The Brutalist Report

Variety

• ‘The Daily Show’ Skewers Gavin Newsom for Sex Scandal and Failure to Solve Homelessness and High-Speed Rail in New Segment (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• ‘Hunger Games’ Star Sam Claflin Says Shirtless Scenes Led to Body Dysmorphia: ‘There’s This Hollywood Assumption That Men With Six Packs Sell Movies’ [20d]
• Hogwarts Gets Collegiate-Style Merch in New ‘Harry Potter’ Homage Collection [20d]
• Scott Printz, Producer on ‘Private Practice,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ Dies at 69 [20d]
• Hotel and Credit Card Loyalty Programs Are Going All In on Exclusive Experiences in 2026 — From Sundance to the Grammys [20d]
• Chris Hemsworth Wondered if Revealing Alzheimer’s Genetic Predisposition Would Impact Acting Career: Will They ‘No Longer Believe in the Action Star’ or Marvel Hero? [20d]
• LISTEN: It’s Heigh-Ho Time After Regime Change at Disney; Ted Sarandos Survives Politically Charged Senate Grilling [20d]
• ‘Eragon’ Disney+ Series Sets Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing as Co-Showrunners, Marc Webb Boards as Exec Producer [20d]
• Kristen Stewart Buys L.A.’s Highland Movie Theater and ‘Sees It as an Antidote to All the Corporate Bulls—‘ [20d]
• Barry Manilow Postpones Las Vegas Residency Following Cancer Treatment [20d]
• How Ashley Padilla’s ‘Mom Confession’ Sketch Turned Her Into ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Standout Emmy Contender [20d]
• YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations [20d]
• YouTube Revenue for Full-Year 2025 Topped $60 Billion, Making Video Platform Bigger Than Netflix [20d]
• Josh D’Amaro Says He ‘Got a Little Embarrassed’ and ‘Choked Up’ When Disney CEO Job Was Offered to Him [20d]
• ‘Brilliant Minds’ Pulled From NBC Schedule, ‘The Voice’ Season 29 Takes Over Monday Nights After Winter Olympics [20d]
• Main Takeaways From IFFR Pro: U.S. Indies Find Shelter, Brazil Comes Strong, New Projects by ‘Leonor Will Never Die’ and ‘Samba Infinito’ Directors Crowned  [20d]
• Amazon Pulls ‘Melania’ From Oregon Movie Theater in Response to Marquee Jokes [20d]
• SXSW 2026 Adds ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Bloody Ballerina Thriller ‘Pretty Lethal’ and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Hillel Slovak Doc [20d]
• ‘Wayward’ Creator Mae Martin Sets Netflix First-Look Deal (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• Don Lemon Confirmed to Speak at On Air Fest Podcast Conference After His Recent Arrest [20d]
• Joshua Jackson Joins Ray Romano in Greg Berlanti’s HBO Max Pilot ‘How to Survive Without Me’ [20d]
• Whitney Leavitt Leveraged ‘Mormon Wives’ to Earn ‘Chicago.’ She’s Not Sure How She’ll Ever Go Back [20d]
• Jennifer Esposito Reveals She Has to Move Out of the Home She Mortgaged to Finance Her Directorial Debut: ‘I’ve Been Crying’ [20d]
• Oscars Screenplay Race Break Down: From Paul Thomas Anderson’s Dominance to Foreign-Language Longshots [20d]
• Record Store Day 2026 Lineup: Vinyl Exclusives From Pink Floyd, ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Bruce Springsteen, Katseye, Bruno Mars, Tom Petty, the ‘Wicked’ Cast and 350 More [20d]
• Variety Promotes Emily Longeretta to Director of Features [20d]
• Netflix Sets Release Date for Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short ‘The Singers’ (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• Mary Carillo Will Take Over for Savannah Guthrie at NBC Sports’ Winter Olympics [20d]
• The Mood Inside Disney Over Josh D’Amaro’s Ascension to CEO Is Mainly Relief That the Uncertainty Is Over: ‘It’s Great to Have Clarity’ [20d]
• Gersh Signs Commercial Director Jess Coulter [20d]
• ’13 Reasons Why’ Exec Producer Joy Gorman Partners With Rise Literary to Adapt Projects, Launch New Publishing Imprint [20d]
• Paul Thomas Anderson vs. Ryan Coogler: Why the DGA Awards Could Crown a Frontrunner, or Rewrite the Oscar Race [20d]
• Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Exorcist’ Casts Chiwetel Ejiofor [20d]
• Fandom Sets Twitter, Mozilla Vet Jay Sullivan as New CEO [20d]
• Zayn Announces Fifth Album ‘Konnakol,’ Preps New Single ‘Die for Me’ [20d]
• How the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Scored 2026’s Top Oscar Nominees and a New $20 Million Film Hub [20d]
• Anthony Rapp Starring in Off-Broadway Solo Show ‘Touch’ (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• ‘SNL’ U.K. Unveils Comedians Set for Inaugural Cast [20d]
• ‘Parasite’ Producer Barunson E&A, ‘My Daughter Is a Zombie’ Outfit Studio N Partner on Localized Southeast Asian Content [20d]
• ‘Yellow Cake’ Director Tiago Melo on Support From ‘The Secret Agent’ Power Duo Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, Casting Brazilian Rising Star Tania Maria [20d]
• ‘Adolescence’ Writer Jack Thorne and ‘The House of the Spirits’ Directors Lined Up for Berlinale Series Market Conference Strand [20d]
• Rob Hyland’s Super Bowl: How NBC Sports Football Producer Prepares for ‘Uncharted Waters’ With Mike Tirico [20d]
• Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to ‘Bones’ Producer Barry Josephson Revealed: Set Visits, Auditions and ‘Overwhelming’ Friendship [20d]
