Category Archives: Variety

Bob Iger Receives Disney’s 50-Year Service Award: ‘Truly the Ride of a Lifetime’
Disney CEO Bob Iger has been honored with the company’s 50-year Service Award. The award features bronze statuettes of Snow White and the seven dwarfs — Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful...
Michaela Zee Jul 01, 2024

The Most-Anticipated Movies of 2024
Get ready for a ton of sequels, threequels and prequels coming to the big screen in 2024, including some movies that were delayed due to the Hollywood strikes. Although the actors and writers strikes ...
Caroline Brew Jul 01, 2024

Barry Diller’s IAC Mulling Bid to Gain Control of Paramount Global: Report
Barry Diller may be looking to charge back into Hollywood — or, at least, he wants to be seen as a wheeler-dealer who’s in the hunt for struggling media company Paramount Global. IAC, the ...
Todd Spangler Jul 01, 2024

Imagine Entertainment Enlists J.P. Morgan to Field Sale Offers
Imagine Entertainment is in the market for suitors again now that leaders Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have tapped J.P. Morgan to field incoming inquiries for the production company behind such distinc...
Cynthia Littleton Jul 01, 2024

‘Real’ Review: Oleh Sentsov’s Ukrainian War Documentary Is Unplanned but Utterly Immersive
A lot of great cinema is made by happy accidents: certain intangible chemistries and tricks of timing that can’t be calculated even by the most exacting auteur. In the considerably rarer case of...
Guy Lodge Jul 01, 2024

Eminem to Release New Album ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’ on July 12
Eminem has announced that his upcoming album “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grce)” will arrive on July 12. In a promo video for the album that the rapper posted to social media, a woman...
Steven J. Horowitz Jul 01, 2024

‘The Bear’ Season 3 Hits 5.4 Million Views in Four Days, Hulu’s Biggest Scripted TV Premiere Ever
The Season 3 premiere of “The Bear” reached 5.4 million views in its first four days of streaming, according to Disney. That marks not only the best performance ever for an FX premiere on ...
Selome Hailu Jul 01, 2024

Tubi Officially Launches in U.K., Bringing Movie Library ’10 Times Bigger’ Than Local Networks (and Including ‘Aftersun’ and a Drag Queen Vampire Horror)
Tubi has officially launched in the U.K., marking the most significant overseas expansion for the free, ad-supported streaming service. The Fox-owned AVOD platform is heading across the Atlantic with ...
Alex Ritman Jul 01, 2024

Ridley Scott Says ‘I Should Have’ Directed First ‘Alien’ Sequels, but ‘I Was Never Told or Asked’ About Them: ‘You Can Imagine I Wasn’t Happy’
Ridley Scott said in an interview with Vanity Fair that he was never asked to direct the first batch of sequels to “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” nor was he even told about their ...
Zack Sharf Jul 01, 2024

Illinois Expands Production Tax Credit Program to Cover Talk Shows, Game Shows and Other Unscripted TV Formats
Illinois is hoping to lure more talk show and game show productions to the state now that Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a bill that removes some restrictions that kept unscripted shows from participatin...
Jack Dunn Jul 01, 2024