NBA’s DeMarcus Cousins Supporting Meek Mill Activism … With #Reform Kicks 1/24/2019 10:16 AM PST EXCLUSIVE Boogie Cousins will be making a statement with his shoes when he takes the court Thursday night … rockin’ Puma kicks to support Meek Mill‘s push for criminal justice reform. Meek teamed up with Puma to launch the new Clyde
Month: January 2019
January 24, 2019 10:15AM PT International box office ticked up 1% over 2017 to a record $29.8 billion, helping to drive worldwide moviegoing up 2.7% to a new high-water mark of $41.7 billion. Most of the global increase came from North America, which surged 7% to $11.9 billion. “Avengers: Infinity War” became the seventh film
Coca-Cola is pulling back from the Super Bowl after an 11-year run, opting to run a commercial just before kickoff of the CBS broadcast of the game on February 3, but not in the event itself. CBS is seeking between $5.1 million and $5.3 million for commercial packages that air in the game itself. Ads
Amazon is getting into stand up comedy. The streamer has ordered its first original stand up special: Jim Gaffigan’s “Quality Time,” which will launch on the service in late 2019. “I am so honored to be Amazon’s first original stand up special,” Gaffigan said. “This is going to be exciting.” “Quality Time” will be recorded live
January 24, 2019 10:00AM PT Smart speaker maker Sonos is getting ready to add headphones to its product line-up, according to a new Bloomberg report. However, the product is still in its early stages, and may not debut until next year. A Sonos spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The product under
A neo-noir take on the ‘Double Indemnity’ storyline, and a grade school take on Arthurian Legend. Will you see ‘Serenity’ or ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ in theaters this weekend? ► Buy Your Tickets Now: https://www.fandango.com?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Tune-in to Weekend Ticket every Thursday to help you decide what to watch in theaters this weekend! ►
Marisol Nichols has been a fixture in film and television since the late-1990s, most well-known for her portrayal of Audrey Griswold in “Vegas Vacation,” as well as her turn as a CTU agent on “24,” the Desert Wolf on “Teen Wolf” and now as Hermione Lodge on the CW’s “Riverdale.” Acting is only one of
WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, has been subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to CNN and other news outlets. The report comes a day after Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, said that Cohen wanted to indefinitely postpone his voluntary public testimony before the House Oversight Committee and private testimony before the
UPDATED: In June of last year, Variety spoke with multiple prominent artists who were owed thousands of dollars by the artist-to-fan marketplace PledgeMusic. The company’s CEO and another executive who chose to remain anonymous attributed many of the problems to an unexpected change in the company’s payment fulfillment system, restated their commitment to the company
The world of Gilead is expanding even further in the third season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” with Christopher Meloni and Elizabeth Reaser joining the cast in guest starring roles. Meloni, who is best known for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as well as his current starring role on Syfy’s “Happy!”, will play Commander Winslow,
January 24, 2019 9:15AM PT Sony Music Entertainment today announced that it has entered into a worldwide talent-development partnership with Chris Zarou, manager for Logic, Jon Bellion and others. As part of the agreement they are launching Visionary Records, a new Sony Music imprint “focused on discovering and advancing innovative artistry,” according to the announcement.