• What Netflix Didn’t Say: Why Promising a 45-Day Theatrical Window Still Doesn’t Answer Some Big Questions [20d]
• Ellen Pompeo Told Eric Dane ‘Whatever You Need, However I Can Help. I Love You’ After Learning of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Co-Star’s ALS Diagnosis [20d]
• Susan Lucci on Her New Memoir, Return to Acting With Keanu Reeves and Advice for Diane Warren After 17th Oscar Nom [20d]
• ‘The Tale Of Silyan’ Review: The Bonding Between a Man and a Stork Is But One Layer of This Poignant Documentary [20d]
• Keys to the Kingdom: Why Josh D’Amaro and Dana Walden’s Fates at Disney Are Now Intertwined [20d]
• ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Star Pom Klementieff Talks Balancing Big Studio Movies and Indies, French Homecoming With ‘Mi Amor’: ‘I Had Forgotten That Part of Me’ [20d]
• Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Lays Off 30% of Staff, Cutting More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter [20d]
• Kevin Wiliamson to Develop Ashley Elston’s Hit Novel ‘First Lie Wins’ at Universal TV (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Heads to A24 With Glen Powell Producing; TV Series Sets JT Mollner to Direct, Plus New Movie in the Works [20d]
• WestEnd Closes Major International Deals on ‘Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day’ Ahead of EFM Market Premiere, First Trailer Debuts (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• MK2 Films Secures Worldwide Rights to Celine Sciamma Film Library (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• Dave Coulier in Remission From Tongue Cancer One Year After Beating Stage 3 Lymphoma: ‘It’s Been a Roller Coaster’ [20d]
• Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Premiere ‘Wuthering Heights’ in Paris and More Celeb Red Carpet Photos From February 2026 [20d]
• Halle Berry Says ‘It’s Disturbing’ How Gavin Newsom Claimed They’d ‘Reconcile’ and Then Never Reached Out: ‘If He’s Going to Run for President, He Can’t Sleep on Women’ [20d]
• Olivia Rodrigo Wins Universal and Reverb’s Amplifier Award for Positive Change [20d]
• ‘Dirty Dancing’ Musical Sets North American Tour [20d]
• Higher Sports Fees Eat Into Fox’s Q2 Profit, Despite Revenue Increases [20d]
• Disney CEO Succession Drama: How Josh D’Amaro Won the Battle to Replace Bob Iger [20d]
• Thriller Series ‘Westend Girl,’ Starring Helena Zengel, Picked Up by Beta Film (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• Donald Trump Says He Would Commit More Federal Resources to Finding Savannah Guthrie’s Mother and Plans to Call ‘Today’ Anchor: ‘It’s a Terrible Thing’ [20d]
• Turkish Production Company Behind AI-Generated Doc ‘Post Truth’ to Launch New AI Project ‘A Woman Asleep’ at EFM; Trailer Revealed (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• How to Watch 2026 LIV Golf Riyadh Live Online Without Cable for Free [20d]
• Todd Haynes’ Gay Romance ‘De Noche’ Resurrects With Pedro Pascal Confirmed to Star and France’s MK2 Films Financing (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• J.K. Rowling Denies Inviting Jeffrey Epstein to ‘Harry Potter & The Cursed Child’ Broadway Opening, DOJ Docs Show He Was Turned Away at Door [20d]
• Timothée Chalamet Thanks French Fans for Showing Up at ‘Marty Supreme’ Paris Premiere, but Says He ‘Would Have Liked for It to Be Free’: ‘I Know You Were Charged a Lot’ [20d]
• Daryl McCormack, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Chris O’Dowd, Mark Rylance Join Octavio Rodriguez’s Animated Movie ‘On the Edge’ (EXCLUSIVE) [20d]
• Sri Lanka’s ‘Riverstone’ Wins Top Prize at Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinema [20d]
• S.S. Rajamouli on the Cinematic Feat of ‘Varanasi,’ Mahesh Babu’s Work Ethic and Recreating India’s Sacred City on Screen: ‘To Meet My Own Expectation Is the Biggest Challenge of My Life’ [20d]
• Charlotte Glynn Takes On the Loss of Identity in ‘The Gymnast’ — and Finds Parallels to Today’s ‘Fascism’ in the U.S. [20d]
• Holiday Horror ‘Unholy Night’ Lands at Blue Finch Films (EXCLUSIVE) [21d]
• ‘Wuthering Heights’ First Reactions: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Chemistry Is a ‘Whole Other Level of Hot’ in a ‘Bodice-Ripping Crowd-Pleaser’ [21d]
• ‘Barbara Forever’ Review: Filmmaker Brydie O’Connor Channels the Radical Queer Spirit of Barbara Hammer [21d]
• Crunchyroll Rolls Out Thai-Language Interface, Expands Localized Content Library (EXCLUSIVE) [21d]
• ‘See You When I See You’ Review: Cooper Raiff Deals With His Sister’s Death in a Too-Familiar Traumedy From Director Jay Duplass [21d]
• Apple Unveils 2026 Film Slate: Ryan Reynolds Fights a New War, Jonah Hill Gives Keanu Reeves the ‘Jay Kelly’ Treatment and ‘Matchbox’ Revs Up [21d]
• Lisa Rinna Says ‘Karma Is Coming’ for Rob on ‘The Traitors,’ Addresses Controversial Colton Underwood Comment: ‘He Wanted a Housewife, So I Gave Him a Housewife’ [21d]
• Tracy Zamot, Veteran Publicist for Atlantic, Virgin and Motown Records and Pandora, Dies at 55 [21d]
• ‘Cape Fear’ First Look Shows Javier Bardem as Vengeful Max Cady as Apple TV Series Sets Premiere Date [21d]