August 27, 2019 1:14PM PT Revenues at Endeavor Content Group increased substantially during the second quarter of 2019, a three-month period that also saw the entertainment company reduce its losses. The company pulled back the curtain on its finances as it continues to prepare for an initial public offering, one that has been greeted with
Month: August 2019
I live in fear that a stranger will snap a photo of me wearing a leopard midi skirt in the wild, only to be dragged in the comment section of a catty (albeit hilarious) Instagram post. The style has long been considered a neutral wardrobe staple, but its increasing popularity in 2019 has made the
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, the fast-rising rights-management company run by Merck Mercuriadis, has raised another £51.1 million (around $62.8 million), the company announced today. Earlier in the day, the company had announced that it would place additional Ordinary Shares on the market. Combined with the initial $265 million it raised before the company debuted on
When Netflix announced that it would be doing a “Dark Crystal” series, the reaction was twofold and extreme. There were the diehard fans who couldn’t believe that they were getting another chance to dive into this world, and the neophytes who had no idea what they were talking about. For the latter group, the two
Taika Waititi may be coming to the DC Extended Universe. The filmmaker is in negotiations for a role in Warner Bros.’ “The Suicide Squad,” the follow-up to 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” Warner Bros. had no comment. James Gunn is directing the sequel to the 2016 feature based on the DC Comics anti-heroes. Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman,
New Line continues to ramp up its pre-production on its “Mortal Kombat” reboot, tapping Chin Han to play Shang Tsung and Hiroyuki Sanada to play Scorpion. The two join Joe Taslim (Sub Zero), Ludi Lin (Liu Kang), Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Josh Lawson (Kano), Tadanobu Asano (Raiden), Mehcad Brooks (Jackson “Jax” Bridges), Sisi Stringer (Mileena)
Leslie Jones, one of the more dynamic cast members of “Saturday Night Live,” has opted to leave the late-night mainstay after five seasons, according to people familiar with the matter. Jones, who first joined the program as a writer and quickly became a featured player and cast member in 2014, is set to explore film
August 27, 2019 11:53AM PT Michael Bay is set to direct the upcoming film “Black 5” as his next film sources tell Variety. The project is an original idea Bay came up with and insiders say Sony is also in talks to finance and distribute. While no plot details were given, sources say the project
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired global rights to “Wrinkles the Clown,” Variety has learned. Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Michael Beach Nichols (“Welcome to Leith”), the film is eyeing an Oct. 4 theatrical release. The documentary looks at a creepy clown who is hired to terrify misbehaving children in Southwest Florida. Wrinkles went
For six years now, Cartoon Network’s “Steven Universe” has been pumping out story after graceful story about the power of love, friendship, cooperation, self-acceptance and trust. Creator Rebecca Sugar, who previously worked on the network’s equally surreal “Adventure Time,” has created and honed an animated galaxy unlike any other, overflowing with distinct characters and complex
August 27, 2019 11:00AM PT ABC is developing a comedy based on the “I Mom So Hard” web series, with the duo of creators on board to star. Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley are also co-executive producers on the half-hour comedy which has received a script development deal at the Disney-owned network. The duo previously
Fresh off his lead role in Universal’s “Yesterday,” Himesh Patel has found his next tentpole with Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” sources tell Variety. Patel nabbed one of the last roles in the film and will star alongside John David Washington. The cast also includes Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson, Clémence Poésy, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel and Robert Maillet have joined the cast of the independent action-thriller “Becky.” The trio will appear alongside the previously announced company of Kevin James and Lulu Wilson. The movie follows a spunky, rebellious 14-year-old brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father (played by McHale), in an
August 27, 2019 10:39AM PT Romantic drama “Queen & Slim,” starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, has been selected as the opening night title for the 33rd edition of the AFI Fest in Hollywood, Calif. The film is directed by two-time Grammy winner Melina Matsoukas and written by Emmy winner Lena Waithe from a story
ABC has given a put-pilot commitment to an untitled project from Sarah Hyland and Emily Gordon, a multi-camera comedy produced by 20th Century Fox Television and inspired by the real-life experiences of the “Modern Family” actress and “The Big Sick” writer. Hyland, who will serve as executive producer, will star in the series after the
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August 27, 2019 10:24AM PT As the threat of retirement looms, a traveling salesman decides to go out singing in João Nicolau’s wilfully eccentric comedy. If a particularly enterprising Portuguese amateur theater group took it upon themselves to stage Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” only to freshen things up by making it a black-box
Netflix has unveiled release plans for its fall films, a slate that includes Steven Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat” with Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman, David Michôd’s “The King” starring Timothée Chalamet, and Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. The 10 movies on deck for 2019 will all have some form of an
August 27, 2019 10:00AM PT Apple TV Plus’ half-hour comedy series “Dickinson,” starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jane Krakowski, will headline the third annual Tribeca TV Festival on Saturday, September 14. Apple dropped the “Dickinson” teaser trailer on Monday, just a week after releasing a trailer for “The Morning Show,” as it slowly begins to unveil
As summer winds to a close, Hollywood is looking to a demonic clown to salvage the box office. After a disappointing August, Warner Bros.’ “It: Chapter Two” is the first fall release that could drive audiences to multiplexes at a time when the movie business could use some help. The sequel arrives in theaters Sept.
