Season 3 of “The Bear” will be served shortly. The Emmy-winning show, starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, will return to Hulu on Wednesday, June 27. Like the first two seasons, the streamer will drop all the episodes on one day as opposed to a week-to-week release.
Dish Network is the latest pay-TV provider hoping that a streaming pact can help slow the cord-cutting bleeding. The satellite-TV company announced a new deal that includes Netflix’s standard plan with ads (regularly $6.99/month in the U.S.) with a Dish TV subscription for no
Robert Zemeckis' next movie focuses on a single location — the living room of a house — over the course of a century, and the camera never moves
As part of its long-term effort to update and diversify its membership, the Recording Academy — home of the Grammy Awards — has extended membership invitations to more than 3,900 established music professionals spanning diverse backgrounds, genres and disciplines. According to
Aiming to expand its footprint within the scripted space, Banijay Entertainment’s French label Screenline Productions has formed a creative partnership with the writers duo Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka. Screenline just collaborated with Rumani and Slomka on the series
Alycia Mason was named CEO of GroupM’s Wavemaker agency, where she will seek to use her experience as a McDonald’s marketing executive to woo new clients to the large media-investment operation. Mason was most recently Field Vice President at McDonald’s, helping to support
High school sweethearts become super spies in the action comedy “The Union,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry and premiering on Netflix Aug. 16. The film follows Roxanne (Berry), who reunites with her ex-boyfriend Mike (Wahlberg) at a bar and sweeps him off his feet, only
Nicola Maccanico, the former Warner Bros. and Sky Italia senior exec, who has been spearheading the radical overhaul of Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, has stepped down after a three-year stint. Maccanico has been instrumental to relaunching the iconic filming facilities that last
Trans Memoria, the first feature film from Swedish artist Victoria Verseau, is the documentary diary of her return to Thailand, the place of her transition in 2012, and her journey to deal with the challenges before and after. It is set to world premiere at the Karlovy Vary
“Tulsa King” will return to Paramount+ on Sept. 15 as Sylvester Stallone fights to defend his growing criminal empire in Season 2. “Tulsa belongs to me now,” he proclaims in a 30-second teaser trailer that also sees Sly beating people up and landing in jail. In Season 2,
There hasn’t been a lot to celebrate at the box office in 2024. Ticket sales have languished. There’s been a dearth of blockbusters (a consequence of the strikes and COVID, which brought production to a screeching halt). And a few movies that bucked the odds to actually debut
“Succession” alums Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod are here for “Harry Potter.” Gardiner has been tapped to serve as showrunner and executive producer of HBO’s upcoming new untitled series based on the “Harry Potter” books, while Mylod is on board to direct multiple episodes,
AMC Networks has staked its claim for more “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.” The series has been renewed for Season 3 on AMC and streaming outlet AMC+, the outlets announced Wednesday. News comes just days before the show’s Season 2 finale (which airs June 30). The
In Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber’s documentary “War Game,” the directing duo map out what America’s next coup d’état might look like. The 94-minute docu takes place on Jan. 6, 2025 – four years after the 2021 Capitol insurrection. Moss and Gerber chronicle an elaborate simulation
A six-part adaptation of award-winning author Sandra Barneda’s bestselling novel of the same name on Apple TV+, “Land of Women” follows Gala Scott (Eva Longoria), a New York socialite whose world is turned upside down when her husband abandons her and the life they’ve built
Wednesday 's Emma Myers stars in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the hit young adult mystery novel
Even Walter Cronkite might be overwhelmed. When the news program “CBS News 24/7” surfaces Wednesday morning on streaming venues, it may surprise the average information junkie. There’s no typical anchor behind a desk here. Instead, on-screen hosts too busy to read scripted
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright experience pivotal moments at one very important place in the trailer for Here. Sony’s TriStar Pictures is set to release director Robert Zemeckis’ drama feature in theaters on Nov. 15. Here tells the story of multiple families over the course of
It’s difficult to believe that JD McPherson, one of the great classic-minded rock ‘n’ roll singer-songwriters of the modern age, hasn’t had a new album of non-seasonal material out in seven years. That absence of fresh recordings hasn’t caused anyone to issue any missing-person
U.K. independent film showcase, the Raindance Film Festival, has partnered with international legal firm Guernica 37 Group (G37) to develop films based on human rights cases. This collaboration aims to produce up to six documentary and fact-based features, using G37’s archive
Horses, helicopters and hanky-panky are what fans of Jilly Cooper’s iconic novel “Rivals” can expect from Disney’s screen adaptation. Starring Emily Atack (“The Inbetweeners”), David Tennant (“Doctor Who”) and Aidan Turner (“Poldark”), “Rivals” follows the power-grabbing social
Sony Pictures has released the trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ “Here,” which is the sixth collaboration between the “Forrest Gump” director and his leading man Tom Hanks. Based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire, “Here” tells the century-long story of a single house and all
West, in "Maxxxine," applies his genre-movie scholasticism to a form that seems, on the face of it, to be the definition of disreputable: the '80s sexploitation thriller — the kind of badly lit grindhouse product, featuring women in heavy-metal lingerie and psycho stalkers who
