Bad Robot Games Clinches $40M Series B Fundraising Round

EXCLUSIVE: Lyne Renée (Motherland: Fort Salem) is set for a recurring role in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The 10-episode series comes from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and CBS Television Studios.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

Lee Toland Krieger (Superman & Lois, Riverdale) is set to direct the first two episodes of Green Lantern, HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

J. Cole has officially left the Rwanda Patriots, citing “family obligations” for his departure from the basketball side.The news was confirmed on Wednesday (May 26) after it was revealed that the rapper/professional baller had fulfilled his contractual obligation to the African Basketball League team after playing in three games.J.

3RD UPDATE, 9:20 AM: The release-calendar moves for Sony’s toon sequel are multiplying like rabbits. The studio today moved Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway up by another week to June 11; it had been set for June 18. The family pic, which has cumed $31.4 million in its international rollout thus far, now will go up against Warner Bros’ Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights and a slew of limited-release films.

Rockstar Games has confirmed that they are launching a record label in collaboration with club music event hosts CircoLoco.Announced yesterday (May 24) CircoLoco Records is a collaboration that has been created with “a view to supporting underground dance music culture worldwide” according to the label’s announcement page.

Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) is negotiations to join Finn Wittrock in HBO Max’s upcoming Green Lantern series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Grand Theft Auto 5 has been confirmed to hit next gen consoles in November, bringing a range of new features and graphical improvements.Developers Rockstar Games dropped the news as part of a look at new content coming to the game over the next few months. Currently, PS5 or Xbox Series X|S players can play GTA 5 through backwards compatibility on both consoles, although these don’t take advantage of the enhanced power of the newly released (and hard to find) consoles.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBad Robot Games, the video games division of J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath’s Bad Robot, said it closed a Series B funding round of more than $40 million.Bad Robot Games was formed in 2018 as a joint venture with Tencent, the Chinese internet and tech conglomerate, and Warner Bros.

National Geographic has ordered three new unscripted series including a trip down memory lane fronted by Rob Lowe.

Blizzard and Epic Games developers have formed Lightforge Games, a new indie studio specialising in RPGs.Founded by Matt Schembari (Epic), Nathan Fairbanks (Bioware, Epic), Marc Hutcheson (Blizzard, Epic), and Glenn Rane (Blizzard), the team have between them produced games such as World of Warcraft, Fortnite, and Overwatch.“We all love highly social, creative games, and we particularly love games where players drive the narrative,” Schembari, the CEO of Lightforge Games, said in a release

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s upcoming reality competition series Domino Masters has tapped actress Danica McKellar, two-time NFL Pro Bowler and Super Bowl Champion Vernon Davis and professional chain reaction and domino artist Steven Price as judges.

Courtney Love has denounced the upcoming Pam And Tommy TV series, which will focus on Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s marriage and leak of their sex tape.The Baywatch star and Mötley Crüe drummer married in 1995, four days after meeting for the first time, and divorced in 1998.

The Strokes played their first-ever acoustic set yesterday (May 15) as part of a fundraiser for New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.Wiley, who is a former ACLU and NAACP legal defence fund attorney, will go to the polls on June 22 and faces competition from the likes of Andrew Yang, Dianne Morales and Raymond McGuire.The performance was held on Zoom and followed a conversation between frontman Julian Casablancas and Wiley about the mayoral race.The Strokes opened the short set with a

“It was something I was passionate about because in many ways, things don’t change and it’s not as if our society is completely sorted,” It’s a Sin creator Russell T Davies said of the HBO Max miniseries that focusing on the fatal devastation of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has given out series orders to the reboot of “The Wonder Years,” drama series “Queens,” and comedies “Maggie” and “Abbott Elementary.”The new version of “The Wonder Years” is a coming of age story set in the late 1960’s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean (Elisha “EJ” Williams).