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EXCLUSIVE: Indie production house ASOB Media is dressing its doc series A Study on Beauty for MIPCOM Cannes.
Created and written by two-time Creative Arts Emmy winner Gabbi Pascua and directed by Alan Dennis (Morningside 5, 30 for 30), A Study on Beauty explores culture, history, and human identity through the lens of beauty and wellness over seven episodes. You can see a trailer above.
ASOB is framing it as “evoking the visual rigor of Chef’s Table and the cultural depth of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown – with intimate human storytelling.” We first told you about the doc in December 2024, when it was known as A Study on Beauty: Through Smoke.
Season 1 spans three distinct global chapters, with the first chapter, ‘Through Smoke,’ which charts art and heritage of French perfumery was filmed on location across France, including in Grasse – the world’s perfume capital located just up the French Riviera from Cannes, along with Spain, Monaco, Switzerland and Italy. There are also chapters on ‘Onsen,’ which look at Japan’s ancient hot spring bathing rituals and generational healing practices, and ‘Homeland,’ which head to the Philippines to look into matriarchal heritage, colonial history, and indigenous traditions with 109-year-old Kalinga tattoo artist Whang-Od, beauty pioneer Dr. Vicki Belo, ‘the first Asian supermodel’ Anna Bayle and Miss Universe contestants.
Alongside the docuseries, ASOB Media will hit Cannes with a companion podcast, A Student of Beauty, and digital short-form series A Beauty Journey, which has already generated over one million organic cross-platform views.
“Beauty isn’t just cosmetic – it’s a universal language that sits right at the intersection of history, culture, and human connection,” said ASOB founders Pascua and Dennis in a statement. “Moving from behind the scenes into producing this series allowed us to tell stories that treat wellness and heritage with the dignity and scope they deserve.
“Taking A Study on Beauty to MIPCOM allows us to connect with global buyers and distribution partners who see the growing demand for evergreen, cross-cultural programming that actually resonates with audiences.”
Dennis has worked with major music stars such as John Legend, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Meghan Trainor, Demi Lovato, Sia, and Diplo on music videos and short-form content, and began in feature films on Justin Barber horror thriller Phoenix Forgotten. He directed What We Share, a feature doc about Kelly Miyahara’s cancer journey.
Pascua is known for her work as a make-up artist on The Talk. She has served as a makeup artist working with major television networks including CBS, Disney-ABC, NBCUniversal, HBO, FOX, and Netflix, with editorial contributions to Vogue, Teen Vogue, Elle, and Vogue Philippines.
ASOB Media’s executive leadership team includes former Sony Pictures and Lionsgate corporate development exec Ka-Wai Ho, ex-Amazon finance and operations exec Shelby Barnes, business strategist Sal Benti and advisory board member Todd Burns.
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A snowstorm is coming, at least if the kids of Bob’s Burgers have anything to say about it.
A clip from the show’s upcoming Hulu-exclusive holiday short, “On the Fort Day of Christmas,” was unveiled today at New York Comic-Con, and the Belcher kids are getting their hopes up for some wintertime fun.
The synopsis: “A record-breaking Christmas snowstorm means one thing to the Belcher kids — a record-breaking Christmas snow fort.”
Check it out above.
“On the Fort Day of Christmas” will premiere Monday, December 7, exclusively on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S., and Disney+ internationally in most markets.
The clip was presented during a Comic-Con panel with executive producer Loren Bouchard and stars H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy.
Season 17 of Bob’s Burgers returns to Fox in 2027, and will stream on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S., and Disney+ internationally in most markets. Bob’s Burgers, in which the working-class Belcher family — parents Bob (Benjamin) and Linda (Roberts) and their three children Tina (Mintz), Gene (Mirman), and Louise (Schaal) — run a seaside New Jersey hamburger restaurant.
The series is produced by 20th Television Animation.
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The third season of AMC+’s Mayfair Witches series will premiere this December with a new, or at least expanded, title.
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Salem Coven – the last two words are the new part – will premiere on Wednesday, December 30.
The title and season launch date were unveiled by AMC Global Media at New York Comic Con, where a Main Stage panel Friday included Mayfair stars Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Betsy Brandt and Eliza Scanlen, as well as Co-Showrunners and Executive Producers Esta Spalding and Tom Schnauz, and Executive Producer Mark Johnson.
Also released was a trailer (watch it above) and some first look images (see them above and below).
Based on the Anne Rice book trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches, the AMC+ series was created by Spalding and Michelle Ashford and features Daddario as neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding who learns she is the heiress to a dynasty of powerful witches haunted by a sinister spirit. Hamlin plays the family patriarch Cortland Mayfair.
In the new clip, Daddario’s Rowan laments, “My whole life has been nothing but pain and death for everyone I love, just to play my part in an ancient prophecy.” But she cautions: “Nothing is set in stone.” Check it out above, and the images below:

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Thirty years ago, Baz Luhrmann gave Shakespeare guns, Hawaiian shirts and a killer soundtrack — and turned Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes into movie stars. Coming off his 1992 debut, Strictly Ballroom, Luhrmann delivered a modern Romeo + Juliet, with the Bard’s dialogue transplanted to present-day Verona Beach, where the Montagues and Capulets were rival, gun-toting dynasties.
Luhrmann spotted a magazine photo of 19-year-old DiCaprio, then an Oscar nominee for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and saw his Romeo. DiCaprio and his father paid their own way to Australia, where the actor spent two weeks workshopping with Luhrmann. Juliet was trickier. Natalie Portman was initially cast but at 13 looked uncomfortably young opposite DiCaprio. “[The studio] Fox said it looked like Leonardo DiCaprio was molesting me when we kissed,” Portman later recalled. Luhrmann eventually found his Juliet in 17-year-old My So-Called Life star Claire Danes. The cast included Brian Dennehy and Paul Sorvino as the feuding fathers and John Leguizamo as Tybalt — a role Christian Bale also auditioned for — before heading to Mexico for a production almost as chaotic as the play. Hurricanes destroyed sets. Illness shut down filming for a week. Hairstylist Aldo Signoretti was kidnapped and released for a $300 ransom. Somehow, they finished the picture.
Fox opened William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet on Nov. 1, 1996. THR called it “clever and well-executed,” audiences turned the $15 million experiment into a $147 million worldwide hit and the film earned an Oscar nom for art direction. It also helped launch DiCaprio toward Titanic and saw Danes cast in multiple films. Looking back 25 years later, even Luhrmann seemed surprised. “The fact that [the film] even got made is kind of bonkers,” he said.
This story appeared in the Oct. 7 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.
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