20:04 UTC
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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Daniel D’Addario details his sit-down in Madrid with Javier Bardem, the incredibly busy Spaniard who brings the family drama “The Beloved” to the Cannes Film Festival this year. Bardem opens up to D’Adda
2026-05-06 20:06 UTC
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“Highway to Heaven” is getting a second life. The drama fantasy series, which ran from 1984 to 1989 on NBC, is being rebooted by Fox for the 2027-2028 broadcast season. Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights,” “Parenthood”) will showrun the new iteration of the show a
2026-05-06 21:17 UTC
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Doug Liman has been set to direct Miles Teller and Eddie Redmayne in Star One, which Black Bear and CAA Media Finance are launching for the Cannes market. Based on a true story, the film will follow “two mismatched CIA agents, one charismatic (Teller), the other strait-laced (Redmayne), who mu
2026-05-06 21:20 UTC
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House of the Dragon‘s Freddie Fox will make his musical theater debut next month in the West End’s High Society revival. Costars will include Helen George (Call the Midwife), Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Bridgerton), among others. The musical opens M
2026-04-08 13:46 UTC
Rolling Stone
The network's executive complaints unit now says it was wrong not to have censored the word, which it had two hours to do with the delay in broadcast
2026-04-08 13:49 UTC
Deadline
Marisa Abela, Ella Purnell & Adria Arjona Testing For ‘Superman’ Sequel ‘Man Of Tomorrow’ – The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: James Gunn is zeroing in on his choice for another key role in Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, with Marisa Abela, Adria Arjona and Ella Purnell beginning to test last week, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps for DC declined to comment, while reps for the actresses couldn’t be rea
2026-04-08 15:30 UTC
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Shudder has announced the acquisition of three horror titles set to debut at this weekend’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans. First up is “Parasomnia,” written and directed by James Ross II, and starring Jasmine Mathews, RJ Brown, Sally Stewart, Stephen Barrington and Danny Br
2026-04-08 15:30 UTC
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Who says young people don’t go to the movies? During the pandemic, Hollywood worried that Gen Zers would never get into the habit of going to theaters, preferring streaming on their smartphones instead. But Gen Z is now the most active cinemagoing demographic, attending more films per year than thei
2026-04-08 15:30 UTC
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Pamela Anderson’s first design collection with the luxury furniture and decor brand Olive Ateliers is rooted in nostalgia. The 40-piece lineup, named “The Sentimentalist,” is inspired by Anderson’s own childhood on her grandmother’s farm on the Salish Sea, and features
2026-04-08 15:33 UTC
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The cast of the hit MTV reality series “Laguna Beach” is going back to the beginning with an all-new reunion special airing this week on The Roku Channel. Lauren Conrad, Stephen Colletti and Kristin Cavallari are among the original cast members returning for “The Reunion: Laguna Be
2026-04-08 15:33 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed actor Mel Rodriguez for management. Most recently, Rodriguez was seen recurring on Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series The Residence as White House engineer Bruce Geller, a deceptively central figure in the show’s murder mystery. The actor is perhaps best kn
2026-04-08 15:59 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Top-selling comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias is partnering with Latino-owned, global entertainment company Fuse Media on Fluffy TV, a new FAST channel dedicated to feel-good comedy for audiences of all ages, which will launch in June. On the channel, audiences will find prog
2026-04-08 16:00 UTC
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NBC has scheduled three back-to-back shows in May to close out its 51st season, starting with Olivia Rodrigo doing double duty as host and musical guest on May 2. This will be Rodrigo’s first time as host and third time as musical guest. The Grammy winner’s new album, you seem pretty sad
2026-04-08 16:00 UTC
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Ten-time Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, producer, author and actor Janelle Monáe is heading to UTA for representation in all areas including touring, media, filmed entertainment, brand partnerships and more. The signing comes as Monáe is slated to appear in several projects, including a featur
2026-04-08 16:00 UTC
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Paramount is launching a publishing imprint, saying it will help boost establish franchises and brands and develop original IP. Dubbed Paramount Global Publishing, the imprint will start in the U.S. and Canada, with other international markets to follow in the future. Projects will span print, digit
2026-04-08 17:00 UTC
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Tawnya Bhattacharya & Ali Laventhol Adapting YA Thriller ‘The One That Got Away With Murder’ At Hulu
EXCLUSIVE: The writing team of Tawnya Bhattacharya and Ali Laventhol has a new project in development at Hulu: a TV adaptation of the Trish Lundy YA thriller The One That Got Away With Murder. The show’s logline is as follows: When a guarded new girl with a dark past transfers to a high school
2026-04-08 17:00 UTC
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Arne Olsen, a screenwriter whose credits include 1995’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and the 1993 comedy Cop and a Half directed by Henry Winkler and starring Burt Reynolds, died from complications related to cancer Saturday, April 4, in Vancouver, Canada. He was 64. His death was a
2026-04-08 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
Noah Kahan and Paul McCartney will also appear as musical guests in May
2026-04-08 17:01 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: In a nine-way TV bidding war, Amazon MGM Studios has acquired Sam Lansky’s psychosexual short story Good Bones for Jennifer Salke to executive produce through her Sullivan Street Productions under the company’s first-look deal at Amazon. Good Bones, which will be developed for Prime
2026-04-08 18:03 UTC
Rolling Stone
The big-voiced, big personality singer was enlisted to write songs for the pop star's Cowboy Carter country project
2026-04-08 18:07 UTC
Rolling Stone
The rapper/actor-producer will executive produce the three-part series, which will be released on Hulu
2026-04-08 18:08 UTC
Variety
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “The Testaments,” now streaming on Hulu. Bruce Miller is plunging back into the world of Gilead — and he’s bringing an old friend with him. Miller, the Emmy-winning creator of “The Handmaid’s Tale,”
2026-04-08 22:00 UTC
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Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie will continue to have a gravitational pull on moviegoers in its second go-round with $60M-$70M, between a -47% to -54% ease from its $131.7M 3-day haul. The Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Glen Powell, etc ensemble will keep
2026-04-08 22:06 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Two time Oscar winner George Clooney has responded to a catty White House statement following the actor/director/producer/writer’s public accusation that Donald Trump committed a war crime after the US President wrote a threat against Iran that “A whole civilization will die t
2026-04-08 22:08 UTC
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It’s all about Hollywood magic for Illumination’s CEO Chris Meledandri. Fresh from graduating from Dartmouth College, the born-and-raised New Yorker landed a job as an assistant to executive producer Daniel Melnick on “Footloose.” It was his first time in California. “There were a few things for me
