The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Tom Holland Speaks Out on AI and Why Artists Are ‘Safe’: ‘Creativity Has to Do With the Human Experience’ [6d]
• Key and Peele’s Plan to Reboot ‘Police Academy’ Got Canceled After Michael Brown Killed in Ferguson, Says Ike Barinholtz [6d]
• Emmy Predictions: Writing — Where the Scribes Behind ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘Love Story’ Make Their Case [6d]
• Jamie Bell on ‘Half Man,’ Fatherhood and Wanting to Make a Tap-Dancing Movie After Fred Astaire Biopic Fell Apart [6d]
• Radial Entertainment Hires Former Sony Exec Carrie Ferman as Chief Operating Officer (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Producers United Boosts Legal Muscle With Entertainment Litigator Bonnie Eskenazi, Labor Pro Allyson L. Belovin (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Duffer Brothers’ ‘The Boroughs’ Canceled by Netflix After One Season [6d]
• Angelina Jolie on Her Kids ‘Encouraging’ Her to ‘Get Out and Do Things’: ‘My Fighting Spirit Is Finally Back’ [6d]
• Why Taylor Swift’s Reunion With Country Music for ‘Toy Story 5’ Ought to Get Her a First Date With Oscar [6d]
• ‘Widow’s Bay’ Star Matthew Rhys on That Devastating Finale Reveal and Grilling Creator Katie Dippold About Season 2: ‘What’s Gonna Happen?!?!” [6d]
• Robert Downey Jr. Says ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Figured Out How to Make Marvel Movies ‘Not Be a Letdown’ After ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ [6d]
• Emmy Predictions: Short Form Categories — ‘SubwayTakes,’ Tom Segura and the After-Show Crowd Vie for Recognition [6d]
• How to Watch The Knicks Championship Parade Live Online [6d]
• ‘Disclosure Day’ Anchor Courtney Grace on Delivering That Final Broadcast and Quitting Her Job to Pursue Acting: ‘It Felt Like Home’ [6d]
• Latine Immigrant Representation Drops to 25% Across Scripted TV: Industry ‘Cannot Rely on a Few Programs to Represent the Whole’ [6d]
• Tom Dreesen, Stand-Up Comedian Who Opened for Frank Sinatra, Dies at 86 [6d]
• ‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 Contestant Beatriz Hatz on Her Friendship With Melanie, Gabriel’s Recoupling and Seeing Online Hate: ‘My Time in the Villa Was Just Enough’ [6d]
• This ‘Benson & Brunson’ Knicks Tee Celebrates Jalen Brunson and Mariska Hargitay’s Endearing Friendship [6d]
• Variety Announces Brand Entertainment for Fans  Event Spotlighting Leaders at Cannes Lions [6d]
• ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Trailer: Tom Holland Fights Hulk and Loses Control of His Powers [6d]
• Daveigh Chase, Disney’s Lilo Voice Actor and ‘The Ring’ Villain, Dies at 35 [6d]
• Wagner Moura in Talks for ‘Ocean’s 11’ Prequel With Margot Robbie, Bradley Cooper [6d]
• Bowen Yang, Sarah Sherman and Kenan Thompson Mull Their ‘SNL’ Legacy and Longevity: ‘I Could Do It Forever’ [6d]
• ‘Matlock’ Writer Sues CBS and Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman Over Alleged Racist and Sexual Comments [6d]
• Paramount+, Starz, MGM+ and More Are Down to $1/Month With These Early Prime Day Video Deals [6d]
• Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors Season 24 Breaks Emmys Lineup Record With 178 Million Social Video Views [6d]
• Lil Nas X Opens Up About Bipolar Diagnosis and Improved Mental Health: ‘Black, Gay and Bipolar? I’m Living Life on Extreme Hard Mode’ [6d]
• Olivia Wilde Says Harry Styles Romance Made ‘People F—ing Pissed’ and 10-Year Age Gap ‘Really Upset’ Them: I Was Called a ‘Slut’ for Dancing at His Shows [6d]
• Walter Parazaider, Chicago Co-Founder, Flutist and Sax Player, Dies at 81 [6d]
• NewFilmmakers LA Announces Nominees and Jury for 14th Annual Awards (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Starz Acquires Russell T Davies’s Drama ‘Tip Toe’ for the U.S. and Canada [6d]
