The Brutalist Report

Variety

• New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma on What Makes a ‘Great Game,’ Having ‘No Tolerance for Bad AI’ and Replacing Phil Spencer [3d]
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Stone and ‘Hamnet’ Win at Irish Film and TV Awards With Indie Drama ‘Christy’ Taking Top Prize [3d]
• Harry Melling on Approaching ‘Pillion’ With ‘No Fear,’ Learning How to Lick Boots and Watching Sex Scene Outtakes: ‘It Looked Hilarious’ [3d]
• ‘Jersey Shore’ Star Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi Shares Cervical Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Get Your Pap Smears Done’ [3d]
• Anderson Cooper, Stephen Colbert and Sean Strickland Draw Scrutiny to Paramount While Bid for Warner Plays Out [3d]
• Stellan Skarsgård on His First Oscar Nomination, Working With Robin Williams and Lars von Trier and Why AI Isn’t the Real Threat [3d]
• Taylor Schilling to Star in NBC Pilot ‘What the Dead Know’ From Executive Producer Dick Wolf [3d]
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriters The Black Label on ‘Golden’s’ Success and the Lyrics That Bring Them Pride [3d]
• ‘Venom’ Animated Movie in the Works From ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Filmmakers [3d]
• Making an Indie Multiverse: With ‘Redux Redux,’ Three Siblings Spent 10 Years on a Violent, Emotional Revenge Movie Without a Marvel Budget [3d]
• ‘The Education of Jane Cumming’ Review: A Compelling Dramatization of the True Story Behind ‘The Children’s Hour’ [3d]
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star Ji-young Yoo, Daniel Dae Kim and Harry Shum Jr. Attend Brooks Brothers Gold House Lunar New Year Dinner [3d]
• ‘Beyond the Gates’ Chief Sheila Ducksworth Reflects on Year One of the CBS Soap, ‘The Young and the Restless’ Crossover and Gayle King’s Guest Shot [3d]
• Conan O’Brien Speaks Out on Rob Reiner’s Death Hours After His Holiday Party: ‘I Was in Shock for Quite a While. It’s So Awful’ [3d]
• The Kennedys Donned Some of the Chicest Sunglasses Throughout the ’90s: Here’s Wear to Buy Exact Replicas (And Dupes) Online [3d]
• ‘Sirāt’s’ All-Female Sound Team on Making Oscar History and How They Captured Wind, Engines and Tires to Create a Desert Ambiance [3d]
• Amy Madigan on Falling in Love With Aunt Gladys in ‘Weapons,’ Becoming Wagner Moura’s Smoking Buddy and Cranking Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show to 11 [3d]
• Ariana Grande and the ‘Wicked: For Good’ Artisans Crafted a Subtle Arc for Glinda: Why Her Character’s Betrayal ‘Was Really Hard Emotionally’ [3d]
• Dierks Bentley on His Summer Tour, and Picking Acts Like Hero Ricky Skaggs and Kaitlin Butts as Support: ‘Selfishly, These Are People That I Wanna Go Watch Their Show’ [3d]
• Xbox Shake-Up: Phil Spencer Exiting as CEO of Microsoft Games Group, Asha Sharma Set as Successor [3d]
• 32 Overlooked Black TV Shows, From ‘The Best Man: The Final Chapters’ to ‘The 1619 Project’ [3d]
• Motion Picture Association Pushes ByteDance to Curb Seedance 2.0 AI Infringement [3d]
• Former ‘American Idol’ Contestant Caleb Flynn Charged With Wife’s Murder [3d]
• Broadway Across America’s 2026 Conference Finds Elton John Championing ‘Devil Wears Prada’ as John Legend, TLC and More Make Their Pitch [3d]
• Here’s How to Watch Paramount+ Online for Free [3d]
• ‘Outer Banks’ Alum Mia Challis Joins Rhys Darby in CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Regency’ [3d]
• Anna Sawai on Playing Yoko Ono in ‘The Beatles’ Movies: ‘There’s a Version of Her I Feel People Still Don’t Understand’ [3d]
• Hilary Duff Says Estrangement From Sister Haylie Inspired New Song ‘We Don’t Talk’ and Is the ‘Most Lonely Part of My Existence’ [3d]
