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Korea Forms Committee to Hammer Out Six-Month Theatrical Window Deal

South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private consultative body to negotiate a voluntary theatrical holdback agreement, aiming to finalize terms by August without waiting for pending legislation. The committee – formally titled the Public-Private Consultative Body for Improving Korean Film Distribution Structure – held […]

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‘She Means Justice 2: Breakout’ Launches on FlareFlow, GammaTime as Sequel to Microdrama Hit

“She Means Justice 2: Breakout,” a prison break microdrama sequel, has launched on FlareFlow and Hollywood-backed GammaTime, positioning the title among the earliest franchise follow-ups to an original Western vertical drama property. The new installment continues within a shared universe built on “She Means Justice,” whose debut run on FlareFlow amassed more than 180 million […]

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Ali Fazal, Sonali Bendre’s ‘Raakh’ Sets June Prime Video Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video has set June 12 as the global premiere date for “Raakh,” the Hindi-language investigative thriller starring Ali Fazal (“Mirzapur”), Sonali Bendre (“The Broken News”), and Aamir Bashir (“Tiger 3”). The series centers on an investigating officer hunting for two teenagers who have disappeared, an event that has fractured their family and put an […]

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Netflix Reality Show ‘Calabasas Confidential’ Fails to Find the New Kardashians: TV Review

The Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas — tucked into the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains on the San Fernando Valley’s far western edge — is, in many ways, ground zero for reality TV as we know it. This is the home of the Kardashians, the genre’s first family, whose rise to fame familiarized the world […]

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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Unveils $45 Million Investment Plan in the Local Creative Industry by 2028

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rio Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere announced a 225 million real ($45 million) investment package through 2028 that includes public policies, grant programs and initiatives aimed at strengthening the local cultural sector and film and TV industries. Cavaliere made the announcement during Rio2C, the largest creativity gathering in Latin America, in the […]

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Lorca Documentary ‘The Broken Voice,’ Featuring Rare Footage of Poet, Acquired by Sideral for Sales, Spanish Distribution (EXCLUSIVE)

Sideral Cinema has acquired international sales and Spanish distribution rights to “Lorca: The Broken Voice” (“La voz quebrada”), Manuel Menchón Romero’s feature documentary exploring a little-known chapter in the life of Federico García Lorca. Written and directed by Menchón, the feature documentary is produced by Argentina’s K&S Films and Spain’s Pantalla Partida Producciones and Imagine! […]

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‘Project Hail Mary’ Tops Golden Trailer Awards With 5 Prizes

Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” marketing swept the Golden Trailer Awards Thursday with five wins. The film’s trailer titled “Chance” from Wild Card Creative Group won Best in Show prize at the event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. “Project Hail Mary” also took awards for Best Drama, Best Fantasy/Adventure, Best Music and Best […]

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John Travolta Now Owns a Dozen Berets Because ‘Men Can Have Fun, Too. Why Not Change it Up?’

John Travolta has wholeheartedly embraced the beret as his trademark look since his headline-making appearances at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. At the DGA premiere Thursday of his directing debut “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” he told Variety‘s Marc Malkin that he embraced the headwear idea to feel like a director. “The beret has […]

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Documentary Emmys: HBO’s ‘Prime Minister’ Lands Top Prize; Nat Geo and Netflix Lead Winners List

“Prime Minister,” the HBO original documentary about popular New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, was named best documentary at Thursday’s Documentary Emmy Awards. The doc, directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary. Magnolia Pictures, HBO Documentary […]

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Indie Film Zine Ritual Launches at L.A. Theaters; Patton Oswalt, Edgar Wright Among Contributors

Ritual, a new independent zine celebrating movie theater culture, has launched at select Los Angeles theaters. Launched by Greg Longstreet, whose L.A.-based public relations firm Empirical is focused on directors, the print publication was, per a press release, “Created as both a celebration of movies and a brief break from endless scrolling, Ritual is devoted […]

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‘Half Man’ Creator and Star Richard Gadd on the ‘Ambiguous’ Finale, That ‘Grueling’ Fight and [SPOILER]’s Death: ‘It Felt Like the Right Way to End a Show Like This’

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the series finale of the HBO/BBC drama “Half Man,” now streaming on HBO Max. For the past six weeks, Richard Gadd’s sophomore drama, “Half Man,” kept viewers on tenterhooks as they waited to find out what actually went down between his character Ruben and Jamie Bell’s Niall in […]

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‘Hacks’ Producers and Stars Dissect the Finale, Including That Twist Ending for Deborah and Ava

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the series finale of “Hacks,” now streaming on HBO Max. Deborah Vance was never really going to die. But as “Hacks” said bon voyage with a series finale that took viewers to Paris and back, the series’ creators knew they needed to heighten the stakes with its lead […]

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The Series Finale of ‘Hacks’ Showed What the Rest of Season 5 Was Missing

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the series finale of “Hacks,” now streaming on HBO Max. In the closing minutes of “Hacks,” Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) do what they conspicuously have not for most of the streaming comedy’s fifth and final season: workshop some jokes. The push and pull […]

