Month: February 2025

The new “Holes” TV series has filled in a key role: Jac Schaeffer, creator of the Marvel Studios series “WandaVision” and “Agatha All Along,” will direct the pilot episode for the Disney+ production, Variety has learned exclusively. Disney Branded Television ordered the show to pilot in January (as first reported by Variety), with Alina Mankin
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Zachary Levi appeared on “The Megyn Kelly Show” to promote his new movie, “The Unbreakable Boy,” and said he was “at peace” when he made the decision last year to publicly support Donald Trump for president. The “Shazam” actor originally endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but fully backed Trump when the latter became the Republican
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Regal Cinemas will celebrate the life of late Senator Joe Lieberman with a two-night screening of the documentary “Centered: Joe Lieberman.” Directed by Jonathan Gruber, the doc chronicles the Senator’s life and 40-plus-year political career. The film highlights Lieberman’s commitment to the American people and his run in 2000 to become the first Jewish Vice
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Set during the May 1968 revolution in Paris, Lionel Baier’s “The Safe House” is a comic family portrait filled with ideas that never fully cohere. The film is based on Christophe Boltanski’s Prix Femina-winning biographical novel of the same name, a fact of which we’re reminded numerous times via authorial voiceover. Its snappy, postmodern unfurling,
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CBS has renewed nine series for new seasons: “Ghosts,” which has scored a two-season order, plus “Tracker,” “Fire Country,” “NCIS,” “NCIS: Origins,” “NCIS: Sydney,” “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” “Elsbeth” and “Hollywood Squares.” The series join CBS’ 2025-2026 lineup alongside previously renewed series “Matlock,” “Survivor,” “The Amazing Race” and “FBI” plus new series including “Fire
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Kevin Bacon is back with a vengeance. Amazon Prime Video has revealed first-look images and announced the release date for Blumhouse Television’s “The Bondsman,” a new eight-episode limited series premiering April 3. Bacon will play Hub Halloran, a bounty hunter resurrected by the Devil to capture demons who have escaped hell. “By chasing down those
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Daniel Craig is raising a (martini) glass to James Bond‘s long-time producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The duo announced on Thursday their plans to step back from the 007 franchise and cede creative control to Amazon MGM. “My respect, admiration and love for Barbara and Michael remain constant and undiminished,” Craig, who played the suave
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Angela Bassett recently told Town & Country magazine that she was “deserving” of the best supporting actress Oscar for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Bassett was nominated in 2023 but lost to Jamie Lee Curtis for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Her stoic reaction as Curtis’ name was called went viral on social media. “I found
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Max Minghella has been cast in “Industry” Season 4 at HBO & BBC, Variety has learned. Minghella will star as Whitney Halberstram, described as “the CFO and Founder of Tender, a payment processor entering a growth phase.” He will appear alongside returning cast members like Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, Sagar Radia, Kit Harington as
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On January 24, 1975, Keith Jarrett gave a solo piano performance at the Opera House in Cologne, Germany. The concert lasted a little over an hour, it was entirely improvised, and it was recorded and turned into a double album, “The Köln Concert,” released later that year. It became the best-selling solo album in jazz
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Colman Domingo, Pamela Anderson, Quinta Brunson, Ralph Fiennes and Zoe Saldaña are among the stars set to serve as presenters at this Sunday’s 31st annual SAG Awards, Variety has learned. They’ll be joined by Ayo Edebiri, Drew Starkey, Edward Norton, Gillian Anderson, Jack Quaid, Jessica Williams, Jodie Foster, Joey King, Keri Russell, Kerry Washington, Kumail
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The SAG Awards are shaping up to be a showdown between some of Hollywood’s biggest comeback stories and the next generation of breakout stars. On one side are the resurgence narratives — like lead contenders Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) and Demi Moore (“The Substance”). They’re joined by supporting nominees Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”) and
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An “” TV series has been greenlit at Netflix, Variety has learned. Omar Sy will lead the series, which is set in the same world as the Netflix film franchise. The streaming giant has commissioned eight episodes of the series. The first “Extraction” film, which starred Chris Hemsworth, was released on Netflix in 2020. Hemsworth
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Athena Grant, meet Dr. Max Bankman. On Thursday, March 20, the Ryan Murphy-created worlds of “9-1-1,” starring Angela Bassett as LAPD sergeant Grant, and “Doctor Odyssey,” led by Joshua Jackson as on-board cruise doctor Bankman, will collide in a special crossover episode of the soapy, seafaring medical drama. Continuing “Doctor Odyssey’s” premise of each episode
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The “Malcolm in the Middle” revival at Disney+ is building out its cast. Variety has learned exclusively that Kiana Madeira is set to star in the series alongside previously announced returning cast members Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, and Jane Kaczmarek. The Disney Branded Television show was picked up for four episodes back in December. Per
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Discovery channel has renewed five of its freshman series for second seasons: “The Last Woodsmen,” “In the Eye of the Storm,” “Expedition Files,” “Hustlers Gamblers Crooks” and “Mud Madness.” “The Last Woodsmen” follows Jared Douglas, a veteran logger in the Pacific Northwest who does the dangerous work of harvesting the most massive and valuable timber
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Amanda Seyfried is back in a leading television role following “The Crowded Room” and her Emmy award-winning turn in “The Dropout.” Based on the New York Times bestseller by Liz Moore published in 2020, the limited series “Long Bright River” follows Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer patrolling an area of Philadelphia that was particularly hit
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After the cancellation of “9-1-1: Lone Star” at Fox, there’s a new series coming to Ryan Murphy’s emergency responder franchise: “9-1-1: Nashville,” set to premiere on ABC during the 2025-2026 season. Though plot and casting details are yet to be shared, it can be assumed that the new “9-1-1” spinoff, like the flagship series and
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