The Brutalist Report

Variety

• At a Jill Sobule Tribute Show in L.A., Tom Morello, Margaret Cho, Lisa Loeb, Kay Hanley and, Yes, Fabio Share the Love and Loss: Concert Review [85d]
• ‘Dexter’ Gets Limited-Edition Funko Pop Release Ahead of ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Revival [85d]
• Blake Lively Abandons Claims Against Justin Baldoni of Infliction of Emotional Distress [85d]
• ‘Mormon Wives’ Star Taylor Frankie Paul on That Heated Scene With Her Parents and Demi’s ‘Entitled’ Contract Drama: ‘Just Because We Have One Great Season, Doesn’t Mean We Deserve to Have All This Money’ [85d]
• NBC’s Native American Community Center Comedy Pilot Casts Jana Schmieding, Bobby Wilson, Wes Studi, Rachel Dratch (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Denzel Washington Warned Michael B. Jordan That Overexposure Hurts Movie Stars: ‘Why Pay to See You on a Weekend if They See You All Week For Free?’ [86d]
• ‘Squid Game 2’ Cast on Connecting With Fans and Relating to Their Characters: ‘Thanos Isn’t A Villain, But He Is A Man-Child’ [86d]
• ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff ‘Boston Blue’ Casts ‘Psych’ Star Maggie Lawson [86d]
• Paramount Global, With Skydance Deal and Trump Lawsuit Pending, Nominates Three New Board Members for Election at July 2 Annual Meeting [86d]
• Cynthia Erivo Laughs Off Conservative Backlash to Her Playing Jesus on Stage: ‘Why Not?… It’s a Musical, the Gayest Place on Earth’ [86d]
• Alexis Bledel Withdraws From Emmy Race for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Due to New Guest Actor Rules (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Jamie Foxx Calls Diddy a ‘Nasty Motherf—er’ Amid Sex Trafficking Trial: ‘All That Goddamn Baby Oil. Why You So Nasty?… For Black People, That Was Our Hero’ [86d]
• ‘Bring Her Back’s’ 12-Year-Old Star Jonah Wren Phillips on Ollie’s Fake Teeth, Biting Into a Chocolate Table and His 6-Hour Demon Transformation [86d]
• How Music Supervisor Kier Lehman Made ‘Forever’ Soundtrack A Love Letter to L.A. [86d]
• ‘SNL 50’ Becomes Most-Watched Season in Three Years, Hitting 8.1 Million Average Viewers After One Week [86d]
• Lionsgate’s 3 Arts Entertainment Acquires A&A Management, Whose Sports Clients Include Travis Kelce [86d]
• ‘The Studio’ and ‘Hacks’ Are Two of the Best Shows Ever About Hollywood — But Are They Too Inside or PTSD-Inducing? [86d]
• Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions [86d]
• Renée Zellweger Cried Shooting Colin Firth’s Final Scene in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’: ‘Maybe I’m Crazy Because I Love a Fictional Character’ [86d]
• Best Horror of June 2025: ’28 Years Later,’ ‘M3GAN 2.0,’ A Cannes Favorite About a Shark-Loving Serial Killer and More [86d]
• Former ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Chief Leslie Benzies ‘Can’t Wait’ to Play ‘GTA 6,’ Downplays Similarities to His New Studio’s ‘MindsEye’ [86d]
• Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson on Why ‘Poker Face’ Scared Hollywood Execs, Ignoring Internet Hate and How the Show Is a Bold ‘Act of Feminism’ [86d]
• Pablo Larraín to Direct Netflix Domestic Horror Miniseries ‘My Sad Dead,’ Co-Produced With ‘The Eternaut’s’ K&S Films (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Good Burger,’ ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Rear Window’ Among Vidiots Summer Matinee Series – Film News in Brief [86d]
• Paul Giamatti Reflects on His Standout ‘Black Mirror’ Episode ‘Eulogy’: ‘There Were Lots of Things I Felt an Instinctual Relationship To’ [86d]
• ‘Carrie’: Mike Flanagan’s Amazon TV Series Sets Main Cast, Including Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White [86d]
• How ‘The Studio,’ ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Monsters’ and ‘White Lotus’ Make Bad Behavior Appealing [86d]
• ‘The Fantastic Four’ Director Matt Shakman Reveals the ‘Magical’ Comics That Inspired the Film in ‘Small and Large Ways’ (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Downton Abbey’ Complete Series Box Set Discounted on Amazon On Heels of New Movie Trailer [86d]
• Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Finally Hits No. 1 on Songs Chart [86d]
