Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section got off to an outrageous start with the world premiere of “Camp Miasma,” a queer slasher movie that’s equal parts uproariously funny and confounding…
Netflix opened its upfront by “getting closer” with Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein. The theme of the streamer’s pitch to advertisers at the Sunset Pier 94 Studios in New York was �…
Netflix is launching a “KPop Demon Hunters” global concert tour. The news was announced during the streamer’s presentation to ad buyers at upfronts in New York City. Details about the …
Israeli performer Noam Bettan advanced in the annual Eurovision Song Contest as tensions mounted over his country’s participation, with protesters shouting “stop the genocide” and repo…
Netflix is plunging deeper into the Harlan Coben business with a new series based on his Myron Bolitar novels. The 12-novel thriller series will make its screen adaptation debut with help fr…
Showrunners and writers for some of TV’s hottest shows including “Hacks,” “Nobody Wants This” and “Jury Duty: Company Retreat” took to the stage at Variety’s Night in the Wri…
Palestinian-American stand-up comedian Mohammed “Mo” Amer, who was behind Netflix’s critically acclaimed comedy series “Mo,” will host the 86th annual Peabody Awards ceremony on Ma…
The International Casting Directors Association (ICDA) officially launched its new guidelines on the use of AI in casting. They were announced during the Cannes Film Festival, to address the…
For the first time, the USO is opening its archives to share a curated collection of intimate World War II letters, written by service members between 1942 and 1944 from the frontlines in Eu…
Warner Bros. Discovery opened its annual upfronts presentation to advertisers Wednesday with a tribute to the late, great Ted Turner led by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Following a sizzle promot…
Veteran singer-songwriter-actor Steve Earle and veteran actor-director Steve Buscemi are two people who would seem to have known each other for ages. Their work, whether it’s Earle’s vas…
Warner Bros. Discovery held its annual upfront presentation on Wednesday morning — but before kicking things off, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper took the Madison Square Garden Theatre stage to…
Broadway’s “Fallen Angels,” a revival of the Noël Coward comedy-of-manners led by Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, will be livestreamed on BroadwayHD, a theater-centric streaming servic…
A filmed version of “Giant,” the Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated play starring John Lithgow as author Roald Dahl, will be released on the big screen in the fall. “Giant,” re…
Gillian Anderson had a “panic attack” when she watched a particular scene in “Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma” in a cinema for the first time. “That blood day,” as she cal…
An immersive theatrical experience based on “Pirates of the Caribbean” is coming to the U.K. Produced by Secret Cinema and TodayTix, and licensed via Disney Theatrical Group, “Disney�…
Macaulay Culkin recently told Gentleman’s Journal that part of the reason why Catherine O’Hara’s death hit him so hard earlier this year is because “I felt that we had unfinished …
Lío Mehiel (“Mutt,” “After the Hunt”) and Emily Carey (“House of the Dragon”) are set to star in “Camino,” a neo-Western feature from Beso and Pucci Productions that will be…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stopped by Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” for one last interview before the CBS late night franchise comes to an end on Thursday, May 21. While she was on to pro…
Foreign Concept Entertainment is developing “The Ideal Man,” a thriller centered on Jim Thompson — the former CIA operative who built one of Thailand’s most recognized lifestyle bran…
Director-actress-producer Sadie Frost and producer Simon Jones have launched Frost & Jones, a production company developing premium documentary and scripted film and television. The vent…
Academy Award winners Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) and Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) are set to star in “I Passed This Way,” a Western from two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayle…
Michael Che is roasting the “Roast of Kevin Hart.” The comedian and “Saturday Night Live” star was originally slated to perform at the live Netflix event on Sunday, two sources invol…
Cate Blanchett has co-founded a new non-profit company, RSL Media, which helps provide a human consent framework for AI’s use of creative work, name, image and likeness. Advocates and su…
SAG-AFTRA leaders are beginning the process of selling their new studio contract to the membership, amid lingering concerns about artificial intelligence and the merger of two pension funds.…