Marc Maron called out Bill Maher on the latest episode of the “WTF” podcast, which featured CNN host W. Kamau Bell as a guest (via The Daily Beast). Maron took issue with the “Real Time” host for being partial to “some of the things” Donald
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square expects to raise $1.4 billion from the sale of a 2.7% stake in Universal Music Group, according to a report in Bloomberg. Ackman announced the sale on social media, but the numbers are from a Bloomberg source citing knowledge of the
A year after Alex Garland stirred the American political pot with his dystopian drama “Civil War,” the British director introduced a different kind of combat movie to an audience of U.S. veterans on Wednesday night in Hollywood. A real-time account of a harrowing 2006 mission
Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Konstantin Khudyakov’s “I’m Beginning To See the Light” from Hoody Films. Starring Jack Huston, Abbie Cornish, Brandon T. Jackson, Jamie Chung, Lucy Punch, and Mark Boone Junior, the film is set for digital and cable video
Long-running magazine Popular Science is the basis for a new FAST streaming channel set to be launched by Toronto-based Underknown. The network will be available on FUBO, Plex, Sling Freestream, Vizio, Local Now and other FAST platforms. The channel will cover rocket launches live and
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced an effort on Thursday to counter the threat posed by China, continuing what has been a bipartisan focus over the last half decade. Brendan Carr said the agency would form a Council for National Security, which would
The “Prison Break” reboot pilot at Hulu has added three series regulars, Variety has learned. Emily Browning, Lukas Gage, and Drake Rodger have all been cast in leading roles in the pilot, which was originally announced in December. As previously reported, the pilot is set
When Richard Dreyfuss walked onto the Mothership at the end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” it was just about the first time — and also nearly the last — that a movie hero voluntarily went on any such ride. More familiar notes of