What's news: SAG-AFTRA members have ratified the deal with the AMPTP. The Broadway tax credit is back. Sadie Sink will star in FX's The Marriage Plot. Starz has greenlit yet another Power spinoff. The final season of Euphoria drew 25m viewers worldwide. And Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are looking to revive The Littlest Hobo for Crave. — Abid Rahman
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►"A lot of the roles I’ve played have sort of pushed me to one end of the spectrum or another, but this one allows me to use a lot more of my colors and paint." Ahead of Sunday's Tony Awards, THR snuck in a special Tonys Roundtable with six of the 2025-26 Broadway season’s standout nominees — John Lithgow (Giant), Nathan Lane (Death of a Salesman), Joshua Henry (Ragtime), Shoshana Bean (The Lost Boys), Rose Byrne (Fallen Angels) and Marla Mindelle (Titaníque). The sextet sat down with THR's Scott Feinberg to discuss their paths to the shows they were nominated for and the conversations that they are provoking, the behavior of audience members that they find most annoying, the performance schedule they wish they had, how they would feel about being part of a screen adaptation of their current production. The roundtable.
—ICYMI. Here again is Ben Zauzmer's category-by-category look at which musicals and plays have the best chance of claiming honors during the 79th Tony Awards, based on a math model built on historical data. The predictions.
—Some good news! The Broadway tax credit has returned after running out of funds late last year. As part of the recently passed New York state budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul allocated an additional $150m for the tax credit program, which started in 2021 and had been doling out about $100m to Broadway and Off-Broadway productions annually. The $150m covers productions that had their first paid performance starting Dec. 1, retroactively covering those who may have missed out on the tax credit during the funding gap, as well as those that followed. The story.
—Reviving the revivals. Death of a Salesman brought in $1.8m last week, its highest tally yet, as the Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf revival gears up for the Tonys. The show played to 100 percent capacity, with an average ticket price of $153, and upped its tally close to $180,000. Ragtime also bucked the trend, further upping its box office to $1.32m, from $1.3m the prior week, as did another revival, The Rocky Horror Show, which upped its total by $90,000 to reach $1.1m. Chess also saw a slight increase, up to $1m, as the musical revival announced a June 21 closing date. The Broadway box office report.
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The Untold Saga Behind a Male Supermodel Cult |
►"He was the most frightening person I have ever met in my life." For a stretch in the late 1980s, Hoyt Richards was the most successful male model in the world. What nobody knew was that every night, from hotel rooms across Europe and America, Hoyt was calling a Manhattan cult leader to report on his behavior. The man on the other end of the line, a socialite conman, claimed he was an alien consciousness from the star Arcturus inhabiting a human body. THR's Seth Abramovitch goes inside Richards' story, that a new HBO doc fails to cover fully. The story.
—✊ Ratified! ✊ Members of SAG-AFTRA have ratified the four-year deal with studios and streamers that union negotiators reached in early May. 91.42 percent of voters of voted to approve the contract, while 8.58 percent were opposed. 19.25 percent of eligible members turned out in the vote. The story.
—✊ Double damnation. ✊ Two unions with journalist members at CBS News are decrying management under new owner Paramount Skydance following the firing of journalists at 60 Minutes. SAG-AFTRA, the labor organization representing around 75 correspondents, anchors and hosts at the news outlet, including at 60 Minutes, said it condemned leadership’s “continued assault on the foundations of CBS News” in a statement on Thursday. Writers Guild of America East also released an equally blistering statement claiming there was “near-constant levels of editorial interference” at CBS News under new management. The story.
—"It has been a trying and difficult few days." New 60 Minutes EP Nick Bilton praised the show’s three remaining correspondents, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim, and pledged that the venerable newsmagazine would be free from corporate pressure, in a memo to the show’s staff Thursday afternoon. Bilton said he had consulted with the three correspondents before sending the note. “We talked about what makes 60 Minutes exceptional, about the traditions and legacy of the past, about how you do the work that produces such momentous pieces,” he wrote. The story.
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Actor James Handy Fatally Stabbed |
►Shocking death. James Handy, the actor who appeared in projects including Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji, was killed Wednesday. He was 81. Handy was stabbed by his girlfriend’s son, Michael Gledhill, in Tarzana, the LAPD said in a statement. The stabbing is under investigation. Handy has popped up in numerous television shows as well, including two seasons of NYPD Blue. The story.
