Facebook is turning up the volume on its push into music. The company is broadly launching a way to add songs to News Feed posts and Facebook Stories, expanding the rollout of its lip-syncing feature, and will soon let users add songs to their profiles. To date, Facebook has inked licensing deals for songs with
Month: October 2018
October 24, 2018 10:00AM PT Excursions to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean are set to sail in 2019. Jon Bon Jovi is adding Collective Soul and Grace Potter to the lineup of his Runaway To Paradise cruises. As previously announced, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will perform on two excursions — to the
October 24, 2018 10:00AM PT Netflix has renewed the half-hour dramedy “Atypical” for a third season. The renewal comes less than two months after the launch of Season 2 in September. The third season will consist of 10 episodes just like Season 2, while the first season consisted of eight. The series is a coming
NBC News is joining the parade of traditional news outlets trying to capture the interest of a rising generation of news junkies who get their fix with mobile devices and streaming video. The NBCUniversal unit, which already produces broadcast programs like “Meet the Press” and “Today,” cable hours including “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Deadline:
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón didn’t know why, but the instinct was clear: “Roma,” his most personal film to date, taken from his memories of growing up in Mexico City, had to be shot in black and white. It wasn’t about conjuring nostalgia or referencing the neorealist masters of old, whose work would later be name-checked
Check out the official Bird Box Trailer starring Sandra Bullock! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Bird Box: https://www.fandango.com/bird-box-215322/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: December 21, 2018 Starring: Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar, Sandra Bullock Directed By: Susanne Bier Synopsis: A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and
Jim Bell, one of TV’s best known news and sports producers, is joining NBC’s venerable “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as executive in charge at a time when the late-night mainstay is fighting for viewers with CBS rival “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Bell, who is known for his time overseeing “Today” and NBC’s
October 24, 2018 9:27AM PT Snapchat corporate parent Snap has poached Amazon advertising executive Jeremi Gorman as its new chief business officer while also appointing former Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd as its new chief strategy officer. The two executives are effectively replacing Snap’s outgoing chief strategy officer Imran Khan, who had announced his departure in September.
Universal Music Group today announced that Jaime Weston has been named executive vice president of consumer marketing, effective immediately. According to the announcement, in the newly created role, Weston will develop targeted marketing strategies to grow the global audience for UMG’s artists across platforms, products and initiatives. In addition, Weston will develop a consumer engagement
Apple CEO Tim Cook called for the U.S. to enact tougher privacy laws similar to Europe’s GDRP Wednesday, and warned against negative consequences of tech companies collecting huge amounts of data for their artificial intelligence efforts. Giving a speech to EU regulators in Brussels, Cook said that his company was “in full support of a comprehensive,
October 24, 2018 9:07AM PT The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 25 animated features submitted for consideration in this year’s Oscar race. Among the entries is Pixar’s box office hit “Incredibles 2,” Wes Anderson’s stop-motion “Isle of Dogs” and Sony’s upcoming “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Also in play are a
Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz, top digital influencers and best friends, are collaborating on a new weekly podcast — which the duo promise will be like having a sleepover with your BFFs. The pair have a combined fanbase of over 28 million followers across YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and other platforms. In their “Pretty Basic” podcast,
October 24, 2018 9:00AM PT The second season of the Emmy-winning comedy “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will launch on December 5, Amazon announced Wednesday. The second season picks up one year after Midge’s (Rachel Brosnahan) husband left her and she began performing standup comedy sets of her own. Despite its 1950s setting, Midge’s observations still
With Asia representing a whopping 65% of the earth’s population, it’s small wonder that the continent’s film industries are becoming more influential on the world stage. By some measures, China’s rising box office numbers have already surpassed those of the U.S., and India’s film business is the world’s largest by number of films produced. That’s
When “Bohemian Rhapsody” dances into wide release on Nov. 2, it will arrive encumbered by a number of headline-grabbing issues that threaten to detract from what the film was intended to be: a showcase and Oscar launchpad for Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury and a two-hour rock singalong for American moviegoers. Extensive conversations around alleged sexual
