Category Archives: Variety
Black Noir Unmasked: ‘The Boys’ Star Nathan Mitchell Talks New Noir’s Powers and ‘Gen V’ Connection
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Episode 7 of "The Boys" Season 4, currently streaming on Amazon's Prime Video. It’s Christmas for “The Boys” — sort o...
Jul 11, 2024
Hallmark+ Streaming Service to Launch in Fall, Will Include First Holiday Limited Series, Original Movies and More
Hallmark Movies Now is undergoing a transformation. The on-demand service will be rebranded as Hallmark+, a new streaming service set to launch in mid-September, which will incorporate ad-free viewing...
Jul 11, 2024
Paramount Global Must Get Skydance Approval for Any Paramount+ Joint Venture or Bundling Deals With Biggest U.S. Streamers
The full contract terms for Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramount Global were disclosed Thursday. And, as expected, there are various restrictions on what Paramount and Skydance can do without ...
Jul 11, 2024
Shelley Duvall, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Nashville’ Star, Dies at 75
Shelley Duvall, the big-eyed, waifish performer who won the Cannes actress award for Robert Altman’s “3 Women” and endured Stanley Kubrick’s brutal directing techniques to star...
Jul 11, 2024
‘The Perfect Couple’ Trailer: Nicole Kidman Leads a Wealthy (and Killer?) Nantucket Family in Netflix’s Murder Mystery Series
What could go wrong in one of the wealthiest perfect families on Nantucket? Netflix has dropped the trailer for “The Perfect Couple,” an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s eponymous mu...
Jul 11, 2024
Muhammad Ali Series ‘The Greatest’ Greenlit at Amazon Prime Video With Widow Lonnie Ali as EP, Jaalen Best to Star
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit “The Greatest,” the first-ever authorized scripted series about the life of Muhammad Ali. Jaalen Best will star as Ali while Ben Watkins, creator of Amazon&...
Jul 11, 2024
Seth Rogen’s Tiresome ‘Sausage Party’ Series Stretches Groan-Worthy Food Puns to Their Limit: TV Review
Raunch is its own justification. Why does an animated feature about talking food need a follow-up TV series almost a decade after its initial release? For the reason that Seth MacFarlane's "Ted" got a...
Jul 11, 2024
With ‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘Despicable Me 4’ Propping Up the Summer Box Office, Could 2024 Be the Year of Animation?
"First time in a long time I didn't hear any buzz at all about a July 4th blockbuster movie," a friend texted me last week. His message struck me as odd, since I can't turn a corner without being bomb...
Jul 11, 2024
‘The Penguin’ and ‘Dune: Prophecy’ Will Become HBO Originals After All, Moving From Max After Some Crafty Dealmaking
When Variety broke the news last month that HBO and Max content CEO Casey Bloys had changed the delineation between what an "HBO show" and a "Max show" is, there was an asterisk attached. Max's big-bu...
Jul 11, 2024
Former Participant Exec Miura Kite Joins Maria Farinha Films as Expanding Brazilian Producer Launches U.S. Unit (EXCLUSIVE)
Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films is expanding stateside by opening a Los Angeles office operated by U.S. producer Miura Kite, formerly EVP of global television at Part...
Jul 11, 2024