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The PBS series from Boston-based GBH will also be premiering projects on Charles Lindbergh and the Great Depression.
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Influence Media Partners, in collaboration with funds and accounts managed by affiliates of BlackRock, has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Anthem Entertainment: its music publishing catalogs, film & TV publishing assets and its portfolio of master recordings, for a purchase price of $600 million-plus. The catalogs include more than […]
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The former Disney executive had served on the board of the streaming giant since 2015.
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After serving for more than 11 years on Netflix’s board, Anne Sweeney is departing as a director. Netflix disclosed Sweeney’s departure in an SEC filing Thursday. “On July 26, 2026, Anne Sweeney notified Netflix, Inc. (the ‘Company’) that she was resigning from the Board of Directors of the Company effective as of that date. Ms. […]
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Amazon reported its second-quarter 2026 earnings Thursday, revealing it beat Wall Street’s estimates with more than $200 billion in revenue for the April-June quarter. Ad revenue for the quarter was up 26% while the company’s profit jumped to $62.6 billion with its investment in AI company Anthropic. Wall Street forecast earnings per share (EPS) of […]
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A film producer sued Netflix for $105 million on Wednesday after the company lost an unencrypted copy of his World War II film “Fortitude,” starring Nicolas Cage and Ben Kingsley. Simon Afram, a Swiss businessman, wrote the script and spent seven years and $45 million bringing it to the screen, according to his lawsuit. The […]
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Live Nation continues to post incremental profits with the release of its second-quarter earnings, reporting $7.7 billion in revenue in a 9% increase over the same period last year. The company saw concert revenue increase by eight percent over the year, with international markets amplifying growth. Operating income for Q2 landed at $522 million, up […]
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The email came through last week. The follow-up call may as well have been an email. “There wasn’t a lot of insight into their full thinking process,” Stacy Spikes, the founder of the film festival Urbanworld, told Variety about the Writers Guild of America East’s decision not to sponsor the 30th edition of the BIPOC-focused […]
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The company is expecting double-digit growth in operating income this year, even as it warns of the impact of legal fees.
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Verve has promoted three coordinators to agents — Shahrez Aziz, Taylor Killefer and Cooper Yeager — across its television literary, motion picture literary and digital departments. “Shahrez, Taylor and Cooper are part of the next generation guiding the evolution of our industry and helping define what a modern agent is today and tomorrow,” Verve’s co-founding partners Adam Levine […]
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Episode one is available on YouTube.
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The long-awaited 6th edition of “Vampire: The Masquerade” is in active development at publisher White Wolf amid a flurry of transmedia development for the entire World of Darkness franchise. “Vampire: The Masquerade 6th Edition” was announced Thursday at Gen Con 2026 by World of Darkness creative director Jess Lanzillo as the first project to be […]
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The Marvel series scored a now rescinded pickup in March.
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Controversial filmmaker Tom Six is saying goodbye to his fans in a very personal way. The writer-director has announced the release of his final movie, “The End of Tom Six.” The “Human Centipede” creator is independently releasing the film on Aug. 15 on YouTube with a pay-what-you-want model. It will also be available on DVD. […]
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The former president called Hansard "a great musician who passed tragically this week," adding that "our hearts go out to his family."
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Tom Holland is swinging back into theaters this weekend as Peter Parker in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” but a plan is already being laid out for his replacement. The actor has been vocal in past interviews about wanting to be directly involved in passing the baton to his Spider-Man successor, but he revealed in a […]
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“Wonder Man” has been canceled at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively. The news comes despite the fact that Disney announced a Season 2 renewal for the show back in March, roughly two months after it debuted. According to sources, a writers’ room for Season 2 was never opened and the show’s writers have been released […]
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The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delivered "without proper industry-standard safeguards."
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Just over a year after Jared Leto withstood a catalogue of sexual misconduct accusations published in AirMail, the BBC broadcast a documentary titled “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret.” In it, director Alice McShane (“Russell Brand: In Plain Sight”) teams up with the reporter behind the AirMail story, Elena Clavarino, and BBC producer Jessica Sartenaer to set out the […]