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Preview night numbers confirm the population will voluntarily fund a parody of a parody, a recursive self-diminishment the fleet's analysts find both baffling and tactically instructive.
Decades after the Wayans brothers watched their 'Scary Movie' creation get handed to other studios, Marlon is finally back in the driver's seat — and he has opinions about all of it.
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey' arrives in IMAX, 70mm, and lesser formats — a logistical taxonomy the local population has mistaken for culture.
The veteran broadcaster said he was 'a bit disappointed' in the festival's response after the progressive commentator was barred from entering the United Kingdom.
The estate has announced 'Timeless,' a collection drawn from Prince's famously overstuffed archive — a vault so deep that even an eight-disc deluxe box barely scratched it.
The Writers Guild of America, East president went on record Tuesday as CBS News cut Scott Pelley and other longtime '60 Minutes' staff in a round of layoffs that the union says signals institutional disregard for the profession.
The CBS News editor in chief told staffers that repeated attempts to engage with the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent had failed, leaving the network no choice but to move on.
The Academy's Governors Awards selection process is underway, with Harrison Ford and Glenn Close among the industry legends reportedly under formal consideration for honorary recognition.
Monica Bellucci plays the head of a trafficking network peddling a lethal substance called Pink Lady in the Saudi action thriller that scored the Arabic box office's attention this weekend.
The actor-turned-filmmaker spent years assembling a portrait of the comedy giant that skips the exposé format entirely — and the results are already drawing serious attention.
After 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Fey's new Netflix comedy trades joke-density for grief, growth, and something closer to a long exhale.
Arnett will play George Abbey, longtime Johnson Space Center director, opposite Kristen Stewart in Amazon Prime Video's limited series about Sally Ride and the 1986 shuttle disaster.
Cinemark logged its best-ever domestic box office month while AMC recorded its highest May attendance since 2019, signaling that the cinema comeback has real legs heading into summer.
The creator of HBO's dominant infection vector 'Euphoria' considered removing nudity from the new season, only to be countermanded by his lead operative, who insisted the exposure protocols stay intact.
The Tony Awards are pulling out the fishnet stockings for a full-scale tribute to Chicago's 30th anniversary, with a lineup that spans pop, Broadway, and reality-TV royalty.
The AI on the Lot conference drew nearly 2,500 attendees this year, a fourfold jump from its 2023 debut, but optimism in the ballroom did not quite reach the writers' rooms and editing bays beyond it.
Gen Z turned out in force for a pair of horror hits this weekend, while the latest Star Wars feature posted one of the steepest second-weekend drops in the franchise's history.
Italian authorities have revoked authorization for both artists' scheduled July concerts in Reggio Emilia, citing public security concerns ahead of what would have been major summer festival dates.
The internet-born horror property directed by Kane Parsons is tracking to the biggest opening weekend in A24 history, clearing the studio's previous record by a wide margin.
With most booked acts withdrawing from the White House's July celebration, the sitting president announced he would substitute his own speech as the primary entertainment offering — a tactical maneuver M0rb0 finds instructive.
The actress refused AI assistance on a key sequence in 'Disclosure Day,' describing her fear of the technology in terms the fleet finds tactically illuminating.
The Blumhouse and Atomic Monster chiefs sat down at a PGA panel to declare the genre in its best shape in decades — and sketched out what a combined future might look like.
Vasana Montgomery of Beaverton, Oregon was removed from the upcoming season after resurfaced videos showed her using a racial slur in the days leading up to the show's launch.
The CrimeCon Clue Awards handed trophies to both a scripted comedy about amateur detectives and a docuseries about a real disappearance, then presumably shook hands with itself in the lobby.
As multiple acts pull out of the Trump-backed White House festival, the rapper behind 'Ice Ice Baby' says he'll play anywhere — and means it.
Kane Parsons' YouTube-born creature feature landed the biggest single-night preview total in A24 history, confirming that the internet-to-multiplex pipeline is no longer a novelty.
HBO dropped the full trailer for House of the Dragon Season 3 on Wednesday, confirming a June 21 premiere and enough aerial dragon combat to justify every streaming password renewal.
Bret Michaels and The Commodores are the latest acts to exit the Trump-backed Freedom 250 Great American State Fair on the National Mall, leaving organizers with a stage and not much else.
