SongVest, a company that enables fans and investors to purchase fractional shares of music royalties, is opening the reservation period for “Queen SongShares.” From today (Nov. 21) through Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET, fans can reserve SongShares in four Queen tracks — “Under Pressure,” “It’s A Kind of Magic,” “I Want It All,” […]

FerenComm has promoted longtime staffers Krista Zoch and Emily Hunter to senior vice president, just as the PR agency, founded by Sheila Feren Thurston, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Both Zoch and Hunter previously served as vice presidents at the firm. They will continue to focus on client strategy, events and brand work across accounts such as Apple TV+, […]

Sony Pictures is suing the Wanda Group for $49 million. The lawsuit, which was filed in London’s High Court in March of this year, is being fought by each company’s subsidiaries, Columbia Pictures Corporation Limited and Wanda Kids Cultural Development Co., Limited respectively. The legal battle dates back to an agreement struck between Silvergate Group […]

The day after Thanksgiving, Jennifer Hudson and Martha Stewart will suit up to pitch Amazon special deals, as part of a series of live shopping shows produced by video-commerce company TalkShopLive. Amazon’s TalkShopLive shows on Black Friday (Nov. 29) will be hosted by Stewart, Hudson, actor Eva Mendes and Kimberly Schlapman (of country supergroup Little […]

Netflix’s documentary “It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football” hit the platform on Nov. 1 and has changed the conversation around women’s soccer in Spain in the weeks since. In the film, key figures from the women’s Spanish national team are brought together for the first time to revisit the turbulent years leading […]

Legendary Hollywood director and producer Charles ‘Chuck’ Russell says that the breakout film “The Mask” was originally conceived by New Line Cinema as a horror movie. Instead, the 1994 action comedy went on to be a career-defining picture for Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz, a global box office hit and a defining moment for the […]

Mark Gatiss is adapting E. Nesbit’s “Man-Size in Marble” for the BBC as part of its annual “’A Ghost Story for Christmas” anthology series. Titled “Woman of Stone,” the spooky Christmas special follows Victorian newlyweds Jack and Laura. “The couple are settling into a small cottage in a quiet village when their idyll is overshadowed […]

The team behind Amazon’s cult hit sci-fi epic “The Expanse” has set a new series at Amazon MGM Studios. The project, a TV adaptation of book series “The Captive’s War,” is part of a development deal between Amazon and “The Expanse” creator’s newly launched multi-platform media company, Expanding Universe. Founded by “The Expanse” showrunner Naren […]

Warner Bros. Discovery is adding some new commercial concepts to ad-supported Max that could turn the streaming hub into a shopping mall or a microscope. Using artificial intelligence, the company can create an advertising unit that identifies items within television shows and films and pairs them with related products from an advertiser and then sets up a QR code […]

A24 has dropped an eye-catching new trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” ahead of the U.S. release of the Oscar-winning director’s lavish love letter to his native Naples. The U.S. trailer focuses on the film’s titular character, a young woman born in Naples – Neapolitans in Italy are also known as “Parthenopeans” – played by newcomer Celeste […]

There’s a moment in Josh Brolin’s raw, frequently self-eviscerating memoir “From Under the Truck” where the actor, shirtless, shoeless and wandering around Manhattan’s Upper West Side with a crippling hangover, runs into Philip Seymour Hoffman. It’s 1992, and Hoffman is freshly sober and embarking on his brilliant career on screen and stage, while Brolin is […]

Creo has announced the jury lineup for the 2025 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, which is set to take place at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City from June 2 to June 6. The competition, created by Creo in collaboration with Sony, seeks to highlight original voices globally. The selected filmmakers are brought to Los Angeles […]

“Saturday Night Live” alum Ana Gasteyer reflected on her six-year stint on the show on the latest episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ “Las Culturistas” podcast, recalling a time when her fellow cast member Will Ferrell interrupted Sean “Diddy” Combs’ closed rehearsal as part of a bit. Gasteyer was on “SNL” from 1996 to […]

“Spring Came on Laughing,” the only Egyptian film in competition at the Cairo Film Festival, is the debut feature of Noha Adel. It is rich in music and messy, full of noisy life, taking the form of a series of conversations between women where a drama rapidly escalates into a jumble of tragedy and dark […]

In a proposal that could radically alter the internet, the Justice Department is seeking to break up Google — by forcing it to divest the popular Chrome browser — as a way to end its monopoly on search. The DOJ’s request comes after a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia […]

“Stree 2,” already Bollywood’s biggest hit film of the year, and India’s second highest grossing film of 2024, is poised to be joined by one or more sequels, its director Amar Kaushik said on Wednesday. Kaushik was speaking at a Knowledge Series seminar which is part of the Film Bazaar project market that sits alongside […]

In a modern world where work creeps further and further into one’s personal life, eating away at time and energy alike, it is a familiar feeling to realize you don’t have as much time as you would like for a partner. Chinese director Chouwa Liang currently feels that pressure, although her partner’s notion of time […]

Spike Lee will preside over the jury of the fourth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival. “Looking towards our fourth edition, we’re honored to welcome the legendary Spike Lee as our president of jury for the festival this year,” said Jomana Al Rashid, chairwoman of the Red Sea Film Foundation, in an announcement […]

Dutch documentarians Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch are veterans on their home turf of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam — where they won Best Dutch Film in 2014 and 2022 — but this year brought a career highlight for the renowned duo: introducing their latest doc “All Is Well” at the beautiful Tuschinski cinema […]