AT&T beat revenue expectations for the third quarter of 2018 while falling short on profit, with the telco touting the addition of WarnerMedia as contributed top-line and income growth. For Q3, WarnerMedia — as Time Warner was rechristened — posted revenue of $8.2 billion, up 6.5% year over year. WarnerMedia delivered operating profit of $2.57 billion
Month: October 2018
Ambitious building plans are intended to cement Ikebukuro and the surrounding Toshima district of Tokyo firmly at the center of the Japanese film industry. Plans unveiled Wednesday at TIFFCOM, part of the Tokyo International Film Festival, include the construction of two new complexes, housing 22 movie screens in total. The are expected to be completed
China’s Bona Film and Japan’s Toei Animation have teamed to develop and co-produce big-budget English-language animation feature, “The Monkey Prince.” The film, which has already been in early preparation since 2015 is pitched as “a Chinese legend, mixed with Hollywood story-telling, and Japanese animation.” John A Davis will direct from a script by David Stem
Even in the endlessly eccentric annals of independent animation — where the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” took flight and Ralph Bakshi tripped out amid jive-talking rabbits and X-rated cats — “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” is an oddity: a feature-length cartoon about the making of a 27-minute documentary. Frankly, it was a brilliant choice
October 23, 2018 8:56PM PT In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Universal Pictures claims the top spot in spending for “The Grinch.” Ads placed for the remake of the Christmas classic had an estimated media value of $4.97 million through Sunday for
October 23, 2018 8:27PM PT IndieWire has announced the lineup for its 2018 IndieWire Honors, including “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. Other honorees include Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Bill Hader, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Amandla Stenberg. The awards ceremony takes place Nov. 1 in Los Angeles. “For our
Staffers at CBS News are growing anxious over which of two internal candidates is most likely to win the top post at “60 Minutes” – and it’s making some people more cranky than Andy Rooney delivering one of his famous monologues for the show. The executive producer slot at “60 Minutes” has been open since
October 23, 2018 7:20PM PT Nicholas Korda, an Emmy and Academy Award winner for sound editing, died on Oct. 8 after a nine-year battle with brain cancer, his daughter confirmed. He was 73. Korda received a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding sound editing for a series for “Airwolf” in 1984. He was part of the team
It turns out if anybody can find them somebody to love in the biographical musical film “Bohemian Rhapsody,” it’s star Rami Malek and his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Across the board, critics have praised Malek’s performance as one of the year’s best, while panning some of the film’s otherwise lackluster qualities, like its
In today’s film news roundup, Sony moves “Grudge” into the “Toy Story 4” slot, “Who Will Write Our History” gets distribution and 60 companies from 15 countries will be making their AFM debut as market exhibitors. RELEASE DATE Sony Pictures has moved “Grudge,” its reboot of the 2004 supernatural thriller “The Grudge,” forward to June
The World Series will see the Los Angeles Dodgers facing off against the Boston Red Sex starting Tuesday. The first two games of the Fall Classic take place at Boston’s Fenway Park, and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles will host for the third, fourth, and possible fifth match over the weekend. Fox will broadcast all
Dolly Parton has livened up the Oscar trail this year with her new song “Girl in the Movies,” from the Netflix movie “Dumplin.’” Following a live performance of the song for a select industry crowd (mostly journalists and Golden Globes voters) at the Four Seasons on Monday, the recording icon stopped by a screening of the
Sean “Diddy” Combs announced Tuesday that he’s pledging $1 million to the Capital Preparatory Schools network to help provide children from underserved communities access to high-quality education. The school has been approved to expand to a third location in the New York City’s Bronx borough, and is set to open in September 2019. Capital Prep
As usual, the weekend before Halloween is looking a lot like a graveyard when it comes to major movie releases. Though film releases aren’t crammed into just a few busy periods, as they were a few years ago, studios still strive to avoid the dead weekends on the calendar. In the case of the pre-Halloween
October 23, 2018 5:10PM PT Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi has come on to direct “Tiger” for Focus, sources tell Variety. Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa and Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner’s Plan B are producing. The pic, based on the 2010 non-fiction book by John Vaillant, takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the