NBC will air a musical special in honor of Toby Keith, singer of country hits like “Should Have Been a Cowboy” and “Red Solo Cup,” who died at age 62 in February. Titled “Toby Keith: American Icon,” the special will feature covers and original songs performed by country artists
AEG Presents has struck a strategic partnership with Tim Hinshaw and his creative studio Free Lunch, which co-presented Kendrick Lamar’s “The Pop Out – Ken & Friends” Juneteenth concert at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles with pgLang. The event was streamed to fans around the world
It’s that time of year again in Europe! With the start of the official summer holiday season looming, movie fans, film industry folks, party seekers, and global stars are ready to congregate at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic. The
Peruvian director Paolo Tizón’s documentary “Night Has Come,” which has its world premiere Sunday in the Proxima competition section at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below). The film centers on a group of young men, many of them teenagers, who sign up
“Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season. The hotly anticipated second instalment of the
Canada’s Sphere Media is set to acquire distributor Abacus Media Rights from Amcomri Entertainment Inc. The deal, which is valued at CAN $24.6 million ($17.9 million), is expected to close in mid-August. Sphere Media have partnered with media and entertainment company Bell
Verizon has introduced a glowing “V” in its new corporate logo — its biggest redesign in more than two decades — and is launching a new set of discounted streaming options for home broadband customers. The telco’s myHome program, patterned on its myPlan mobile offering,
Film and TV studio A24 has secured a new round of funding led by Josh Kushner’s investment firm Thrive Capital. In connection with the investment, Kushner will join the board of directors for A24, best known for such films as “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,”
Tosin Cole has already been part of two of the best-known sci-fi franchises around. Sure, the American-born British actor admits his turn as starfighter pilot Lieutenant Bastian in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was perhaps a little “blink-and-you’ll miss it” (although it
“Seven Types of Ambiguity,” the Australian TV series involving a mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters, is getting an Arabic adaptation as an original production for beIN Media Group’s TOD streaming platform. Titled “Mirage” or alternately (“Sarab”) in
Happy Accidents has set up a second North American office. The international film and TV studio has also appointed Courtney Colman as its chief financial officer. Colman will work from the studio’s new office in Toronto, where she will be oversee finance and tax for film and TV
“Fingernails,” starring Jesse Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White, is to close the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The tender and idiosyncratic romantic drama, co-produced by Cate Blanchett, is the sophomore outing from director Christos Nikou, who made a splash with his
Christos Nikou’s sophomore feature Fingernails, starring Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley, will screen as the closing film for the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in early July. Organizers of the film fest in the picturesque Czech spa town
Future Frames, a program for up-and-coming European filmmakers, is celebrating its 10th anniversary at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next week. So far, 104 filmmakers from 29 European countries have taken part. Its alumni have gone on to direct features that have appeared at major
Bec Mortimer, Fiona Lamptey, Amber Taylor and Vinnie Shergill, four former senior Netflix executives who between them have decades of experience in the entertainment industry involving some of the world’s most successful shows, have joined forces to launch Juno Studios.
Noaz Deshe’s “Xoftex,” which has its world premiere July 1 in the Crystal Globe Competition of Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below). MAD Solutions is attached as the film’s sales agent. “Xoftex” is Deshe’s second feature film. His feature debut, “White
Paris-based sales and production company Totem has boarded “Quasi a Casa,” directed by Carolina Pavone. The film is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa for Vivo Film, and by Palme d’Or winner Nanni Moretti for Sacher Film. Fandango – behind festival favorites
When asked to picture a black-tie opening ceremony for a big film festival, you will likely think of immaculately dressed people clapping and enjoying glasses of wine or champagne before or after the show. You will also likely imagine a comedic monologue and laughter filling
The Bear actor will play the legendary musician in filmmaker Scott Cooper's forthcoming film
MALAYSIA FESTIVAL SELECTIONS The Malaysia International Film Festival (Miffest), which runs July 21-28, will open with horror film “Indera” by local director Woo Ming Jin and starring Shaheizy Sam and Azira Shafinaz. The festival will conclude with the double feature of “Love
Cinekid Festival, touted as the world’s largest festival for children’s film and media, opens October 20 at Pathé Amsterdam Noord with Beta Film’s “Benjamin Bat,” an animated musical adventure pic about a bat with nyctophobia. “Benjamin Bat” follows a timid bat whose fear of
Creativeland Studios has tapped industry veteran Shobha Sant as its new CEO, Variety can reveal. In her new position, Sant will lead Creativeland’s filmed entertainment division and oversee the talent business of AIG-India, the joint venture between Creativeland Studios and
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a tentative deal on a new Hollywood Basic Agreement and Videotape Agreement. The agreement caps more than three months of bargaining between the union
