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EXCLUSIVE: Director, writer, and producer Brad Peyton has signed with Grandview for representation. He has brought Grandview onboard ahead of the premiere of his upcoming film Atlas, which stars Jennifer Lopez, Simu Lui, and Sterling K. Brown with Netflix releasing the pic on Memorial Day and buzz for the film is already incredibly strong. The film follows a woman fighting for humanity in a future where an AI soldier has determined the only way to end war is to end humanity.

EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones is set to star in Michael Showalter’s holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun. for Amazon MGM Studios, joining Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz and Dominic Sessa.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Kip Williams, the adapter and director of the buzzy West End production of the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring newly minted Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook.

Taylor Swift has sent fans on a mystery trail to uncover a secret message on Apple Music during the release week of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.Apple has confirmed that one word a day will be hidden within Swift’s lyrics on the music streaming service. Each daily word will be found somewhere in Swift’s five playlists exclusively released on Apple Music last week, which relate to the five stages of heartbreak: denial (‘I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life’), anger (‘You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad‘), bargaining (‘Am I Allowed to Cry?’), depression (‘Old Habits Die Screaming’) and acceptance (‘I Can Do It With a Broken Heart’).The full message will be unveiled on April 18, the day before Swift releases ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.The first word was unveiled on Saturday (April 13), with Swift’s team Taylor Nation via an Instagram Story that seemed to glitch.

Maya Hawke says making “Wildcat” with her dad, Ethan Hawke, felt effortless.“We’ve spent our whole lives making things together, talking about art, seeing plays, going to art museums,” she told The Post at a recent Cinema Society screening of their movie, “Wildcat.”“Working on plays in the living room, helping me with audition tapes and it felt like an extremely natural extension of the way that we’ve always communicated.”The movie, co-written and directed by Ethan, is a biographical drama about Southern novelist Flannery O’Connor and her struggle to publish her first novel. Maya, 25, stars as O’Connor and it also features Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman and Liam Neeson.The “Training Day” star, 53, explained that the movie was Maya’s idea.“A movie that she wanted to see primarily about a young woman’s relationship to herself and her work,” he shared.

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EXCLUSIVE: MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel, and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged is moving into production on Trash Talk, a docuseries about NBA Hall-Of-Famer Gary Payton. 

EXCLUSIVE: USA Network is encouraging a group of contestants to stay anonymous with its latest unscripted competition series.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Demi Moore not only has her movie “The Substance” playing in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but she’s also signed on to host amfAR’s annual gala. The evening will mark Moore’s first return to the HIV/AIDS fundraiser in 27 years. “We are excited and grateful to have Demi Moore back with amfAR in Cannes,” the organization’s CEO Kevin Robert Frost said in a statement Monday.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent While MipTV is relocating to London with a revamped format, Canneseries Festival is sticking to its guns and will remain as a standalone event in the spring on the Croisette. Benoit Louvet, the managing director of Canneseries, told Variety in an exclusive interview that the festival will return in 2025 on April 22-27 with its major partners, the city of Cannes, the region PACA and the Vivendi-owned pay TV group Canal+.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Disney has confirmed that Korean webtoon-to-screen adaptation “Low Life” is poised to begin production. When valuable treasure is discovered off the coast of Korea, the country’s biggest degenerates come crawling out of the woodwork in the hope of striking it big. Word spreads after a fisherman got lucky and kept a piece of the booty for himself.

Carolyn Giardina “Queen Rock Montreal” will make its global streaming premiere May 15 on Disney+ as the first concert film available with Imax Enhanced sound by DTS. When it arrived in theaters in January, the remastered 1981 concert was Imax’s biggest exclusive engagement.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After 31 years, UFC 300 is shaping up to be a big milestone since “UFC 1: The Beginning” in 1993. For the main event, Brazilian Alex Pereira (9-2) is looking to defend his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship belt against American Jamahal Hill (12-1) at the top of the main card on Saturday, April 13.

It’s day two of the 2024 Coachella Music Festival!

