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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Adds Rick Cosnett, Sydney Lemmon, Mitchell Hoog & Gillian Zinser For Season 3

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Cosnett (Palm Royale, The Flash), Sydney Lemmon (Love Story, The Drama), Mitchell Hoog (Saved By the Bell, Harriet) and Gillian Zinser (I’m A Virgo, Smile) have joined the Season 3 cast of Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors in recurring roles. They join previously announced new Season 3 cast members Joshua Jackson and […]

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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Sets Broadway And West End Closing Dates

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage prequel to the hit Netflix horror/sci-fi series, will close out its engagements on both Broadway and London’s West End this holiday season, producers announced today. Stranger Things: The First Shadow will complete its run at London’s Phoenix Theatre on December 27, 2026, and at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre on […]

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Amy Smart, Chiara Aurelia, Redding Munsell & Derek Luh Join Alex Kavutskiy’s Dark Comedy ‘Little One’

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Kavutskiy has added four to the dark comedy Little One, marking his feature directorial debut: Amy Smart (Stargirl), Chiara Aurelia (Cruel Summer), Redding Munsell (At the Sea), and Derek Luh (Gen V). While sources indicated that Munsell and Aurelia play children at the heart of the film, whose parents are played by the previously announced […]

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Comedian Steph Tolev Bringing Podcast ‘Steph Infection’ To Tom Segura’s YMH Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Steph Tolev has announced that her podcast Steph Infection will be joining the slate at Tom Segura’s YMH Studios. The first new episode produced in partnership with the company is slated to premiere this Wednesday, June 10. With Steph Infection, Tolev brings the same no-holds-barred and hilariously honest approach that has made her a fan-favorite on stage. […]

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Prime Video’s ‘The Probability of Miracles’ Adds Georgia Acken, Michaela Watkins & Ema Inês

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s The Probability of Miracles adds Michaela Watkins, Georgia Acken, and Ema Inês to its cast, led by the previously announced Melissa Collazo and Henry Eikenberry. The series is a TV adaptation of the novel of the same name by Wendy Wunder. The Probability of Miracles follows Campbell Cooper (Collazo), an acerbic teenager dying […]

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‘Obsession’ Beats ‘Scary Movie’ & He-Man On Monday; Pic Will Soon Become Top Grossing Fest Acquisition Of All-Time (Not Just Yet) – Box Office

The Obsession craze continues with Focus Features’ highest grossing movie ever leading Monday with $4.2M in its fourth week, ahead of Paramount and Miramax’s No. 1 weekend opener, Scary Movie, which wasn’t far behind with $4.1M. Obsession‘s domestic cume stands at $156.1M with a global haul north of $229.3M. Scary Movie through four days is […]

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Alfre Woodard, Toni Collette, Chloe Coleman & Sagar Radia Join Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s AI Thriller For Netflix & T-Street

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Gordon-Levitt has added four more to the cast of his new Netflix AI thriller: Alfre Woodard (The Boroughs), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Chloe Coleman (Big Little Lies) and Sagar Radia (Industry). Character details are under wraps, as is the film’s plot. The actors join the previously announced Rachel McAdams, Joel Edgerton, Jeff Daniels, Nnamdi Asomugha, […]

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Elizabeth Perkins Upped To Series Regular On Season 2 Of Netflix’s ‘Big Mistakes’

EXCLUSIVE: Following the shocking revelation involving Elizabeth Perkins’ character in the Season 1 finale of Big Mistakes, the Weeds alumna has been promoted to a series regular for the upcoming second season of Netflix’s crime comedy. Created by Dan Levy and Rachel Senott, Big Mistakes follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega), two deeply incapable […]

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Disney And 20th Century Release First ‘Whalefall’ Trailer: Austin Abrams Has An Hour Of Oxygen To Get Out Of A Sperm Whale’s Stomach

20th Century Studios has released the first trailer for Whalefall, the adaptation of Daniel Kraus’ novel coming to theaters in October. The film — which stars Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz and more — is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours, centering on a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains. The diver […]