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Variety
Talent management firm Underscore Talent has announced more than 20 new hires across its comedy; sports and outdoor lifestyle; entertainment; beauty, lifestyle and fashion; and newly launched experts divisions. The company’s expansion comes amid an evolving media landscape, where creators, ent
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
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Alamo Drafthouse is renaming its flagship San Francisco venue to honor Christopher Nolan. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, a passionate advocate for the big screen, will be feted later this year with a 70mm screening event. The announcement of the rechristened venue — San Francisco New Mission wil
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
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Former Paramount Global exec Brendon Thomas has joined Radial Entertainment as the company’s new chief revenue officer. At Radial he’ll handle revenue generation through the company’s library and acquisitions via distribution, licensing, advertising, business development and new ma
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
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Preparing to play a suburban schlub in HBO’s “DTF St. Louis,” David Harbour decided he needed to transform — slightly. “I guess it’s just part of my process,” he recalls, “because when I looked at it, it wasn’t that much bigger than myself.” He’s referring to the prosthetic belly the productio
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: After four years as AGBO’s President of Television, Scott Nemes is leaving to launch his own production company at the end of the month, Deadline has learned. There’s no word yet on the name of the company, nor details on its slate, other than a focus on premium global content
2026-06-10 16:00 UTC
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Ryan Murphy’s anticipated new series The Shards, based on Bret Easton Ellis‘ prep school thriller novel, will premiere August 5 on FX and Hulu, as well as Disney+ internationally, it was announced Wednesday. Suspense, seduction and obsession. That’s what FX teases we can expect from the
2026-06-10 16:00 UTC
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Disney+ and La Chaîne L’Équipe have locked a pact that will bring live sports programming traditionally broadcast on the free-to-air sports channel, such as the World Cup and the Dakar Rally, to the streamer in France. The pact was confirmed this afternoon by the two companies. Disney+ subscri
2026-06-10 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Edgar Ramirez is set to join Mark Ruffalo and Mahershala Ali in the second season of HBO‘s lauded crime drama Task. Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis and Aminah Nieves also recently joined the ensemble. As previously announced, Ali plays Eddie Barnes, a seasoned and we
2026-06-10 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has signed Bollywood megastar Hrithik Roshan, one of the highest-grossing Indian actors of all time. The actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur’s blockbuster Hindi hits include the Krrish superhero franchise, in which he portrays the titular superhero, and the action mo
2026-06-10 16:00 UTC
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Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman embark on quite the boundary-pushing relationship in the first trailer for director Gregg Araki’s irreverent sex comedy “I Want Your Sex.” Featuring everything from ball gags, whips, strap-ons to a threesome gone widely wrong, “I Want Your Sex&
2026-06-10 16:09 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: NYC-based comedian, filmmaker and actor Edy Modica is set to unveil her debut comedy special, I’m Just Like You (And It Sucks), exclusively on Veeps on June 26, with a wide release planned for fall. Produced by Irony Point, the Emmy and Peabody-winning production company behind proj
2026-06-10 16:10 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Geena Davis has inked a deal to join The Kellys, Amazon MGM’s new action film from director Brad Peyton and Thunder Road Films. No word yet on the role to be played by Davis. She joins an ensemble that includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Kelsey Asbil
2026-06-10 16:15 UTC
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Marc Maron wrapped his “WTF” podcast in October after 16 years — and so far, he says, he doesn’t really miss it. “I don’t find myself freaking out as much,” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I mean, it was a big haul. We did a lot of episodes
2026-06-10 16:15 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: AI firm Utopai Studios will co-produce and invest in Half Moon, a feature film from South Korean filmmaker Hyo-joo Yang. Half Moon will be Yang’s debut feature. She is best known for the short Broken Night, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 2010. Half Moon will be co-produced by Ge
2026-06-10 23:00 UTC
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Fantastic Four: First Steps helmer Matt Shakman has been tapped to direct the pilot and three additional episodes of Paramount+’s Discretion, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. Shakman also will executive produce the legal thriller, from A24, which landed at Par
2026-06-10 23:00 UTC
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Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy will collide with Radiohead’s 2003 album “Hail to the Thief” when “Hamlet Hail to the Thief” opens at London’s Barbican Theatre on Oct. 31, running through Jan. 23, 2027. The production marks the London premiere of the show,
2026-06-10 23:01 UTC
Variety
The star pairing of “Happy Hours” isn’t just its selling point, but its audience filter. If the words “Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson together again” make your heart go a little soft, then congratulations: This equally soft-hearted romantic comedy has been made directl
2026-06-10 23:02 UTC
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Steven Spielberg joined “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast on his “Disclosure Day” press tour and opened up about his repeated failed attempts to direct a James Bond movie. The Oscar winner made a personal plea to franchise producer Cubby Broccoli after “Jaws̶
2026-06-10 23:03 UTC
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Eve Myles (Gone), Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat), Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day) and David Thewlis (Fargo) have been set to lead Channel 4’s comic thriller Wrong Move. The Ben Edwards-created series has also cast David Bradley (Game of Thrones), Austin Haynes (Adolescence), Daisy Morgan (Giant), Gwy
2026-05-13 13:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
On tour in London and New York with the Virginia country-rock band, who make an album about evolution — and cover Black Sabbath
2026-05-13 13:00 UTC
Variety
Showrunners and writers for some of TV’s hottest shows including “Hacks,” “Nobody Wants This” and “Jury Duty: Company Retreat” took to the stage at Variety’s Night in the Writers Room: The Comedy Series on May 7 in Los Angeles to give audiences a behind-the-scenes look into the process of crafting e
2026-05-13 17:15 UTC
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Variety and NBCUniversal have partnered on a cross-platform content initiative tied to NBC’s yearlong 100th anniversary celebration. Starting next month, Variety will publish a recurring series of NBC100 editorial and branded content across Variety’s digital, print, social, video and podca
2026-05-13 17:15 UTC
Rolling Stone
The Colombian reggaeton star will also perform at the American Music Awards on May 25
2026-05-13 17:17 UTC
Deadline
UPDATE: Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, author, and producer Ledisi will head to Broadway this fall in the new musical Wanted, joining the previously announced Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine. Ledisi will star as Tallulah Clarke, mother of sisters Mary Clarke (Pfeiffer) and Martha
2026-05-13 17:24 UTC
