The X Games has some extreme news to share ahead of the kickoff to the winter event this week in Aspen: host Selema Masekela has been named the brand’s first “chief of sports culture.” The three-year deal, signed under new X Games owner MSP Sports
Paramount has tapped comedian Al Madrigal to host its annual talent scouting event, the “CBS Showcase,” for an audience of industry professionals. This year’s event will focus on standup comedy. featuring Showcase alumni Jared Goldstein, Morgan Jay, Peter S. Kim, Brett Maline, Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola,
Bollywood megastars and real-life power couple Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt will star alongside Vicky Kaushal in filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Love & War.” Kapoor debuted as a leading man with Bhansali’s romance “Saawariya” (2007), a Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation. Bhatt headlined Bhansali’s women empowerment saga
The nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, with “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s sprawling examination of the dawn of the Atomic Age, leading with 13 nods including Best Picture. It was followed closely behind by Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” a feminist fantasy set
Carrie Bradshaw and the rest of the “Sex and the City” coterie are heading to a binge-watching date on Netflix. Netflix has inked a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to license all six seasons of the popular HBO dramedy, comprising all 94 episodes, Variety confirmed.
Mexico City-based Endemol Shine Boomdog has seized the adaptation rights to “La Reina del Sur” author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel, “Revolution” (“Revolución”) with Kate del Castillo’s Cholawood on board as executive producers. Del Castillo, who plays the titular role in the hit Spanish-language adaptation of “La
Distribution and production banner Signature Entertainment has promoted two of its most senior execs. Elizabeth Williams, previously director of acquisitions and TV, has been upped to chief commercial officer. Gareth Williams (no relation), who joined the company in 2012 shortly after it was founded and
Heaven knows Johnny Marr is miserable now after finding out that Donald Trump played a Smiths song before a campaign rally. A video posted by ABC presidential campaign reporter Soorin Kim on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed the Smiths’ “Hatful of Hollow” hit “Please,