Entertainment Industry Developments

Meaghan Oppenheimer is following up “Tell Me Lies” with a new drama series currently in the works at Hulu. Variety has learned that Oppenheimer is developing the series “Bastards” at the streamer, on which she will serve as writer and executive producer. 20th Television, wher

EXCLUSIVE: Magnetic Labs, the indie producer-financier founded by Adam Mirels and Robbie Mirels, is launching a private equity fund, which it says will “significantly expand the company’s financing capabilities alongside its established development and production businesses”. The c

Brian Helgeland, an Oscar-winner for “L.A. Confidential,” has been tapped to write a crossover film about characters from “Django Unchained” and “The Mask of Zorro.” Although based on the 2014 comic series co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner, the untit

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Mantegna’s The Friendly has become the first feature film to be adapted as a vertical video using interactive studio app HighFive. The indie pic, which was first distributed in 2024, has been converted using what Highfiv creators Jason Strickman and Kumbáli Satori describe as a

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook began the company’s first quarter earnings call Thursday with a 5-minute update on the company’s efforts to fend off a legal challenge to its $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna. DirecTV and a collection of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to try to undo th

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based production company Flimmer has secured the screen rights to German writer Takis Würger’s bestseller The Club, delving into the secretive and sometimes toxic world of members clubs at Cambridge University. The company is currently in the throws of developing an English-languag

To the outsider’s eye, Germany might not be famous for its sense of humor. But new series “The Flaws” is ready to change that.  “I think we are being pretty brave. And also, we don’t care,” said director Arne Feldhusen. “In Germany, everything is always about thrillers. Few years ago, you weren

Action Xtreme, the London-based action studio co-founded by Chee Keong Cheung and Andreas Roald, is moving into music publishing through a new division – AX Music Publishing – formed in partnership with Atlantic Screen Group. The venture will be responsible for developing and commercializing origina

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and its extended universe has always featured a range of musicians and its latest spinoff Dutton Ranch is no exception. Country singer Morgan Wade has joined the cast of the Beth and Rip follow-up in a recurring role. Wade, who has toured with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Zac

EXCLUSIVE: T.L. Swan’s bestselling Miles High Club book series is in the works for the small screen. Amazon MGM Studios is developing the books as a television series with Swan, Counterpoint Pictures and QC Entertainment attached to executive produce. A search is out for a writer. Based on the

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has put in development Summer People, a drama from Emily Goldwyn (SMILF, Emily in Paris), Bill Krebs (Good Girls, Grosse Pointe Garden Society) and Universal Television. Summer People follows three elite families and their nannies during a summer following a shocking tragedy. What

The bass player says he's unlikely to perform with his estranged bandmates at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame unless they "reach out and try and form some kind of relationship"

EXCLUSIVE: Macro and Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Cultural Leadership Fund have selected seven filmmakers who will participate in the inaugural Epigraph Creator Fellowship. Per Macro and CLF, the fellowship is built on the premise that “creators who have always defined culture should hav

The CW will exclusively air all NXT Premium Live Events under a multi-year deal with WWE. Starting with The Great American Bash later this summer. The CW will broadcast 20 PLEs in their entirety live on both coasts over the next several years, including Stand and Deliver, Deadline, and Vengeance Day