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Nithya Raman’s campaign is calling out L.A. Mayor Karen Bass for taking credit for expanding the state film and TV incentive in a recent TV ad. In the ad, Bass looks to the camera and says: “With the film industry struggling, I cut fees and expanded film and TV tax credits… saving thousands of Hollywood […]
Crime repped 27% of scripted TV orders globally, first half 2026 – the single most commissioned TV genre, estimates Ampere Analysis, and a whopping 61% of the No 1 series from many of the world’s biggest players.at this October’s Mipcom trade fair ib Cannes. So one of the global TV business’ Holy Grails is the […]
“Motherfucking Utah, let’s go!” That was the spirit inside the energetic Oct. 22 opening night screening at FilmQuest. The 10-day festival in Provo launched its 13th installment with a screening of the Utah-made motorcycle action feature, “Whiskey Throttle.” Upon entering the festival’s screening home at the Velour Live Music Gallery, the audience was greeted with […]
The box office success of “La Bola Negra,” handled by Elastica Films, has given Spain’s independent film distribution sector a timely boost. The momentum comes as Valladolid’s Merci market enters its sixth edition, its first since the death of José Luis Cienfuegos, the director of Valladolid, known in Spain as the Seminci, who helped build […]
Slayyyter has canceled the remaining dates of her U.K. and European tour due to laryngitis and vocal cord tears. The pop singer took to Instagram Stories to announce the cancelation of the remaining dates on her “Wor$t Girl in the World” tour, which had 10 more shows on the docket. “I am heartbroken to share […]
Spain’s Valladolid International Film Festival – known in Spain as Seminci – opens Friday, Oct. 23 with 30 world premieres and a lineup bringing together some of international cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs and an emerging generation of Spanish filmmakers. Running through Oct. 31, the festival’s 71st edition features 22 films in official competition and 208 […]
Talent management and production company Fusion Entertainment has signed writer-director Ryan DeForeest and started development on a feature adaptation of his short film “My Brother & Me,” Variety can reveal exclusively. “My Brother & Me,” which premiered at the 2024 American Black Film Festival, follows “two brothers across three decades, from South Los Angeles to […]
Joel McHale’s next move could be a viral sensation. McHale is set to star in the next short film from director Kevin Cate, the pair confirmed in a collaborative video on Oct. 23. No information outside of McHale’s casting is known about the short film, but Cate is set to collaborate again with the same […]
In “Dance of the Souls,” Mexican filmmaker Ramón Llaven returns to his native Oaxaca in southern Mexico to observe a unique event held in the local communities of the Etla Valley. Produced by Fata Morgana and Eudiamonía Films in co-production with Estudios Churubusco Azteca and Lost Time Media, “Dance of the Souls” screens at Mexico’s […]
“If you could hear it, you would think I was killing an animal.” That’s Pedro Pascal on his cello playing, more than a year after he started lessons for a movie that hadn’t been greenlit yet. The star first had lunch with Tony Gilroy in late July 2025 about taking on the lead role of […]
Jamie Miller is the first Welsh artist since 2011 to earn a UK Number 1 single - after Sian Evans' feature on DJ Fresh's Louder.
Shane Gillis goes head to head with Danny McBride in an absurdly funny new ad for prediction market platform Kalshi. McBride wrote the four-minute commercial, which stars Gillis as a weatherman who can’t seem to get the forecast right. McBride isa meteorologist at a competing network who is somehow always spot on. Fed up with […]
Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund is set to release five short films in partnership with The New Yorker. Its inaugural slate features films by Mohammad Rasoulof, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Mo Harawe, Maryna Er Gorbach and Hasan Kattan, exploring displacement through stories of identity, belonging and exile. The acquisition follows the films’ world premieres at the 2026 […]
Ahead of the Bravo Fan Fest event taking place in Charleston, South Carolina this weekend, the network renewed three shows (“In the City,” “Next Gen NYC” and “Southern Hospitality”) and ordered two new ones, “Next Gen Atlanta” and “Charmed by a Southern Monster.” That last title is Bravo’s first scripted microdrama, and will be led […]
Higgsfield, the AI video and image generation company dabbling across both marketing and entertainment spaces, extended its Series B funding round with new investments from Nvidia and the investment firm TCV. The San Francisco-based company announced the investments as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Kazakhstan on Friday, where much of Higgsfield’s founding team hails from. […]
Ever since Daniel Craig announced that he would be turning in the tuxedo and putting down the martini glass, the race has been on to decide who will be chosen as the next James Bond. The rumor mill has been heating up for years now, but now it’s really down to the wire for the […]
Belgian TV series “The Inheritance,” about the death of a wealthy widow that ignites a battle over her estate, scored the Sony Pictures Television Award for best drama project at Rome’s MIA Market as its 12th edition wrapped Friday. The show, which is being produced by Kristoffel Mertens and Kato Maes for Belgian shingle Panenka, […]
MoreThan Films has taken international sales rights to Spanish coming-of-age drama “Salen las lobas” (“The Bitch Pack”) ahead of its world premiere at Spain’s Valladolid Film Festival (Seminci) on Oct. 25. Marking Claudia Estrada Tarascó’s feature debut, the film is one of the anticipated discoveries in Valladolid’s Meeting Point competition. The festival’s 71st edition runs […]
In the documentary “You Can See Everything,” Elizabeth Holmes tries to convince Nathan Fielder that she was misquoted by The New York Times. “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created,” the disgraced Theranos founder is quoted as saying in a 2023 profile. She was talking about actors portraying her in movies and […]
In a rare move, Mexico’s exhibition-distribution giant Cinépolis has landed Latin American rights to Spanish buzz title “5 More Minutes” (“5 Minutos Más”) starring Javier Cámara, who took home the Best Supporting Actor prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. “We normally pick up only Mexican rights to films about 90% of the time but […]
