The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Disney Jr’s Rob LaDuca on Mickey Mouse’s Lasting Appeal: ‘Everybody Wants a Good Friend, and That’s What Mickey Is’ [55d]
• Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Made It a ‘Condition’ That New Children’s Book Was Released in Spanish & English [55d]
• Ted Mann, Writer and Producer on ‘Deadwood’ and ‘NYPD Blue,’ Dies at 72 [55d]
• Nina Dobrev Fought for Equal Pay on ‘Vampire Diaries’ for Six Seasons, Only Earned the Same as Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley on Series Finale [55d]
• Emmys 2025 Party Guide With Noah Wyle, Brian Tyree Henry and Parker Posey [55d]
• ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Boss on the Doormen, Mobsters and Billionaires Who Run New York in Season 5 Premiere [55d]
• Glen Powell Says Chris Pratt in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Changed Hollywood Leading Men: You Can Be ‘Sillier’ and Not Just ‘Brooding’ Like Robert Pattinson and Christian Bale [55d]
• Ariana Grande Expands North American ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Tour [55d]
• Women Make Historic Gains in Streaming, as 36% of TV Creators Are Female [55d]
• Tom Holland Says ‘I Probably Get a New’ Spider-Man Suit ‘Every Two Weeks’ Because ‘It Definitely Does’ Get Musty in There [55d]
• TelevisaUnivision Warns Viewers YouTube TV May Pull Braodcast Channel From Main Tier, Accusing It of Levying ‘Hispanic Tax’ [55d]
• Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Dish Over Sling TV Short-Term ‘Passes,’ Alleging Breach of Contract [55d]
• WGA West Accused of Firing Staffer for Union Activity as Guild Employees Seek Job Protections [55d]
• Ryan Seacrest Returns to Host ‘American Idol’ Season 24 [55d]
• Matt Damon Made Three Movies With Ben Affleck After Crying Over the Beatles’ Breakup and Realizing They Can Never Stop Acting Together: ‘Who Cares If We Oversaturate the Marketplace?’ [55d]
• Brat Pack Classic ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ Set for 40th Anniversary Rerelease – Film News in Brief [55d]
• Ted Evans Probes an Insular Deaf Community in Drama ’Retreat’: ‘I Saw an Opportunity to Explore the Construct of Identity Within the Structure of a Cult’ [55d]
• TIFF Top 5 Takeaways, From Sydney Sweeney Entering the Oscar Race to Crowdpleasers Dominating Buzz [55d]
• Rosie O’Donnell Says Security Told Her Not to Come Back to the U.S. for Daughter’s Graduation Due to Trump Feud: He’ll ‘Use Me to Rile His Base’ [55d]
• ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2 Opens to 28 Million Views on Netflix, Down 43% From Part 1 [55d]
• How ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Shot for 160 Days in France and Launched a ‘Zombie School’ for Season 1 and 2 Before Heading to Spain [55d]
• Amazon MGM’s Orion Nabs ‘Harness’; Leigh Janiak to Direct Thriller From Her Own Black List Script (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• John Fogerty Gets Covered by Lainey Wilson, Jesse Welles and Other Stars at a Rocking BMI Troubadour Award Ceremony [55d]
• Apple Unveils iPhone 17 Line, Including Ultrathin ‘Air,’ Keeping Prices Level With Last Year’s Models [55d]
• ‘Couture’ Review: Angelina Jolie in a Paris Fashion Week Drama That’s as Low-Key as the Fashion World Isn’t [55d]
• Paramount Communications Exec Justin Dini to Depart [55d]
• NBCUniversal Tells Employees They Will Need to Come Into the Office Four Days per Week [55d]
• Body Found in Impounded Tesla Registered to Singer D4vd [55d]
• Gina Prince-Bythewood Set to Headline Film Independent’s Forum [55d]
• ‘The Conjuring’ HBO Max Series Sets Nancy Won as Showrunner, Peter Cameron and Cameron Squires as Writers (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• Robbie Henchman Will Take Reins of WME Marketing Agency 160over90 [55d]
• ‘Shifting Gears’ Season 2 Casts Gabriel Iglesias, Lori Greiner in Guest Roles (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• J. Lo’s ‘The Last Mrs. Parrish’ Sets Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Male Lead; ‘Yellowstone’s Isabel May and Pierson Fodé Join Cast (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• Paramount+ to Launch Multiview Feature to Stream up to Four Channels at Once [55d]
• Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Hudson, Jesse Williams and Michael Ealy to Headline CultureCon Lineup (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• Hilary Duff Signs to Atlantic Records, Preps Docuseries About Return to Music [55d]
