In opting to rebrand his festival with a simple, four letter moniker, GIFF director Emmanuel Cuenod knowingly invokes comparisons to Toronto’s TIFF and Austin SXSW and welcomes the association. “Our central aim is to present a program full of strong and disruptive content, and to do so with a way of working that hews closer
Month: November 2018
Operating a mid-tiered European festival within the fall corridor means confronting a certain truth: There are a number of other festivals with similar programming mandates, and all are competing for eyes and attention. Confronted with this intractable fact, Geneva Intl. Film Festival director Emmanuel Cuenod has spent the past several years working to develop for
Hong Kong filmmaker Chan Tze-woon recently returned from a fruitful trip to the Busan Intl. Film Festival. The 31-year-old’s new project, “Blue Island,” was selected to take part in the Asian Cinema Fund during the festival, where he met producers from South Korea and the U.S. and film fest directors who might be interested in
PLAYBACK is a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday. Rami Malek received the opportunity of a lifetime with “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the role of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury. Moving from the quiet and reserved character he portrays on television’s
Heather Locklear Sued Wished Death By AIDS On EMT’s Kids 11/1/2018 4:08 PM PDT EXCLUSIVE Heather Locklear was vicious, violent and wished death by AIDS on the children of an EMT that was placing her on a gurney during her June arrest … so says the EMT in a newly filed lawsuit. Jennifer Hayn-Hiton — a
Things are changing fast in China’s entertainment industry. The country’s film business is expected to enter a period of slowdown as the government continues to crack down on tax evasion after the eruption of the scandals surrounding Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (pictured above) and the war epic “Unbreakable Spirit.” Many productions in the making have
In today’s TV News Roundup, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” announces an hour-long holiday special, and Molly Ringwald joins the”Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” reboot. DATES VH1 will air “Rupaul’s Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular,” a one-hour special bringing back eight past franchise favorites to compete for the title of Drag Race Xmas Queen: Eureka O’Hara, Jasmine
Shawn Mendes, Bebe Rexha, the Chainsmokers, Halsey, Rita Ora, Kelsea Ballerini, and The Struts will all perform at the 2018 “Victoria’s Secret Holiday Special.” The event will take place in New York, following recent productions in London, Paris, and Shanghai, and air Sunday, Dec. 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Television Network, streaming and
So far in its short history, Tangren Cultural Film is little known outside the specialty film corner of its Australian home base. But splashy branding, useful give-aways, and an events program at the American Film Market in Santa Monica are aimed at quickly raising its profile. That is in keeping with the leap to another
More than 400 SAG-AFTRA members picketed the New York office of advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty on Thursday, six weeks after the union struck the company. The rally took the form of a mock bake sale to raise funds for BBH. The union told its 160,000 members on Sept. 20 not to work for the
When Emmanuel Cuenod came on board the Geneva Intl. Film Festival in 2013, he took the reins of a markedly different event than the one about to unfurl Nov. 2-10. For one thing, the festival went by a different name. At its inception in 1995, the festival was known as Tous Ecrans — French for
Peter Capaldi has joined the all-star voice cast for the BBC and Netflix adaptation of “Watership Down,” and Sam Smith is recording the theme song for the animated miniseries. News had already leaked about other voice cast members, including James McAvoy, John Boyega, Olivia Colman, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Daniel Kaluuya, and Taron Egerton. The BBC has now confirmed
CBS’ newly installed leadership team had something of a coming out event on Thursday as the company released strong third quarter earnings. Joe Ianniello, CBS’ president and acting CEO, presided over a conference call with Wall Street analysts along with David Nevins, the Showtime chief who was upped to CBS’ chief content officer last month,
Miserabilism has become a nearly lost art in Nashville as country music has grown increasingly, buoyantly exurban. (You know you’re old if the ancient joke about playing a country record backward and getting your wife, dog and truck back makes a lick of sense.) But leave it to some of the genre’s leading ladies, whose
Live Nation Entertainment today released financial results for the past quarter and the year to date, and reports Q3 2018 was the “best quarter ever” for all of its divisions: concerts, sponsorship, and ticketing. According to the announcement, for the quarter ended Sept. 30, revenue was up 11%, operating income was up 16% and AOI
