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Why dispatch replications of Amish farmers, wise elderly doctors or financial gurus to various TikToks and other short-form videos when real people can do the exact same thing? A technology company that builds products for media users has introduced a new platform that gives advertisers and creators the ability to license individuals’ likenesses for use […]
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“The Odyssey” artisans — costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, production designer Ruth De Jong and editor Jennifer Lame — are set to receive the Variety Creative Collaborators award at Virginia’s Middleburg Film Festival in October. As go-to artisans of Christopher Nolan, the trio of Oscar winners will be recognized for their work on his films “Oppenheimer” and “The Odyssey.” Susan Koch, […]
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Mount Sinai Hospital’s Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine has introduced the Sheila Jordan Trailblazer Award, in honor of the legendary jazz singer who passed away in 2025 — and the honoree is her daughter Tracey, a music industry veteran currently working with the Recording Academy and de Passe Entertainment. The Center will present […]
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The addition of Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center is still a violation of federal law, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on an emergency motion seeking to block the board of the Kennedy Center — which is comprised of Trump loyalists […]
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Fresh off her César win for co-writing “Un ours dans le Jura” (“How to Make a Killing”), Sarah Kaminsky is making an unusually ambitious leap into directing with “Las Vegas Thérapie.” The €13 million French comedy-thriller is now shooting across Nevada and Utah with a cast led by “Call My Agent!” star Laure Calamy (who […]
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“Ear Hustle,” the first podcast produced entirely inside a prison, is getting a documentary feature from filmmaker Erika Cohn and executive producers Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary. “Ear Hustle” was launched in 2017 by Bay Area visual artist Nigel Poor with Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, who were both incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison […]
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A coalition of unions joined with the Motion Picture Association on Tuesday to unveil a report showing that a federal film incentive would reverse the decline of domestic production and create 143,500 jobs per year. The MPA held a Zoom press conference with actor Jon Voight and Reps. Laura Friedman and Brian Jack, the bill’s […]
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Celeste Parr and her media company, Punctuation Media, have signed with CAA for representation. Parr recently served as writer and showrunner for the third season of CBC’s “Plan B,” where she earned a 2026 Canadian Screen Award nomination for best drama series. She also created “Prejudice,” an upcoming legal drama starring Emily VanCamp and produced […]
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The Emmy “wheel” is about to pop. According to insiders, the Television Academy is in advanced talks to park the annual Emmy telecast at Amazon Prime Video — taking the ceremony off broadcast TV for the first time since its start in 1949. It would end the 31-year tradition of rotating the ceremony annually between […]
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It’s official: Character actor Stephen Root has lent his voice to one of the underworld characters in Rockstar Games’ highly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto 6” coming out this fall — although he suspects a lot of fans had already figured that out. “Yeah, you’re gonna see me in there,” Root told the AP in a […]
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Universal Music Group sued the distribution service DistroKid on Tuesday, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the service infringed on the label’s copyright by pumping out “AI-generated ‘slop’ that siphons revenue and listeners from the legitimate artists and rightsholders.” In the 52-page lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, UMG and its Capitol […]
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Helsinki and London-based The Yellow Affair has snatched up world sales rights to Rodrigo García Saiz’s drama “Morro” ahead of its world premiere at the New Directors’ sidebar of the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept. 18. Shot in 35mm in rural Mexico amid a backdrop of simmering violence, it centers on veterinarian Mateo, who […]
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