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For the first time in Bridgerton history, two consecutive seasons will premiere in two consecutive calendar years. During Netflix’s upfront presentation, Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria announced that Season 5 of the Regency romance drama will be released in 2027. Launching as a res
2026-05-13 19:18 UTC
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Elon Musk is back to bashing The Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s decision to cast Lupita Nyong’o in the epic film. In several new messages on the microblogging platform, the controversial figure took aim at Nolan’s upcoming film, something he has griped about before. Earlier this y
2026-05-13 19:21 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of Prime Video’s Off Campus. Stars Antonio Cipriano and Stephen Kalyn, whose love characters’ stories will likely develop more in the next season of Prime Video’s Off Campus, have found their ways into their characters — John Logan and De
2026-05-13 23:06 UTC
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U.S. pop star and budding actress Halsey is set to star in Replacer, a “psycho-sexual horror” written by the singer and actor-director Avan Jogia, with Jogia directing, and Lily Wachowski exec-producing. The synopsis reads: “Stranded in Montreal, Proxy (Halsey), a troubled DJ, meet
2026-05-13 23:09 UTC
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Alex Cooper and Trevor Noah are among creators who have new series coming to YouTube. The Google-owned platform unveiled its upcoming slate for new and returning series Wednesday at YouTube Brandcast in New York. Cooper announced four new series from her Unwell slate, which will kick off with new co
2026-05-13 23:10 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s three Chicago series will have their leads in place when they return in the fall as Chicago Med‘s S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Platt, Chicago Fire‘s Taylor Kinney and Miranda Rae Mayo as well as Chicago P.D.’s Jason Beghe are all locked in to continue on their shows. Med’s M
2026-05-13 23:10 UTC
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Australian police have launched an investigation after Ruby Rose accused Katy Perry of sexual assault in a string of social media posts. Perry has strongly denied the claims. Victoria police said on Wednesday that detectives were examining an allegation of “historical sexual assault that occur
2026-04-15 12:17 UTC
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Steven Schneider has come aboard “Imposters,” Caleb Phillips’ science-fiction thriller that drew notice at SXSW Austin last month, as executive producer under his indie genre label Spooky Pictures. Schneider co-founded Spooky Pictures in 2020 with Roy Lee, with credits including &#
2026-04-15 12:20 UTC
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NBC News Now will expand to 14 hours a day of live programming and add a two-hour show hosted by Christine Romans to its lineup. Starting in the summer, Romans will anchor a 10 a.m. ET weekday show and take on a new role as chief business correspondent, working with the business and economy unit. [&
2026-04-15 15:15 UTC
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The singer turns her confessional pop album into a uniquely compelling stage show
2026-04-15 15:16 UTC
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Game of Thrones fans looking for clues about the franchise’s move to the big screen have a new fact to ponder: The film’s working title is Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest. The title was featured on a slide during Warner Bros.’ CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas last night. The working
2026-04-15 15:22 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Waleed Zuaiter will play Saddam Hussein in High Value Target, the series adaptation of John Nixon’s non-fiction book ‘Debriefing the President’. For All Mankind star Joel Kinnaman had already been announced in the series, which has been developed for TNT in the U.S. But the Sa
2026-04-15 15:25 UTC
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“You’re in the jungle, baby”. He certainly is. AMC+ and Shudder have dropped the trailer for The Terror: Devil in Silver, ahead of its May 7 premiere. The latest installment of the AMC anthology series, based on Victor LaValle’s novel, stars Dan Stevens as Pepper – a working-
2026-04-15 16:00 UTC
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The president is doubling down on casting himself as a divine savior as he ramps up his attacks on Pope Leo XIV
2026-04-15 16:04 UTC
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Her new release 3:33 blends punk and reggaeton while diving into experiences with self-doubt and heartbreak
2026-04-15 16:05 UTC
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Guigsy and Whitey, as they're known to fans, both played in Oasis at the peak of their Nineties popularity, and neither was initially listed as an inductee
2026-04-15 16:06 UTC
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Season 4 of Mike White’s The White Lotus has begun filming on the French Riviera. After weeks of speculation, HBO has confirmed in the start of production announcement that the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in the area during filming of the new installment, will be part of the st
2026-04-15 16:09 UTC
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Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict lend their voices to “Saigon,” a new scripted drama podcast for iHeartMedia’s iHeartPodcasts billed as “an epic story of love, war and power set against the backdrop of 20th century Vietnam.” Based on the bestselling novel by Anthony Gr
2026-04-15 16:26 UTC
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Eyekons! Save the date: Katseye will release “Wild,” their latest EP on Aug. 14. “Wild” is the band’s third EP and is the follow-up to last year’s “Beautiful Chaos.” The news comes after the group made their Coachella debut last weekend, where they performed their latest single “Pinky Up,” and “Gnar
2026-04-15 16:27 UTC
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Karen Kingsbury, the bestselling author crowned the “Queen of Christian Fiction” by Time magazine, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Kingsbury has published nearly 100 novels and sold more than 30 million copies in the U.S. Her catalog includes the multi-generational B
2026-06-17 16:00 UTC
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BET is returning to its comedy roots by rebooting its beloved stand-up series “ComicView.” Titled “ComicView: Rooftop Series,” the 10-episode revival will premiere on the network on June 30 at 9:30 p.m. ET. It’s hosted by Chris “CP” Powell and will take plac
2026-06-17 16:00 UTC
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Janelle James is developing a new comedy series at Hulu with “Happy Endings” creator David Caspe. Titled “Rock City,” the show would follow a woman who returns to her hometown in the Virgin Islands after she inherits a local tourist trap from her estranged father. According t
2026-06-17 16:00 UTC
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“Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast” co-host Brooke Averick’s debut novel, “Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It,” is being adapted into a movie at Netflix. Following a highly competitive bidding war, the streamer landed the film rights to Averick’s “Phoebe Ber
2026-06-17 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Singer-songwriter and actor Tunde Adebimpe has expanded his representation with UTA. Long repped there for music, he’ll now also be repped for film and television. Onscreen, Adebimpe is known for roles in Rachel Getting Married, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marriage S
2026-06-17 18:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kaluuya is reteaming with his Judas and the Black Messiah director Shaka King for the new Amazon MGM Studios and HyperObject Industries’ feature The Parlay. One Battle After Another Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Supporting Actress Teyana Taylor is circling to star.