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Israeli Director Nadav Lapid Pulls Out Of Marseille Film Festival Jury Over Planned Boycott

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has dropped out of jury duty at this year’s Marseille Film Festival after several filmmakers set to screen films at the fest withdrew their films to protest Lapid’s presence as part of a cultural boycott of Israel. The festival criticized the planned boycott this afternoon in a statement, noting that Lapid […]

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Paramount Accuses Netflix Of “Scorched Earth Campaign” To Derail WBD Deal, Streamer Calls That “Absurd”

Paramount has slammed rival Netflix in a letter to the Department of Justice for campaiging against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger amid regulatory review of the deal the David Ellison company. “As Paramount pushes forward with its ‘content-first’ growth strategy, firms like Netflix, Amazon MGM, Disney, Universal, Sony, Lionsgate, A24, Apple, and many others will […]

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Global Broadcasters Take ‘Best Medicine’ As Raft Of Deals Land For Fox Series

EXCLUSIVE: A slew of international deals for Best Medicine have closed. Sky has scored UK rights for its channels and NOW streaming service, marking a kind of homecoming for the show, which is based on the hit British drama Doc Martin. We also have news of a raft of other deals for the show, which […]

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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ & ‘The Patrick Star Show’ Renewed For More Seasons By Nickelodeon

EXCLUSIVE: Nickelodeon has picked up additional seasons of its longest-running series, SpongeBob SquarePants, and its spinoff The Patrick Star Show. SpongeBob SquarePants, starring Tom Kenny, has been renewed for Cycle 16 (Seasons 18 and 19 with 26 half-hour episodes in total) and The Patrick Star Show, headlined by Bill Fagerbakke, for Cycle 4 (Seasons 6 […]

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Lesley Manville Cast In Prime Video Romcom Series ‘Escorted’

Tony winner Lesley Manville has joined the cast of Prime Video romcom series Escorted. Manville will play Terri, mother of Denny, played by Brett Goldstein. “A charisma bomb cabaret legend, Terri is a force of nature with the voice to match,” reads her character synopsis. Escorted is produced, written and co-showrun by Goldstein via his […]

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‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Steven Spielberg Wraps New Close Encounters Into A Masterful 70’s-Style Thriller That Demands Complex Answers To Otherworldly Mysteries

On its surface Steven Spielberg’s masterfully crafted new film, Disclosure Day might be classified most easily as a 70’s style thriller in the vein of Three Days Of The Condor with Robert Redford or The Parallax View with Warren Beatty in which increasing creeping paranoia over shadowy governmental activities takes over the lives of the […]

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BBC Names Deputy Director General

The BBC has announced Rhodri Talfan Davies as its deputy director general. The British national broadcaster said Talfan Davies, the director of nations, had been appointed after an internal recruitment process. He was widely tipped for the role after spending a number of weeks as caretaker director general when Tim Davie stepped down earlier in […]

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‘Killing Castro’ Footage: First Look At Al Pacino As A CIA Operative In Tribeca Movie Starring Diego Boneta As Fidel Castro

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage of Al Pacino in political thriller Killing Castro, which is getting its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature “reimagines Fidel Castro’s 1960 Harlem stay as a charged encounter between surveillance and solidarity. As converging forces close in, a young translator is pulled into a tightening web of power and […]

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Zach Braff & Esther McGregor Tribeca Drama ‘Clean Hands’ Gets North American Deal

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Vertical has acquired North American distribution rights to drama Clean Hands, the latest feature from writer-director Jake Allyn (Ride). Zach Braff, Esther McGregor, Abigail Spencer, Holt McCallany and Lucas Till star in the film which explores America’s war on drugs from the opposing eyes of […]

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‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’ Teaser: William Greaves’ Unreleased Opus Finally Comes To Life

