Original content commissioning and localization no longer sound like particularly inspired strategies for an Asian streaming service. Everyone from global giants to regional specialists appear to expound similar mantras. But the twin tracks, employed for over three years now, have turned Viu into an operation that is admired by its competitors. The company is now
Month: April 2019
YouTube, in its biggest swing yet at the sports-media biz, landed a deal with Major League Baseball to live-stream 13 games during the 2019 season worldwide — free for viewers to watch and available exclusively through YouTube in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. YouTube’s first-ever exclusive live game distribution partnership with MLB will cover
Tamar Braxton Sister Towanda Owes Her $35k … Bankruptcy Messes with Family 4/30/2019 12:30 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Tamar Braxton‘s learning the hard way lending money to family is not always wise … especially when they filed for bankruptcy. Tamar’s older sister, Towanda, hit a rough patch … filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy — that’s the serious kind.
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu and Thai helmer Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya have boarded Netflix’s planned retelling of last year’s dramatic rescue of a boys’ soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand. Chu and Poonpiriya, who directed Asian hit film “Bad Genius,” are partnering with Netflix and SK Global Entertainment on the story
We tend to think of the Patty Hearst affair as a chain of galvanic events, because that’s what a lot of it was. The kidnapping itself, on Feb. 4, 1974. The weeks that Hearst spent in a closet, blindfolded, subjected to death threats, which wound up (intentionally or not) as the psychological trigger for her
Like its comics source material, Amazon Prime Video’s new original series “The Boys” sets out to explore “what would happen it you combined the worst of celebrity with the worst of politics,” according to showrunner Eric Kripke. At the world premiere, held at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night, Kripke explained that he took
Marten Rabarts, current head of EYE International at the EYE Film Museum Netherlands, has been appointed Film Festival Director – Kaiurungi to lead the New Zealand International Film Festival. He starts the new position in October 2019 and will oversee the 2020 edition. The 2019 NZIFF, taking place in July and August, has been programmed
Sarah Silverman is headed to the stage. Well, maybe not Silverman herself, but the story of the comedian is, at least. She gave an update on the musical based on her memoir, “The Bedwetter,” during a chat with Mike Birbiglia for the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night. She revealed that the musical, which was
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3, titled “The Long Night.” “Game of Thrones” fans waited seven and a half seasons for the full strength of the Night King and his army to descend on the living. The moment he unleashed his full power was always going
April 29, 2019 5:09PM PT “Grey’s Anatomy” comfortably came out as the highest-rated scripted show in Live+7 for the week of April 8. The ABC show saw an 80% increase from a 1.5 to a 2.7 rating in the key 18-49 demographic after a week’s delay, beating “Modern Family,” which came in second with a
“Avengers: Endgame” shattered just about every conceivable opening weekend box office record with its unprecedented $1.22 billion global debut. The hype surrounding Marvel’s epic finale is nothing like Hollywood has seen before. But does the blockbuster have enough momentum to become the highest grossing movie of all time? That distinction currently belongs to James Cameron’s
Promoting strong female characters was very much on brand for several of Disney Channel’s star characters at Saturday’s Disney Channel Fan Fest held at California Adventure Park, a day-long event that treated kids and their families to a bevy of fan-focused activities, from Q&A sessions to musical performances and meet and greets with Disney Channel
April 29, 2019 4:24PM PT Nutopia, an entertainment blockchain-powered financing platform, has opened for project submissions, with the support of the UCLA Venture Accelerator. Nutopia is expected to launch this May. June Chu, Nutopia co-founder and CEO, created the company with the help of UCLA’s accelerator program. Nutopia has grown into a multimillion-dollar international venture.
