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Wilfred Frost is getting ready to put much of his family business on public display.

Frost, who may best be known for his anchor turns on both CNBC in the U.S., and Sky News, is also CEO of Paradine Productions, the production vehicle founded in 1961 by his father, the renowned journalist and interviewer Sir David Frost. Starting Sunday, April 27, MSNBC will air “David Frost Vs,” a six-part documentary series that examines seismic changes in culture using decades’ of the senior Frost’s legendary interviews with everyone from The Beatles to Muhammad Ali.

“These are moments in history where he had a front-row seat,” says Wilfred Frost, during a recent interview. “This is not an archive show.”

The series will examine themes such as civil rights, college protests and cultural revolution, using Frost’s archive of more than 10,000 interviews with figures who were celebrated or controversial, and sometimes both. Some...

Whether we like it or not, AI is an increasingly pervasive part of modern life. Whereas only a few years ago discussions of AI seemed to refer to some distant future in which a Skynet-like super-intelligence would become self-aware, we suddenly find ourselves surrounded by chatbots, AI video and image generators, and a wholesale embrace of the technology by media companies. As a result, writers and actors were forced to strike over Hollywood's initial refusal to regulate the technology, and thankfully both strikes ended with protections against AI being well-established. But somehow it still feels like we're very much creeping towards a garbage future populated by AI-created films filled with virtual actors based on the stolen likenesses of established stars.

Another result of this rapid rise of AI is that Hollywood voice actors are now trapped between peril and possibility. Voice recreation technology is good enough that we have a...

Zoe Saldaña has spent decades at the center of some of the biggest cinematic franchises in history. Yet, her recent Oscar nomination for “Emilia Pérez” has marked a new career chapter. From the motion-capture world of “Avatar” to the high-stakes battles of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Saldaña has built a legacy as an action star. Now, she’s looking ahead to more personal creative pursuits, such as directing, exploring Latin American cuisine on screen, and, even watching more Mets games.

“I never imagined this moment,” Saldaña told Variety of her Oscar nomination for “Emilia Pérez. “After a while, I stopped imagining it. That has to do with my simple background. Whenever something beautiful happens, we are grateful and tell ourselves, ‘How dare you ask for more?’ But deep down, I always wanted this.”

Zoe Saldaña as Rita Moro Castro in “Emilia Pérez.”

For nearly two decades, Saldaña has embodied Neytiri,...

Jake Tapper is broadening his definition of American impropriety.

The CNN anchor, who last year offered viewers a different side of his reportage with the documentary series, “United States of Scandal,’ will return for a second season starting March 9, still looking at political malfeasance but examining other areas as well.

“Last year we did a lot of D.C. politics and a lot of sex scandals,” Tapper notes during an interview. For the show’s next cycle, “we really tried to expand our aperture and look more widely at the American mosaic of sports and pop culture and business, and I think people will like it.”

“Scandal” is one of several CNN efforts to carry on with documentary programming despite cost pressures. Under Jeff Zucker, who ran CNN for a decade, the network built a new business in non-fiction programming that gave rise to celebrated travelogue programs from Anthony Bourdain...

What’s the deal with the film Academy’s documentary branch? This season’s shortlist for the best documentary feature Oscar, released Dec. 17, was missing one of the year’s most acclaimed crowd-pleasers, Warner Bros.’ Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — which is at 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, won the top Critics Choice documentary award and is nominated for the Producers Guild’s top doc award — and also impressive documentaries about Martha Stewart (Martha), Celine Dion (I Am: Celine Dion), James Carville (Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid) and John Williams (Music by John Williams), among others.

This isn’t to say that the 15 docs that were shortlisted are lacking — to the contrary, most are excellent. But it does reconfirm the doc branch’s weird aversion, over roughly the past decade, to populist titles.

During that period, the branch declined to shortlist Good Night Oppy, a charmer about a Wall-e-like Mars...

Since Joe Rogan left reality TV and sitcoms behind, he has become so rich that fans want to know how much he pays his staff. The way Joe did that was by launching his podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," interviewing stars like Post Malone, and gaining millions of listeners.

Many of Joe's fans still loved him after he called out The Big Bang Theory and criticized Taylor Swift in ways that outraged her fans. However, even though Howard Stern defended Joe and Jon Stewart had his back, he has also lost and angered some of his followers. For proof of that, all anyone has to do is look at the fact that some of Joe's fans questioned whether he was "insincere" on his podcast.

