R. Kelly Sobs on Camera ‘I’m Fighting for My F***ing Life!!!’ 3/5/2019 4:09 PM PST Breaking News R. Kelly was distraught talking about the recent allegations against him and pleading for people to believe he’s innocent … shouting, “I’m fighting for my f***ing life!” Kelly sat down with Gayle King Tuesday in his first interview
Month: March 2019
March 5, 2019 4:01PM PT Siobhan Finneran and Hannah John-Kamen have signed on for “The Stranger.” They will star alongside the previously announced Richard Armitage in the Netflix adaptation of the Harlan Coben novel. “Absolutely Fabulous” star Jennifer Saunders has also been cast, in her first major drama role. Anthony Head (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)
There’s a moment I keep remembering that hits me hard. It was the Golden Globes in 2018 at the height of the Times Up movement and I was deejaying a major after-party. I ended the night, as I have so many times, with Michael Jackson’s “Man In the Mirror.” It capped off an empowerment-themed music
Hillary Clinton Drops ‘Mean Girls’ on Prez Trump … Obsessed Much?!? 3/5/2019 3:44 PM PST Donald Trump thought he landed a nice jab at Hillary Clinton by basking in her decision not to run in 2020 — but looks like she’s getting the last laugh … and Regina George would love it! DT took the first
In today’s roundup, the “I Am Richard Pryor” documentary gets a world premiere at SXSW and NBC announces premiere dates for “America’s Got Talent” and “American Ninja Warrior.” CASTING “Girlfriends” alum Khalil Kain will join as a recurring character on the second season of “Bronx SIU” on the Urban Movie Channel, premiering on March 21. He will
March 5, 2019 3:03PM PT Comedic star Tiffany Haddish has inked with UTA. Haddish will next star opposite Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek in the comedy feature “Limited Partners,” as well as alongside Melissa McCarthy and Elisabeth Moss in the crime drama “The Kitchen,” both set to release later this year. Additionally, Haddish will lend
Fans of veteran British electronic-rock outfit The Prodigy were stunned Monday morning to learn that Keith Flint, the group’s wild-eyed, heavily pierced, tattooed and mohawked frontman and visual foil, had died of a suicide. While social media and the British press quickly filled with remembrances and tributes — despite his fearsome appearance, by all accounts
Bracing for a bitter battle with talent agents, the Writers Guild of America is seeking leaders to mobilize its members. WGA West director of member organizing Ann Farriday sent a notice about the efforts on Tuesday afternoon. “If you’re not on a team, and want to stay better informed as the Agency Campaign develops, we
March 5, 2019 2:31PM PT While the words “legendary” and “record store” may fall together a bit oddly for some, one that truly lived up to the billing was New York’s Other Music, which closed in June of 2016 after more than 20 years in business. Renowned for the kind of fringe and hard-to-find and
March 5, 2019 1:58PM PT Shane Rahmani has been named Marvel Entertainment’s senior vice president and general manager of new media, tasked with helming and expanding the company’s digital business, new media production, social distribution and online content. “Marvel is one of entertainment’s most storied brands – a lifestyle to many – and I’m thrilled
Reviews of “Captain Marvel” tend to say the same thing: it’s good entertainment, but falls short of recent Marvel titles. The film delivers a political message, but not to the degree of the firebrand subversiveness of “Black Panther.” And it’s an origin story that nicely elaborates on the Marvel mythology, but not to the scale
One of the greatest games in football is months away from starting, but that isn’t keeping the players from getting warmed up. The NFL and some of the media companies that broadcast some of its most-watched matches have considered the idea of shaking up the Sunday-afternoon packages that regularly air on CBS and Fox, according
WASHINGTON — Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and media mogul, said he will not run for president in 2020, and instead focus on the transition to clean energy and working on other efforts to defeat Donald Trump. “I’ve come to realize that I’m less interested in talking than doing,” Bloomberg wrote in a
March 5, 2019 1:00PM PT Last year, a leaked poster for the upcoming “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie horrified many fans by displaying the eponymous mammal’s strangely buff calves. Now, another leak is giving us an even better look at movie Sonic and nobody’s happy — not even the character’s original creator. The leak comes courtesy
March 5, 2019 1:00PM PT Sara Rue has been cast in a series regular role in the NBC drama pilot “Prism,” Variety has learned. “Prism” is an exploration of a murder trial in which every episode is told through the perspective of a different key person involved. Each new version of the facts ratchets up the
