The Brutalist Report

Variety

• ‘Boston Blue’ Bosses on Recasting Sean for ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff and Danny’s Romantic Future After That Surprise Return: ‘Long-Distance Relationships Are a Thing’ [1h]
• Sir David Attenborough Becomes New Oldest Daytime Emmys Winner Ever at 99, Beating Previous Record Holder Dick Van Dyke [2h]
• ‘Truth and Treason’ Review: A Conventional Biopic of a Teenager Who Resisted the Third Reich [3h]
• ‘9-1-1’ Actor Rockmond Dunbar Loses COVID Vaccine Lawsuit Against Disney [3h]
• ‘Black Phone 2’ Mastermind Joe Hill on How He Came Up With The Grabber’s Return and What a Sequel Could Look Like [4h]
• ‘Devil in Disguise’ Creator Patrick Macmanus Admits He’s Unsure How Audiences Will React to John Wayne Gacy Series Without Violence: ‘I Don’t Know If a Show That Doesn’t Show Murder Is Going to Work’ [4h]
• Daytime Emmys 2025 Full Winners List (UPDATING) [5h]
• ‘The Diplomat’ Creator on Kate and Hal’s Marriage and Season 3’s Horrifying Last-Minute Twist: ‘There’s Nothing a Character in This Show Does That We Can’t Justify’ [6h]
• Charlie Puth Puts His Jazz Chops to Work at His Blue Note Residency Opening in Los Angeles: Concert Review [7h]
• Trump’s Pentagon Slams Netflix’s Gay Military Drama ‘Boots’ as ‘Woke Garbage’: ‘The U.S. Military Is Getting Back to Restoring the Warrior Ethos’ [7h]
• Casey Dienel Delivers a ‘70s Pop Masterpiece with ‘My Heart Is an Outlaw’: Album Review [7h]
• Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’ [8h]
• How Hungary’s Film Heritage Rose From its Ashes: Inside a Model of Movie Preservation and National Cinema Revival [8h]
• Participant’s Rob Williams Named President of Content Strategy for Sumerian Pictures [8h]
• Ally Arrives: Xbox President Sarah Bond Explains New Handhelds Steep Price, Prioritizing ‘Windows Experience’ and Next-Gen Console Plans Heading Into 2026 [8h]
• Audra McDonald Reflects on the American Dream at Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival Opening Night: ‘We Seem to Have Screwed It Up’ [9h]
• Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script [9h]
• PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’ [9h]
• Can Bari Weiss ‘Fix’ CBS News in Trump’s America? [9h]
• Prince Andrew Drops Royal Titles and Honors Amid Ongoing Jeffrey Epstein Scandal [9h]
• Animation Is Film Festival Champions the Craft With Program Including ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Panel and World Premiere of ‘ParaNorman: The Thrifting’ [9h]
• Takeaways From the Discussion on Composers’ Contracts at the World Soundtrack Awards [9h]
• Kirsten Niehuus Elected as President of Powerful German Federal Film Board, the First Woman to Hold the Role [10h]
• Variety Celebrates Spooky Storytelling at Inaugural Hollywood and Horror Event With Jason Blum, Shudder and More [10h]
• India’s JioStar Reports $2 Billion in Half-Year Revenue, 400 Million Streaming Users [11h]
• ‘SNL’ Sets Glen Powell, Nikki Glaser and Miles Teller as Hosts [11h]
• Ethan Hawke on Waiting 12 Years to Make Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ and Why They’ll Never Do Another ‘Before’ Movie [11h]
• Tina Satter, Director of Peabody Winner ‘Reality,’ Signs With Linden Entertainment [11h]
• Samantha Eggar, Star of ‘Doctor Dolittle,’ Cronenberg’s ‘The Brood,’ Dies at 86 [11h]
• Why ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Uses Bodycam Footage to Reexamine a Harrowing Stand Your Ground Case: ‘It’s a Horror Film in Many Ways’ [11h]
• Fifth Season Options Teddy Wayne’s Upcoming Thriller ‘The Au Pair’ for Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE) [11h]
• NBA Joins Cluster of Sports Outlets Trying to Help Fans Find Growing Array of Streaming Games [12h]
• Why the ‘Stranger Things’ Spinoff Series Will Have ‘New Characters’ and a ‘Clean Slate’: ‘It’s So Different Than “Star Wars”’ [12h]