2026-06-17 18:05 UTC
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Wagner Moura is negotiating to join Warner Bros.’ Ocean’s prequel opposite Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper. The pic is dated for a June 25, 2027 theatrical release. Moura has been a hot commodity since winning Best Actor at Cannes in 2025 for The Secret Agent, a role when also notched h
2026-06-17 18:54 UTC
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Oscar nominee Wagner Moura is in negotiations to join Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper in the new “Ocean’s 11” prequel for Warner Bros. Cooper is directing the film, which Warner Bros. has dated for release on June 25, 2027, and is also producing the project alongside LuckyChap, th
2026-06-17 18:54 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Alba has taken on new management, signing with Untitled in all areas. A Golden Globe-nominated actress, producer, and entrepreneur, Alba will be seen in the upcoming Maserati: The Brothers, opposite Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins, along with Justin Chadwick’s spy th
2026-06-17 19:00 UTC
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The tongue-in-cheek two-hour awards show airs on Bravo for the second televised edition
2026-06-17 19:00 UTC
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The New York-born and raised musician will perform at City Hall on Thursday, June 18, following the championship parade
2026-06-17 19:02 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details of HBO’s limited series DTF St. Louis. Steve Conrad, creator, writer and director of HBO’s DTF St. Louis, was joined by his all-star cast recently at the Television Academy in North Hollywood to discuss to making the series and why it didn&
2026-05-20 16:00 UTC
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Broadway’s biggest night has locked in its opening act. Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host “The Tony Awards: Act One,” the official live pre-show ahead of the 79th Annual Tony Awards, announced by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League. The free streaming telecas
2026-05-20 16:00 UTC
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In 2015, Esquire alluded to Teller being "kind of a dick," he recalled in a recent conversation, "It felt like such a violation of what actually transpired"
2026-05-20 16:04 UTC
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Check out a preview of Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul, a career-spanning documentary about the Allman Brothers frontman, which is hitting more than 200 screens next month
2026-05-20 16:08 UTC
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Matt Brittin spent nearly 20 years working for YouTube owner Google and the new BBC Director General has a few thoughts on how the corporation can learn from the world’s largest video-sharing platform. On areas including connection with audiences and technology, Brittin said there is plenty th
2026-05-20 16:10 UTC
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With friends like Donald Trump, Spencer Pratt may be wondering today if he needs enemies or rivals for the job of Los Angeles Mayor. “I ike to see him do well,” the former Apprentice host said of The Hills alum and his incendiary bid for City Hall against incumbent Karen Bass and Council
2026-05-20 16:14 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Rob Anderson is set to unveil his debut special, Are You Afraid of the ’90s?, on YouTube on June 3. Known online as the “King of Nostalgia,” Anderson has built a cult following through his celebrating and roasting of the most chaotic retro pop culture
2026-05-20 16:15 UTC
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Miles Teller is opening up about why he stopped doing press profiles and how he has taken control of the narrative around his persona. While at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was promoting James Gray’s Paper Tiger, in which he stars alongside Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Teller addr
2026-05-20 16:17 UTC
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"We've just recorded one song," Corgan said. "The plan is the song will be released this year. I can't say exactly when. There's reasons for that"
2026-05-20 16:28 UTC
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Although Montana proved to be a beautiful filming location for The Madison, Michelle Pfeiffer was far from paradise. The Golden Globe winner recently explained that it “took a while” for the cast to adjust to filming the Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount+ series on location, due to the l
2026-05-20 22:19 UTC
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Ring Every Bell shows how the late actor visited Capitol Hill with the nonprofit group I Am ALS, which also released a new PSA featuring Dane and other celebrities
2026-05-20 22:19 UTC
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After weeks of suspense, James Gray’s anticipated next film “Paper Tiger” has joined the Palme d’Or race at the Cannes Film Festival. The gritty crime thriller, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, will world premiere in competition, while Neon has secured Nor
2026-04-22 13:50 UTC
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Justin Long (“Barbarian”), Ron Perlman (“Hellboy”) Harry Shum Jr. (“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Martin Starr (“Tulsa King”) and Jarrett Austin Brown (“Stumble”) have signed up to star in “Hellhound,” the upcoming action
2026-04-22 13:55 UTC
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Netflix kept the tradition going, announcing the premiere date for the Heartstopper finale film on the fourth anniversary of the series premiere on Netflix. Heartstopper Forever, which wraps Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke)’s story, will debut on July 17. The streamer also has released a be
2026-04-22 13:57 UTC
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Cornerstone has acquired international sales rights to James Ashcroft’s horror feature When Darkness Loves Us and will handle sales and distribution, excluding New Zealand and Australia. The company will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. The film stars Emilia Clarke (
2026-04-22 14:00 UTC
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WestEnd Films has boarded world sales on Margot & Rudi, a romantic drama from director Anthony Fabian (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) and starring Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive). The film is described as an “electrifying true story of ballet legends Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.” The offi
2026-04-22 14:00 UTC
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Comedy streaming service Dropout has announced that the eighth season of “Game Changer,” the panel game show with a constantly changing premise, will premiere on May 18. The season will release its 10 episodes on Dropout biweekly and will host Brennan Lee Mulligan, Vic Michaelis, Jeremy
2026-04-22 16:00 UTC
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AFI Los Angeles AFI boasts a student-to-faculty ratio of 6:1, with instructors comprised of active industry professionals such as James Mangold and Len Amato. The school embraces new technology and innovation in its curriculum, including what they call “the Sandbox — a collaborative lab where techno
2026-04-22 16:05 UTC
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Neon has released the trailer for “Leviticus,” the highly anticipated conversion therapy horror film that had a buzzy debut at Sundance. The film marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella. According to the official plot description, “Leviticus” is about “two star-crosse
