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Studio execs are seeing what's happening with 'Obsession' and the upcoming 'Backrooms' — both from filmmakers who cut their teeth on YouTube — as a watershed moment in Hollywood.
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How Rudy Mawer Is Turning Miami Into the New Capital of Entrepreneurial Entertainment
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Apple TV has revealed a first look at “Last Seen,” a new six-episode Australian thriller. The show will debut with the first two episodes on the platform on September 9, followed by a new episode every Wednesday.  “Last Seen,” formerly known as “The Dispatcher,” follows police detective Ian Ridley (Patrick Brammall), whose “life fell apart […]
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Former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden recently told CBS Sunday Morning that she thought her husband, Joe Biden, was having a stroke on stage during his now infamous 2024 debate with Donald Trump. “I don’t know what happened,” Dr. Biden said. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my god, he’s having a stroke.’ And […]
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Headed into their first NBA Finals since 1999, the New York Knicks have not lost a game since the WWE wrestler un-cursed them.
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Longtime Hollywood studio distribution chief Chris Aronson has been part of the team working behind the scenes to make the deal happen. Going forward, the venture will once again be known as Rentrak.
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Get ready to step into the shoes of James Bond. Amazon MGM Studios and independent video game developer IO Interactive have officially launched “007 First Flight,” a new game that reimagines James Bond’s origin story as the 26-year-old fights his way through MI6’s elite training program. This is the first James Bond game in 15 […]
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Media entrepreneur and stand-up comedian Byron Allen now is the majority owner of BuzzFeed — the struggling digital media player that Allen plans to use to launch a free-streaming platform that he imagines will rival video colossus YouTube. “Our vision is to build on the iconic foundation of BuzzFeed and HuffPost by expanding into free-streaming […]
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"One of the great innovators in the world of music and music marketing, John was a visionary," said fellow Jackson estate executor John Branca.
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Kenneth Iwamasa, Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on Wednesday following Perry’s fatal ketamine overdose in October 2023. Iwamasa was charged for his role in obtaining and repeatedly injecting Perry with the drug, including the administration that resulted in his death, according to a release from the U.S. […]
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Hollywood creatives and the Pontiff are suddenly and surprisingly aligned on the matter of artificial intelligence, says Fordham's David Gibson. It could move the needle.
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Kenneth Iwamasa was intimately aware of Perry's yearslong struggle with addiction but procured the actor dozens of vials of ketamine in the weeks leading up to his death.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Megastar Annita will play the lead role of a still unnamed feature film that will be lensed beginning June 1 at giant media group Globo’s Estúdios Globo in Rio, Amauri Soares, executive director of Estúdios Globo and TV Globo told Variety. Soares will announce the production today during the Rio2Cpanel […]
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The internet can be a strange place. Toxic fandom is real, and social media will run with the most unfounded rumor when fans love (or hate) the trajectory of a show’s central character. One of those rumors has been circling since Season 2 of “The Pitt,” the HBO Max medical drama that returned in January, […]
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The creator of both 'The Handmaid's Tale' and its sequel series unpacks the season one finale of the latter with The Hollywood Reporter — and also shares his longterm vision for the continuing Gilead saga, which will include a moment fans have been longing for.
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The upcoming season features the largest group of designers in the show's history, including one returning contestant.
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Keanu Reeves is seeking leniency for Carl Rinsch, the director of “47 Ronin” who faces years in prison for swindling Netflix out of $11 million. In a letter to Judge Jed Rakoff, Reeves called the director an “exceptional artist” and urged the judge to show “leniency and mercy” in sentencing him. Rinsch was convicted in […]
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The Malta Film Commission, led by Johann Grech, will present the Mediterrane Film Festival on the island’s capital city of Valletta from June 21-28.
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“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” executive producer Jeff Jenkins knows his morning news diet isn’t healthy, but it’s a function of the life that he’s chosen. “My alarm goes off, I pull out my laptop and the first thing I do is go to TMZ,” he says. That’s how he learns what his cast […]
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'Survivor 50' contestant Charlie Davis was also photographed filming at the location of the famed film festival alongside series stars Marissa Long and Charlie Hall.