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“The Watcher” Season 2 is bringing back another original cast member, with Jennifer Cooldige officially set to return for the Netflix series as real estate agent Karen Calhoun. It was announced last week that “The Watcher” was preparing to enter production on its second season four years after the first season aired. Naomi Watts, Bobby […]
Rooster Teeth founders Matt Hullum and Burnie Burns have teamed up for a new Christmas horror-comedy movie, “Bad Toys,” now in development. Hullum serves as writer-director, while Burns is executive producer. According to an official description, “Bad Toys” is inspired by “medieval Christmas elf folklore” and asks, “What if a mischievous Christmas elf brought you […]
A movie based on “Cyberpunk 2077,” the popular sci-fi, open-world RPG from CD Projekt Red, is in the works at Paramount, Variety has confirmed. “Transformers” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to the project. CD Projekt Red, video game developer and the franchise rights holder, also serves as producer on the project. “Cyberpunk 2077,” which […]
Don’t doubt what you can see with your own eyes. The revival of physical media and the skyrocketing value of elaborate consumer experiences is very real and emerging as an antidote to fears that AI is changing everything. Top marketers and industry executives discussed these trends and other issues rocking the world of marketing and […]
Hugh Jackman takes his morning routine seriously. The actor, who has spent decades maintaining the stamina required to play Wolverine and perform eight shows a week on Broadway, is an early riser, a devoted meditator and, apparently, not above breaking into song during a workout. It’s a fitting premise for his latest campaign with AG1, […]
The Vancouver International Film Festival’s Institute for the Moving Image has announced a new partnership with Spain’s Málaga Film Festival to launch an exchange between their respective emerging-talent programs – the Málaga Talent program and VIFF Catalyst. The first filmmaker selected from this year’s Catalyst participants is Diego Minor Martínez, a Mexico-born filmmaker who is […]
Leisa Gwenllian says she forgot she applied for the 2026 Stars of Tomorrow talent programme.
Taylor Swift is set to perform at the upcoming Academy Museum Gala. The evening, taking place on Oct. 17, serves as a fundraiser for and takes place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. While details are still under wraps, it would surprise no one if Taylor performs “I Knew It, I […]
The Palm Springs International Film Society will honor Brian Grazer and Ron Howard with the Harold Matzner Distinguished Achievement Award at the Palm Springs Honors event on Oct. 19 at Soho House West Hollywood. Karina Lomelin Ripper will receive the Harold Matzner Impact Award for her 13-minute short film “Silver Blankets.” The award is a […]
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez will be honored by APLA Health later this month with its Voice of Visibility Award. The “Pose” star will be presented by her “Loot” co-star Joel Kim Booster during the kickoff ceremony of the 42nd annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles. “There is still a cruel distance between what medicine can do and […]
Jennifer Lawrence is making peace with the Kardashian family. During the Season 8 premiere of Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” Kourtney Kardashian revealed the Oscar winner asked her sister, Kim, for her contact information so she could apologize for saying the reality star was “more annoying than ever.” Lawrence made the diss while promoting “Die My Love” […]
Audrey Hobert is standing on a chair, wearing Groucho glasses and an enormous trench coat and faux-strumming a banjo. She looks 10 feet tall. She moves across the stage as if dancing alone in her bedroom, and she sings every song in her catalog and then plays her biggest hit, “Sue Me,” one more time, […]
Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was so ubiquitous for so long that you might’ve been happy to imagine you’d heard the last of it. But a cover version has just been released that’s pretty much guaranteed to make you pleased that road has turned out to be a roundabout. Steve Martin and Alison Brown […]
Chuck Lorre is responding to the White House’s recent swipe at him, in a medium where he’s often not been shy in sharing his opinions: His post-episode vanity cards. At the end of Thursday night’s Season 3 premiere of CBS’ “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” Lorre addresses, via his production company vanity card, a recent […]
Ava DuVernay’s nonfiction sequel “14th” is set to world premiere as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 9, and Variety can exclusively reveal that the film will feature a new original song, “Makings of Tomorrow,” written and performed by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper. Netflix will mount an Oscar […]
Princess Diana’s younger brother Charles Spencer said Kristen Stewart nailed it in Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer” but called the movie “terrible” during an interview with Tina Brown at a McNally Jackson Books Event. Spencer, whose bombshell memoir “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister” has reignited tensions with the royal family and sparked a legal dispute with Piers […]
With 2.66 million total viewers, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” topped late-night for the second week in a row this season. This time, it was for Kimmel’s week of live Brooklyn-based shows from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. This year’s trip to the Big Apple turned out to be the show’s most-watched Brooklyn […]
David Ellison’s Skydance, formed from the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, continues to announce senior executive appointments for the new company: On Thursday, the company said Jay Askinasi will lead ad sales for Skydance, David Decker will head up content sales, and Ray Hopkins will oversee distribution. Askanasi and Hopkins will also serve […]
A queer film festival in Switzerland has dropped an Israeli film from its lineup after receiving boycott threats from a collective of local groups including a Palestinian film festival. Everybody’s Perfect, which describes itself as a festival of queer cinema based in Geneva, had initially unveiled Moshe Rosenthal’s “Tell Me Everything” as part of its […]
Will the Academy’s documentary branch finally see it all? “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s A24 doc that made for an explosive secret screening in Telluride, follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes during the 34 days before she reported to prison and keeps rolling long after. It just played the New York Film […]
