The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Universal Destinations & Experiences Taps Donna Mirus Bates Global Franchise Strategy Officer as Parks Continue to See Strong Success [12d]
• ‘The Furious’ Review: Dopey Dialogue and Dubbing Don’t Matter in an Aptly Titled, Stunningly Choreographed Martial Arts Spectacular [12d]
• Ariana Grande Slams Trump’s White House for Using Her Song to Promote ICE Deportations: ‘Barbaric, Inhumane, Heinous Nonsense’ [12d]
• Mariska Hargitay on Being Courtside for Knicks Game 4 Win: ‘Honored’ and ‘Grateful’ to Say ‘I Was There’ [12d]
• ‘Every Year After’ Boss Breaks Down Why It’s Not a Love Triangle, Changes From the Book’s Sam and Percy, and Charlie’s Fate in Season 2 [12d]
• Andy Cohen on the ‘Summer House’ Reunion, the Magic of ‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island’ and the ‘Very Intimate Relationship’ Fans Feel With Bravo [12d]
• ‘Baywatch’ Wins Coastal Commission’s OK for Overnight Parking [12d]
• Tom Hanks Says the Oscars Don’t Need a Voice Acting Category Because Voice Performances Should Be Able to Win Best Actor and Actress [12d]
• ‘Cotton Fever,’ ‘Here I’m Alive’ and ‘Summer of Three’ Among 2026 Tribeca Festival Winners [12d]
• Kinepolis Acquires Showcase Cinemas in $30 Million Deal [12d]
• Fox One Streamer Offering Free Trial As World Cup Coverage Kicks Off Online [12d]
• A Radiant Reminder: Erika Alexander [12d]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO: Company Sets Initial Stock Pricing for Biggest-Ever Public Offering at $1.77 Trillion Valuation [12d]
• ‘Widow’s Bay’ Renewed for Season 2, Creator Katie Dippold Inks Apple TV Overall Deal [12d]
• ‘Drag Race’s’ Michelle Visage on the Key to Winning the Reality Competition Series: ‘Make RuPaul Laugh’ [12d]
• ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Michael Sarnoski Make a Grizzled, Anguished Antihero of the Valiant Outlaw [12d]
• Maggie Gyllenhaal to Adapt Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ for Warner Bros. [12d]
• Jennifer Lopez Says Oscar Winner ‘Nomadland’ Is Her ‘Worst Type of Film’ Because It’s a ‘Slow-Moving Thing About Grief and There’s No Escapism’ [12d]
• ‘The Paper’ Star Sabrina Impacciatore on Catfishing, Learning to do the Worm Dance, and Working With an All-Female Creative Team [12d]
• Zac Brown Defends Performing at UFC Fight at Trump’s White House: ‘This Is Patriotism, Not Politics for Me. F— All The Division’ [12d]
• ‘Spider Noir’ Team on Bringing ‘German Expressionism’ to Comic Series and Having Nicolas Cage ‘Get the Snob Hat Off’ and Make a TV Show [12d]
• Radu Jude on Adapting Scandalous French Classic ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ and Proving He’s Not Just a ‘Vulgar Filmmaker’ [12d]
• From Ariana Grande to Connor Storrie: Which ‘SNL’ Hosts Were Submitted for Emmys and Who Was Snubbed? [12d]
• ‘DTF St. Louis’ Stars, Creator and Cinematographer on a Key Scene That Moves ‘From Sin to Caretaking’ [12d]
• Quiver Distribution Buys Frank Grillo, Tyrese Gibson and Harvey Keitel Cyperpunk Thriller ‘Kill Code’ (EXCLUSIVE) [12d]
• ‘Off Campus’ Team Calls Out Fans Who ‘Engage in Targeted Harassment’ of Cast and Threatens to Block Accounts [12d]
• LISTEN: David Harbour Finds a Port in the Storm in ‘DTF St. Louis’; ‘Toy Story 5’ Red Carpet Rundown [12d]
• Chase Infiniti on Hiding ‘One Battle After Another’ Role From ‘The Testaments’ Co-Stars and Becoming Elisabeth Moss’ Daughter for Gilead’s Teen-Girl Wasteland [12d]
• Brothers Behind Mexico’s First Stop Motion Feature ‘I Am Frankelda’ Were Told ‘We Should Quit Our Dreams’ [12d]
• Inside Summer Game Fest: Gaming Industry Happily Braces for ‘GTA 6’ Success With Stuffed September, Early 2027 Releases [12d]
• From ‘Widow’s Bay’ to ‘Creep Tapes,’ These Scary Shows Deserve Emmy Voters’ Attention [12d]
• ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Producer Bradley Bell Producing Microseries ‘Hollywood Starlet’ for aTwist (EXCLUSIVE) [12d]
• Taylor Swift’s Stevie Knicks T-Shirt Is the New Must-Have Merch of the NBA Finals — And You Can Shop Your Own Version Online [12d]
