Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in negotiations to star in Damien Chazelle’s next film. Chazelle, the Oscar-winning “La La Land” filmmaker, will write and direct the untitled project for Paramount Pictures. He’s also producing with Olivia Hamilton through their company Wild Chickens Productions. Though
With the expected continued slide of Warner Bros. Discovery’s linear TV business, S&P Global Ratings has cut the media company’s credit rating to junk status. On Tuesday, S&P lowered its forecast for 2025 and ’26 for Warner Bros. Discovery, primarily due to the “continued revenue
Universal Music Group has announced that it has leased new space for its New York offices at Penn 2, the recently completed office tower along Seventh Avenue next to Madison Square Garden. The building will serve as the headquarters of iconic labels Def Jam Recordings,
“Stumble,” an NBC comedy pilot described as “a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer,” has added Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy to its cast. They join previously announced star Jenn Lyon, who plays Courteney Potter. Courteney
Kirsten Niehuus, the CEO of the influential film fund for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, Medienboard, welcomed guests to its traditional cocktail reception at the Cannes Film Festival for the last time on Saturday. But it’s unlikely international film folk have seen the last of Niehuus, who
For a moment, it felt like the old Cannes again. On Sunday night, as the festival crawled toward its midpoint, news broke that Mubi, the upstart distributor that rode “The Substance”’s Oscar success to a $1 billion valuation, was shelling out $24 million for “Die
The upcoming comedy series “Strikes,” set in the world of cricket, has tapped the writing team of Josh Kirby and Jonathan Veles to pen the pilot, Variety has learned exclusively. The series was first reported to be in the works back in February. As reported
The Season 2 premiere of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” hit five million views in its first five days of streaming on Hulu, according to Disney. The studio says that marks an increase from the Season 1 premiere, which was released in September 2024,