The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll wants to make Broadway part of her kingdom. “Tina,” a new musical based on the life and career of Tina Turner, will debut in New York City in the fall of 2019. A number of elements still have to come together, including casting, performance dates, and a decision on
Month: October 2018
“The Chronicles of Narnia” are coming to Netflix. The streaming giant announced Wednesday that it will develop new series and film projects based on C.S. Lewis’ iconic book series. The projects are part of a new, multi-year deal between Netflix and The C.S. Lewis Company. All of the series and films produced through the deal will
October 3, 2018 7:25AM PT Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has released “Has Ended,” a second song from his soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming film “Suspiria,” which arrives Oct. 26 on XL Recordings. The album consists of 25 original compositions written by Yorke specifically for the Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic, which
Riz Ahmed has more than just the release of “Venom” to celebrate this week. Earlier today, the actor-rapper dropped his latest single, the politically charged “Mogambo.” “We’re living in crazy times, a lot of people feeling unseen, unheard, unwanted, and really — the track is saying, a lot of people might not want us here,
October 3, 2018 7:01AM PT Three Indian, two Chinese and one Korean film are among the movies that will compete for the Best Asian Film Award, presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. The nine nominees include China’s two hit drama’s “Youth” and “Dying to Survive.” From India, the contenders include
October 3, 2018 7:00AM PT Natalie Portman’s “Vox Lux” has been selected as the opening night film of the Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference on Oct. 25. The drama, directed by Brady Corbett from his own script, had its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 4 and will be
Check out the official Vice Trailer starring Christian Bale! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Vice: https://www.fandango.com/vice-2018-214614/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: December 21, 2018 Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bill Pullman Directed By: Adam McKay Synopsis: The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history,
Here comes Laugh Exchange — a sort of “American Idol” for comedians, packaged in an HQ Trivia-like app. Laugh Exchange, a startup co-founded by former Comedy Central GM David Bernath, is coming out of beta with its app that lets comedians compete for a chance to win cash from their original material and also lets
October 3, 2018 6:15AM PT [embedded content] Christian Bale’s drastic transformation into Dick Cheney takes center stage in the first trailer for “Vice,” released Wednesday. The biopic, directed by Adam McKay, chronicles Cheney’s life as the former vice president under President George W. Bush. Starting with his beginnings as a Washington bureaucrat, the film explores Cheney’s service under the
Media center specialist Plex is adding more online content to its apps: Plex added a new category for web shows Wednesday, which allows users to stream content from publishers like Fandor, GQ, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, TWIT, Junkin Media, and others. Web shows will be available for free to all Plex users, and will
October 3, 2018 5:58AM PT “Keeping up with the Kardashians” fans in Canada can binge on the series and other reality shows after streaming service hayu had its official launch, Wednesday. Canada marked another international launch for the unscripted SVOD service, which is owned by NBCUniversal. NBCU announced earlier this year that hayu would roll
In 1968, the Rolling Stones were at the proverbial crossroads. They were one of the world’s two greatest rock bands, but the preceding months would have decimated a less tenacious group of individuals. Three Stones — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones — had been arrested on drug charges and narrowly avoided long prison
U.S. showrunner Frank Spotnitz (“The Man in the High Castle”) and British writer Stephen Thompson (“Sherlock”) have been recruited by Italy’s RAI and Lux Vide to develop “Leonardo,” an English-language TV series that will portray the Renaissance genius as a gay outsider. “He was a real outsider for those times. He was an illegitimate child,
St. Vincent fans in Los Angeles got to attend an album preview show Tuesday night… they just didn’t know it until immediately after the show was over. The singer performed a piano-and-voice only set with pianist Thomas Bartlett, consisting mostly of stripped-down arrangements of songs from last year’s “Masseduction” album. She didn’t talk about a
Turns out Amazon wasn’t done with its fall device announcements: Two weeks after introducing a number of new Echo speakers and accessories as well as a new DVR, the company announced a new 4K Fire TV stick as well as a new Alexa voice remote Wednesday. The new Fire TV Stick 4K supports Dolby Vision and
