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TIFF Docs Lineup Announced: Rapinoe, Said, Love, And A Scent Of Musk

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its TIFF Docs slate on Wednesday, a lineup that boasts marquee names in front of and behind the lens. The world premiere of Rapinoe, Rebecca Huntt’s film about soccer star Megan Rapinoe – winner of Olympic and Women’s World Cup titles — will literally kick things off, as the […]

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Disney Sells Out Super-Bowl Ad Inventory, Wraps Upfront Sales Process

Disney has sold out ad inventory for next February’s Super Bowl and also wrapped up 2026-27 upfront sales. The news was announced by Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston during the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. The Super Bowl, which will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, has been a promotional area […]

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Triumph “Bodes Well” For ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Says

Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro congratulated rival Sony Pictures Entertainment on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, saying its spectacular opening “bodes well” for Disney’s forthcoming Avengers installment. Speaking on the company’s quarterly earnings call Wednesday, D’Amaro called last weekend’s debut “an unbelievable result.” At $360 million in the U.S., Brand New Day topped Disney’s Avengers: Endgame with […]

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‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’: Jennifer Stone Recalls Feeling “Wonderfully Weird” Playing Harper Finkle Again For Spinoff Finale

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the final season of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. If there was one role that might bring Jennifer Stone back to the small screen, it would be Harper Finkle. After saying goodbye to Wizards of Waverly Place, Stone went to nursing school. She’s been largely working in the field […]

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Disney Earnings Buoyed By ‘Toy Story 5’, Theme Parks, Streaming Profit; Books $100M Tariff Refund

Disney’s Josh D’Amaro stepped out with solid numbers and some news in his first full quarter as CEO. Toy Story 5 drove studio revenue, theme parks saw an uptick in attendance, and streaming profits more than doubled for the three months ended in June. Total operating income for Disney’s fiscal third quarter jumped 21% $5.6 […]

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Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Features Generative AI After He “Mispoke” About Using The Technology

Ice Cream Man features a scoop of AI. That’s the revelation from horror director Eli Roth after he admitted to adopting the technology in a “few scenes” of the slasher film, despite initially saying that animated sequences were brought to life traditionally. In an interview on Monday, the Hostel helmer was asked if he used […]

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Walt Disney Company & TikTok Ink Global Short-Form Content-Sharing Deal

The Walt Disney Company and TikTok today announced a global deal that will allow social media content creators and fans to access and use memorable scenes from Disney movies and shows. The new pact, which will pilot in the US in the coming months with other markets to follow, will bring a collection of curated Disney-centric fan-created content from […]

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Edinburgh Television Festival Advisory Chair Adam Hawkins Urges Industry To “Embrace Change” In Confab’s Final Year In Scotland

“If this Edinburgh is all about embracing change and embracing the future, then maybe we should do the same with the festival.” That’s the verdict from Adam Hawkins, the advisory chair of the final ever Edinburgh Television Festival, which is held later this month in Scotland’s capital. In an interview with Deadline, the Netflix UK […]

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Takes On The Seven Demons In Revenge Thriller ‘Kill Jackie’

Catherine Zeta-Jones has to take out a group of hitmen before they get to her in Kill Jackie – and pictures from the upcoming drama have just dropped. Zeta-Jones plays Jackie Price in the revenge thriller, which is for Prime Video in multiple territories including the UK and will be on AMC+ in the U.S. […]

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Locarno Film Festival Head Giona A. Nazzaro Talks Mission To Liberate Spectators In The Age Of The Algorithm As 79th Edition Kicks Off

The Locarno Film Festival opens today with the world premiere of French directorial duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s The Green Eyes in front of 8,000 spectators on the lakeside town’s Piazza Grande. The opening ceremony will also see Isabella Rossellini feted with the festival’s Excellence Award, with further honorees across the festival including Darren […]

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Jason Sudeikis Sets Up ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4: “It’s Getting Back To Doing What He Loves”

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from Apple TV’s Ted Lasso Season 4 premiere. It’s been more than three years since we caught up with Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and all his fabulous friends and loved ones back in Season 3. Following a hiatus, the Apple TV series Ted Lasso is back, and […]

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Gregg Sulkin Says “It Took Three Seconds” To Return To Mason Greyback For ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ Finale: “All I Had To Do Was Look At Selena”

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the final season of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. Gregg Sulkin can rest easy knowing there’s a universe out there where Alex Russo and Mason Greyback are still together. “I mean, I think, in my heart, Alex and Mason are always endgame,” he recently told Deadline after a brief […]

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‘The Odyssey’ Extends Run At Alex Theatre After Becoming Highest-Grossing 70MM Exhibitor Who Had Not Screened A New Movie In 35 Years

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey continues to break records, and now the highest-grossing theater exhibiting the film in 70mm is extending its run. L.A.’s historic Alex Theatre will continue to exhibit the fantasy epic through August 20, 2026, following audience demand. The Odyssey was the first-run movie at the theater since Terminator 2: Judgment Day in […]

