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Tom Hiddleston stars in the opening film of the Zurich Film Festival, while Ella Purnell returns as a killer in Sweetpea Season 2. Daniel Diemer joins Heated Rivalry for its second season. Busta Rhymes releases new music featuring unreleased collaborations with D'Angelo and J Dilla.
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Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Gary Owen has extended his debut theater tour, the No Hard Feelings Tour, with new dates taking him into fall. Produced by Icon Concerts, the new run kicks off August 20 in Grand Rapids, MI and will see him hit over 30 additional cities including Salt Lake City, Savannah, Atlanta
2026-04-07 16:00 UTC
Variety
Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street will premiere “Between Me and You,” a new scripted audio drama starring Jurnee Smollett, Jack Falahee and Stephanie Hsu, on April 16, exclusively from Audible. The eight-episode Audible Original is based on the novel of the same name by Allison Win
2026-04-07 16:00 UTC
Variety
Top agency The Team (formerly Wasserman) has named Kevin Shivers co-president of its music group. In this expanded role, Shivers will partner with music group president Lee Anderson to oversee the group’s global strategy, operations, and continued growth across all sectors of the live music business
2026-04-07 16:05 UTC
Variety
“The Electric Kiss,” the French movie that will world premiere on opening night at the Cannes Film Festival, has been boarded by Playtime for international sales. Directed by Pierre Salvadori, the film is set in Paris in 1928 and follows Antoine Balestro (Pio Marmaï), a painter at the he
2026-04-07 16:09 UTC
Variety
With Mexico’s “On the Road” (“En el camino”) by David Pablos snagging both the Venice Film Festival’s Queer Lion and Horizons awards last year, Latin American queer cinema has never shown more promise. The Berlinale’s Teddy Award has also gone to Latino LGBTQ+ films in the past, the most notable bei
2026-08-25 13:52 UTC
Deadline
“Do you know what? I’m gonna live my truth!” exclaims Ella Purnell’s Rhiannon Lewis… The only issue there is her truth often involves murder. A trailer for Sweetpea Season 2 just dropped, with wallflower-turned-killer Rhiannon returning in Sky and Starz’s darkly c
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Deadline
Daniel Diemer and Shaheen Jafargholi are the latest pair to join Heated Rivalry Season 2. Diemer (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) will star as Ryan Price and Jafargholi (War) as Fabian Salah. They join Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie in leading roles for the new
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The unassuming links that fill innocuous posts can mean big money for enterprising creators
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Variety
Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Kind Snacks and a Shark on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” is launching a new podcast in which he engages in candid discussions with successful people not just about their accomplishments — but also about their “defining failures.” Lubetzky’s
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Variety
The official trailer for Apple TV’s “Brothers” just might confirm that lifelong pals Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are actually related. The “True Detective” co-stars rejoin forces as fictionalized versions of themselves who uncover this decades-old secret. After Harrelson’s daughter’
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Variety
Daniel Diemer and Shaheen Jafargholi have joined the cast of “Heated Rivalry” Season 2. They will play Ryan Price and Fabian Salah, respectively. Though Crave and HBO Max did not provide official character descriptions, Ryan and Fabian are the main couple followed in the third book of Ra
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Deadline
Mount Everest thriller Tenzing, starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe, is set to open the 22nd edition of the Zurich Film Festival on September 24. The Apple Original Films project, which is directed by Jennifer Peedom (Sherpa, Mountain), is based on a true story of Tenzing Norgay, played by Gen
2026-08-25 14:00 UTC
Variety
Jennifer Peedom’s Everest drama “Tenzing,” starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe, will open the 22nd Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 24. Hiddleston, Dafoe and Peedom will be on the green carpet in Zurich for the European premiere of the Apple Original Films production, which follows the first ascen
2026-08-25 14:03 UTC
Rolling Stone
Dillagence II created from nearly 300 unheard Dilla beats, with "This Woman" featuring a session the legendary producer did with D'Angelo about 20 years ago
2026-08-25 14:07 UTC