The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Yes, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Is a Serious Oscar Contender for ‘The Smashing Machine’ [7d]
• Blake Lively Wants Justin Baldoni to Pay Millions for Filing Frivolous Suit, in Test of California #MeToo Law [7d]
• Guillermo del Toro on Sunday Paintings With Other Directors and the Brutality and Grace of ‘Frankenstein’: ‘Both Can Exist in the Same Body’ [7d]
• Bryan Fuller Goes Big: After Decades in TV, the ‘Hannibal’ Creator Unveils His Directorial Debut: Family-Friendly Horror Movie ‘Dust Bunny’ — TIFF [7d]
• How Oasis Turned L.A. Into Glorious Britannia for a Weekend [7d]
• Music Industry Moves: Karol G’s Con Cora Foundation and LatinoJustice Join Forces to Elevate Latina Leadership [7d]
• The Best of IFA Berlin 2025: 100-Inch LED TVs, 360-Degree AI Drones, Stair-Climbing Vacuums and More [7d]
• Artists Equity Hires Amy Baer as President of Film and Television [7d]
• ‘One Battle After Another’ First Reactions: Steven Spielberg Praises PTA and DiCaprio’s ‘Incredible’ New Movie as Press Call It One of the Year’s Best [7d]
• Dwayne Johnson Says Weight Loss Is for New Acting Role; He’s Playing a 70-Year-Old Man Whose Best Friend Is a Chicken: ‘I Still Have a Long Way to Go’ [7d]
• Lachlan Murdoch Snares Voting Control of Fox, News Corp. in Family Settlement [7d]
• ‘Karate Kid: Legends,’ ‘28 Years Later,’ ‘In the Grey’ to Stream First on Prime Video Australia Under Sony and Roadshow Deals [7d]
• ‘Happy’s Place’ Adds Christopher Lloyd, Carol Kane and Cheri Oteri as Season 2 Guest Stars [7d]
• ‘Bet’ Star Miku Martineau to Lead Netflix YA Series ‘Crew Girl’ [7d]
• Walker’s Rising Star Foundation Celebrates Performing Arts Students at Telluride Film Festival [7d]
• Gigi Hadid Auditioned for Rapunzel in Disney’s ‘Tangled’ Live-Action Remake Before It Got Paused After ‘Snow White’ Flop: ‘I Was Proud of My Scene’ [7d]
• György Pálfi Talks Logistical Challenges of Working With Eight Chicken Protagonists in Toronto Platform Title ‘Hen’ [7d]
• Michael Caine Coming Out of Retirement at 92 Years Old for Vin Diesel’s ‘Last Witch Hunter 2’ at Lionsgate [7d]
• Story House Partners Sets Debut Feature ‘St. George’ Amid Investment in Montana Film Industry [7d]
• ’Lovely Day’ Director Philippe Falardeau on Why His Latest Felt Wrong and How Lebanese Cast Members Convinced Him It’s the Film We Need Right Now (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Blizzard Promotes ‘Overwatch’ Boss Walter Kong to Head of Live Games and Mobile Development [7d]
• ‘Leanne’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix [7d]
• ‘SWAT’ Spinoff ‘Exiles’ Adds Original Series Stars Jay Harrington and Patrick St. Esprit in Guest Roles [7d]
• CMA Awards Nominations Led by Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney and Ella Langley, With Six Each; Zach Top Lands Five [7d]
• Gabriel Mascaro’s Berlin Silver Bear Winner ‘The Blue Trail’ Becomes Brazil’s Biggest National Arthouse Release of the Year, Hopes for Oscar Recognition, Closes Canada (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• CBS Reveals Fall Premiere Dates For ‘The Young and the Restless,’ ‘Beyond the Gates’ and More (TV News Roundup) [7d]
• Alicia Silverstone Mystery Drama ‘Irish Blood’ Renewed For Season 2 at Acorn TV [7d]
• CAA Signs Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton’s Unanimous Media (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• The Mystery of ‘Exit 8’: How A Video Game Adaptation Set in One Hallway Became an Emotional Festival Hit [7d]
• TikTok and Twitch Star Vanillamace Signs With UTA (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Tim Robinson’s HBO Series ‘The Chair Company’ Gets Release Date, First-Look Images [7d]
• Dacre Montgomery, Diane Lane, Sofia Boutella and Tim Robbins to Star in Brad Anderson’s Thriller ‘Moral Capacity’ (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Cate Blanchett Teaming With ‘Lady Macbeth’ Filmmaker Alice Birch on ‘Sweetsick’ for Searchlight Pictures [7d]
• ‘The Christophers’ Review: Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel Are Brilliantly Matched in Steven Soderbergh’s Sly Look at Artistic Legacy [7d]
• ‘SNL’ Finalizes Season 51 Cast: Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman and More Return; Colin Jost and Michael Che Back for ‘Weekend Update’ [7d]
• Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso Sign With UTA (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Laura Samani on the ‘Sexual Tension’ in Venice Prizewinner ‘A Year of School,’ About a Swedish Girl Enrolled in an All-Male Italian Senior Year Class [7d]
• Box Office: ‘Conjuring: Last Rites’ Overtakes ‘It’ as Biggest Horror Movie Opening With $194 Million Globally [7d]