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Big Bucks Generating Disney Consumer Products Shifts To Studio Umbrella As Josh D’Amaro-Run Mouse House Drops Earnings Report Tomorrow

In Disney’s second corporate shift to the entertainment tent in six months and just before the Josh D’Amaro drops its Q3 earnings report tomorrow morning, the House of Mouse unveiled plans to to move its revenue rich Consumer Products division. Seeking to streamline commerce and creatives and create “cohesion across the entire Disney ecosystem and […]

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Samantha Morton On Why She “Hasn’t Worked For A Year” Since ‘The Odyssey’ & Why She Was “Sad” & “Hurt” After Getting “Fired” From ‘Her’

Samantha Morton is opening up about not working after filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. In a new interview, Morton revealed she had been out of work for a year following her role of Circe, a witch and goddess on the island of Aeaea, in the epic film. “I haven’t worked for a year since making […]

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Everything We Know About Netflix’s ‘This Summer Will Be Different’ TV Adaptation So Far

Another Carley Fortune book adaptation will soon be making a splash onto the small screen. Netflix’s television adaptation of Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different has found its main cast after receiving the greenlight in March of this year. The project continues in the current of success of Prime Video’s Every Year After, based on […]

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‘Rose’ Director Markus Schleinzer Signs With Cinetic For Management

EXCLUSIVE: Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer, whose film Rose won the Silver Bear at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, has signed with Cinetic for representation. Set in the 17th century, Rose follows a woman who disguises herself as a male soldier to integrate into a secluded village community. The film, a black-and-white period piece, debuted in […]

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‘Tony’ Review: Dominic Sessa Is A Teenage Anthony Bourdain In Splendid Origin Story Of The Food Guru The Man Would Become

Author,TV host, food genius Anthony Bourdain was a master in and out of the kitchen, a genuine star, and a man who seemed to have it all until his life took a tragic turn at age 61 and resulted in his suicide. Certainly that is the stuff of a highly dramatic biopic, but not at […]

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David Ellison Says Paramount Is “Absolutely Open” To Settling WBD Antitrust Suit, But “We Will Win At Trial”

Paramount CEO David Ellison says he is “absolutely open” to settling an antitrust lawsuit against the company’s pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery but is also glad to proceed to a trial. Speaking for many during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, one Wall Street analyst asked what will happen if the pending $110 billion deal […]

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Doc Talk Podcast: Director Keith Scholey On His Emmy-Nominated ‘Ocean’ Voyage With The Amazing David Attenborough

Just after he turned 100, David Attenborough achieved the extraordinary. The famed naturalist and author earned not one but two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Narrator this year, one for the Netflix documentary A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, the other for the National Geographic film Ocean with David Attenborough. In the latter project, Attenborough guides […]

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Man With Gun In Car Arrested At Trump National Golf Club Ahead Of President’s Visit

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators today announced the weekend arrest of a man who was allegedly taking photos and videos at President Donald Trump’s Rancho Palos Verdes golf club and “appearing to monitor security-planning activities.” Trump is scheduled to speak at a Republican National Committee fundraiser at the club tonight. During the Saturday arrest, Jeanine […]

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The Summer 50-Something Female Friendships Took Over Streaming With ‘Five Star Weekend’ & ‘Ride Or Die’s Surprise Success

In the era of network television, viewers used to lose a lot of their value once they hit 50 when it came to entertainment programming as advertisers are targeting the adults 18-49 demographic. Add to that the long-time stigma over shows with all-female leads, especially in a non-procedural setting, and that would explain why series […]

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Producer Adds Defamation Claim To Lawsuit Against Netflix Over Theft Of Hard Drive Of World War II Espionage Pic ‘Fortitude’

UPDATE: The producer of the World War II spy thriller Fortitude has added a claim of defamation to his lawsuit against Netflix over the theft of the hard drive of the upcoming film after it was delivered to the streamer’s headquarters for screening and possible purchase. In the lawsuit, Simon Afram, the producer, writer and […]

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Edison Tower Caused Deadly Eaton Fire That Nearly Decimated Altadena, Investigation Finds

An out-of-service Southern California Edison transmission tower sparked the deadly January 2025 Eaton Fire north of Los Angeles, according to the final report released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Los Angeles County Fire. SoCal Edison power lines have long been suspected as the cause of the fire, and Edison […]

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Disney Closes $1.2 Billion Deal To Sell A+E Global Media Stake To Hearst

It’s official — Hearst has announced an agreement to acquire Disney’s 50% interest in A+E Global Media for approximately $1.2 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in September, subject to customary closing conditions. Upon closing A+E Global Media will become a wholly owned Hearst business within its Entertainment group. A+E Global Media, […]

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Paramount “Fully Expects” WBD Merger To Close As It Reports Q2 Streaming Gains, Linear Challenges

Almost one year exactly from Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount, the merged company reported mixed quarterly numbers with strong streaming, tough theatrical comps and an ongoing drop in linear television. The numbers hit just as a judge announced a March trial date to hear the AG’s antitrust case against the Par-WBD merger. “Q2 was our best […]

