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Netflix’s live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is back in production for Season 2, with the streamer revealing that Miya Cech has been cast as the fan-favorite character Toph. https://lnkd.in/gJ6ZiJn8
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Katherin Downing, director of platform partnerships at Riot Games joined Variety Presents: Gaming on TikTok Leadership Summit to discuss the role TikTok plays in their strategy and emerging trends at the intersection of gaming and social. bit.ly/4gxBceb TikTok for Business
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Neil Druckmann, CEO of Naughty Dog joined Variety Presents: Gaming on TikTok Leadership Summit to discuss “The Last of Us” and how the series adaptation came to life. Watch the full conversation here: bit.ly/4gxBceb TikTok for Business
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Erin Calhoun, after seven years with Paramount where she led communications for Showtime and Paramount’s streaming division, is leaving the company at the end of September. https://bit.ly/3MQuySz
Paramount Senior PR Exec Erin Calhoun Exits
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A large wave of layoffs have begun at Atlantic Records. Numbers were unclear at the time of this article’s publication and a rep for the company declined comment, but they are likely to number well into the hundreds. https://bit.ly/47AmkaI
Layoffs Begin at Atlantic Records
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With his upcoming role as Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” Sebastian Stan has plunged into the id of the man whose appetites have reshaped our world. He had to have a polished enough sense of Trump that he could improvise in character, and enough respect for him to play him as a human being, not a monster. “I had 130 videos on his physicality on my phone,” Stan says. “And 562 videos that I had pulled with pictures from different time periods — from the ‘70s all the way to today — so I could pull out his speech patterns and try to improvise like him.” In his Variety cover story, Stan opens up about his weight gain for the role, watching hundreds of videos of the former president and why he gets protective over Marvel movies. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/g66ZXW27
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"Even when the mechanics of its story aren’t entirely clear to the audience, 'Agatha All Along' is never less than thoroughly enjoyable. There’s a sense of fun, not to mention consistent episodic structure, in the coven’s journey down the Road, punctuated by Agatha’s tantrums and waystations set-designed to the gills," writes Variety's Alison Herman. Read the full review of #AgathaAllAlong here: https://lnkd.in/gM8JmXUu
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Join Expedia Group's Lauri Metrose and Caroline Baudino at Variety's Entertainment & Technology Summit for an exclusive conversation discussing influencer marketing in the travel industry. Last chance for tickets: variety.com/enttech
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A historic low for scripted series on the fall broadcast schedule in 2024 signals a long-expected shrinking of the network landscape.
Fall Season’s Scripted Reduction Bodes Badly for Broadcast TV
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