• Making Broadway’s Mind Flayer: How ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Brought Netflix’s Scariest Monster to Life [86d]
• Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Split Fiction’ Movie Lands at Amazon [86d]
• ‘All American’ Renewed for Eighth and Final Season at the CW [86d]
• Barbra Streisand and Jamie Lee Curtis Join Project Angel Food’s Lead With Love Telethon on KTLA (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ Season 4 Casts Cobie Smulders (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Jonathan Joss, ‘King of the Hill’ Actor Who Voiced John Redcorn, Dies in Shooting at 59 [86d]
• ‘Severance’ Editor Reveals the Techniques Used to Craft the Intense Marching Band Season Finale [86d]
• Music Industry Moves: Kirk Franklin Partners With Insignia Assets [86d]
• Penguins Unite! Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito on Lusting After Catwoman, Staying Sober and How ‘It’s Always Sunny’ Is Like ‘I Love Lucy’ on Acid [86d]
• Gkids Acquires North American Distribution Rights to ‘Shin Godzilla’ (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• TelevisaUnivision Parts Ways With Ad-Sales Chief Donna Speciale Amid Upfront Talks [86d]
• ‘How to Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker Sets Debut TV Series ‘Major Players’ With A24, Channel 4 [86d]
• Elon Musk Says New York Times Is ‘Lying Their Ass Off’ About His Alleged Drug Use; Newspaper Defends Coverage [86d]
• New ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Single-Player Video Game in the Works [86d]
• Pedro Pascal, Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa Sign Open Letter Supporting Federal Funding for LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Prevention [86d]
• Australia’s Pixel Zoo Animation Studios Launches L.A.-Based Original IP Unit Pixel Labs (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Mediawan Kids & Family to Turn Viral NFT Brand Claynosaurz Into Animated Series (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Variety Artisans Exchange: ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Day of the Jackal,’ ‘Last of Us’ and More Break Down the Importance of the Fine Details Behind Sets and Costumes [86d]
• ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Lead Pride Awards Nomination (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Valorant’ Debuts Phoenix’s NPC Sister, Mary Ade, With Qing Madi’s New Song and Music Video ‘Ego’ (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Recording Academy Elects National Officers to 2025-2027 Board of Trustees [86d]
• ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Trailer: Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern Say Goodbye as Franchise Comes to an End [86d]
• Rekha, Muzaffar Ali’s Indian Classic ‘Umrao Jaan’ Returns in 4K Restoration – Global Bulletin [86d]
• ‘To the North’s’ Mihai Mincan Talks ECAM Forum Bound Coming-of-Age Mystery ‘Milk Teeth,’ Sound Designed by Oscar-Winner Nicolas Becker (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Marc Maron to End Groundbreaking ‘WTF’ Podcast After 16 Years [86d]
• Inaugural SXSW London Opens With Mayor Sadiq Khan Taking Shots at ‘Inward-Looking Mentality’ of U.S. and Trump Tariffs: ‘The U.K. is Tearing Down Barriers to Trade, Not Putting Up Walls’ [86d]
• Adult Animation, Anime’s Rising Influence Lead Women in Animation’s 2025 Annecy World Summit Lineup (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Welded Together’ Acquired by Lightdox Ahead of Sheffield DocFest Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final reckoning’ and ‘Hi-Five’ Battle for Top Spot in Close Weekend Race at Korea Box Office [86d]
• Sony Pictures Renews Multi-Year beIN Media Group Pact for MENA, Turkey (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Friday Industries Takes Stake in Thai Production Company Mbrella Films (EXCLUSIVE) [86d]
• Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Rules China Box Office [86d]
• Lorne Michaels Speaks From the Heart, Investigative Reporters Sound the Alarm on Trump Upheaval at Peabody Awards [86d]
• ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2 Sets October Release Date on Netflix [86d]