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CBS Says Late-Night Deal With Byron Allen Will Generate $15 Million in Profit

How to make big, well, some bucks in late night? According to CBS, the trick is to cancel your traditional show and lease the time to someone else. The Paramount Skydance broadcast outlet, which has been grilled for weeks over its decision to oust Stephen Colbert and cancel its long-running “Late Show,” says the move […]

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LISTEN: ‘The U.S. Against the World’ Director-Producer Rand Getlin Documents the Road to the World Cup: ‘It’s a Coming of Age Story’

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Rand Getlin, director-executive producer of the HBO documentary “U.S. Against the World: Four Years With the Men’s National Soccer Team,” discusses the road to the World Cup and the rising popularity of men’s and women’s soccer in America. Getlin spent more than four years documenting the road to the […]

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‘The White Lotus’ Recreates Dramatic Cannes Closing Night With Laura Dern, Steve Coogan, Ari Graynor and Max Greenfield

After wrapping its Saint-Tropez leg at the posh Chateau de la Messardiere, the production of Mike White’s hit anthology series “The White Lotus” Season 4 has moved to Cannes, where it has taken over the Palais des Festivals for what appears to be some of the season’s most pivotal scenes. The production has been shooting […]

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‘Deli Boys’ Stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh Break Down Season 2: Cocaine, Ping Pong, and Viral Mugshots

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Deli Boys” Season 2, which premiered May 28 on Hulu with all six episodes. Hulu’s crime comedy “Deli Boys” ramps things up in its second season, as Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) try to run their late father’s cocaine empire with the help of Lucky […]

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Cecilia Vega, Fired From ’60 Minutes,’ Says She Fears ‘For The Future of the Legendary Broadcast’

Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance. “I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at ’60 Minutes’ and the stories […]

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Nick Bilton, New ’60 Minutes’ Boss, Wants Newsmagazine to Stick on Digital, Mobile Screens

Hold the stopwatch! The new boss at “60 Minutes” believes the venerable newsmagazine ought to be more prevalent in popular culture and the news cycle, rather than merely holding forth in its usual place on Sunday evenings on CBS. “The show is on the air one day, one night, one hour a week, and to […]

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‘Love Island USA’ Sets Season 8 Cast Including the Brother of Season 7 Islander Charlie and a Paralympic Athlete

12 new bombshells are entering the villa. “Love Island USA” has set its Season 8 cast, which notably includes Zach Georgiou, the brother of Season 7 islander Charlie, and Beatriz Hatz, a bronze medal-winning Paralympic athlete. Season 8 debuts on June 2 and is followed by daily episodes throughout premiere week. After that, new episodes […]

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ABC Submits Broadcast Renewal Applications to FCC ‘Under Protest,’ Says Agency Order Is ‘Unlawful, Arbitrary and Unconstitutional’

Disney’s ABC has submitted its license renewal applications to the FCC as ordered by the agency — but it is doing so “under protest.” The FCC’s Media Bureau last month issued an unprecedented order forcing ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses for its eight owned-and-operated stations on an accelerated schedule. The move came after President […]

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‘Euphoria,’ ‘The End’ to Bookend Balinale’s 19th Edition

Julian Rosefeldt’s “Euphoria” will open Balinale’s 19th edition, with Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” closing the program. The festival is adding a new competitive category: Best Indonesian Short Tapestry of Indonesia, dedicated to local short-form storytelling. Indonesia’s only Academy Award qualifying festival presents 94 films from 38 countries. The narrative feature competition brings together four titles: […]

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‘The Testaments’ Stars Chase Infiniti, Mattea Conforti on What That Private Finale Moment Means for Agnes and Becka: ‘That’s Her Person in Life’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Secateurs,” the Season 1 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel series, “The Testaments,” now streaming on Hulu. Hulu’s “The Testaments” ended its first season with many upsetting and shocking moments — nothing less than fans would expect from a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But amid the darkness, there […]

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‘Rambo’ Prequel Movie Sets 2027 Release Date

“John Rambo,” a prequel in the long-running action franchise, will hit theaters next summer. Lionsgate has slated the film for June 4, 2027. It’s scheduled to debut just ahead of Disney’s “Star Wars: Starfighter” (May 28) and a few weeks before Sony’s “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” (June 11) and the Warner Bros. “Oceans” prequel (June […]

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CNN Plans New Anderson Cooper-Andy Cohen Event for ‘Independence Eve Live’

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are jumping from New Year’s Eve shots to Fourth of July fireworks. The duo, who have held forth the past several years as hosts of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage from New York’s Times Square, will now do something similar on July 3. “Independence Eve Live with Anderson & Andy: […]

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Netflix Unveils First Look at ‘On Behalf of My Son,’ the New Film by Gabriel Martins (EXCLUSIVE)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Netflix released today the first image of Rejane Faria as Vicentina, the lead character in “On Behalf of My Son” (“Vicentina Pede Desculpas”), the new feature written and directed by Gabriel Martins (“Mars One”), which is due to open in the second half of 2026. The company released the image during the […]

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How ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Cinematographer Michael Bauman Built Tension and Claustrophobia With Darkness

