AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has a keen eye for shrewd business deals. So was he seeing straight in 2004 when he bought the Village Cinema in Greenport, N.Y.? “I would not call it a lucrative business,” he says of his 632-seat, four-theater venue — now called the Greenport Theater — which offers movies all
Month: March 2019
AT&T is pulling out the stops to promote HBO’s “Game of Thrones” final season — as if the popular fantasy epic series needed a corporate-synergy assist to build buzz. Among the telco’s “GOT” promos: It’s running a sweepstakes to give one AT&T customer a full-size replica of the show’s iconic Iron Throne, which carries a
Kelly Clarkson already made a visit to a veritable island of misfit toys when she voiced the lead voice in the upcoming animated film “UglyDolls.” Now she’s going beyond the valley of the dolls and standing up for human girl power with “Broken & Beautiful,” the lead song from the soundtrack, which has no less
Blueface’s “Thotiana” might be a gigantic hit, but it’s also a divisive one. Although the L.A. rapper has co-signs from Cardi B, YG and French Montana, others in the music community have wondered aloud if he might be the worst thing to happen to rap. Count Joe Budden in that camp. On his “Joe Budden
March 28, 2019 8:55AM PT Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has been added to the bill of this Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles, joining fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Harris will be fundraising over the weekend, including an event on Sunday at the home of Michael Kraut and Dan
Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles are starring in medical thriller “The God Committee.” Austin Stark is directing from his own script. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya are co-starring. “The God Committee” explores the U.S. organ transplant system. The movie follows a donor heart being flown to a New York hospital, where a transplant
MoviePass and Sinemia may be floundering, but Atom Tickets still sees opportunity in the movie theater subscription space. However, the ticketing service is going about things very differently from those companies. Atom is launching a new offering that will enable exhibitors to launch their own customized subscription services while relying on Atom’s infrastructure and technology.
April releases settle in the lull between award-season prestige films and summer blockbusters, so Netflix is picking up the entertainment slack with a bunch of classics and brand new releases for next month. “Deliverance” and “All the President’s Men” will be available for streaming alongside new Netflix shows like “No Good Nick” and “You vs.
Cord-cutters who thought they were getting a price break from “virtual” internet pay-TV services may be in for some sticker shock. FuboTV, as of Thursday (March 28), is increasing the subscription price of its base internet TV package for all subscribers by 22%, to $54.99 per month — up $10 from the previous $44.99 monthly
Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, and Richard Madden have joined Sam Mendes’ World War I drama “1917.” DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced Thursday that “1917” will start shooting on April 1 on location in England and Scotland. Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan and Claire Duburcq have also been
March 28, 2019 7:09AM PT The ASCAP Screen Music Awards has announced several honorees to be feted at a May 15 ceremony in Beverly Hills, with “Captain Marvel” composer Pinar Toprak, “Incredibles 2” scorer Michael Giacchino and the “Greatest Showman” songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul all slated for special trophies. Pasek and
Saudi Arabia’s recently established culture ministry has announced a slew of arts initiatives, including plans for the kingdom’s first film festival, a film school and a national film archive. The plans are designed to foster a local film industry. During a ceremony Wednesday evening in the capital of Riyadh, Prince Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan,
The “Burning Sun Gate” scandal is fast becoming one of the most complex – and most sordid — episodes in Korean entertainment history. So called because of the Burning Sun nightclub partially owned by the Bigbang K-pop star Seungri, the case has already focused on allegations of drug distribution, prostitution, and hidden camera footage. More
Check out the official UglyDolls trailer starring Kelly Clarkson! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to UglyDolls: https://www.fandango.com/uglydolls-215650/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: May 10, 2019
Even before officially taking office June 1, incoming Berlinale co-chiefs Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek have unveiled a new team that includes the core of Chatrian’s programming staff when he headed the Locarno Film Festival. Berlin’s new seven-member selection committee includes Locarno’s former head of programming, Marc Peranson – who takes on the same post
LILLE, France — Series Mania’s Forum wrapped Wednesday, the festival proper on Saturday night. Here are 10 takeaways on events to date at the biggest edition ever: 1.NETFLIX: NO IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION IN FRANCE, BUT BEYOND? The role of the independent producer in an Over-the-Top platform world proved the No. 1 talking point of Series Mania.
