Toronto-based sales agent Syndicado Film Sales has acquired world rights to “Ivana the Terrible,” the second feature by Ivana Mladenovic, ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. Mladenovic writes, directs and stars in the acerbic comedy about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Inspired by true events and shot
Month: August 2019
Exclusive TMZ Travis Barker‘s weekend was an emotional roller coaster in El Paso — it started with plans to visit a friend in prison and then rock out with his band … but his band ended up in lockdown across the street from the slaughter as he was miles away visiting a friend in prison.
Chinese digital giant Tencent has entered negotiations with French media conglomerate Vivendi to buy a 10% stake in Universal Music Group. Vivendi announced the talks Tuesday, saying that the negotiations were based on a valuation of UMG of €30 billion ($33.6 billion). Tencent’s potential 10% stake would therefore cost €3 billion ($3.36 billion). The deal
John August has issued a defense of the Writers Guild of America’s tactic of holding negotiations with individual agencies for new franchise deals. August, a member of the WGA’s negotiating committee, addressed the issue Monday on his blog with the post titled “The Myth of ‘No Negotiations.’” “In that spirit, I want to address a pernicious
In today’s film news roundup, CIM Group sells Hollywood & Highland but retains the Dolby Theatre, “The Matrix” gets re-released and the comedy “Straight Up” gets bought. PROPERTY SALE CIM Group has sold the Hollywood & Highland retail-entertainment center to Gaw Capital and DJM while retaining ownership of the Dolby Theatre, site of the Academy
August 5, 2019 7:19PM PT One day after making allegations that she was sexually harassed and racially discriminated against while working on “The Rookie,” Afton Williamson has identified the recurring guest star who she alleges sexually harassed her, and the hair department head who allegedly sexually assaulted her. “This season on ‘The Rookie,’ I was
ABC is timing its first-ever live-musical event, “The Little Mermaid,” to air just a week before the debut of Disney Plus in order to drum up attention for the hotly anticipated streaming platform. “We wanted to launch it in November, in time to coincide with the launch of Disney Plus,” ABC network president Karey Burke told
At some point, pretty much everyone who’s owned a dog has stared into the creature’s soulful brown eyes and wondered what it was thinking. Director Simon Curtis’ decade-in-the-making “The Art of Racing in the Rain” is a simple-minded yet skillfully manipulative answer to that question — featuring the bare-feet-in-loose-gravel voice of Kevin Costner as Enzo,
Kerry Brougher, the director of the long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, is leaving his post. The move comes just weeks after the Academy postponed the museum’s opening date again, pushing it to sometime in 2020. In a statement, the Academy Museum Board said that Brougher would “return to his roots in the art world.”
August 5, 2019 4:47PM PT Tamron Hall addressed her departure from “Today” and NBC news while discussing her new ABC talk show. At ABC’s Television Critics Association summer tour, Hall was asked about whether the failure of Megyn Kelly’s show which replaced hers at NBC news vindicated her and proved that NBC was wrong to
August 5, 2019 3:46PM PT Commentary: Lachlan Murdoch shrewdly signals he’ll look to play beyond the traditional entertainment sphere Of all the places you would have guessed Lachlan Murdoch would put his money to work first: consumer lending? Sunday’s announcement that Fox would take a $265 million majority stake in consumer lending platform Credible Labs
In the late 1970s, Roger Corman was looking to produce a high school-themed movie. Knowing that one of his young directing proteges had a bent for music, the head of New World Pictures had an idea. As Allan Arkush remembers Corman telling him: “I’ve been thinking, since ‘Grease’ and ‘Saturday Night Fever’ are hits, why don’t
SAG-AFTRA’s funds held in trust for others have increased by 6.6% to $214.8 million since last year, according to the union’s latest filing with the federal government. Those funds have been at the center of a long-running dispute, dating back to a 2007 suit filed by Ken Osmond (“Leave It to Beaver”) over how foreign
Nico Tortorella has been cast in the upcoming third “Walking Dead” series, Variety has confirmed. The third series in the AMC franchise will focus on the first generation of kids to come of age during the zombie apocalypse. Tortorella will star as Felix, described as an honorable man of his word who isn’t afraid to fight for
One of the more confusing aspects about the already confusing disintegration of PledgeMusic — the direct-to-fan marketplace that ceased operations earlier this year, leaving artists on the hook for a total sum estimated to be between $1 million and $3 million — is the British legal terminology used in the proceedings for the UK-based company:
