Salem Media Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter “Actors on Actors” Season 20 was the most-watched Emmys lineup in Variety history, garnering 97 million video views across social media and outpacing 2023’s record-breaking TV season. Occurring twice a year during Emmys and Oscars voting, Variety’s “Actors on Actors” spotlights the biggest and buzziest names of each awards season. The 2024 TV lineup included Robert Downey Jr.

The Last Screenwriter on Sunday (June 16). However, the cinema later announced that the premiere would not go ahead.In its statement on social media, the Prince Charles said: “The feedback we received over the last 24hrs once we advertised the film has highlighted the strong concern held by many of our audience on the use of AI in place of a writer which speaks to a wider issue within the industry.⁠”pic.twitter.com/jASebzE0Tj— Prince Charles Cinema (@ThePCCLondon) June 18, 2024Directed by Peter Luisi and starring Nicholas Pople, The Last Screenwriter is a Swiss production that tells the story of “a celebrated screenwriter” who “finds his world shaken when he encounters a cutting edge AI scriptwriting system.

EXCLUSIVE: Concourse Media is launching sales on One Of One, a feature documentary filmed over five years about an elusive family of Japanese car restorers.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Celebrity athlete couple Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are teaming with Vox Media to relaunch and expand their podcast “A Touch More Live” and sports and pop-culture podcast. New episodes of “A Touch More Live,” which Bird and Rapinoe started as an Instagram Live series during the COVID pandemic, will premiere later this summer (with a launch date TBA).

General Hospital is defending their star young star Tabyana Ali.

Contains spoilers for the Doctor Who episode The Legend of Ruby Sunday The first series of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor is reaching its climax with a two-part finale showing on Saturday 15 and Saturday 22 June. The series, which has also seen the return of Russell T Davies as showrunner, has featured a couple of ongoing mysteries that fans are hoping will be resolved in the last two episodes.

Is the hype on “Smile 2” starting?  Paramount at least wants to incite the process, as Total Film reports the studio has begun its viral social media campaign for Parker Finn‘s horror sequel. Don’t believe us? Head over to Instagram and X to check out a fan page for the fictional pop star Skye Riley and see for yourself.

EXCLUSIVE: Estate Media – the network headed by Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star Josh Flagg has set its forthcoming slate. 

Brendan Kelly Liberty Global is buying a stake of Formula E from Warner Bros. Discovery, giving the media company controlling interest in the all-electric version of the motorsport. A publicly traded company led by billionaire John Malone, Liberty Global announced Thursday it is in the process of acquiring WBD’s 25% equity in Formula E, which is in its 10th racing season.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Mediawan Kids & Family is unveiling a raft of prestige animated feature projects at the Annecy Film Festival, including “Meow-woof” by Louis Clichy (“Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion”) and “Twisted” by Lino DiSalvo (“Playmobil”). Emmanuel Jacomet, who worked for over a decade alongside Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam on high profile IP’s such as “The Little Prince,” “Miraculous Ladybug” and “Playmobil,” took over the film division of Mediawan Kids & Family under a year ago with the ambition to develop a mix of mainstream franchise-based projects and auteur-driven 2D titles.

Sasha Leigh Henry, who created Canadian series Bria Mack Gets a Life, is expanding her business with New Metric Media.

EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Poirot actor David Suchet will replicate an international expedition crime writer Agatha Christie took in the 1920s in a five-part doc series.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor When CNN took the long-running program “Reliable Sources” off its schedule in 2022, it created an opportunity for others to try their hand at media analysis. Several upstarts are trying to take advantage of it. SiriusXM will launch “Mediaite‘s Press Club,” a new weekly hour-long show that will analyze events and people affecting the worlds of media and politics.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Gizmodo, the 22-year-old tech news site, is the latest asset sold by G/O Media, which has been steadily shedding media properties for more than a year. Gizmodo’s new owner is Keleops, a European online tech-media company with offices in Switzerland and Paris, France, that was originally founded 10 years ago as a performance-marketing firm.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent and the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday named the 20 filmmakers, from 12 different nations, selected to participate in the 2024 Global Media Makers LA Residency.

Google‘s head of EMEA has urged the media to play its role in bringing across the positive benefits of AI.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Ezra,” the story of a stand-up comic embarking on a road trip with his autistic son, is the kind of movie that Hollywood doesn’t make much anymore. It’s not based on a toy or a comic book; instead it’s a warm-hearted, deeply human story without much in the way of special effects. But the movie, which opened last weekend in the height of summer popcorn season, is exactly what Closer Media, the new film and television company that backed the production, was founded to champion.

IllumiNative, the Native woman-led racial and social justice organization, announced a new executive team to lead its next phase of expansion and growth. That includes oversight of the nonprofit IllumiNative Inc. and IllumiNative Media LLC, a new media and production company. 

after a female usher appeared to try and hurry her inside, seemingly preventing the star from adjusting her ensemble. The now-viral footage shows the unidentified staffer putting her arm around the head and chest of a visibly-agitated Taveras, who retaliates by putting her hand in the woman’s face.

The Conners is one of the biggest TV shows, and the stars are also huge on social media!