2026-04-22 16:06 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in Norway on psychological thriller movie Dark Skulls, starring Thor Rosland (The Pendragon Cycle), Ragga Ragnars (Vikings), Christopher Rygh (The Head Hunter), and The Last Kingdom actor and World’s Strongest Man Hall of Famer Magnus Samuelsson. Rosland leads the film
2026-04-22 16:11 UTC
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Katherine LaNasa, Pom Klementieff, Matthias Schweighöfer and Micheál Neeson have joined the cast of the upcoming action-comedy “Mister.” The film marks the directorial debut of legendary second unit and action director Wade Eastwood, who has worked on the likes of “Mission: Impossi
2026-04-22 16:13 UTC
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Radial Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to The Isolate Thief, the latest Western from Nashville-based Hideout Pictures which previously achieved success in the genre with Old Henry. Directed by John Suits (3022) and written by Kevin Lefler, the picture stars Mackenzie Foy (In
2026-04-22 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The Night Agent once again has lined up big-name cast additions for its upcoming fourth season. Bosch star Titus Welliver, Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Li Jun Li (Sinners) and Elizabeth Lail (You) are set as new series regulars opposite star Gabriel Basso in the Netflix action thriller fr
2026-04-22 16:30 UTC
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The musician recently finished recording the album, which includes five brand new songs in addition to the three vintage ones, at Rick Rubin's Shangri-La studio with the Chrome Hearts
2026-04-22 16:39 UTC
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We’re getting a look at Sam Reid’s Lestat De Lioncourt performing Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself” in the wild first trailer for Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat. You can watch it above and see several photos below. The latest chapter in Rice’s Immortal Univ
2026-04-22 16:42 UTC
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from Episode 7 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV. Elisabeth Moss is no stranger to portraying a desperate mother on TV. The “Imperfect Women” star spent almost a decade playing June — the lead character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” who
2026-04-22 22:30 UTC
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Reese Witherspoon has been met with the expected industry backlash following her recent interest in artificial intelligence. After the Oscar winner expressed her intention to “learn as much as I possibly can about AI,” noting that women’s jobs are “more likely to be automated
2026-04-22 22:41 UTC
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JioStar exec Ramesh Mundhra is leaving the Indian content giant for Subedaar producer Abundantia Entertainment. He takes up the role of Head – Business Affairs, Strategy and Operations at the company, which has this year launched the likes of Daldal, Maa Behen and Subedaar, which topped Prime Video
2026-06-24 09:24 UTC
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spin-off has been huge for AMC’s hit franchise but if creator Robert Kirkman had his way in the early days, it may never have seen the light of day. Kirkman spoke today during an entertaining masterclass at Annecy about how he was constantly looking to kill off ch
2026-06-24 09:27 UTC
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We’re getting the first look at Season 15 of King of the Hill ahead of its July 20 premiere on Hulu. The trailer was released Wednesday at the Annecy Animation Festival where co-creator and star Mike Judge received the festival’s honorary Cristal Award for career achievement. The King of
2026-06-24 15:09 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Burn (Foster) is set to topline cartel action-thriller Dead Weight for U.S. producer-distributor Premiere Entertainment Group (PEG). Filming is being lined up for this fall in Guatemala with Andrés E. Díaz aboard to direct from a script by Dane Larsen. Elias Axume (Man Of War) pro
2026-06-24 15:16 UTC
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Artist will play five dates along the East Coast shortly after the release of solo debut, Thank You
2026-06-24 15:21 UTC
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Rockstar Games has finally revealed the price for “Grand Theft Auto VI” — and the fact the game will be a “single-player experience” at launch — just ahead of pre-orders opening for the eagerly anticipated game. The standard edition of “GTA 6” will be
2026-06-24 15:55 UTC
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Alan Cumming, the host of Peacock’s hit reality series The Traitors today reflected on how the show’s “gothic and queer” aesthetic has captivated audiences and, maybe, sparked a shift in perceptions around queerness. Cumming told a Cannes Lions audience how the “theatri
2026-06-24 15:58 UTC
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Milly Alcock is the titular star of Supergirl, but the main attraction and secret sauce as far as I am concerned is a CGI dog named Krypto. So why did the filmmakers behind this cinematic reboot of DC’s female answer to Superman relegate poor Krypto, who was such a big part of making last year
2026-06-24 15:59 UTC
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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, two prominent tech journalists and hosts of the New York Times podcast “Hard Fork,” have signed with UTA for representation in all areas, signaling the duo’s independent ambitions as they form their own company. The signing comes less than a week after Roose said
2026-06-24 16:00 UTC
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“Dungeons & Dragons” maker Wizards of the Coast has set the theme for the upcoming second installment of its “Dungeon Masters” TV series. Beginning with its July 8 premiere on YouTube, the nine-episode second season of the Jasmine Bhullar-hosted Dungeons & Dragons act
2026-06-24 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Eli Roth’s media company, The Horror Section, will be opening its latest slasher acquisition, Stiletto, on Oct. 30. The pic stars starring Gigi Gustin, who also produced the movie with Eli Roth, and also co-wrote the film with director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. (The Plastic Men, The Retal
2026-06-24 16:22 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood is clearly full of enough demons to warrant a supersized third season of its namesake true-crime docuseries. Deadline understands that Investigation Discovery has renewed Hollywood Demons for a third season with a bumper order. The series, which comes from Ample Entertainment, p
2026-06-24 16:26 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actress and stand-up comic Ivy Wolk for representation in all areas, with an eye toward helping her expand across film, television, and comedy. Recently, Wolk has appeared in Jonah Hill’s Outcome for Apple, opposite Keanu Reeves, as well as Netflix̵
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” opens in less than two weeks — just enough time to brush up on the details of the historic epic . On Tuesday, ElevenLabs announced it was releasing a new 13-hour version of Homer’s classic with Michael Caine “narrating.” This version was created entirely by A
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Megan Gallagher (All Her Fault) has emerged as one of Universal Global Television’s most prolific creators. She has now formalized her relationship with the studio, signing an overall deal with UGT, the Universal Studio Group division formed recently by the merger of UCP and Univers
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
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Netflix has set the Season 2 premiere date for comedy Leanne starring Leanne Morgan and Kristen Johnston: The series returns August 27, and will feature a line-up of guest stars including Tyne Daly, sister of the show’s cast member Tim Daly. No word yet on what role Tyne Daly will be playing.
