Warner Bros.’ “Shazam!” is powering its way to a super second weekend, retaining its No. 1 spot at the box office with an estimated $22 million. Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s remake of “Hellboy” is getting scorched, with just $12 million estimated from 3,303 domestic locations in its debut weekend. That number would place it at No. 3
Month: April 2019
Last summer, Donald Glover snuck off to Cuba to create something — a feature film collaboration, or so the rumors had it, based on scant information other than a photo of Glover and Rihanna posed up during production of their mysterious “Guava Island” project. Creation is what Glover does best, constantly redefining audiences’ ideas of
K-pop superstars BTS, the most popular boy band in world, have smashed YouTube’s record for the most views accrued in the first 24 hours of release with their single “Boy With Luv,” featuring American pop star Halsey. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, “Boy With Luv” had racked up just over 78 million views, according
Suge Knight I Get Why Nipsey Was Loyal to the Hood … But it Made Him a Target 4/13/2019 1:00 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Nipsey Hussle was caught between enormous success and love for his neighborhood, like many other rappers, and that ultimately cost him his life — at least, in Suge Knight‘s eyes. Knight tells
Luke Rockhold Anthony Smith Is A Talent-less Bitch … I’ll Embarrass Him!!! 4/13/2019 12:25 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Luke Rockhold‘s firing back at Anthony Smith … a fighter he says is a soft, talent-less bitch who’d get OWNED in a fight with the former UFC champ. TMZ Sports talked to Luke after he was BLASTED by
Memo to the Spice Girls: Never mind about that whole-group reunion the world has been wanting for the last couple decades. We may officially be covered on girl groups, for a lot of years to come, based on the reception to Blackpink’s first public full-length concert in America at Coachella Friday night. “I have a
Cardi B won’t be visiting Donald Trump in the White House anytime soon. “I hate him. I just hate him,” the rapper said Friday night at the 2019 Spark Party in WeHo. In an exclusive nterview with Variety, the Grammy-winning artist said she couldn’t elaborate on the Trump comment (“I have a court case, LOL”)
April 12, 2019 9:24PM PT The clock included her favorite number, starting at exactly 13 days out. A countdown clock appeared on Taylor Swift’s website at midnight ET Saturday morning, suggesting that something is imminent in… fans of her numerology may have already guessed it… 13 days (as of that moment). The 8-ball says “signs
Deborah Dugan, CEO of the nonprofit AIDS organization (RED), has been selected to succeed Neil Portnow as the Recording Academy’s president/CEO, a source close to the situation confirmed to Variety. She will replace outgoing president/CEO Neil Portnow in July; the news was first reported by Billboard. Reps for the Academy and for Dugan either had
April 12, 2019 8:33PM PT Jaden Smith got higher than just about anyone at Coachella during his mid-afternoon Friday set — but not in the way you might expect. For a few songs in the young rapper’s high energy performance, he performed on the roof of a Tesla car that dangled from several dozen feet
The room at the Beverly Hilton was booked until midnight. But it took only about an hour on Friday afternoon for contract negotiations to break down and war to ensue between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood’s top talent agencies. UTA co-president Jay Sures and CAA’s Bryan Lourd had testy exchanges with WGA West
April 12, 2019 7:51PM PT Universal Pictures is developing a wedding comedy after winning an auction for a pitch by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling, who will write the screenplay with Goor, is attached to star alongside Chopra and will potentially direct. Kaling will produce for her Kaling International, Chopra for Purple
April 12, 2019 6:43PM PT The New York Indian Film Festival has announced three of the films it will showcase during its annual week-long event in May. The festival, which will take place May 7-12 at the Village East Cinemas in Manhattan, will screen “Sir,” “Photograph” and “The Last Color” throughout the week, followed by
In today’s film news roundup, Leslie Jones and Kristen Bell get roles in “Queenpins,” “Sing 2” gets a new date and Sid Ganis launches a U.S.-China project. CASTINGS “Saturday Night Live” star Leslie Jones and Kristen Bell are attached to star as Phoenix housewives in “Queenpins.” The story centers on creation of a scheme to
April 12, 2019 6:01PM PT Elton John biopic “Rocketman” has been set for a May 16 world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Taron Egerton stars as John with Paramount Pictures distributing worldwide. It’s directed by Dexter Fletcher, who previously took the reins on Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” after director Bryan Singer was fired.