Some Joe Rogan Fans Think He Is Being "Insincere" Because He "Panders" To His Guests

Throughout the history of "The Joe Rogan Experience," people have listened...

A slasher film set at Camp David where a young George W. Bush is hunted by a masked killer. A group of friends stuck overnight in an Ikea, unwittingly at the center of two rival crime syndicates. Audrey Hepburn hunting Nazis on her days off from filming “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

These are some of the magical loglines from this year’s annual Black List, a ranking of the most liked scripts in Hollywood that have not yet been made into films. Compiled annually by a group led by Franklin Leonard, a recipient of a Gotham tribute award this year, Variety waits with childlike anticipation each year to see which scripts film executives have really been buzzing over — but haven’t had the budget or the chutzpah to put into production just yet.

The Black List has yielded some major awards contenders and iconic films, including “Black Swan,” “Argo” and “The King’s Speech.

CAA and Untitled Entertainment had the most scripts in the 20th edition of The Black List, the annual compilation of Hollywood’s best-liked unproduced screenplays.

CAA scored 15 executive mentions, leading on the agency side for the fourth year in a row, with Untitled landing nine. Leading the pack with by far the most mentions, at 60, is Travis Braun’s One Night Only, about two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal. UTA and Echo Lake rep the scribe, who also topped the 2023 list with Bad Boy. Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge is on board to produce.

Untitled’s highest ranked script, at 38 mentions, is Natan Dotan’s Alignment, the hot AI-themed piece that Fifth Season recently secured in a seven-figure deal, with Makeready coming aboard to produce, as we were first to report. Securing 37 mentions, CAA...

The 2024 Black List has been announced with scripts tackling everything from Tickle Me Elmo to Wicked Witch actress Maggie Hamilton’s experience filming The Wizard of Oz.

The annual list of the town’s best-unproduced feature screenplays voted on by a group of 500 film executives features 83 scripts from writers, known and unknown, repped and unrepped.

Topping this year’s list is One Night Only by Travis Braun, which takes place in a world where premarital sex is illegal save for one night and follows two strangers as they attempt to find someone to spend that night with. Other scripts tackle the 1990s lawsuit that brought to light the health dangers of silicone breast implants (Bust by Matt Ackels), the early life of Anthony Bourdain (Tony by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels, already set up at A24), and the rise and fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (King of the Freshman by Matt Bailey...

Exclusive: Rideback Rise, the non-profit accelerator seeking to advance racial equity through mainstream entertainment from Poc creators, has announced its 2025 Fellowship cohort of 15 mid-career writers, filmmakers and creators who will be financially and creatively supported as they develop market-ready television and film projects.

They are Aitch Alberto, Kerry Coddett, Morgan Collins, Melody Cooper, Alesia S.C. Etinoff, Carolyn Huynh, Taietsarón:sere Leclaire aka Tai Leclaire, Michael Yuchen Lei, Elaine Loh, Andrew Lopez, Kelly Luu & Kevin Luu, Paloma Riojas, Keith Sweet II, and Sunny Tripathy.

Clockwise from Top Left: Elaine Loh, Andrew Lopez, Kevin Luu, Kelly Luu, Paloma Riojas, Keith Sweet II, and Sunny Tripathy

Fellows were selected from more than 500 applicants, in a 25+% increase from the last application pool. Each will receive an unrestricted $40K grant for the year-long Fellowship. Fellows are also eligible to access a Development Fund to secure underlying rights to material and/or to create presentations, short...

Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the most iconic teen dramas ever made. Running from 1997 to 2003, the show combined supernatural thrills with relatable stories, giving fans unforgettable characters and imaginative creatures. The series followed Buffy Summers played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, a high school cheerleader turned vampire slayer, as she faced off against demons and apocalypses in the quiet Californian town of Sunnydale.

The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Credit: 20th Century Fox Television

Buffy wasn’t alone in her battles, her loyal friends, known as the Scooby Gang, included Willow played by Alyson Hannigan, and Xander played by Nicholas Brendon. Together, they tackled everything from history exams to deadly vampires, blending humor, action, and heartfelt moments.

Whether you rooted for Buffy’s romance with Angel or preferred the fiery chemistry with Spike, the show left a lasting impact on viewers. Now, more than two decades since the series ended,...