• Ken Ziffren on the Fight for a New Spin on Fin-Syn, Six Decades of Hollywood Dealmaking and Awaiting a ‘Cacophony of Decisions’ in AI Cases [6d]
• Josh Johnson on His Unprecedented Comedic Output: ‘What Some People See as a Treadmill, I See as a Magic Carpet’ [6d]
• Laika Animation Studio Becomes a Certified B Corporation; Meets Standards for Social and Environmental Performance (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Disney Is Unlocking ‘The Simpsons’ for Fortnite Games Developers [6d]
• How Banchi Hanuse’s ‘Ceremony’ Honors Nuxalk History, Healing and Survival [6d]
• UTA Signs Powerhouse Christian Novelist Karen Kingsbury (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• ‘Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It’ Movie in the Works at Netflix From ‘The Nightingale’ Producer, ‘Book Lovers’ Screenwriter (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• ‘Prison Break’ Star Lukas Gage Teases ‘Dark’ and ‘Scary’ Reboot: ‘It’s on Hulu … So We Can Get Really Gritty’ [6d]
• Don’t Call It a Sequel. Or a Reboot. Or a Remake. Why Certain Words Trigger Hollywood [6d]
• ‘One Night in Idaho: The College Murders’ Renewed for Season 2 at Amazon With New Testimony (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Studio That’s Developing ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Movie and TV Projects With Michael Bay Has Raised $25 Million in Funding [6d]
• Amanda Seyfried Had to Use a Bodyguard After Calling Charlie Kirk ‘Hateful’ Ignited MAGA Outrage: ‘I’m Allowed to F—ing Voice My Feelings’ [6d]
• ‘Overwatch’ Art Director Arnold Tsang Launches Original Manga ‘Azuki’ (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• How Constance Zimmer Honors the Power of Profound Grief in ‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’ [6d]
• Americans Fear AI’s Societal Impact and Don’t Believe Government Can Regulate It, Pew Study Finds [6d]
• Sinclair Invests in IRCODE, a ‘Shazam for Images’ AI Vision Start-Up, and Sets Interactive TV Rollouts in Two Markets [6d]
• ‘Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World’ to Open NewportFilm Outdoors as Festival Unveils 2026 Summer Lineup (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• BBC to Cut 550 Jobs and Reduce Commissioning Spend by More Than $100 Million as Part of Savings Plan, New Director General Says [6d]
• Juicy Hong Kong Hulu Drama ‘The Season’ Is a Spiritual Successor to ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: TV Review [6d]
• Annecy’s MIFA Bets on Cross-IP, AI and Global Growth Amid Animation Financing Squeeze [6d]
• Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Eyes Record $150 Million-Plus Opening Weekend [6d]
• ‘Minions & Monsters’ Opens Annecy 2026 as Festival Eyes Record Crowds, New Class A Status and a Global Animation Spotlight [6d]
• YouTube India Positions Connected TV as New Prime-Time Screen, Unveils Three-Lever Strategy for M&E Partners at APOS [6d]
• How an Incentives Arms Race Is Drawing ‘Dune 3,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Resident Evil’ and More to Central and Eastern Europe [6d]
• Screen X to Launch New Premium Large Format With ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• TikTok Sets Cannes Lions Creator Lineup With Tineke Younger, Morgan Jay, Katie Fang and More (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Vans Releases ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Collection Inspired by Hit Song ‘Golden’ [6d]
• Streaming Titles Are Following the Theatrical Trend of Less Diversity, Finds UCLA Hollywood Report [6d]
• Culver City Approves Permanent Production Incentive Measures as Netflix and MGM+ Film on Location in the Heart of Screenland [6d]
