Variety

‘Get Kevin Feige on the Phone’: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on Taking Control of His Marvel Offer and What’s Next for ‘Wonder Man’

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II wasn’t going to waste his one “Marvel buck.” This is the same man who walked away from a George Miller’s “Furiosa.” The move was necessary. Six straight years of work — “The Get Down,” “Aquaman,” “Watchmen,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Black Mirror” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” — […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey to Voice Audio Guides at Obama Presidential Center

The former president and first lady will also be featured in the guides on the Bloomberg Connects app.

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Variety

Ellen Pompeo to Star in Hulu Pilot ‘Chicks’ From ‘Good American Family’ Writer Katie Robbins

Ellen Pompeo is staying in business with Hulu and her “Good American Family” collaborator Katie Robbins with the dramedy pilot “Chicks.” Variety has confirmed that Pompeo will star in and executive produce the pilot under her Calamity Jane banner along with Laura Holstein. Robbins is writing and executive producing, with 20th Television serving as the […]

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Variety

Alan Jackson’s Star-Studded Farewell Concert to Be Filmed for ‘The Last Show’ NBC Special

Country star Alan Jackson’s farewell concert, set for June 29 in Nashville, will be filmed for an NBC special, to be titled “Alan Jackson: The Last Show,” with an unspecified air date later in 2026, the network announced Thursday. The special is being directed by Sam Wrench, best known for the 2023 feature film “Taylor […]

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Variety

Magic: The Gathering Unveils New ‘Marvel Super Heroes’ Card; Wizards of the Coast Designers Reveal Plan for Balancing Tie-In Sets With Internal IP Amid TV, Film Adaptations (EXCLUSIVE)

Magic: The Gathering‘s latest “Universes Beyond” set, “Marvel Super Heroes” will be released later this month and Variety has this exclusive reveal of a new card from the collection. Releasing June 26, the highly anticipated “Marvel Super Heroes” collection is the latest tie-in set produced for the Wizards of the Coast-owned tabletop trading card card. As more […]

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Variety

Google Launches ‘Search Profiles’ for Creators and Companies, as AI Summaries Have Caused Steep Traffic Referral Drop-Off

Google is introducing a new way for creators and publishers to promote their content on the search engine with “Search profiles.” The new feature comes amid consternation from website operators and creators that Google’s AI summaries have eroded the volume of referral traffic coming from the search portal. The internet giant describes Search profiles as […]

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Variety

Patricia Heaton Sets Legal Drama Pilot ‘Public Interest’ With Patricia Heaton and More (EXCLUSIVE)

Patricia Heaton is executive producing and starring in “Public Interest,” a legal drama pilot from producer-director David Barrett and MPI Original Films. Alongside Heaton, best known for playing Debra Barone in “Everybody Loves Raymond,” the cast includes Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”), James Wolk (“Mad Men”), Liana Liberato (“Scream VI”), Tiana Okoye (“Twisted Metal”), Carter […]

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Hollywood Reporter

No Superheroes? No Problem. Inside the Making of ‘Wonder Man’

Marvel took a huge risk on a show that has more in common with a premium cable dramedy that swaps capes for character. It paid off.

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The Guardian Culture

MC Escher review – hallucinatory insights from the master of the mind-bending staircase

Somerset House, London Escher’s paradoxical geometries and impossible gravities may baffle the mind – yet even his wildest works were never just fanciful, as this fun and gripping show makes clearWe think we know the world of Maurits Cornelis Escher with its mind-bending staircases and buildings that impossibly twist upon themselves. Yet a shocking glimpse of reality intrudes in Somerset House’s gripping journey through his metaverse. In 1945, Escher designed a diploma for students at a temporar

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Variety

MrBeast on That ‘Survivor’ Crossover and Wanting a ‘Beast Games’ Movie: ‘If Amazon’s Down, I’ve Got Some Crazy Ideas’

Jimmy Donaldson is known to millions as MrBeast. And by “millions,” we mean 480 million. That’s the number of subscribers to his YouTube channel alone, and that continues to grow. Earlier this year, his reality competition show “Beast GamesMrBeast on That ‘Survivor’ Crossover, Collaborating with Starbucks, and Being Open to a ‘Beast Games’ Movie – […]

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Variety

Rich Eisen’s ’This Was SportsCenter: Stories From the Set’ Gets Behind the Highlights of ESPN’s Flagship Show (EXCLUSIVE)

“SportsCenter,” launched in 1979 as the flagship show on the new cabler ESPN, is now a cornerstone of the sports station but has become part of pop culture as generations of Americans turn to the show to get updated on scores, highlights and news. Its “This Is SportsCenter” commercials are classics, and much copied — […]

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Variety

‘The Burial’ Writer and Tony Award Winner Doug Wright Signs With Anonymous Content (EXCLUSIVE)

Doug Wright has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. Playwright, screenwriter and librettist, Wright, most recently wrote “The Burial,” directed by Maggie Betts and starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. The legal drama premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before its release on Prime Video. He is currently co-writing the book with Will […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘All Her Fault’ Team Reunites for Peacock Mystery ‘The Break-In’

The drama from showrunner Megan Gallagher is based on a novel by Katherine Faulkner.

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Hollywood Reporter

Netflix Renews ‘Devil May Cry’ for Final Season

"This was always Dante’s Divine Comedy with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was Inferno. Season 2 was Purgatorio. Season 3 will be Paradiso," showrunner Adi Shankar says.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Industry’s Marisa Abela Knows How It All Ends for Yasmin

"I want her to be on the mountaintop somewhere, but I also know the show and I don't know whether that's possible," says the actress, who also reflects on working on the HBO drama's most popular season yet.

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Variety

‘Devil May Cry’ Renewed for Third and Final Season at Netflix

The Netflix animated series adaptation of “Devil May Cry” has been renewed for Season 3, which will also be the show’s last. “For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time,” showrunner Adi Shankar said. “This was always Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ […]

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Variety

Keith David Has Portrayed Some Unforgettable Characters, and He’s Not Even Close to Being Done: ‘I’m 47 Years Into This, and I Still Get to Do It’

The first time Keith David visited Venice, he remembers finding a corner inside the cavernous grandeurof Doge’s Palace. Back in Rome, he had been starstruck by the fact that Julius Caesar had walked the same streets. But at the Doge’s Palace, he wanted to feel that prestige for himself with the ancient acoustics of the […]

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Variety

‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn Breaks Down Filming the ‘Night of Hell’ Pilot: ‘The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done in My Life’

Rhea Seehorn has had quite the lucrative TV career, from starring in “Better Call Saul” and “Whitney” — but the pilot episode of Apple TV’s “Pluribus,” which released last November, took her to new extremes as an actor. “This epic pilot that is the night of hell. It’s not like, ‘Just get through Thursday and […]

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Variety

‘All Her Fault’ Team Sets Peacock Mystery Series ‘The Break-In’ Based on Katherine Faulkner Novel

The team behind “All Her Fault” is back in business with Peacock. Variety has learned the Peacock has greenlit a limited series adaptation of the Katherine Faulkner novel “The Break-In.” “All Her Fault” writer Megan Gallagher will write and executive produce “The Break-In,” while Nigel Marchant and Gareth Neame of Carnival Films — which produced […]

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Hollywood Reporter

A Wheelchair User Directed the Film He Always Wanted to See: ‘Stand Up’

Mari Sanders' feature debut, premiering at Tribeca, follows a young woman navigating disability as a rite of passage, with characters with all their edges. "Who says people with disabilities are good people?"

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