August 5, 2019 2:24PM PT Andy Serkis is set to direct Sony’s “Venom 2,” a sequel to last year’s superhero box office smash starring Tom Hardy. Serkis was among a handful of filmmakers that met earlier this month, a group that included “Bumblebee” helmer Travis Knight and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes’” Rupert
August 5, 2019 2:15PM PT “Crazy Rich Asians” star Gemma Chan is in talks to join Marvel’s “The Eternals” sources tell Variety. Chan would join previously announced cast members Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek and Kumail Nanjiani. Earlier this year, Chan portrayed Minn-Erva in “Captain Marvel,” but its unknown if she
Litchfield Penitentiary may have closed its doors for good, but the last visit with its inmates saw a series-high level of interest for “Orange Is the New Black.” The premier for the final season of Netflix’s longest-running original registered 24% higher in the U.S. the day after its July 26 premiere than during the same
You’d never guess what the Emmy-nominated music supervisor for edgy TV shows like Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” and, most recently, the Drake-produced “Euphoria” chills out to during her downtime. “On the weekends, I love to listen to the yacht rock station on Sirius XM. It just calms me,” says Jen Malone, who previously worked as a
From Cher and Diana Ross to Farrah Fawcett and Bianca Jagger, the women who ruled the ’70s had some of the best style ever. A bit of hippie fashion sense carried over from 1960s counter culture (tie dye shirts, frayed bell bottoms, and peasant blouses,) but ’70s fashion eventually evolved and diverged into drastically different
August 5, 2019 1:59PM PT “Season of the Witch” is featured in the just released teaser for “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” It’s not just Quentin Tarantino invoking the musical spirit of the late 1960s. Lana Del Rey has covered Donovan’s 1966 “Season of the Witch” for a film set in 1968, “Scary
Take Two Interactive investors sent the company’s share price down 5.2% Monday during trading hours following President Trump’s threats to “stop the glorification of violence” — but the Trump slump didn’t last long: Following the release of better-than-expected earnings Monday afternoon, Take Two’s stock regained around 7%. “Fiscal 2020 is off to a terrific start
“I’m Sorry” creator and star Andrea Savage owes a debt of gratitude to “Everybody Loves Raymond.” The Emmy-winning CBS sitcom was known for mining its writers’ real-life family foibles for stories, and that’s also what Savage achieves with her TruTV comedy. Savage told Variety’s My Favorite Episode podcast that she hasn’t yet met “Raymond” creator
Independent movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has had its Downtown Los Angeles doors open for barely a month, but it’s already become a vital part of the outdoor entertainment space called the Bloc. With locations in markets like Austin and Brooklyn, the chain run by CEO Tim League has always enjoyed a brand of casual
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, “Succession” season 2 debuts on HBO, and the “Beverly Hills 90210” reunion series
August 5, 2019 1:00PM PT Amazon and Paramount Television are developing a series adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi horror film “Event Horizon,” Variety has learned. Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and direct the potential series. Wingard recently directed the film “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which is due out in theaters in March 2020. He has
Check out the official Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trailer starring Margaret Colletti! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: https://www.fandango.com/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-217131/movie-times?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: August 9, 2019 Starring: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur Directed By: André Øvredal
Darrell Hammond’s documentary “Cracked Up” is set to hit theaters on Sept. 13. The doc, captured by director Michelle Esrick, portrays the ‘Saturday Night Live’ star’s decades-long struggle with substance abuse, self-harm and misdiagnoses as he rose to fame on the iconic sketch show. Known for his iconic impersonations of Sean Connery, Regis Philbin and
August 5, 2019 12:33PM PT [embedded content] Cannes-based Fizz-e-Motion, headed by Yannick Rudynski and Luke Corradine, has picked up sales rights to Australian crime thriller “Locusts.” Directed by Heath Davis, the film stars Ben Geurens (“Reign”) and Jessica McNamee (“Meg,” “Battle of the Sexes”), and is produced and written by Angus Watts. The pic centers
UPDATED: R. Kelly has been charged with two counts of prostitution with a person under 18, according to a press conference held in Minneapolis this afternoon. The allegation, regarding an incident that took place in the city in 2001, follows a total of 18 counts of serious sexual misconduct and other charges brought against the
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