When cinematographer Michael Bauman began research for Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” he got unique insight into the story. The eight-part series, led by Charlie Hunnam, tapped into the serial killer who killed at least two women and exhumed several bodies for his heinous purposes in the 1950s. Raised by an evangelical mother whom […]

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CNBC Names Ken Brown Managing Editor of Digital and Editorial Strategy

Ken Brown, one of the most durable journalists in financial journalism in recent years, is moving to CNBC, where he will oversee the business-news outlet’s digital editorial operations and play a role in devising overall strategy. He will report to David Cho, CNBC’s editor in chief, and start June 8. Brown will “help accelerate our […]

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Tony Shalhoub Joins CBS Dramedy ‘Einstein’ From ‘Monk’ Creator Andy Breckman

Tony Shalhoub has joined the upcoming CBS drama “Einstein” in a recurring guest star role, Variety has learned. The role reunites Shalhoub with Andy Breckman, who developed “Einstein” from a German format and previously created the hit USA Network series “Monk,” in which Shalhoub starred for eight seasons and the followup TV movie “Mr. Monk’s […]

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Most-Watched TV Series of 2025-26 Across Streaming, Broadcast and Cable: ‘Stranger Things’ Leads This Season’s Rankers

“Stranger Things” ended its final season with an average of 32.9 million viewers, easily making it the most-watched series of the just concluded 2025-2026 TV season. The Netflix thriller averaged that number over 35 days, per Nielsen’s multiplatform ranker. Nielsen introduced the multiplatform data last year, finally giving us an apples-to-apples comparison of how shows […]

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Korea Forms Committee to Hammer Out Six-Month Theatrical Window Deal

‘She Means Justice 2: Breakout’ Launches on FlareFlow, GammaTime as Sequel to Microdrama Hit

Ali Fazal, Sonali Bendre’s ‘Raakh’ Sets June Prime Video Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix Reality Show ‘Calabasas Confidential’ Fails to Find the New Kardashians: TV Review

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Unveils $45 Million Investment Plan in the Local Creative Industry by 2028

Lorca Documentary ‘The Broken Voice,’ Featuring Rare Footage of Poet, Acquired by Sideral for Sales, Spanish Distribution (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Project Hail Mary’ Tops Golden Trailer Awards With 5 Prizes

John Travolta Now Owns a Dozen Berets Because ‘Men Can Have Fun, Too. Why Not Change it Up?’

Documentary Emmys: HBO’s ‘Prime Minister’ Lands Top Prize; Nat Geo and Netflix Lead Winners List

Indie Film Zine Ritual Launches at L.A. Theaters; Patton Oswalt, Edgar Wright Among Contributors

‘Half Man’ Creator and Star Richard Gadd on the ‘Ambiguous’ Finale, That ‘Grueling’ Fight and [SPOILER]’s Death: ‘It Felt Like the Right Way to End a Show Like This’

‘Hacks’ Producers and Stars Dissect the Finale, Including That Twist Ending for Deborah and Ava

The Series Finale of ‘Hacks’ Showed What the Rest of Season 5 Was Missing

CBS Says Late-Night Deal With Byron Allen Will Generate $15 Million in Profit

LISTEN: ‘The U.S. Against the World’ Director-Producer Rand Getlin Documents the Road to the World Cup: ‘It’s a Coming of Age Story’

‘The White Lotus’ Recreates Dramatic Cannes Closing Night With Laura Dern, Steve Coogan, Ari Graynor and Max Greenfield

‘Deli Boys’ Stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh Break Down Season 2: Cocaine, Ping Pong, and Viral Mugshots

Cecilia Vega, Fired From ’60 Minutes,’ Says She Fears ‘For The Future of the Legendary Broadcast’

Nick Bilton, New ’60 Minutes’ Boss, Wants Newsmagazine to Stick on Digital, Mobile Screens

‘Love Island USA’ Sets Season 8 Cast Including the Brother of Season 7 Islander Charlie and a Paralympic Athlete

ABC Submits Broadcast Renewal Applications to FCC ‘Under Protest,’ Says Agency Order Is ‘Unlawful, Arbitrary and Unconstitutional’

‘Euphoria,’ ‘The End’ to Bookend Balinale’s 19th Edition

‘The Testaments’ Stars Chase Infiniti, Mattea Conforti on What That Private Finale Moment Means for Agnes and Becka: ‘That’s Her Person in Life’

‘Rambo’ Prequel Movie Sets 2027 Release Date

CNN Plans New Anderson Cooper-Andy Cohen Event for ‘Independence Eve Live’

Netflix Unveils First Look at ‘On Behalf of My Son,’ the New Film by Gabriel Martins (EXCLUSIVE)

How ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Cinematographer Michael Bauman Built Tension and Claustrophobia With Darkness

CNBC Names Ken Brown Managing Editor of Digital and Editorial Strategy

Tony Shalhoub Joins CBS Dramedy ‘Einstein’ From ‘Monk’ Creator Andy Breckman

Most-Watched TV Series of 2025-26 Across Streaming, Broadcast and Cable: ‘Stranger Things’ Leads This Season’s Rankers

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