Javier Pons Named Chief Content Officer, Head of Telemundo Studios

Javier Pons has been promoted to chief content officer and head of Telemundo Studios.  Pons takes on the role after joining the company as executive vice president of Telemundo Studios last year. The role will expand his responsibilities, which include overseeing the studio’s scripted content, to include overseeing the network’s entertainment division, including developing and producing Telemundo’s unscripted content, daily …

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Original Sin’ Renewed for Season 2 at Showtime

The young Dexter Morgan’s transformation into a serial killer will continue into a second season. Paramount+ With Showtime has renewed Dexter: Original Sin for season two, following the conclusion of its 10-episode first installment in February. A writers room for the second season is set to begin work soon, with showrunner Clyde Phillips again at the helm. Original Sin‘s first …

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2025 Webby Awards: Full List of Nominees

The Hollywood Reporter, Zoe Saldaña, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, Selena Gomez and Travis and Jason Kelce are among the nominees for the 29th Annual Webby Awards, which will be handed out next month in New York. Other nominees include Amazon MGM Studios, Apple, Hulu, Netflix, the Obama Foundation, Bruno Mars, Cynthia Erivo, Kerry Washington, Matthew McConaughey, Trixie Mattel, Keke Palmer, …

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Netflix New Releases: April 2025

The return of the sweetest dating show on television; the long-awaited debut of an animated adaptation of a classic Japanese video game; Charlie Brooker’s latest batch of tech horror; a possible breakout action move from Japan; Joe Goldberg’s last stand; and Tom Hardy fighting crime and doing accents are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting …

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Norman Reedus to Lead Canneseries Jury

Daryl Dixon is heading to the Croisette. The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus has been named the president of the competition jury for the upcoming Canneseries TV festival, judging the best in new television from around the globe. Joining Reedus on the Canneseries international jury are U.S. showrunner Soo Hugh (Pachinko), TV music composer Jeff Russo (Fargo, Ripley), Spanish actress …

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Hot Docs Film ‘King Matt the First’ Gets Exclusive Trailer

King Matt the First, the new documentary from Polish director Jaśmina Wójcik (Symphony of the Ursus Factory), will get its world premiere in the International Spectrum Competition at the 32nd annual Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, taking place April 24-May 4. The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively present the first trailer for the film about two sisters with a strong bond that …

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European Awards Season Plans Take Shape

The European Film Academy (EFA) is touting as a success its “month of European film” program, a pan-national screening event celebrating European cinema, as it outlines plans for an U.S.-style awards season for the old continent. Nearly half a million viewers caught last year’s month of European film program, which ran in some 108 theaters across 42 European countries, a …

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ITV Studios Buys Majority in ‘The Gentlemen’ Producer Moonage Pictures

ITV Studios unveiled on Tuesday that it has acquired a majority stake in Moonage Pictures, one of the UK’s fastest-growing independent producers of high-end drama, including global hits The Gentlemen and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.  Moonage Pictures was established in 2018 by Will Gould, Matthew Read and Frith Tiplady and produces original, inventive content for UK and international markets.  The Gentlemen, directed by …

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Sony’s Tom Rothman Talks The Beatles Movies at CinemaCon

Leave it to Tom Rothman to arrive at CinemaCon 2025 with a little help from his friends. The chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group returned to the annual convention of theater owners in fine form Monday night when helping to present the studio’s upcoming slate — culminating with details about Sam Mendes’ four movies on each of The Beatles. …

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Kieran Culkin in Broadway Mamet Revival

The safety curtain that greets audiences filing in for the third Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross depicts a set of steak knives, the infamous second prize in a contest for the highest sales figures among colleagues at a scuzzy Chicago real estate office. The knives barely get a mention in David Mamet’s original text and in fact are better …

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