Category: Gaming News

Charlotte Toledano Detaille, the former Mediawan producer behind Prime Video’s streaming hit “Escort Boys,” is launching Alyx Films, an independent banner that will kick off with an ambitious slate built around breakout French digital creator Geronimo. The company, which is based in Paris and in the South of France, has signed an exclusive partnership with […]

Ninety-five Oscar nominees and 21 winners are among the 529 film industry notables who have just officially become Oscar voters as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended its annual invitations to those who have “distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures”. Among those are recent nominees from the 98th Oscars […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh’s Digital division has promoted three and made three new hires. New additions to the company include VP Amron Lopez and agent Dane Cohen from The Team (formerly Wasserman), agent Amanda Harris from UTA’s Digital Brand Architects, and coordinator Alondra Pangilinan from The Team. Chinazam Nnorom and Kashia Hormuth, meanwhile, have been promoted to coordinator […]

My first reaction when I heard of a new animated feature film adaptation of Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, Carmen, was that despite the animated form it was taking, this had to be for adult and fans of opera, especially this one which is perhaps the most performed around the globe to this day. Wrong. This […]

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 […]