Beyoncé is the Meryl Streep of the Grammys — and she’s the Glenn Close, too. Like Streep, she’s the woman with the most nominations in her field (66, including her work with Destiny’s Child, her husband Jay Z and various collaborators), pretty much guaranteed multiple nods every time she opens her mouth. And as with
Month: October 2019
Cinedigm, an independent content distributor and digital platform operator, has acquired North American rights to cross-cultural holiday drama “A New Christmas.” The film will have its world premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival on Oct. 13. Cinedigm plans to release it in North American cinemas, on digital and on demand in December. “A New
The 22nd SCAD Savannah Film Festival has set a program packed with potential awards contenders, including screenings of “Parasite,” “Just Mercy,” “The Report,” “Waves,” “The King,” “Harriet” and “Honey Boy.” The Georgia event kicks off Oct. 26 with opening night film “The Aeronauts,” directed by Tom Harper, and closed Nov. 2 with a gala screening
October 3, 2019 2:31PM PT Lee Daniels is getting into business with ABC. The Disney-owned network has issued a put pilot commitment for “Cupcake Men,” a comedy series executive produced by the “Empire” creator and hailing from his Lee Daniels Entertainment banner, as well as SMAC Productions, 20th Century Fox Television and ABC Studios. The
Japanese-American singer-actress Masumi will make her big screen debut opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in “Yakuza Princess,” which has completed filming in Brazil. The Japanese-styled thriller also stars Tsuyoshi Ihara (“Letters From Iwo Jima”). “Princess” is an adaptation of a Brazilian graphic novel “Samurai Shiro” by Danilo Beyruth, in which a Japanese gang boss is killed,
The best new artist contest at January’s Grammy Awards is shaping up to be one of the most competitive races we’ve seen in years. At one point, it seemed like 17-year-old Billie Eilish, the biggest teen to rock the charts since Lorde’s 2013 Grammy-winning debut — if not since the advent of Taylor Swift —
Roc Nation has named sports and entertainment executive Brett Yormark as co-CEO of Roc Nation Unified and President of Business Operations & Strategy. According to the announcement, in this role Yormark (pictured above) will work with the Roc Nation COO, CEO and board to develop and execute long-term organizational objectives. Yormark’s brother Michael (pictured below)
CBS has given a put pilot order to the one-hour drama with Dolph Lundgren attached to star and Sylvester Stallone attached to direct. Titled “The International,” Lundgren would star as Anders Soto, described as a one-man covert black-ops team working for the U.N., who is called in to find asymmetrical solutions to the world’s most
Adil Hussain, prominent star of Indian independent cinema, will be present at the Busan International Film Festival as the male lead of two Indian world premieres. In Vijay Jayapal’s “Nirvana Inn,” Hussain headlines alongside Sandhya Mridul (“Bridge”) and Rajshri Deshpande (“Sexy Durga”). At an earlier stage, the film was at the Busan Asian Project Market
Two former students of James Franco’s now-closed acting school filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the classes existed principally to create a way for Franco and his associates to take advantage of young women. Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal filed the class action complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court, saying that Franco and his
Breaking News Getty Joe Giudice is getting his wish — he’s returning to his motherland as he awaits a final decision in his deportation case. According to federal court records, the judge signed off on Joe’s request for his immediate release from an ICE detention center so he can travel to Italy while the courts
Check out the official 1917 Trailer starring Benedict Cumberbatch! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for 1917: https://www.fandango.com/1917-2019-219742/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release
Mary Ellen Cataneo, a veteran music publicist with Columbia Records and later Sony Music Entertainment, died Wednesday after what was described as a struggle with fast-moving cancer. She was 68. Cataneo worked with some of the biggest names signed to Sony — and indeed, in the business — before she retired in 1995 to raise
October 3, 2019 1:40PM PT Global Music Rights filed a lawsuit in California federal court today accusing Entravision Communications of willful copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that, over two years, Entravision stations played more than 130 copyrighted songs nearly 15,000 times without paying songwriters, according to a statement issued by GMR. The company says it
Whistle, a digital sports and entertainment media company, reached a deal to acquire Vertical Networks, a content studio focused on Snapchat original shows founded by Elisabeth Murdoch and backed by Snap. The deal is the second acquisition for Whistle this year, following its purchase of L.A.-based studio New Form, under which that company’s investors —
