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February 4, 2026
Oscars Screenplay Race Break Down: From Paul Thomas Anderson’s Dominance to Foreign-Language Longshots
Most of the Oscar prognostication action happens around the best picture, acting and directing races, leaving the poor writing nominees metaphorically stuck alone in a room, staring at a blank scre...
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January 20, 2026
Colorado Taps Lauren Grimshaw Sloan as New Film Commissioner on Eve of Final Park City Sundance Fest Before its Move to Boulder
Colorado Gov. Jarid Polis announced today that he has appointed Lauren Grimshaw Sloan as the new Colorado Film Commissioner. The news comes on the eve of Park City’s final go-round as the host of S...
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January 20, 2026
Can AI and Polymarket Handicap the Guild Awards Like Human Pundits?
From HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) to Skynet in the “Terminator” films, AI has been portrayed as an existential threat to humankind in the movies. But when it comes to handicapping fil...
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January 4, 2026
Showbiz Leaders Take AI Deep Dive at Variety Entertainment Summit at CES 2026
Launched in 1967, the Consumer Electronics Show bounced around cities and spots on the calendar before finally settling down in 1998 as an event held every January in Las Vegas. For more than half ...
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December 31, 2025
Investment Banker Invasion: How Boutique Firms Dominated Hollywood’s Biggest Deals in 2025
Look at the biggest recent mergers and acquisitions in the worlds of entertainment, media and sports, from the record-setting $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts to the Skydance-Paramount merger...
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December 31, 2025
Dealmakers 2025: Taylor Swift and Paramount to a Rapper’s Presidential Pardon, the Power Players Behind the Year’s Seismic Showbiz Shakeups
It’s no exaggeration to say that 2025 was a landmark in the annals of showbiz dealmaking. The year saw several transactions that not only involved billions of dollars changing corporate hands but a...
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December 11, 2025
James L. Brooks, the Empowered Women’s Man Behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Ella McCay,’ Gets Star on the Walk of Fame
James L. Brooks had his first encounter with showbiz royalty as a student journalist at Weehawken High School in New Jersey in the 1950s, when he managed to wrangle a one-on-one interview with lege...
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