Sixteen visual effects artists who work on pre-recorded digital shorts for “Saturday Night Live” have unionized with IATSE and won official recognition from series producer Broadway Video and NBCUniversal. IATSE confirmed the development on Monday. The organizing drive by IATSE follows the union’s successful bid to organize “SNL” editors in October 2022. Those members ratified […]

Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin were among the notable industry figures who boosted Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Sunday after a speaker at Donald Trump’s political rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” The starkly racist comment stirred outrage among prominent Puerto Ricans and […]

The World Series got off to a good start for Fox on Friday as the game that ended in a dramatic walk-off 6-3 win for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees delivered the largest Game 1 audience for the fall classic since 2017. Fox Sports reported that an average of 15.2 million […]

Sundance Institute alum Mary Sadeghy has joined Variety as senior VP of strategy and account management. A veteran sales and marketing executive, Sadeghy will work collaboratively with Variety‘s sales team to develop programs for global blue-chip brands. She will oversee all strategic alliances and business development for the venerable entertainment news brand both domestically and […]

What do consumers want? How is AI changing how business operates? When it comes to work habits — do you lean toward a whiteboard or mood board? Those are among the lofty and light questions tackled by more than two dozen participants in the video studio that Variety hosted earlier this month in New York […]

CANNES — “NCIS” fans attending Mipcom got a treat Tuesday as stars of the upcoming spinoff “NCIS: Tony & Ziva” joined Dan Cohen, head of Paramount Global distribution and Republic Pictures, to show off the character reunion that has been 12 years in the making. “What a luxury it is to revisit a character after […]

After seven and a half years at the helm, Tony Vinciquerra will leave a significant handprint on the 100-year history of the studio now known as Sony Pictures Entertainment when he steps down as CEO on Jan. 2. His legacy will be measured as much by what he didn’t do during his time as the […]

Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal. Documentarian Cullen Hoback thinks he has the answer. His new HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” digs into the rise of crypto […]

The Producers Guild of America has awarded its 2024 Debra Hill Fellowship to Karen Madar, a recent graduate of NYU Stern and Tisch. Madar has produced a number of shorts since she graduated with a dual MBA and MFA from NYU Stern and Tisch. the short film “Skin Can Breathe,” from director Chheangkea, won a […]

As Netflix leaders unveiled Q3 earnings that are the envy of the media industry, co-CEO Ted Sarandos doubled down on the streamer’s commitment to dealmaking terms that have been vital to Netflix’s business model, as well as its preference for select and short theatrical runs for its original movies. During Netflix’s Q3 video conference call, […]