The Brutalist Report

Variety

• ‘Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker to Direct ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Reimagining at A24 (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• ‘Jury Duty: Company Retreat’ Submits 19 Actors for Emmys, Including Sia; Participant Anthony Norman Ineligible (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• ‘Fighting With My Family’ Being Developed Into a Stage Musical With Stephen Merchant and Dwayne Johnson Producing [10d]
• Drake Announces ‘Iceman’ Album Release Date [10d]
• Denise Richards Remembers Friend and ‘Starship Troopers’ Co-Star Patrick Muldoon: ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Going to Do Without You Here’ [10d]
• ‘Survivor’ 50 Sneak Peek: Jeff Probst Competes for the First Time — Thanks to Jimmy Fallon (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• ‘On the Road (En El Camino)’ Tops Winners at 43rd Miami Film Festival – Film News in Brief [10d]
• ’90s Slasher ‘213 Bones’ Sells U.S. Rights to The Horror Collective; Studio Dome to Launch Global Sales at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• Anne Hathaway Pushed ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Producers to Cast Size-Inclusive Models Because ‘All Different Shapes Are Beautiful’ [10d]
• Trump’s Media Company Appoints Kevin McGurn, Former Hulu and Vevo Exec, Interim CEO [10d]
• Fox Movie Boss Says Execs Thought ‘X-Men’ Was a ‘Disaster’ and Rupert Murdoch Flipped Out Over ‘Fight Club’: ‘What Kind of Sick F—ing Human Would Make This?’ [10d]
• Shawn Levy Says AI Will Become an ‘Essential Tool’ for Moviemaking but He Hasn’t ‘Incorporated’ It in ‘Any Meaningful Way’ Yet [10d]
• ‘ESPN Jeopardy!’ Confirmed Ordered by Disney+ and Hulu, With Host Joe Buck [10d]
• Ramy Youssef Trolls MAGA Backlash to His ‘Sesame Street’ Episode Where Elmo Spoke Arabic: ‘Elmo Saying Habibi Has Set Them Off’ [10d]
• CinemaCon 2026 Takeaways: David Ellison Quashed a Rebellion, Tom Rothman Ticked Off Theater Owners and Steven Spielberg Issued an Urgent Warning [10d]
• Neon Adapting Sam Evenson’s Viral Horror Short ‘Mora’ Into Feature Film (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• An Oscar for Rocky? ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppeteer James Ortiz Is Eligible for Best Supporting Actor (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• Harvey Weinstein’s Fourth Rape Trial Gets Underway: ‘Power, Control and Manipulation’ [10d]
• T-Mobile and DoorDash Team Up To Deliver Fast 5G Home Internet, Now Delivered the Fastest [10d]
• LISTEN: Hollywood Wants to Know More About Tim Cook’s Successor at Apple; BookCon Returns With Focus on Romantasy and Adaptation [10d]
• ‘Beef’ Season 2 Opens With 2.4 Million Views on Netflix Top 10, Down Nearly 60% From Season 1 [10d]
• Netflix India’s New-Talent Bet Lands Three Films in Global Top 10 as ‘Toaster’ Hits No. 1 (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Director Jorma Taccone on the Lonely Island’s ‘SNL’ Legacy and Recovering From a Shattered Pelvis: ‘I Had a Moment of My Life Flashing Before My Eyes’ [10d]
• Reese Witherspoon Confronts Backlash Over AI Support: ‘No One Is Paying Me’ and Computers Should Not ‘Replace Humanity’ [10d]
• ‘Paradise’ Season 3 Casts Julianna Margulies [10d]
• Variety Announces Program for Inaugural High Tea: Celebrating Female Directors Event [10d]
• As Election Nears, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Offers Short-Term Cuts in Film Production Fees [10d]
• How the Quinn App Lures Hudson Williams, Shawn Hatosy and More Sexy Actors to Audio Erotica [10d]
• The Hideaway Entertainment Options Johnathan Walton’s True-Crime Podcast ‘The Handyman of West Texas’ [10d]
• ‘Southern Bastards’ Hulu Pilot Adds Jonathan Tucker, Amin Joseph, Ethan Suplee, Derek Luke, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor [10d]
• A Brief History of Warner Bros. Leadership Since 1970 [10d]
