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Music Industry Moves: Chris Young Signs With UTA; Kurt Vile Re-Ups With Third Side Publishing

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Chris Young has signed with UTA for global representation in all areas. The signing comes as Young approaches nearly two decades in the country music spotlight. In addition to his robust solo catalog, over the years he has performed with Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi, Ashley McBryde and others. […]

Variety · 15h ago
Netflix’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Won’t Play in Regal and Cinemark Imax Theaters

Netflix’s push to release more films on the big screen hasn’t come without a few hiccups. Most recently, theater chains including Regal Cinemas are declining to play the streaming platform’s “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” on their Imax screens. Cinemark also turned down the “Cliff Booth” booking, according to sources. “Cliff Booth,” which stars […]

Variety · 16h ago
2026 Worldwide Box Office Headed To Near $36B, Best Since 2019

Box office authority Gower Street Analytics has revised their 2026 annual global ticket sales forecast to $35.7 billion, up 2.9% from their previous estimate which they reported at April’s CinemaCon. Their forecast is based on Rentrak actuals and Gower estimates. If the global B.O. hits $35.7B, that will rep a 6.3% uptick from last year’s […]

Deadline · 16h ago
Trinh T. Minh-ha Still Sets Her Own Rules – and Heads to ‘The Undying Desert’ in Her First Film Set in the U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)

Vietnamese-American filmmaker, writer, feminist and post-colonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha is readying her upcoming film “The Undying Desert.” “I’ve just finished editing it,” she told Variety at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, where she’s celebrating a retrospective. “I’ve made films in Africa, China, Vietnam and Japan, and people would ask: ‘When are you going to make […]

Variety · 16h ago
Hotel and Travel Industry Groups Back U.S. Film Incentive as Tourism Draw

Lobbying groups representing the hotel and travel industries have endorsed a 20% federal tax incentive for film and TV production, arguing that domestic filming attracts tourism from abroad. The American Hotel & Lodging Association and the U.S. Travel Association have joined an alliance of film industry stakeholders in pushing for the bill. The two groups […]

Variety · 16h ago
How To Watch The 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards

The 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards are Friday, October 30. But they’re not in the daytime, and they are not on traditional television. For a second consecutive year, the celebration of the best in daytime soaps, talk and news will be available only via organizer the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ YouTube page. […]

Deadline · 16h ago
‘The Celebrity Traitors’: [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] Win in Nail-Biting Season 2 Finale

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the finale episode of the U.K. version of “The Celebrity Traitors” Season 2, now streaming on BBC iPlayer. It was the feel-good ending hardly anyone expected: “The Traitors” season finale resulted in an unexpected win by Faithfuls Sebastian Croft and Romesh Ranganathan, as both Traitors King Kenny and […]

Variety · 16h ago
Everest Doc And ‘Breeder’ Anchor Indie Frame With Few New Releases – Specialty Preview

NatGeo’s Everest: The Other Side by Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi and Independent Film Company’s psychological horror Breeder are specialty debuts, along Greenwich Entertainment’s Queen At Sea, and docs Paging Hezbollah (by the director of Am I A Racist?) and Heathens. Briarcliff’s holiday horror-comedy Christmas At The Kringles and Sight & Sound […]

Deadline · 16h ago
Jennifer Lawrence Says ‘Absolutely F—ing Not’ to Transforming Into X-Men’s Mystique Again

Jennifer Lawrence played the “X-Men” character Mystique four times on the big screen between 2011 and 2019, and it appears she has no interest whatsoever in slipping back into the mutant’s iconic blue skin. In fact, the Oscar winner’s days of undergoing any extreme makeup and/or prosthetics-driven character transformation are likely over. “My favorite part […]

Variety · 16h ago