There’s a scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” where Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly is fighting to keep her top fashion magazine job. Over coffee in Paris, Priestly slips a piece of paper to her boss containing the names of “designers, photographers, editors, writers, models — all of whom found by me, nurtured by me and
Karol G and her Con Cora Foundation are hosting a benefit charity gala, “Con Cora Land,” set to take place on Feb. 22 in Miami. The fundraising event will support the foundation’s Casa Con Cora initiative, which provides a range of tools — from financial aid to psychological and legal support — to empower women
MusiCares has revealed the lineup for the 2025 Persons of the Year Gala honoring the Grateful Dead, taking place in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. Performers at the event include Dave Matthews, Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Zac Brown, Stewart Copeland, Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Wynonna Judd, Maren Morris, Lukas Nelson, Billy
Following 2024’s massive wave of layoffs across the video game industry, one in 10 developers say they were among those cut from AAA studios and indie outlets alike. According to the the Game Developers Conference‘s newly released “2025 State of the Game Industry” report, 11% of the 3,000 developers surveyed say they were laid off
By the end of 2024, TikTok has generated approximately $8 billion in ad revenue in the U.S. As revealed by Omdia’s Senior Research Director María Rua Aguete at a Content Americas panel, it surpassed 1.9 billion monthly active users globally, with 145 million in the U.S. alone. In terms of video revenues, TikTok reached $63.3
Harlan Coben‘s next Netflix series “Run Away” has announced its sprawling cast, including James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones and Minnie Driver. Alfred Enoch, Lucian Msamati, Jon Pointing, Ellie de Lange, Adrian Greensmith, Ellie Henry, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Finty Williams, Joe McGann and Amy Gledhill round out the cast. The eight-episode series
“The View” hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Anna Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared on the Jan. 21 episode of the ABC daytime talk show to discuss Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration (Whoopi Goldberg is out this week due to a previously planned work commitment). The four women took issue with Trump’s polarizing inauguration speech, in
Shout! Studios is adding to its Western portfolio with “Guns of Redemption,” a gritty frontier drama featuring a cast led by Casper Van Dien, Jeff Fahey and Sean Astin. The film, from director Brian Skiba (“The Gunslinger”), will ride into theaters and hit digital platforms on March 7. The revenge-fueled tale centers on Luke (Van
The world can’t seem to get enough of Dori Media’s “Power Couple.” The hit unscripted format is poised to launch for the first time in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway and renew in Brazil, Germany and India among numerous other territories in 2025. The relationship series is now in more than 20 territories worldwide, with
Latido Films, who’ve previously bet on high-success Latin arthouse cinema in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s breakout, “Lullaby,” have acquired international sales rights to Colombian filmmaker Gala del Sol’s debut feature “Rains Over Babel” (“Llueve sobre Babel”) ahead of its Sundance world premiere. Latido’s Juan Torres brokered the deal and told
An unprecedented co-production between Vietnam, Chile and Spain, “The Meeting” has found its director. The project was first announced at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2023. Arantxa Echevarría, winner of Spain’s Oscar equivalent, a Goya, for her feature debut “Carmen and Lola” and whose €8.3 million ($8.6 million) box office with political thriller “Undercover”
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., has partnered with Italy’s prestigious Cineteca Di Bologna on a curated film screenings’ series called “Stories That Matter” that will launch with Oscar-shortlisted documentary “Daughters.” The powerful Netflix doc, which follows four girls as they head toward a special daddy-daughter dance date with their imprisoned fathers, will
The deleted scenes also includes an extended version of “Popular,” with a full minute of Glinda teaching Elphaba the art of tossing her hair. But first, Elphie must get a little “pep in her step,” so Glinda urges her to stand on the bed and “bounce” to loosen up. “I’m not really a kind of
Provocative French filmmaker Bertrand Blier, who scored hits with transgressive comedies featuring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert such as “Going Places” and “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs,” has died. He was 85. Blier died on Monday night at his home in Paris surrounded by his wife and children, his son Leonard Blier told French news agency
Sean Hu’s “Ocean Elegy: The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped East Asian geopolitics, will world premiere as the opening film of Japan‘s Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival. New Zealand director Miki Magasiva’s “Tinā” is set to close the festival with its
