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EXCLUSIVE: This is a shocker: Prime Video’s God Of War will have a new actor playing Kratos as the lead role in the high profile fantasy drama series is being recast, Deadline has learned. The decision, made after a careful consideration by the studios on the show, Sony Pictures Television...
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All of a sudden there’s a lot of interest in a movie no one was taking seriously. That’s Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” the story of how the Oscar winning movie, “Rocky,” was made back in 1975. Anthony Ippolito, a dead ringer for a young Sylvester Stallone, plays the actor...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Glenn Gers was a professional writer of movies and television for 25 years. His credits include theatrical features including FRACTURE (2007)...
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ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro confirmed the Disney division will bid on World Cup rights for the 2030 tournament. “We had the World Cup for two decades and it was a big part of ESPN’s identity and DNA,” the exec said during a CNBC-hosted conference Thursday at Fanatics Fest in New...
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UFC averaged 6.5M viewers on Paramount+ across the U.S. and Latin America for the July 11 main card featuring Conor McGregor and Max Holloway. Per Paramount Skydance, the telecast peaked with 8.3M concurrent streams, which the company says is more than any other “exclusive” live event on the streamer and...
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Streaming giant Netflix anticipates content spending (of about $20 billion) will be up around 10% in 2026, accelerating from 8% increases over the last five years but below the 14% the company averaged over the past decade. Live, now a focus, will be about 5% of total. The higher outlay...
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Canceled Netflix drama The Boroughs got a consolation prize — it was the most recent ongoing scripted series release to make the Top 40 of Netflix’s semi-annual What We Watched viewership report released Thursday, which spans January – June 2026. The supernatural series, executive produced by Stranger Things creators the...
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After four years of biannual viewership reports, Netflix is pulling back a bit on the transparency front. The streamer revealed Thursday that, beginning Q1 2027, it will only release one engagement report each year. In its earnings report, the company says this is part of its shift in focus to...
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Expelled Congressman and former politician George Santos is defending himself and his Special Forces co-stars from all the criticism following their casting announcement. Santos took to social media to address the hate he and co-stars Brandi Glanville and Candace Cameron Bure have been receiving after it was revealed they would...
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Netflix Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters used the company’s second-quarter earnings interview to try to clear the air regarding prospects for M&A, strategic partnerships and FAST channels. Responding to a question about Lionsgate or NBCUniversal, both considered prime suspects in the current wave of consolidation, Sarandos told Wall Street...
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The biggest change Christopher Nolan makes to Homer's epic The Odyssey comes during the film's final moments. Let's take a spoiler-heavy look....
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Netflix is all in on live programming. After a number of its big-ticket live stunts such as The Roast of Kevin Hart, BTS: The Comeback Live – Arirang and Skyscraper Live performed well over the first six months of the year, the streamer said that it was doubling down on...
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Christopher Nolan's blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey features a surprising song over the credits. Here are the details....
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Over a year on from its release, KPop Demon Hunters‘ viewership stats on Netflix remain golden. In the latest edition of the streamer’s What We Watched report, examining viewership in film and television from January-June 2026, the animated juggernaut remained the fourth most-viewed film with 130.4M views — coming in behind only War Machine, The...
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More than a year after the passing of visionary director David Lynch, his surreal back catalogue of work continues to intrigue the public. Giving fans an unprecedented look into his creative world, Peter Harrington Rare Books has unveiled an archive of behind-the-scenes production materials from Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune....
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Lorne Michaels is starting his annual cast clean out before season 52 of “Saturday Night Live.” Leaving the cast is Chloe Fineman after seven seasons. Fineman was a durable player but never really had a breakout character. She was kind of overshadowed first by Sarah Sherman, and then Ashley Padilla....
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Netflix shares dropped in after-hours trading Thursday after the streaming giant reported lackluster results for the second quarter. Shares, which have already fallen nearly 45% over the past year, shed 9% after the close of trading as investors processed the earnings report. It showed revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations...
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With a judge in Oakland County set to hear arguments for and against a temporary restraining order on Paramount’s planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, the David Ellison-led company said State AG’s motion for a temporary restraining order “presents one of the weakest merger challenges in modern antitrust history.” “Plaintiffs...
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After seven hilarious seasons on Saturday Night Live, Chloe Fineman has announced that she is leaving the legendary comedy show....
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The techie titans who grabbed our attention and our Oscars in The Social Network almost 16 years ago are ready to capture our screens again. Their forays are omniscient as well as ominous. In upcoming movies like The Social Reckoning and Artificial or in myriad books and TV shows, the Odysseus-like wanderers...
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The End Of Warner Bros. Discovery - Mass Layoffs, 10 Cable TV Networks Shutting Down, and Bankruptcy
The End Of Warner Bros. Discovery - Mass Layoffs, 10 Cable TV Networks Shutting down, and Bankruptcy. Did you know Luke has a second YouTube channel? Subscribe to it here: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakdownwithluke You can sign up for our free daily newsletter here: https://cord-cutting-today.beehiiv.com/ Did you know Luke has a second YouTube...
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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a knockout trailer for I Play Rocky, Anthony Ippolito has signed with CAA. I Play Rocky chronicles the underdog backstory behind the ultimate underdog movie, Rocky. Ippolito plays the young Sylvester Stallone, who was so in need of cash that he sold his dog Butkus while...
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The stars of The Odyssey are embracing method dressing at events, appearances and premieres for the film. They’re led by the queen of method dressing, Zendaya, who’s been thematically tying her red carpet looks to her movies for years, from Dune to Challengers to Spider-Man. Joining in this time around...
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Eumaeus should certainly ring a bell in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, as the actor behind the character is incredibly prolific....
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There’s a well-known Howard Hawks quote that goes: ‘A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes’. Casting aside its direct meaning, it also hits on an interesting ... Read more The post Fixing the Worst Scene in Your Screenplay (exclusive ebook) appeared first on Industrial Scripts®....
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The New York Film Festival will really be a New York film festival! Opening night is set for James Gray’s “Paper Tiger,” a big hit at Cannes this spring. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver reunite from “Marriage Story.” Miles Teller joins them. “Paper Tiger” is described as a tense thriller...
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The code was obtained by a hacker who breached Suno and shared it with 404 Media. Source...
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Bad Bunny and his label, Rimas Entertainment, have asked a US federal judge to reconsider a ruling that is keeping them in a copyright lawsuit over reggaeton’s “dembow” rhythm. In a motion filed on Wednesday (July 15), which you can read in full here, the two defendants asked the US...
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The opening night of the Venice Film Festival should get a lot of tabloid attention. The movie is “Ink,” based on the stage play by James Graham. It’s set in 1969 and it’s all about how Rupert Murdoch turned The Sun into the best selling newspaper in the UK. Oscar...
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Company described the deal as one of the largest ever completed for the rights of a single film and TV composer Source...
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he handed in a grand total of nothing, but signed up for the class...
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Well, howdy! Fancy meeting you here! Welcome back to another installment of God’s favorite mistake, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s an advice column that’s also got a terrifically high ABV. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m currently researching...
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15.063 million viewers watched Lionel Messi and Argentina knock out England in the semifinal Wednesday afternoon on FOX....
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"Books are not merely consumer goods; they carry cultural, educational and democratic value that markets do not fully price,” reads a policy brief from the Australian Booksellers Association. “When structural pressures and loss-leader pricing displace specialist bookshops, the infrastructure that supports Australian literary culture is eroded.” The post Australian Booksellers...
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Reservoir acquired the catalog of indie label Nacional Records, along with the catalog of its publishing arm, Canciones Nacionales Source...
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