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U.S. playwright-writer-director and performer Sophie Fleur de Bruijn, whose original romantic comedy spec script “The One Month Mark” recently sold to Apple, with Jennifer Lawrence attached, has signed for representation with CAA. De Bruijn has been making a splash in Hollywood w

Ari Emanuel, TKO Group’s executive chairman and CEO, called the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House “a roaring success.” But the company said it lost $30 million on the elaborately staged extravaganza, held June 14 on the grounds of the White House to coincide with President

The saga over Maude Apatow’s directorial debut has a happy ending. Her TIFF player “Poetic License” will be released by the venerated Sony Pictures Classics, following a distribution debacle with original buyer Row K Entertainment. Variety reported in March that Row K had become

CBS has given a pilot order to a comedy series titled “Hilda! (In Lights!)” about an elderly woman who moves to New York City to pursue her Broadway dreams. Three scripts for the single-camera project, from writer and executive producer Abbey Caldwell, were announced as being in

The stopwatch keeps ticking after “60 Minutes.” Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley were both named journalists-in-residence at Columbia University’s School of Journalism Monday, a position that will be in place for the 2026-2027 academic term. The two former “60 Minutes” corresponde

Bella Thorne revealed on the latest episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she was aggressively pitted against her “Shake It Off” co-star Zendaya amid the height of their Disney stardom. The two actors became household names among Disney Channel viewers for playing CeCe Jon

The people have spoken at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary “I Love Paris” took home best international feature honors at the audience awards, while Masanao Kawajiri’s “Cherry and Virgin” was honored with best animated feature.

American coming-of-age comedies rarely beat with such uncomfortable verisimilitude. In the bilingual “Mustache” — the first feature from writer-director Imran J. Khan — 13-year-old Pakistani American high schooler Ilyas (Atharv Verma) undergoes an awkward adjustment from a privat

Billed as a spun-off third entry in the “M3GAN” franchise, “Soulm8te” is to “Fatal Attraction” as M3GAN’s vehicles were to “Orphan” and “The Bad Seed” — a robotic replay of very familiar genre tropes. Here, a grieving widower working in tech agrees to try out a prototype of the t

Alicia Keys has signed with CAA in all areas, the company announced earlier this week. Among her many achievements, the singer-songwriter has sold an estimated 65 million records since the release of her 2001 debut album, “Songs in A Minor,” and is the subject of “Hell’s Kitchen,

2018’s “Super Troopers 2” wasn’t so much fan service as fan self-service. Kickstarted with nearly $5 million of crowdfunding after studios doubted the public appetite for a tardy sequel to the 2001 indie sleeper “Super Troopers,” it gave the people what they wanted and not much e

“Love Island USA” is officially the series of the summer. According to Peacock, Season 8 of the reality dating series has reached nearly 19 billion minutes watched to date, spanning 35 episodes released between June 2 and July 13 — making it the streamer’s most-watched original s