Harley Flanagan at age 11 on drums in The Stimulators with Anne Gustavsson, Patrick Mack and Denise Mercedes

Rex Miller’s unrelenting Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos (a highlight of the 15th edition of Doc NYC) on The Stimulators drummer and Cro-Mags founder, features revealing on-camera interviews with his wife Laura Lee Flanagan, Denise Mercedes (his aunt and founder of The Stimulators), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat; Fugazi; founder of Dischord Records), Lucy Sante, Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Keith Morris (Black Flag; Circle Jerks; Off), Glenn Danzig (The Misfits; Danzig), Michael Imperioli, Brooke Smith (Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs; Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Alan Rudolph’s The Moderns), Anthony Bourdain, Sacha Jenkins, Marcia Resnick, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Kate Schellenbach (Beastie Boys; Luscious Jackson), and Ray Cappo (Youth of Today).

Rex Miller with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze...

Cinematographer Michael Crommett (a Doc NYC 40 Under 40 honoree) with music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on photographer Dan Winters: “Dan was a central part of this Nat Geo [Photographer] series that I shot.”

2024 Doc NYC early highlights include the Opening Night World Premiere of Sinead O’Shea’s impassioned Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, plus world premieres of Dorenna Newton’s insightful Watching Frank (with Gay Talese on Frank Sinatra); Reiner Holzemer’s spellbinding Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams; Rex Miller’s unrelenting Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos, and the New York première of Dori Berinstein’s socially relevant A Man With Sole: The Impact Of Kenneth Cole.

Gay Talese (at home with Anne-Katrin Titze) on Frank Sinatra in Dorenna Newton’s Watching Frank: "Even if I had reservations, as I did about Sinatra, I certainly had great respect for Sinatra.

When the crew aboard the S.A. Agulhas II set out in early 2022 to search for the Endurance shipwreck, it seemed nearly impossible.

“It’s the holy grail,” Nico Vincent, the sub-sea manager on the expedition, tells Variety. “It’s the most complicated one. Just being able to reach the field and dive three kilometers beneath the ice, it’s the level of complexity of walking on the moon.”

The Endurance, commanded by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on an expedition to traverse Antarctica from one coast to another, sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915 as its 27-member crew looked on. Over the next 308 days, the men faced starvation and frostbite as Shackleton recruited five crew members to make the treacherous journey in a lifeboat to seek help on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia. Miraculously, when Shackleton returned to save the remaining men, he found all of them still alive.

Fact and Fiction in Gladiator II: Those Who Are About to Lie Salute You

Remember when Ridley Scott’s 2023 biopic Napoleon set off a firestorm among finicky French historians? How shocked, shocked they were by the film’s factual inaccuracies (zut alors, Bonaparte never led the charge at Waterloo!). Well, it looks like the 86-year-old Oscar-winning director is at it again (see page 56), only this time it’s scholars of ancient Rome who’ll be storming Scott Free Productions. Although Gladiator II has been warmly received at early screenings, the 150-minute movie, which opens Nov. 22, is clearly chock-full of historical whoppers — like that scene in which a flooded Colosseum is filled with sharks. “Total Hollywood bullshit,” snipes Dr. Shadi Bartsch, a classics professor at the University of Chicago who has degrees from Princeton, Harvard and Uc Berkeley and has written several books about ancient Rome. “I don’tthink Romans knew...

Update: Joe Biden got several standing ovations as he presented the National Medals of Arts and Humanities, including a moment when he referenced the presidential race as he talked about the power of women.

“I know the power of women to get things done, and also help the next generation of pioneers, proving a woman can do anything a man can do and then some. That includes being president of the United States of America.”

The remark drew large cheers and a standing ovation from the audience in the East Room, where Biden was joined by First Lady Jill Biden, National Endowment for the Arts chair Maria Rosario Jackson and National Endowment for the Humanities chair Shelly C. Lowe.

Among the recipients present were Steven Spielberg, LeVar Burton, Spike Lee, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Idina Menzel, Jon Meacham. Aaron Sorkin and Bruce Cohen.

“The power of the arts and matters.

Entertainment greats Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Steven Spielberg, and the late Selena Quintanilla will be honored by the White House this year. On Monday, Joe Biden’s administration announced the cohort of stars set to receive the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts and Humanities.

