مسار منفصل للأخبار السياسية والعراقية والعالمية يظهر فور الجلب، بينما تبقى التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي في الواجهة الرئيسية.
Variety’s annual Faith & Media Impact Report returns Dec. 2. The list recognizes a thriving segment of the entertainment industry that includes storytellers across the religious spectrum who are offering up compelling and creative experiences featuring faith and spirituality for broad audiences. Comprised of directors, writers, creators, studio executives and more working in the entertainment […]
Grupo Mórbido founder/CEO Pablo Guisa has boarded two projects at the Costa Rica Media Market (CRMM) as a producer, a strong endorsement to the revived market’s growing status as a genre hub. Both projects, “Greetings from Maryland” (“Saludos desde Maryland”) by Ricardo B’atz’ of El Salvador and “What Lives in the Storm” (“Lo que trae la tormenta”) by […]
Jalen Brunson isn’t sure yet if his New York Knicks will visit the Trump White House after winning the NBA championship and thought it was “really cool” that Taylor Swift was cheering on the team courtside at Madison Square Garden during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. As for Swift’s star-studded wedding at MSG, and […]
Horror fans better get ready to stay on pitch … or else! “Bad Karaoke,” a new comedy-horror from directors Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., is set to have its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest, the London-based genre film festival, on Aug. 30 at the ODEON Luxe West End. Lightbody co-wrote the script alongside […]
Lewis Pullman is set to star opposite Julia Garner in the upcoming Apple TV series “Guilty Creatures,” Variety has learned. The show, with Garner as a lead and executive producer, was announced on July 6. It is an adaptation of the Mikita Brottman true crime book “Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida.” […]
Disney+ has ordered the series version of the “Afterlife With Archie” comics, Variety has learned. The show was originally reported to be in development at the streamer in 2025 with a script-to-series commitment. Disney is slating the series for a potential launch around Halloween 2027. As previously reported, the show is based on the comic […]
“The Odyssey” defied the gods odds in its opening weekend, delivering a sensational $124.5 million domestically and $264.1 million globally. After all, it’s highly unusual for a centuries-old poem that everyone was forced to read in school to be the basis of a popcorn movie. Those mighty ticket sales are a testament to the appeal […]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup once again demonstrated the value of home-team interest to broadcasters, with television audiences across Europe skyrocketing when national teams were still alive in the tournament before declining after their elimination. Yet, fans still turned up in force for the July 19 final opposing Spain to Argentina, proving that while national […]
Streetball star Grayson “The Professor” Boucher’s story is getting the feature film treatment. Hidden Empire Film Group and its sports division, Hidden Empire Sports Collective, will produce the movie, directed by award-winning filmmaker Deon Taylor (“Traffik,” “Black and Blue,” “The Intruder”). Taylor, also Hidden Empire’s co-CEO, will produce the film alongside Hidden Empire’s Roxanne Avent […]
Netflix has released first-look images from their followup to “A Different World.” As previously announced, the series will premiere on Sept. 24. As with the original show, it will take place at the fictional HBCU Hillman College. Check out the pictures below. The show was first reported to be in development at the streamer in […]
Bong Joon-Ho’s first animated feature has proved a hit with international buyers, securing multiple deals for Pathé. “Ally,” which launched at the Marche du Film, had already been acquired by Neon for the U.S. prior to Cannes, reuniting the Oscar-winning director with the distributor following their hugely successful collaboration on “Parasite,” which won the Palme […]
Odysseus has stolen Luke Skywalker’s crown. Christopher Nolan’s big-screen epic “The Odyssey” has beaten “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” to take first place as the highest-ever three-day gross at the BFI Imax theater in central London, clocking in at £219,867 ($300,000). The BFI Imax holds only one screen, which at 20 metres (65 feet) tall […]
Ever since Michael Urie’s stint in “Oh, Mary!” on Broadway last year, he’s been wanting to return. The actor, known for his TV roles in “Ugly Betty” and “Shrinking” in addition to a plethora of theater work, starred as Mary’s Teacher alongside Jinkx Monsoon as the title character in Cole Escola’s Tony-winning play — about […]
The supernatural thriller “Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal” is being turned into a TV show. The 2017 novel, by “Hellboy” creator Mike Mignola and Thomas E. Sniegoski (“The Fallen”), is being developed into a series by Echoverse, a sci-fi and fantasy audio content studio now making its way into television. Echoverse has previously […]
New-Gen Universe, Inc. is launching its first consumer products initiative at San Diego Comic-Con, debuting an exclusive collector’s trading card set made with Cryptozoic Entertainment to celebrate its Marvel-distributed comic series. Just 300 convention exclusive boxes exist worldwide for the July 23–26 event, making this among the rarest “New-Gen” collectibles released to date. Designed solely […]
Local science-fiction survival thriller “Hope” stormed the top of the South Korean box office during the weekend of Jul. 17–19. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the highly anticipated blockbuster generated $11.3 million from 1,504,019 admissions over the three-day window, capturing a dominant 66.62% share of the […]
“Shark Tank India” has unveiled “#DontBeATota,” a campaign taking aim at founders who mistake the language of entrepreneurship for the substance of it, as the show opens its sixth season for entries on streamer SonyLIV. The campaign lands at a moment when terms such as valuation, burn rate and EBITDA have become everyday vocabulary. It […]
Shenzhen Film Studio’s sports comedy “Kung Fu Soccer” comfortably retained the top spot at the mainland China box office during the July 17–19 weekend, generating RMB501.1 million ($73.7 million) in its second weekend of release, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Directed by Stephen Chow, the hit has reached a cumulative total of $214.3 million […]
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 5 of “House of the Dragon,” now streaming on HBO Max. In tonight’s “House of the Dragon” episode, Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) proclaims that he’s ready to die — and he’s ready to do so honorably. As the war to capture the Iron Throne rages on, […]
We have seen the future of who’s moving up in the list of artists contending to have the most No. 1 albums ever, and its name is Future. The rapper debuted on top of the Billboard 200 with “The Real Me,” landing his 12th No. 1 on the chart. That means he’s now in fifth […]