—"I will explain what was going on in my head, not as an excuse." Ted Danson said he will “apologize for the rest of my life” for appearing in blackface at a 1993 Whoopi Goldberg Friars Club roast. "I need to and want to apologize for the rest of my life because somebody today can go on the internet and go, ‘What the fuck? Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry.’ And I did that," the actor said on Wednesday’s episode of W. Kamau Bell’s Who’s With Me? podcast. Danson’s speech at the event, which drew backlash from those in attendance and public figures like former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, took place while he and Goldberg were having an affair and included racial slurs and jokes about their sex life. The story.
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Sadie Sink to Star in FX's 'The Marriage Plot' |
►🎭 Emmy bait. 🎭 Stranger Things alum Sadie Sink will star in and executive produce a limited series based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ 2011 novel The Marriage Plot at FX. Will Arbery is adapting the novel, and Hiro Murai is set to direct. A24 and FX Productions are behind the series. The Marriage Plot "follows three recent college graduates caught in an all-consuming love triangle as they reconcile their youthful romantic aspirations with looming adulthood and make life-altering choices about love and identity." The story.
—🎭 Over-Powered. 🎭 Starz has greenlit yet another Power spinoff — the fifth — for eight episodes. Power: Legacy will bring back Michael Rainey, Jr. as Tariq St. Patrick and Joseph Sikora as Tommy Egan. And this time, Starz is a co-producer with Lionsgate Television, whereas the previous Power shows were all licensed. Power: Legacy will see the return of Tommy to New York, where he partners with Tariq (Ghost’s son) to “take the city by storm,” per the synopsis. The story.
—Maybe tomorrow... Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to revive the classic 1980s family drama The Littlest Hobo for Crave in Canada. The partnership on the live-action drama between Point Grey Pictures and Lionsgate Canada follows their collaboration on Apple TV’s The Studio. The reimagining of The Littlest Hobo series about an ownerless German Shepherd who wanders about helping people in need ran from 1979 to 1985 on the CBC. The story.
—Dream team. The creator and producing team behind Peacock‘s All Her Fault is getting back together for a new series at the streamer. Peacock has picked up The Break-In, a mystery based on the novel of the same title by Katherine Faulkner. The show comes from writer and executive producer Megan Gallagher and Carnival Films, who brought All Her Fault to life last year. The series starring Sarah Snook had solid viewing on Peacock was nominated for Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for best limited series. Snook won the Critics Choice honor for best actress in a limited series. The story.
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'Euphoria' Final Season Scores 25M Worldwide Viewers |
►Woof! The final episode of Euphoria delivered a host of surprises on screen, and a large audience watched it happen. The HBO drama’s third season finale, which also doubled as a series ender, brought in 8.7m cross-platform viewers in the U.S. over its first three days. That’s a slight improvement on the season premiere, which drew 8.5m viewers in its first three days, but it wasn’t the most watched episode of the season. That title belongs to the third episode, which had 8.9m viewers over three days. The final season has drawn 25m worldwide viewers to date, which HBO says is up 17 percent from 21.5m for season two. The ratings.
—Golden oldie. A former broadcast series climbed to the top of the streaming charts in the first full week of May, after being the latest recipient of a Netflix boost. La Brea, which aired from 2021-24 on NBC, led the Nielsen streaming rankings with 1.28b minutes of viewing from May 4-10. The series, which also streams on Peacock, rose by 46 percent week to week; it joined the Netflix library on May 1. The previous week’s No. 1 show, The Boys, slipped one spot to second overall despite also growing. The Prime Video series recorded 1.05b viewing minutes, up from 947m a week earlier and crossing the billion-minute mark for the first time this season. The streaming rankings.
—Cry more. Netflix has renewed its Devil May Cry animated series, an adaptation of the Capcom video games, for a third season. It will be the show’s last — showrunner Adi Shankar says that was always the intention. Season one appeared on Netflix’s Global Top 10 for four weeks, and accumulated 21.7m views in 2025. Season two of the show, animated by Studio Mir, premiered on May 12 and got off to a good start, but fell off the chart after its second week. The story.
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Netflix Lands Basquiat Doc |
►🤝 Sold! 🤝 Ahead of its world premiere at Tribeca, the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary, made with the artist’s family’s participation, has been acquired by Netflix. Titled Jean-Michel Basquiat, the doc was directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson in her feature directorial debut and by Viridiana Lieberman, the editor behind The Perfect Neighbor. The doc “demystifies the story of Basquiat and discovers the man behind it all,” according to the synopsis, telling the story of the famed artist via new interviews with close family and friends. The story.
