EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max’s The Pitt made a splash at the Emmys with its first season: the medical drama’s 2025 submissions resulted in 15 nominations, five of which it converted into wins — all in big categories. The Pitt‘s Emmy haul included Outstanding Drama Series, Casting For a Drama Series as well as trophies for all […]
Producers Amanda Lipitz, Henry Tisch and Jordan Roth released a new video in anticipation of their musical, “Galileo.“ In the video, a copy of Galileo’s book “The Starry Messenger” is sent to the edge of space. Host Neil deGrasse Tyson provides the narration. Lipitz told Variety that the video was not AI-generated. Per the logline, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hechinger (Gladiator II) has landed a key role opposite Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson in The Cackling of the Dodos, Netflix’s new film directed by Jason Bateman. Character details are under wraps, but we’re told the film is a three-hander led by Rockwell, Harrelson, and Hechinger. Others newly aboard include Academy Award nominee Michael McKean […]
The “Half” men are splitting up for the Emmys. The Richard Gadd-created HBO Max miniseries, which wrapped its six-episode run on Thursday, has revealed its 21 official Emmy submissions exclusively to Variety. Jamie Bell and Mitchell Robertson, who play the older and younger versions of Niall Kennedy, will both go up in the lead actor […]
If you’re a sports fan, then FOX Sports is a must-watch for around-the-clock sports news, analysis coverage, games broadcasts and highlights. The network is the home to 2026 FIFA World Cup to watch soccer matches during the international tournament. The family of networks also includes coverage and games for pro leagues, like NFL, MLB, MLS, […]
Jorge Gutierrez said he is no longer going to make an AI-generated animated series for Amazon’s Prime Video under the company’s new initiative to fund AI entertainment projects — and he apologized to “those I upset” after a backlash about news of his involvement was announced this week. “I have decided to drop out of […]
Actors have learned how to saddle up since the advent of Hollywood. But rarely does a job call for riding a horse while furiously swinging a mallet — and charging at Zendaya buried in the dirt up to her neck. As Alamo Brown, the towering strip club tycoon and self-proclaimed “king of pussy,” Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje […]
Blippi and Meekah are taking a trip to the Disneyland Resort. The two will premiere a pair of Disneyland-themed episodes filmed at the Disney park in Anaheim, Calif. on the Blippi YouTube channel on May 30 and June 13. “Disneyland Resort is full of imagination, adventure and discovery around every corner, which makes it the […]
The long and winding road to the big screen for Coyote vs. Acme is taking another turn ahead of its summer release, with crowdfunding company Legion M teaming with distributor Ketchup Entertainment. Launched in 2016, Legion M is an equity crowdfunded company with more than 60,000 investors and hundreds of thousands of online followers. It […]
Once a show reaches the point of breaking streaming records, it’s only a matter of time until brands capitalize on this success with their own themed collections and partnerships. Better yet if the show revolves around hockey and sex. In this case, the show breaking records is Prime Video’s “Off Campus,” a new romantic drama […]
Jay Daniel, the Emmy-winning executive producer of the hit 1980s and ’90s TV series Roseanne, Moonlighting and Cybil, among others, died Wednesday, May 27, in Los Angeles of a pneumonia-related illness. He was 82. His death was announced by his frequent producing partner Glenn Gordon Caron. The cause of death was reported by Daniel’s wife, […]
He helped triple New York City’s arts budget, led research to promote cultural funding and supported artists with H.I.V. and AIDS.
The punk-leaning pop star tapped the vibrancy of 1980s new wave and the sentiment of “Sex and the City” on her new album “You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love.”
Paramount+ has bought Wild Cherry, the spooky BBC series from Nicôle Lecky, one of the UK’s most exciting creatives. Wild Cherry stars The Penguin’s Carmen Ejogo and House of the Dragon‘s Eve Best and is about people born into a world of wealth and good fortune. Life is perfect in this luxurious haven until Lorna […]
Following up the success of what is hailed as New Zealand’s most internationally successful animated property, “Kiri and Lou,” the first feature based on the BAFTA-nominated series, will premiere on Wednesday June 24 in the beating heart of Annecy Festival, the lakeside Bonlieu. New Zealand’s first ever stop-motion feature, the “Kiri and Lou Go Raaa!” […]
The new “A Different World” will premiere Sept. 24 on Netflix, 39 years to the day after the original “Crosby Show” spin-off of the same name debuted. A sequel to the 1987 edition, the show is set at the same fictional HBCU Hillman College. Maleah Joi Moon leads the cast as Deborah Wayne, the daughter […]
Thirty-nine years to the day that the original A Different World premiered in 1987, its Netflix sequel series of the same name will also premiere in 2026: September 24. The single-camera comedy will have 10 half-hour episodes. The streamer released key art and a video teaser for the show featuring star Maleah Joi Moon, who plays […]
The morning after the 2019 Emmy Awards, Emilia Clarke woke up with a goal: to redefine what she saw as success. By any measure Clarke was already wildly successful. As well as starring in big-budget “Terminator” and “Star Wars” spinoffs, she was the de facto queen of premium drama, thanks to her portrayal of warrior […]
A federal judge imposed a temporary halt to the Trump Justice Department plans for an almost $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” which already has stirred bipartisan opposition over the prospect it will mean compensation to those who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that the Justice Department was prohibited […]
The Tony-nominated stars of “Fallen Angels” demonstrate how to act drunk onstage and have a hilarious hangover.
