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David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is in “advanced talks” with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that’s holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing anonymous sources. A Paramount spokesperson declined to comment. A rep for Bonta’s office said, “Potential settlement talks are confidential. […]
“Monkey Play” (“Kurangukali”), the latest project by Indian filmmaker Don Palathara (“1956, Central Travancore,” “Family”), has been selected for the Vancouver Film Festival’s new Business Hub Works-in-Progress program, which showcases up to eight feature-length projects in the final stages of production. The film, which Variety unveiled last year, follows Sethu and Nikita, who, in the […]
In a highly-competitive situation, HBO has given out a straight-to-series order for the drama “The Spread” with Javier Bardem attached to star and executive produce, Variety has confirmed. The project hails from writers Bill Dubuque And Sean Sansiveri, who also executive produce alongside Bardem. This will be Sansiveri’s first credited TV writing role. Matthew Vaughn […]
Executives, marketing professionals, entrepreneurs and creators across the field of film, television and gaming came together for a day of keynote speakers, panels and networking on Thursday for the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit presented by EY. Industry professionals from Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Sony, Warner Bros., Mattel, Reddit and more spoke about navigating AI, engaging […]
Amazon MGM has filed a motion to throw out a suit brought by a production assistant on the upcoming series “Criminal,” saying that his claim that the showrunner pointed a gun at him is “pure invention.” The plaintiff, Ijaaz Noohu, filed the suit two weeks ago, alleging he was subject to racial and sexual harassment. […]
President Donald Trump said he is immediately banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, slamming the news outlets for their “fake news” reporting. On Friday afternoon, Trump wrote on social media, “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from […]
Olivia Benson has been keeping New York safe for nearly three decades — and Hulu has enough “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” to keep viewers occupied for nearly as long. Ahead of the procedural’s Season 28 premiere on Oct. 8, all 27 previously aired seasons of Dick Wolf’s long-running NBC drama are currently available […]
While the trailers HBO has released for its upcoming “Harry Potter” reboot share a lot of similarities with the original movies, the music will be totally different. In an interview with Collider, Hans Zimmer spoke about the how intimidating it was to follow the footsteps of iconic composer John Williams. “Harry Potter” marks Zimmer’s second […]
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom,” now in theaters. Shaun the Sheep is back for his third feature-length film, “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.” This time around, Shaun and his fellow sheep are getting ready for Halloween — except, the pumpkin patch […]
Doug Aitken’s “Lightscape” is a seven-screen, film-based installation that just completed a run at the Shed’s 12,000-sq.-ft. Darla Moore Gallery that completed its run earlier this week, but as part of the venue’s annual invite-only gala on Thursday night, Jamie XX played a live score as the images rolled by, in an immersive setting of […]
There’s nothing more distressing in “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie’ than the unflinching closeups of the author’s wounded body in the days and weeks after August 12, 2022, when he was repeatedly stabbed while on stage at a literary festival in upstate New York. The camera lingers over his mangled hand and the […]
Juan Andrés García Ropero, “Bropi,” Movistar Plus’ new director of content from May 2026, re-adjusts himself in his seat on a Zoom call. “I’ll sit with my best side showing, this profile,” he jokes. For an executive in one of the most pressured jobs in Spain, whom its film and TV industry desperately hope it […]
Brad Pitt will officially return to star in Paramount’s long-awaited sequel to “World War Z.” “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Conclave” helmer Edward Berger, who recently directed Pitt in “The Riders” for A24, has signed on to direct from a script by Dennis Kelly. Plot details for the sequel are being kept under […]
Over the last year or so, Spain has burst onto the world stage, scoring five Cannes main competition berths — more than any other country in the world outside France — with joint best director winner “La Bola Negra” now prominent in awards season conversations. Spain’s San Sebastián Film Festival looks set to capture this […]
“NAZA,” the acclaimed and controversial documentary about killings in Gaza, has set a distribution rollout for U.S. theaters starting Sept. 30 via an innovative plan that forgoes selling the film to a studio or independent distributor. The rollout, which kicks off exclusively at the IFC Center in New York City, is “spearheaded by The Guardian […]
Gerrit Graham, an actor, screenwriter and songwriter who co-wrote a song for The Grateful Dead, died on Tuesday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 77. He suffered from lung disease, among other ailments. Graham began his career starring alongside Robert De Niro in early Brian de Palma films “Hi Mom!” and “Greetings,” later appearing in films […]
Elevation Pictures has boarded as Canadian theatrical distributor Jason Lapeyre’s World War II hybrid documentary “The Auschwitz Volunteer,” the true story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who volunteers to go to a Nazi prison camp and start a resistance movement from the inside. Written, produced and set to be directed by Lapeyre, the project […]
Expanding its industry ambitions this year, the Vancouver International Film Festival, as part of its newly established Institute for the Moving Image, has announced its slate of eight first-ever Works in Progress (WIP), alongside eight international co-productions. These initiatives are designed to connect filmmakers with domestic, U.S. and international financing, distribution opportunities and production partners […]
Paramount is circling release dates for two horror sequels: the new “Crawl” movie starring Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd, and “Heart Eyes 2.” The yet-to-be-titled “Crawl” sequel is set for July 16, 2027. Alexandre Aja — who directed the 2019 horror thriller, which was a breakout box office success — is back in the director’s […]
Brandy Clark returns this weekend with “American Roots,” her first new single in more than three years — and, incidentally her first since the New York Times named her one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters earlier this year. On the surface, it’s one of the country-est-sounding songs she’s ever done, and a patriotic […]