April 29, 2019 4:07PM PT AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan saw his 2018 compensation fall 30% from the previous year to $20.5 million. Sapan earned a salary of $2 million and a bonus of $4.6 million, according to AMC Networks’ annual proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sapan also received stock awards valued
This year, the MTV Video Music Awards are heading across the Hudson River to Newark, N.J. — hitting the Garden State for the first time ever — and the 2019 VMAs will feature a unique Twitter live-streaming video angle. The VMAs are set for Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to be held at Newark’s Prudential Center
April 29, 2019 3:39PM PT Netflix has renewed “On My Block” for a third season. The second season of the series debuted on March 29. The third season will consist of eight episodes while the first two seasons were both 10 episodes. The series is a coming of age comedy about four friends navigating their
In today’s TV news roundup, CBS will air a “Big Bang Theory” special after the series finale and Showtime expands “Desus & Mero” to two nights per week this summer. DATES Showtime will expand its new late-night talk show “Desus & Mero” to two nights per week starting this summer. The show will air on Mondays
April 29, 2019 3:30PM PT Twitter is continuing to bulk up on live video — but its strategy is less of a volume play than an attempt to build deeper connections with targeted audiences on the social platform through partnerships with media companies and sports leagues. Twitter announced a series of new and expanded deals
John Singleton had just turned 24 when the Academy Award nominations were announced in January 1992, making him the youngest filmmaker ever to compete for a best director statue — as well as the first African-American to do so. This was a quarter-century before #OscarSoWhite hashtag started holding the Academy to task for slighting voices
You get the idea that Jason Aldean is probably not the type of guy who intently studies his own press clippings. That may be a good thing today, because although he was the ostensible headliner for the third and final day of the 2019 Stagecoach Country Festival — and, to be sure, commanded by far
April 29, 2019 2:30PM PT Hollywood is reeling after news broke on Monday that John Singleton has died at the age of 51. The Oscar-nominated director of “Boyz n the Hood” and “Shaft” suffered a debilitating stroke two weeks ago. On social media, filmmakers and actors such as Jordan Peele, Regina King, and Robert Townsend
Natalie Morales’ character on the new NBC sitcom “Abby’s” is believed to be the first bisexual lead on a primetime sitcom. But Morales notes that it’s not the character’s defining characteristic. “It’s one of the many things about her but it doesn’t define our show,” she told Variety‘s “My Favorite Episode” podcast. “I’ve been really
Universal Pictures and CJ Entertainment are teaming up for a remake of the hit Korean comedy “Extreme Job” with Kevin Hart eyeing the starring role and Tracy Oliver on board to write the adapted screenplay. CJ Entertainment is developing and producing the remake along with Hart’s HeartBeat production banner with Francis Chung producing for CJ
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read before watching “The Long Night,” the third episode of “Game of Thrones’” final season. There’s never been an episode of TV like “The Long Night.” The long-awaited Battle of Winterfell delivered 82 minutes of heart-stopping, overwhelming, and extremely chaotic warfare on a truly massive scale, bringing the ultimate showdown of
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3, titled “The Long Night.” In last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” Lyanna Mormont — played by Bella Ramsey — once again stole the show and proved, for the last time, that standing up to giants is what she
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, the animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie” and the documentary “Knock Down The House”
John Singleton, writer-director of “Boyz n the Hood” and industry pioneer, who was the first African American to earn an Oscar nomination for best director, has died. He was 51. Singleton suffered a stroke after experiencing weakness in his legs, and was admitted to the hospital on April 17. He was taken off life support
Investors don’t care about big fines, as long as companies still make a ton of money — but all bets are off if revenue growth doesn’t live up expectations. That’s one of the take-aways from the market’s response to Alphabet’s Q1 2019 earnings report Monday afternoon. Google’s corporate mothership generated revenue of $36.4 billion during
Showtime has renewed the comedy series “Black Monday” for a second season. The show stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, and Paul Scheer as employees of a Wall Street trading firm in the year leading up to Black Monday, the day international stock markets crashed in 1987. It’s the story of how a group
Queen frontman and “‘American Idol’ legend,” to quote host Ryan Seacrest, returned to where it all started to mentor the current season’s top eight finalists for a Queen-themed night of hits. It’s hard to believe that just 10 years ago, Lambert first performed with Queen on the “Idol” stage and began his journey with the
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