Cardi B is quickly achieving fashion icon status. Now she’s collaborating with one of her favorite brands (and a favorite of influencers everywhere)–Fashion Nova. But we’ll have to wait until November 15 for Cardi B x Fashion Nova’s massive collaboration, a first for the e-commerce brand, to officially drop. The collection will include 80 pieces
Month: October 2018
“The Daily Show” makes fun of CNN, but it’s not supposed to work like CNN. That dynamic will change a bit come November 6, when the Comedy Central late-night mainstay goes live on Election Night. “In the control room, it’s madness,” says Jen Flanz, an executive producer who has been with the program since 1998,
Twitter is reportedly set to scrap its “like” feature, a move that would be intended to improve the overall quality of the interactions on the platform. According to a report by the Telegraph, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees at an in-house event last week that he “was not a fan of the heart-shaped button” and
MEXICO CITY — Morbido Festival, Mexico’s most important event for genre cinema, has announced that Spain’s Paco Plaza, “Veronica” director and co-creator of the 2007-14 “Rec,” the breakout hit found-footage horror movie series, will be attending the festival and writing a script for one of its newest initiatives. This year, Morbido Group renovated the haunted
A “Talking Tom and Friends” movie may be heading to the multiplex as developer Outfit7 teams with “Assassin’s Creed” producer Jean-Julien Baronnet to adapt the mobile app into a feature film. “Talking Tom,” a wisecracking cat that responds to gestures made on smartphone or tablet screens, was first introduced eight years ago. The family friendly
“Companies like Google and Facebook, now among the largest companies in the world, must step up to greater responsibility for the theft of creative content that they facilitate, and take proactive steps,” the letter reads. “While the creative communities recognize that the need for greater platform responsibility extends far beyond copyright infringement, our industry has
WASHINGTON — The MPAA is marking the 50th anniversary of its film ratings by releasing data on the breakdown of how movies have been rated over the last half century. The R rating has been placed on far and away the majority of the movies since then, more than half of the almost 30,000 titles
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continued to blame the media for anger and polarization in the political sphere, calling the “fake news media” the “true enemy of the people.” He’s used the reference before, but in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue and the mailing of pipe bombs to some
The Music Modernization Act, which was signed by President Trump earlier this month, provided a much-needed update to outdated copyright laws. While a great victory for creators and rights-holders, it should be just the first step, argues SoundExchange president/CEO Michael Huppe (pictured above). The signing of the Music Modernization Act earlier this month will be
The third hour of NBC’s “Today” will look a lot like the first and second hours of “Today.” For today. In the wake of the cancellation of Megyn Kelly’s hour of the program, NBC is planning – for now – to utilize the crew that anchors the first two flagship hours of the show to
In Anna Odell’s much-anticipated ”X&Y,” which world premieres as the opening film at the Stockholm Film Festival, the director also plays the leading role alongside Mikael Persbrandt, one of Sweden’s most renowned actors. Odell spoke to Variety about the film. Odell is one of Sweden’s best-known contemporary artists and, since her directorial feature debut –
October 29, 2018 4:54AM PT Love is in the air at German broadcaster and media group ProSiebenSat.1, which has bought U.S. online dating site eHarmony. ProSiebenSat.1 owns the producers behind the “Married at First Sight” reality series, and is increasingly taking its matchmaking efforts beyond just TV. It had already bought into dating business Parship
October 29, 2018 4:03AM PT For the fourth year, the Stockholm Impact Award, which comes with a prize of SEK1 million ($110,000) and a trophy designed by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, will be handed to a film playing at the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival that “reflect our times.” This year the organizers are expanding the
Jan Frouman will exit Red Arrow Studios early next year and step down from the board of its parent company, the German media giant and broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1. Frouman (pictured) will depart production and distribution group Red Arrow at end-Feb. 2019 when his current contract expires. At that point James Baker will move up from COO
MADRID — Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to “The Consequences” (“Las consecuencias”), writer-director Claudia Pinto Emperador’s follow-up to her 2013 feature debut, “The Longest Distance,” which marked out the Spanish-Venezuelan writer-director as a talent to track. A Spain-Netherlands-Belgium co-production, “The Consequences” won a €330,000 ($376,000) conditionally repayable non-interest loan for