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first official look at Once Upon A Time In Harlem, the decades-in-the-making documentary conceived and shot by William Greaves and directed by his son, David Greaves. Neon will release Once Upon A Time In Harlem in theaters on October 16. The film’s theatrical release follows a series of buzzy debut screenings at […]

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Inverted.Film, Latest Player On Microdrama Block, Picks Up ‘Unscripted With Meagan Johnson’ Series

EXCLUSIVE: Emerging vertical video platform Inverted.Film has picked up Unscripted, a series from RealReelDrama founder Meagan Johnson. Unscripted with Meagan Johnson is microdrama advocate Johnson’s debut series, and is billed as “the first talk show in the vertical space with top stars one-on-one in different locations.” The series is billed as an “intentionally cross-platform” show […]

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Comics Publisher Gungnir Readies “Chaotic” YouTube Comedy Series ‘Bad Gramm-mar’ Set Around L.A. Book Club

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. publisher and entertainment company Gungnir is launching a YouTube series, Bad Gramm-mar. The comedy series, which is from Gungnir founder and publisher Matthew Medney, launches on June 30, billed as “part-review, part-social experiment and part-emotional group therapy disguised as fandom discourse.” We’ve got a trailer above, which you can watch exclusively. Comedians such […]

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Hugh Laurie Admits Being “Very Slightly Drunk” When He Harrumphed At ‘House’ Critic

They say never drink and post, but it appears that Hugh Laurie missed the memo. The British actor has confessed to being “very slightly drunk” when he sent a waspish response to a journalist, who had written a disobliging review of House after watching the Fox series for the first time. Janet Murray, a British […]

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Thai Actress & Singer Ally Nitibhon Gets U.S. Representation

EXCLUSIVE: Thai actress and singer Ally Nitibhon is signing with management firm Industry Entertainment for U.S. representation. Nitibhon stars as a series regular in Netflix’s popular Thai crime-drama The Believers, which won the Best Series prize at the country’s 2025 Nataraja Awards. The Believers follows three young and ambitious entrepreneurs who must find a way […]

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‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Starring Emma Myers To End With Abbreviated Season 3 On Netflix

Netflix is completing the screen adaptation of Holly Jackson’s bestselling YA crime mystery book trilogy, announcing A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder‘s renewal for a shorter third and final season based on the remaining book, As Good As Dead. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, starring Wednesday‘s Emma Myers, had long been rumored to have […]

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‘Ragtime’ Announces Final Two-Week Broadway Extension Following Tony Win For Best Musical Revival

Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of Ragtime, winner of the Best Musical Revival Tony Award on Sunday, has announced a final final two-week extension. The musical, directed by Lear deBessonet, will now play its final performance at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday, August 16. Originally scheduled as a 14-week engagement that began last […]

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Jay-Z Sets Los Angeles, Paris Stadium Concerts

Jay-Z will play major stadium concerts in Los Angeles and Paris this fall, adding the two shows to his itinerary to follow the upcoming three sold-out Yankee Stadium concerts. The new concerts were announced today by Jay-Z and Roc Nation. The Paris concert at the Stade de France is set for Thursday, September 10, and […]

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‘Skins’ Co-Creator Bryan Elsley Says “Multi-Strand” Shows Have Become “Quite Unusual”

Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley has made a career out of “multi-strand” shows that follow numerous storylines each episode. But Elsley today said “multi-strand” shows like Skins, which made the careers of Nicholas Hoult, Dev Patel, Daniel Kaluuya and Kaya Scodelario, have somewhat disappeared from vogue. “Multi-strand is quite unusual out of the UK [today],” said […]

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Marquee TV In Tune With ‘My Favourite Melodies’, Doc About British Chellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason

EXCLUSIVE: Arts streamer Marquee TV has plucked C Major Entertainment’s doc My Favourite Melodies, which features celebrated British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The doc will stream exclusively on Marquee TV, which operates globally, from 21 June 2026. It sees Kanneh-Mason playing and talking about his greatest inspirations – from traditional Welsh compositions such as Myfanwy to […]

