Hollywood Reporter
"Free is something that we're going to continue to consider, but we have no near-term plans to launch something," said Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters.
Variety
Just a day after Fox Sports’ coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals broke records, they did it again. Wednesday’s nailbiter between Argentina and England averaged 15.063 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinals match in English-language history. That beat Tuesday’s faceoff between Spain and France, which averaged […]
Variety
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Brent Lang details the comprehensive report that he delivered with Rebecca Rubin on the summer box office rebound, and what Hollywood and exhibitors must do to keep it going. Lang, who is Variety‘s executive editor overseeing all film coverage, emphasizes that it […]
Hollywood Reporter
The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech.
Variety
Not everyone gets a front-row seat to history. This weekend, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” arrives in theaters nationwide. The sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic is the first-ever movie shot entirely on Imax film cameras. And over the past month, everyone from Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway to Nolan himself have hammered home the same message: […]
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In November 2025, writer-director Josh Penn Soskin began production on his debut feature, “The Rooster Prince,” based on his relationship with his late brother, David, a renowned psychiatrist who suffered from bipolar disorder. He cast Shia LaBeouf to play Eli, the character based on his brother, along with Jackson White and Melissa Leo. These are his […]
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Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer’s library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed in its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Netflix told shareholders in a letter that the technology’s usage expands across every level of a program’s production process, from its concept and pre-visualization to post-production and […]
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Netflix is discontinuing its biannual viewership data dump in favor of one annual report beginning in 2027. The latest version of Netflix’s “What We Watched” report, which covered subscribers’ viewership habits from January-June 2026, was released Thursday along with the streamer’s latest quarterly earnings results. Netflix has been releasing the report twice a year, in […]
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As investors fret that Netflix’s viewer-engagement metrics are flagging, the streaming giant reported revenue for the second quarter of 2026 that was in line with Wall Street forecasts. Netflix reported revenue of $12.56 billion, up 13.4% year over year, and net income of $3.4 billion (translating to 80 cents per share). On average, Wall Street […]
Hollywood Reporter
'House of the Dragon' returns to the charts, and 'Widow's Bay' debuts the week of its season finale.
Hollywood Reporter
"Artists alone could not tackle the market manipulation of secondary resellers," Kahan said on Thursday, commending Massachusetts for taking action.
Variety
Paramount Skydance began to lay out its legal argument Thursday against an antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen states, calling it “one of the weakest merger challenges in modern antitrust history.” Paramount’s lawyers filed an opposition to the states’ motion for a temporary restraining order, which would pause the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. […]
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Kris Jenner’s mother Mary Jo Shannon has died, Jenner shared on Instagram. She was 91. “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” Jenner wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye.” Known as “MJ,” […]
Hollywood Reporter
Director Tristan Wheeler made 'Toronto Apartment' — a scrappy dark comedy about a tenant who subleases his place by the hour to survive — for $10,000, on a $200 camera over 11 days: "I have to use those limitations to my advantage and lean into them."
Variety
UFC’s July 11 main card telecast featuring the 69-second fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway averaged 6.5 million viewers across the U.S. and Latin America on Paramount+. The two-and-a-half-hour broadcast peaked with 8 million concurrent streams, which, according to Paramount+, is more than any other exclusive live event for the streamer. (It falls only […]
Hollywood Reporter
The Grammy winner will bring early editions of his comic 'The Outlaw Cherie Lee,' and also participate in a fan signing and take part in a live podcast recording.
Hollywood Reporter
"Thank you for an amazing night in a movie theater," the actor and champion of the theatrical moviegoing experience wrote on social media Thursday ahead of the film's official release.
Hollywood Reporter
"It’s really hard to leave 'SNL' but it does feel like the right time," she wrote. "I’m going to miss it a lot. But the people who work there are my family and that place is my home, and I know I’ll never be too far away."
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Chloe Fineman is leaving “Saturday Night Live.” The actor-comedian best known for her impressions exits the NBC sketch comedy series after seven seasons. “After 7 wonderful seasons at SNL I have decided it’s time for my next chapter,” Fineman wrote in a lengthy Instagram post announcing her departure. She concluded, “It’s really hard to leave […]