• Giovanni Entertainment Hires Ted Horning as Creative Executive (EXCLUSIVE) [12d]
• Sylvia Rhone to Receive ‘Ultimate Icon’ Award at BET Awards [12d]
• ‘Love Story’ Star Paul Anthony Kelly Joins ‘Housemaid’s Secret’ [12d]
• Clive Owen Teases Film With ‘The Tribe’ Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Promises ‘Sensitivity’ to Series on JonBenét Ramsey: ‘People Treat It Like a Murder Mystery’ [12d]
• ‘The Pitt’ Star Supriya Ganesh Tapped Into Her Own Anxiety to Play Dr. Mohan’s Panic Attacks: ‘I Felt This Deep Sense of Sadness’ [12d]
• Alliance of Women Directors and Starz Reveal Creative Leadership Lab’s Inaugural Class Designed to Support Female TV Directors (EXCLUSIVE) [12d]
• Pixar’s New Movie ‘Gatto’ Adds Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne, Drops Trailer About Mobster Cats [12d]
• Inside ‘Long Story Short’: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Animated Family Saga for Netflix [13d]
• Lionsgate Takes Equity Stake in Runway AI, Plans to Draw on Existing Franchises for AI-Generated Short-Form Series [13d]
• Kate Steinberg, Erin Miller, Nicole Story Dent to Launch ‘You Had 2 Be There’ Nostalgia Podcast Reveling in ’90s and 2000s Pop-Culture Moments [13d]
• Alex Cooper’s Unwell Signs Georgia Hassarati and Isabel Timerman’s ‘Girls, Disrupted’ to Podcast Network [13d]
• ‘Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness’: Isla Fisher and Jane Krakowski to Guest Star in HBO Sketch Series (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Dwayne Johnson Reveals Cancer Scare on Day of ‘Jumanji’ Press, Admits He Wanted an Oscar Nom and Explains Why ‘I’m Keeping My Politics to Myself’ [13d]
• ‘Songwriting Is Easy!’ Read ‘Espresso’ and ‘Lose Control’ Hitmaker Julian Bunetta’s Awesome Speech About the Art, Craft and Pain of Writing Music for a Living [13d]
• ‘Things We Never Got Over’ TV Series Gets Amazon Greenlight, Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder to Adapt & Showrun [13d]
• Adore and Wesley Wang Team Up for ‘Feel It All Again’ Video, a.k.a. ‘Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank’ [13d]
• AI Script-Analysis Start-Up Quilty Strikes Preferred-Look Deal With Giovanni Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Michael Giacchino Officially Boards Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ With Score Recorded at Abbey Road Studios (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• New ‘Kingdom Hearts’ Game, ‘Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ Remake Unveiled During Nintendo Direct (Gaming News Roundup) [13d]
• Jimmy Kimmel Ridicules Trump’s $12,000 UFC Fight Commemorative Coin That Has ‘No Face Value’: It Takes ‘Special Kind of Con Man’ to Sell Supporters ‘Money They Cannot Spend’ [13d]
• The Micro Pitch: Why Brands Are Flocking to Microseries [13d]
• ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 6 Adds 8 to Cast, Including Martin Freeman, Geri Halliwell Horner, Jamie Demetriou (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Former ‘60 Minutes’ Staffers Unload on Bari Weiss: ‘Everything She’s Touched Has Turned to S—’ [13d]
• ‘Peaky Blinders’ Sequel Series Adds Conleth Hill, Lucie Shorthouse, Cal O’Driscoll to Cast [13d]
• Politico Relaunches Magazine With New Weekend Focus on Examining Power [13d]
• Broadway PR Firm Polk & Co. Promotes Colgan McNeil, Kelly Stotmeister to Partners [13d]
• ‘Heart of the Beast’ Trailer: Brad Pitt and a German Shepherd Struggle to Survive the Alaskan Wilderness [13d]
• ‘I Was Angry’ Over ‘Hunger Games’ Fame: Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Banks on Learning to Love the Franchise, Hopes for ‘I Love L.A.’ and More [13d]
• ‘Friday Night Lights’ Star Adrianne Palicki to Host Tour of Cast Reunions and Screenings Ahead of 20th Anniversary [13d]
• ‘Paper Tiger’ Producer Rodrigo Teixeira on James Gray’s Next, ‘About the U.S. Now,’ Why U.S. Directors Will Shoot in Brazil and How Independent Cinema Has Gone Global [13d]
• ‘Slow Horses’ Season 6 Sets Fall Release Date, First Glimpse of Lenny Rush Alongside Slough House Team [13d]