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have told their 15,000 members to fire their agents. Members began sending the dismissal letters to agencies soon after the announcement that negotiations for a new agreement with agenices had collapsed. The unprecedented move came with the WGA’s negotiating committee announcing late Friday afternoon that it had not
Coming of age during the post-grunge, nu-metal explosion of the mid-‘90s, Staind, fronted by Aaron Lewis, saw success across seven albums, particularly around its darkly emotive 2001 ballad, “It’s Been Awhile.” But Lewis the solo artist has gone country. It’s been nearly a decade since he kicked things off with the 2010 single “Country Boy,”
Filmatique, one of the rising online distributors of international cinema, has launched its first Talents Initiative, an online film festival promoting first and second projects made by budding filmmakers from around the world. A portmanteau of “film” and “boutique,” the web site launched in 2017, releasing a single title each week under a monthly concentration,
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the “This Is Us” Season 3 finale. “This Is Us” wrapped up its third season with a flash-forward into the future, which introduced much new information about the Pearson family — and also brought about many new questions. Justin Hartley, who plays Kevin Pearson, was in the midst of
Jermaine Jackson’s Ex He’s Been Stiffing Me on Support!!! For Nearly a Full Year 4/12/2019 3:34 PM PDT EXCLUSIVE Jermaine Jackson is hanging his estranged wife out to dry, financially speaking … refusing to pay her a cent of spousal support … according to new docs she’s filed in court. Halima Rashid, who filed to
April 12, 2019 3:22PM PT In today’s roundup, Hulu announces July premiere dates for Mindy Kaling’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Veronica Mars” starring Kristen Bell. DATES Hulu has announced that Mindy Kaling’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” will premiere on the streamer on July 31. Richard Curtis, who wrote the original film of
One of the most anticipated music festivals of the year kicks off in Indio, Calif., on Friday, and luckily for non-festival goers, many of the first weekend’s performances will be available to stream on YouTube. Sixty-nine artists are already confirmed to live stream their Coachella sets, such as headliners Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande, and Tame
Welcome to “TV Take,” Variety‘s television podcast. In this week’s episode, Variety executive editor of TV, Daniel Holloway, talks with John Bradley, who plays Samwell Tarley on “Game of Thrones.” The final season of the HBO drama premieres Sunday, April 14th. At the end of season 7, Sam and his partner Gilly (Hannah Murray) left the Citadel, a
The success of Korean superstars BTS has paved the way for multiple K-pop acts to try their chances in the U.S. — but few will be making their U.S. concert debut with as much panache as Blackpink. This and next weekend, the quartet will be the first K-pop girl group to perform at Coachella Valley Music
UPDATED: Gary Stewart, a veteran of Rhino Records and Apple Music and a widely known figure on the Los Angeles rock scene for more than 40 years, has died, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office confirmed to Variety. He was 62. The Santa Monica Police Department confirmed that he died by suicide. A Los Angeles
When Victor Hugo wrote the 1900-page tome “Les Misérables” in 1862, he gave the world a transcending and sweeping tale that dissected the division of class while breathing life into complex characters spanning decades. Unfortunately, no matter what your stance on musical theater, much of that tome has since been lost in Broadway and big
Ronan McKenzie for Universal Standard Who gets to look like a fantasy? It’s a contentious question for fashion, a realm where exclusion and power are often seamed together, and “beauty” becomes defined by limitations instead of ideals. That’s why today’s kind of exciting. It marks the launch of Rodarte x Universal Standard, a collaboration that
April 12, 2019 2:00PM PT Game developer Robin Hunicke is appearing as a guest judge on Bravo’s “Project Runway” next week, she confirmed in a tweet on Friday. “Cat’s out of the bag!” she said in response to a games editor who posted about her appearance. “Next week, I will appear on @BravoTV as a
Hollywood writers and agents are scheduled to make a final run at revamping the rules governing how agents represent writers with a potentially chaotic scenario approaching. Negotiations are scheduled to begin again at 3 p.m. PDT — a mere nine hours before the expiration of the current franchise agreement. The Writers Guild of America is
Though summer is in sight, spring has only just begun and with it comes in-between weather to confuse the heck out of us and our wardrobes. We’re all familiar with those days that start out brisk, heat up around noon, and take a chilling dip at sunset, but rather than dealing with haphazard outfits that
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