• Convenience Store Horror-Comedy ‘AnyMart’: Director Iwasaki Yusuke Unpacks His Berlinale Debut Film [3d]
• Jesse Malin’s ‘Silver Manhattan’ Off-Broadway Show Tells the Story of His Comeback From a Devastating Stroke, Framed as a Love Letter to New York and Rock and Roll: Theater Review [3d]
• Liza Minnelli Alleges Oscars Forced Her to Use Wheelchair at 2022 Ceremony With Lady Gaga: ‘Bulls—. I Will Not Be Treated This Way’ [3d]
• This Definitive Biography of Carolyn Bessette and JFK Jr. Is Back on Bestseller Lists Following FX’s ‘Love Story’ Series [3d]
• Statue of Liberty Origin Film in the Works With ‘The Intouchables’ and ‘CODA’ Producers [3d]
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Stars on How Years of Hard Work and Rejection Led to Incredible Achievements [3d]
• Sterling K. Brown’s ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Is Heart-Wrenching and Revelatory: TV Review [3d]
• How to Watch Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal Live Online With Sling TV [3d]
• Gregg Allman Documentary, ‘Music of My Soul,’ Acquired by Subtext in Association With Rolling Stone Films [3d]
• Trump-Appointed FCC Chairman Calls on TV Networks to Pledge to Air ‘Patriotic, Pro-America Content’ for U.S.’s 250th Birthday [3d]
• Patrick Dempsey Texted Eric Dane a Week Before ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Co-Star’s Death: ‘He Was the Funniest Man’ and ‘Such a Joy to Work With’ [3d]
• Universal and Virgin Music Complete $775 Million Acquisition of Downtown [3d]
• Eric Dane’s Final Interview Before Death Streams on Netflix as Late Actor Shares Last Words to His Daughters: ‘I Stumbled, but I Tried… Fight Until Your Last Breath’ [3d]
• Hulu Orders ‘Deano’ Adult Animated Series, ‘Bluey’ Creator Joe Brumm to Executive Produce [3d]
• Paramount Skydance, Which Doesn’t Have a Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Claims Its Proposed WBD Takeover Has Cleared DOJ Antitrust Review [3d]
• Esther McGregor and Mark Eydelshteyn to Lead Charlotte Colbert’s ‘Becoming Capa,’ About Famed War Photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa (EXCLUSIVE) [3d]
• Ex-Sony Pictures Boss Regrets Seth Rogen’s ‘The Interview’ and Says Obama Told Him After the Sony Hack: ‘What Were You Thinking? Of Course That Was a Mistake’ [3d]
• Composer Max Richter on His New ‘Every Note Counts’ Series With Champagne House Krug and His First Oscar Nomination For ‘Hamnet’: ‘Chloe Zhao Is a Visionary’ [3d]
• ESPN, MLB Take New Swing at Games They Hope Bring Die-Hard Fans to Streaming [3d]
• Amy Grant on Making Her First New Album in 13 Years, ‘The Me That Remains,’ After Asking: ‘Am I Doing People a Disservice in My Sixties, Singing Songs From the Perspective of a 30-Year-Old?’ (EXCLUSIVE) [3d]
• ‘Josephine’ Director Beth de Araújo on the Importance of More Accountability for Sexual Abuse Perpetrators: ‘The Shame Needs to Be on Them’ [3d]
• Steve Perry Declares It’s ‘Not True’ He Might Appear on Journey’s Farewell Tour, After Jonathan Cain Floated That Perry Was ‘Thinking About It’ [3d]
• Ubisoft CEO Explains Three-Year Plan to Revamp Game Publisher Through New ‘Creative House’ Strategy, More Than $200 Million in Cost Reductions (EXCLUSIVE) [3d]
• Mel Gibson Consulting With Excommunicated Archbishop — Who Once Called Pope Francis ‘A Servant of Satan’— for ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ [3d]
• ‘Today’ Shows Signs of Shift to More Typical Format as Nancy Guthrie Search Continues [3d]
• Gemma Chan on the ‘Small Miracle’ of Making ‘Josephine’ and Why She Connected to the Film Emotionally: ‘It Really Hit a Raw Nerve’ [3d]