More than a decade after they started theSkimm’s daily newsletter, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin have sold the company to Ziff Davis’ Everyday Health Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. TheSkimm had raised a total funding of about $29 million from investors including Shonda
Jennifer Coolidge isn’t being shy about how acting alongside Bill Murray for the first time was “scary as hell.” Coolidge may not be in the latest season of “The White Lotus” following Tanya’s death in Season 2, but ahead of the release of “A Minecraft
“Vought Rising,” Amazon’s upcoming prequel to “The Boys,” has added Will Hochman to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively. Hochman joins previously announced leads Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash in the series, which was ordered at Prime Video in July 2024. Variety also reported that
Comedy series “Abolish Everything!” has been renewed for a second season at indie streamer Nebula. The Season 2 pickup comes just two episodes in to the first-season run of the Chandler Dean-hosted series. According to Nebula, the show is the platform’s most-watched new series ever
Throw a pickaxe in Hollywood today, and you could easily hit a dozen video game adaptations in the works as TV series and movies. They’re all vying for the same things — critical acclaim, big bucks at the box office or streaming subscriber spikes from
Audiences worldwide want more comedies and thrillers in theaters, according to a new survey from the Global Cinema Foundation. But overall, the lack of appealing films is the biggest obstacle to going to cinemas more often, the study found. More than 68,000 respondents in 15
From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain lobbied hard to join the European Economic Community, presenting itself as a modern country, despite its rule by an arcane 1930s dictator. By 1968, targeted reform notwithstanding, the only part of Europe Spain had
Eight years ago, tech billionaire Jeff Skoll clapped enthusiastically as Al Gore assuaged the opening-night Sundance crowd just hours before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president. “We will win,” Gore said after the Skoll-backed climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to