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Basketball Hall of Famer and entrepreneur Carmelo Anthony weighed in on the New York Knicks’ historic championship win, the unifying power of sports and Timothée Chalamet’s fervent fandom during a high-spirited conversation with Variety’s co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh at Cannes Lions. The former Knicks player, who was speaking as part of Variety and Google TV’s Industry […]

Fact proved as action packed as fiction for Rogue Trooper star Aneurin Barnard as he attended the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France for the film’s premiere this week. Barnard, who plays the titular Rogue Trooper in the sci-fi movie blending motion capture with animation and unreal technology, revealed he had just been involved […]

Paramount Skydance on Monday promoted two veteran labor relations execs, Nicole Lang and Sheldon Kasdan, to lead a new standalone division responsible for navigating the company’s relationships with entertainment unions. Both have long tenures with the company. Lang has been head of industrial relations at Paramount Pictures since 2013, while Kasdan has been a top […]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Uppendahl (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, The Beauty) has been set to direct the pilot episode of Prime Video’s Bishop, a thriller drama from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. Uppendahl will also executive produce. Bishop follows homicide detective Bishop Graves (Joel Kinnaman) – brilliant, battle-scarred – will put all of his […]

Aardman co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, the company’s star director and Executive Creative Director Sarah Cox hit the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Sunday for a masterclass celebrating the studio’s 50th anniversary. There were plenty of anecdotes but the 90-minute talk also looked to the present and future of the award-winning studio behind […]

A concertgoer fell to his death during a Goose concert on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, according to CBS News. Police told the outlet that a 51-year-old man fell from MSG’s 300 level and suffered fatal injuries just before 10 p.m. Authorities found the man unconscious and unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead at […]

Saturday’s Goose concert at Madison Square Garden continued after a 51-year-old man fell to his death from the upper level of the arena. At around 9:51pm, NYPD officers responded to reports of an injured man inside the iconic music venue at 4 Penn Plaza, where they discovered him “unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicative of […]