Andrew Davis’ ‘Stony Island’ Sets Digital Debut and Screening in November in Honor of 45th Anniversary (EXCLUSIVE)

Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater’s Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexander Serabryakov and Anika Noni Rose as Yelena.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Iceland, to Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s directorial debut “The Home Game,” which picked up the audience award at both Nordisk Panorama and the Icelandic Documentary Film Fest Skjaldborg. The film is set to have its North America Premiere at DOCNYC this week and the MetFilm team will be introducing it to buyers at IDFA. Twenty-five years ago, in a small fishing village in Iceland (population: 369), one man built a soccer field at the foot of a volcano, dreaming of a home game in the national FA Cup.

Paramount+ has set premiere dates for June, a new feature doc on country singer-songwriter June Carter Cash from Emmy winner Kristen Vaurio, one of the producers behind the acclaimed Alex Gibney pic Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief. Set to debut in the U.S. and Canada on January 16, the film will debut one day later in territories including the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers from “Unmortricken,” the fifth episode of “Rick and Morty” Season 7. Dan Harmon is, by his own admission, “allergic to serialized, canonical stuff.” But the “Rick and Morty” co-creator told Variety that he resisted that impulse for “Unmortricken,” the episode that brought Season 7 of the Adult Swim animated sitcom to its halfway point on Sunday night. Not only does “Unmortricken” check in on the series’ overarching story for the first time since the Season 6 premiere (which aired over a year ago); it also sees the grisly death of a character once built up as the show’s arch-antagonist, even as it gives another an unprecedented level of power within the “Rick and Morty” universe.

Andrew Walker is a heartthrob on screen on Hallmark Channel, and is certainly one in real-life to wife Cassandra Troy!

One of the many projects halted by the SAG-AFTRA strike this summer was “Venom 3,” the upcoming capstone to the trilogy devoted to Tom Hardy‘s anti-hero. Now that SAG and the AMPTP have agreed to terms and the strike is over, it’s time to figure out when all those stalled productions will reach theaters.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Sony Pictures will conduct a live orchestra at the Academy Museum featuring the bombastic music from its animated feature (and best picture) contender “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” At a special invitation-only event at the David Geffen Theater, the studio will feature an exhilarating arrangement of electronics, turntables and a live orchestra performing the original score from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s box office smash by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning composer Daniel Pemberton. The concert will feature appearances by Oscar-winning producers and screenwriters Phil Lord and Chris Miller; the film’s directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K.

The brand new season of the much-loved Scottish sitcom Two Doors Down will return to viewers screens in November.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Rita Wilson and more stars performed as a tribute to U.S. veterans and their families at the New York Comedy Festival and Bob Woodruff Foundation’s Stand Up for Heroes event Monday. Held at David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the night included performances from musicians and comics, including Stewart, Springsteen, Wilson, Josh Groban, John Mellencamp, Tracy Morgan, The War and Treaty, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng and Shane Gillis.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Amazon Prime Video has acquired streaming rights for “Sound of Freedom,” this summer’s unlikely (and controversial) box office hit. The film will be available to Prime Video subscribers in the U.S. for no additional charge on Dec.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Amazon Music closed out its current season of the Amazon Music Live series with a dynamic 50-minute set from Latto following Thursday Night Football. Broadcast simultaneously on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, the second season of the performance series has already featured a carousel of some of music’s biggest names, counting Metro Boomin, Green Day and Ed Sheeran as some of its headliners.

Sarah Ferguson spoke candidly about her struggle with body dysmorphia on Loose Women on Thursday.

Ethan Shanfeld The next chapter of “The Jinx” is headed to HBO. The network announced on Thursday that “The Jinx – Part Two” will air on HBO and stream on Max in 2024. The six-episode sequel to the hit 2015 miniseries, which investigated the crimes of Robert Durst, is currently in production from Andrew Jarecki.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Archstone Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to “Don Q,” a comedic tribute to mafia movies that stars Armand Assante, no stranger to the genre from his work in HBO’s “Gotti” and “American Gangster.” It was written and directed by Claudio Bellante. Sales for the film kicked off this week at AFM. The film follows Assante’s character, who thinks of himself as a Don Corleone but is really more of a Don Quixote.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Godzilla Minus One,” the biggest picture to date in the Japanese monster movie franchise and the Wednesday night closing gala title at the Tokyo International Film Festival, is set for pan-European release at the beginning of December. Rights were acquired for 38 territories (excluding the U.K., Ireland and German-speaking territories) by theatrical-only specialist distributor Piece of Magic Entertainment from Toho, the Japanese studio that controls the ‘kaiju’ franchise and distributes the picture in Japan from Nov.

TBS will celebrate Matthew Perry with a “Best of Chandler” marathon beginning Nov. 1.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor A24 has forged an exclusive output deal with Happinet Phantom Studios covering the distribution in Japan of A24’s upcoming releases, including Alex Garland’s action film “Civil War,” starring Kirsten Dunst, which has a highly anticipated launch at AFM this week. Happinet and A24 have worked together on the release of a number of films in Japan, including triple Oscar winner “Moonlight,” and “Midsommar,” whose gross in the territory was the biggest outside North America.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Paul McCartney and Gaumont have assembled an all-star creative crew for “High in the Clouds,” the long-awaited feature adaptation of McCartney’s children’s adventure novel. Boasting six original songs by McCartney, the family adventure movie, which is budgeted at €28 million, will be directed by Toby Genkel (“The Amazing Maurice”), scored by Michael Giacchino (“Coco,” “Inside Out”) and penned by Jon Croker (“Paddington 2”), with Patrick Hanenberger (“The Croods,” “The Lego Movie 2”) tapped as production designer. McCartney will voice one of the main characters.

Valerie Wu Intern The 2023 annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), hosted from Oct. 12 to Oct. 19, has announced its slate of awards winners.

Since bagging third place during this year's Love Island, model Ella Thomas has catapulted to fame - and found a boyfriend in the process. And while it's only been a mere three months since the reality star left the famous ITV2 villa, Glasgow-born Ella has admitted that her close relationships with other Islanders have drifted apart.