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VertiCast, Microdrama App Called “The Tinder For Vertical Casting,” Launches

EXCLUSIVE: The microdrama world now has its own casting app. VertiCast has just gone live on the Apple App Store, with its founders, Darren Darnborough and Richard Cambridge, calling it “the Tinder for vertical casting.” The app was created to help producers and casting directors locate and connect with microdrama and vertical video talent. In […]

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Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Formally Investigated By UK Competition Watchdog

The UK’s antitrust authority has launched a formal investigation into the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it had opened a “merger inquiry” into the deal that will reshape the global entertainment industry. The CMA will commence its so-called Phase 1 […]

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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Adds Rick Cosnett, Sydney Lemmon, Mitchell Hoog & Gillian Zinser For Season 3

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Sets Broadway And West End Closing Dates

Amy Smart, Chiara Aurelia, Redding Munsell & Derek Luh Join Alex Kavutskiy’s Dark Comedy ‘Little One’

Comedian Steph Tolev Bringing Podcast ‘Steph Infection’ To Tom Segura’s YMH Studios

Prime Video’s ‘The Probability of Miracles’ Adds Georgia Acken, Michaela Watkins & Ema Inês

‘Obsession’ Beats ‘Scary Movie’ & He-Man On Monday; Pic Will Soon Become Top Grossing Fest Acquisition Of All-Time (Not Just Yet) – Box Office

Alfre Woodard, Toni Collette, Chloe Coleman & Sagar Radia Join Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s AI Thriller For Netflix & T-Street

Elizabeth Perkins Upped To Series Regular On Season 2 Of Netflix’s ‘Big Mistakes’

Disney And 20th Century Release First ‘Whalefall’ Trailer: Austin Abrams Has An Hour Of Oxygen To Get Out Of A Sperm Whale’s Stomach

Israeli Director Nadav Lapid Pulls Out Of Marseille Film Festival Jury Over Planned Boycott

Paramount Accuses Netflix Of “Scorched Earth Campaign” To Derail WBD Deal, Streamer Calls That “Absurd”

Global Broadcasters Take ‘Best Medicine’ As Raft Of Deals Land For Fox Series

‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ & ‘The Patrick Star Show’ Renewed For More Seasons By Nickelodeon

Lesley Manville Cast In Prime Video Romcom Series ‘Escorted’

‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Steven Spielberg Wraps New Close Encounters Into A Masterful 70’s-Style Thriller That Demands Complex Answers To Otherworldly Mysteries

BBC Names Deputy Director General

‘Killing Castro’ Footage: First Look At Al Pacino As A CIA Operative In Tribeca Movie Starring Diego Boneta As Fidel Castro

Zach Braff & Esther McGregor Tribeca Drama ‘Clean Hands’ Gets North American Deal

‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’ Teaser: William Greaves’ Unreleased Opus Finally Comes To Life

Inverted.Film, Latest Player On Microdrama Block, Picks Up ‘Unscripted With Meagan Johnson’ Series

Comics Publisher Gungnir Readies “Chaotic” YouTube Comedy Series ‘Bad Gramm-mar’ Set Around L.A. Book Club

Hugh Laurie Admits Being “Very Slightly Drunk” When He Harrumphed At ‘House’ Critic

Thai Actress & Singer Ally Nitibhon Gets U.S. Representation

‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Starring Emma Myers To End With Abbreviated Season 3 On Netflix

‘Ragtime’ Announces Final Two-Week Broadway Extension Following Tony Win For Best Musical Revival

Jay-Z Sets Los Angeles, Paris Stadium Concerts

‘Skins’ Co-Creator Bryan Elsley Says “Multi-Strand” Shows Have Become “Quite Unusual”

Marquee TV In Tune With ‘My Favourite Melodies’, Doc About British Chellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason

VertiCast, Microdrama App Called “The Tinder For Vertical Casting,” Launches

Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Formally Investigated By UK Competition Watchdog

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