June 6, 2019 5:58PM PT Bill Skarsgard, who broke out as Pennywise the Clown in “It,” is attached to star in the drama “Gilded Rage,” sources tell Variety. Director Charlie McDowell is set to write and direct the movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker producing via their Nine Stories banner. Jeremy Steckler of Conde
Month: June 2019
June 6, 2019 5:16PM PT Sony Pictures has updated their release dates for upcoming films. Kevin Hart will star in “Fatherhood” coming out March 3, 2020. Alfre Woodard plays Hart’s mother-in-law and Melody Hurd will play Hart’s daughter in the dramedy, which is based on a true story about Matt Logelin, who had to raise
Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett kicked off Wednesday’s NBA Finals game at the Oracle Arena in Oakland with a heavy metal rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Taking position on the court in front of a projection of American flags, the two guitarists traded licks with Hammett taking the lead and Hetfield providing the
June 6, 2019 4:35PM PT Frank Grillo and Jake Allyn will play father-and-son Texas ranchers in “No Man’s Land,” a modern Western drama from director Conor Allyn. Allyn and David Barraza Ibañez penned the script, which is inspired by the real-life “no man’s land” between the U.S.- Mexico border on the Rio Grande and the
June 6, 2019 4:26PM PT “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage is in negotiations to star opposite Rosamund Pike in the thriller “I Care a Lot,” sources tell Variety. J Blakeson penned the script and will direct with shooting scheduled for this month. Pike will play Marla Grayson, a highly successful legal guardian with a
If you didn’t know better, you might imagine that Neil Young was making a political statement by choosing now as the time to release “Tuscaloosa,” a live album recorded at the University of Alabama in 1973, which includes as one of its fiery highlights “Alabama,” a sort of sequel to “Southern Man” that helped further
June 6, 2019 3:38PM PT “Lucifer” is coming to an end — again. Variety has confirmed that the series has been renewed for a fifth and final season at Netflix. The series previously aired on Fox for three seasons before Netflix revived it for a fourth. The fourth season debuted on the streaming service in
In today’s roundup, Netflix releases the trailer for the third season of “Jessica Jones,” and Fox drops a short teaser trailer for its “Beverly Hills, 90210” reboot. FIRST LOOKS Fox has released a meta teaser trailer for its upcoming revival of “Beverly Hills, 90210.” The clip shows returning cast members Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie
Dr. John, the flamboyant New Orleans singer-pianist whose hoodoo-drenched music made him the summarizing figure of the grand Crescent City R&B/rock ‘n’ roll tradition, died Thursday of a heart attack at age 77. “Towards the break of day June 6, iconic music legend Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., known as Dr. John, passed away of a
In the second chapter of AMC’s “The Terror” franchise, a number of suspicious deaths rock a a tight-knight Japanese-American during World War II. As the season progresses, the show explores the internment camps, something which showrunner Alexander Woo believes has been thus far underrepresented in storytelling. “There has been criminally very little done on-screen,” Woo
The 2019 CMT Music Awards, which recognizes the best videos in the country music space, saw a significant bump in viewership from last year’s edition. Last night’s awards show, which was hosted by Little Big Town, hit 2.7 million total viewers across the multiple channels on which it was broadcast (CMT, Paramount, TVLand, MTV, MTV2,
June 6, 2019 2:48PM PT Gold Circle Films, the production company behind “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and the “Pitch Perfect” trilogy, was hit with a $14.1 million judgment in a New York court on Thursday. The ruling stems from a long-running dispute between Gold Circle and Sandton Capital, a New York hedge fund that
BuzzFeed expanded the role Cindy Vanegas-Gesuale, most recently head of programming for BuzzFeed News, to also oversee the digital-media company’s original video production unit. Vanegas-Gesuale takes over for Lauren Dolgen, who last month exited as head of BuzzFeed Studios after a year to join Paramount Network. “Cindy and the BuzzFeed Studios team will continue to
June 6, 2019 2:37PM PT Johnnie Planco, a former WMA agent and co-founder of the Parseghian Planco management and production company, died on Sunday from a brain and respiratory infection. He was 68. Planco started out in the WMA mailroom in 1972 and rose in the ranks at the talent agency before he left in
June 6, 2019 2:16PM PT Advertisers want to visit “Riverdale” once again. The CW expects to notch an increase in advertiser commitments for its primetime schedule, a sign of robust Madison Avenue activity in TV’s annual “upfront” sales market. CW secured more in advance commitments than it did in 2018, according to a person familiar
The inaugural Metarama Gaming + Music Festival is coming to Las Vegas in October, its organizers announced on Wednesday. The festival takes place Oct. 19-20 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds and will showcase the latest marquee gaming, esports, and live music talent. Information about the event’s lineup, activities, and ticket sales is coming soon.
