Let’s Make a Deal: Fox Entertainment is Open for International Business, Execs Tell Mipcom Crowd

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s The Morning Show is expanding its recurring cast for the upcoming third season, adding Clive Standen (Taken), Alano Miller (Dexter: New Blood) and Lindsay Duncan (A Discovery Of Witches). They’ll join new series regulars Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm as well as fellow new recurring players Tig Notaro, Stephen Fry and Natalie Morales, as well as Julianna Margulies, who is reprising her Season 2 role.

Sylvester Stallone looked dapper as he appeared for his interview at SiriusXM on Friday in New York City. The 76-year-old actor arrived in an aubergine-colored plaid sportscoat over a a black leather vest, turtleneck sweater and black slacks for his interview with Jessica Shaw.The action star has been promoting his latest show, Tulsa King, which is scheduled to debut Sunday on Paramount+.

In style and in love! Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner never fail to look fashionable and coordinated in their outfits. While the actress and singer are most known for their red carpet looks, their street style is just as on par.

Nas looked back on his long-ended feud with Jay-Z in a track on his latest album King's Disease III.The LP, which was released on Friday, delves into the since-squashed beef on the song Thun, where he raps about burying the hatchet and learning to appreciate the craft of their old diss tracks.'No beef or rivals, they playing Ether on TIDAL / Brothers can do anything when they decide to / In a Range Rover, dissecting bars from Takeover / Sometimes I text Hova like, 'N****, this ain't over ... laughing!' he raps, via TMZ.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Brandon Oldenburg (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) will make his feature animation directing debut on Mouschi: The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank — a new film based on the children’s book The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller (My Suicide) and Steven Jay Rubin (Silent Night).

Candice Swanepoel showed off her tanned skin while sitting in a windowsill on Friday afternoon. The 34-year-old model left little to the imagination in a dark brown bikini which showed off her toned tummy. She shared a clip of herself in the garment as she enjoyed the sun and a spot on the windowsill of a gorgeous stone building in Mallorca.  Tanned and toned: Candice Swanepoel showed off her tanned skin while sitting in a windowsill on Friday afternoonThe clip begins with Swanepoel leaning out of a window, a large stone ledge underneath her.  She then decides to lounge on the ledge, only about 10 feet off the ground. She brushed her blonde hair off to the left and lets the thick curls touch the middle of her back. Swanepoel captioned the clip, 'Pela janela [window emoji] @tropicofc #new.' 'Pela janela' roughly translates to 'through the window.'  Bikini: The 34-year-old model left little to the imagination in a dark brown bikini which showed off her toned tummy Relaxed: She shared a clip of herself in the garment as she enjoyed the sun and a spot on the windowsill of a gorgeous stone building Thinking of Romeo: Candice also followed the clip up with a few stills from up on the ledge, writing, 'Romeo Romeo...[cloud emoji, window emoji, thought bubble emoji'  Candice also followed the clip up with a few stills from up on the ledge, writing, 'Romeo Romeo...[cloud emoji, window emoji, thought bubble emoji.' Swanepoel's bikini came from her own brand, Tropic of C, which she founded back in 2018. Fans can buy a number of the garments she's sported in myriad Instagram posts including this one.

How do you write music for a wandering donkey in EO? Composer Pawel Mykietyn didn’t take the responsibility lightly.

Pete Davidson confirmed the much-discussed size of his manhood and credited 'big d*** energy' with his success with glamorous celebrities, Jay Pharoah has claimed.Discussion over the size of the 28-year-old SNL star's manhood has been rife ever since his ex Ariana Grande claimed the star was '10 inches' - with actor Jay, 35, telling SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show that Pete confirmed he was in fact nine inches.Jay said of the star landing partners such as Kim Kardashian and Kate Beckinsale: 'I praise Pete. I praise Pete. Say what? Pete Davidson confirmed the much-discussed size of his manhood and credited 'big d*** energy' with his success with glamorous celebrities, Jay Pharoah has claimed (Pete pictured with ex Kim Kardashian in May)'There's something in the sauce.

'Not another Rihanna ballad!' seemed to be the consensus from the pop star's fans as she released her second ballad in less than a month.On Friday the Bajan singer, 34, dropped another single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, Born Again.Members of her 'navy' fanbase wasted no time taking to Twitter to air out their discontent that the tune isn't upbeat. Not happy: 'Not another Rihanna ballad' seemed to be the consensus from the pop star's fans as she released her second ballad in less than a monthOn Thursday morning, a user named Jesus Sanchez appeared on the app to say 'Hopefully it's not another ballad' after Pop Crave announced a new song was coming.And someone else used an old photo of a defeated-looking Mindy Kaling in The Office and said, 'Me settling in to listen to a second Rihanna ballad in a row.' Born Again follows Lift Me Up, another slow song, which was released last month ahead of the sequel's November 11 premiere.After its October 28 debut, diehard Rihanna listeners were let down to find the new music - her first solo single in six years - was somber.

