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Jake Reiner, the son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner, has opened up about his family tragedy that saw his brother, Nick Reiner, charged with their parents’ murder in December 2025. “Nothing can prepare you […]

Cable and broadband giant Charter Communications narrowed its losses of pay TV customers as it reported its first-quarter results Friday. The company, led by president and CEO Chris Winfrey, shed 51,000 residential video subscribers during the first […]

Jinny Howe, Netflix’s head of U.S. and Canada scripted series, has been tapped to give a keynote speech at the upcoming Banff World Media Festival. Howe, who joined Netflix in 2018 and helped develop Shondaland’s Bridgerton and Inventing Anna as […]

Chriselle Lim, a fashion influencer that turned the fragrance company Phlur into a major global brand, has signed with CAA for representation. The Hollywood entertainment and sports agency will support Lim as the blogger-turned-entrepreneur expands […]

Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s entertainment unit NBCUniversal, posted a first-quarter loss of $432 million, compared with a loss of $215 million in the year-ago period and a fourth-quarter loss of $552 million. Overall revenue at […]

Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice movie finally has a title, Miami Vice ’85, and Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler have officially signed on to play Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs and Sonny Crockett after long circling the […]

Sam Reid plays the camp vampire rock star Lestat de Lioncourt looking to set the record straight after being alive and undead for 265 years in the official trailer for AMC’s The Vampire Lestat drama […]

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid is set to be honored at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Canada gala and summit on May 28. Reid will receive the Changemaker Award at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in […]

Netflix has set a release date for the Heartstopper finale. The franchise will wrap when feature film Heartstopper Forever releases on July 17. The send-off movie will stand in for the fourth season of the […]

Infowars host Alex Jones on Monday went shirtless as he reacted to a deal unveiled earlier that day by The Onion to acquire his right wing-centric brand and website from bankruptcy. “Look, just because you’re […]

Pip Wedge, a broadcast pioneer who helped shape the British and Canadian private TV businesses when first getting off the ground, has died. He was 97. Wedge passed away peacefully and unexpectedly on April 15 […]

U.S. film and TV production in Canada rebounded in 2025 as the local industry finally put the devastating impact of Hollywood’s year of strikes in 2023 in the rearview mirror. The latest annual economic report […]

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are charming sisters and witches passing their magical skills to their kids in the trailer for Practical Magic 2, which dropped on Monday and is directed by Susanne Bier (The […]

Celebrity brand-building has become a big business. So the United Entertainment Group has launched UEG Ventures after company founder Jarrod Moses had success connecting Queen Latifah and CoverGirl for their brand partnership. UEG is an […]

Victoria Beckham has opened up about her estrangement from son Brooklyn after he slammed his famous parents in an infamous Instagram post – and without uttering her wayward child’s name. “We love our children so […]

Dr. Orna Guralnik is back in session in the fifth season trailer for Couples Therapy, as the Paramount+ reality series has four new couples in crisis looking to save their relationships. “Are you crying?” psychologist […]

Newly-solo Lionsgate has extended longtime CEO Jon Feltheimer’s contract for another two years through July 31, 2031. On April 13, Lionsgate’s compensation committee approved a new employment agreement with the studio head to keep him as […]

Re-Uniting director Laura Adkin and producer Krista Rand are reteaming for Out of Luck, a female-driven heist movie based on a first screenplay by best-selling thriller author Catherine McKenzie. The feature will center on a […]

Amazon MGM Studios has added Oscar nominee Demi Moore to David Weil’s culinary thriller Tyrant. She joins Charlize Theron and Julia Garner in the first feature film from Hunters creator Weil. Script details are being […]

Dave Chappelle has called out the Republican party for politicizing transgender jokes. “I did resent that the Republican Party ran on transgender jokes. You know, I felt like they were doing a weaponized version of […]

Jerry Seinfeld and Weird Al Yankovic are returning to their comedy roots as headliners for the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal in July, organizers said Wednesday. Seinfeld first performed at JFL in 1989, […]