—📅 Dated! 📅 Jason Statham‘s forthcoming action-comedy feature is preparing to ride into theaters. Black Bear announced Thursday that director David Leitch‘s movie Jason Statham Stole My Bike is set for theatrical release in North America on Aug. 6, 2027. Plot details have not yet been disclosed for the project that began principal photography this week. Statham stars in the film with a role that is described as reminiscent of the one he played as a CIA field agent opposite Melissa McCarthy in 2015’s Spy. The story.
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Film Review: 'Office Romance' |
►"Not worth running afoul of HR for." THR's Angie Han reviews Ol Parker's Office Romance. The Netflix film follows a high-flying airline CEO and a buttoned-up lawyer who strike up a secret relationship. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein, Betty Gilpin, Jodie Whittaker, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, Edward James Olmos, Mary Wiseman, Amy Sedaris and Rick Hoffman. Written by Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly. The review.
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►All the latest content from THR's podcast studio.
—Awards Chatter. THR's executive awards editor Scott Feinberg talks to the great and the good of Hollywood. In this live episode Scott spoke to Stanley Tucci. The ultimate character actor — and guide to Italy’s food and culture — reflects on early-career frustration with being asked to portray stereotypes of Italian-Americans, and how it led him to his breakout film Big Night; the pros and cons of a career in which he has tended to play small parts in large projects and large parts in small projects; and the little-known story of how his food-centric shows, for which he has won three Emmys, grew out of a battle with oral cancer that forced him to eat his own food through a tube. The podcast.
—I’m Having an Episode. THR’s Mikey O’Connell attempts to stay on top of the latest TV and entertainment news with a little help from his friends, colleagues and a revolving door of actors, writers, showrunners and filmmakers. In this episode, Mikey interviews Hannah Berner, with the stand-up and podcaster bringing actual laughter as she shares her thoughts on straight men who attend her shows, plane talkers, working with Amy Poehler and why she'd never do reality TV again — except maybe The Traitors. The podcast.
In other news...
—Tribeca Festival extends Portugal spinoff through 2028
—Thailand launches Bangkok international content market
—Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey to voice audio guides at Obama presidential center
—Skydance alum Amanda Alley lands at A/Vantage Pictures as development, production vp
—Other Side of the Box filmmaker Caleb Phillips signs with WME
What else we're reading...
—Tarini Parti and Eliza Collins report that California's big beasts Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom are weighing up a 2028 showdown [WSJ]
—Tatiana Siegel and Peter Kiefer have the inside story on Nick Bilton's hiring at 60 Minutes, including the monocle-popping reveal that he will make a whopping $2.5m a year in his new gig [Page Six]
—Margaret Sullivan weighs in on the Scott Pelley affair, and writes that the veteran newsman "will be remembered as a beacon of integrity" [Guardian]
—Bobby Allyn has an update on his George Santos-Kalshi story, and it's wild [NPR]
—Here's your Friday list: All 50 seasons of Survivor, ranked [Entertainment Weekly]
Today...
...in 1998, Paramount unveiled the Jim Carrey high-concept dramedy The Truman Show in theaters. The film went on to nab three nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, including for Ed Harris in the supporting actor category, Peter Weir for director and Andrew Niccol for screenplay. The original review.
Today's birthdays...
Kathleen Kennedy (73), Mark Wahlberg (55), Nick Kroll (48), Stephen J. Anderson (56), Ron Livingston (59), Troye Sivan (31), Amanda Crew (40), Liza Weil (49), Nicholas Cirillo (29), Jeff Garlin (64), Susan Lynch (55), Nancy Stafford (72), Navi Rawat (49), Mark Harelik (75), Steven Pacey (69), Chad Allen (52), Emy Coligado (55), Sophie Lowe (36), Stefania Sandrelli (80), Amélie Hoeferle (24), Malcolm Sinclair (76), Haluk Bilginer (72), Chelsey Crisp (43), Johan Rheborg (63), Karen Strassman (60), June Gable (81), Leslie Hendrix (66), Ken Hudson Campbell (64), Ellen Foley (75), Gillian Hills (82), Elizabeth Faith Ludlow (37), Marc Pickering (41), Bárbara de Regil (39), Ryan Devlin (46), Mel Giedroyc (58), Beth Hall (68), Tyler Bates (61)
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Max Kleven, the Norwegian-born stunt performer, stunt coordinator and second-unit director with credits including Our Man Flint, Rollerball, The Deep and the Back to the Future trilogy, has died. He was 92. The obituary.
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