Endemol Shine Boomdog, the producer of Max Limited Series “Like Water for Chocolate,” has joined forces with Brazil’s A Fábrica to launch A Fábrica Mexico & U.S. Hispanic. Both are part of Banijay Americas. The new label will focus on producing scripted content for the Mexican, Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets, and is set
Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop’s upcoming production of “Becoming Eve.” The show was written by Emil Weinstein (“A League of Their Own”) and is based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein (“Sources of Pride”). It will be directed by Tyne Rafaeli (“Spain”). “Becoming Eve” will begin performances at Abrons Arts
2bLatam’s Enchufe TV, the popular digital Spanish-language comedy sketch channel, is set to make a significant leap into the U.S. market in 2025. This expansion comes as part of a broader partnership with the Pepe Bastón-headed Elefantec, a move that aims to bring Enchufe TV’s unique brand of humor to a wider audience. Arturo Yépez,
Since Spain has become a leading European production hub for global streamers, little wonder that the country’s most regular content suppliers for major players receive a spotlight at this week’s Content Americas 2025 in Miami. On Tuesday, Jan. 21, some of the most awaited Spanish scripted productions will take center stage at the Miami-based TV
Original “Harry Potter” director Chris Columbus said in an interview with People magazine that remaking J.K. Rowling’s iconic book series as a television series for HBO is “a spectacular idea because there’s a certain restriction when you’re making a film.” Columbus directed 2001’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and 2002’s “Chamber of Secrets.” Many
Lola Young has been teetering on the brink for years. Since at least 2021, the South Londoner was bubbling under when she jockeyed for the Rising Star Award at the BRITS and landed on the BBC’s prestigious “Sound Of” survey. While list alumni like Pink Pantheress and Central Cee have already made their mark, Young’s
Emmy-winning comedian Trevor Noah will return as master of ceremonies of the 67th annual Grammy Awards, for the fifth consecutive year. Noah will also serve as a producer on the show. As previously announced, the 67th annual Grammy Awards telecast on CBS will continue to be held on Feb. 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in
Garth Hudson, whose fantastical approach to the organ and virtuosity on a panoply of other instruments lent a distinctive touch to the roots-rock of the Canadian-American group the Band, has died, according to the Toronto Star. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” Tuesday morning at a nursing home in the Band’s longtime home base
Disney’s “A Complete Unknown” soared to the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, debuting with £2.6 million ($3.2 million), according to numbers from Comscore. The Bob Dylan biographical drama starring Timothée Chalamet gave Disney yet another strong start in the new year. In its fifth week, Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” maintained its
Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen, including Mike Nichols’ film “Carnal Knowledge” and Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” died on Jan. 17 at his home in upstate New York. He was 95. Feiffer’s wife confirmed to the Washington Post that he died of congestive heart failure. Feiffer was
Col Needham, who founded of entertainment info site IMDb in 1990, is stepping aside as CEO of the Amazon-owned property. Needham has transitioned to the role of IMDb executive chair. Nikki Santoro, who has served as IMDb’s chief operating officer since 2021, has been appointed CEO — becoming only the second chief executive in the
President Donald Trump, in his first day back in the White House, signed a flurry of executive orders — including one instructing the U.S. attorney general to abstain for a 75-day period from enforcing a federal law that criminalizes the hosting and distribution of TikTok. Trump, in the order issued Monday (Jan. 20), wrote that
U.K.-based film programmers Omar Ahmed and Ranjit S. Ruprai are set to debut The Cloud Door, a new boutique label dedicated to bringing South Asian cinema to global audiences, with Kamal Swaroop’s influential cult film “Om Dar-B-Dar” (1988) as its inaugural release. The launch addresses a persistent void in the home video market, where South
Viaplay Content Distribution has boarded the anticipated drama series “Vanguard,” a gripping portrayal of Swedish media mogul Jan Stenbeck played by Jakob Oftebro (“Black Crab,” “Agent Hamilton”). Produced by FLX for SVT in collaboration with New8 Alliance, the five-part series was directed by Goran Kapetanović (“Caliphate,” “The Congregation”). “Vanguard” was penned by Alex Haridi (“Quicksand’,
German media powerhouse RTL Group and the country’s Deutsche Telekom have signed a pact to renew their cooperation in streamer RTL+ until at least 2030, signalling their determination to continue to undermine Amazon and Netflix’s strong presence in the territory. Under the terms of their bundling agreement – which started in 2020 – RTL+ Premium