The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 Executive, to Step Down to Focus on Recovery From Chronic Illness [13d]
• Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell on Touring Together and Summer Nights Devoted to ‘Forgetting Madness and Being Part of Something Beautiful’ [13d]
• U.S. World Cup Loss to Belgium Averages 33.1 Million Viewers, the Most-Watched Soccer Telecast in U.S. History [13d]
• ‘Naruto’ Movie Launches Global Casting Search to Find Actors to Play Live-Action Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura [13d]
• How to Watch ‘Big Brother 28’ Online [13d]
• The Coven Is Back! ‘American Horror Story’ Season 13 Set Photos Reveal Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts and More as Witches [13d]
• Alisa Bowen Exits as Disney+ President to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo TV Streamer [13d]
• Emmy Rossum Says Years-Long ‘Shameless’ Pay Battle Only Ended in Season 8 After Salary Dispute Leaked to the Public: ‘It Was Resolved Within a Day’ [13d]
• Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar Mocks Film Industry in Campaign Spot, Vows to Defund Anti-Israel Movies [13d]
• All 5 ‘Hunger Games’ Movies Return to Theaters With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ Sneak Peek [13d]
• James Beard Award Winner Kwame Onwuachi Signs With CAA [13d]
• ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 Adds Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, Jerome Flynn [13d]
• ‘Toy Story 5’ Surpasses $800 Million Globally [13d]
• Music Industry Moves: T.I. Strikes Publishing Deal With Reservoir, Primary Wave Partners With Foreigner’s Mick Jones [13d]
• These Celebrity-Adored, Very Large Sunglasses Are the Hottest Summer Accessory [13d]
• Netflix Sets Golf Drama ‘Jupiter Island’ From ‘Love Story’ Creator and A24 [13d]
• Banijay’s Marco Bassetti and Jeff Zucker on Officially Completing Their $8 Billion All3Media Merger [13d]
• ‘Spy School’ TV Series in the Works at Disney+, Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort to Produce [13d]
• LA28 Olympics Moves International Broadcast Center to Warner Bros. Ranch in Burbank [13d]
• Shaquille O’Neal, TNT Sports Announce Premiere Date for ‘Dunkman,’ Professional Dunk League (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Sony’s Indian Version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ Hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, Adds Google Gemini as AI Guide (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Colman Domingo on the Bay Area, Working Alongside Chadwick Boseman and Being a Writer, Actor and Producer: ‘I Always Wanted to Be a Multi-Hyphenate’ [13d]
• Who Is Count Binface? How the Masked Comedian Might Be Nigel Farage’s Only Challenger in the Clacton By-Election — and Could Actually Win [13d]
• ‘Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash’ Hits 5.4 Million Viewers on ABC, Most-Watched Fourth of July Program This Year [13d]
• Kacey Musgraves and Stanley 1913 Team Up on Cow-Printed Water Bottles, Pet Bowls and Mugs [13d]
• Banijay and All3Media Complete $8 Billion Merger, Set London Headquarters [13d]
• New York Times and Other News Outlets Accuse OpenAI of Lying in Discovery, Demand Legal Sanctions Against AI Giant [13d]
• ‘The Gentlemen’ Sets Season 2 Release Date at Netflix [13d]
• This Wes Anderson Criterion Collector’s Set Is 50% Off Right Now [13d]
• ‘American Horror Story’ Season 13 Sets Fall Premiere Date [13d]
• Tony Nominee Lila Neugebauer Boards Netflix Drama Series ‘The Retrievals’ as Pilot Director (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Michael Fassbender’s Production Company DMC Expands in Ireland Following Investment From Fine Point Films [13d]
• ‘Task’ Season 2 Becomes ‘Mare of Easttown’ Crossover With Julianne Nicholson Reprising Emmy-Winning Role (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Trailer: Soldiers Drop Nuclear Bomb on Godzilla as the Monster Rampages Again [13d]
• ‘Hope’ Trailer: Giant Alien Monsters, Crashing Spaceships and Wild Gun Battles Create Carnage in Neon’s Insane Korean Sci-Fi Action-Thriller [13d]
• Limited Podcast Series ‘Royal Swindle,’ About High Society Scam, Set From Blanchard House, USG Audio and Exactly Right Media (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Karol G to Give Away Free Concert Tickets in Cocktail-Making Challenge [13d]
