Hollywood Reporter
The new independent content studio will develop, produce and distribute scripted and unscripted content with creators and brands — like Sanderson’s “This Is a Game Show?.”
Variety
Barcelona-based world sales company MoreThan Films has acquired period road movie “Les Indes” (“The Indies”), co-written and directed by first-time feature filmmakers Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier, ahead of its premiere in the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate Degli Autori (Venice Days). Produced by Spain’s Lastor Media (“Alcarràs”) and Switzerland’s Alina Film (“The Currents”) and inspired by […]
Variety
‘Big Break’ Review: Comedy Quartet Meets Serial-Killer Peril in an Amusing, Tongue-in-Cheek Thriller
NYC-based sketch comedy quartet Simple Town, who have performed live and in online shorts over the last decade, make an amusing leap to the feature-film format in “Big Break.” Ostensibly playing themselves, the group here gathers at a country manse to celebrate one member’s breakaway mainstream success — and for the other three to beg/cajole […]
Variety
BLacklight and Dark Star Pictures have teamed for the nationwide theatrical release of “Wildcards,” creating a unique theatrical experience that the creatives behind the film hope will spark conversation, community discourse and, of course, box office. The latest feature from writer-director Wes Miller (“Black Heat,” “Call Her King”), “Wildcards” follows the trial of Theodore Sterling, […]
Hollywood Reporter
The Golden Globe nominee talks taking on her ambitious new role, shifting to directing and prioritizing smaller films: "I am actively campaigning for us to keep making and supporting movies like this of the size, of this scope."
Variety
Tony Award winner Lena Hall has boarded “Disconnecting Peter,” joining previously announced star Chad Michael Murray in the upcoming family drama. The film is written and directed by Christopher Beatty. Hall will play Elizabeth Ruck, wife to Murray’s Peter Ruck, a woman working to hold her family together as her husband’s destructive patterns threaten to […]
Variety
Magic: The Gathering will travel back to Middle-earth this month with the release of a new set of tabletop gaming cards based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Variety has the exclusive first look at a card from the collection featuring a key character in the plot against the dragon Smaug. Releasing Aug. 14, “The Hobbit” set will […]
Variety
JP Saxe is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. Last year, he made headlines after scheduling an ambitious headlining tour that he ended up canceling. Instead of making excuses, like many musicians in the same position have, Saxe got brutally honest about why he scrapped the dates, posting a TikTok and writing a guest column for Variety explaining […]
Variety
Netflix has released the first spinge-tingling teaser trailer for the thriller series “Below.” In the teaser for the six-episode series, which can be seen in its entirety below, a small seaside town is terrorized by a mysterious sea creature. “Below” will have its world premiere as part of the Primetime program at TIFF 2026 on […]
Hollywood Reporter
It's like 'Widow's Bay' without the supernatural stuff.
Variety
Film at Lincoln Center has named Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth!” as the centerpiece selection of the 64th New York Film Festival. The film will have its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Oct. 2, with Gilroy, its star Pedro Pascal, and additional members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center […]
Hollywood Reporter
The film, an adaptation of Anna Todd’s bestseller of the same name, follows a college student with a chronic illness having a summer adventure in Mallorca with her mother, played by Eva Longoria.
The Guardian Culture
Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonEra-defining photographs from the likes of Alfred Stieglitz, Saul Leiter and Dorothea Lange showcase the urban landscape, from midnight crime scenes to gloomy corridorsThis – only the second photography exhibition in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s history – is a quietly contemplative but gripping show that traces two intersecting developments: the construction of the modern urban environment and the language of photography.Focusing exclusively on works from era-defining
The Guardian Culture
Royal Albert Hall, London From Kristine Tjøgersen’s tranquil woodland reverie to Canteloube’s Auvergne and Strauss’s thunderous mountainscape, the London Philharmonic – with Louise Alder – conjured colours and brought drama to this vivid programmeWhat do you get if you blow into a tuba full of water? With a little imagination it’s the sound of a squirrel eating, the opening salvo of Between Trees by Kristine Tjøgersen. The Norwegian composer’s ingenious nature poem drew on extended techniques a
Variety
Boutique sales agency FiGa Films has pounced on the worldwide sales rights to Guatemalan drama “Nosotros” (meaning “Us”) ahead of its world premiere at the 51st Toronto Intl. Film Festival (TIFF). Playing at TIFF’s Discovery sidebar, “Nosotros” is written and directed by Joaquín Ruano, who said: “As this is my debut feature, it was essential […]
The Guardian Culture
The bestselling crime writer and Scotland’s first female Geographer Royal had long kept their work separate, until a chance discovery about a doomed 17th-century expedition forced them to collaborateThe airy, modern house on the outskirts of Edinburgh shared by Val McDermid and Jo Sharp is surrounded by greenery and feels as though it was designed to provide enough space for two minds to think.Both women are high achievers in their fields, a Scottish power couple made up of the Queen of Crime an
Variety
Rick Moranis spent nearly 30 years retired from acting, but the comedy icon finally got back in front of the camera last fall to reprise the role of Lord Dark Helmet in “Spaceballs 2: The New One.” Acting again threw Moranis for a loop, not least because he was returning alongside his original “Spaceballs” co-stars […]
Hollywood Reporter
The streamer is not producing original vertical videos — not yet at least — the new mobile feature is simply a discovery tool.
Variety
The FCC and its current chairman, Brendan Carr, were blasted by former heads of the agency and other officials as pursuing a campaign to “censor Disney’s and ABC’s speech” with its highly unusual early review of spectrum licenses for eight ABC-owned TV stations. In a filing Tuesday with the FCC, the officials — who served […]
Variety
Food Network is leaning into the rise in popularity of restaurant culture with a new fall competition series that follows celebrity chef Bobby Flay as he leads a restaurant cooking line team trying to execute a fine-dining menu in real time for real diners. Titled “Bobby Flay’s The Line,” the show will feature Flay along […]