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
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A "super-family" character gets a chance to be more than eye candy in a cape in this largely satisfying take on a stellar comic-book story
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
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"Because there’s so much Zwan stuff, I’m gonna put it out in different sets," Smashing Pumpkins frontman says of short-lived supergroup
2026-06-24 16:34 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Bose, the more than 60-year-old consumer audio company, has announced the launch of Bose Studios, a music-centered branded entertainment platform whose output will span music, film, TV, digital and live events. Created by music fans, for music fans, Bose Studios launches its film and
2026-06-24 16:36 UTC
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NBC has officially set its premiere dates for the fall 2026 broadcast season. NBC will officially kickoff fall on Sept. 9 with NFL coverage of the Seattle Seahawks hosting the New England Patriots in a rematch of last year’s Super Bowl. The first Sunday night telecast will air Sept. 13 when the Dall
2026-06-24 19:00 UTC
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The English-language remakes of the Culpables movies and the Spanish-language originals have crushed the latest Prime Video viewing charts. There are five films in all, three Spanish and two English-language releases, with a third English-language movie already filmed. They are based on Mercedes Ron
2026-06-24 19:05 UTC
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If anyone had told me five years ago that I would be a K-pop stan, I would have snorted with derision and cited my decades of indie-rock cred. I grew up on the Boston music scene of the early ‘80s, where I used my fake ID to see Gang of Four, Echo & The Bunnymen […]
2026-03-25 15:55 UTC
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Marc Resteghini and Jack Tar Pictures have extended their TV overall deal and first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios for a further three years, Variety has learned exclusively. The news comes after the successful March 4 launch of the Prime Video series “Young Sherlock,” on which R
2026-03-25 16:00 UTC
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Rapper T.I. and producer Drumma Boy have teamed up for the documentary short film “The Birth of Trap Music,” premiering at the Atlanta Film Festival on April 25. The film, directed by Christopher Scholar, is a limited series documentary that, according to a release, “explores how t
2026-03-25 16:00 UTC
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Durrell “Tank” Babbs and Meagan Good have joined the upcoming fourth season of the Onyx Collective series “Reasonable Doubt.” Babbs and Good will appear alongside series regulars Emayatzy Corinealdi, McKinley Freeman, Tim Jo and Angela Grovey. Babbs will play Eric Cropper, de
2026-03-25 16:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography wraps this week in British Columbia, Canada, on the indie film Crazy Sunshine; The Mess We Made, starring Grace Beedie (Zero Chill), Molly Ringwald (Riverdale), David Arquette (Scream 7), and Grace Dove (Alaskda Daily). Written and directed by Christie Will (Slightly
2026-03-25 16:24 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool franchise) has landed a role alongside Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo and Michael Mando in Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie from Legendary, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Netflix and Legendary declined comment. Both Kutsuna’s role and the film’
2026-03-25 16:26 UTC
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Sony has said it plans to “wind down” operations at its VFX production company Pixomondo. We understand the studio plans to integrate some of the VFX outfit’s functions into other areas of production at Sony. It’s currently unclear how many staffers will be affected by the move or how mu
2026-03-25 16:29 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Snoop Dogg is set to star in the true crime thriller God Of The Rodeo from director Rosalind Ross. Dogg and his Death Row Pictures partner, Sara Ramaker, also have signed on to produce the true crime thriller with Ross writing and directing. They will join previously announced producers G
2026-03-25 16:30 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed writer, actress, and stand-up comedian Nataly Aukar for global representation in all areas, with an eye toward helping her secure new opportunities across comedy touring, film and television, and more. The signing comes ahead of the April 4 taping in Los Angeles of Aukar&#
2026-03-25 16:36 UTC
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The "Panda" rapper was detained after allegedly pushing a victim to the floor, causing minor bleeding and scratches
2026-03-25 17:32 UTC
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Another domestic violence incident involving Taylor Frankie Paul could now find The Bachelorette star facing charges for violating her probation over a 2023 event. Police in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan are looking into allegations by Dakota Mortensen brought against Paul for a 2024 inci
2026-03-25 17:35 UTC
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Six months after Seth Rogen touched down at the Venice Film Festival to scout locations, shooting is underway on the second season of Apple-backed hit show The Studio shooting in the Italian lagune city. Guest stars Madonna, Michael Keaton, Julia Glover and Donald Glover and returning cast members B
2026-03-25 17:36 UTC
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Suspect Ivanna Ortiz allegedly posted about the superstar singer on her YouTube channel before the shooting, saying, “Listen, Rihanna. When you die, God is taking me to my future"
2026-03-25 17:37 UTC
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Variety will welcome acclaimed filmmaker Paul Feig as the keynote conversation for its 2026 Power of Law Breakfast, presented by City National Bank. Patricia L. Glaser, partner at Glaser Weil, will be honored with the Variety 2026 Power of Law Award, recognizing her as one of the nation’s
2026-03-25 19:19 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: FX is in early development on a comedy pilot from Jeff Chan (Plus One), Rob Mac (Welcome to Wrexham) and 20th Television. The project titled Hopless follows two people who fall into a chaotic romance when one of them uses the other’s phone number as the fake she gives out at bars. In add
2026-03-25 19:22 UTC
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Donald Trump appointed the first members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology including, among others, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison (father of Paramount CEO David Ellison), Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Nvidia CEO Je