IMAX Corporation and Cinemark have signed a new deal, Variety has learned. The partnership includes the renewal of all of Cinemark’s existing IMAX locations, as well as the installation of two IMAX theaters. The new venues will include IMAX’s laser projection system, which the company says produces a crisper image. Cinemark will add a 12-channel
Imagine you are 21 years old, living in Switzerland, and wearing cropped wide-leg jeans that you made them yourself from deadstock fabric found in Italy. You wore them in a digital look book that won you a spot on the V Files runway. And now—after a few emails from someone named Mel Ottenberg whom you’ve
March 28, 2019 4:47AM PT President Donald Trump has weighed in on the Jussie Smollett saga, calling prosecutors’ decision to drop all charges against the “Empire” star “an embarrassment to our Nation.” On Twitter, the president called on the FBI and the Justice Department to “review” the “outrageous” case, but failed to provide more specifics.
A bit more than a year after stepping down as CEO of Sony, Kazuo Hirai on Thursday announced that he will be retiring from the company this summer. While he will retire as chairman of Sony on June 18, the company said he will continue to provide counsel as requested by Sony’s management team, acting
CBS Studios International and Scoope Media have inked a licensing deal for an African version of “The Doctors,” the long-running daytime show that blends entertainment with health advice from a panel of real-life doctors. Produced in Nigeria by Scoope Media U.K., the series will premiere in the last quarter of 2019 on the Scoop! SVOD
Terry Bradshaw Defends Big Ben ‘He’s A Great Leader’ 3/28/2019 12:20 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw is going to bat for Ben Roethlisberger … telling TMZ Sports the QB is a “great leader” and the criticism of him from former teammates is incomprehensible. “I don’t understand it,” Bradshaw says … “He’s a great
LILLE, France — People were lined up around the block for hours at Lille’s Le Nouveau Siècle theater on Tuesday night, hoping to get into a keynote speech given by Uma Thurman. She was joined on stage by French journalist Olivier Joyard, where the two discussed highlights from the actress’ blockbuster career as well as
The first scene of Channel 4’s upcoming “Baghdad Central,” created and written by Stephen Butchard and lead-directed by Alice Troughton, captures, with a jolt, the hectic hubbub of an ordinary street scene in Baghdad: One man fixes a container, banging it rhythmically as if it were a drum; there’s the table of street conversation, a
TV has been trying to recapture the magic of “The Twilight Zone” for decades. Since it went off the air for the first time in 1964, the CBS anthology series that merged horror with humanity has been revived twice — in the 1980s and in the early 2000s. Lately, the series’ formula, pasting genre tropes
Journey’s Neal Schon & Wife Suing Live Nation … Your Security Assaulted My Wife!!! 3/27/2019 7:28 PM PDT EXCLUSIVE Journey‘s guitarist, Neal Schon, can’t believe a security guard hired by Live Nation manhandled his wife at one of his concerts … so he claims in a new lawsuit. Schon and his wife, Michaele, are suing Live Nation
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fifth and final season premiere of “Jane The Virgin.” It took five seasons but the CW’s take on a telenovela finally delivered one of the biggest genre tropes: amnesia. Picking up immediately from where the third season left off, Jane (Gina Rodriguez) was
A+E Networks brought out an eclectic group of personalities — from George W. Bush to Sylvester Stallone to Salt-N-Pepa to Garth Brooks — Wednesday night to tout new programming and initiatives coming to History, A&E and Lifetime. The program pitch at A+E’s upfront presentation at Jazz at Lincoln Center seemed like a back-to-basics approach for
When it comes to Dana, the main character in “La Mala Noche,” there are things you can tell just by looking at her: Dana’s wardrobe reveals that she is a prostitute, while her behavior — interpreted by actress Nöelle Schönwald — shows her experience, from the way she talks to her more hesitant clients to
“There are so few things in the world that you can stand up and scream from the rooftops and not care what anyone says, because you know there’s absolute right and absolute wrong,” says Sean Astin, who played Rudy Ruettiger in the quintessential underdog movie, “Rudy.” “And it is an absolute right and an absolute
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