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Newly minted Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Ravi Ahuja addresses his first few days on the job as studio chief — when Mother Nature threw Los Angeles a curveball with devastating wildfire storms — on the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business.” Ahuja gave his first interview since taking the reins of SPE this month […]

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able […]

President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back business lost to “foreign countries.” “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a […]

Electronic music artist Kygo has struck a major deal in Las Vegas: He will open his own Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand in May in the Tao Group venue formerly occupied by pioneering dayclub Wet Republic, in partnership with manager Myles Shear and their Palm Tree Crew ventures.

Wolf Blitzer may be getting ready to storm the morning on CNN. The veteran anchor, who has led the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet’s “The Situation Room” in early evenings since 2005, could bring the program to mid-to-late mornings, according to a person familiar with the matter, under a set of new plans around programming and […]

Aiming to upgrade the quality of the moviegoing experience, Regal Cineworld Group, the world’s second-largest cinema chain, and cinema tech giant Barco announced an expansive deal to install 4,000 Barco Series 4 laser projectors in the chain’s theaters across the U. S, U. K. and other European markets by 2030.