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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. It’s official: NFC Champions Seattle Seahawks and AFC Champions New England Patriots are headed to California. The 2026 Super Bowl takes place on Sunday, Feb. 8, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara,…
Zoey Deutch, who stars in buzzy Sundance Film Festival title, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, has nabbed her next leading role. The actress will play trailblazing U.S. Women’s soccer executive Marla Messing in The 99’ers, a true-life sports drama that Nicole Kassell, known for her award-winning work on HBO’s Watchmen, is directing for…
Taylor Zakhar Perez is showing more skin for another new Lacoste campaign. The actor, who set the internet on fire a year ago when he debuted as a Lacoste brand ambassador by stripping down to his underwear, has done it again. But rather than pose on a Paris hotel balcony, Zakhar Perez takes his act…
A+E Studios has hired Chris Sanagustin as its head of current programming. Sanagustin, who exits as president of Pine Tree Entertainment for the role, will report to Tana Jamieson, co-head and executive vp creative affairs. The two worked together on A&E series Bates Motel. “Chris is an exceptional creative leader whom I’ve had the pleasure…
Netflix’s ambitions in Japan, the world’s third-largest entertainment market, were on clear display in a production deal mentioned in passing Tuesday during the streamer’s splashy content showcase in Tokyo. Kaata Sakamoto, Netflix’s creative head in Japan, revealed that the company has recently signed a deal with local heavyweight Toho Studios to double its leased production…
Othmar Schmiderer (Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, Back to Africa) has made films for more than 40 years, so he knows a thing or two about sustainability. So it seems fitting that nature and rural life are recurring themes of his work. The latest documentary from the director, writer and producer, Elements of(f) Balance, which gets…
Kumail Nanjiani is set to host the 78th annual DGA Awards, the Directors Guild of America announced on Monday. The annual awards ceremony is taking place this year on Feb. 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Nanjiani is an Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated writer, actor and comedian, best known for…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is guesting on Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show Monday, and there isn’t anything FCC head Brendan Carr can do about it — or as a result of it. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released new guidance that could revoke the exemption to its “equal time” rules that daytime and late-night…
The parent of AMC Theatres appears to have left a big chunk of money on the table when it announced in early December it had sold around 80 percent of its equity stake in Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. to fellow investor Sprott Mining for $24.1 million. That sale alone allowed the cinema operator to essentially…
Big guys beating bad guys, and occasionally each other, to a pulp is the basic idea behind the new Prime Video action movie starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. In the unimaginatively titled The Wrecking Crew (not to be confused with the 2008 music doc or the cheesy 1968 Dean Martin movie), the two oversized,…