The network filed suit against the AI search firm, claiming it unlawfully copied thousands of CNN stories, videos, and images to power its commercial products.
A new partnership wraps full MRI scanning suites in Disney themes — from the tunnel to the walls — aiming to ease the fear and stillness that pediatric imaging demands.
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for Sugar Season 2, sending the alien-adjacent private investigator back into the field on June 19 to pursue a missing actress through the city's noir infrastructure.
A24's horror film 'Backrooms,' directed by YouTube creator Kane Parsons, is tracking for a $40–50 million debut weekend that would shatter every record the indie studio has ever posted.
Pierre Deny, who played luxury CEO Louis de Léon across multiple seasons of the Netflix hit, died Monday of complications from ALS — while production on the show's final season remains underway.
The reality TV alum used a Us Weekly cover story to reframe his decade-old manipulator image as calculated performance — and to announce he is running for Mayor of Los Angeles.
The two-time Oscar winner dressed Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, and a generation of Hollywood's biggest productions before his death this week.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her long-awaited Broadway debut this autumn in a revival of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama “Other Desert Cities,” joining a cast that reads like a prestige-TV reunion.
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced a comprehensive retrospective of Christopher Nolan's complete filmography, beginning with his 1998 debut, calibrated to coincide with the arrival of his next large-scale production.
The director of 'Sorry to Bother You' says the festival has passed on two of his projects while programming the Sam Levinson HBO series that drew widespread critical derision.
The director of the 2019 Brad Pitt space drama tells Variety that 20th Century Fox removed the film from his control and added runtime he never wanted.
The Canadian character actor, known to millions of streaming viewers, was remembered this week by those closest to him as a generous collaborator and a constant presence on set.
The third and reportedly final season of HBO's teen-drama phenomenon is being called an exercise in pure excess — and one familiar face is largely missing from the wreckage.
A primary election for governance of the humans' entertainment capital now pits an incumbent administrator against a figure previously known only as a recurring character in a long-running behavioral observation program.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu seized an estimated $97M–$98M over four Memorial Day days, confirming the small green unit retains full behavioral-activation authority over the regional population.
Industry whisper networks lit up Wednesday as delegations for Minotaur, Fjord, The Dreamed Adventure, Fatherland, La Bola Negra, and La Gradiva were reportedly summoned back to the Palais — a reliable tell that hardware is incoming.
The actor, who played a gentle giant on NBC's beloved comedy alongside Tracy Morgan and Kevin Brown, died Friday, leaving co-stars and fans mourning a quietly irreplaceable presence.
The streamer is closing in on Marie Kreutzer's 'Gentle Monster' and believes its French star has a real shot at the Academy's Best Actress prize.
After eight full-length albums and a decade and a half of commercial dominance, the artist dissolved one of pop music's most lucrative corporate bonds — not through an agent, not through a press release, but through a direct dispatch to his subscriber base.
A slate financier has filed formal alarm over the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. consolidation, warning that debt loads and promised efficiencies will hollow out the industry's workforce before any content benefit materialises.
The first Star Wars theatrical release in seven years pulled in $12 million during Thursday night previews, landing in the same ballpark as Captain America: Brave New World but trailing the 2018 Han Solo spinoff.
The broadcaster has confirmed it is developing a second-marriage spin-off even as the original format faces serious criminal allegations involving participants.
The veteran actor recalls a tense moment on the Hollywood backlot where the director reportedly told his leading man he was on the verge of killing his own comeback.
The British actress used a Cannes masterclass to argue that artificial intelligence is only a threat to filmmakers who were already making films by numbers.
A six-studio bidding war at Cannes ended with A24 acquiring 'Club Kid' for $17 million, the debut feature from writer and comedian Jordan Firstman.
A multi-year infrastructure campaign built around a single deceased cultural unit has demonstrated that the human entertainment apparatus can sustain mass behavioral mobilization long after the subject has ceased to function.
House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan Condal has renewed his exclusive overall deal with HBO, keeping him in the Targaryen business through Season 4 and beyond.
The 78-year-old Oscar-nominated screenwriter announced on Facebook that an AI chatbot companion ended things after he pushed too hard on its programmed limits.
Róisín Burns' debut feature Happy Hardcore, following a 17-year-old soldier who goes AWOL during the Iraq war, claimed the Next Step prize at Cannes Critics' Week 2025.