January 24, 2019 9:15AM PT AMC has renewed “Ride with Norman Reedus” for a fourth season. “Season 3 was a blast – we had a ton of fun traveling the world and the U.S. with some really awesome guests,” said Reedus. “We’re looking forward to turning that up even further for season four. I can’t
Netflix is streaming directly on TVs in select Hilton rooms, but for now only a few U.S. guests will be able to take advantage of the feature. Hilton is offering access to Netflix service in about 1,800 of its “Connected Rooms” in the United States — just 0.2% of the hotel chain’s 895,000-room global footprint. In
Thought Sundance was just about film premieres? Think again. An increasing number of tech companies are using Sundance to pitch their latest tools to the motion picture industry. Case in point: Cloud storage provider Dropbox is debuting new time-based commenting features for video files at the festival, and Google and Sony are open sourcing a
Launched in 2017, Spain’s Conecta Fiction TV co-production meet has already become one of the most important bridges for the European and Latin America television industries. Held in Galicia’s Santiago de Compostela for the past two years, the 2019 edition of the event will move to the Navarre city of Pamplona, famous for its annual
Maybe it has something to do with Outlander, the lusty Starz show set in 18th century Scotland that developed a serious cult following. Caitriona Balfe’s Victorian costumes and corsetry were almost as appealing as Sam Hueghan wearing, well, not much of anything. STARZ And then there’s The Favourite, the critically acclaimed Victorian comedy centered around
January 24, 2019 8:36AM PT MGM Worldwide Distribution and Mexico’s Televisa have established a format license deal for MGM Television’s competition show, “TKO: Total Knockout.” As part of the deal, Televisa will produce 24 episodes of the CBS format. Companies have also agreed for Televisa to serve as MGM’s production partner in Latin America, designing and operating a production hub that will
MIAMI — Announcing at NATPE one of its first big new deals, Brazil’s Globo Studios has confirmed the sale of Globoplay exclusive series “Harassment” to Mega, Chile’s broadcast network audience leader. The deal, clinched by Globo’s Raphael Correa, comes as “Harassment,” which was released by Globo streaming service Globoplay, has just been selected for the
Sports journalists Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will return to Amazon Prime Video to call “” games for the 2019 NFL season. It will be the third year Amazon is streaming the “TNF” package worldwide. For the 2019 season, “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video again will comprise 11 games total, available to more than
Time and Verizon’s immersive entertainment studio Ryot have teamed up to produce a virtual reality (VR) experience about Martin Luther King jr. and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the seminal moments of the civil rights movement. The experience, titled “The March,” will be shown in museums across the country next
Noah Schnapp of “Stranger Things” fame has joined the voice cast of “Wolves in the Walls,” an animated VR series based on Neil Gaiman’s children’s book by the same title. Schnapp will be voicing the brother of Lucy, the main character of “Wolves,” in the second chapter of the series, which is scheduled to premiere
The Recording Academy today announced the next wave of artists to perform on this year’s 61st annual Grammy Awards: Multiple Grammy nominee Brandi Carlile and H.E.R. will both perform, as will past Grammy nominee Miley Cyrus, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will join Post Malone (following the rapper’s performance with Aerosmith at the MTV Video
January 24, 2019 7:37AM PT Dua Lipa today dropped a new song and video called “Swan Song.” The singer, who is nominated for two Grammys and was honored at Variety’s Hitmakers event last fall, releases the song and video ahead of the Twentieth Century Fox film “Alita: Battle Angel” an action-adventure film from producers James Cameron and Jon Landau and
Adam Carolla is set to keep kvetching on PodcastOne’s network for at least another five years. The podcaster-comedian has extended his exclusive deal with PodcastOne through 2023, covering joint production, distribution, marketing and sales for his entire collection of podcasts. Carolla currently produces more than 15 hours of original podcast programming weekly for PodcastOne, anchored by
WASHINGTON — The drama over President Donald Trump’s insistence on delivering his State of the Union address in the House chamber next Tuesday ended when he announced that he will give the speech when the shutdown ends, just as Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested. Trump’s decision to back off of his demand — unusual in such
Greg Berlanti has been selected by Hollywood publicists as Television Showman of the Year. He will received the honor at the 56th Annual International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards on Feb. 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. ICG National President Steven Poster said, “Greg Berlanti has produced a prodigious amount of quality
It would be one thing if “Polar” were director Jonas Åkerlund’s satirical send-up of American hyper-stylized, hyper-violent exploitative genre pictures. But it’s not — or at least it arrives a decade too late to register as such. What’s clear is that this abhorrent actioner (an adaptation of Victor Santos’ graphic novel “Polar: Came From the
January 24, 2019 6:54AM PT Some six years since their last album, “Modern Vampires of the City,” Vampire Weekend has dropped two new songs — “Harmony Hall” and “2021” — that are the first to come from their forthcoming fourth album, “Father of the Bride,” due this Spring on Columbia Records. Bandleader Ezra Koenig spoke
WASHINGTON — After Netflix’s decision to join the Motion Picture Association of America, the obvious question is, will others follow? Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the MPAA, suggested that it was a possibility. In an interview with Variety, he said that the MPAA’s board last month “gave me full authority, unanimous authority, to
Think of it as MoviePass 2.0. The beleaguered ticketing service is trying to shake off its troubled image as a subscription company in a perpetual state of chaos and near collapse with a new marketing campaign and a fresh array of offerings that are being rolled out this month. The campaign, which includes print ads
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