Hollywood Reporter
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the second-season issue is a problem across the industry.
Hollywood Reporter
"Not only is this inaccurate (not the song i did that in) but reducing a song to an ai generated meaning right at the source feels like it limits free interpretation imo," she said.
Hollywood Reporter
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that the league does not want to schedule next season's games until it knows where the (now former) Lakers star lands.
The Guardian Culture
The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy readingThe National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded.The government should also commit to a National Reading Guarantee that would ensure all children have regular opportunities to enjoy reading, the committee argues. Continue reading...
Variety
In a competitive situation, FX has secured the rights to develop a series based on the New Yorker article “The Call of the Wild” by Paige Williams, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. Also published online in January 2026 under the title “The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park,” the article details the […]
Hollywood Reporter
Instead of semiannual reports, the streamer will move to an annual release of viewing data next year.
Hollywood Reporter
"Free is something that we're going to continue to consider, but we have no near-term plans to launch something," said Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters.
Variety
Just a day after Fox Sports’ coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals broke records, they did it again. Wednesday’s nailbiter between Argentina and England averaged 15.063 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinals match in English-language history. That beat Tuesday’s faceoff between Spain and France, which averaged […]
Variety
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Brent Lang details the comprehensive report that he delivered with Rebecca Rubin on the summer box office rebound, and what Hollywood and exhibitors must do to keep it going. Lang, who is Variety‘s executive editor overseeing all film coverage, emphasizes that it […]
Hollywood Reporter
The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech.
Variety
Not everyone gets a front-row seat to history. This weekend, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” arrives in theaters nationwide. The sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic is the first-ever movie shot entirely on Imax film cameras. And over the past month, everyone from Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway to Nolan himself have hammered home the same message: […]
Variety
In November 2025, writer-director Josh Penn Soskin began production on his debut feature, “The Rooster Prince,” based on his relationship with his late brother, David, a renowned psychiatrist who suffered from bipolar disorder. He cast Shia LaBeouf to play Eli, the character based on his brother, along with Jackson White and Melissa Leo. These are his […]
Variety
Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer’s library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed in its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Netflix told shareholders in a letter that the technology’s usage expands across every level of a program’s production process, from its concept and pre-visualization to post-production and […]
Variety
Netflix is discontinuing its biannual viewership data dump in favor of one annual report beginning in 2027. The latest version of Netflix’s “What We Watched” report, which covered subscribers’ viewership habits from January-June 2026, was released Thursday along with the streamer’s latest quarterly earnings results. Netflix has been releasing the report twice a year, in […]
Variety
As investors fret that Netflix’s viewer-engagement metrics are flagging, the streaming giant reported revenue for the second quarter of 2026 that was in line with Wall Street forecasts. Netflix reported revenue of $12.56 billion, up 13.4% year over year, and net income of $3.4 billion (translating to 80 cents per share). On average, Wall Street […]
Hollywood Reporter
'House of the Dragon' returns to the charts, and 'Widow's Bay' debuts the week of its season finale.
Hollywood Reporter
"Artists alone could not tackle the market manipulation of secondary resellers," Kahan said on Thursday, commending Massachusetts for taking action.
Variety
Paramount Skydance began to lay out its legal argument Thursday against an antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen states, calling it “one of the weakest merger challenges in modern antitrust history.” Paramount’s lawyers filed an opposition to the states’ motion for a temporary restraining order, which would pause the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. […]
Variety
Kris Jenner’s mother Mary Jo Shannon has died, Jenner shared on Instagram. She was 91. “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” Jenner wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye.” Known as “MJ,” […]