The numbers for Beyonce and Jay-Z four-month-long, time-zone spanning “On the Run II” tour are in, and they’re impressive. The epic jaunt grossed some $254,050,706, according to Pollstar data provided to Variety. The 48-date tour launched in Cardiff, Wales on June 6, rolled through Europe for 18 shows before crossing the Atlantic for another 30
The TIFFCOM market, a sales event adjacent to the Tokyo International Film Festival, always includes the latest film launches from Japan. This year the selection is especially varied and rich. Arranged by sales company, highlights include: Kadokawa“Chiwawa”Scripted and directed by Ken Ninomiya, this mystery about a 20-year-old Instagram star who ends up dead in Tokyo
Ed Catmull, a longtime leader at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, has announced plans to retire. Pixar president Jim Morris and Walt Disney Animation Studios president Andrew Millstein will continue in his place, as the 73-year-old transitions to an advisory role to end in summer 2019. Morris and Millstein will report up to Walt Disney
In today’s TV News Roundup, the new Fox thriller series “The Passage” and Freeform’s “The Fosters” spinoff “Good Trouble” will premiere in January. FIRST LOOKS Amazon has released the trailer for its latest Prime Original series from India, “Mirzapur,” streaming exclusively on Prime Video starting Nov. 16. Following the story of two brothers, the nine-episode series involves
October 23, 2018 3:45PM PT “Tokyo Ghoul 2,” the sequel to the hit 2017 Kentaro Hagiwara dark action fantasy, started production this month, distributor Shochiku revealed. The film is set for release next year with Shochiku distributing. Masataka Kubota stars as a college student Kaneki who becomes a “half ghoul” after being bitten by one of
October 23, 2018 3:44PM PT Disney is exploring a sixth iteration of its “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and has met with the “Deadpool” writing team of Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick about the pic, a source tells Variety. Disney has no comment and no deal is in place yet. The five previous “Pirates” movies hauled
October 23, 2018 3:01PM PT Newly-launched sales outfit, Autumn Sun Company has closed sales on “Wushu Orphan” ahead of the film’s world premier this week at the Tokyo International Film Festival. It will play in the festival’s Asian Future section. The film is a high school martial arts drama directed by Huang Huang, and produced
Fans of Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino are in for a double treat in the next few months, as two more of his books make it to the big screen. Rights to both are being offered for sale by Shochiku at the TIFFCOM market this week. First in cinemas will be “The House Where The Mermaid
Freddie Mercury was the most majestically debauched of all rock stars. A bad-boy diva with a famous overbite that made him look not just sexy but libidinous, he strutted around onstage with the come-hither flamboyance of a leering vampire prince. And, of course, no one in rock history had pipes like his. In his heyday
In the traffic rotary of a small city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy stands a towering statue of a block of cheese. What might seem like a wacky attraction is actually a tribute to one of the region’s best-known exports: Parmigiano-Reggiano. Along with Parma ham and balsamic vinegar—not to mention Ducatis and Ferraris—the
Anyone seeking an inspiring music-industry talk with some good stories along the way, look no further than Scooter Braun — manager of Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and on-again-off-again with Kanye West — who’s built a formidable company, SB Projects, and made some stellar investments over the past 12 years. We’ve heard him speak several times before
Jimmy Fallon on Monday night added an unconventional twist to his “Tonight Show.” He came out from behind his usual on-screen roost — his desk — to interview actress Juliette Lewis while perched next to her on the seats normally reserved for guests. “That’s the way things happen here on ‘The Tonight Show,’” Fallon told
October 23, 2018 12:59PM PT “Manifest” continues to be the undisputed breakout of the 2018-2019 season. The NBC mystery drama more than doubled in adults 18-49 and nearly doubled in total viewers in week 3 of the current season, which ran from Oct. 8-14. The show grew by 113% in the key demo to a
October 23, 2018 12:58PM PT Robin Wright said returning to “House of Cards” after Kevin Spacey was fired when sexual misconduct allegations wasn’t as hard as one might think. “We are all such a tight-knit family on that show and everyone was so dedicated to making the best of ‘House of Cards.’ What that meant
‘The Situation’ Happy Holidays!!! … Won’t Go to Prison Until 2019 10/23/2018 12:34 PM PDT EXCLUSIVE For a guy who’s going to prison, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino‘s got a lot to smile about because he won’t be locked up until next year … TMZ has learned. According to docs filed Monday … Sitch must surrender
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