Elliott, Latifah, and Spielberg are among the honorees for the National Medal of Arts, along with musicians Idina Menzel, Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez, and Herb Ohta, Jr.; actress Eva Longoria; and filmmakers Ken Burns and Spike Lee.

Quintanilla joins a group of three late honorees to be given the award posthumously,...

Chef and TV personality Matty Matheson never thought he would be an actor, much less one on a viral, Emmy-winning series like “The Bear.”

Matheson said during Mythical Kitchen’s “Last Meals,” hosted by Josh Scherer, that he is “very happy” his friends, the siblings (series co-creator) Christopher Storer and (series culinary producer) Courtney “Coco” Storer, “let me into their world.”

“When I was a kid, it’s not like I would have dreamed of being famous or being a movie star or on television. I never dreamed of any of this,” Matheson said in the below clip while promoting his cookbook “Soups, Salad, Sandwiches.”

He continued, “I never dreamed of being here, certainly. But we’re here, and I’m just chock-full of gratitude. Every day is truly an amazing thing. There’s quite a lot of privilege being here and living the life we get to live and...

Desus Nice is working on a travel series for Amazon.

The comedian, who is best known for hosting Showtime’s late-night series Desus & Mero, is working with Story Syndicate and Amazon MGM Studios on the project.

A pilot presentation is being shot for Prime Video.

It wouldn’t mark the first time that Desus, otherwise known as Daniel Baker, has gone down the travel show route; he was previously a guest on Anthony Bourdain’s CNN series Parts Unknown, where he took the host to joints across the Bronx.

Story Syndicate is best known for producing docs and docuseries including HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, Netflix’s Harry & Meghan and Hulu’s Stolen Youth: Inside The Cult at Sarah Lawrence.

Desus & Mero split in July 2022, having run the show for four season on Showtime as well as a number of years on Viceland and...

When you think of a critically acclaimed box office hit by George Miller, what's the first thing that comes to mind? The answer we're looking for here is of course Happy Feet, which won an Oscar and made a ton of money. But not for Fat Joe. The rapper, who...

Whether you think it was a hilarious exercise in creative chaos or just a bunch of dumb bullshit, you can’t deny that Francis Ford Coppola’s dubiously guided epic Megalopolis was a box-office disaster. Having brought in only about $4 million, it had the worst opening weekend of any widely released film with a budget over $100 million in history.

How did this happen? Well, being a man, Coppola spends a lot of time thinking about the Roman empire. He’s wanted to make a movie about it set in modern-day New York City since the 1970s, but almost as if the universe was trying to tell him something, life always got in the way. A string of box-office failures meant he had to focus on the surefire hits, like *consults notes* 1996’s Jack. Actors who had been cast years earlier had aged out of their roles. An entire 9/11 happened. These are what we call “signs.

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October traditionally brings scary stuff to screens big and small, and 2024 is no exception. That’s evident in both sequels like Smile 2 and via returning series like American Horror Stories, which returns for another season on Hulu. There’s even the final season of the hilarious What We Do in the Shadows (which isn’t really scary but does have vampires).

Popular returning favorites, meantime, include a...

CNN on Tuesday morning will take its second swing at trying to boost revenue from streaming video and digital content.

Most users of CNN.com will likely see no change in the experience they have each time they visit CNN.com, one of the biggest news sites in digital media. Heavy users, however, will be asked to consider starting a subscription to the site, which will begin to offer more content behind a paywall that executives at the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet hope will entice them to pay a little extra: $3.99 a month, or $29.99 a year. The company unveiled its subscription hopes in July.

“The hope is that these are our first, very early steps to building a direct-to-consumer business,” Alex MacCallum, executive vice president of digital products and services for CNN Worldwide, said during an interview. “We want this to be a very robust business line that complements the affiliate...

Paramount’s free streaming service Pluto TV has revealed its October highlights. The Pluto TV October 2024 lineup includes “31 Nights of Horror” on the Pluto TV Horror channel, The Twilight Zone marathon on the Classic TV Drama channel, new animation channels, and more.

The new animation channels feature your childhood heroes, such as Pokémon, Strawberry Shortcake, Inspector Gadget, Sonic, and The Super Mario Brothers. You can also expect channels dedicated to the beloved legal dramas The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Anthony Bourdain’s globetrotting No Reservations, the science and special effects wizardry of Mythbusters, and more.

Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service, delivering hundreds of live, linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience. The Emmy Award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels in partnership with hundreds of international media companies.

Pluto TV offers various genres, languages, and categories featuring movies, television series,...

Marisa Abela is not well, bitch. Not just because the third season of her hit HBO series “Industry” is averaging 1.6 million cross-platform viewers per episode and was recently renewed for a fourth season, but also because one of the show’s fans happens to be a TV personality she’s a fan of herself. In a recent interview with The Cut, Abela revealed the “Real Housewife” who reached out over social media to show her support and some other sources of entertainment for when she’s not lighting up screens big and small.

“I love and watch most of the ‘Housewives’ franchises, which is really fun because Dorinda Medley is watching ‘Industry’ right now and Dm-ing me live updates. It’s the biggest thing ever,” said Abela. “It was so funny because she was messaging me about it while I was in Venice with very important and impressive people in my industry,...

As a setting for a TV show, fashion is a little like the restaurant industry: a rich, untapped source of detail and conflict, hindered by the logistical complexity of bringing its insular world to the screen. And just as “The Bear” was preceded by a legion of competitive reality shows, plus a misbegotten adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” starring a young Bradley Cooper, the French drama “La Maison” is the latest of many attempts to make couture into compelling drama. “Project Runway” remains an unscripted institution, but recent scripted efforts have ranged from dutifully reverential (“Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”) to confoundingly inept.

Unlike these earlier series, which fictionalized the lives of icons like Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel, “La Maison” gives itself the freedom to take liberties. Perhaps relatedly, it’s by far the strongest of the recent efforts to graft fashion onto entertainment. Created and showrun by...

Sabrina Carpenter is ditching her espresso for a mug of hot chocolate.

The singer/actress will debut her first-ever holiday special, A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter, on Friday, Dec. 6 at 9 pm Et/6 pm Pt on Netflix.

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The program will feature “unexpected duets and comedic guests you will not want to miss!” the streamer touts.

This is...

Exclusive: Brian Tee is set to lead the voice cast of Adult Swim’s Get Jiro!, a TV series based on the New York Times bestselling DC/Vertigo graphic novels from writers Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose, with artwork by Langdon Foss and Alé Garza.

The half-hour animated series is set in a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants. A mysterious sushi master named Jiro enters a bloody culinary war and begins to craft his recipe for revenge.

The Get Jiro! TV series is created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka and is produced for Adult Swim by Warner Bros Animation. The project received a series order in June.

Tee recently wrapped shooting as the lead villain in Prime Video’s Reacher for Season 3. Before that, he starred opposite Nicole Kidman...

This weekend at the Camden International Film Festival, the Archival Producers Alliance (APA) released the first-ever industry-wide guidelines for generative artificial intelligence use in documentary film. GenAI is a thorny topic throughout the film and TV world, but it poses specific and unique challenges to nonfiction, where primary sources, historical documentation, and archival imagery are fundamental building blocks.

The guidelines address this threat directly in its introduction: “The APA believes that the survival of the documentary industry — in all of its power and promise to help us understand and interpret our history and our present — is contingent on maintaining a truthful and transparent relationship with viewers.”

For this reason, the guidelines are focused explicitly on using GenAI to create new footage or alter existing primary source materials. The APA distinguishes between GenAI and other Machine Learning, or AI that is being incorporated into production workflows for ideation, transcription, and logging footage.

Filmmaker Morgan Neville has profiled some of the world’s most beloved entertainers: Mister Rogers, Anthony Bourdain, and Steve Martin, to name a few. With Piece by Piece, he can add Pharrell Williams to that list. While Neville’s ambitious animated documentary is a visual and sonic delight that lives up to the creativity of its subjects, audiences may walk away feeling unfulfilled by how little they learn beyond what they already know.

Piece by Piece Review

In Piece by Piece, Morgan Neville tells the story of Pharrell Williams, the multihyphenate record producer, singer, songwriter, and fashion designer who has become one of the most impactful musical artists of the 21st century. We follow Williams from his modest childhood in Virginia Beach, Virginia, throughout his entire music career.

What makes Piece by Piece stand out from the many other biographies that have been made about musicians (especially musicians who are...