Hit with monumental fines for tax evasion, Chinese actress Fan Bingbing made a fulsome apology Wednesday, saying she felt “ashamed and guilty for what I did.” It was her first public statement after months of silence on her Weibo social media account and after fevered speculation over her disappearance from view. Fans and industry observers
CBS News said it added Bianna Golodryga to its morning host roster at “CBS This Morning,” broadening its roster of anchors in the competitive morning-news field. The anchor addition comes as the morning program, while faring better for CBS than many of its predecessors, continues to lag its main rivals: NBC’s “Today” and ABC’s “Good Morning
Pascal Breton’s Federation Entertainment, a leading player in international drama and kids’ entertainment, has acquired a stake in WeMake, a production company specializing in unscripted, scripted and digital formats. WeMake was launched a year ago by Bouchra Réjani, the former COO of Shine France. The Paris-based banner has so far developed a catalog of more
ITV said Wednesday that it would not make a bid for Endemol Shine. Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster had been rumored to be a front-runner in the race to buy the production and distribution giant. “In light of continued press speculation, ITV confirms that it has no current intention of making a bid for Endemol Shine Group,”
October 3, 2018 2:54AM PT Anna Friel will return for a third season of “Marcella” on Netflix and ITV, after a new season of the show got the green light. Friel won an international Emmy for playing the title character in the drama series, which goes out on free-to-air channel ITV in Britain and on
October 3, 2018 12:00AM PT Corin Hardy is joining the gang. Fresh from helming box-office smash “The Nun,” Hardy has boarded Sky and Cinemax’s hotly anticipated drama series “Gangs of London.” Hardy will direct three episodes of the show about warring gangs, which marks Vice-backed Pulse Films’ move into high-end TV drama. Vice is producing
October 2, 2018 8:54PM PT Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese composer who will this week be honored as the Asian Filmmaker of the Year in Busan, will head the jury for the best original score prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It is the first time that the APSAs, now in their 12th edition, present
Geoff Emerick, the Beatles chief recording engineer who worked on some of the band’s most seminal albums, has died according to his manager William Zabaleta. He was 72 and believed to have suffered a heart attack. Said Zabaleta in a statement to Variety: “Today at around 2’o’clock, I was making my way back from Arizona to
UPDATED: Missing Chinese celebrity Fan Bingbing is to be heavily fined for tax evasion, it emerged on Wednesday. China’s State Administration of Taxation said that, following an investigation into her finances, Fan is to pay “hundreds of millions” of yuan in back taxes and fines. According to state news agency Xinhua, the extent of Fan’s payments could
President Donald Trump, who earlier described Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as “credible,” mocked her Senate Judiciary Committee testimony at a campaign rally in Mississippi Tuesday. Trump, while discussing Kavanaugh’s treatment, began rehashing Ford’s testimony. “I had one beer!” he said, which Blasey Ford testified regarding her alcohol consumption at
In “Venom,” the spectacular but mostly derivative and generically plotted new comic-book origin story (it’s the first installment of the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters), Tom Hardy is afflicted with an otherworldly force that invades his mind, his body, his very being. It’s called the desire to act like a stumblebum Method goof. The symptoms,
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “A Philadelphia Story,” the second episode of the third season of “This Is Us.” There was a lot to celebrate in the second episode of the third season of “This Is Us,” but true to Pearson family form, it of course came with a healthy
In today’s film news roundup, “Buffalo Boys” gets US distribution, Full Moon Empire buys a library, “Invincible” gets cast and a Liechtenstein-based film fund is announced. ACQUISTIONS Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the North American rights to Mike Wiluan’s western “Buffalo Boys,” Singapore’s entry in the foreign-language Academy Awards category, Variety has learned exclusively. The
October 2, 2018 6:38PM 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 with “First Man.” Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $8.4 million through Sunday for 621 national ad airings
A man was charged Tuesday with allegedly targeting and burglarizing celebrity homes, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Tyress Williams, 19, of Los Angeles faces four felony counts of first-degree residential burglary, according to a criminal complaint. Prosecutors say the defendant burglarized four residences: singer Tota Matthieu’s (commonly known as M. Pokora) home on Aug.
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