FRIDAY AM UPDATE AFTER EXCLUSIVE: A24’s Backrooms is higher in its Thursday night previews with $10.4M, a figure that’s close to another beloved fan IP-turned-big-screen pic, Five Nights at Freddy’s ($10.3M in 2023). Blumhouse-Atomic Monster was a producer on that genre title. It’s also a record for A24, beating Civil War‘s $2.9M previews in 2024. […]
UPDATED: HBO has now unveiled full trailer for House of the Dragon Season 3, which launches June 21. Trailer shows a war of dragons coming to Westeros, as full-scale brutal warfare is unleashed amid the fallout from the Targaryen civil war. The season opens with the Battle of the Gullet, which showrunner Ryan Condal has […]
Ryan Reynolds doesn’t only do acting and soccer. The Welcome to Wrexham chief and Hollywood star is now leading a docuseries about the SailGP team he co-owns with Deadpool & Wolverine co-star Hugh Jackman. The docuseries about the BONDS Flying Roos team will see Australia’s fastest sailors travel the globe to face elite rivals while […]
EXCLUSIVE: Joanne Froggatt, famed for MobLand and Downton Abbey, is in final talks to join Matt Dillon in The Magnificent Seven, the MGM+ TV western remake that begins filming on location in Calgary next week, Deadline has learned. Froggatt joins the the already announced Dillon, Will Patton and Michael Ealy, who are members of the seven-strong group of mercenaries who […]
Harnessing “trickster” energy, the Dominican painter retooled graphics from the past to reimagine the future.
EXCLUSIVE: In what many are calling one of the best rom-com specs in years, Chernin Entertainment has landed the big prize as sources tell Deadline that the production company has come on to produce Sophie Fleur de Bruijn’s hot spec One Month Mark. Chernin is partnering with de Bruijn to produce the project. As of […]
A reissue chronicles the Joe’s Pub performances of Allen Toussaint, who wrote “Lady Marmalade” and “Working in the Coal Mine,” after Hurricane Katrina forced him out of New Orleans.
Get ready for drag shows, marches, musicals, parades and a “Heated Rivalry” parody.
Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference.
Now 20, the viral creator Kane Parsons is releasing “Backrooms,” a feature-length expansion of his web series.
Former Celebrity Apprentice winner Bret Michaels is the latest performer to drop out of the lineup for a series of concerts on the National Mall during the Great American State Fair, which is billed as “a World Fair-style celebration of America’s 250th birthday.” Echoing the sentiments of many others who’ve bowed out, Michaels wrote in a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ewan Mitchell is best known to audiences as the dastardly Prince Aemond Targaryen in House of the Dragon, but his latest project promises to be a more offbeat affair. The British actor stars in Still Life, a short comedy film in which he depicts a lonely retail worker who lives with a dozen mannequins. […]
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private consultative body to discuss setting a theatrical window for films in the Korean market. A bill is currently working its way through Korea’s National Assembly that calls for a six-month window for films before they can be […]
The Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas — tucked into the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains on the San Fernando Valley’s far western edge — is, in many ways, ground zero for reality TV as we know it. This is the home of the Kardashians, the genre’s first family, whose rise to fame familiarized the world […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rio Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere announced a 225 million real ($45 million) investment package through 2028 that includes public policies, grant programs and initiatives aimed at strengthening the local cultural sector and film and TV industries. Cavaliere made the announcement during Rio2C, the largest creativity gathering in Latin America, in the […]
Sideral Cinema has acquired international sales and Spanish distribution rights to “Lorca: The Broken Voice” (“La voz quebrada”), Manuel Menchón Romero’s feature documentary exploring a little-known chapter in the life of Federico García Lorca. Written and directed by Menchón, the feature documentary is produced by Argentina’s K&S Films and Spain’s Pantalla Partida Producciones and Imagine! […]
The Amazon MGM Studios smash Project Hail Mary blasted past the field with five wins including the marquee Best in Show at the 26th annual Golden Trailer Awards, which were handed out Thursday night at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. “Project Hail Mary’s ‘Chance’ is a master class in everything that can make a […]
Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” marketing swept the Golden Trailer Awards Thursday with five wins. The film’s trailer titled “Chance” from Wild Card Creative Group won Best in Show prize at the event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. “Project Hail Mary” also took awards for Best Drama, Best Fantasy/Adventure, Best Music and Best […]
That Garth Davis directed, Florence Pugh starring feature take of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library which Andreas first told you about; well, it’s been won by the David Ellison run Paramount Pictures for $36M. Paramount beat out Focus and Sony who were circling to acquire North America and select foreign markets on the project. StudioCanal […]
Ariana Grande has officially kicked off her “Petal” era with the release of the project’s first single “Hate That I Made You Love Me.” The mid-tempo song is certainly in a breakup mold, with Grande singing in a subdued tone over a sauntering instrumental. “Hate that I made you love me / Sorry if I […]
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