At the Cannes Lions festival, executives from Deloitte, AWS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment urged media and entertainment leaders to embrace AI by tackling hard problems, upskilling employees, and re…
The team behind 'Common Side Effects' debuted first footage from Season 2 at the Annecy Animation Festival, revealing a continuation of Marshall and Frances's quest to distribute the healing Blue Ange…
Will.i.am told Variety at Cannes Lions that AI lacks imagination, making now the time for human dreamers, not regurgitators. He urged artists to build a new industry around AI rather than fight over o…
Whitney Houston's family criticized Oprah Winfrey for claiming the late singer was high when she fell off stage during a 2009 interview, asserting the fall was due to darkness and unfamiliarity with t…
The 2026 Cannes Lions festival, running June 22-26, will spotlight AI's influence, the creator economy, vertical dramas, and talent-driven consumer brands. Key events include Apple's Eddy Cue in conve…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished biopic 'Artificial' about Sam Altman's November 2023 firing and reinstatement at OpenAI, citing the film would be better served by a differ…
Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' months after Amazon expanded its partnership with OpenAI, including a $50 billion investment. The film, starring An…
At the APOS conference in Bali, executives outlined eight themes shaping Asia's entertainment industry in 2026, centering on scalable IP, sport, vertical content and government incentives. JioStar's J…
Variety and Google TV will host two exclusive events at Cannes Lions on June 23-24, featuring keynote conversations with Carmelo Anthony and will.i.am, and a panel with CMOs from Crocs, Instacart, and…
Veteran entertainment lawyer Ken Ziffren, a partner at Ziffren Brittenham, reflected on more than 50 years in entertainment law as UCLA's Entertainment Symposium marked its 50th anniversary. Ziffren, …
At the APOS 2026 conference, actor Andy Serkis expressed excitement about AI's creative potential while warning of risks like misinformation and accountability gaps, and Google's Jon Zepp called AI a …
Adobe announced on June 16 that it is collaborating with Walt Disney Imagineering to deploy Firefly Foundry models for Disney Parks design and pre-production visualization, using custom models trained…
At the Shanghai International Film Festival's SIFFORUM panel, industry speakers identified compute costs, content distribution, and AI controllability as key hurdles for AI-driven filmmaking. Yan Yiju…
The visual-effects team behind Peacock's Ted used AI-based face replacement to transform Seth MacFarlane into Bill Clinton for a Season 2 episode, after prosthetics and traditional CGI failed to achie…
The Directors Guild of America reached a tentative four-year agreement with major studios and streamers on June 9, 2026, after about a month of talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television…
Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in generative-video company Runway, expanding their 2024 partnership to include a joint development program for new intellectual property and a slate of AI-generate…
The Comeback" creators Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King have ended the HBO comedy after its third season, calling the series a "perfect piece" and a "trilogy" that comes full circle. The show, whi…
Sony’s Innovation Fund has invested a seven-figure sum in Midnight Labs, an AI company that removes pirated content and deepfakes for entertainment companies and creators. The Dublin, Tokyo and San Fr…
Google launched "Search profiles," a new feature allowing creators and publishers to showcase their content directly on the search engine, as the company's AI summaries have caused a 61% drop in organ…
Kane Parsons, director of the film "Backrooms," told Variety he opposes using generative AI in filmmaking, saying he would eliminate it if possible and finds it creatively unrewarding. The 20-year-old…