Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has shifted its bankruptcy filing from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, meaning it will liquidate its business. The company, sagging under the weight of nearly $1 billion in debt and a tall stack of unpaid bills, filed for bankruptcy protection on June…

EXCLUSIVE: Before her directorial debut Blink Twice bows next month, Zoë Kravitz looks to be making plans for her next acting job as she is in talks to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky's crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures. Aronofsky will direct direct the pic, which is based on the…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav expects media deals to pick up sharply, be it traditional M&A or streaming pacts, as the contours of the industry continue to evolve. "I think probably over the next year or two you're going to see some real consolidation, whether that happens from companies…

EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Crichton and James Patterson novel Eruption has been bought at auction by Sony in what we hear is a seven-figure deal after several circled. The feature take of Eruption already has Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi attached to direct…

Paul Mescal hopes the same-day release of Gladiator II and Wicked will be the sequel to Barbenheimer. Last year, Barbie and Oppenheimer were released on the same day, becoming a box office phenomenon. The Greta Gerwig-directed film opened with $162M, and the Christopher Nolan film opened with…

UPDATED with producers’ statement: The producer of Rebel Wilson’s The Deb have responded to claims Wilson made earlier Wednesday about their involvement in Australian musical movie, which is Wilson’s directorial debut. "RW's allegations are false, defamatory, and disappointing,” a spokesperson for…

EXCLUSIVE: Grandview has promoted Cooper McCary to manager. McCary, who joined Grandview in 2021 from Paradigm, has a client list that includes Benjy Steinberg, who won the Sundance Episodic Fellowship Grant in 2023; Brett Haley, slated to direct the adaptation of Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacat…

UPDATED WITH DAILY WIRE STATEMENT: Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who is an executive producer on the faith-based movie Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, recently issued a statement on social media, distancing herself from the film’s conservative partners The Daily Wire. Wright was…

UPDATED, 12:12 PM: A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that longtime fugitive Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her in the 1970s at his home after plying her with tequila there and at a restaurant, all the while knowing she was a minor. In court papers…

Ariana Grande is addressing the criticism she received following a viral video in which her voice changed suddenly and calling out the double standard in doing so. In a new interview, the Wicked star explains why the criticism she received was a gender-based prejudice. “I mean, you see male…

UPDATE, 11:15 AM: With opening statements from the prosecution and defense delivered to the jury Wednesday, Alec Baldwin's nine-day involuntary manslaughter trial for the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021 went straight to the scene of the crime. The first witness of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Revolori has signed with Verve for represenation. Revolori made his breakthrough in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. He has since reunited with Wes Anderson in The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. He starred as Flash Thompson in Sony's box office hit Spider-Man…