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Over its first year in business, Range Media Partners’ boutique publishing firm Range Literary Publishing has been quietly working with talent to build out its debut slate. On Tuesday, RLP celebrated with a very big announcement: the release of a book sequel to “Donnie Darko” from filmmaker Richard Kelly. It’s a bold first novel project […]
Over the past two decades, Woody Allen has delivered a string of cinematic love letters to Europe — from Barcelona to Rome to Paris — some of them carrying the glossy allure of tourist postcards. His late-career focus on Europe intensified after his already divisive profile in Hollywood took a hit when longstanding sexual abuse […]
It’s a very, very mad world: A book sequel to the 2001 cult classic film “Donnie Darko” will be releasing later this year from filmmaker Richard Kelly and Range Literary Publishing. Titled, “The Philosophy of Time Travel,” the approximately 800-page book will take place in 1988, in the immediate aftermath of the original film, which […]
Dan Stevens is set for the title role in the “Robocop” TV series at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has confirmed. The show was originally announced in July at the streamer. Prime Video has given the show an eight-episode order. The project has been in development since Amazon acquired MGM in 2022, with Amazon looking to […]
Andrew Garfield is opening up about stepping into the shoes of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film “Artificial.” Garfield portrays the tech executive in the drama, which takes place during the five-day corporate saga in November 2023 that saw Altman abruptly fired as OpenAI CEO before ultimately returning to the company. In […]
Shaquille O’Neal loves solving problems. The basketball icon and four-time NBA champion, 54, has two master’s degrees, a doctorate, served as a sheriff’s deputy and honorary U.S. Marshal, and once played for Doc Rivers. Back in 2016, the basketball icon needed to install a home security system only to have a company quote him $60,000 […]
Prepare to reenter high society, because “The Gilded Age” has set its Season 4 premiere date at HBO. The fourth season of the period drama will debut on Nov. 1 on HBO and HBO Max at 9 pm ET/PT. HBO has also released a new teaser for the season, which can be seen below. The […]
At Netflix, October isn’t just for scary movies; it’s also for funny documentaries. The streamer will premiere four feature docs celebrating some of comedy’s most influential voices and institutions, with one film rolling out each week in October. Debuting on Oct. 7 is “Who Is Martin Mull?,” from the late Bob Saget and Neil Berkeley. […]
Janus Films and Criterion have acquired North American rights to “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall,” a concert film shot and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The concert was captured on 35mm and 16mm film during a sold-out solo performance from the Geese frontman at Carnegie Hall in December 2025. Geese kicked off its Getting Killed world […]
“The Rookie” creator Alexi Hawley has sealed a new, multi-year overall deal with Lionsgate Television — extending a pact he first made with the studio in 2024. The extension continues the writer/producer/showrunner’s work on “The Rookie” franchise while also developing and producing new scripted TV series for Lionsgate. “The Rookie,” about to enter its Season […]
Last awards season, Variety and CNN partnered on the Oscars red carpet, Actors on Actors and a one-of-a-kind town hall with Timothée Chalamet. Now, this fall, the two venerable brands are teaming up again. CNN and Variety will deliver exclusive live pre-show coverage from the red carpet of the 78th Emmy Awards. CNN correspondent Elizabeth […]
Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” has been selected as Germany’s entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film. The film’s synopsis reads as follows: The last photograph Jessie took shows the sun over Berlin. It hangs there as if nothing had happened. But Ella has lost her daughter. What remains is Jessie’s younger sister and […]
Paramount’s U.K. network 5 is being sued by one of its production partners over what the company claims was the “wrongful termination” of an agreement over a crime drama series. Blackbox Multimedia, the U.K. banner that has made series for 5 such as “The Ex-Wife” and “Benidorm is Murder,” claims that it is owned money […]
10 years after Issa Rae’s seminal comedy series “Insecure” premiered on HBO, the network has ordered a new comedy pilot written and executive produced by Rae. Currently being referred to as “Untitled Male Friendship Show,” the official logline says that the show follows “Menzel, a 30-year-old barber, aspiring sports manager and professional best friend to […]
A sizable bunch of top OnlyFans creators have taken home seven-figure checks from the fan-monetization site. Since the 2016 launch of OnlyFans, which is known for its porn-friendly policies, 5,076 creators have made over $1 million on the platform, the company said Tuesday. In total, OnlyFans — which takes a 20% cut of gross revenue […]
“Angh” cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz will receive the TIFF Variety Artisan Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Also being honored are Helen Mirren, who will receive the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award, presented by Joanna Griffiths. Seth Rogen will be presented with the TIFF Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award, presented by The Budman […]
New York Times pop culture writer and awards columnist Kyle Buchanan has left the newspaper after eight years. I can exclusively report that Buchanan is launching a new video podcast about Hollywood, “The Kyle Buchanan Show,” in mid-October. His last day at The New York Times was Friday. Released twice weekly, “The Kyle Buchanan Show” […]
The generative AI boom brought us “vibe coding,” and then eventually “vibe directing.” Now, a new entry: vibe…game development? It’s the idea behind Series Entertainment’s “RUN,” a new platform that lets users create new games while shortening the typically months- or yearslong window for building them down to days. The platform, which is now in beta, aims to […]
Stability AI, the AI startup backed by the likes of James Cameron and Sean Parker, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round from a roster of investors including some of the entertainment industry’s top record labels and gaming companies. The company’s newest investors include the top three record labels, Universal Music Group, […]
Andy Cohen is having a nice end of the summer. I’m not only chatting with him over Zoom from his beach house in the tony Hamptons enclave of Amagansett (did you see the photos and write-up of the home in Architectural Digest?), but he’s just returned to the States from a vacation in Greece. Now […]
