A slew of Los Angeles area premieres have been canceled amid devastating fires in southern California. Amazon MGM Studios and Universal Studios scrapped their planned Tuesday night premieres of “Unstoppable” and “Wolf Man.” Meanwhile, Paramount and Max canceled their Wednesday “Better Man” and “The Pitt” premieres. “Due to the dangerous conditions affecting Los Angeles we
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Variety hosted a panel for six short films, moderated by Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay, as part of the Variety Streaming Room series. Among the films featured on the panel were “Au Revoir Mon Monde” from co-directors Florian Maurice and Astrid Novais, “Bottle George” from director Daisuke Tsutsumi, “Edge of Space” from director Jean de Meuron,
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Amazon Prime has released the trailer for “Reacher” Season 3. The first three episodes of the crime thriller premiere on Feb. 20, with subsequent episodes airing every Thursday until March 27. According to the official logline, “In the third season of the action-packed series, Reacher (Alan Ritchson) hurtles into the dark heart of a vast
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Across several banks of screens in a small TV production control room, a group of American pundits are screaming at each other. It’s a Monday afternoon in mid-November and, naturally, the topic is the election. “That’s me playing the world’s smallest violin for all these crying Democrats!” hollers a red-faced Vincent Oshana, a right-leaning comedian.
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“Wicked,” Universal’s Broadway musical adaptation, and FX/Hulu’s “Shogun,” a drama series set in feudal Japan, dominated the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, collecting five nods apiece to lead the film and TV races. The announcement comes three days after the Golden Globes and on the day Oscar nomination voting opens, and it delivered its
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“Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir,” the hit Paris-set superhero adventure show, has been acquired by Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia in a deal comprising all five seasons of the blockbuster series. The show, which airs in over 150 countries, will headline Atresmedia’s newly expanded “Neox Kidz” children’s programming block, starting on Jan. 7. The deal was brokered by Mediawan
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Golf media personality and content creator Tisha Alyn will launch her first podcast, “Welcome to the Par-Tee,” with iHeartPodcasts on Jan. 15. “Welcome to the Par-Tee” will be the first women’s golf-focused podcast to join iHeart Women’s Sports, the first-ever audio platform dedicated exclusively to amplifying women’s sports. The podcast will feature interviews with top
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Tim Allen and Kat Dennings are both network sitcom royalty — he from “Home Improvement,” she from the surprisingly long-lasting “2 Broke Girls.” (It’s hardly a classic, but that show made it to 138 episodes. That’s well within the syndication zone!) With the sitcom “Shifting Gears,” a midseason debut that brings Allen back into the
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NBCUniversal and Nexstar Media have renewed their ongoing distribution deal across NBC affiliate TV stations. The companies announced the renewal Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new pact is a multi-year agreement across NBC TV Network affiliates in 33 markets in the U.S., including 29 stations owned by Nexstar, three owned
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It’s fair to say that the curiosity of more than a few people was piqued by Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Elvis Presley’s career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Austin Butler-starring biopic “Elvis.” He’s become the archetype for the svengali music manager, although he was neither a colonel nor named Parker but was actually a
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Audible has signed Ronan Farrow, the award-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author, to a multi-project deal. Farrow’s first podcast under the pact is slated to premiere this spring. Farrow hosts “Not a Very Good Murderer,” which is described as “a wild, genre-bending investigative podcast.” It will release March 20, 2025, exclusively on Audible as the
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Regent Street, one of central London‘s busiest shopping districts and also home to a number of arts and media companies, has been evacuated due to a suspected bomb. The evacuation took place around 2pm local time. “Road closures are in place in the vicinity of Regent Street and New Burlington Street while officers investigate a
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With Oscar voting starting today, double Oscar-winner Jane Campion is championing young Italian director Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” Italy’s contender in the international film category. The intimate period drama, set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters, has
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas has boarded the short film “Anuja” as executive producer. The film, which won the live-action short award at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Academy Awards in the live-action short film category. Directed by Adam J. Graves and produced by Suchitra Mattai, “Anuja” centers on the 9-year-old
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Piers Morgan is exiting Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire following a lucrative three-year deal and taking ownership of his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” show and business. The chat show — which pivoted to YouTube-only earlier this year — will be acquired by Morgan’s own Wake Up Productions company, with what it says is a “view to further grow and
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Prominent Italian journalist and podcaster Cecilia Sala has been freed from Tehran’s Evin prison for political prisoners, where she had been detained since Dec. 19. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Italian Premiere Giorgia Meloni’s office said Sala – who was arrested while reporting in the Iranian capital – was flying home on an airplane following “intensive
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The European Film Awards is set to make its debut in Southwestern Europe in January 2027, when its 39th edition will be hosted in Athens. The award show, which were first presented in Berlin in 1988 to promote and support the European film industry, previously took place in London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Tallinn, Malta,
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The global box office wrapped up 2024 with a bang, hitting an impressive $30 billion for the year, fueled by a sparkling $3 billion in December alone, according to U.K.-based film industry research firm Gower Street Analytics. December proved to be a blockbuster month, with the combined international (excluding China) and North American markets raking
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“F1,” the new Formula 1 racing movie starring starring Brad Pitt, is the latest high-profile production to have shot in Abu Dhabi where cameras rolled during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last December. The hotly anticipated Apple Original film which, besides Pitt, stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia
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