October 3, 2019 1:38PM PT How much direction did Robert Pattinson need to play the heir to the French throne in “The King”? As it turns out, not much — just let him be. “Pretty much in ways that I fully 100% endorse and love, that character is a Robert Pattinson creation,” the film’s director,
The series premiere of All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) “Dynamite” on TNT came out on top against WWE’s NXT on USA Network in the Wednesday night Nielsen Live+Same Day ratings. “Dynamite” averaged a 0.68 rating in adults 18-49 and 1.4 million viewers over two hours, compared to a 0.32 rating and 891,000 viewers for NXT. This
Joaquin Phoenix’s controversial “Joker” has pulled in $5.4 million in early international showings and previews for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The movie, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, has posted its best numbers so far in South Korea, with a $2.3 million opening day. That’s the fourth-best figure for
NBC is in tune with “Perfect Harmony” executive producer Jason Winer, developing another show from Winer’s 20th Century Fox TV-based Small Dog Picture Company. The Peacock network has bought the script “Forever Family,” a comedy from writers Austen Earl and Joel Church-Cooper. Winer will serve as a non-writing executive producer on “Forever Family,” which centers
Derek Kolstad, the scribe behind the “John Wick” series, has found his next big project: adapting the bestselling fantasy series “A Darker Shade of Magic” for Sony and mega-producer Neal Moritz. Moritz’s Original Film and Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel’s G-Base productions acquired the rights to V.E. Schwab’s fantasy series back in 2016. G-Base’s Butler,
October 3, 2019 12:30PM PT A+E Networks has named Fox veteran Steve MacDonald president of its global content licensing and international division, Variety has learned. There, he will oversee the company’s multi-platform and library content licensing initiatives and international activities. “MacDonald is a highly accomplished sales executive who has been a major force behind many
October 3, 2019 12:28PM PT The BAFTA Los Angeles board of directors has appointed chief operating officer Matthew Wiseman as CEO. He succeeds Chantal Rickards, as she will return to the U.K. after she completes her four-year term Oct. 31, Wiseman will take the reins beginning Nov. 1. “It is with great honor that I
Despite the darkly romantic ambiance, it was impossible to miss Joaquin Phoenix at Zebulon, the shuttered Brooklyn music venue that has been reincarnated as a Los Angeles hotspot in Frogtown (complete with its original slab of a bar). Not because it was Monday evening and the Hollywood premiere of “Joker” was just two nights earlier
Activision Blizzard released the viewership numbers on Overwatch League’s season capstone event, the 2019 Grand Finals, on Thursday, showing an increase on its inaugural season. The league uses average minute viewers (AMA) in its measurements, which counts viewers by how many minutes they watch the broadcast. Using this AMA metric, Grand Finals drew 1.12 million
Check out the First Look at the cast of Free Guy! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Free Guy: https://www.fandango.com/the-free-guy-220599/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to
Cumbersome title aside, “The Horse Thieves: Roads of Time” represents a simple story of fathers and sons, kittens and horses, everyday life and banal death on the steppes of rural Kazakhstan. This highly unusual co-production, co-directed by Kazakh filmmaker Yerlan Nurmukhambetov (“Walnut Tree”) and rising Japanese director Lisa Takeba (“The Pinkie,” “Haruko’s Paranormal Laboraory”), feels
Olly Alexander, Keeley Hawes and Neil Patrick Harris are set to star in “Boys,” a new series from “Queer as Folk” creator Russell T. Davies that charts the lives of a group of young gay men who find themselves caught up in the blooming AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. The five-part series starts filming next
While promoting his upcoming Netflix film The King, Timothée Chalamet has ascended a different kind of throne—as ruler of the red carpet. Amid the flashing bulbs of photographers, the Oscar nominee stepped out in sparkles for the movie’s London Film Festival premiere on Thursday. The rest of Chalamet’s ensemble was kept simple with a pair
Starz is developing a series spinoff of the Lionsgate film “Blindspotting,” Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, Jasmine Cephas Jones has been cast in the lead role, reprising the role of Ashley from the film. The series centers on Ashley, who was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her
October 3, 2019 11:28AM PT Amazon and Disney are in a dispute over Fire TV ad sales that could delay the addition of Disney’s upcoming streaming service to Amazon’s Fire TV devices, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Spokespeople for Disney and Amazon declined to comment. At the core of the dispute is Amazon’s demand
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