• Microsoft Will Delay ‘Call of Duty’ New Releases on Xbox Game Pass, Drops Subscription Prices [10d]
• LaToya Jackson Says Sister Janet ‘Kindly Declined’ to Be Portrayed in ‘Michael’: ‘I Wish Everybody Was in the Movie’ [10d]
• Kamala Harris and Rita Moreno to Be Honored at Public Counsel Awards Dinner (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• ‘Harry Potter’ Sets Live Drone Shows Across the World, Timed to 25th Anniversary (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• Blumhouse’s ‘Worst Ex Ever’ Sets Season 2 Release at Netflix; Trailer Reveals Wade Wilson, ’90 Day Fiance’ Star Geoffrey Paschel as New True-Crime Subjects (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• Tucker Carlson Apologizes for ‘Misleading People’ About Donald Trump: I Will Be ‘Tormented by It for a Long Time’ [10d]
• ‘My Hero Academia in Concert’ Sets U.S. Fall Tour [10d]
• Life and Death in Rio Favela Explored in Emma Boccanfuso’s Documentary ‘Saudades Eternas’ [10d]
• ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Crew Member Suffers Severe Injury Following Accident During Production [10d]
• $500 Million Exit: David Zaslav Is Leaving Warner Bros. a Rich Man — but He’d Love to Stay Around Even Longer [10d]
• Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver and Éanna Hardwicke to Star in Luna Carmoon’s ‘To Make Ends Meat’ [10d]
• Matthew McConaughey Paid Judy Greer’s Parking Bill When She Was ‘So Broke’ at ‘The Wedding Planner’ Table Read: ‘I Was So Mortified’ [10d]
• Studio71 Sold to Fixated, Giving Company Network of 1,000-Plus Digital Creators [10d]
• 800 Pound Gorilla to Launch Stand-Up Comedy Streaming Service (EXCLUSIVE) [10d]
• From ‘The Secret Agent’ to ‘The Blue Trail’ to the Future: How Recife Became Brazil’s Burgeoning Film Capital [10d]
• ‘Michael’ Review: The Thrill Is Not Gone, as a Surprisingly Effective Middle-of-the-Road Biopic Conducts Michael Jackson’s Electricity [11d]
• ‘Half Man’ Is ‘Baby Reindeer’ Creator Richard Gadd’s Outstanding Return to TV: TV Review [11d]
• ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Broadway Revival Coming in 2027 From Tony-Winning ‘Fun Home’ Director Sam Gold (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• Toddler Techno Creator Lenny Pearce Signs Disney Music and Content Development Deal [11d]
• Webby Awards 2026 Winners Revealed, Variety Among Honorees [11d]
• Lebanon-Set ‘Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep’ Boarded by Salaud Morisset Ahead of Premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• Turkey’s OGM Pictures and Spain’s Grupo Ganga Forge Strategic Partnership to Co-Produce International TV Series [11d]
• CNN’s Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black to Split Up Sports, News and Documentary Emmys Hosting Duties (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• Alan Osmond, Eldest Member of the Osmonds, Dies at 76 [11d]
• South Korea’s Screen Industry Generated $16 Billion and Supported 291,000 Jobs in 2025, MPA Report Finds [11d]
• German Prod-Co Freud & Ecstasy Set to Open First U.S. Office, Taps Fabrizio Ellis to Lead It (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• BTS Agency Hybe Founder Bang Si-hyuk Faces Detention as Seoul Police Seek Arrest Warrant [11d]
• Japan’s Atmovie Global Track Debuts at Cannes Film Market With Five-Project Slate (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• The Playmaker Boards Sales for ‘Horse on a Stick,’ Lieblingsfilm’s Follow Up to German Hit ‘Extrawurst’ (EXCLUSIVE) [11d]
• Jon Stewart Jokes That Donald Trump Is on Psychedelics After ‘Weird as S—‘ Bill Signing: ‘Have You Ever Really Looked at Your Signature, on Weed?’ [11d]
• ‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: TV Series Adaptation Delivers a Fizzy and Delightful Love Letter to Musical Theater [11d]
• Oliver Jones Exits Apple TV to Join Amazon MGM Studios as U.K. Scripted Senior Commissioner [11d]