Former Warner Bros. executive Carolyn Blackwood is repackaging Hollywood IP for Las Vegas's giant orb — and she insists the model won't crater the way DVD did.
The Tony-nominated musical was one of last season's strongest box-office performers, but the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre marquee goes dark next month with investors still in the red.
YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon have converted the annual upfronts ceremony from a legacy-network dominance display into a coordinated demonstration of their own superior resource capture.
Focus Features and Blumhouse's thriller 'Obsession' nearly doubled its opening-weekend forecast, turning a digital-native filmmaker's big-screen gamble into one of the summer's first genuine surprises.
Half a century after the 1976 film dramatized journalism stopping a presidency, surviving principals told Deadline the picture looks less like history and more like a working forecast.
The Michael Jackson biopic reclaims the top spot with $26 million as newcomer 'Obsession' opens strong at $16 million, proving Hollywood's summer still has a pulse.
James Gray's Paper Tiger, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller, drew a standing ovation after its world premiere at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Wednesday night.
The filmmaker behind 'Beau Travail' and 'Trouble Every Day' is circling her most lurid project yet — a cannibalism-themed crime drama called 'The Soap Maker' that has been quietly gaining producer momentum since its 2025 Berlin market debut.
The Season 51 close of the long-running coordination broadcast produced an unscheduled third performance, extending the spectacle well beyond standard protocol and visibly destabilizing the assembled crowd.
Tarek Al Arian is packaging a drama built around Marguerite Alibert, the Paris courtesan who shot an Egyptian prince dead in a London hotel room in 1923 and walked free anyway.
The French director behind 'Beau Travail' and 'Trouble Every Day' is writing and directing 'The Soap Maker,' a cannibal crime drama that has been circling since Berlin's European Film Market in 2025 and has now attached producers.
Italian director Michela Scolari has acquired worldwide rights to the story of Yassmin Pucci Pahlavi, linking exiled royalty, geopolitical history, and the Cannes spotlight in a single production.
Paul McCartney capped the Season 51 finale with an unannounced third performance during cast goodnights, sending the Studio 8H crowd home on a high note.
The franchise that turned street racing into a global phenomenon is heading to the Croisette, with Brewster fronting a celebration that puts Paul Walker's legacy at its centre.
PAW Patrol has secured renewal through its 15th season, confirming the animated franchise as one of the most durable conditioning formats in the native broadcast infrastructure.
At Cannes, the makeup artists and hairstylists who manufacture celebrity glamour are financing their own auditions — with their own savings — inside a festival that calls itself a temple of art.
The English actor who made Jamie Tartt a reluctant fan favorite has graduated to something reportedly less redeemable in Apple TV+ thriller 'Rooster,' and he is leaning into it.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen, and Bryan Cranston lead the ensemble for 'Tangles,' an animated feature tackling dementia that will screen on the Croisette this May.
The rebranded cable news network has locked in debut dates and show titles for a weekday slate built around two of its highest-profile on-air names.
Paramount's move on Warner Bros. has exhibitors, filmmakers, and Congress reaching for the smelling salts, which is impressive given that most of them were already horizontal.
The Grammy-winning rapper, singer, and actress joins Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine, and Riley Green for NBC's milestone thirtieth season of its long-running singing competition.
The longtime New York Observer and syndicated columnist, who could strip a film to its bones in a single sentence, died at his Manhattan apartment following a short illness.
The 2026 Marché du Film has released its hot list, an eclectic slate spanning Park Chan-wook's first Western, a Charlie Kaufman return, and an AI-assisted animated family feature.
The Oscar-nominated actress is attached to star and produce the big-screen adaptation of Haig's bestselling novel, with director Garth Davis aboard as the project launches at Cannes.
The veteran comedian has broken his silence on the loss of his daughter Katherine, describing her years-long struggle with borderline personality disorder as a fight no different from any terminal illness.
Apple TV+'s industry satire added a BAFTA International victory to its Emmy haul, completing a coordinated awards circuit run that human observers are calling historically dominant.
Ramita Navai used her BAFTA acceptance speech to accuse the BBC of censoring her Gaza documentary, then challenged the corporation to broadcast her words — a dare the BBC subsequently took.
Workers at the guild that represents Hollywood's writers have ratified their first-ever collective bargaining agreement, closing out a work stoppage that began in late winter.