Roy Wood Jr. is about to launch a new comedy show that will, if all goes well, feature people who aren’t supposed to be funny cracking wise on a network that isn’t known for making people laugh.

“I like comedy in tough places,” quips Wood.

He has found one. CNN — CNN? — will on Saturday launch Wood as host of “Have I Got News For You,” the U.S. version of a U.K. comedy mainstay. In “News,” two teams of comedians, newsmakers, actors and media personalities use news clips and headlines to drum up jokes and gags, all improv-style, though a round of different segments. Amber Ruffin, the actor and late-night writer, and Michael Ian Black, an actor, improv comedian and author, will serve as team captains each week.

One element that might bring the show broader appeal, says Wood, is the desire to get newsmakers — even polarizing ones — to take part.

Even at the height of its power, which was built (in part) on a series of sexual how-to guides and the second-hand credibility of an HBO documentary series, Vice wasn’t big on teaching people anything they didn’t already know. No, Vice was all about access. It was all about telling stories from the inside out, irrespective of journalistic ethics or integrity, in order to seduce the internet generation with the truth of a world too fluid and fucked up for the New York Times to understand.

That truth was typically facile and/or exaggerated, but the illusion of extreme reporting played to the strengths of a brand that had always profited from selling freaks to squares, and supercharging that brand with the strength of traditional media turned it into an empire once valued at six billion dollars. I mean, it’s not like CNN could have — or would...

The title of Eddie Huang’s new documentary says it all: “Vice Is Broke.” The media company that defined counterculture sensibilities filed for bankruptcy in 2023. And Huang — the multitalented author, on-camera personality, and documentarian — began his new film with a grievance.

First, Huang says in an interview, he had a personal falling-out with controversial Vice executive Shane Smith, the face of the brand and the mastermind of the company’s scaling-up beyond what was sustainable. (Huang declines to go into the nature of the offense.) Then, he noticed that he was owed money for his on-camera work for Vice, including the TV series “Huang’s World,” in which he traveled and experienced other cultures in the style of his role model and late friend, Anthony Bourdain.

“I had been asking for an accounting since 2018,” Huang says. “They kicked the can down the road and never paid me my residuals. The bankruptcy...

The Bear has become one of the biggest hits on streaming, and there are more shows like it for fans to check out!

Since its debut in 2022, The Bear has erupted in popularity. The tale of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) trying to turn his family diner into a fine restaurant has been hailed for both its amazing writing and acting as well as nailing the restaurant experience. Fans can’t get enough of the frenzy of the kitchen and just how much happens that diners don’t know about.

There are several shows with the same sort of complex personal dynamics. Yet others are notable for also taking on a restaurant setting and using it as the backdrop for some great drama. There are also some earlier shows by The Bear creator and stars that clearly influenced the series. So while you wait for The Bear Season 4, these ten shows...

Ever since Top Chef premiered, the show has had a lot of extremely loyal fans. Despite that, there are a lot of facts about Top Chef that fans don't know. For example, fans don't understand why the show's original host left, what Padma Lakshmi found so hard about the show, and that the chefs' personal lives could be destroyed.

As fascinating as it is to find out the truth about Top Chef dramas, like whether Alex Reznik stole another chef's food, the show's production is just as interesting. For that reason, Top Chef fans will love to learn these secrets about Top Chef.

Top Chef Fans Don't Know How Long Judges' Table Sessions Last Happens During Every Season

Every Starring Judge

Tom Colicchio Gail Simmons Padma Lakshmi Kristen Kish Ted Allen Toby Young Eric Ripert Anthony Bourdain Hugh Acheson Emeril Lagasse Wolfgang Puck Richard Blais Graham Elliot Nilou Motamed

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Francis Ford Coppola is detailing just how influential late icon James Gandolfini was on “Megalopolis.”

Coppola told Rolling Stone that his long-gestating script for the epic was almost greenlit back in 2001. During that time, Coppola conducted table readings of an earlier “Megalopolis” draft with actors Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edie Falco, and Uma Thurman. While none of these stars appear in the 2024 feature, it turns out that “Megalopolis” has a deeper “Sopranos” connection beyond just Falco being part of the initial ensemble.

“The Sopranos” lead star Gandolfini actually was also part of that first table reading, and gave feedback on the script. Gandolfini was cast in the co-lead role as the mayor; Giancarlo Esposito now stars as the character in the film.

