Media Companies Scramble to Build a Better Bundle (Column)

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” and his dramatic thriller, “Stillwater” which was seemingly shot a long time ago, but delayed by the pandemic. Starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin, “Stilwater” centers on a father who travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBritish actor and model Poppy Delevingne, Chad Michael Collins, Casper Van Dien and Jeff Fahey are set to star in thriller-suspense film “Assailant,” from MSR Media and written and directed by Tom Paton (“400 Bullets”).The pic turns on a couple going through marriage counseling who decide to head to the Caribbean on a “make or break” sailing holiday.

Matthew Perry appears to be the latest celebrity called out by a woman he allegedly met on a dating app. Tik Tok user Kate Haralson spoke out in an interview this week, claiming she was just 19 years old when the "Friends" alum, now 51, matched with her on the dating app Raya last May.

Ethan Shanfeld BondIt Media Capital has increased its credit facility with Revere Capital by up to $70 million.Founded in 2013, BondIt has posited over $150 million of capital into over 325 film, TV and other media projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Hood, Deputy General Secretary of UK trade union Equity, is joining casting platform Talent Systems as Managing Director of Spotlight.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a bill ready for signature that would stop social media companies from permanently kicking people off their platforms in the state.

Jeff Orlowski, director of the award-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, used to be an avid social media user. Not anymore.

Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell are giving it another shot.

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Us star Justin Hartley is joining Y’lan Noel (The First Purge), Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth), Lex Scott Davis (The First Purge) and Shamier Anderson (Stowaway) in movie thriller A Lot Of Nothing, which is underway in Los Angeles.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Monday ruled that Michael Jackson’s companies had no legal obligation to protect boys from sexual abuse, and dismissed a long-running lawsuit against them.Wade Robson, one of the subjects of the 2019 HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” first filed the lawsuit in 2013.

If you don’t know the work of Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “City Of Ghosts“), you really outta change that. A cameraman and cinematographer on top of being a documentarian, Heineman’s work is always super cinematic, super intimate, and seems even to blur the lines of fact and fiction; he gets into such personal spaces, it seems impossible that moments aren’t staged, but they aren’t.

Unwavering strength. Gina Kirschenheiter broke her silence after giving an emotional victim impact statement in her ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter’s domestic battery case where he pleaded guilty earlier this week.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed director, producer, and writer Matthew Perniciaro.

Sharing her story. The Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Gina Kirschenheiter gave an emotional victim impact statement during her ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter’s case where he pleaded guilty to domestic battery.

So over they need a new word for over. If there was ever any chance that Bachelor stars Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell might get back together after their brief reunion, it appears to have evaporated.

Matthew McConaughey could be closer to becoming a politician than a lot of us may have thought.According to a new poll conducted by the University of Texas at Tyler--which was released by The Dallas Morning News on Sunday--the Interstellar actor commands more support to be Texas’ next governor than the state’s current governor, Greg Abbott.

Is Matthew McConaughey really a viable candidate? A new poll conducted by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler shows that 45% of registered voters who participated would vote for McConaughey over current Governor Greg Abbott. By contrast, 33% of voters in the April 17 poll said they would back Abbott; just 22% of participants would vote for someone else. That’s if McConaughey were to run.

Matthew McConaughey fell in love with soccer over time, thanks to his wife, Camila Alves.The Oscar winner is co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC, and on Saturday, McConaughey's new club will take the field for the first time opposite his buddy Will Ferrell's Los Angeles FC team.«I played a little a bit of soccer as a youngster but soccer was not my game,» McConaughey tells ET's Kevin Frazier. «But then I marry this woman and she is from Brazil.