2026-03-25 19:22 UTC
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Anne Hathaway made sure producers of The Devil Wears Prada 2 didn’t feature “skeletal” models that were “alarmingly thin.” According to Meryl Streep in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she and Hathaway attended a runway show during Milan Fashion Week where they
2026-03-25 19:27 UTC
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Casey Bloys is once again at the forefront of a pivotal moment in entertainment history. But it’s not the moment he was preparing for a month ago. With Paramount Skydance now acquiring HBO parent Warner Bros. Discovery, Bloys and his team are yet again facing a new future. In an interview with
2026-03-25 19:32 UTC
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Following his recent cancer diagnosis, Bruce Campbell is committed to promoting his latest movie. The horror movie icon, who wrote, directed and stars in Ernie & Emma, explained that his “priority is this movie” despite recently announcing that he’s been diagnosed with a “
2026-03-25 19:36 UTC
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Sony Pictures’ Affirm Films and Mucho Mas Media have set drama Live Like That for a Feb. 26, 2027 theatrical release. Starring Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning), Roselyn Sanchez (Act of Valor), Cameron Arnett (The Forge), Ian Casselberry (The Odyssey), Richard Cabral (En
2026-03-25 19:37 UTC
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“Doctor Who” showrunner and writer Russell T Davies is warning audiences about the dark side of social media when it comes to fandom, saying that opinions can easily be misconstrued on platforms like X, which he called a “hate site.” During a masterclass at Series Mania in Fr
2026-03-25 19:40 UTC
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Kunno was the latest evicted housemate of La Casa de los Famosos Season 6, as tension in the house heated up following multiple rule breaks. The social media influencer became the fifth contestant voted out by the public and opened up about his time on the show. “I am still going through a lot
2026-03-25 20:30 UTC
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Netflix’s Atiya Henry Joins Disney Branded Television As EVP Production After Susette Hsiung Retires
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Netflix production executive Atiya Henry has joined Disney Branded Television as EVP of Production. Reporting to Disney Entertainment Television Head of Production Carol Turner, Henry will serve as a key member of Disney Branded Television President Ayo Davis’ senior leader
2026-03-25 20:30 UTC
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Heather Graham Teases ‘Carrie’ Series Details, Says Mike Flanagan “Captures The Essence” Of Original
After 50 years, the universal themes that made Carrie a horror masterpiece are getting an update for a new generation. Heather Graham, who stars in Mike Flanagan’s upcoming series reboot of Stephen King’s 1974 book for Amazon MGM Studios, recently revealed some details about her characte
2026-03-25 20:35 UTC
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As the Muschiettis gear up for another trip to Derry, the siblings behind It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) also have plans to revisit the films with a long-awaited supercut. Barbara Muschietti recently explained that “time” is what’s currently holding them back from releasing a
2026-03-25 21:45 UTC
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Lonely young men on the internet, gun culture, school shootings and a need to be seen are themes colliding in Oscar Boyson’s disturbingly twisted feature film debut Our Hero, which might just be a little too real to be a comfortable watch for many. The name is a bit ambiguous as the title char
2026-03-25 21:47 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Strand Entertainment has promoted Aileen Lewis to Manager, recognizing the longtime team member’s growing roster and contributions to their talent and production efforts. Lewis has been with Strand Entertainment for more than three and a half years, starting out as an assistant. She
2026-03-25 21:51 UTC
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Steve Carell appeared on the latest episode of Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and remembered how everyone warned him against starring as Michael Scott in NBC’s “The Office” given the acclaimed reputation of Ricky Gervais’ origin
2026-03-25 21:51 UTC
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“Blue’s Clues” star Steve Burns has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Burns was the original host of the children’s TV series from 1996 to 2002, helping propel it into one of the most recognizable kids’ franchises of the 1990s and 2000s. He reprised his r
2026-05-27 13:00 UTC
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Laurie Segall is betting she can build a new model for true-crime investigations, one that doesn’t have to rely on documentary structures or the hour-long conventions of broadcast TV. The journalist, who first gained traction at CNN as a technology reporter before leaving to launch her own creator e
2026-05-27 13:00 UTC
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A24 has released the teaser trailer for “Primetime,” a new drama-thriller that sees Robert Pattinson suit up as the iconic “To Catch a Predator” host, Chris Hansen. “Ren Faire” filmmaker Lance Oppenheim directs with a script from Ajon Singh. Other cast members include Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo a
2026-05-27 13:00 UTC
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Sunset Studios has created a new area of premium standing sets on its Sunset Las Palmas Studios lot in Hollywood designed for the production of microdramas. Knockout Shorts, the vertical media studio recently launched by actor Matthew Ko, has been a partner in the design and construction of the init
2026-05-27 13:00 UTC
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UTA has signed actor, television host, and podcaster Steve Burns (Blue’s Clues) for representation in all areas. Burns is best known for his role as the original host of Nickelodeon’s popular children’s program Blue’s Clues, which he held from 1996 through 2002. One of the mo
2026-05-27 13:00 UTC
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John McClain, the veteran music executive who was co-executor of the Michael Jackson estate and helped engineer the financial recovery of the singer’s legacy and properties, has died, a rep for the estate confirms. He was 71. No cause of death was cited although sources say McClain had been ill for
2026-05-27 14:54 UTC
