*Garth Brooks's Sevens Network, LLC is buying Lightning 100's 100.1 FM frequency in Nashville to turn it into a new country station called FM-100, per Variety. The indie-rock station relocates to 106.3 FM with its format intact, pending FCC approval. A country…
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According to Variety, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as DC Studios co-presidents four years into the job, and former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham takes over as president starting December 1. The press release says "stepping down." The headline says "Fired."…
Netflix greenlit “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,” a live-action prequel set in the 1950s before the original series, on Stranger Things Day, Nov. 6, per Deadline. Kate Trefry, who got her first paid Hollywood job as a staff writer on the original s…
Fox Corp closed its $22 billion acquisition of streaming platform Roku on Friday, a deal signed in June that was expected to take until 2027, per Variety. The release says founder Anthony Wood is joining the Fox board and that the combined company expects “app…
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The Spice Girls' "The Singles Collection" lands today, thirty years to the week after "Spice" came out, per Universal Music. It is 14 CDs, 160 tracks, four unreleased songs, and a booklet with messages from all five members, packed into a white handbag-inspire…
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NBC has set the premiere date for the David Boreanaz "Rockford Files" reboot, January 2 after an NFL telecast, with a regular Thursday 8 p.m. slot starting January 7, and launched a Jim Rockford hotline you can actually call at (760) JIM-ROCK, per Variety. The…
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Ye's Yeezy takes the runway tonight at 8 p.m. at Droam 1, the brand's new flagship at 4317 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, with a presentation called "Yeezy Season 01" — its first major runway show in more than four years, according to WWD. The last show, "Y…
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According to Variety, James Wan and Jason Blum have named the company created when they merged Blumhouse and Atomic Monster in 2024: Blumhouse Atomic. Both labels will keep operating separately under the new umbrella name. Read the PR quote first: "When we mer…
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According to Variety, Fox and Endemol Shine are adapting Fear Factor as a scripted vertical microdrama: 30 three-minute episodes for Holywater Tech's "My Drama" app, with Fox handling worldwide distribution. Fear Factor was the peak of 2000s television. A man …
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According to Variety, President Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social that he wants to officially ban the word "artificial intelligence" in favor of "super intelligence," with one week left until the midterms. The Renamer did it again. A 70-year-old word, coine…
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Meghan Markle has been tapped for a "special guest" spot on "Junior MasterChef Australia," which will film and air in 2027, per E!. The announcement ran through an Australian trade site first. So the arc goes: royal, royal rebrand, brand, and now a guest spot …
According to Deadline, a UK Companies House filing shows HBO's Harry Potter is on track to be one of the most expensive series the network has ever made, with the first season averaging roughly $25 million an episode. The number isn't news, the number is the p…
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Deadline reports that the first trailer for Greta Gerwig's "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" shows Emma Mackey as the White Witch in a metallic dress, a world being born, and Aslan, who will be voiced by Meryl Streep, ahead of a February 12 theatrical bow and an…
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Variety reports that Apu Nahasapeemapetilon spoke on "The Simpsons" Sunday night for the first time in nearly a decade, with Sunil Malhotra taking over the voice from Hank Azaria and Janina Gavankar debuting as his wife Manjula. Deadline adds that the reveal a…
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According to Deadline, Johnny Depp's first major UK exhibition opened October 13 at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, with every work listed as Price On Application. The redemption arc got a New Bond Street address. Halcyon has signed Depp as a represented a…
According to Deadline, Reese Witherspoon is partnering with Paris-based Mediawan to buy back her production company Hello Sunshine from Candle Media. Co-founder Seth Rodsky stays on, moving to the board. The shape of the deal: build the company, let Wall Stree…
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"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker used his MIPCOM Cannes keynote to unveil Cinemalistics, a real-time true-crime app that follows live cases through twenty tabs of police reports, 911 calls and court filings, per Deadline. His opening line: "The CSI guy is dead. We…
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According to Variety, the David Bowie estate has announced "Bowie80," a year-long run of events, exhibits, releases, collaborations and "experiences" marking the artist's 80th birthday, beginning in November and spanning 2027. A dedicated website is already li…
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According to Variety, Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto head writer Dan Houser said this week that Absurd Ventures, the media company he started in 2023, is developing two untitled games and a transmedia library of comics, podcasts, books, and animation…
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Eminem is debuting a streetwear collab with NERDS Clothing at New York Comic Con next week, complete with a limited skate deck, long-sleeve tee, bomber jacket, hand-embellished arcade cabinets, and an "original video game" called "Marshall's Massacre." Per Var…
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According to NME, Victoria Beckham was photographed recording vocals with her son Cruz on Monday, with Cruz posting the photo under the caption "yeah we got posh back in the studio ;)" and Victoria replying with a string of laughing emojis. Neither confirmed o…
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McKenna Grace posed among the new displays at a Target Beauty Studio celebration event on September 26, weeks after the retailer opened its rebranded beauty "destination" in more than 600 stores. According to Target's own press release, the concept launched Se…
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Melania Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday to launch Imperia, an invite-only network for women executives, per AP via WTOP. Her adviser calls the project "Davos for Women," and the exchange is hosting the first Imperia summ…
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According to E!, David Thewlis, 62, says he is "sick of talking about" returning to Harry Potter, and the interview in which he said so is making the rounds again ahead of the HBO reboot. The series is in production and expected in 2027. The Return Question is…
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According to Deadline, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opened at number one this weekend with an estimated $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, the biggest opening in franchise history by Sony's Sunday estimate. The franchise was already dea…