Composing the score for the Oliver Hermanus-directed drama Living began with a very simple question: Is it really necessary to write only sad music for a story about a man facing his mortality?

Sonja Morgan is setting the record straight about Bethenny Frankel’s shocking claim she was nearly fired from The Real Housewives of New York City!

scene: watching Love Actually's Emma Thompson grin and bear her way through the revelation that her husband, Harry, played by the late Alan Rickman, is cheating on her with his secretary Mia. Every year we're freshly appalled at the heart-wrenching moment where Harry gifts his wife Karen Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now album, inadvertently letting on that he's given the gold necklace (which Karen had already discovered in his pocket) to someone else: his mistress. While the cheating partner trope is (sadly) nothing new both on and off-screen, it's Dame Emma's character's show of quiet stoicism in front of the couple's, while clearly very much crushed on the inside, that has cemented this scene in the minds (and hearts) of audiences forever more.And now we know that there's something more—besides Emma's excellent acting credentials—to why her portrayal was so memorable: It's because she based it on her own real-life experience.Indeed, Emma has admitted that her tearful scenes in were so persuasive because she was having her heart “very badly broken” by first husband Kenneth Branagh, who was having an affair with Helena Bonham Carter. Kenneth and Emma split after eight years together.In a November 2022 interview with the , Emma has spoken candidly about being “blinded” to the realities of Kenneth's infidelity.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz’s Carol Mendelsohn Productions (CMP) has signed a multi-year first-look broadcast direct deal with Fox Entertainment. The announcement was made by Michael Thorn, Fox Entertainment’s president of entertainment, during MIPCOM Cannes. Under the deal, CMP will develop scripted drams for Fox. Should any shows be greenlit, they would be wholly owned by Fox with Mendelsohn and Weitz executive producing. CMP has already set up one project for development under the deal — a series adaptation of the Thomas Perry novel “The Bomb Maker.” Per the official logline, the series “follows former commander Dick Stahl, who is called in after the majority of the LAPD Bomb Squad is killed by a house bomb. On his first day back, the now three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb, and it quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual criminal mastermind―one whose intended target appears to be the Bomb Squad itself.”

New Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade has talked up the potential for TMZ to become a “huge entertainment studio,” setting out his stall at Mipcom Cannes for the first time since he replaced Charlie Collier.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Fox has given out an early Season 2 renewal to the Jon Hamm-led animated comedy “Grimsburg” before the show has even premiered. The announcement was made by Michael Thorn, president of entertainment for Fox Entertainment, during a MIPCOM panel moderated by Variety‘s co-editor-in-chief, Cynthia Littleton. “’Grimsburg’ is yet another clear example of our strong commitment to, and intense focus on, upholding the high bar of standards any show must exceed in order to reside under the Animation Domination banner,” Thorn said. “Of course, having Jon Hamm’s talent and star power front and center is a great place to start. Equally important, everything we’re seeing with ‘Grimsburg’ – from the very first scripts and show bible to animatics and preliminary cuts – makes us believe we have a winner on our hands that beautifully complements our animation brand.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor OpenAP was built by traditional TV companies hoping to get their collective hands around new ad-tech that is generating millions of advertising dollars Now they are reaching outside of their circle. The advertising consortium, owned by NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, has enlisted an investment from Snowflake Ventures, a company that specializes in cloud-based data and analytics. Snowflake will be the first company from outside the traditional TV business to have ownership in Open AP. “This investment from Snowflake is really a testament to the publishers saying, ‘We know this is where the industry is going,'” says David Levy, CEO of Open AP, in an interview.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor CANNES — International TV sales veteran Jim Packer has set a multi-year deal with Lionsgate that will keep him on the senior management team as president of worldwide TV distribution. News of his contract extension was revealed Oct. 17, just as the Mipcom content marketplace kicks off this week in Cannes, bringing the global TV community together for the first full time in three years. Packer has been with Lionsgate since 2011. The news that he has re-upped comes at a time of uncertainty for the studio. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has said the company, which is home to the Lionsgate studio and Starz pay TV platform, is considering options for separating those assets, possibly by selling off the studio to focus on building up Starz.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is exploring a re-combination of the family’s Fox Corp. and News Corp., which split into two separately companies nearly a decade ago. The boards of directors of both have set up committees to examine the possibility.

Community alum Joel McHale has been tapped for the lead of Fox’s straight-to-series workplace comedy, Animal Control. McHale also will executive produce the single-camera show, Fox Entertainment’s first wholly owned live-action comedy.