WarnerMedia’s streaming service has given a straight-to-series order to the drama “Tokyo Vice” starring Ansel Elgort, Variety has learned. The series is based on based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name, which is a first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Elgort will star as Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who
Forever Dog is barking up a batch of new content. The comedy podcast network, which recently announced a TV and streaming development partnership with National Lampoon, is launching 11 new shows to add to its lineup of over 30 podcasts. Each series is helmed by a different comedic talent, with hosts including Jamie Lee, who
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June 6, 2019 1:05PM PT Madonna had some choice words for the New York Times Magazine feature “Madonna at Sixty” by Vanessa Grigoriadis that published Wednesday. “It makes me feel raped,” the pop icon wrote on Instagram. The turn of phrase calls back to an instance chronicled in the article where she likens the online
June 6, 2019 1:00PM PT CAA has asked a judge to dismiss claims made against the agency by showrunners David Simon and Meredith Stiehm as part of the Writers Guild of America’s lawsuit against four Hollywood talent agencies over the issue of packaging fees. CAA’s response to the WGA lawsuit filed in April asserts that
There’s safety in numbers, so people often say. Yet Madison Avenue thinks TV is getting safer even as many of its viewer numbers continue to decline. The big broadcast networks should secure an increase in advance advertising commitments – somewhere in the mid-single-digit percentage range – for their fall prime time schedules, according to six
The Recording Academy has revealed its newly elected officers of its board of trustees. Music producer Harvey Mason Jr. serves as chair of the board, Placement Music’s Tammy Hurt was elected vice chair, music executive Terry Hemmings was re-elected secretary/treasurer and Swan Songs’ Christine Albert takes the position of chair emeritus. The appointments became effective
Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975-76 is a paradox in the well-stuffed annals of his concert career: It is at once his best-documented and most elusive trek. The legendary aura that surrounds the Revue is being burnished anew by two retrospectives focusing on the more celebrated ’75 leg of the tour: Columbia Legacy’s
Got Me In My Leggings is ELLE.com’s leggings review column. I love leggings. I own 25 pairs. Yes, it is more than any one person should have. No, I do not feel like I have enough! That’s my cross to bear, thanks to the human condition. Look, leggings are perfect. They are skin for your
WarnerMedia’s entry into the streaming wars may not just be built around HBO — it will reportedly include the premium service bundled in the initial baseline package. The AT&T-owned media company is looking to launch the still-unnamed WarnerMedia subscription VOD service at a price point of $16-$17 per month and is likely to bundle together
June 6, 2019 11:45AM PT “Blockers” director Kay Cannon is looking to strike gold with Lionsgate’s latest treasure-hunting story “79ers.” Cannon will work alongside Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s production company Point Grey, as well as Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions, who are partnering to produce the film. Dylan Meyer is writing the script, based
June 6, 2019 11:31AM PT Entertainment Weekly is going monthly – at least in print. Publisher Meredith Corp. said it intends to boost the outlet’s social video, events and digital platforms while scaling back its magazine publication schedule to once a month. The first monthly issue, slated to debut in August, will focus on Comic-Con.
As the United States steels itself for a new presidential election next year, TV-news viewers will still get horse-race stories – but, also, say three of the industry’s top executives, a lot more. The heads of CBS News, NBC News and ABC News jointly vowed Thursday that their outlets would cover the 2020 election in
Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius is set to adapt Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling tale “La plus precious des marchandises” into an animated feature film. The Dardenne brothers are co-producing the film with Studiocanal, which will handle all rights, including international sales. The tale, set during World War II against the backdrop of the Holocaust, is produced by
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