The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Tom Holland Says Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is the ‘Best Script I’ve Ever Read’ and Filming Fourth ‘Spider-Man’ Movie Feels ‘Like the First Time’ [13d]
• Cardi B Found Not Liable in $24 Million Assault Lawsuit [14d]
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Stars Arden Cho and EJAE on Their Favorite Things About Rumi and Embracing Inner Demons: ‘Let’s Break That Trauma’ [14d]
• Jordan Peele’s Next Movie After ‘Nope’ Removed From 2026 Release by Universal [14d]
• LISTEN: ‘Weapons’ Impresses as Summer Box Office Haul Stays Flat; Why Telluride is the Ulimate Movie Lover’s Binge [14d]
• Kevin Costner Pays Tribute to ‘Dances With Wolves’ Co-Star Graham Greene [14d]
• Colman Domingo Gets Emotional, Leads ‘Gus!’ Chant as Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Earns 11-Minute Venice Ovation [14d]
• ‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ Director On Doc’s Bizarre Plot Twist That the Internet Can’t Stop Talking About [14d]
• Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be ‘Involved in AI’ Because It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’: ‘You Can Lament It All You Want, but the Change Is Here’ [14d]
• ‘The Godfather’: L.A. Historian Alison Martino on Film’s Lasting Impact as the Greatest of All Time: ‘They Had No Idea It Would Be Anything Like This’ [14d]
• The Gaming Handheld from Your Childhood Is Now A Lego Set: Here’s How to Preorder the Lego Game Boy Online [14d]
• Google Not Forced to Divest Chrome Browser, but Judge Rules It Must Share Some Data With Rivals [14d]
• Disney to Pay $10 Million for Collecting Children’s Data on YouTube [14d]
• ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård Turns a Freak Hostage Incident from 1977 Into a Miniature ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ [14d]
• The Wit and Wisdom of Oasis: Best Quotes From the New Jersey Reunion Show, From Beer Line Insight to Liam Gallagher’s Wild Monologue [14d]
• Stray Kids Breaks Record for Most No. 1 Albums for a Group Since 2000 [14d]
• Generative AI is ‘Divisive’ as Animation Industry Embraces Innovative Production Tools: Report [14d]
• ‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs Talk Fashion, Friendship and Fosse in a Slight, Sparkly Doc [14d]
• Canal+ Enters Exclusive Talks to Buy Minority Stake in French Film Studio UGC That Operates Leading Cinema Chain [14d]
• Idris Elba as U.S. President Leads Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear War Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ to Powerful 11-Minute Venice Ovation [14d]
• ‘My Life With the Walter Boys’ Season 2 Debuts With 11.8 Million Views on Netflix [14d]
• ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ First Look: Tom Blyth and Emily Bader Fall in Love in Netflix Adaptation of Emily Henry’s Novel [14d]
• ‘Resilience, Sisterhood and Survival’: Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station,’ About Women-Only Petrol Station, Leads Venice’s Final Cut Winners [14d]
• ‘SNL’ Splits Up Please Don’t Destroy: John Higgins Exits and Martin Herlihy Remains on Writing Staff as Ben Marshall Joins Cast [14d]
• Rilo Kiley’s Reunion Tour Showcases Jenny Lewis’ Vocals and the Joy of Revisiting Emotional Work Years Later: Concert Review [14d]
• Belinda Carlisle on Covering ’60s and ’70s AM Radio Hits She Grew Up on for New Album, ‘Once Upon a Time in California,’ and This Year’s Go-Go’s Reunion [14d]
• Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Smashing Machine’ Transformation: How Makeup Artist Kazu Hiro Hid Tattoos, Changed The Rock’s Nose Shape and More [14d]
• ‘SNL’ Adds Five Cast Members: Please Don’t Destroy’s Ben Marshall Upped to Featured Player Alongside Veronika Slowikowska and Three More [14d]
• ‘Age of Innocence’ Netflix Series Casts Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, Ben Radcliffe, Margo Martindale [14d]
• ‘South Park’ Goes After Trump Tariffs and Labubu Madness in Season 27, Episode 4 Trailer [14d]
• Paramount Skydance Hires BCG Partner Jeff Silberman as SVP of Corporate Strategy [14d]
• Sabrina Carpenter Stands by ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Cover Art, Calls Negative Reactions ‘Fascinating’: ‘There’s a Lot of Nuance and I’m Not Naive to That’ [14d]
• Anne Hathaway Confronts Paparazzi on ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Set: ‘You Guys Have to Relax. There Are Children on Set Today. So Everyone Is Going to Relax’ [14d]
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Singer and Songwriter EJAE Wrote the Melody to ‘Golden’ on the Way to the Dentist [14d]
• Kim Kardashian and Kenya Barris’ La La Anthony Pilot ‘Group Chat’ Adds Four to Cast [14d]
• Charlie Hunnam Nears Deal to Star in ‘Monster’ Season 4 as Lizzie Borden’s Father [14d]
• Variety Interview Studio at TIFF Returns With Ryan Reynolds, Sydney Sweeney, Matthew McConaughey and More [14d]
• Music Industry Moves: MusiCares Taps Theresa Wolters as Executive Director [14d]
