“Hot Ones” is going solo. BuzzFeed announced a deal to sell First We Feast, the studio behind the popular YouTube chicken-wing-eating celebrity talk show “Hot Ones,” for $82.5 million in cash to a group of investors. The consortium of buyers includes First We Feast founder Chris Schonberger and “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans, alongside podcast
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Pulsar Content has nabbed worldwide sales on “Two Women,” a Canadian sexy comedy which is slated to world premiere at Sundance. Directed by Chloé Robichaud, “Two Women” is written by critically acclaimed playwright Catherine Léger based on her own play, “Home Deliveries,” which is itself a modern adaptation of Claude Fournier’s 1970 comedy “Two Women
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“Conclave” and “Wicked” lead the tally for all movies for this year’s Critics Choice Awards nominations with 11 nods each. The CCA, celebrating its 30th year, announced three of the top categories live on NBC’s “Today” which included the 10 movies in the running for best picture: “A Complete Unknown,” “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune:
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Through her shingle Pretty Matches Productions, Sarah Jessica Parker is executive producing Kim A. Snyder’s “The Librarians,” one of 91 films in Sundance’s 2025 Premieres lineup. The feature documentary follows a group of librarians, dubbed FReadom Fighters, who have resisted book bans in Texas, Florida and beyond. It is produced by Snyder, Jana Edelbaum and
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Fremantle has sealed a new five-year agreement with Jamie Oliver Group, extending the partnership that began in 2002. The deal encompasses worldwide rights for TV distribution, AVOD, FAST and digital platforms for the celebrity chef’s content library. The agreement comes as Oliver’s content continues to perform strongly across platforms, with his shows reaching more than
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Nick Jonas is currently at the Red Sea Film Festival, where his wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas is set to receive an honor at the closing ceremony, but until very recently the actor was in Dublin shooting John Carney’s “Power Ballad” alongside Paul Rudd. The project, described as a story revolving around a conflict between a
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PAGEANT POWERHOUSE India’s Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment has tapped Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu for her Bollywood debut in “Baaghi 4.” The announcement comes exactly three years after Sandhu’s Miss Universe win. The film, helmed by director A. Harsha, will feature Sandhu alongside established stars Tiger Shroff and Sanjay Dutt, with Sonam Bajwa rounding out the
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Film Bridge International has added Sidhartha Mallya (“Mafia Wars”) to the cast of “Thrill Ride,” with production scheduled to commence in the U.K. during the first quarter of 2025. The thriller, helmed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura from a script by Chad Law (“Lights Out”) and Christopher Jolley (“Granny Krampus”), follows a group of passengers
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In Rusudan Glurjidze‘s weathered, wintry sophomore feature “The Antique,” the title could refer to any number of withering relics: the handsome, richly patinaed items of furniture that Georgian immigrant Medea (Salome Demuria) illegally imports from her homeland to Russia to sell; the once-grand but disintegrating Saint Petersburg apartment that she buys at a reduced price,
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Elton John minced no words explaining his stance against the legality of marijuana in America and Canada. While speaking with Time magazine, which selected the prolific piano man as its 2024 Icon of the Year, John opened up about his past drug use and expressed his strong opinions against the legalization of marijuana in the
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Quentin Tarantino made headlines in late October when he defended “Joker: Folie à Deux” and said that Joaquin Phoenix gives “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life in this movie,” which apparently pissed off a lot of fanboys. The Oscar winner was a recent guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the active rape allegation against rapper Jay-Z won’t impact the league’s relationship with Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by rapper. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs. During a press conference in Irving, Texas on
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Jim Carrey was recently asked by ComicBook.com if there was one character from his beloved movie career that he’d love the opportunity to play again. His answer? The Grinch, but only if he did it via motion capture. The comedian is not interested in being in the makeup chair for hours undergoing an “excruciating” transformation.
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David Letterman said in an interview with GQ magazine that “retirement is nonsense.” The 77-year-old television icon spent 33 years hosting late-night television shows, starting with the 1982 debut of “Late Night” on NBC and continuing with CBS’ “The Late Show” from 1993 to 2015. He now hosts his own Netflix talk series, “My Next
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David Letterman has launched “Letterman TV”, an 24/7 channel streaming all things Letterman, exclusively on Samsung TV Plus. Starting today in the United States and Canada, the channel will stream “The Late Show With David Letterman”, curated moments, interviews and never-before-seen commentary from Letterman. “Dave’s show was the original viral video,” said Walter Kim, Executive
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Paramount Global is undergoing additional restructuring leading up to its expected merger with Skydance Media in 2025. The media conglomerate is integrating the group that handles distribution for the Paramount+ and Pluto TV streaming services with its U.S. TV networks distribution teams to “create one unified distribution team that is optimized for growth across our
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After years of protracted legal turmoil in the Ramones estate, the future of Netflix‘s film adaptation of Mickey Leigh’s memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” with Pete Davidson attached to star could be in doubt, due to a new arbitration that also saw a director of the groundbreaking punk-rock group’s parent company removed. The decision
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual
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Apple Original Films has scooped up “All Of You,” a slightly sci-fi, bittersweet romance from star and co-writer Brett Goldstein. The “Ted Lasso” alum shared scriptwriting duties with the film’s director William Bridges (“Black Mirror”) and co-stars with Imogen Poots (“The Father,” “Vivarium”). The project premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and went on
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