October 24, 2018 4:13PM PT John Legend and Linda Perry are teaming up to promote voting with their new social media single “Get Up and Vote.” After posting their own solo versions of the song on Twitter, the pair has encouraged both fans and celebrities alike to share their own versions as a part of
Month: October 2018
The BBC pays its female employees “far less” than their male counterparts and is failing to advance equal opportunities for women, according to a new report by a British government committee that scrutinized the pubcaster’s accounts and equal pay efforts. The BBC has been criticized for its gender pay gap, with salary figures for its top on-air
In today’s TV news roundup, The Trevor Project is honoring Ryan Murphy and the cast of “Pose” at its upcoming gala ,and both Fox and NBC have announced holiday specials. DATES Logo’s upcoming documentary “Transmilitary” is set to premiere Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. The film, which won the the SXSW Audience Award this year,
Megyn Kelly and NBC News have engaged in conversations about taking a new role at the news division, according to a person who has spoken with the anchor, suggesting both sides have grown weary of the intense scrutiny being placed on her morning program, “Megyn Kelly Today” and casting significant doubt on its future. ”Where
The term “Nash Vegas” was originally coined as a joke about Nashville getting glitzier, but the tables are turning, as Las Vegas is going Nashville by playing host to more country music residencies. Lady Antebellum announced their own extended stay in the desert Wednesday, using a video of themselves putting on bling inside the Palms
Richard Linklater will write and direct an untitled film based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks for Focus Features. Hicks was raised as a Southern Baptist and began performing comedy in the late 1970s in Texas. He toured extensively during the 1980s, specializing in dark humor and social commentary. A typical joke: “I never
October 24, 2018 3:00PM PT Amazon has handed out a pilot order for a comedy based on the UK series “People Just Do Nothing,” Variety has learned exclusively. The untitled, half-hour project is a mockumentary following a group of working class DJs and their friends in a town called North Las Vegas: a land of mini
MSBNC’s Steve Schmidt Trump’s to Blame for Bomb Scares … He’s Stoking This Fire 10/24/2018 2:49 PM PDT EXCLUSIVE President Trump bears some responsibility for the pipe bombs sent to Democrats, and anyone with ears should know that, says former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt. Steve told us Wednesday the person who actually assembled and sent the
With scant high profile offerings hitting theaters, Michael Myers won’t need to put up much of a fight to top box office charts again. After “Halloween’s” massive $76 million debut, Universal and Blumhouse’s slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis will easily repeat at No. 1 in North America. The question is: how much of a killing
October 24, 2018 2:29PM PT Justin Timberlake has “severely bruised” vocal cords, he announced to fans in an Instagram post Wednesday afternoon, explaining why he was calling off a Madison Square Garden concert at the last minute. “Hey guys, I’m sorry to announce I have to postpone the show at MSG tonight on doctor’s orders.
Since joining NBC News in the Spring of 2017, Megyn Kelly has soldiered on at her morning program, “Megyn Kelly Today,” through various social-media controversies; a feud with actress Jane Fonda; scrutiny of her ratings, her guests, her dancing, her everything. Her hard work has been testament to her ability to take a punch and
DreamWorks Animation is in final negotiations for the movie rights to Jerry Hawthorne’s board game “Mice and Mystics,” Variety has learned exclusively. Alexandre Aja attached to direct and co-write the script with “Aquaman” scribe David Leslie Johnson. Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Jon Berg are producing. “Mice and Mystics” is a role-playing game in which
AT&T, prepping a new effort to offset declines in its traditional pay-TV biz, plans to test a “thin” streaming set-top box and service in the first half of 2019 aimed at improving the profitability of its TV bundles. Variety first reported on the set-top box a year ago (pictured above), a wireless device that runs Google’s Android
MORELIA — There is no doubt that anytime Alfonso Cuarón shows up at a Mexican film festival, it will be one of the highlights of the event. Today’s Masterclass, given at the Morelia Film Festival, was no exception. In the standing-room-only Teatro Ocampo, Cuarón regaled the assemble mix of press, industry professionals from films in
October 24, 2018 1:12PM PT CNN employees have returned to their offices in New York City, hours after authorities found a potentially lethal explosive had been sent to the facility located in upper midtown Manhattan. “The NYPD has concluded its security sweep, and it is now safe to return to the building<‘ said CNN Worldwide President
Longtime viewers of the CW’s “Supernatural” have come to expect new seasons to start with the Winchester brothers in separate places and, more often than not, not entirely themselves. The 14th season followed the pattern, with the archangel Michael possessing Dean (Jensen Ackles), leaving him on the road alone, while Sam (Jared Padalecki) remained in
A plus-sized makeup artist with candy-colored hair and a marijuana addiction has a hard time holding down a proper job, so to make ends meet she deals drugs door to door, pedaling her bike to a colorful cast of clients – including her landlady, a soap star, and a nun – across a wide swath
In an ongoing series, Variety profiles 10 emerging Mexican women filmmakers. A year has been a long time for Mexican actress-dramatist-director Lila Avilés. Last October, she was preparing to screen her first feature, “The Chambermaid” (La Camarista) in rough-cut at Los Cabos.“The Chambermaid” won at Los Cabos, attracted co-producers in Bad Boy Billy Production and
The estate of Ana Mendieta has reached a settlement with Amazon Studios over its claims that the film “Suspiria” borrows heavily from the late artist’s work. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The film is set for release this weekend in New York and Los Angeles before going wide the following week. The
This fashion week, when you’re scrolling through street style pic after street style pic, try and remember that those perfectly dressed people didn’t just appear out of thin air. The influencers, bloggers, editors, writers, and beyond that tend to look so effortlessly cool likely have a practiced approach that just makes it look that easy.