Before Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” – the acclaimed period-piece centering on the rivalry of two female courtiers, vying for the attention of England’s queen – closes the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival on Nov. 18, the event will have offered its audience 150 films, 39% of which are directed by women, a higher percentage than most international
Feature documentaries about Chaka Khan and Prince are on Kew Media Distribution’s slate for the AFM. Kew is building a profile in music documentaries, launching “Chuck Berry” at Mipcom and recently sealing deals with Showtime and Sky for “Teddy Pendergrass – If You Don’t Know Me.” In Michael J. Kirk’s “Mr Nelson: On the North Side,”
As Brazil falls heedlessly into far-right political clutches, the liberal message of Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar and André Catoto’s ravishing animated feature “Tito and the Birds” turns out to be more unhappily timely than its makers would have hoped: Put simply, a society gripped by fear will never take flight. If the boy-against-the-world allegory carrying this
October 28, 2018 10:15PM PT Gab.com, the Twitter-like service used by members of the fringe right, suspended its operations Sunday night after both its hosting provider and its domain name host cancelled their business relationships with the company. The backlash against Gab comes after news broke that the service was frequented by Robert Bowers, who allegedly
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not seen Episode 4 of Season 9 of “The Walking Dead,” titled “The Obliged” The demise of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) draws ever closer, with this episode teasing Rick’s swan song multiple times. But first… The episode begins with Michonne (Danai Gurira). She is working dilligently
October 28, 2018 5:42PM PT Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the global streaming giant is planning an aggressive push into the Indian market. It will involve increased production and may include a reduced subscription price. “We have 10 original shows in production right now and six original films coming up for 2019 and
If American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to be taken at his word, the Asia Society’s U.S.-China Entertainment Summit taking place Tuesday in Los Angeles could be a short meeting. Pompeo this week said that the U.S. would oppose China “at every turn.” Janet Yang, noted producer, and chair of the summit, says there
WASHINGTON — The day after the 2016 presidential election, UK comedian Tom Walker scored a viral video hit with his take on what Hillary Clinton did wrong and how Donald Trump won. On the latest edition of Variety‘s PopPolitics on SiriusXM, Walker, who plays reporter Jonathan Pie, says that he fears that many late-night comedians and
“The Predator” opened on top of the Chinese box office after a gap of some seven weeks for a Hollywood movie. But its $19.5 million haul was indicative of a continuation of the recent slump in theatrical takings in the Middle Kingdom. Another newcomer, Chinese animated romance, “Crystal Sky of Yesterday” took second place with
Country singer Freddie Hart, a World War II veteran who had a run of No. 1 hits in the early 1970s and won CMA, ACM and Grammy awards for his smash “Easy Loving,” died Saturday in Burbank at age 91. Hart’s career encompassed several eras of country music, as he began his recording career as
Saturday’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the worst attack ever in the U.S. to target the Jewish community, has caused an outpouring of grief and rage among notable figures in entertainment. The shooter, identified as Robert D. Bowers, was reportedly shouting anti-Semitic slurs as he opened fire, killing 11 congregants
“Halloween” continues to cash in on the spooky holiday spirit, leading the international box office with $25 million from 62 territories overseas. Universal and Blumhouse’s R-rated thriller also made a killing in North America where it came in at No. 1 with $32 million. Director David Gordon Green’s film — starring Jamie Lee Curtis as
“Suspiria” bewitched the indie box office, nabbing the best screen average of the year. Luca Guadagnino’s arthouse remake of “Suspiria” summoned $179,806, an especially impressive haul considering the horror film opened in just two locations. That averages out to a massive $89,903 per venue. “Suspiria” played at Regal Union Square in New York and Arclight Hollywood in Los
October 28, 2018 9:49AM PT An executive from Fox Business Network said the cable outlet would pull from rotation a recent broadcast of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” featuring a guest making remarks about a “Soros-occupied State Department” that has spurred social-media pushback in the wake of Saturday’s shooting tragedy at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “We condemn the
“Halloween” easily stayed No. 1 at the domestic box office in its second weekend as the spooky holiday nears. Universal and Blumhouse’s slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis picked up another $32 million, marking a 58% decline from its impressive debut. Directed by David Gordon Green, “Halloween” crossed $100 million on Friday. Holdovers “A Star
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