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Lily Allen Documentary for Prime Video in 2027

Prime Video is developing a feature-length Lily Allen documentary directed by Mat Whitecross, charting her rise from the Queen of MySpace to a contemporary cultural figure, with global release planned for 2027. The film will include interviews with people close to Allen and is produced by Magna Studios and Mint Pictures, with Altitude handling worldwide theatrical and home entertainment rights.

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TIFF Discovery Opens Stuffed

Jodie Comer and Harry Melling star in Stuffed, Theo Rhys's body-horror musical that opens TIFF's Discovery program, expanding from Rhys's 2021 short. The 2026 Discovery lineup also includes Ancestors, Drifter, Head to Head and other world premieres, as TIFF runs September 10–20, 2026, highlighting the festival's role in launching emerging filmmakers.

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Chris Rock Returns to Directing Misty Green Trailer

Chris Rock returns to directing with Misty Green, a Hollywood drama starring Rosalind Eleazar and featuring a high-profile cast including Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Anna Kendrick. The film will debut at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival before a theaters release in October, with Rock writing and producing alongside a major team.

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BAFTA Expands British Film Longlist, Adds AI Clause

BAFTA has expanded the Outstanding British Film Longlist from 15 to 20 films and added a generative AI disclosure clause requiring detailed information on AI usage and human involvement, as part of broader 2027 award rule updates. The changes also revise voting rules to involve the casting chapter in four acting categories and adjust category structures ahead of the 2027 ceremony.

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Sony in talks to revive Cinerama Dome, ArcLight

Sony is in talks to revive the Cinerama Dome and ArcLight Hollywood, negotiating with the Robertson Property Group and the owners’ family to reopen the shuttered Los Angeles venues. The discussions, which also involve Alamo Drafthouse, follow the venues’ 2020 closures and decades of cinema history, highlighting renewed industry efforts to revive premium exhibition spaces after the pandemic.

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Roundabout Sets 2026–27 Season: Full Monty, Imaginary Invalid

Roundabout Theatre Company has unveiled its 2026-2027 season featuring the Broadway revival of The Full Monty and Bill Irwin’s new adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid, along with Dominique Morisseau’s Mix and Master in January 2027, and an Off-Broadway lineup led by The Heart, The Grief Eater Near North Bender, and The Vagina Monologues. The slate marks Roundabout’s first season under incoming artistic director Christopher Ashley and includes world premieres, revivals, and high-profile cast, underscoring a pivotal transitional year for the company.

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Monsterverse Series Adds Stoll, Ineson, Hatendi

The Apple TV+ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters spin-off is adding Ralph Ineson, Corey Stoll, and Nyasha Hatendi as series regulars alongside Wyatt Russell, with JD Dillard directing the pilot and Joby Harold serving as showrunner as the MonsterVerse expands ahead of Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. The project continues to develop within the expanding universe of MonsterVerse, building on the 1984 Lee Shaw mission premise and tying into ongoing film installments.

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RoboCop Series Greenlit for Prime Video with Blumhouse

Prime Video has officially greenlit an eight-episode Robocop series from Amazon MGM Studios and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, with Peter Ocko as showrunner and writer, James Wan as executive producer, and Ed Neumeier also serving as an EP; the logline centers on a giant tech conglomerate pairing a robot with the consciousness of a fallen officer for police work, signaling a fresh yet respectful reimagining of the franchise. A premiere date hasn’t been announced, but multiple outlets confirm the creative team and development efforts aimed at adapting the iconic property for today’s audience.

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AMC+ reports exclusive US rights to Kill Jackie

AMC+ has secured exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Kill Jackie, a Catherine Zeta-Jones-led thriller adapted from Nick Harkaway’s The Price You Pay, produced by Steel Springs Pictures and Fremantle, with the story following Jackie Price as she battles hired assassins The Seven Demons. The show also streams on Prime Video in several European territories, and is slated to launch on AMC+ in the fall, showcasing a high-profile international collaboration.

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DuVernay's 14th World Premieres as NYFF Closing Night

Ava DuVernay’s documentary 14th will world premiere as the Closing Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, screening October 9 at Alice Tully Hall and arriving on Netflix later this year; the film serves as a ten-year follow-up to 13th and examines how the 14th Amendment’s protections—birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection—are being challenged in recent years. The project features a broad slate of voices, including Democrats and Republicans, legal scholars, and commentators, continuing a conversation about who is counted in America and how democratic norms have evolved since 13th opened NYFF in 2016.

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Disney plans hundreds of job cuts across divisions

The Walt Disney Co. is cutting hundreds of jobs across corporate functions, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television, and film studios as part of its One Disney restructuring led by Josh D’Amaro, with Pixar set to bear the largest number of cuts and National Geographic the hardest-hit unit within DET, including some on-air ESPN talent such as Karl Ravech and Ryan Clark among those affected. The layoffs are happening in multiple rounds tied to recent corporate streamlining and asset integrations, as Disney seeks a more agile, technologically enabled workforce.

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Peter Lassally Dies at 93, Iconic Late-Night Producer

Peter Lassally, the longtime late-night producer dubbed the 'host whisperer' for guiding The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, and The Late Late Show with Ferguson, has died at 93. A Holocaust survivor born in Hamburg who fled Nazi Germany, Lassally built a decades-spanning career from NBC pages to executive producer roles and helped Letterman move to CBS, retiring in 2015 after shaping multiple generations of hosts.

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Josh Lucas Joins Kidman, Fanning in Discretion

Josh Lucas has joined the cast of Paramount+'s Discretion, a eight-episode A24-produced legal drama opposite Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, with production set to begin in 2026. Heing plays Greg, a lawyer married to Kidman's powerful partner, entangled in the same network of non-disclosure agreements that drive the series' central conflict.

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Schweighöfer reported to join The Conjuring: First Communion

Matthias Schweighöfer has joined New Line’s Conjuring prequel The Conjuring: First Communion, with Garrett Wareing and Amanda Fix cast as the young Ed and Lorraine Warren. The film, directed by Rodrigue Huart from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg, is slated for September 10, 2027, with filming underway and plot details under wraps, while it remains unclear if Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will appear.

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Kovert Creative Hires Mallory Morehead Pritzl

Mallory Morehead Pritzl has joined Kovert Creative to lead the entertainment PR team in Los Angeles, overseeing communications for programming-focused clients such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Paper Kite Productions, and SmartLess Media, and coordinating across Bloomberg Media and Spotify. She brings about 15 years of experience from Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios, Fox, and NBC, and Kovert emphasizes her deep industry connections as a fit for their roster of high-profile talents and brands.

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