• ‘SWAT’ Spinoff ‘Exiles’ Casts Lucy Barrett, Adain Bradley, Zyra Gorecki, Freddy Miyares, Ronen Rubinstein (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• ‘Law & Order’ FAST Channel Launches Pluto TV, Prime Video, The Roku Channel, and More [55d]
• Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Acquired by Row K Entertainment in First Big Buy for New Distributor [55d]
• Green Touring and Concert Travel Are the Future: Guest Post by Guster Guitarist and Reverb Co-Founder Adam Gardner [55d]
• Matt Ullian Named Senior VP of Special Projects at Penske Media Corporation [55d]
• Charlie Sheen Tells All in Debut Memoir ‘The Book of Sheen’ [55d]
• Glen Powell Relied on Tom Cruise’s Advice After Ex-Girlfriend Criticized Using Sydney Sweeney Romance Rumors to Boost ‘Anyone But You’ Publicity: ‘Turn the Volume Down’ [55d]
• Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Unveils 2025 Lineup: Zombie Drag Queens, Two World Premieres and an Ernest Dickerson Tribute [55d]
• Lady Gaga Extends ‘Mayhem Ball’ Tour With 2026 North American Dates [55d]
• European Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen Talks Trump, Streamers, and AI: ‘Nobody Can Do Business With Other People’s Work Without Compensating It’ [55d]
• ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Olivia Cooke Says Women Get ‘Labeled Difficult or a Bitch’ for Speaking Up About Sex Scene Boundaries: A Good Intimacy Coordinator ‘Will Become Your Voice’ [55d]
• Piracy in Brazil: Film, TV Industry to Discuss at Expocine New Ways Forward to Curb Digital Piracy [55d]
• How Ricardo Darín, Walter Salles Opened All Over Latin America and Others Could Follow [55d]
• Sydney Sweeney, Stephen Colbert, Sterling K. Brown Among Emmys 2025 Presenters [55d]
• Susana de Sousa Dias to Be Guest of Honor at Documentary Festival IDFA, ‘Fordlandia Panacea’ to World Premiere [55d]
• ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Sets Crime Thriller Series at Netflix With Paddy Considine, Georgina Campbell and Lena Headey to Star [55d]
• Miles Davis’ Catalog Acquired by Reservoir Media [55d]
• ‘Song Sung Blue’ Trailer: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson Start a Neil Diamond Tribute Band [55d]
• Brazil’s Indies, Government Push Congress for Approval This Year of Regulations That Could Boost Production [55d]
• Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Trailer Recreates the Making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Influential Classic ‘Breathless’ [55d]
• Wendy McMahon Once Ran CBS News. Now She’s Turning to Indie Journalists [55d]
• Exhibitors, Distributors See ‘Window of Opportunity’ for Local Pics in Brazil [55d]
• Expocine, Latin America’s Largest Movie Theater Trade Show, Reflects the International Visibility and B.O. Performance of Brazilian Films [55d]
• Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s ‘Sundays’ Gets a Trailer, Dropped by Movistar Plus+ [55d]
• BBC, ITV, BT and IMG Hit With $5.7 Million in Fines for Freelancer Pay Rate Collusion [55d]
• Sally Wainwright, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Trine Dyrholm to Attend Barcelona Serielizados Festival Which Reveals Its International Series Competition (EXCLUSIVE) [55d]
• Paramount U.K. Chief Sarah Rose to Lead Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Foundation [56d]
• ‘Paddington the Musical’ Expands Cast for London West End Bow, but Bear Remains Under Wraps [56d]
• Noah Baumbach to Be Honored by Zurich Film Festival During Gala Premiere of ‘Jay Kelly’ [56d]
• ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Casts a Spell Over U.K., Ireland Box Office [56d]
• Newly-Discovered Terence Davies Short to Get First Screening at BFI Celebration of British Filmmaking Icon (EXCLUSIVE) [56d]
• ‘Geek Girl’ Star Emily Carey, ‘A Kind of Spark’s’ Lola Blue Lead Autistic-Centered ‘The Birth of a Mall Goth’ (EXCLUSIVE) [56d]
• Bollywood Bounces Back as Indian Entertainment Grapples With Streaming Stagnation, Says Ormax Chief (EXCLUSIVE) [56d]
• Jon Stewart Calls Trump a ‘Make-A-Wish’ Kid as He Tackles Presidential Death Rumors: ‘Everyone Who Shows Up to His Office Makes One of His Dreams Come True’ [56d]
• Leonardo DiCaprio on Being Nervous for First Day of ‘One Battle After Another,’ Taking Inspiration From ‘The Big Lebowski’ and Working With Paul Thomas Anderson: ‘I Would’ve Done Any Movie He Proposed’ [56d]
• LISTEN: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Slays at Box Office; Giancarlo Esposito, Shawn Hatosy Talk Biz at Creative Arts Emmy Awards [56d]
• Yes, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Is a Serious Oscar Contender for ‘The Smashing Machine’ [56d]