• Ayo Edebiri Says #MeToo and Black Lives Matter Aren’t Dead After Interviewer Asks Only Her White Co-Stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield to Respond: ‘I Don’t Know If That’s Purposeful That’s Not for Me’ [7d]
• Lily James and Gala Gordon Launch Production Company Parodos With Aim to ‘Champion Stories of Female Resilience’ (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• YouTube’s First Exclusive NFL Game Averages More Than 17 Million Global Viewers [7d]
• PC Gaming Show Sets First-Ever Tokyo Direct Event, Elle Osili Wood and Midas to Host (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Donald Trump Rejoices Over West Point Canceling Tom Hanks Award Ceremony: ‘We Don’t Need Destructive, Woke Recipients Getting American Awards’ [7d]
• ‘SmartLess’ Heading to the Hollywood Bowl for a Mass-Scale Podcast Taping in November (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• ESPN Acquires U.S. Rights, Bell Media Canadian Rights to Richard Brown’s ‘Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League,’ Distributed by Fremantle [7d]
• David Suzuki Feature Biopic in the Works, Montreal’s Possibles Média Introducing Project in Toronto (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• ‘Ghost School’ Director Seemab Gul on How Pakistan’s Real-Life Educational Crisis Inspired Her Toronto Feature [7d]
• Locarno Winner Woo Ming Jin’s Toronto and Busan Title ‘The Fox King’ Unveils First Clip (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer: ‘Knives Out 3’ Has Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor Investigating Death and God [7d]
• Director Zamo Mkhwanazi Goes Personal in TIFF Premiere ‘Laundry’ – and Readies for ‘Newborns’: ‘To Create Is to Heal’ (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Mitski Concert Film ‘The Land’ to Get Limited Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivia Colman, Ayo Edebiri and Josh O’Connor Among 1,200 Industry Names Pledging Not to Work With Israeli Film Institutions ‘Complicit in War Crimes’ [7d]
• Taylor Swift’s ‘Life of a Showgirl’: How to Pre-Order Target-Exclusive CD and Vinyl Variants Online [7d]
• Menemsha Films Takes North America to WWII Thriller ‘Frontier’ From Filmax (EXCLUSIVE) [8d]
• Howard Stern Trolls Listeners With Gag That Andy Cohen Had Taken Over His SiriusXM Slot [8d]
• Nepal’s Gen Z Leads Mass Protests Against Social Media Ban in Kathmandu [8d]
• ‘Drive My Car’ Star Nishijima Hidetoshi’s Busan-Bound Drama ‘Dear Stranger’ Boarded by EST N8 for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE) [8d]
• Daisy Ridley Zombie Thriller ‘We Bury the Dead’ Bought for U.K. By Signature (EXCLUSIVE) [8d]
• ‘Axios Show,’ Featuring One-on-One Newsmaker Interviews, Set to Debut [8d]
• ‘Normal’ Review: Ben Wheatley Is Back in ‘Free Fire’ Form, Putting Bob Odenkirk at the Center of a Small-Town Standoff [8d]
• ‘Secret Garden’ Musical Revival Set at York Theatre Royal With Tony Winner John Doyle Directing (EXCLUSIVE) [8d]
• ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Holds No. 1 at Korea Box Office as ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Opens Strong [8d]
• Jackie Chan’s ‘The Shadow’s Edge’ Leads China Box Office for Third Week [8d]
• Jimmy Kimmel Says It’s Unlikely ‘Live In Front of a Studio Audience’ Will Ever Return [8d]
• ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Dying for Sex,’ ‘Heartstopper’ Among 2025 Humanitas Prize Winners (EXCLUSIVE) [8d]
• ‘Nuremberg’ Review’: Russell Crowe Plays Nazi War Criminal Hermann Göring in an Old-School Oscar-Bait Movie Out to Explore the Nature of Evil [8d]
• ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Wins First-Ever Emmy in Wake of Cancelation [8d]
• ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Alan Cumming Confirms He’s Wrapped Filming His Nightcrawler Part [8d]
• Ian McKellen Forced to Skip TIFF Premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers’ on Medical Advice: ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’ [8d]
• Steven Tyler Holds Back Tears, Yungblud Brings the Energy in Emotional VMAs Ozzy Osbourne Tribute [8d]
• ‘Nuremberg’ Courts Oscar Buzz: Russell Crowe Delivers His Best Work Since ‘Cinderella Man’ as Leo Woodall Emerges as a Breakout Contender [8d]
• ‘Task’ Creator Brad Ingelsby and Stars Tom Pelphrey and Emilia Jones Unpack Episode 1: From the Haunting Final Shot to the Bloody Drug House Shoot Out [8d]
• Mariah Carey Accepts Video Vanguard Award From Ariana Grande, Performs Career-Spanning Medley at MTV VMAs [8d]
• Sabrina Carpenter Rises From Manhole in MTV VMAs Performance Supporting Trans Rights [8d]
• NBC Taps NFL Kickoff to Spotlight New NBA Rights [8d]
• Doja Cat Goes Totally ‘80s to Open VMAs With Kenny G [8d]