Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter are among the artists leading the 2024 Billboard Music Awards nominees, with Swift facing off against Drake to compete for the most all-time wins. The eligibility dates for this year’s awards are aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measures music consumption from the charts […]

The Game Awards have re-teamed with Epic Games for fan voting in “Fortnite,” led this year by a “MetaHuman” version of host Geoff Keighley. Following last year’s inaugural in-game voting, the Game Awards will return to “Fortnite” for the 2024 show next month and let players vote for the best Fortnite island of the year. […]

French production company Srab Films will co-produce “Name and Surname,” the upcoming drama feature from Colombian director Duván Duque Vargas, produced by Evidencia Films and Continente Pictures. In the film, 16-year-old Fer tries everything he can to escape his father and stepmother’s house, a home in crisis that compares unfavorably to those of his upper-class […]

Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell are set to star in “Half Man,” a six-episode drama series that is being co-produced by HBO and the BBC. “Half Man,” formerly known as “Lions,” is created, written and executive produced by Gadd, the Emmy-winning creator and star of Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer.” BBC had commissioned “Lions” — from Banijay […]

Television is clogged full of mystery series. HBO alone has had several breakout hits in recent years, including “Mare of Eastown,” “The Undoing” and the most recent installment in the “True Detective” franchise. However, with its singular location and distinct characters, “Get Millie Black,” the network’s latest five-episode limited series set in Kingston, Jamaica, stands […]

Elton John explained his ongoing eye ailment on “Good Morning America” Monday, an infection that has impaired his ability to work and held up the release of a new album. On the show, Elton gave an update on his previously reported eye infection, which has caused him to lose his eyesight in his right eye […]

Tim Burton’s scary good sequel, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” will soon haunt your house from your home screen. The long awaited sequel is coming to Max on Dec. 6 after it released in theaters in September. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” did well at the box office, where it opened to $111 million domestically, which was the second highest debut […]

NBC News’ 24/7 streaming platform, NBC News Now, is launching in Mexico and Brazil, Latin America’s biggest markets, as it continues to expand across the world. Since its launch in 2019, the digital news service has extended its footprint to the U.K., Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. It became […]

Cole Escola’s unconventional smash “Oh, Mary!” has recouped its entire production costs on Broadway. The play, capitalized at $4.5 million, is the first show of the 2024-25 season to do so. After a sold-out, twice-extended run at downtown Manhattan’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, “Oh, Mary!” transferred to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre on July 11. The deranged comedy […]

Spanish producers Batiak Films and Elora Posthouse have boarded Maria Paz Barragán’s immigration horror feature “Tenants” as co-producers. The Madrid-set feature will be pitched at this year’s Ventana Sur Proyecta sidebar by its Peruvian lead producer, Final Abierto. An example of Latin America’s maturing and constantly diversifying genre scene and the region’s increasingly strong industry […]

History, when told well, is a muddy, muddled thing. There are no neat narratives or happy endings. Philip Sotnychenko “La Palisiada” takes that truism and braids it into a suitably complex form: This 1996-set noir of sorts chronicles a pivotal moment in Ukrainian history by focusing on a murder investigation. But as its two leads […]

Glen Powell called into his own lookalike contest in Austin, Texas on Sunday to give the winner a very special prize: a cameo in his next film. But no, not for the winner himself — since Powell’s parents frequently show up in his films, the “Twisters” and “Top Gun: Maverick” actor offered the opportunity to […]

Two Brazilian titles, Marcelo Gomes’ “Portrait of a Certain Orient” and Marianne Brennand’s “Manas,” swept the three biggest awards at Spain’s Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday night in the Southern Spanish city. With Brazil’s Marcelo Caetano scooping a fourth trophy of a total seven on offer for competition titles, Huelva served to confirm […]

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling author whose 1979 novel “A Woman of Substance” sold 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful Channel 4 miniseries, died on Sunday. She was 91. Taylor Bradford’s death was confirmed to the Associated Press by a spokesperson, who said she died at her home in New York […]

Speaking at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, Hugo Weaving revealed he will reprise his role as Frank Harkness in Season 5 of “Slow Horses,” returning to London in January for a two-and-a-half month shoot. “Each season generally is a book, but also each season departs a little bit from those books,” Weaving […]

Streaming giants are a force to be reckoned with in the race for the 52nd International Emmys, organized by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as they approach the awards on Nov. 25 in New York. Nominees for drama series include Season 2 of Prime Video’s Argentine thriller “Yosi, the Regretful Spy,” based […]

Say goodbye to the old ways of doing TV business and hello to new ones. “We need to rethink everything. The business model we used to have, that’s gone,” said Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber, a panelist at this year’s TV Beats Forum at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. “We’re going to see fewer shows. […]

Spearheading a new strategy to grow an international slate, Israel-based Yes Studios has picked up “Haze,” an Icelandic crime series produced and created by Sigurjón Kjartansson (“Trapped,” “Katla”). The eight-part drama stars Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, whose acting credits include “Succession” and “Game of Thrones.” Produced by Kjartansson’s banner S800, “Haze” has already been commissioned by Icelandic broadcaster RUV. Filming will begin this Summer […]

Charli XCX is curating her own festival lineup, full of her “Brat” collaborators, at London’s new Lido Fest in summer 2025. Called “Party Girl” — an oft-used phrase on “Brat” and the moniker for the pop star’s DJ sets — the day-long festival on June 14 will feature performances by Bladee, the Japanese House, the […]