• ‘Marvel Zombies’ Trailer: Undead Avengers Are Brutally Slaughtered in Marvel’s First Mature Animated Series [14d]
• Shudder Buys Gothic Thriller ‘Honey Bunch’ Ahead of Toronto Film Festival Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• Channing Tatum Reveals ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Injury, Says Gambit Is ‘Not Gonna Go Full Cajun’ Accent: Russo Bros. ‘Want to Keep the Drama’ and Not Be Fully ‘Deadpool’ [14d]
• ‘Scrubs’ Reboot at ABC Brings Back Judy Reyes as Carla [14d]
• Channing Tatum’s ‘Roofman’ Reinvention: Why He Wanted to Play a Real-Life Criminal for Derek Cianfrance’s Surprising Film and How He’s Reviving Gambit for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ [14d]
• Variety’s Venice Digital Daily, Day 5: ‘Smashing’ Star Dwayne Johnson Shows His Dramatic Side [14d]
• Nielsen Will Need More Time to Disclose Full Audience Ratings in Streaming Era [14d]
• Jimmy Stewart Biopic Casts ‘Hacks’ Actor Christopher McDonald as Lionel Barrymore (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• ‘Chainsaw Man’ Manga Creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Early Works Get Prime Video Anime Anthology [14d]
• ‘Megadoc’ Trailer: Mike Figgis Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic ‘Megalopolis’ in Making-Of Doc (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• ‘Call of Duty’ Movie in the Works Under Major Paramount Skydance, Microsoft’s Activision Pact [14d]
• Robin Wright Says ‘America Is a S—show’ and ‘Everything’s Rush, Competition and Speed’; She Calls Leaving for England ‘Liberating’ [14d]
• Vogue’s New U.S. Editor, Chloe Malle, Says She’s a ‘Proud Nepo Baby’ [14d]
• Colman Domingo on the Relevance of Gus Van Sant’s Hostage Thriller ‘Dead Man’s Wire’: ‘This Is What Happens When People Are Up Against the Wall’ and ‘We Can Prevent’ It [14d]
• Seth Rogen Hits the Venice Film Festival for ‘The Studio’ Season 2 Research [14d]
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Receive TV Academy’s Governors Award After Being Defunded by Congress [14d]
• ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Sets Two-Week Theatrical Release Before Netflix Rollout [14d]
• Chile Sends ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ to the Oscars (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• ‘Backyard Football ’99’ Re-Release Set for September [14d]
• French TV Exports Hit Second Highest Revenues in Last 30 Years, Despite Tough Climate [14d]
• ‘A House of Dynamite’ Director Kathryn Bigelow on the Urgency of Her Nuclear War Thriller: ‘How Is Annihilating the World a Good Defense Measure?’ [14d]
• Gerard Depardieu to Stand Criminal Trial Over Rape and Sexual Assault Charges [14d]
• Sheinelle Jones Set to Return to NBC’s ‘Today’ [14d]
• San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference Panelists Take in CAA Media Finance, Annapurna Pictures, Amazon Studios, Fremantle, Legendary Entertainment and Mediawan [14d]
• Deportation Drama ‘Nomad Shadow’ Unveils First Clip Ahead of Toronto World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• Ecuador’s Ana Cristina Barragán on her Venice Horizons Pic, ‘The Ivy’: ‘I’m Once Again Drawn to Exploring Childhood Wounds’ [14d]
• Film4 Appoints Farhana Bhula as Director [14d]
• Mediawan Rights’ Eco Thriller ‘After Us,’ Bowing at Unifrance Rendez-Vous, Examines Fine Line Between Activism, Extremism [14d]
• Chile Bets on Strong Presence in Venice Following Major Awards in Cannes and Berlin, as Producers Focus on Creative Co-Productions, Retaining Autonomy [14d]
• ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Star Mayra Hermosillo on Her Feature Directorial Debut ‘Vanilla’ at the Venice Film Festival: ‘It Has Healed So Many Wounds in Me’ [14d]
• Francois Ozon on Adapting Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’: ‘I Wanted to Make It With Today’s Perspective of French Algeria and Colonization’ (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• Federation International Sells Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s ‘Nature’ to ZDF, Ceska TV and Sets Prestige Screening at Unifrance Le Havre Showcase (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman’s ‘The Roses’ Tops U.K. and Ireland Box Office as ‘Jaws’ Resurfaces in Second [14d]
• India’s Anuparna Roy on Venice Debut ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’: ‘There’s Space for Our Stories, Told on Our Own Terms’ [14d]
• Netflix Unveils Star-Studded K-Unscripted Slate at Seoul Festival Event [14d]
• AI Drama ‘Humans in the Loop’ Adds Kiran Rao, Biju Toppo as Executive Producers (EXCLUSIVE) [14d]
• ‘Scarlet’ Director Mamoru Hosoda Bridges East and West With His Most Ambitious Anime Feature to Date [14d]
• ‘100 Nights of Hero’ Director on Giving Charli Xcx Her First Movie Role and Casting Singer Before ‘News Had Broken That She Was Interested in Acting’ [14d]
• ‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Is Enraptured With Raptors in an Unconventional Yet Moving Grief Drama [14d]