The Brutalist Report

Variety

• USA’s ‘The Rainmaker’ Adds Richard Kind, Kevin Ryan and Asher DeLand in Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE) [2h]
• ‘I Will Find You’ Nabs 24 Million Views in 4 Days, Netflix’s Biggest New Series Debut of 2026 [2h]
• Muni Long Had a Double Lung Transplant After Doctors Said She Only Had One Week to Live: ‘You Can Either Go to Hospice or Get These Lungs’ [2h]
• Carmelo Anthony on How the Knicks’ Victory Has ‘Reignited’ New York and Timothée Chalamet Earning His ‘Favorite White Boy’ Award: It’s ‘What He Really Wanted’ [3h]
• ‘Ponies’ Canceled After One Season at Peacock [3h]
• Nate Bargatze Slammed for ‘Associating With Fascists’ After Attending Trump’s UFC Fight; W. Kamau Bell Tells Him: ‘Don’t Be in Photos With Fascists’ [4h]
• Richard Gadd, Joe Barton and Philip Barantini Join Inaugural Storytelling360 London Lineup [4h]
• Tom Cruise Celebrates 46 Years in Movies With Retrospective Clip Featuring New ‘Digger’ Footage — Film News in Brief [4h]
• ‘Magic School Bus’ Live-Action Movie With Elizabeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle Lands ‘Detective Pikachu’ Director [4h]
• Creator-Focused Management Firm Fixated Expands With Talent Agency Alums (EXCLUSIVE) [4h]
• Na Hong-Jin to Receive Action Cinema Award as NYAFF Unveils North American Premiere of ‘Hope’ (EXCLUSIVE) [4h]
• Former Syfy Executive Mark Stern, Lloyd Braun Launch AI Animation Studio Intelligent Animation (EXCLUSIVE) [4h]
• NBA Draft 2026 on Sling TV: Here’s How To Watch the Two-Day Event Online Without Cable [4h]
• ESPN Analyst Matt Miller Has Arm Amputated After ‘Serious’ Car Crash: ‘I’m Incredibly Fortunate to Be Writing This’ [5h]
• ‘The Everlasting’ Series Adaptation in the Works at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE) [5h]
• David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Teams With NBCUniversal and Merzigo for Expanded Streaming Distribution of Vintage Late-Night Episodes [5h]
• Film Independent Launches Robert Redford Environmental Vision Award for Spirit Awards [5h]
• Netflix Sets Immersive Horror Video Game ‘Unhinged’ Starring Zoë Kravitz, Sadie Sink and Troy Baker [5h]
• ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ Trailer: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Favorites Return in Alternate Universes [5h]
• Kindle Unlimited, Amazon’s Digital Book Rental Service, Is Offering a 30-Day Free Trial for Prime Day [5h]
• As Its Anime Viewership Sky Rockets, Netflix Unveils ‘Fool Night’ and More of ‘The One Piece’ at Annecy [5h]
• Ray-Bans’ Most Popular Sunglasses Are More Than 50% Off for Prime Day [6h]
• Paramount+ Sets Tulisa Docuseries About Shamed ‘X Factor’ Judge From Dorothy Street Pictures [6h]
• ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Remake Sets 2027 Release [6h]
• DDA Talent and Worldwide Production Agency Merge, Forming Global Talent Agency [6h]
• Netflix Unveils First Images of ‘Fool Night,’ Its New Anime Series (EXCLUSIVE) [6h]
• TeamTO and The Tetris Company Team Up on ‘Tetris: World Builders’ Animated Series (EXCLUSIVE) [8h]
• Savannah Guthrie Fights Back Tears While Responding to Note Claiming Her Mom Nancy Is Dead: ‘We’ll Never Stop Looking for Her, Ever’ [8h]
• ‘Supermutant Magic Academy’ Unveils Anarchic First Footage at Annecy [8h]
• Michael Caine’s AI-Generated Voice to Narrate ‘The Odyssey’ Audiobook Ahead of Christopher Nolan’s Movie [8h]
• The New Kindle Is Down to $85 for Prime Day [8h]
• Brothers Quay Talk ‘Humble Craft’ of Animation, Tease New Project: ‘There’s No Script Yet, but We’re Getting There’ [9h]
• ‘Toy Story 5’ Smashes Franchise Records With Massive Debut at U.K. and Ireland Box Office [9h]
• Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival: Every Artist in the Lineup Is ‘Doing It for Free’ [9h]
• Brooke Shields Named New Host of First Responders Series ‘Hearts of Heroes’ [9h]
• StoReel Launches Canvas, AI Production Platform Targeting Microdrama Creators (EXCLUSIVE) [9h]
• Buddy Guy 90th Birthday Concert, Starring Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Jon Batiste and More, Scheduled for October [9h]
• How Jane Fonda Came to Star in Katie Camosy’s Greenpeace-Produced Directorial Debut ‘Gaslit’ [9h]
• ‘Sholay’ to Make ‘Films in Concert’ World Premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall [10h]
• Stephen Chow Makes His Return to the Sport With ‘Kung Fu Soccer,’ Closing International Rights Deal More Than Two Decades After ‘Shaolin Soccer’ [10h]
• Alex and Diego Barragán Discuss Crafting Genre-Bending ‘Jardines del Bosque,’ About Mexico’s Disappeared: ‘Far More Frightening Than Any Horror Story’ [10h]
• Joseph Zentil and ‘Halloween’ Star Dylan Arnold on Championing American Biker Culture With ‘Born to Lose,’ ‘Chemistry’ With ‘Love Story’ Breakout Sarah Pidgeon [10h]
• Variety Teams With Edinburgh Film Festival to Launch Variety Lounge at 2026 Edition [10h]
• Oprah Winfrey Says Whitney Houston Once Fell Off Stage During ‘Oprah Show’ Performance and She ‘Begged’ Audience Not to Leak It to the Press: ‘I Knew She Would Be Destroyed by That’ [11h]
• German Actor Jonathan Berlin Sets Directorial Feature Debut ‘Mio’ With Taddeo Kufus, Barbara Auer and Godehard Giese to Star (EXCLUSIVE) [11h]
• Cinderella’s So-Called Evil Sisters Shine in Netflix Title ‘Steps,’ Sneak Peeked at Annecy [11h]
• Banijay U.K. Chief Says ‘It Was Completely Right’ for ‘MasterChef’ Producer Rather Than BBC to Conduct Gregg Wallace Investigation [11h]
• Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, Jeffrey Wright to Be Honored at Karlovy Vary Film Festival [12h]
• ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Olivia Cooke Reveals ‘Really Bad’ Audition for Rey in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: ‘I Was S—’ [12h]
• ‘The Traitors’ Sets WhatsApp-Based Game ‘The Traitors: Anywhere,’ Allowing Fans to Play at Home [12h]
• Edinburgh TV Festival Relocating After 50 Years in Shock Move [12h]
• Agnieszka Holland to Direct Marlene Dietrich Biopic ‘Berlinweh – Yearning for a Home’ [13h]
• Japan’s Sake Culture Gets the Animated Documentary Treatment in Supersub and Toonz Media Group’s ‘Taste of Water’ (EXCLUSIVE) [14h]
• Japan’s Toei Animation Impresses at Annecy With ‘Monkey Quest,’ a Japan-U.S. Animation Blender [15h]
• Passion Paris Joins ADN for South Korean Major Webtoon Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE) [15h]
• Walmart’s New TV Shows, ‘Join the Club,’ ‘Backyard Escapes’ Spur Vizio Users to Go Shop [15h]
• Amazon Teams With Papa Johns, Beck, Jill Scott, Omar Courtz For New Alexa Ads Using Agentic AI [16h]
• Jon Stewart Dives Into Reflecting Pool Algae Infestation: ‘Did They Replace the Water With Mountain Dew?’ [17h]
• Michael Ovitz Storms Out of Deposition After Being Asked About Jeffrey Epstein [22h]
• Ryan Beatty on How Finding Happiness in Love Shaped His New Album ‘Sweet Fortune’: ‘This Record Has a Really Big Heart to It’ [23h]
• ‘Kennedy’ Stars Nick Robinson and Laura Donnelly on Why Series Isn’t Leaning Into Family’s Signature Boston Accent [23h]
• Tom Hanks Says Disney Could Use AI to Recreate Woody’s Voice for ‘Toy Story 6’ and Beyond If He Doesn’t Return: ‘It’s a Scary Thought’ [23h]
• Eamon Farren, Arlo Green, Miranda Otto and Sacha Horler Join Hugo Weaving in Australian Legal Drama ‘The Great White’ From ‘Slow Horses’ Banner See-Saw (EXCLUSIVE) [23h]