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Exclusive: Julie St. Aubin, who was one of the execs responsible for Max’s Selena + Chef, is moving to the Food Network.

Aubin is joining the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed cable network as SVP, Development and Production later this month.

She was previously, VP, Non-Fiction Original Programming at the then-titled HBO Max, before the company closed down the streamer’s original non-fiction division.

In her previous role, Aubin was responsible for reality programming focused on female-skewing, Gen Z and millennial audiences.

Selena + Chef was a big hit for the streamer, launching during the Covid pandemic and running for four seasons. Aubin also worked on series including The Big Shot with Bethenny, Ellen’s Next Great Designer and House of Ho.

Before joining the streamer in December 2019, she spent over ten years at E! Entertainment, where she oversaw series including Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian,...

This year's edition of Cannes film festival offered a number of high quality titles from Asia, both in competiton(s) and side bar programmes. One of the most awaited films was Takeshi Kitano's “Kubi” screened in Premiere section, in director's presence. Back to the samurai genre, 20 years after the critically acclaimed “Zatoichi” and with a period piece based on his own historic novel published in 2019, Kitano struggled to bring his characters close to the audience, but stayed faithful to the title by making many heads roll. “Kubi” (which was also the title of his novel) means “neck”, a beloved target of the samurai sword. This is allegedly the last film by “Beat”, if we take his statement before the festival kicked off seriously.

A year after his drama “Broker” brought Palme D'Or for Best Actor to Song Kang-ho, and five after he was awarded Palme D'Or for “Shoplifters”, Hirokazu Koreeda...

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Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” includes a guitar solo from a major rock star. A sound engineer was impressed with the solo but wouldn’t listen to it being recorded. That sound engineer wanted Jackson to remove the opening synthesizer riff from “Beat It.” Michael Jackson | KMazur / Contributor

Michael Jackson‘s “Beat It” famously includes a guitar solo from Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen. An engineer who worked with Jackson said the solo was originally unbearably loud. Subsequently, he decided not to work on the song until after Van Halen completed the solo.

Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ has a guitar solo that repelled and stunned an engineer

Bruce Swedien was a sound engineer who worked on “Beat It”‘s parent album, Thriller. During a 2009 interview with MusicRadar, Swedien discussed the famous Van Halen guitar solo from “Beat It.”

“The highlight for me was the guitar solo,...

To celebrate the first week of Max, we will be sending seven days of curated thematic Max Highlights, including the best programming to watch over Memorial Day Weekend; the many worlds to explore on Max; kids and family series and movies; a robust collection of scripted and unscripted crime content; the platform’s best current and classic movies; Pride month highlights; and a deep dive into the DC universe on Max.

Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of summer, and Max has a catalog of films and series to stream no matter what mood viewers are in or how much time they have.

In honor of Memorial Day, viewers can watch classic military titles including the HBO Original award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific along with films like Pearl Harbor,Valkyrie, Platoon and the HBO Original documentaries We Are Not Done Yet and John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls.

The Emmy race, once again, is all about breaking through to the voters, as 2022 saw 599 scripted series air — 40 more than 2021. It’s easier said than done, especially with the amount of excellent content from comedy and dramas to limited series and shows that could qualify for multiple genres. (We’ll get to that!)

The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will conside all series airing between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023. Voting runs from June 15-26, with nominations unveiled July 12. Final voting takes place Aug. 17-28, with the Sept. 18 awards ceremony broadcast on Fox. The Creative Arts Emmys will be presented in two ceremonies held on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10.

Variety takes a closer look at this year’s race and what to keep an eye on as Emmy season kicks off.

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Although the Emmy Awards aren’t for another four months — and some of the eligible titles have yet to...

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Constantin Film has unveiled the main cast for Hagen, its ambitious new fantasy series, billed as a reinterpretation of the Nibelungenlied, the German folk saga often cited as an inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Dutch actor Gijs Naber (Blackbook, The Story of My Wife) will star as the titular Hagen von Tronje in the project, alongside Jannis Niewöhner (Berlin Station, Amazon’s Beat) as his antagonist, the nearly-invincible hero Siegfried. Lilja van der Zwaag will play princess Kriemhild, Rosalinde Mynster the Valkyrie Brunhild, while Dominic Marcus Singer will take on the role of King Gunter.

Dark actress Jördis Triebel and Jörg Hartmann (The Weissensee Saga) have supporting roles.

The Nibelungen saga has been adapted many times before, most famously in a series of two classic films from Fritz Lang in the 1920s. A TV movie version, in 2004, starred Kristanna Loken Brunhild,...

King Charles found out about the Queen around the same time as the world. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/StillsPress

The day Queen Elizabeth II passed away was like a rollercoaster, with doctors making an unprecedented statement about her health just hours before she died.

The royal family made a dramatic dash to be at her side as their fleet of cars, including a Range Rover driven by Prince William with Prince Andrew and the Earl and Countess of Wessex as passengers, were seen quickly driving into Balmoral.

Just over an hour later, Queen Elizabeth II’s death was announced, and Prince Charles became King Charles III.

While that all played out on the news, behind the scenes was even more dramatic, with King Charles finding out about her poor health around the same time as the statement broke to the rest of the world.

Newsweek’s Chief Royal Correspondent Jack Royston...

Epic Pictures Group announces the acquisition of South Korean action feature A Man Of Reason for North America ahead of the film’s anticipated world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Special Presentation section. A Man Of Reason is the directorial debut of famed Korean actor Jung Woo-sung, who also leads the cast alongside Kim Nam-gil (Lovers Vanished) and Park Sung-woong (For The Emperor).

The film follows Jung as Soo-hyeok, a man who wants to live a normal life after spending 10 years in prison. Upon visiting his long-abandoned girlfriend, he finds out he is the father of a young girl but his attempts to cut ties with his former gang are unsuccessful when his old boss begins to question his loyalty and uses his newly discovered daughter as leverage. Forced into a corner and with nothing to lose, Soo-hyeok must resort to violence to...

South Korean thriller premieres in Special Presentations on September 14.

Epic Pictures Group has acquired North American rights to TIFF selection and South Korean action thriller A Man Of Reason ahead of its world premiere in Special Presentations.

Jung Woo-sung makes his directorial debut in the film from Studio Take Co. and stars in the story of a former gang member who tries to live a normal life following 10 years in prison.

After reconnecting with his girlfriend and learning he has a daughter, the man is forced to revert to old ways to protect his daughter when his old boss tries...