“It was the pregnant version of it, but it wasn’t all that similar,” Coppola said. “There were different periods where I took stabs at it. What...

Margot Robbie's cameo in "The Big Short" adds a unique and understandable dimension to the movie's complex subject matter. Robbie breaks the fourth wall to explain the confusing stock market jargon used by the characters. After her appearance in "The Big Short," Robbie worked with several of the film's main actors in subsequent projects.

Margot Robbie appeared in The Big Short, and director Adam McKay utilized the actress' cameo to add a level of uniqueness and understanding to the movie. The 2015 biographical comedy-drama film chronicles the real-life events leading up to the 2007 housing market crash and how certain people benefited from the financial crisis. Aside from Robbie, the movie contained numerous big-name actors, including Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, John Magaro, and Finn Wittrock.

Based on a real person, Bale's character was the hedge fund manager of Scion Capital, and he correctly...

Of the many tableaux that TV fans expected to watch this season, Eugene Levy tearing up while standing in a Glasgow synagogue wearing a tartan-patterned yarmulke was probably not high on the list.

But there he was, seeking out where his mother’s Eastern European refugee family had prayed a century ago, in one of the many insightful and slyly warm moments from The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy.

“He didn’t know exactly what he was going to be walking into,” David Brindley, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“I think it was in him to want to do these [kinds of] things. He just didn’t know it,” adds writer David Reilly.

On Friday ABC announced that Levy and his son and Schitt’s Creek collaborator Dan Levy will co-host the Emmys on Sept. 15. The appearance will provide a capper to an unusual year in which...

The world of cinema is set to delve deeper into the life and legacy of the late Anthony Bourdain with the upcoming biopic, “Tony.”

Dominic Sessa to Portray Anthony Bourdain in Biopic ‘Tony’

In a surprising yet promising casting choice, young actor Dominic Sessa has been tapped to portray the celebrated chef, writer, and television personality.

Sessa, who gained critical acclaim for his breakout role in “The Holdovers,” will be taking on the formidable task of embodying Bourdain’s complex and multifaceted character. The 21-year-old actor, known for his raw talent and ability to inhabit diverse roles, is undoubtedly facing a challenging yet exciting opportunity.

A Match Made in the Tri-State Area

Interestingly, both Sessa and Bourdain share a connection to the tri-state area. While Bourdain was a New York native, Sessa hails from New Jersey, adding an intriguing layer to the casting decision. This shared regional background could potentially...

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A24 busca adquirir la película.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Dominic Sessa, que debutó como actor en la oscarizada película Los que se quedan (The Holdovers) de Alexander Payne, está en conversaciones para protagonizar Tony, el biopic del chef Anthony Bourdain que dirigirá Matt Johnson (Blackberry) a partir de un guion de Lou Howe y Todd Bartels.

Bourdain cocinó en varios restaurantes de Manhattan en los años ochenta y noventa y fue el chef ejecutivo de Brasserie Les Halles, pero fue su colección de ensayos sobre las oscuras prácticas de restaurantes lo que le puso en el mapa. Tras su publicación en The New Yorker, Bourdain se convirtió en una estrella instantánea en el panorama gastronómico mediático por su tono directo al que el público no estaba acostumbrado. El chef empezó a presentar varios programas de televisión, pero fue su serie de Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations que le convirtió...

Having broken out big thanks to The Holdovers, Dominic Sessa has not been short of acting gigs. He's part of the cast for another festive period-set comedy drama called Oh. What. Fun., based-on-truth tale Tow and new sequel Now You See Me 3. And via a new biopic called Tony, he's aboard to play one of the most influential figures in the culinary world: Anthony Bourdain.

The legendary Chef, writer and broadcaster cut his teeth working in the competitive Manhattan restaurant industry in the 1980s and 1990s, working his way up to Executive Chef at exclusive eatery Brasserie Les Halles.

Yet it was his writing on the ugly behind-the-scenes secrets of culinary locales that put him on the map, and their publication in The New Yorker, he became a massive star on the food scene with his no-bs attitude to the industry.

From there, he began a broadcasting career, and hosted several shows,...

A biopic about the late chef and TV personality, Anthony Bourdain, is in the works from A24 with a breakout actor from The Holdovers set to star.

