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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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Franchise-focused production & brand management company Foundation Media Partners has formed Foundation Books and launched a groundbreaking new partnership with publishing company Macmillan Publishers. Foundation has accelerated its expansion into the book space by forming a multi-year publishing deal with Macmillan. Spearheaded by Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group President and Publisher Jen Besser and Foundation Media
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Amazon founder and current executive chair Jeff Bezos has a question: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” Following the shocking news that Amazon MGM Studios has taken full creative control of the 007 franchise, Bezos riled up the fandom on X by asking his 6.8 million followers for their thoughts on who should succeed
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Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX is set to launch a Summit in partnership with Documentary Campus and the Danish Producers’ Assn. on March 24. The Summit will bring together politicians, thought leaders and film and TV professionals to discuss the future of the industry. It aims to make possible “cross-sector dialogues, enabling key decision-makers to address
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Bell Media has struck a new co-development deal with comedian Tom Green to create content for the Canada-based entertainment company’s streamer Crave and linear network CTV. The new agreement expands native Canadian Green’s ongoing relationship with Bell Media with previous projects including “The Tom Green Show” and “Tom Green’s House Tonight,” as well as Green’s
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Hong Kong director Jun Li has prompted a small political storm at the Berlin Film Festival, reportedly sparking a police probe after making a pro-Palestinian speech during the presentation of his film “Queerpanorama.” While presenting “Queerpanorama,” which premiered in Berlin’s Panorama section on Saturday, the director made a speech on behalf of the film’s protagonist
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“Conclave” director Edward Berger and the Oscar-nominated film’s Italian stars Isabella Rossellini and Sergio Castellitto will be celebrated by the Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival, which will run Feb 23 to March 1 at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater. Berger, whose Vatican thriller just scored four BAFTA wins, will be feted with a best director
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IFPI, the global recorded-music industry trade organization, has announced that “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone is the winner of the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024. Boone was also named, with Shaboozey, Variety‘s Hitmakers newcomer of the year for 2024. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” was No. 2 and Teddy Swims’ with “Lose Control” landed at No. 3 — see the complete
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By most measurements, James Blake is quite a successful musician: a popular, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-producer specializing in electronic-based, pop-leaning music, who released eight albums on major labels over the past decade, sells out major venues regularly and has guested on songs by Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and Kanye West. He even performed with Timothee Chalamet
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Everyone’s a friend of Frendo. RLJE Films and Shudder have released the first red band teaser trailer for “Clown in a Cornfield,” Eli Craig’s 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival-bound horror movie based on Adam Cesare’s novel of the same name. “Clown in a Cornfield” stars Katie Douglas and Carson MacCormac as father-daughter duo Quinn
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