Month: October 2018

October 3, 2018 2:15PM PT Gary Calamar will be back on the Los Angeles airwaves on Sunday nights. The longtime KCRW DJ and noted music supervisor will reunite with ex-colleague Nic Harcourt at Sky Daniels’ KCSN (88.5FM), the Triple-A station which is a partnership between Cal State Northridge and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif.
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Audio-sharing platform SoundCloud and Pandora are joining forces in the U.S., inking a deal making Pandora the exclusive advertising and sales rep for SoundCloud in the States. The agreement, bringing together two large streaming-music players, is set to commence in 2019. SoundCloud and Pandora have a combined U.S. audience of more than 100 million unduplicated listeners,
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Journalist Connie Chung penned an open letter supporting Christine Blasey Ford, while for the first time publicly sharing her own experience with sexual assault. Chung addresses the letter, published Wednesday in the Washington Post, to Ford, who gave testimony on Thursday to the Senate that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school
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October 3, 2018 12:34PM PT This coming-of-age story, set in Soviet Estonia during the time of the Stalinist terror in the 1950s, is both affecting and richly visualized. Gentle period drama “The Little Comrade” is an affecting and richly visualized coming-of-age story set in Soviet Estonia during the Stalinist terror of the 1950s. Adapting two
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There are moments of life-and-death crisis in which time simultaneously stops and stretches, becomes both immaterial and absolutely of the essence, and few spaces do more to blur it than a hospital — where lives end, begin and are drastically altered in seconds that pass like centuries. In her wrenching debut feature “Blind Spot,” Norwegian
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Damon Wayans says that he’s leaving Fox’s “Lethal Weapon.” In an interview with the website Eurweb.com, Wayans said that he plans to exit the Warner Bros. Television-produced drama after finishing production on the 13 episodes ordered by Fox for season three. “I’m going to be quitting the show in December after we finish the initial
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October 3, 2018 12:00PM PT Performer Will.I.Am has signed a first-look television and film development and production deal with EntertainmentOne. Under the multiyear deal, Will.I.Am will serve as an executive producer on TV and film projects, leveraging his industry and creative expertise to develop and produce original programming with eOne, for which the studio will
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Check out the official The Upside trailer starring Bryan Cranston! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to The Upside: https://www.fandango.com/the-upside-214774/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: January 11, 2019 Starring: Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Cranston Directed By: Neil Burger Synopsis: A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy paraplegic
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A documentary about the Atlanta music scene and a music competition program called “Take the Lead” are two projects in development through a new partnership between L.A. Reid and Charles Goldstuck’s Hitco Entertainment and Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Media Group. The teaming calls for the two companies to develop and produce music-focused projects for distribution across multiple platforms. Craig Piligian
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Geoff Emerick, the Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer who was the Beatles’ chief recording engineer during their career, died Tuesday of heart failure, according to his manager William Zabaleta. He was 72. While he worked with many artists over the course of his long career — including Elvis Costello. Badfinger, Supertramp, Cheap Trick and America, among many others
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Everyone’s favorite “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” dancing sass master is leaving the show. In a tweet Wednesday, Chelsea Peretti announced her departure from the NBC comedy after a brief stint on Season 6, with some possible guest appearances hinted at for the future. “B99 fans. Hiiiiiiiiiiii. Chelsea Peretti, here. I won’t be doing a full season of
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Early reviews are in for the latest big superhero movie, and it looks like the titular character isn’t the only venomous thing about it. Currently sitting at a 32% on Rotten Tomatoes, “Venom” has released to mixed reactions, many of which have been highly critical of the film despite a strong performance from Tom Hardy.
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October 3, 2018 10:00AM PT Google is making it easier for developers to earn money with voice experiences: Developers are now able to charge their users for digital goods via Google’s Assistant, the search giant announced Wednesday. These new monetization options will be available both through devices like the Google Home smart speaker, as well
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Elektra Music Group, the newly formed stand-alone company within Warner Music Group that launched October 1, today announced its full leadership team. The company — the first such label expansion the music industry has seen in many years — includes the artists Twenty One Pilots, Sturgill Simpson, Zac Brown Band, Brandi Carlile, Fitz and the Tantrums, Paramore, Slipknot,
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The fourth quarter — the music business’s traditional cash-in period coinciding with the holiday season — is well under way. But while in the past, record labels backloaded their schedule with superstar releases targeting Black Friday and beyond, Christmas 2018 paints a different picture. A look at the albums coming out between now and December
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Check out the official Robin Hood trailer starring Taron Egerton! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Robin Hood: https://www.fandango.com/robin-hood-2018-208495/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: November 21, 2018 Starring: Jamie Dornan, Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx Directed By: Otto Bathurst Synopsis: A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious
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