• Indonesia’s Ismail Basbeth Sets Next Feature ‘Love Letters of Our Life’ (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Praises ‘Exceptional’ Connor Storrie, Says ‘Some of the Most Exciting Filmmakers Working Today’ Come From Horror [6d]
• Is ‘Austin Powers 4’ Happening? Mike Myers Says ‘Yes’ (but Nothing Else) [6d]
• Australia’s Warwick Thornton Brings ‘Wolfram’ to Shanghai, Discusses Film’s Roots in Family History [6d]
• Ester Expósito, Mario Casas and Anna Castillo Lead Prime Video’s New Originals Slate in Spain, Its No. 1 Non-English Powerhouse [6d]
• Maria José of Savoy, Queen of Italy for Only 27 Days, to Be Subject of Film From Ginevra Elkann and Marco Bellocchio (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Netflix, Prime Video, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery Bet on Local Content and Fandom to Drive APAC Growth [6d]
• ‘April X’ Director Michel K. Parandi Says Casting Connor Storrie Before ‘Heated Rivalry’ Felt Like Casting Harrison Ford in ‘Blade Runner’: I Was ‘Telling Everybody He’s Going to Be a Movie Star’ [6d]
• COL Group, Virtue Asia Team for Southeast Asia Microdrama Brand Push [6d]
• Juno Hong’s ‘Only the Moon Knows’ Wins Annual Focus at Shanghai Project Market [6d]
• Harry Styles Trades Disco for Classical and Plays Some Deep Cuts in Heavenly, Intimate Orchestra Show: Concert Review [6d]
• Studiocanal Sets True Crime Art Heist Docu-Series ‘The Paris-Tokyo Job’ With Sunny Side of the Doc Launch (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• ‘Thelma & Louise’ Musical Reveals Full Cast for Young Vic World Premiere [6d]
• Prime Video Pushes Beyond Streaming to Build APAC Entertainment Hub, Top Executives Reveal at APOS [6d]
• ‘We Won’t Get Old Together,’ From ‘Monsters.’ Director, Explores One Man’s Midlife Meltdown During the Pandemic in Bucharest [6d]
• Andy Serkis Says AI Brings New Responsibility to Storytelling: ‘The World Is Changing Fast but Human Creativity Will Evolve Alongside It’ [6d]
• Toronto Film Festival Reveals More Than 130 Buyers to Attend First Edition of Market [6d]
• JioStar’s Kevin Vaz Says Commerce Will Become Third Revenue Stream as Indian Ad Market Faces Pressure [6d]
• HBO Max Gets ‘Fired Up!’ With Taiwanese, Filipino and Indonesian Originals Slate (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• ‘Apocalypse Civilizations: Rome,’ on the Battle of Actium Between Octavian and Mark Antony and Cleopatra, to France TV Distribution (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Viu and iQIYI International Strike Streaming Bundle Deal for Southeast Asia [6d]
• Crunchyroll to Enter Taiwan and Korea as Anime Fandom Drives Asian Expansion [6d]
• Fahadh Faasil to Star in Two Malayalam Films for India’s Panorama Studios and Producer Jacob Babu (EXCLUSIVE) [6d]
• Jordanian Cinema, Deeply Rooted in Local Realities, Is Resonating on the International Stage [6d]
• ‘Top Gear’ Star Jeremy Clarkson Reveals ‘Aggressive’ Cancer Diagnosis [7d]
• ‘Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story’ Review: The Mistress of Late-Night Cable Public-Access Sex-Show Kitsch Gets Her Own Bangin’ Documentary [7d]
• ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘The Chair Company’ Among 2026 Rockie Awards Program Competition Winners [7d]
• ‘Give Me a Call Back, HBO’: Why Brittany Allen Submitted Herself for an Emmy as a Dying Cancer Patient on ‘The Pitt’ After the Network Ignored Her Calls [7d]
• Inside ‘Summer House: The Aftermath,’ Whether Bravo Protects Amanda Batula and Why Ciara Miller Is the ‘Future’ of the Show (EXCLUSIVE) [7d]
• Asia-Pacific Screen Economy Races Toward $200 Billion as Monetization Gap Defines the Decade [7d]
• ‘Girls Like Girls’ Review: Hayley Kiyoko Makes a Warmly Assured Directorial Debut, Awash in Adolescent Melancholy and Yearning [7d]