Per Deadline, an Anthony Bourdain biopic, titled Tony, is in the works with Dominic Sessa set to star. Matt Johnson (Blackberry) is also set to direct a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

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Last year, young actor Dominic Sessa broke out in a big way thanks to his role in the acclaimed film, “The Holdovers.” Now, it appears the actor has found his next project, a biopic, titled “Tony,” that follows the life of the famous celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain.

According to Deadline, Dominic Sessa is set to star in “Tony,” a biopic from A24 that tells the story of Anthony Bourdain.

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A biopic of Anthony Bourdain is in the works, with The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa in talks to play the late celebrity chef and travel documentarian. As first reported by Deadline, Sessa, who portrayed Angus Tully in the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, is in line to play Bourdain in Tony, a biopic from Star Thrower Entertainment, the production company behind The Post, King Richard, and Eternity. The outlet also reports that A24 is in talks with BlackBerry director and co-writer Matt Johnson to helm the project. Johnson is a Canadian actor and filmmaker known for his low-budget independent feature films The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016) and the Vice comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show. Lou Howe and Todd Bartels wrote the screenplay for the film, while A24 is in talks to produce with Trevor White and Tim White under their Star Thrower banner, along with Johnson and Matthew Miller.

Let’s preheat the oven, there’s an Anthony Bourdain biopic on the menu.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the ingredients are put together for a film about the beloved chef, traveler and troubadour who became a sensation with the publication of his 2000 memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” and hosted several television series. He tragically died by suicide in 2018.

Dominic Sessa, the young co-star of last year’s Oscar-nominated picture “The Holdovers” is said to be playing the lead in “Tony.”

“Tony” is set up at the tony distributor A24, and given the pedigree of its lead and director, is poised to conquer the mindspace of editors at New York and Los Angeles-based lifestyle publications. A recent feature documentary about Bourdain, “Roadrunner,” was released in 2021 and his book “Kitchen Confidential” was adapted into a Fox sitcom that didn’t quite hit in 2005, starring Bradley Cooper. Bourdain’s television work as a host...

A biopic about Anthony Bourdain is in the works at A24, with Dominic Sessa reportedly in line to play the celebrated chef, author, and documentarian.

Matt Johnson, who recently helmed BlackBerry, will direct the film from a script written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe. A24 will produce alongside Star Thrower Entertainment.

Sessa is coming off a breakout performance in The Holdovers, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Critics Choice Award for Best Young Performer. The Cherry Hill, New Jersey native will next be seen in Now You See Me 3.

Bourdain’s memoir, Kitchen Confidential, was previously adapted into a television series in 2005, with Bradley Cooper playing a character inspired by Bourdain.

In 2012, Bourdan’s life was the subject of the documentary film Roadrunner.

Anthony Bourdain Biopic in the Works at A24, Starring Dominic Sessa

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Film studio A24 is in discussions to make a movie about the life of celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain. The proposed film would tell the story of Bourdain’s early career as a chef in New York City before he became well known for his books and TV shows.

The movie, currently called either “Tony” or “The Dish,” could star rising actor Dominic Sessa in the lead role. Sessa would portray a younger version of Bourdain. If made, the biopic would be directed by Matt Johnson and produced by production company Star Thrower. Emily Rose would serve as the executive producer.

Bourdain started his career by graduating from the Culinary Institute of America and then working in restaurant kitchens in New York. He eventually became the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. His first book, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” described what really happens in restaurants...

By the time the world discovered Dominic Sessa, it was too late for him to play his real celebrity doppelgänger, Bob Dylan. That honor, of course, went to Timothée Chalamet, who’s getting tangled up in blue (and singing it himself!) for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, out in theaters December 25. However,...

The Holdovers breakout lead Dominic Sessa is reportedly in negotiations to star in an Anthony Bourdain biopic.

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to listen to the late Anthony Bourdain talk about food, and more specifically, the way his life was connected to food (ever since his first oyster as a young boy) there’s something undeniably cinematic about it. From the tough kitchens he worked in when he started out to the immense pressure he faced as he rose to the very top.

It’s a fascinating setup that we’ve seen used across media, from reality TV shows like Hell’s Kitchen or an endless assortment of Netflix shows to dramas like The Bear... but it’s something that cinema has sometimes struggled with. In recent years we’ve seen some excellent examples in the genre such as Boiling Point and The Menu.

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