TNT Sports may or may not have the NBA after next season … but it will definitely have more college basketball. Warner Bros. Discovery’s sports division has signed on as the broadcast partner for The Players Era Festival, a spinoff of the NIL (name, image, likeness) brand Players Era, founded by Ian Orefice’s EverWonder Studio. […]
Another high-ranking government official who investigated UFOs/UAPs is ready to tell their story. Jay Stratton, the former director of the U.S Government’s secretive Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, has struck a memoir deal with HarperCollins. Stratton represents the most senior former U.S government official yet to go public about their direct involvement in the investigation […]
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice released its first trailer on Tuesday ahead of the much-discussed movie’s October release. The film, from director Ali Abbasi and writer Gabriel Sherman, follows Sebastian Stan as a young Trump under the mentorship of Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn. In the trailer, Trump and Cohn are shown meeting, with Trump saying […]
Dylan Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, is entering the media business in a significant way. Douglas has signed on to host a weekly limited series for SiriusXM, beginning Sept. 14. The series, Young American with Dylan Douglas, will run on the SiriusXM Progress channel 127 on Saturdays at 11 a.m., with […]
Grammy- and Oscar-nominated songwriter Savan Kotecha, who has crafted hits for Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Britney Spears, is launching a platform to help songwriters in India reach global audiences. Kotecha, who is Indian, is partnering with A&R executive and songwriter Murtuza Gadiwala and talent management company REPRESENT to launch Outwrite. Kotecha’s mission with the […]
For two seasons, QueenSylvia Akuchie has been the costume designer for Bel-Air, which means she dresses the majority young adult cast of the Peacock drama as well as the guest stars from the original The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sitcom who’ve appeared on the series, like Jospeh Marcell, who made a cameo in season three’s […]
The AFL-CIO, the largest labor federation in the U.S., with members including Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and more, has put forward a slate of new federal policies it hopes can create more sustainable careers in the nonprofit arts and media sectors. The policies, which speak to concerns from nonprofit workers across 11 unions, call for […]
This is not your father’s Traumnovelle. Florian Frerichs’ new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic novella — the work that inspired Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut — promises to be a much more explicit version of the story. The trailer for the film, which opens this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival on Sept. 11, is heavy on the hot and […]
The Jirí Mádl-directed movie Waves, a new take on the time before and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact troops, is the Czech Republic’s submission for the best international feature race at the 2025 Oscars. The film, which had its world premiere at the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) where […]