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TriCoast Worldwide & Vitagraph Set Fall Release For Malcolm McDowell & James Paxton Western ‘Last Train To Fortune’

EXCLUSIVE: TriCoast Worldwide and Vitagraph Films have set a theatrical release for the Brad Wyman produced, Adam Rifkin directed western comedy Last Train to Fortune. Last Train to Fortune will pulled into New York on Sept. 18, followed by Dallas on Sept. 23, and Los Angeles on Sept. 25, with plans to expand the theatrical rollout to […]

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Idaho College Murders Doc Series Grabs Attention On Netflix; ‘Ransom Canyon’ Season 2 Off To Slow Start

TV audiences are still intrigued by the 2022 slayings of four college students at the University of Idaho. Netflix’s new three-part documentary series on the case, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, debuted atop the streamer’s English-language TV rankings last week with 18.2M views over its first five days. No other TV titles even came close […]

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Judge Sets Paramount-WBD Merger Antitrust Trial For March

A federal judge has set the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger trial for next March. The date is much closer to the timeline sought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild America, who sued to block the transaction. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote that the trial will take place from March 2 to March […]

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‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Scores Best Week Ever As Closing Date Nears – Broadway Box Office

Cats: The Jellicle Ball posted its best box office numbers ever last week as the show enters its final life on Broadway. With its early closing date of August 8 fast approaching, the production was at standing room only for the week ending August 2, grossing $1,405,709. That’s an increase of $216,278 over the previous […]

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TIFF Docs Lineup Announced: Rapinoe, Said, Love, And A Scent Of Musk

Disney Sells Out Super-Bowl Ad Inventory, Wraps Upfront Sales Process

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Triumph “Bodes Well” For ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Says

‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’: Jennifer Stone Recalls Feeling “Wonderfully Weird” Playing Harper Finkle Again For Spinoff Finale

Disney Earnings Buoyed By ‘Toy Story 5’, Theme Parks, Streaming Profit; Books $100M Tariff Refund

Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Features Generative AI After He “Mispoke” About Using The Technology

Walt Disney Company & TikTok Ink Global Short-Form Content-Sharing Deal

Edinburgh Television Festival Advisory Chair Adam Hawkins Urges Industry To “Embrace Change” In Confab’s Final Year In Scotland

Catherine Zeta-Jones Takes On The Seven Demons In Revenge Thriller ‘Kill Jackie’

Locarno Film Festival Head Giona A. Nazzaro Talks Mission To Liberate Spectators In The Age Of The Algorithm As 79th Edition Kicks Off

Jason Sudeikis Sets Up ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4: “It’s Getting Back To Doing What He Loves”

Gregg Sulkin Says “It Took Three Seconds” To Return To Mason Greyback For ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ Finale: “All I Had To Do Was Look At Selena”

‘The Odyssey’ Extends Run At Alex Theatre After Becoming Highest-Grossing 70MM Exhibitor Who Had Not Screened A New Movie In 35 Years

Big Bucks Generating Disney Consumer Products Shifts To Studio Umbrella As Josh D’Amaro-Run Mouse House Drops Earnings Report Tomorrow

Samantha Morton On Why She “Hasn’t Worked For A Year” Since ‘The Odyssey’ & Why She Was “Sad” & “Hurt” After Getting “Fired” From ‘Her’

Everything We Know About Netflix’s ‘This Summer Will Be Different’ TV Adaptation So Far

‘Rose’ Director Markus Schleinzer Signs With Cinetic For Management

‘Tony’ Review: Dominic Sessa Is A Teenage Anthony Bourdain In Splendid Origin Story Of The Food Guru The Man Would Become

David Ellison Says Paramount Is “Absolutely Open” To Settling WBD Antitrust Suit, But “We Will Win At Trial”

Doc Talk Podcast: Director Keith Scholey On His Emmy-Nominated ‘Ocean’ Voyage With The Amazing David Attenborough

Man With Gun In Car Arrested At Trump National Golf Club Ahead Of President’s Visit

The Summer 50-Something Female Friendships Took Over Streaming With ‘Five Star Weekend’ & ‘Ride Or Die’s Surprise Success

Producer Adds Defamation Claim To Lawsuit Against Netflix Over Theft Of Hard Drive Of World War II Espionage Pic ‘Fortitude’

Edison Tower Caused Deadly Eaton Fire That Nearly Decimated Altadena, Investigation Finds

Disney Closes $1.2 Billion Deal To Sell A+E Global Media Stake To Hearst

Paramount “Fully Expects” WBD Merger To Close As It Reports Q2 Streaming Gains, Linear Challenges

TriCoast Worldwide & Vitagraph Set Fall Release For Malcolm McDowell & James Paxton Western ‘Last Train To Fortune’

Idaho College Murders Doc Series Grabs Attention On Netflix; ‘Ransom Canyon’ Season 2 Off To Slow Start

Judge Sets Paramount-WBD Merger Antitrust Trial For March

‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Scores Best Week Ever As Closing Date Nears – Broadway Box Office

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