Lyndsey Posner, managing director of U.K. talent agency Independent Talent, has exited the company to set up her own consultancy. Posner will now head up LAP Media, a media advisory consultancy, which she launched last month. In her new venture she will continue to consult for Independent Talent as well as a handful of other…

The limited series “Ripley” starring Andrew Scott is leaving Showtime and moving to Netflix, Variety has confirmed. According to an invidividual with knowledge of the situation, the deal to move the series is not yet closed but is expected to soon. Post-production is said to have recently begun on the eight-episode series. This marks the…

John Leguizamo, Marvel villain? The actor revealed to ComicBook.com while promoting the home release of “Violent Night” that he “negotiated” to star as the Vulture in the 2017 Marvel Cinematic Universe tentpole “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” While the role was played by Michael Keaton, apparently conversations with him went back and forth enough for Marvel to want…

New York Times bestseller “The Last of the Savages” by Jay McInerney is set to be adapted into a film, Variety can exclusively reveal. The project is the first to come out of APX Group’s brand-new first-option deal with XIIIthirteen Co, the production company set up by Daniel Michael Siyoum and Brandon Schinaman. The three-year…

Spanish auteur Carlos Saura has died, the Film Academy of Spain confirmed on Friday. He was 91. In a statement, the org stated: “The Film Academy deeply regrets to announce the death of Carlos Saura, Goya de Honor 2023. Saura, one of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema, died today at his…

Anonymous Content has signed Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras, the director behind “Citizenfour” and “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which was recently nominated for an Academy Award. “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” premiered in competition at the 2022 Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion for best…

Somewhat surprisingly, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher had never worked together before Netflix’s new rom-com “Your Place or Mine.” “I had always wanted to make a romantic comedy with Reese,” Kutcher tells Variety over Zoom. “Like, always.” Though both are icons of the genre who rose to fame in the early 2000s — Witherspoon captured…

It’s official: President Joe Biden will not take part in a pre-game interview leading up to this year’s Super Bowl. “We offered an interview with our top news anchors with no strings attached — they’re walking away from a huge audience and it’s a major missed opportunity,” said a Fox News executive familiar with discussions….

“The Walking Dead” spinoff series starring Norman Reedus has added five new cast members. Anne Charrier (“The Last Deadly Mission”), Eriq Ebanouey (“Fox Hunt”), Laika Blanc Francard (“My Night”), newcomer Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, and Romain Levi (“The Tunnel”) have all been cast as series regulars alongside Reedus and previously announced cast member Clémence Poésy. The…

PODCAST After revealing a film prequel and series to A.A. Milne’s beloved book “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Baboon Animation (“Angry Birds,” “Gigantosaurus”) has set a five-property podcast deal with GoKidGo, starting with “Stories from Pooh Corner” (working title). The podcast, like the feature, will explore the characters’ young lives before the tales in the book took place and…