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HBO’s hit show The White Lotus has booked incredible engagement for Four Seasons — the luxury hotel chain where the show is filmed. Now that Four Seasons is an official partner of the show, the relationship is only deepening. The Big Picture: The crossover between entertainment and experiences has reached a fever pitch. While most IP-driven IRL events cater […]
Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of the COVID shutdowns that consequently hobbled the entertainment industry. Looking at the state of it today, things have landed somewhere between “back to normal” and “cementing a new normal.” The Big Picture: As the world reopened during the waning days of the pandemic, entertainment companies wondered if people would go back […]
Robert Rodriguez — the renegade filmmaker behind genre classics like From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, and Machete — is launching a new banner called Brass Knuckle Films, allowing fans to directly invest in movies in exchange for various perks. The Big Picture: Trying to boost fan involvement in movie slates has taken off in recent years, whether through platforms like Legion M or […]
FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup — which will take place in various cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico — will be the first tournament to feature a halftime show during the final match. Why It Scores: In case you weren’t just reminded during last month’s Super Bowl, halftime shows are a big deal — big viewership drivers, […]
Timur Bekmambetov, director of movies like the Angelina Jolie-starring Wanted and the upcoming Chris Pratt-starring Mercy, recently launched a new platform called Screenlifer. The platform hopes to incubate and support “screenlife” projects — movies and shows in which all the action takes place on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen. The Big (Little) Picture: Bekmambetov has become the patron saint of […]
The internationalization of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ membership body is starting to have a major impact on which films get nominated for and win the biggest award in American cinema — the Oscar. The Big Picture: For decades, the Academy-Award nominations and wins have been an integral motivator for American studios to make more […]
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly planning on retiring from the George Lucas-founded production company at the end of the year. The Big Picture: Lording over all things Star Wars (and Indiana Jones, but that franchise seems to have run its course) is one of the most enviable and anxiety-inducing jobs in Hollywood… almost as much as running James Bond. With Kennedy stepping down, […]
The 50th anniversary of Survivor is planning on experimenting with a new format: letting fans vote on the main elements of the game. The Big Picture: While Survivor remains a hallmark of broadcast TV, the last five years have consistently seen the show dip below 10 million viewers and continue to decline — a stark difference from its peak of almost […]
EON Productions, the production company that’s guided every aspect of the James Bond franchise for decades, is handing creative control over to Amazon MGM Studios… for a price. The Big Picture: Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the heads of EON and the children of original Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, have ruled Bond with an iron […]
Brady Corbet, the Oscar-nominated director of The Brutalist, said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that he made “zero dollars” directing the movie… kicking off a debate on the long, complicated way filmmakers get paid for their work. The Big Picture: The glitz and glamour of an awards press tour makes it seem like filmmakers are not just the toast of […]