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Tyler Cameron has 2.2 million Instagram followers — the most of any male in the entire “Bachelor” franchise.The Florida native, who got dumped by leading lady Hannah Brown, had just 3,018 Instagram followers when his name was first announced as a contestant on the ABC series in February 2019.“Yeah, it was wild. I feel like at that moment, ‘Bachelorette’ was at its peak,” Cameron, 31, told The Post ahead of the April 18 premiere of his new home-renovation show “Going Home with Tyler Cameron” on Prime Video.“I think a lot has to do with, you know, Hannah Brown was a great lead … and we had a great villain on our show [Luke Parker].

Elmore County Jail after being arrested April 5 for indecent exposure. This week, she was slapped with an additional soliciting prostitution, according to jail records.“My mom, she thinks I’m on drugs, right? She wants me to go to rehab. But when I came to jail, I took a drug test, and I passed it.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are said to be throwing a super exclusive Coachella afterparty — and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are on the guest list!

May 27, after several extensions.Wearing a vintage nurse’s outfit, he summoned one attendee into a private room, laid him down on a couch and petted his arm. Then, quite suddenly, Cumming coughed up a metal nail and tossed the attendee out of the room. “I haven’t been able to sleep since,” the theatergoer told Page Six.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a strong few weeks for Telemundo.

Outlander star Sam Heughan has been spotted on the exclusive dating website Raya.

Weekend One of the 2024 Coachella Music Festival has arrived and you can watch all of the live stream videos here!

Ariana Madix has teamed up with DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse) for an exclusive curated collection!

Jack Dunn The Coachella live stream on YouTube will be your next best bet if you’re not able to score tickets to the annual California music festival. As Coachella’s exclusive streaming partner, YouTube is introducing a new mulitview feature, which will allow those watching from home to stream four performances simultaneously while listening to which ever audio they choose. According to YouTube, this will be the worldwide debut of multiview for any music livestream.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. With the release of the “Fallout” TV series on Prime Video, Amazon has partnered with Bethesda Softworks and Microsoft to give away copies of the “Fallout 76″ video game (about a $40 value) for Xbox Series X/S (or the previous generation Xbox One) and PC.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is doubling down on its commitment to Rescue: HI-Surf, picking up seven additional episodes of the Hawaii-set lifeguard drama from Warner Bros. Television, Fox Entertainment and John Wells Productions. The back order brings Rescue HI-Surf‘s first season, which will air in 2024-25, to 19 episodes.

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Lin has come aboard to direct Stakehorse for Amazon MGM Studios from a script penned by Justin Piasecki. Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young will produce, with Lin producing through his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner and Piasecki executive producing.

“The Millionaire Matchmaker” Patti Stanger on “The Matchmaker,” which premiered on the CW this week. Despite his many years publicly searching for love, Viall credits most of his dating expertise to his time before joining the realm of reality TV.

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EXCLUSIVE: Slash is set to shred some solos for Paramount+’s latest British drama series.

Gemma Collins and her fiancé Rami Hawash might be on cloud nine ever since getting engaged in the Maldives last month, but there's one household rule that's she's sticking to - marriage or not. In an exclusive chat, the former TOWIE star welcomed OK! into her stunning Essex home. From a grand master bedroom, to numerous animal ornaments and lots of mixed prints, there's lots to catch the eye.

Disney shared an exclusive look at nine minutes of Deadpool & Wolverine during their CinemaCon panel on Thursday (April 11), and they teased some very exciting details!

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Fresh off its “Big Spring Sale” event, Amazon has announced the return of Amazon Pet Day. Taking place May 7 through May 8 in conjunction with National Pet Month, the shopping event will offer 48 hours of deals and discounts on pet supplies, toys, apparel, grooming products and accessories.

deplorable state of apps or that no one knows how to pick someone up in person anymore.Enter Stanger, 62, the audacious love liaison who helmed the long-running aughts series “The Millionaire Matchmaker.” Now she’s teamed up with Nick Viall, 43, of “The Bachelor” fame, for “Patti Stanger: The Matchmaker,” which premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern on the CW. They help lovelorn singles — wealthy or not — navigate changing dating dynamics to become the most eligible versions of themselves to find that special someone.

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris is heading back to late-night.  

EXCLUSIVE: Great American Media has signed Jillian Murray (An Unlikely Angel, A Brush With Christmas, Christmas Keepsake) to a multi-picture, multi-year deal.