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As Hollywood continues to navigate the plethora of questions surrounding AI and its place in the industry, one former talent agent hopes to be the link between everyone involved. Enter Collage, a new management and investment company aimed at helping AI-first production companies navigate the Hollywood pipeline. Founded in July by former UTA agent Dante […]
Fear and loathing are running high as Hollywood processes Thursday’s shock firing of Bela Bajaria from her post as Netflix chief content officer. Yes, the company that popularized the “Keeper Test” is known for abrupt exits. But despite Netflix’s recent stock struggles, many considered Bajaria too big to fail. Word of her ouster leaked before […]
On his campaign website, Xavier Becerra has a page devoted to Hollywood. The 1,600-word policy statement is long on platitudes — “California Is the Home of Film and TV and We Intend to Keep It That Way” — but short on concrete promises. It may also have been written with artificial intelligence. According to Pangram, […]
The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.
New films about Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and AI arrive as public concern about the technology and its leaders rises.
Hollywood’s appetite for Asian stories has broadened, but for Lionsgate’s Helen Lee-Kim, “every movie is still a fight.” Lee-Kim, the studio’s president of international, made the remark at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market during the panel “UTA × Gold House: Hollywood & The Asian Diaspora,” moderated by Variety‘s Asia Editor […]
Something is emerging in Vancouver’s independent film scene. For years, the city has primarily played the role of somewhere else — a cheaper Seattle, New York or generic American city. Its landscapes, tax incentives and favorable exchange rate drawing in Hollywood productions. But increasingly, independent filmmakers are choosing to cast Vancouver as… well… Vancouver. One […]
His family were on the set, and he even managed to get some relatives a cameo in the final episode.
Paramount Skydance completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, creating a Hollywood heavyweight that hands CEO David Ellison control of one of the world's largest entertainment and news businesses. The deal brings together the studios behind "Mission: Impossible," "Harry Potter" and DC Studios alongside major television and streaming networks such as CBS, CNN and HBO Max. The Ellison family has notably held a long relationship with Republican President Donald Trump, who said that Skydance is “going to be a great company.”
The new 'Carrie' series recovers the character who forever marked the iconic 76-year-old actress, but behind that bloodcovered teenager there is an Oscar career, a half-century love story, a family tragedy and an aspiring singer
The performer, who jumped to stardom in 1959 thanks to her role in Alfred Hitchcock's film, has died in her home in Los Angeles.
The agreement will last at least six years and will cost about $15 million per year for the platform, which will offer free awards. The pact comes months after YouTube takes over Oscar rights
Paramount has completed an $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, as its owner Skydance creates a new entertainment behemoth. Billionaire David Ellison's hostile takeover bid defeated rival efforts from Netflix.
The two great Hollywood producers join together and will have to decide what to do with their 'streaming' platforms, cable channels and CNN in full Hollywood mutation
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition.
A coalition of Hollywood unions issued a report on Monday warning that the U.S. has lost significant market share in film and TV production over the last 25 years. The report found that studios spent 74% of their film production budgets in the U.S. 25 years ago, but that the figure has since declined to […]
The race for the award is already almost indistinguishable from the Hollywood prize season
The reporter publishes' The more people I get, the more good times I have ', an atlas of her world trips: from Paris from 68 to Beirut from 87, passing through the Hollywood of the 1990s. "I have a full old age of anger," he says at 83
As Hollywood's financing structures diversify, private capital is increasingly funding the big screen and changing the types of movies that are being made.
The actor and comedian, who claims to have been without hard drugs for two years, has talked to 'Variety' about his rehabilitation, his recent paternity and the decision to withdraw most of his almost 200 tattoos