Dash Radio announced several landmarks on Wednesday. For one, the company now reaches over 10 million monthly listeners. It also announced the addition of several board members: Kevin Tsujihara (Chairman & CEO of Warner Bros.), John Burbank (Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Passport Capital), and Michael Zeisser (former Chairman U.S. Investments, Alibaba Group, Liberty Media, McKinsey & Co.). And finally, the company announced the close of its
Kristin Chenoweth remembers the day Ariana Grande came to see the original Broadway production of “Wicked.” Adam Lambert fondly recalls playing the role of Fiyero in the touring production before “American Idol” made him a star. Original cast members and first-wave fans of the smash Broadway musical “Wicked” have come together for a salute to
CBS has selected six writers to participate in its 2018-19 writer development program. The Writers Mentoring Program calls for promising scribes to go through an eight-month mentoring program that pairs each writer with a CBS Corp. executive to help them develop a piece of material. The writers also take part in a 16-week workshop designed
The International Documentary Assn. announced nominees for the 34th annual IDA Awards Wednesday, spotlighting the best in documentary filmmaking. Among the feature nominees were mainstays on the circuit so far this year like Hulk’s “Crime + Punishment” and “Minding the Gap,” as well as National Geographic’s “Free Solo” and Focus Features’ “Won’t You Be My
The team behind E!’s upcoming “LadyGang” talk series want to be the confidante you never had. Inspired by their podcast of the same name, hosts Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jac Vanek, will explore the “taboo” with frank discussions about womanhood, the female brain, vices, and more. They’ll get candid with celebrity guests like Ed
British police have had to issue a tongue-in-cheek statement confirming that they have ruled out actor David Schwimmer as a suspect in a theft case after posting a “wanted” picture of someone who bore a striking resemblance to the “Friends” star. Social media users took to Twitter and Facebook in droves after the original picture
AT&T leaders touted WarnerMedia’s positive impact on its bottom line in the first full quarter of consolidated earnings since the telco giant completed its acquisition of HBO, Turner and Warner Bros. in June. AT&T chairman-CEO Randall Stephenson said the addition of the unit now known as WarnerMedia was “immediately accretive in the first full quarter
MORELIA — This year’s Impulso Morelia, the festival’s works in progress section for Mexican films, runs Wednesday to Friday, and ends with writer-director – and in this case supporting actor – Hari Sama’s semi-autobiographical coming of age film “This is Not Berlin.” Set in the art-filled, politically charged world of 1986 Mexico City, the film
Deutsche Telekom launched a new OTT service Wednesday as the German market heats up, with research suggesting that Netflix now has more subscribers than paybox Sky Deutschland. That finding comes after similar trends were reported in the Britain, meaning that streaming subscribers now surpass traditional pay-TV users in Europe’s two biggest markets. The deep-pocketed incumbent telcos
MORELIA, Mexico — Mexican helmer-scribe Marcelo Tobar is teaming up for the third time with producer Elsa Reyes of Zensky Cine to make his most ambitious film to date. Contrary to his earlier features, which cost roughly $150,000 each to make, Tobar’s latest film, “Los Idealistas,” boasts a $1 million budget. Zensky Cine produced and
October 24, 2018 6:00AM PT House of Highlights, the youth-skewing sports-highlights media brand owned by Turner’s Bleacher Report, has been an Instagram sensation — with currently over 10.8 million followers and billions of video views. Now Bleacher Report hopes to crank up the House of Highlights footprint on Twitter: The new “House of Highlights Show” on
Hollywood gave them the idea for their product. Now, their product could help Hollywood come up with new ideas: New York-based augmented reality (AR) startup Spatial came out of stealth Wednesday with a new collaboration tool that seems like taken straight out of “Minority Report.” Spatial’s 3D workspaces allow users to hold distributed meetings with
Travel and entertainment startup Culture Trip is premiering “Hungerlust,” its first original series — which the company describes as a food show that’s not really about food. Culture Trip, founded in 2011 by former academic psychiatrist Dr. Kris Naudts, runs a network of more than 300 freelancer around the world, and it tapped eight of
Megyn Kelly hasn’t been shy about turning recent controversies at NBC News into fodder for her morning program at the network. Now NBC News is doing much the same with a blunder she made on her show Tuesday. Both “NBC Nightly News” and “Today” have aired segments examining statements Kelly made Tuesday on her 9
MORELIA, Mexico — In Morelia for multiple reasons, outgoing Imcine director general Jorge Sanchez sat with Variety in an exclusive interview to take stock of his tenure, which ends Nov. 30. Since he joined Mexico’s national film institute on Jan. 14, 2013, Sanchez has presided over a sea-change in Mexico’s entertainment industry. New public and
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