• ‘Weapons’ Sets HBO Max Release Date in Time for Halloween [13h]
• ‘Frankenstein’ Star Jacob Elordi Needed 42 Prosthetics to Transform Into Guillermo del Toro’s Monster: ‘Everything in This Movie Is Full-Scale’ and ‘Handmade’ [13h]
• Box Office: ‘The Black Phone 2’ Makes $2.6 Million in Previews [13h]
• Pakistani Forbidden Love Novel ‘In The Company of Strangers’ Being Adapted by U.K.’s Kids Fight Productions (EXCLUSIVE) [13h]
• ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff ‘Boston Blue’ Is an Enticing Continuation of the Beloved Family Drama: TV Review [13h]
• Nick Moran Starrer ‘Cookster: The Darkest Days’ Lands at Sky (EXCLUSIVE) [13h]
• Ace Frehley’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments: With Kiss and Solo [13h]
• Composers Call Out Diversity Setbacks Under Trump Government: ‘Inclusion Is Not as Important as 10 Years Ago’ [13h]
• Shanghai–London Forum Bridges Two Film Capitals With Shared Creative Ambition [14h]
• Richard Linklater Had to Be a ‘Naggy Director’ to Get Ethan Hawke to ‘Transform’ for ‘Blue Moon’ Role: ‘If He Didn’t Know Me So Well … He Would Have Punched Me’ [14h]
• ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Full Cast Revealed: Trisha Paytas, Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Deadwyler Among 18 New Additions [14h]
• OpenAI Blocks Sora’s Ability to Generate Martin Luther King Jr. Videos at Family’s Request Following ‘Disrespectful Depictions’ of Civil Rights Leader [14h]
• Google Cloud Gaming Boss Jack Buser on How AI ‘Tipped the Scale’ This Year, What Was Learned From Stadia’s End [14h]
• Britney Spears Slams Ex-Husband Kevin Federline’s Memoir in Second Lengthy Post: ‘The Boy Hates Me and It Is Deep Anger to Say the Things He Is Saying’ [14h]
• ‘After the Hunt’ Costume Designer Pulled Inspiration From Julia Roberts’ Iconic 1990s Suiting to Capture Her Character’s ‘Constrained Power Dressing’ [15h]
• Apple and Formula 1 Ink Five-Year Exclusive U.S. Streaming Deal Worth About $750 Million [15h]
• Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s Rom-Com ‘The Drama’ Sets April Release Date From A24 [15h]
• How London Film Festival Became Awards Season’s International Launch Pad [16h]
• ‘Bearcave,’ ‘Pillion,’ ‘Milk Teeth’ Among Competition Lineup at Thessaloniki (EXCLUSIVE) [16h]
• Sony Pictures International Productions to Unveil IP Adaptation Strategy at Tokyo Market [16h]
• ‘Foundation’ Star Synnove Karlsen to Make New York Stage Debut in Off-Broadway ‘Pygmalion’ (EXCLUSIVE) [17h]
• YouTube’s Justine Ryst on Cinema Classics: ‘On YouTube, Films Don’t Disappear, They Live Again’ [18h]
• David Krumholtz Calls ‘Forelock’ His ‘Ratso Rizzo’ Moment as Austin Selection Unveils New Images (EXCLUSIVE) [18h]
• Carlotta to Co-Produce Seijun Suzuki Doc ‘Twist & Shoot Mister Suzuki’ by Yves Montmayeur [18h]
• BBC Doc ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’ Broke Broadcasting Rules by Being ‘Materially Misleading,’ U.K. Regulator Ofcom Says [18h]
• Claynosaurz’ Nic Cabana to Studios: The Future Is Creator-Led, Nonlinear and Already Here [19h]
• ‘My Driver and I,’ ‘Miss Moxy,’ ‘Guardians of the Mountains’ Among Standout Titles at Sharjah Film Festival [19h]
• Brendan Fraser Says Making ‘Rental Family’ Helped Him Overcome ‘Struggle With Insecurity’: ‘It Reminded Me That I’m Good Enough, and I Always Was’ [19h]
• Shah Rukh Khan to Be Honored With Birthday Film Festival at India’s PVR Inox (EXCLUSIVE) [19h]
• Indonesia’s JAFF Content Market Unveils 10 Original IPs for Screen Adaptation [21h]
• Sharjah’s Next Act: Shams Studio City Shapes the UAE’s Emerging Media Economy [21h]
• Chloé Zhao, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Peter Chan Lead Tokyo Film Festival Talks Lineup [21h]
• ‘Frozen 3’: Kristen Bell Has Seen Script, Says Cast Begins Production ‘Soon’ [23h]