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Olivia Wilde Says Filmmakers Need Backers Who ‘Believe in Your Insane Idea’ at Breaking Through the Lens Sundance Panel

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Charli xcx, Chappell Roan, Teyana Taylor to Present at 2026 Grammy Awards

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Jay Duplass on Returning to Directing, AI’s Ethical Dilemmas and His Sundance Film ‘See You When I See You’

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LISTEN: Why NBC is Reviving Pilot Season; ‘Love Island USA’ Tops Luminate’s Year-End Streaming Originals Report

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Ruben Östlund on Seating Keanu Reeves Next to a Corpse in ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’ and Cannes Rumors

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Joe Rogan Says He Wasn’t Nominated for Golden Globes’ Best Podcast Award Because He Refused to Pay the $500 Entry Fee: ‘I Don’t Want to Be a Part of That’

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‘White Lotus’ Season 4 Casts Helena Bonham Carter, Chris Messina, Marissa Long

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Julian Schnabel, ‘Spy Kids’ and More To Be Honored at 2026 Texas Film Awards (EXCLUSIVE)

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How to Watch Detroit Pistons vs. Golden State Warriors Live Online With Sling TV

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Beatles Movies Drop Photos of Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and More in Stunt Marketing

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Awards Season Calendar 2025–2026: Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys and All the Key Dates

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Victoria Monet Gives Powerful Speech on Mentorship and Nepotism in the Music Industry at Black Music Action Coalition Grammy Event: ‘Power Structures Will Always Exist: How Do We Use Them Responsibly?’

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Kumail Nanjiani Sets ‘Sex Criminals’ Series at Amazon With Co-Creators Emily V. Gordon & Tze Chun, LuckyChap Producing

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Damon Lindelof Sets Limited Series ‘The Chain’ at HBO Under New Overall Deal

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Bruce Springstreen’s Fiery Music Video for ICE Protest Song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ Shows Brutal Raids, Renee Good and Alex Pretti Tributes, More

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Michael J. Fox Says Retiring in 2020 Was ‘Non-Emotional’ and Finally Acting Again Is ‘Not the Beginning of Any Campaign to Reestablish My Career’

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Paramount+ Sets True-Crime Docuseries ‘Wild Boys,’ About Two Young Brothers Who Claimed to Be Raised in the Woods (EXCLUSIVE)

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Antoine Fuqua on His Nelson Mandela Sundance Doc ‘Troublemaker,’ ICE Crisis and Reuniting With Denzel Washington on Netflix Film: ‘It’s My ‘Lawrence of Arabia’’

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‘God of War’ Series Casts Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Thor

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‘Impractical Jokers’ Scores Top-Rated Episode Ever in Adults 25-54, as Series Sees Big Growth on TBS

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WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Signs With 3 Arts Sports to Expand Career Into Entertainment

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Kara Swisher to Explore Longevity, Anti-Aging in New CNN Documentary Series

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Jeff Probst and ‘Survivor’ Producers Talk Season 50 Casting, New vs. Old Era and Backlash From Fans and Cut Players: ‘It Feels Personal. It’s Not Personal’

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Ruben Östlund Admits He Bought a Plane to Make ‘The Entertainment System Is Down,’ Cast Keanu Reeves as an Electrician and Says It’s About Today’s Society: ‘We’re Harming Ourselves and We Know It’

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A$AP Rocky to Receive Vanguard Award for Fashion at NAACP Image Awards

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One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals

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Variety Names Jeff Cooper as Group Senior Vice President of Consumer Partnerships

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TikTok’s Global Live Fest Sets Keke Palmer as Host, Demi Lovato as Headlining Performer (EXCLUSIVE)

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Procter & Gamble Heads South for Super Bowl, Tapping Local Commercials in Southern U.S.

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Charades and Former Studiocanal Exec Launch Classics Sales Label With Sundance Screening of Ryan Gosling-Starring ‘Half Nelson’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Lady Gaga to Perform at 2026 Grammy Awards

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Katt Williams Sets Fourth Netflix Special ‘The Last Report’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Ari Emanuel to Publish ‘Fiery’ Memoir ‘Roll the Calls’ in September

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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Industry Arm Agora Unveils Lineup of Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

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Wagner Moura on Making Oscars History With ‘The Secret Agent’ and His Warning to America: ‘Polarization Is Democracy’s Greatest Threat’

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New York’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup, Including ‘The Stranger’ and ‘Alpha’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Kennedy Center Artistic Director Kevin Couch Quits Less Than Two Weeks After His Hiring Was Announced

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Ryan Phillippe Climbing Thriller ‘Reach’ Sells Globally for Capture as First-Look Revealed Ahead of EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

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Erin Doherty and James McAvoy Team for Supernatural Drama ‘Faith’ From Paul Andrew Williams (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘Jury Duty’ Season 2 Sets Release Date at Amazon, Will Follow Fake Hot Sauce Company Retreat

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Thriller ‘The Method,’ From the Producers of Oscar Winner ‘The Lives of Others,’ Picked Up by Beta Cinema

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Pepsi Lures Coca-Cola’s Popular Polar Bears to Super Bowl in Soda-Wars Surprise

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Oikos Lends Strength to Kathryn Hahn in Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercial

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How ‘& Juliet’ Became an Against-the-Odds Hit on Broadway

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Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers

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Lady Gaga Pauses Tokyo Concert to Condemn ICE and Support Americans ‘Who Are Being Mercilessly Targeted’: ‘We Need to Get Back to a Place of Safety’

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‘Disney Afternoon Collection’ ’90s Games to Launch on Nintendo Switch, Including ‘Bonkers’ and ‘Goof Troop’

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Kino Lorber Buys Arnaud Desplechin’s French Romantic Melodrama ‘Two Pianos’ for North America (EXCLUSIVE)

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Hims & Hers Super Bowl Commercial Spotlights Cancer Detection, GLP-1 Microdoses

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Melania Trump Doc Pulled From Theaters in South Africa

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