March 5, 2019 1:00PM PT Adesuwa McCalla, the principal of literary management firm MetaMorphic Entertainment, has signed a first-look deal at Amazon. Through MetaMorphic Entertainment, McCalla will develop original series to be available exclusively on the streaming platform. “Since inception, Metamorphic Entertainment has been staunchly committed to developing fresh, inclusive talent,” said McCalla. “I can
New Line Cinema, Sanrio and FlynnPictureCo. are teaming up to develop an English-language film centering on Hello Kitty for the first time in her 45-year history. New Line said the partnership marks the only time Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the toy, has granted film rights to the silent Hello Kitty and friends, including the
“Captain Marvel” is gearing up to recharge the box office. Marvel’s upcoming comic-book adventure starring Brie Larson is heading toward a massive debut, and is expected to earn over $125 million when it launches this weekend across 4,100 North American locations. Some box office sages predict that number could soar north of $145 million over
March 5, 2019 12:42PM PT [embedded content] What if flower crowns were terrifying? The director of “Hereditary,” Ari Aster, is back with another creepy thriller, “Midsommar,” watch the first trailer now. The summer film centers around a vacationing couple in a small Swedish village. The trip starts out slightly idyllic as main character Dani, played
Courtesy Bunions be damned, because your feet are going to look like cute little pot roasts this summer. The barely-there sandals you wore to prom are back and podiatrists worldwide are shaking. The style is single-soled, multi-strapped, sometimes metallic or pastel (to match your taffeta Jessica McClintock), and has a mom-approved mid-heel stiletto. And you
Freeform has put out a 10-episode series order for “Motherland: Fort Salem,” a show about witches in the American military, Variety has learned. The one-hour drama, which has Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick on board as EPs, was created by Eliot Laurence and is set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution
The Tribeca Film Festival has set its full feature slate for 2019, selecting 103 titles including world premieres of films by Jared Leto, Christoph Waltz, and Margot Robbie. The 18th edition of the festival, which runs from April 24 to May 5, will include documentaries from Antoine Fuqua, Werner Herzog, and Abel Ferrara, and music-focused
Harry Nilsson’s catalog is a bit of a Russian doll itself: Anyone who stumbles upon the half-dozen or so songs that show up most in TV, the movies and commercials (“Without You,” “Coconut,” “Jump Into the Fire,” “One (Is the Loneliest Number),” “Everybody’s Talkin’,” “Me and My Arrow”) is inevitably led into a world of
Get ready for robotic speakers to whizz around in your living room while you are having fun in virtual reality: Samsung subsidiary Harman got a patent awarded this week to map sounds from virtual reality (VR) games and experiences to one or more robotic speakers. The patented technology is meant to deal with a shortcoming
A record-breaking outpouring of fan funding for Critical Role’s animated Dungeons & Dragons special has prompted the team to quadruple the length of the project — from 22 minutes originally to a feature-length 88 minutes. Critical Role, which produces a popular weekly live-streamed D&D role-playing show, launched its Kickstarter campaign at 10 a.m. PT Monday.
March 5, 2019 10:30AM PT Nicole Sun has been cast in the Fox single-camera comedy pilot “Richard Lovely,” Variety has learned exclusively. The project follows the title character, the disgruntled author of the best-selling children’s book series, “Mr. Mouse.” He doesn’t hate children, but rather just everything about them. After a publicity fiasco involving an unexpectedly
Now in its 36th year, the Miami Intl. Film Festival continues to reflect the cultural vitality and international mindset of its home city. For festival director Jaie Laplante, the programming’s decidedly global focus is a way of accurately representing the city. “Miami is a very dynamic and cosmopolitan place, really a crossroads between Europe and
CBS has announced that Jeanne Mau, a longtime programming and diversity exec at the company, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Entertainment Diversity and Inclusion. In her new role, Mau will supervise the CBS Directing Initiative and Writers Mentoring Program, while serving as liaison with other networks and studios in their diversity and inclusion
March 5, 2019 10:00AM PT Walton Goggins has been cast in the lead role of the CBS comedy pilot “The Unicorn,” Variety has learned. Goggins will play a recent widower and devoted father to two adolescent girls. The character is described as a big-hearted open-book of a guy, but without his wife, he’s finding himself at
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