Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit on Sept. 26 will feature industry leaders who will discuss the impact of advancing technology on TV, film, gaming, music, digital media and consumer brands. The one-day event, presented by City National Bank, will be hosted at The London West Hollywood.  Among the guests is Eli Collins, Google DeepMind Vice […]

Kathryn Crosby, the actor, singer and widow of Bing Crosby, died Friday evening of natural causes at her home in Hillsborough, Calif. She was 90. A representative for the Crosby family announced the news. Crosby starred in over 20 films over the course of her career including “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Operation Mad Ball” […]

FX’s “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The Ryan Murphy series, itself a spinoff of his popular “American Horror Story” franchise, “re-examines a prominent event involving a sports figure.” Season 1 of the show “will follow the story of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots and convicted murderer,” reads the […]

The American Film Institute announced Thursday that the psychological thriller “Heretic,” starring Hugh Grant, and the Maria Callas biopic “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie, will be the Red Carpet Premieres at this year’s AFI Fest. The “Heretic” premiere is scheduled first, with its gala screening on Oct. 24. The premiere for “Maria” will follow on Oct. […]

The Property Masters Guild (PMG) announced the winners of the inaugural PMG MacGuffin Awards, which is the only awards show to date celebrating the significant artistic achievements of Property Masters. The Motion Picture MacGuffin Awards were presented to “Oppenheimer” (Guillaume Delouche, PMG), “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part 1” (David Cheesman) and “Poor Things” (Balázs […]

Tommy Cash, the country musician and younger brother of late music icon Johnny Cash, died Friday evening. He was 84. The Johnny Cash Museum confirmed Tommy Cash’s death in a statement Saturday. A cause of death was not disclosed. “Tommy Cash was a loyal supporter of the Johnny Cash Museum and a very beloved member […]

The Luis Fonsi indie romcom “Say A Little Prayer” has set a distribution deal with AMC Theatres that calls for the movie to be released in 100 theaters in large U.S. markets during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. AMC, the nation’s largest exhibitor, inked the deal directly with “Say A Little Prayer” producer New Cadence Productions. […]

Autism In Entertainment partnered with The Miracle Project and The Laugh Factory to host “Let It Out,” a stand-up comedy show for neurodivergent fans Wednesday night.  “Let It Out” featured comedians Will Hunter, Kruger Dunn, Josh Meyrowitz, Laurie Kilmartin, Jeremiah Watkins and Erik Griffin. Producer Mike Rotman announced in a Linkedin post Thursday morning that […]

At the 39th annual Imagen Awards ceremony, Edward James Olmos urged fans to head for the polls. “Everyone must vote,” Olmos said after accepting his best supporting actor in a television drama award for “Mayans M.C.” “We deserve to be able to leave our children a stronger, more understanding society than the one we have […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 15 winners for the 51st Student Academy Awards competition. This year’s competition received 2,683 entries from 738 colleges globally. The National Institute of Design, Digital Hollywood University and Filmová Akademie Miroslava Ondříčka v Písku are first-time receipients. Past honorees include Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike […]

“Snowfall” writer Jeanine Daniels as the inaugural recipient of Humanitas’ Starz #TakeTheLead Award. Kathryn Busby, President of Original Programming for Starz, will present the award to Daniels at The Humanitas Prizes Awards Show and Toast on Sept. 12 at the Avalon Hollywood. Created through the streaming platform’s “#TakeTheLead initiative,” this award “recognizes a writer who […]

Jocelyn Bioh, who has written for “The Acolyte” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” and will be featured on Variety’s “2024 10 Screenwriters to Watch” List, has won the 2024 Horton Foote Prize for her play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” Executive director Valerie Brea Ross and founder and prize board chair Mari Marchbanks announced the news Wednesday.  […]

In January 2015, former Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside recorded a triple double with blocks in a game against the Chicago Bulls. During his postgame interview, Whiteside told reporters he was “just trying to get my ‘NBA 2K’ rating up.”  Nearly a decade later, the lore surrounding player ratings in the basketball video game franchise […]

Jamie Lee Curtis has won an Emmy for her work on “The Bear.” The actress who has a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award, can add the Emmy to her accolades after taking home the award Sunday for best guest actress in a comedy for her work on the hit FX […]

Ahead of the Oct. 4 theatrical release of WWII drama “White Bird,” Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company have partnered with StoryCorps and the Shoah Foundation to tell real-life stories of Holocaust survivors. Directed by Marc Forster and starring Gillian Anderson and Helen Mirren, “White Bird” is the story of a girl’s attempt to escape Nazi-occupied […]

She’s back stronger than a ’90s trend. Taylor Swift was spotted arriving at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium Thursday night to cheer on her boyfriend Travis Kelce, the Chiefs’ tight end, in the NFL season opener against the Baltimore Ravens. The Chiefs host the Ravens in a rematch of last season’s AFC Championship game. […]

Video game company Lightspeed L.A. has signed a SAG-AFTRA interim Interactive Media Agreement that allows it to continue production with union performers even as the strike against other major video game publishers winds into its sixth week. The deal will apply to current and future Lightspeed L.A. games. The company is home to the game […]

Dropout has ordered a second season for its “Misfits & Magic” edition of table-top roleplaying game show “Dimension 20,” which is scheduled to premiere Sept. 25 on the streamer. “Years after the events of season one, the Pilot Program must embark on a quest for the future of magic,” the show’s logline teases. The 11-episode […]

An official court date has been set for the trial of alleged “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who are accused of supplying Matthew Perry with the drugs that led to his overdose on Oct. 28, 2023. If found guilty, the pair could face several decades in prison. When this article was published, […]