The Brutalist Report

Variety

• ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn on Why She Hasn’t Grilled Vince Gilligan and the Writers About Season 2 Just Yet [4d]
• Justin Cary, Sixpence None the Richer Bassist, Dies at 50 [4d]
• ‘Dutton Ranch’ Episode 7: [SPOILER] Gets Murdered, [SPOILER] Might Die and Everyone Else Is Either Drunk or in a Bar Brawl [4d]
• Why ‘Widow’s Bay,’ Matthew Rhys and Breakout Kate O’Flynn Should Scare the Rest of the Emmy Comedy Field [4d]
• ‘Taxi’ Star Tony Danza Pays Tribute to Director James Burrows: ‘We Have Lost the Greatest of All Time’ [4d]
• ‘Toy Story 5’ Cast Guide: All the Celebrities Voicing Toys, From Conan O’Brien to Bad Bunny [4d]
• George MacKay on Learning to Fish With Callum Turner for Time Travel Movie ‘Rose of Nevada’ and Why He’d Rather Play a Bond Villain: You ‘Get the Best Scenes and Then Get Killed!’ [4d]
• How ‘Leviticus’ Stars Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen Prepared to Take on the Roles of Two Closeted Teenagers for the Conversion Therapy Horror [4d]
• ‘X-Men’ Star Famke Janssen Says Marvel ‘Made a Mistake’ By Not Asking Her to Return as Jean Grey in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ [4d]
• YouTube Creators are Making a Splash This Awards Season. Here’s a Guide to the Platform’s Top Contenders [4d]
• Randy Newman on Scoring ‘Toy Story 5,’ Using a Male Choir for Buzz Lightyear and Having Less Than an Hour’s Notice to Duet With Taylor Swift [4d]
• James Burrows, TV Sitcom Director Who Co-created ‘Cheers,’ Worked on ‘Taxi,’ Dies at 85 [4d]
• From Jordan’s Streets to Indian Mountains to Chinese Campuses, Asian New Talent Contenders Chart Their Creative Paths at Shanghai [4d]
• The TCA Awards Must Bring Back An In-Person Ceremony to Ensure Its Longevity [4d]
• Rosie O’Donnell ‘Would Be Up’ to Guest Host on ‘The View,’ But ‘They Haven’t Asked Me’: ‘Mommy Knows How to Hold a Grudge’ [4d]
• ‘The Four Seasons’ Stars Will Forte and Kerri Kenney-Silver on How Close to Home Their Show Really Is [4d]
• ‘Leviticus’: How the Romantic Horror Movie Was Inspired by a ‘Regression’ of Gay Rights [4d]
• ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Review: Uwe Boll Does Armie Hammer No Favors With This Morally Bankrupt Thriller [4d]
• Japan Hits Record 25 Annecy 2026 Selections, Unifies MIFA Booths in Show of Force [4d]
• ‘It’s a Fantastic Time for Animation’: UTA Partner Jason Burns Praises Original Ideas, Animation Directors Ahead of Annecy Film Festival [4d]
• Memory, Freedom and Music Among Themes as Five Documentaries Chase Golden Goblet Glory at Shanghai [4d]
• ‘Slow Horses’ Star Christopher Chung on Balancing Ego and Empathy as Fan-Favorite Roddy Ho: ‘You Never Play It for the Joke, Everything Is Just Genuine’ [4d]
• Shanghai Film Festival’s Mobile Filmmaking Camp Wraps With 10 iPhone-Shot Short Films [4d]
• H.E.R., Bini, Lea Salonga, Katseye’s Sophia Laforteza Lead Dreamworks Animation’s ‘Forgotten Island’ Soundtrack (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• ‘Ponderosa’ Review: The Great Bill Camp Gives Weight to a Slippery, Nightmarish Black Comedy [4d]
• Alfonso Ribeiro on Social Media Fueling ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Success and Urging Contestants to Ignore the Trolls: ‘Why Are We So Mean to One Another? [4d]
• Blink49’s Brand Studio Plans First Vertical Video, ‘Murder at the Mansion’ (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Opens to $17.5 Million, Best Preview Performance of 2026 [4d]
• Democratic Senators Urge FCC to Block Closing of Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Until Review of Deal’s Foreign Investment Concludes [4d]
• Netflix’s Spanish Resort Drama ‘Oasis’ Is More ‘Elite’ Than ‘The White Lotus’: TV Review [4d]
