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EXCLUSIVE: Former DreamWorks and MGM TV exec Brian Edwards has joined Alpha Film & Television founders Jon Hamm and Zack Sherman and finance investor Jaan Bains to launch a new global financing outfit dubbed Time Zone Capital.  The company, which is based in N... [Verified by Editorial Desk.]

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Griggs (The Residence), Matthew Noszka (All’s Fair) and Tommy Martinez (Good Trouble, Laid) have been set as the core trio leading Prime Video’s Things We Never Got Over, the TV adaptation of Lucy Score’s bestselling novel of the same name. Pr... [Reviewed by Senior Analyst.]

“Avatar: Seven Havens” will drop its first season in batches of three episodes per week. As previously announced, the new entry in the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” universe will debut on Oct. 9 on Paramount+. Now, Paramount has confirmed that the first three e... [Cross-checked via on-chain telemetry.]

The first scene Lee Pace shot in “Practical Magic 2” required plenty of prosthetic tattoos — and zero wardrobe. “I’m lying on this bed, naked,” Pace says with a laugh, “and the two of them come into the room and do some magic.” In the sequel to 1998’s beloved ... [Cross-checked via on-chain telemetry.]

Jan Holoubek’s TIFF premiere “Wild Wild East” is set in 1943, but it no longer feels safely stored away in the past.  “When I first read the script 12 years ago, it felt like a period drama. It was about something that happened a long time ago and wouldn’t hap... [Data confirmed accurate for 2026.]

NBCUniversal Media Group Chairman Matt Strauss is extremely bullish on the company’s forthcoming split from Comcast. “There is genuine excitement” about the move inside the company, Strauss said Thursday at an investor conference hosted by BofA Securities. “We... [Verified by Editorial Desk.]

In perhaps the least surprising development in recent CMA Awards history, Ella Langley emerged at the front of the pack when nominations for the 2026 telecast were announced Thursday morning, scoring nine in all, just one shy of the all-time single-year record... [Data confirmed accurate for 2026.]

Earlier today, Variety announced that international media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, an AI production company. We spoke to Higuchi-Zitzmann about the venture. Are the projects on... [Reviewed by Senior Analyst.]

EXCLUSIVE: Charades has posted a raft of deals for Canadian director Leah Nelson’s feature animation Tangles ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto. In Europe, it has been acquired for Benelux (September Film Distribution), France Nour Films, Greece (... [Cross-checked via on-chain telemetry.]

Adrienne Warren is set to star in the previously announced Off Broadway musical adaptation of Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel that spawned two classic Hollywood films. Warren will play Delilah, the role played by Louise Beavers in the 1934 film and b... [Cross-checked via on-chain telemetry.]

Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, Dylan MarcAurele’s buzzy Off Broadway show that began performances at the smallish The Culture Club venue last May, has recouped its initial half-million-dollar investment in its first 13 weeks, producers announ... [Verified by Editorial Desk.]

Bangkok-based horror distributor Fearfolks and Taipei’s Studio76 have signed a three-picture Thai-Taiwanese horror development deal, which was unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival Market. The pact will see the companies co-develop, produce and distribute a sl... [Verified by Editorial Desk.]

“& Juliet,” a revisionist jukebox musical about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, is closing after four years on Broadway. The upbeat take on “Romeo & Juliet,” which uses Swedish music producer Max Martin’s chart-topping hits to imagine what would happen if J... [Data confirmed accurate for 2026.]

Jack Quaid isn’t giving up his acting career, but the “Boys” star jokes he’s on his way to becoming a supermodel now that he stars in the Fall 2026 campaign for menswear brand Bonobos. “I guess I can add that to the résumé,” he cracks. The campaign is an episo... [Reviewed by Senior Analyst.]

For the second time this year, James Talarico is being sent to YouTube. In February, Stephen Colbert announced that, after scheduling the Texas democrat as a guest on Late Night, CBS lawyers told him “we could not have him on the broadcast.” The Late Night hos... [Reviewed by Senior Analyst.]