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Mason Thames’ Hiccup will be back in the saddle for a live-action How To Train Your Dragon 2 next year. Universal first announced plans for the sequel film at CinemaCon 2025, before the first live-action remake even came out. The early green light signaled major confidence in the franchise reboot ah
I'm happy to go out on a limb and say that movies like Better Man, The Odyssey, and All of Us Strangers will stand the test of time amazingly well.
It’s hard to believe that South Park turns 30 next year, having run through 28 seasons — with a 29th incoming — since Comedy Central debuted “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” 30 years ago this week in 1997. Everyone knows the show’s core characters — 10-year-old best friends Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski,
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, has now sold over $195 million worth of stock since the media company clinched a deal to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance earlier this year. Zaslav’s latest sale of 773,173 shares of WBD stock, for an aggregate market value
Matthew McConaughey revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that acting alongside Jennifer Lopez in 2001’s “The Wedding Planner” ended up getting him out of a “major mess-up” at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I pull in one late night crossing the border going way down south,” the actor recalled. “I g
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin and The Gunslinger by Stephen King are among the best fantasy books of the 1980s decade.
The best gangster movies in cinema history include all-timers like the first two Godfather films, Scarface, and Once Upon a Time in America.
Masterful action movies like Seven Samurai, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon rank among the most impressive of all time.
Tramell Tillman is going to play a big role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future. And he can finally talk about it. Tillman, who won an Emmy last year for his supporting role in Apple TV’s “Severance,” had been hoping to appear in a Marvel movie for some time, and heard from his team that […]
In all his homespun wisdom, Matthew McConaughey doesn’t think the world is a stage — he thinks it’s a story told by the fire. “Am I doing things that I want to last? Yeah. Am I trying to build bonfires instead of just campfires? Yeah,” the Oscar-winner says, reflecting on his legacy before he’s hono
Although the first game of the preseason is the NFL Hall of Fame Game, the rest of the teams in the league begin play during Week 1 of preseason on Thursday, Aug. 13. The NFL 2025-27 season is just a few weeks away, while teams are getting ready to compete to win their division, make […]
Warner Bros. Discovery president of international Gerhard Zeiler has been tapped to receive the 2026 International Emmy Directorate Award. He joins Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria, who was previously announced as this year’s honoree for the org’s founders award. Zeiler and Bajaria will ac
“House of the Dragon” concluded its third season on HBO on Sunday night, with the finale reaching 21 million viewers in its first three days of availability. More than 11 million of those viewers were in the U.S. That total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on the H
WOW – Women Of Wrestling is going through a major growth spurt for its fifth season — which includes the league’s first live broadcast and expanded on-camera presence from Jeanie Buss. Season 5 will broadcast live from L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, anchoring WOW’s marquee events as part of a br
As the acclaimed series returns Sept. 16, executive producer Doug Urbanski explains how Gaby Chiappe stepped in, why the new season combines two Mick Herron novels and what comes next.
Read this article on Variety’s sister website Sportico. The record-breaking Los Angeles Lakers sale, announced Wednesday to a largely unsuspecting audience, is packed with intrigue. The seller, Mark Walter, is facing federal investigations across his business empire. The buyer, Joshua Kushner, is T
Netflix has set the release date for “The Altruists,” inspired by Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison’s rise and fall from financial power. “The Altruists” hits Netflix November 19. Netflix has also released the first-look photos for the drama, which can be seen below. The logline for the show re
Matthew McConaughey joined the HBO Hall of Fame with his Emmy-nominated lead role on the first season of “True Detective,” and he nearly landed another major part in the network’s video game adaptation of “The Last of Us.” However, he turned down playing the main character Joel, explaining that “it
As part of the global distribution and sales company’s investment in the creator economy, Filmhub has inked a partnership with talent management company UnderCurrent. Filmhub’s goal with the partnership is to help digital creators expand their distribution reach — whether that’s by licensing their c
Google TV Freeplay now offers 10,000 movies and shows to stream for free, with no subscription required and more titles coming throughout the year.