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton There’s something electrifying about a collision of icons. Case in point: Louis Vuitton’s most recognizable motifs—the monogram flower and the letter V—cross paths for the first time in a high jewelry collection. Together they form a subtle, albeit luminous, coat of arms on the necklaces, chokers, earrings, rings, and bracelets of
Apple didn’t sell as many iPhones during its most recent quarter as Wall Street had hoped, and investors responded by sending the company’s stock down 7% in after-hours trading. The Cupertino, Calif., company sold close to 47 million iPhones during the quarter ending on Sept. 30, which is about the same amount it sold a
Hulu is now the exclusive U.S. streaming home to “King of the Hill” — all 259 episodes from all 13 seasons of the animated sitcom. The streaming-video provider has added all seasons of “King of the Hill” exclusively to its service, under a deal expanding its licensing agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution. In
Google CEO Sundar Pichai claimed the company has “drawn a very, very hard line” on sexual harassment, and that “it is a different place” now than it was several years ago. Pichai, speaking Thursday at the New York Times’ DealBook conference, was responding to the NYT report last week that several senior Google execs — including
Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox “It’s not a concert, it’s a fashion show,” Freddie Mercury once famously said. And any superfan of the Queen frontman or rock ‘n roll devotee can attest to the rock god’s larger than life stage presence and unconventional sartorial taste, which has inspired legions of musicians, artists, and fans
CBS said third-quarter profit rose largely on strength in revenue from affiliate and subscription fees, a testament to the company’s ongoing efforts to find sources of revenue not related to the advertising that fuels its flagship TV network. The quarterly report is the first the company has delivered since the ouster of former Chairman and
Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell’s widow Vicki has filed a medical malpractice suit against his doctor, claiming that Dr. Robert Koblin “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed Cornell “dangerous mind-altering controlled substances… which impaired [his] cognition, clouded his judgement and caused him to engage in dangerous impulsive behaviors that he was unable to control, costing him his life.” Cornell
November 1, 2018 1:13PM PT After years of discussing a sequel to the Oscar-winning hit, Ridley Scott looks ready to return to the coliseum as the director has begun development on a new “Gladiator” pic with Paramount on board to distribute. “The Town” scribe Peter Craig will pen the script. The original pic starred Russell
120dB Film Finance has executed a memorandum of understanding with a New York-based investment management firm for $100 million of financings with 100 loans during its 14-year history. The company made the announcement Thursday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif. Founded in 2004, the company offers gap, presale, tax credit, P&A, bridge, and finish
Verizon’s Oath struck a deal with Roku to distribute live and on-demand content from Yahoo and other media properties on the device maker’s free-to-watch Roku Channel. None of the Oath programming will be exclusively available on the Roku Channel. That will also continue to be available for free on Oath’s owned-and-operated sites and apps. Through
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November 1, 2018 12:59PM PT Canal Plus has acquired exclusive broadcasting rights to England’s Premier League soccer matches which will kick off in August 2019. The deal will give Canal Plus subscribers access to the 380 Premier League games during the 2020/21 season across multiple territories in Europe. The value of the deal is in
November 1, 2018 12:49PM PT Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet” should gobble up the competition when it hits theaters during a crowded Thanksgiving weekend. Before the animated sequel can claim victory, it will have to fend off a heavyweight boxer and a baddie with a bow and arrow. “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the sequel to
November 1, 2018 11:57AM PT Madrid-based Latido Films has closed high-profile deals on two flagship titles, licensing Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Toronto-San Sebastian player “The Realm” to China’s Heyday, Rialto for Australia and the U.K.’s Signature Entertainment, as well as selling Spain’s Oscar submission “Champions” to Japan’s Synca Creations. The sales mark part of a score or
‘Frozen 2’ Release Moves Up a Week – Variety You will be redirected back to your article in seconds November 1, 2018 11:52AM PT The wait never bothered us anyway, but “Frozen” fans will get to see Anna and Elsa back on the big screen a little sooner than expected. Disney announced “Frozen 2” has