Raffaele Annecchino, who over more than 25 years at Paramount/ViacomCBS rose from an early role on the sales side in Madrid to oversee the company’s international operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, has died of acute meningitis. He was 55.
Kino Lorber has released the first trailer for Reed Van Dyk’s “Atonement.” The film will have its Gala Presentation Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released on Oct. 2. It stars Kenneth Branagh, Boyd Holbrook (“The Bikeriders”) and “Succession’s”
“Kane Chronicles” is coming to TV. A series adaptation of the Rick Riordan book series is in development at Disney+. If the project is ordered, Angela Robinson (“True Blood,” “The L Word”) will executive produce and write the show alongside Riordan, who is best known for his
In Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book,” Viggo Mortensen’s driver famously introduces Mahersahala Ali’s concert pianist to fried chicken. The white man, an expert, proves his cultural bona fides to the Black protagonist, the student. The pair of outsiders share a moment of bonding,
HBO Max’s “Lanterns” continues to grow in viewership. The DC Studios series’ third episode, which premiered Sunday, Aug. 30, averaged 10 million viewers globally and 7 million viewers in the U.S. after three days of viewership, according to the network/streamer. That marks a
George Clooney, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from his “Jay Kelly” co-star Laura Dern on opening night of the 2026 Venice Film Festival, sat down for a masterclass at the Lido’s Match Point Arena to look back on a career spanning nearly five decades. His
The cast of “Heated Rivalry” continues to warm up. Kevin Zegers, Paul Gross and Milla Jovovich have joined the hit ice-hockey romance series from Crave ahead of its Season 2 debut on HBO Max in spring 2027. Zegers (“The Madison,” “Transamerica”) will play Coach Wiebe. Gross
With 'The Basics of Philosophy,' the iconic filmmaker, now 80, continues one of the most astounding late-career runs in Hollywood history.
The Hulu crime drama “Furious” has cleared 43 million hours watched since it premiered, according to Disney. Starring Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent investigating a female serial killer (Lola Petticrew), the Elizabeth Meriwether-created series achieved that in about five weeks,
A new live-action “Dungeons & Dragons” TV series is in the works at Netflix based on the iconic franchise’s popular gothic-horror setting “Ravenloft.” As this series goes into development in collaboration with the Hasbro-owned “D&D” maker Wizards of the Coast, Netflix has
Taiwanese animation director Hsin Hsuan Yeh (“Sense of Nowhere”) is in pre-production on “The River Within You,” an immersive VR experience exploring the connection between holding on to the memory of someone lost and finding the strength to let them go. Yeh will present the
Everyone’s a main character in “Too Much Sugar,” a scrappy, agitated, spikily entertaining study of an extended family with a whole community’s worth of backstory, present-tense drama and diverging plans for the future. Only one person in it, however, has main character
Rosie O’Donnell is showing support to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse and sex trafficking. In a new video posted to her Instagram, O’Donnell met with several survivors and sang a rendition of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” together. “I know it’s been very hard for you
The Mayor of Weekends at MS NOW is entering the final days of her term. No one elected Alex Witt to public office, but the MS NOW (and MSNBC) veteran has quietly held court on camera on Saturday and Sunday afternoons — in various permutations and formats — for more than two
More often than not, a Martin McDonagh script sets out like the start of a joke. Two Irishmen meet in a pub, a hangman and a stranger meet in a pub, two hitmen go on holiday to Belgium, a man searches for his missing left hand, a woman purchases three billboards. McDonagh likes
Apple picked up the package, which has Plan B producing.
The film, described by Kate Mara as "quite beautiful and very unusual," focuses on two sisters who not only speak in unison but love the same man and share the same dreams.
Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard,” starring real-life sisters Rooney and Kate Mara as a pair of siblings who do absolutely everything together, earned a solid 6.5-minute ovation at Venice on Thursday night. The surreal drama follows Jean and Joan Holbrooke, sisters who speak in
Goodles, the mac-and-cheese brand co-founded by actress Gal Gadot, announced that it clinched a deal to be acquired by the Barilla Group, the world’s largest pasta company. Gadot, best known for portraying Wonder Woman in DC’s superhero films, and her husband, Jaron Varsano,
Maria Bartiromo, the one-time CNBC darling who parlayed her success in covering Wall Street to a job at Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, has heard the closing bell at the news organization. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the
Disney has set former Xbox exec Jennifer Creegan as the company’s first head of marketing technology and operations. This newly created role, first announced earlier this year, is part of Disney chief marketing and brand officer Asad Ayaz’s enterprise marketing organization and
Alex Garfin is going from Metropolis to Florida. Garfin has joined the cast of “Wekiwa,” alongside Billy Zane, Kevin Chapman, C.S. Lee and Alex Trumble. He joins in the role of Patrick, which was previously set for Ty Neckar. “Wekiwa” is in production in Orange County, Florida.
Somewhere up above, Don Cornelius is celebrating the return of love, peace and soul: BET is bringing back the “Soul Train Awards,” three years after the kudocast was put on pause. The revived “Soul Train Awards” will air Friday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. on both BET and CBS — the first
The 'Star Wars' creator made a surprise appearance at a press preview of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening Sept. 22 in Los Angeles — and acknowledged his contentious relationship with the media.
’The Black Ball,’ ‘Sundays’ and Javier Bardem-starrer ‘The Beloved’ are still in the running.
Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Bhutanese auteur Pawo Choyning Dorji are heading to the Telluride Film Festival with “A Song for the Snow Lion,” a 21-minute short built around a Himalayan folktale about vanishing glaciers. Variety is unveiling the film’s first trailer. Dorji’s
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster has added even more Imax dates.
Wright made headlines earlier this summer when he left the Cincinnati Bengals training camp to pursue an acting opportunity. THR can now reveal what that project is.
“Supergirl” soars to streaming on HBO Max on Sept. 10. Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Ana Nogueira, the adaptation is based on the DC comic series “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” by Tom King. In the comic, Supergirl and a young alien girl named Ruthye travel across
“The Odyssey” will play on Imax 70mm locations through the end of September. Due to sustained demand, Imax is once again extending the run for “The Odyssey” in Christopher Nolan’s preferred big-screen format through Sept. 30, stretching its historic run on 70mm to 11 weeks.
Sam Evenson, the YouTube horror star behind the hugely popular Grimoire Horror channel, has teamed up with “Smile” producers Temple Hill Entertainment and Anton to adapt his viral horror short “Ignore It” into his feature directorial debut. The film, which Evenson will write
The nonprofit organization Comic Relief is launching its inaugural “Neighborhood Festivals” initiative, with events slated in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The festivals will bring people together through comedy and connect them with local nonprofits working to end childhood
Well Go USA Entertainment has set a wide theatrical release across the U.S. and Canada for “Dear You,” the Teochew-dialect phenomenon from director Lan Hongchun, with the company unveiling a clip ahead of the Sept. 4 opening. The film will open at locations across North
Ashe has made plenty of sad songs, but she’d never cried while writing one until “Funeral.” Ironically, the ballad — the second single from her upcoming fourth album “The Girl of Your Dreams,” out Oct. 16 via Atlantic Records — is actually pretty joyful. Despite its title,
"All idiots think they're brilliant, right?" said the U.S. star about President Donald Trump in a wide-ranging conversation on politics, activism and the death of the Hollywood movie star.
Bulgarian filmmaker Theodore Ushev, Oscar-nominated in the animated short film category in 2017 for “Blind Vaysha,” is in pre-production on feature film “Light Boxes,” which he will present at the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market, running Sept. 4-6. The film,
Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist for the Mexican group Camilo Séptimo, his wife, 3-year-old daughter, and nanny were found murdered at their home near Mexico City, according to a statement from the State of Mexico Prosecutor’s Office and CNN. Ana Paula Meléndez, 35, was four
Occasionally sublime, often ridiculous and always extravagantly weird, Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard,” unlike its gorgeously interlinked protagonists, is a film of multiple personalities that only rarely speak in unison. Kate and Rooney Mara, appearing together — oh so
Julie Huntsinger, the festival's director, talks to THR about this year's lineup and tributes, as well as the state of the recently flooded Palm Theater, a 10th anniversary screening of 'Moonlight' and the "cutthroat" behavior of the other fall film fests.
The Telluride Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 53rd edition, headlined by world-premiere titles starring Andrew Scott (“Elsinore”), Julianne Moore (“The Debut”) and Kate O’Flynn (“Tender Loving Care”), alongside new films from auteurs including Jordan Firstman
Neon will release Na Hong-Jin’s “Hope” in some 1,500 U.S. theaters starting Sept. 9, marking the widest domestic theatrical footprint for a Korean-language film since the studio’s 2019 Best Picture winner “Parasite.” The rollout builds on Neon’s recent pattern of securing
Food Network has found its answer to Netflix’s “Is It Cake?” Premiering with back-to-back episodes Oct. 5 at 10 p.m. ET on Food Network and streaming next day on HBO Max, “Sweet Deceit” is a competition series hosted by actor Josh Peck, who leads teams of three competitors
Indie auteur Joe Swanberg’s is ready to rock. Swanberg is writing, editing and directing an as-yet-untitled 35mm dramedy in Chicago. Shiloh Fernandez and Marc Senter star as Lucas Hunter and Oliver Cross, founders of an indie rock band named Fast Star. Per the logline, “two
Levine, who died at 97 last month, stars as the title character in the supernatural comedy.
The life and legacy of Technoblade, the beloved and influential Minecraft creator who died in 2022, will be chronicled in a feature-length documentary film. Titled “Technoblade Never Dies” — a catchphrase of the late California-based creator — the project is being made with the
Dave Bautista is back in the gym and showing off his muscle gains to play the super-strong Greek hero Kratos in the upcoming adaptation of the “God of War” video game. The actor shared a video of himself flexing in the gym and revealed that he’s three weeks into his weight
The Savannah College of Art and Design will bring SCAD AnimationFest back to SCAD Atlanta Sept. 23-25, staging three days of premieres, sneak peeks and industry conversation at the university’s SCADshow theater. The anniversary program will be leaning on two marquee tributes: a
Paris-based sales agency Alpha Violet has acquired international sales rights to “Prince,” the darkly funny feature from Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Borgia, ahead of its world premiere at the 70th BFI London Film Festival this October. Set against the decaying seaside luxury
The B.B. King Music Company and the legendary blues musician’s estate have announced the development of a new feature documentary celebrating his life, music, influence and legacy. The documentary is currently in development, with additional announcements regarding the creative
Viral Nation and Media Trifecta have teamed up to develop an unscripted competition series built around Octagon Metatainment’s “Rags 2 Richmond” franchise. Buyers will get their first look at the series at the Access Canada Summit, held as part of the Toronto Film Festival’s