• Romania Approves Three-Year Extension of Revamped 30% Cash Rebate Program (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• ‘Pippi Longstocking’ Animated Series in the Works With StudioCanal, Heyday Films, Submarine and the Astrid Lindgren Company (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• Canary Islands’ Documentary Voices Look Outward as Sector Gains Range [4d]
• ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Emily in Paris’ Outperform IP Rivals in Dentsu Fandom Intelligence Study [4d]
• The Latest from YouTube Sensation Bruno Simões, a Tale of Trump-Like Capitalism and the Story of Poet Pablo Neruda’s Finest Hour: How Catalan Titles Stack Up at Annecy [4d]
• Canary Islands Sell Documentary’s Next Frontier: A ‘Goldmine’ of Untold Atlantic Stories [4d]
• ‘Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope’ Chronicles the Humanitarian Ship’s Voyage to Chile, Chartered by Nobel Prize-Winner Pablo Neruda and Artist Delia del Carril [4d]
• 7 Rising Romanian Talents Ready to Break Out in 2026 [4d]
• Inside Catalonia’s Build as One of Europe’s Most Exciting Animation Hubs [4d]
• ‘We Are Aliens,’ Cannes, Annecy Buzz Title, Sells Wide Across Asia (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• From Barça to Atlantic History, Canary Islands Producers Eye the World [4d]
• Sunny Side of the Doc’s Aurélie Reman: ‘It’s a Moment in History for Trustworthy Content’ [4d]
• From a Reboot of TV Phenom ‘The Triplets’ to a New ‘Tad the Lost Explorer’ Movie, 10 Upcoming Catalan Animation Titles to Track [4d]
• ‘Dhurandhar,’ IPL Power India’s Reliance Industries’ Media Business to $3.7 Billion Revenue [4d]
• Women’s Snooker Doc ‘The Queens of 147’ Heads to Shanghai TV Festival [4d]
• Uwe Boll Says Armie Hammer Film ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Has Been Banned in Germany for ‘Inciting Violence Against Migrants,’ but Insists: ‘I Am Not a Nazi!’ [4d]
• Anthony Chen and Yeo Yann Yann on 14 Years of ‘Growing Up’ Trilogy and New Korean Project: ‘A Comic Take on a Tragic Story’ [4d]
• Luca Guadagnino’s Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie ‘Artificial’ Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership [4d]
• ‘Dear You’ Director Credits Overseas Chinese Letter-Writing Tradition for Sleeper Hit’s Emotional Power [4d]
• Pearl River Film Launches Studio With Author Guo Ni, Sets Eight-Franchise Slate [4d]
• ‘Stand Up’ Review: A Dutch Disability Drama With Complexity and Integrity [4d]
• Chinese Filmmakers Face Red Tape, Cultural Barriers in International Co-Productions, Shanghai Panel Finds [4d]
• Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Chiefs Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca to Speak at Toronto Market Summit [4d]
• Hayley Kiyoko’s Feature Film ‘Girls Like Girls’ Took a Decade to Make. Now That It’s Here, She Hopes It’s Just the Beginning for Sapphic Media [4d]
• APOS 2026 Takeaways: IP, Sport, AI Define Asia’s New Content Era [4d]
• Anne Curtis Leads Mikhail Red’s Manila Paranoia Thriller ‘Remote’ (EXCLUSIVE) [4d]
• Jordan’s Emerging Filmmakers Prioritizing Universal Human Experiences, Local Realities, Authenticity [4d]
• Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Larry David for Having Slave-Owning Relatives [4d]
• Matt Damon Crashes ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ in a Trojan Horse to Troll Him: ‘I Did It!’ [4d]
• Curry Barker’s Third Film, an Original Horror Concept, Heads to Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster [4d]
• Peacock Gives Series Order to ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door, Chris Yost [4d]
• Viva Kids Acquires Three New Animated Films as Upcoming Releases – Film News in Brief [5d]
• Here’s to the Chicks as the Band of the Sesquicentennial, as Group Performs First U.S. Show in Three Years at SoCal’s Yaamava’ Theater: Concert Review [5d]
• Hollywood Warns Against Sabotaging California Film Incentives, Seeks Exemption From Credit Limit [5d]