• WNBA Trailblazers Including Sheryl Swoopes and Skylar Diggins-Smith to Front ‘Gamechangers: Mother/Athlete’ Docuseries on Roku (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Nickelodeon Announces ‘Fun-ergy Factory’ Experience at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 [13d]
• Jennifer Garner’s Beachy Limited Series ‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Has Big Names and Refreshingly Modest Stakes: TV Review [13d]
• Netflix Inks Exclusive Deal for Video Episodes of Vox Media Podcasts ‘Unexplainable,’ ‘Switched on Pop’ [13d]
• AI Platform Character.ai Introduces Suite of Microseries Focused on Anime, Horror, Action Adventure: ‘Deeper Connection Between Fans and Characters’ [13d]
• ‘MobLand’ Sets Season 2 Release Date Following Tom Hardy Fallout, Drops First Trailer [13d]
• Salman Rushdie Says America Is ‘Having a Very Difficult Moment’ With Free Speech as He Accepts Liberatum Award: ‘The Burden of Proof Must Always Lie on the Censor’ [13d]
• ‘An Icon Is Here’: Juliette Binoche Takes Over Karlovy Vary, Talks Directorial Debut ‘In-I in Motion’ and Explains Why ‘We’re All Creators’ [13d]
• ‘White Lotus’ Star Sabrina Impacciatore to Play Tormented Therapist in Prime Video Psychological Thriller With Alessandro Borghi [13d]
• Seth Green Joins Global Gaming League’s Advisory Board as Esports Entertainment Company Launches New Gaming Platform, GGL Primes (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Swiss-Korean Director Hae-Sup Sin Awarded the Allwyn Residency Fellowship in Los Angeles [13d]
• U.K.’s National Film and Television School Partners With Angels Costumes on New Sandy Powell-Backed Costume Design Course (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Screen Australia Data Reveals Marketplace Financing Covers Only a Fraction of Production Budgets [13d]
• ‘Dune 3’: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Denis Villeneuve Return to Abu Dhabi Desert That Doubles as Planet Arrakis in Behind-the-Scenes Images [13d]
• ‘3 Weeks After’ Review: A Bruising, Fiercely Controlled Study of High Schoolers in Moral and Psychological Freefall [13d]
• Bonnie Tyler, ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ and ‘Holding Out for a Hero’ Singer, Dies at 75 [13d]
• Bendita Film Sales Boards Locarno-Bound ‘Donkey Princess,’ From ‘The Wolf House’ Directors León & Cociña (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• ‘Mu-ki-ra,’ From Colombian Creative Powerhouse Estefanía Piñeres Duque and ‘Decorado’ Producer Chelo Loureiro, Brought to Market by Latido Films (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• ‘Small Talk,’ a Nuanced Take on Switzerland’s Last Finishing School, Boarded by Urban Sales (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Cinetic Media Swoops on North American Sales Rights to ‘Manhunt,’ a Locarno Main Competition Contender (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Locarno Festival Announces ‘Adventurous’ Lineup Featuring Caleb Landry Jones, Isabelle Huppert, Hong Sang-soo and Monica Bellucci [13d]
• Acclaimed Chilean Filmmaker Valeria Sarmiento Bids Farewell to Directing With Affecting Childhood Sexual Abuse Drama ‘Behind the Rain’ [13d]
• Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Is a Charming Reimagining of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Beloved Adventure: TV Review [13d]
• Kay Kay Menon’s ‘Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya’ Sets July Prime Video Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) [13d]
• Disney Entertainment TV Chairman Debra OConnell on Emmy Noms, Recognition for ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the New FX/Hulu Setup [13d]
• Scott Foley Reacts After Prime Video Canceled ‘It’s Not Like That’ After One Season: ‘I Think I’m Just Disappointed’ [13d]
• CAA Slams Meta for Using Opt-Out Policy for AI Platform Muse Image, Which Can Create Content Using Public Instagram Accounts [13d]
• Justin Baldoni Speaks Out on Blake Lively Legal Battle: ‘There Have Been so Many Painful Things That Have Been Spoken Into Existence’ [13d]
• Best Horror of July 2026: ‘Evil Dead Burn,’ Nicolas Winding Refn Returns, a Bloodthirsty Pinocchio and More [13d]
• Patrick Dempsey Gave ‘Real Thought’ to Running For Senate in Maine After Graham Platner Scandal: ‘I’m Concerned About the Direction Our Country Is Heading’ [13d]
• Auteurs and Showrunners Dominate Emmy Nominations in Writing and Directing Categories [14d]
• England’s World Cup Victory Over Mexico Draws Nearly 45 Million Viewers for Fox Sports, Telemundo and Peacock [14d]