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Producer Jess Devaney has been tapped to lead Perspective Films, a documentary co-production initiative launched by Perspective Fund. The initiative will provide both funding and producing support for culture, narrative and change-focused documentaries. Perspective Films’ first slate will be announc
2026-05-27 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskovitz had a lot of gall going to Gaul. The American cheesemonger set out to dethrone the French at their Mondial du Fromage, the Olympics of Cheese, by a captaining an upstart U.S. team. Sacré bleu cheese! This pungent story is told in the award-winning documentary The
2026-05-27 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: America’s first microdrama festival is launching in New York. Alza Festival will feature vertical video series premieres, creator spotlights, live conversations, and immersive brand activations, a first-of-its-kind in the U.S. that taps into the buzzy new space. Alza comes from Pete
2026-05-27 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian De Souza (The Great) and Adam Godley (Down Cemetery Road) have inked deals for series regular roles in Conviction, Hulu and 20th Television’s new legal drama series starring Elisabeth Moss. Character details are under wraps. Written by House and The Good Doc
2026-05-27 15:00 UTC
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When Cynthia Erivo describes life inside the “Wicked” machine — the double-feature adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical — it’s hard not to picture a woman swept up by a cyclone. “We were holding on by threads,” Erivo says of the past four years, “and we were really trying to take care of
2026-05-27 15:00 UTC
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In the classic musical “Brigadoon,” the Scottish townspeople who inhabit the mysterious town of the title keep referring to “the miracle,” which confounds the two American travelers who stumble across it one dark and shroudy night. Our two Yank interlopers spend some time puz
2026-05-27 19:45 UTC
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Jennifer Lopez really is an “Off Campus” fan. “The show is so cute and I love it,” she told me Tuesday night at the premiere of her new Netflix romantic comedy “Office Romance.” Jenny from the Block recently went viral with “Off Campus” star Mika Abdalla. The two teamed up for a fun video recreating
2026-05-27 20:05 UTC
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“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” executive producer Jeff Jenkins knows his morning news diet isn’t healthy, but it’s a function of the life that he’s chosen. “My alarm goes off, I pull out my laptop and the first thing I do is go to TMZ,” he says. That’s how he learns what his cast […]
2026-05-27 20:18 UTC
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Keanu Reeves is seeking leniency for Carl Rinsch, the director of “47 Ronin” who faces years in prison for swindling Netflix out of $11 million. In a letter to Judge Jed Rakoff, Reeves called the director an “exceptional artist” and urged the judge to show “leniency and
2026-05-27 20:22 UTC
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The internet can be a strange place. Toxic fandom is real, and social media will run with the most unfounded rumor when fans love (or hate) the trajectory of a show’s central character. One of those rumors has been circling since Season 2 of “The Pitt,” the HBO Max medical drama th
2026-05-27 20:27 UTC
Rolling Stone
The stars talk about their new LP, Omerta, and their plans for Latin music’s future
2026-04-29 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has hired Lital Spitzer and is formally launching a theatrical division. The L.A.-based agency expects the addition of Spitzer to mark a “significant expansion of the company’s footprint into scripted film and television.” She will bring a roster of cli
2026-04-29 14:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK has optioned the rights to Alexis Hall’s buzzy BookTok hit Boyfriend Material. A24 has picked up TV rights for Boyfriend Material, which follows a neurotic and messy twenty-something struggling to keep his life on track. When Luc’s world unexpectedly collides with Oliver, an
2026-04-29 14:00 UTC
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Catherine Zeta-Jones has signed on to join Anthony Hopkins in the feature A Visit to Grandpa’s. Principal photography on the film began on April 7 in Wales. It is directed by DJ Caruso (Mary). Check out a first look of Zeta-Jones in the film above and one of Hopkins in action below. Also starring in
2026-04-29 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
After 50 years, the metal giants are finally ready to let someone outside the band tell their story
2026-04-29 14:00 UTC
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CANNES, France — When Cannes’ MipTV disappeared in 2025, some pundits wondered if Canneseries, running parallel to MipTV, could now last as a go-it-alone event. One year later, Canneseries has delivered a star-stacked edition galvanized by ‘A-list’ pop culture icons – Kpop star Jisoo, Severanc
2026-04-29 14:59 UTC
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It all comes out in the wash, as the saying goes, and that’s the upshot of Kacey Musgraves’ “Dry Spell,” which may be the sexiest song ever written about sexlessness. When asked for her favorite lyric on her new album, “Middle of Nowhere,” the singer doesn’t hesitate to cite a slyly bawdy line from
2026-04-29 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Avengers and Materialists star Chris Evans is joining crime-thriller, My Darling California, the next project for writer-director Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams). As we told you last fall, the movie will star Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Chris Pine (Star Trek franchise), Mikey Madi
2026-04-29 15:09 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: The Morning Show has added Sydney Park (Scary Movie, Moxie) and Jeff Wilbusch (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, Unorthodox) in recurring roles for the upcoming fifth season. Park will play Leah, Cory Ellison’s new assistant. Wilbusch will recur as Roman, Head of Protective Services
2026-04-29 21:00 UTC
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When it comes to the barrage of nonsense coming from this White House, sometimes no response is the best response. Disney has clearly learned its lesson from last year’s Jimmy Kimmel media firestorm, when it temporarily benched the late night host in the wake of threats from FCC chairman Brendan Car
2026-04-29 21:01 UTC
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Bryce Dallas Howard has been cast in Curry Barker’s next directorial Anything But Ghosts, which is being released by Focus Features. Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. Howard joins a cast led by Barker, Aaron Paul and Cooper Tomlinson, w
2026-04-29 21:04 UTC