Drunken Birds actor Marine Johnson and Italy’s Luca Colucci have nabbed lead roles in Kim Nguyen’s The Hourglass suspense drama, which has started production in The Canary Islands in Spain. Johnson will play Edith Blais […]

Indie banner Blink49 Studios is getting into the microdramas business. With Canada already a major production hub for the bite-sized dramas, the indie studio has hired Tieren Hawkins as vp of vertical content, with an […]

Netflix has unveiled a deal with the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) to stream in Mexico the Nations League finals and the Concacaf Gold Cup tournaments, starting in 2027. The […]

Saturday Night Live is set to leave longtime Canadian home Global Television for rival CTV and the Crave streamer, starting with the 52nd season later this year. The deal between CTV-parent Bell Media and NBCUniversal […]

Former Fox News host-turned-podcaster Tucker Carlson is getting his own book imprint. Skyhorse Publishing, which earlier published memoirs by Woody Allen and Melania Trump, is giving a home to Tucker Carlson Books after the conservative […]

Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy must battle to save his life at the Second Quarter Quell in a new trailer for Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping franchise instalment from Lionsgate, which dropped on Monday. […]

Lionsgate’s Laurel Pecchia is climbing at the Hollywood studio with a promotion to senior vp, corporate communications. Having joined in June 2022 as vp of corporate communications, Pecchia in her expanded role will work with […]

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Access Canada Summit will return for a second edition during the Toronto Film Festival in September. And organizers of the Canadian industry conference have teamed up with the inaugural TIFF: The Market during […]

ABC News has promoted Jon Schlosberg to executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos starting May 6. Based in Washington, D.C., the network veteran will work with George Stephanopoulos, Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl […]

Colette Watson, president of Rogers Sports & Media, the $2 billion Canadian cable TV giant, is set to retire after 35 years with the company. Watson will leave Rogers in mid-May, while serving in an […]

No, Michael J. Fox hasn’t died, despite CNN mistakenly airing a “Remembering the life of actor Michael J. Fox” tribute video on its platforms, which stirred up death rumors across social media. The Back to […]

North of North comedy creators Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald will receive the Breakthrough Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Canada gala event on May 28. The creative duo are showrunners and executive producers for […]

In another final role for Eric Dane following his Feb. 19 death after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria actor is set to appear in an upcoming documentary short, Ring Every Bell, as part […]

In an increasingly fragmented television landscape, Creative Artists Agency is aiming to give brand marketers a seat at Hollywood’s creative table alongside writers, directors and talent as they make original IP series together. Alanna Strauss, head of […]

Netflix has added to the season three cast for Nobody Wants This with nine new recurring roles unveiled on Wednesday. Along with series creator Erin Foster set to play Nicole, a terminally single and chaotic mess, […]

Morgan Jay, the breakout standup comic known for his auto-tuned microphone and crowd work during performances, is set to host the 26th Golden Trailer Awards. The May 28 awards ceremony at the Saban Theatre in […]

Brooklyn Beckham made headlines in January for slamming his parents — David and Victoria Beckham — for controlling “narratives in the press about our family” and “trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my […]

Three movie theater pranksters in suburban Toronto discovered you can’t yell someone has a gun in a crowded cinema to generate social media clickbait, especially if there’s no gun. In a riff on free speech […]

Blink49 Studios has hired former Fifth Season exec Yogita Puri as executive vp, head of business & legal affairs. Puri will help build out the global business at Blink49 Studios, the Toronto-based banner led by […]

Melissa Gilbert has defended her husband, Timothy Busfield, after he was charged with four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child and as he awaits a trial. “This has been the most traumatizing experience […]

Netflix has given a second season renewal to Age of Attraction after the dating reality series strongly hooked with viewers after a March 25 rookie season wrap. The premise for Netflix’s latest dating series ignores […]

Eli Roth’s new film Ice Cream Man is set to serve up a scoop of suffering when it hits theaters on Aug. 7, 2026. The first release from the splatter master’s The Horror Section banner […]

Imax says CEO Richard Gelfond is taking a temporary medical leave to undergo treatment for pneumonia. “He is receiving outstanding care and progressing in his recovery,” the film technologies company said in a statement on […]