Facebook has been working on a new private messaging app for Instagram, according to a report by The Verge. The new app, dubbed Threads, is meant to help users share their location and other details with their closest Instagram friends. A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment. Threads allows users to exchange private messages with their
Yusuf, aka Cat Stevens, Signs with UTA – Variety You will be redirected back to your article in seconds August 27, 2019 9:51AM PT Singer-songwriter Yusuf, better known historically as Cat Stevens, has signed with United Talent Agency. Yusuf was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 and into the Songwriters
August 27, 2019 9:45AM PT “Power” star Lela Loren has joined the cast of “Altered Carbon” for season 2. Loren will play Danica Harlan, the charming and ambitious governor of planet Harlan’s World who has the support of the people, but keeps an uneasy grip on the political players who surround her. Rumor has it
HBO Max has been on a buying spree, with the nascent streamer snatching up a number of high-profile original projects as it visits the WarnerMedia vault to extract existing properties. While the final product is still under wraps until spring, the underlying ethos of the subscription video-on-demand service is starting to take shape. Its budding
TV’s longest-running A.M. news battle is entering a new and potentially critical new phase. “Today” and ABC’s “Good Morning America” are locked in a neck-and-neck race for dominance among the eggs-and-O.J. crowd, and their split has been stratified for months. For more than three years, “GMA” has typically commanded more viewers overall, while “Today” consistently
It’s coming up on two in the morning in an industrial warehouse complex outside Stockholm, and Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, Maverick Management partner and XO label CEO, who manages superstars The Weeknd and French Montana, is dealing with a major onstage malfunction just moments before a performance. The Mac laptop used by Montana’s DJ to power the rapper’s backing tracks has inexplicably died,
It’s a pretty safe bet that the Italian entries at Venice that will make the biggest splashes this year are both TV series premiering in the official selection: Paolo Sorrentino’s limited series “The New Pope” and Stefano Sollima’s cocaine-trafficking drama “ZeroZeroZero.” While these are both shows by directors who also work in film, Venice artistic
Running Aug. 29-Sept. 7, the third edition of Venice VR will spotlight 39 unique projects, with 26 unspooling in the competition overseen by jury president Laurie Anderson and 13 more screening in the non-competitive Best of VR section. Once more, curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal have divided the Venice VR competition into two unique
The 2019 Venice Film Festival, running Aug. 28-Sept. 7, reflects the seismic changes under way in Hollywood. “There is a strange situation this year with American cinema due to what’s happening,” says artistic director Alberto Barbera. “An earthquake [is] undermining the U.S. film industry as we know it.” Barbera, who’s been instrumental in turning the
August 27, 2019 9:00AM PT Mitch Albom’s bestselling novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” is getting the TV series treatment. Fox has issued a script-to-series development order for the project, with Albom himself in place to write and executive produce. The one-hour drama project hails from Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment. Using
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