CANNES — There’s a scene in “Bayoneta,” Mexican Kyzza Terrazas’ second fiction feature, where Miguel, played by “Club of Crows’” Luis Gerardo Méndez, is asked to sing a song. He does so, Chalino Sanchez’s “Nieves de enero,” a lovely spare ballad about heartbreak. Miguel knows something about that sentiment. An up-and-coming Mexican boxer, a Sydney
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are officially reteaming. Imperative Entertainment has attached Scorsese to direct and DiCaprio to star in the feature adaptation of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the New York Times best-selling book by David Grann. Imperative acquired the rights to the book in 2016. DiCaprio and Scorsese quickly expressed interest in the
Unscripted exec Lisa Levenson has joined Wilshire Studios as executive VP, development and programming. Dawn Olmstead, president of Wilshire Studios and Universal Cable Productions, announced the hire Wednesday in a memo to staff. Levenson most recently worked at Fox, where she was senior VP, alternative programming. She previously worked on series such as “Big Brother,”
October 24, 2018 11:50AM PT The nation’s media outlets sometimes take swipes at one another, but they seem to be standing together after a series of threats of violence were made against Democratic figures and CNN. “We condemn all attempted acts of violence against media organizations and our thoughts are with CNN for the safety
President Donald Trump said that packages containing potential explosive devices and sent to top Democrats and CNN were “abhorrent,” and said threats of acts of political violence “have no place in America.” “In these times, we have to unify, we have to come together. That is a very bipartisan statement,” he said at the beginning
The Columbus Circle area of Manhattan was transformed Wednesday morning into a chaotic scene of police barricades, bomb squad trucks, security tape, and shuttered streets as New Yorkers grappled with another bomb threat, this time directed at CNN headquarters in the Time Warner Center building. The scene on 58th Street outside the entrance to what
October 24, 2018 11:26AM PT “Hamilton” actor Javier Munoz, David Sullivan, and Marguerite Moreau will star in the independent comedy “Monuments,” which has started shooting, Variety has learned exclusively. David Pasquesi, Joel Murray, and Shunori Ramanathan round out the cast. The movie marks Munoz’s first film role since departing the Broadway production of “Hamilton.” He
Advertisement – Continue Reading Below There are half a million sequins in a Manhattan penthouse, and it’s all Jeremy Scott’s fault. The tongue-in-chic designer is prepping for his latest runway show—a Moschino x H&M capsule collab—and the shine factor must be major. There are sequins on parkas, on sweatpants, on beautiful boys walking shirtless through
October 24, 2018 10:30AM PT Disney Channel has greenlit a multi-camera sitcom that is part scripted and part improvisational, Variety has learned exclusively. The hybrid series is called “Just Roll With It.” Filmed before a studio audience, the series follows the blended Bennett-Blatt family. Blair, played by Kaylin Hayman, often a rebel without a cause, is
October 24, 2018 10:30AM PT Fans of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium franchise won’t be pleased with the way Lisbeth Salander has been reduced to a Batgirl-like figure with a tacked-on psychological profile. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would neuter the best elements of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” franchise, but did the producers really need to shift
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