Variety
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, writer and showrunner Justin Halpern speaks with Variety’s Michael Schneider about the road to writing his first novel “Get Lost,” which will be released...
Billboard
In May, Warner Music Group quietly completed a test program that could change the future of vinyl. The program, conducted in partnership with the world’s largest vinyl manufacturer, GZ Media, set out ...
Billboard
As touring costs continue to skyrocket, experienced touring musicians Craig A. Meyer and Gary Arbuthnot have teamed up to launch GigLogic, a platform for artists to determine the financials of a show ...
Deadline
The creative team behind Netflix’s Ghostbusters animated series want their show to “feel like our characters could walk off the television, onto a movie screen and interact with the pre-existing chara...
Deadline
Indian action star Ajay Devgn is returning to the precinct he knows best. The actor will lead Chauhaan, a feature from director Neeraj Yadav and production houses Jio Studios and Colour Yellow Product...
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Peppa Pig is famed for her love of jumping in muddy puddles, but the company behind the hit children’s TV series has created a different kind of splash with its approach to AI. Hasbro, the ...
Variety
Veteran Italian director Daniele Luchetti — whose “The Ties” opened the 2020 Venice Film Festival — is back behind the camera on “Your Little Matter” (“Dove Non Mi Hai Portata”), a drama about a young...
Variety
Genndy Tartakovsky is developing a “Conan the Barbarian” series with Cartoon Network Studios and Prime Video – suggesting the animation great is firmly back in the Warner Bros. fold having spent a few...
Variety
Top Bollywood star Ajay Devgn is set to headline “Chauhaan,” an action entertainer presented by Jio Studios and produced in association with Colour Yellow Productions, marking his debut collaboration ...
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Dutch-Norwegian director Zwart Arbeid gave a sneak peek of his upcoming animated feature ViQueens in a masterclass at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday, and Deadl...
Deadline
Ricky Gervais touched down at the Annecy International Animation Festival on Thursday for a sneak peek presentation of his Netflix adult animation Alley Cats, following the trials and tribulations of ...
Variety
Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has found a host of new screens for its Creatorverse lineup of shows. The service is bringing its suite of creator-led shows and movies to Amazon’s Fire TV platform...
Variety
Ricky Gervais is ready for Netflix’s “Alley Cats.” “I hope you like cats. And swearing,” he told the audience at Annecy. The viewers serenaded him before the screening of the first two episodes, singi...
Variety
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Virginie Efira, the Belgian-born, France-based actress who was recently in Cannes with lead roles in two competition films: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudde...
Deadline
Sky and ITV have agreed terms over their £1.6B ($2.1B) acquisition deal and the move that will shake up British broadcasting could be announced in the next fortnight, according to Reuters. As part of ...
Deadline
Virginie Efira will be awarded Locarno’s honorary Leopard Club Award during this year’s festival, which runs from August 5-15. Efira will receive the award at the festival’s Piazza Grande stage on Aug...
Variety
The second season of “Dept. Q” is officially underway, with the Netflix crime series starting production in Scotland and adding 10 cast members. Matthew Goode is set to return as DCI Carl Morck alongs...
New York Times
Carmy dropped some very big news about his future role at the Bear near the end of Season 4.
New York Times
After reading “more translations than I care to remember,” Christopher Nolan realized “The Odyssey” was his ur-text: “It’s in everything I’ve done before.”
New York Times
Kwame Alexander will publish the next sequel to “The Crossover,” his Newbery Medal-winning novel in verse, under his own imprint at the fast-growing publishing house Sourcebooks.
Variety
The Annecy Animation Festival, now in full swing, offers a vibrant mix of world premieres and unique screenings aimed at animation fans and industry execs alike. For the latter, the MIFA Feature Pitch...
Variety
With shooting now underway in the south of France on dark comedy “The Worst,” the production has added a major cohort of names to its already buzzy cast. Sam Claflin (“F.A.S.T.,” “Daisy Jones and the ...
Deadline
Buyers in the U.S. and UK have checked in to Blue Murder Motel. The cozy crime show about a pair of career cops who retire to a beachside town hails from New Zealand and has been picked up by Acorn TV...
Deadline
Netflix’s hit Dept. Q thriller has welcomed new cast and rolled cameras on Season 2. The series is introducing Aisling Franciosi (Speak No Evil, The Nightingale) as Kimmie, Greg Wise (The Crown, The B...
Billboard
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has announced a new round of speakers for its 2026 ADE Pro conference, with Josh Baker, Mochakk, Busy P, and Orbital‘s Paul Hartnoll among the latest additions to the event...
Deadline
Lionel Richie was forced to abandon the first night of his new tour after feeling unwell during a performance in Minnesota. The 77-year-old American Idol judge complained about feeling dizzy during th...
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) and Alex Hassell (Rivals) have been set to voice Audible Original thriller The Tutor from writer and actor Rosie Day (Outlander). In The Tutor, “Eloise H...
Deadline
Fox News host Sean Hannity addressed his on-air appearance following viewers’ concerns. The television personality hosted his primetime show on Tuesday, June 23, and worried some of his fans, which pr...
New York Times
SoFi Stadium, the $5 billion event venue near Los Angeles, is on global display for the soccer tournament. But for some who live close by, it is just another headache.
Pitchfork
The lead single from the Philly psych-folk duo’s sophomore LP is an elliptical, seven-minute acoustic ballad
Pitchfork
She also shared the rage-filled music video for her new single “Sun Has Set”
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Cardboard towers and swords dominate the touching “Sir Render” visual
New York Times
Art handlers with Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser,” from 1984, at PAMM. The show represents the collector Ken Griffin’s coming out as a major player on the Miami art scene.
New York Times
In Whitney Houston, Clive Davis recognized the potential of a powerful mezzo-soprano as an instrument to reshape modern pop music.
Pitchfork
Plus, check out a new More Eaze remix of a song from the duo
New York Times
Hollywood actors in starry plays, skittish investors and gate-keeping theater owners have all contributed to an unusually tough climate for song-and-dance shows.
Pitchfork
Some 4,000 of the late Television frontman’s LPs are going on sale on Discogs and at New York’s Academy Records
Pitchfork
The otherworldly “Cloudburst” leads the guitar composer and singer-songwriter’s Nebular
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The Punisher follow-up arrives August 14
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Her first song in three years is written “in the voice” of NASA’s Voyager 2 probe
New York Times
From the Queens Museum to Times Square, the British artist Sonia Boyce shows art intimately connected to community.
New York Times
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis have jointly written the book, music and lyrics for their new musical, “Warriors.”
Pitchfork
The composer and singer-songwriter is readying a new solo album, Cyano
Pitchfork
Clipse, Ceremony, Thundercat, Slayyyter, Vince Staples, and Yves Tumor are just some of the guests on the North American run
Pitchfork
The federal class-action suit, led by rapper RBX, devoted nearly all of its focus to one artist in particular: Drake
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Their co-headlining run hits the American South and Midwest this fall
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Prepare for Nate Amos’ "on-the-road beatnik” LP
New York Times
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in the recent biopic “Michael,” which has set off a wave of renewed mourning over the pop star’s death.
Pitchfork
The extremely Nashville-themed Thrasher drops August 21
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Holland himself also hopped behind the piano to help Shania Twain cover “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
New York Times
Charles E. Rosenberg has been giving rare books to the Library Company of Philadelphia since the 1960s. His most recent gift was a collection of some 1,500 texts about sexuality.