Breaking Baz: How ‘I Swear’ Filmmaker Kirk Jones  Financed His BAFTA-Nominated British Movie By Selling The Family Home

Breaking Baz: How ‘I Swear’ Filmmaker Kirk Jones Financed His BAFTA-Nominated British Movie By Selling The Family Home

EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Jones, the writer and director of StudioCanal’s I Swear movie that collected five competitive BAFTA Award nominations today — six if we include the Rising Star Award nom that the movie’s lead Robert Aramayo had already nabbed — swore that he and his wife would bankroll the ...

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Team Explains Their 3-Year Journey Making Film, Interviewing More Than 40 Experts and More

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Team Explains Their 3-Year Journey Making Film, Interviewing More Than 40 Experts and More

Making a documentary about AI presented several filmmakers with a dilemma: How do you transform a subject better suited for a podcast or book into compelling cinema? “This movie did not want to be a movie,” director Daniel Roher told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival’s “Anatomy of a ...

NFL and YouTube’s 2026 Flag Football Game Over Super Bowl Weekend to Feature J Balvin, Druski, Benson Boone, Deion Sanders and More

NFL and YouTube’s 2026 Flag Football Game Over Super Bowl Weekend to Feature J Balvin, Druski, Benson Boone, Deion Sanders and More

The NFL and YouTube are returning for another celebrity-stacked flag football game — set to livestream for free on the Saturday before this year’s Super Bowl. The Super Bowl LX Flag Football Game on YouTube will be held on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT, at the Super Bowl Experience...

Independent Artist Group Signs Bestselling Author Abby Jimenez

Independent Artist Group Signs Bestselling Author Abby Jimenez

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed Abby Jimenez, a #1 New York Times bestselling author of romantic fiction, for film and TV representation.  Jimenez is known for her bestselling book series The Friend Zone and Part of Your World, which was recently picked up for feature development by ...

‘Sinners’, ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’, ‘Fantastic Four’ And ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Lead Saturn Awards Nominations

‘Sinners’, ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’, ‘Fantastic Four’ And ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Lead Saturn Awards Nominations

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros’ record-setting Oscar nomination juggernaut Sinners, James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps lead all film nominees for the 53rd Saturn Awards, which recognize the year’s best movies, TV programs and home video releases in the ...

Chris Cooper Signs With UTA

Chris Cooper Signs With UTA

Actor Chris Cooper has inked with UTA for representation in all areas. Cooper is best known for his Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning supporting turn in Columbia Pictures’ Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. He also earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance o...

Why it pays to believe in luck

Why it pays to believe in luck

The oil tycoon J. Paul Getty was rumoured to have said that his three rules for how to become rich were: Rise early. Work hard. Strike oil. It’s one of those eminently quotable remarks because it captures something we all know to be true, that luck and chance have as much to do with success as any...

A+E Studios Names Chris Sanagustin Head of Current Programming

A+E Studios Names Chris Sanagustin Head of Current Programming

A+E Studios has named Chris Sanagustin as head of current programming. In her new role, she will oversee a variety of scripted projects for A+E, including Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” and the untitled Lars Kepler project. She will report to Tana Jamieson, co-head and executive vice president...

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered "answer engine", dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic's Claude. The company says Scout "synthesizes" info from the web, as well as Yahoo's own data and content when constructing responses to user's natural-language...