The Brutalist Report

Variety

• ‘The Great American Recipe’ Season 2 Gets Summer 2023 Release Date From PBS (TV News Roundup) [1064d]
• HBO Content Chief Casey Bloys Explains Restructure, Layoffs in Memo to Staffers [1064d]
• Sir David Attenborough to Host New Five-Part BBC Nature Series ‘Wild Isles’ [1064d]
• How ’13: The Musical’ Mixes Broadway Energy With a TikTok Vibe [1064d]
• Showrunners Behind Abortion Safety Protocols Letters Speak Out for the First Time, Reveal Second Letter to the Studios (EXCLUSIVE) [1064d]
• ‘Numb Little Bug’ Singer Em Beihold on Scoring a No. 1 Radio Hit: TikTok Fame is ‘Double-Edged Sword’ but ‘I’m Very Grateful’ [1064d]
• Subscriptions Growth at Tencent Music Fails to Offset Other Woes [1064d]
• R. Kelly Defense Loses Bid to Exclude Jurors Who Watched ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ [1064d]
• New ‘Saw’ Movie Set for October 2023, ‘Saw VI’ Director Returning [1064d]
• The 100 Percenters and Sony Music Publishing Open Applications for $2,500 Songwriter Stimulus Grants [1064d]
• ‘Stranger Things’ Star Joe Keery Shuts Down Hair Questions: ‘It’s So Stupid’ and ‘Ridiculous’ That People Only Talk About My Hair [1064d]
• Paramount+ to Be Bundled With Walmart+ Membership Program [1064d]
• Developer Plans 16 Soundstages in Los Angeles Arts District [1064d]
• Bill Robinson, Veteran Talent Agent for Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett and More, Dies at 93 [1064d]
• Croatia’s Drugi Plan, Bulgaria’s Agitprop Board Serbian Political Thriller ‘Sabre’ as Balkan TV Co-Production Market Heats Up (EXCLUSIVE) [1064d]
• Viola Davis to Star in ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ as Head Gamemaker [1064d]
• ‘The Last Socialist Artefact’ Wins Big at Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards [1064d]
• Academy Apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather for 1973 Oscars’ Marlon Brando Moment; Museum Will Host Special Program in September [1064d]
• ‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris to Direct ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake at Warner Bros. [1064d]
• Troy Kotsur’s Oscar Nearly Stolen in Arizona Car Theft [1064d]
• HBO/HBO Max Laying Off 70 Staffers as It Shuts Down Streamer’s Reality Unit and Restructures Other Departments [1064d]
• ‘John Wick’ Prequel Series ‘The Continental’ Moves From Starz to Peacock for 2023 Launch [1064d]
• Tom DeLonge and Justin Nitzberg Set Adult Animated Comedy ‘Breaking Bear’ at Tubi [1064d]
• Five Finger Death Punch to Co-Headline 2022 Tour With Country Singer Brantley Gilbert [1065d]
• Ron Perlman, Nick Nolte, Charles Melton, Tim Blake Nelson Join Peacock Series ‘Poker Face’ (EXCLUSIVE) [1065d]
• Boulet Brothers Sign Deal With AMC Networks’ Shudder to Expand Dragula Franchise (EXCLUSIVE) [1065d]
• Toronto Bound ‘A Long Break’ Acquired by Syndicado (EXCLUSIVE) [1065d]
• Dwayne Johnson Called the Studio to Remove Black Adam From ‘Shazam!’: It’d Be a ‘Disservice’ to the Character [1065d]
• India’s Applause Entertainment Reveals Robust Film Slate, Doubles Down on Investment as it Turns Five (EXCLUSIVE) [1065d]
• ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Renewed for Season 15 at VH1 Along With ‘RuPauls’s Drag Race: Untucked’ [1065d]
• ‘Vieja Viejo’ Director Ignacio Pavez Readies ‘Un Amputado’ for Gallo Negro (EXCLUSIVE)Screenwriter and director Ignacio Pavez and the team at Chile’s Gallo Negro Producciones (“Intiwawa”) are readying to produce Pavez’s next feature, “Un Amputado” (“An Amputee”). Creative director at Gallo Negro, Pavez bows his second feature, “Vieja Viejo,” at Sanfic 18, the Santiago International Film Festival, which runs through to Aug. 21 as a hybrid event. The film, which portrays a couple navigating the isolation of ageing and declining health, screens as part of the Chilean Films In Competition strand. Pavez previously wrote and directed notable shorts “De Cara al Cemento” and “Fuego,” the latter earning the best short film award at the 2021 Bio Bio Cine Festival. His full-length project “Maleza” racked up the best feature film award at Chile’s Festival de Cine Emergente de Concón 2017 and screenplay, art direction, and actor awards at FECICH-Festival De Cine Chileno 2018. “Un Amputado,” currently at a funding and script development stage, follows protagonist Raúl’s distressing recovery after a tragic highway accident results in the amputation of his hand. An uphill battle, he’s forced to adjust to life with a disability and the prejudiced gaze of the biased society surrounding him. In an exclusive statement, Marc Nicolet, executive producer at Gallo Negro, told Variety that “due to the controversial nature of the topic and the way we’re going to tell the story, ‘Un Amputado’ has great potential to appeal to festivals, the media and digital platforms. This project allows us to continue increasing the international reach of Chilean cinema.” He went on: “We want to develop and produce this project because it’s important to address issues like amputation within the framework of modern society, which claims to accept it but still discriminates against it in one way or another. On top of that, the public systems lack the necessary tools to offer effective reintegration into the world after such procedures.” “Through ‘Un Amputado,’ we want to reflect the discriminatory reality in its subtleties, the events that occur in both the public and private spheres of a character that’s just faced the loss of a limb.” [1065d]
• ‘The Crown’ Actor Sam Crane to Play Lead in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ [1065d]
• Iran Denies Involvement in Salman Rushdie Attack [1065d]
• ‘Trump Was a Horrible President And is a Horrible Person,’ Says Stephen King [1065d]
• Bollywood War Epic ‘Pippa’ Reveals First Teaser, Release Date – Global Bulletin (EXCLUSIVE) [1065d]
• ‘The White Lotus,’ ‘Severance’ Lead 2nd Annual HCA TV Awards (Winners List) [1065d]
• Anne Heche Taken Off Life Support; ‘Another World,’ ‘Donnie Brasco’ Actor Was 53 [1065d]
• ‘Westworld’s’ Season 4 Finale Suggests the Show Is at the End of the Line: TV Review [1065d]
• ‘The Rehearsal’ Subject Angela Addresses Religious Disputes, Says She’s ‘Satisfied With How the Cut Came Out’ [1065d]