Bill Simmons, five years after Spotify bought his media startup The Ringer for about $200 million in cash, is staying on with the streaming giant. Simmons has renewed his contract with Spotify and will continue to serve as head of talk strategy, reporting to recently
Top film and TV marketing executives gathered at A.O.C. restaurant in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a private dinner and salon where the conversation ranged from how AI tools are changing the discipline to the new metrics that drive business decisions. Variety‘s Future of Marketing
Robert Pattinson is starring opposite Zendaya in A24’s “The Drama,” and if it wasn’t for her then he might’ve lost his mind over one particular scene. Speaking to French publication Premiere (via IndieWire), Pattinson said that Zendaya helped him get out of his head by telling
After 10 years playing Chad DiMera on the Peacock soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Billy Flynn is heading to CBS’ “Young and the Restless” in a character not yet revealed. He credits his personal and professional growth during that time to the show that
Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, announced its awards Wednesday, with Alexa Bakony’s “Highways of Hope” taking the IEFTA Award for Best Documentary in Development, accompanied by a 10,000 euro cash prize. The film, produced by Gábor Osváth and Veronika Gál of
George Lucas’ “Star Wars” producer Rick McCallum recently appeared on an episode of the “Young Indy Chronicles” podcast and teased what would’ve been “Star Wars: Underworld,” an ambitious television series that was one of the last “Star Wars” projects Lucas was working on before he
The largest audience award in the world, the LUX Audience Award, sees citizens and members of the democratically elected European Parliament coming together yearly to honor a European film with their coveted prize. This year’s slate of highly-acclaimed nominees include Gints Zibalodis’s history-making “Flow,” which
Benjamin Flaherty spent three years shooting “Shuffle,” a documentary that follows three addicts who are trying to stay alive in rehab facilities that are scamming insurance companies. Flaherty reveals that patients are being bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a cycle