Variety has announced its 2025 list of 8 API Up Next in Entertainment. The list celebrates Asian Pacific Islanders across the diaspora of entertainment and highlights rising global talent. The group are changemakers: from actors and writers to the business side of agents and executives.
Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has admitted the company’s film slate has struggled in post-pandemic times by focusing too much on quantity and not enough on quality. Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, in particular, hasn’t restored its luster since the epic culmination of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” There have
Operating profit in Disney’s streaming business jumped for the first three months of 2025, as Disney+ unexpectedly added 1.4 million subscribers in the quarter. Despite gathering economic storm clouds, chief Bob Iger said the Mouse House remains “optimistic” about its current fiscal year guidance. Overall,
The teaser for Fatih Akin’s “Amrum” has debuted ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival. Beta Cinema is handling world sales, with Warner Bros. distributing the film in Germany and Dulac Distribution in France. The film
Lionsgate’s TV and film studio business has officially broken up with Starz. On Wednesday, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. completed the full separation of the Lionsgate Studios and Starz businesses into two standalone, publicly traded companies. Lionsgate will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange
Dogwoof has acquired international sales rights to “André Is an Idiot,” directed by debut filmmaker Tony Benna. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Audience Award and the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition. Dogwoof
Michael Pitt, an actor known for his roles in “Boardwalk Empire” and “Dawson’s Creek,” has been arrested in New York City on charges of alleged sexual abuse. According to court records viewed by Variety, Pitt was arrested and arraigned at Kings Supreme Criminal Court in
Fast-rising stars Charles Melton (“May December,” “Warfare”) and Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) are set to headline the voice cast of “In Waves,” the California surf-themed animated feature adapted from illustrator AJ Dungo’s celebrated graphic memoir. Described as an