Vizio moved up the launch of 30 new free linear streaming channels on its internet-connected SmartCast TVs, as viewing on surges during the coronavirus crisis. As of April 7, Vizio SmartCast users can find 30 new channels, spanning news, entertainment, lifestyle, DIY, sports, comedy and music. The company had planned to start rolling them out
Month: April 2020
Most churchgoers won’t be able to enter a place of worship on this Easter Sunday, but an exception is being made for Andrea Bocelli, who will perform a concert that night at the historic Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy, to be offered as a global live-stream on YouTube. Bocelli will be accompanied only by cathedral
The plight of self-employed freelancers in the entertainment industry who fall through the gaps of U.K. government coronavirus financial schemes is being highlighted in a 90-second video campaign backed by union Bectu and industry recruitment platform The Talent Manager. Produced in just a few days during the coronavirus lockdown, the video – titled “Forgotten Freelancers”
NL Film & TV and Avrotros’ Dutch contribution to this year’s digital Series Mania establishes in its first 30 seconds that it is far more than a typical war thriller. Narrated with elegant editing that is both stylized and controlled, the series’ directors, Iván López Núñez and Hanro Smitsman, focus their attention on the peripheries
Like so many schools around the world, the U.K.’s renowned National Film and Television School (NFTS) has closed its doors and moved to online learning amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. To help deliver its curriculum, the NFTS has drafted in top talent including David Fincher, Sam Mendes, Ricky Gervais, Jesse Armstrong and Edgar Wright to
Australia’s “The Drama Queens of Kabul,” the U.K.’s “Pop Paper City” and Spain’s “Before You Hit the Floor” were among winners at the MipTV Online Plus projects competitions, announced Tuesday. Also, scooping prizes were “Behind Lucy,” again from Spain, South Africa’s “Mother City” and “Bathroom Confessions,” from Lebanon, in a winners’ lineup which is strong
The Edinburgh TV Festival, set to take place in late August, has been reimagined as a digital event in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Organizers confirmed Tuesday morning that the festival, which is a key stop in the U.K. TV industry’s calendar, will not be held as a physical event from August 26-28, but
The BBC is to air a special fund-raising entertainment show, “The Big Night In,” on April 23, which will put a spotlight on the work of those battling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and provide some showbiz relief to lift the spirits of the Brits under lockdown. Funds raised through the three-hour show
Cineworld, the world’s second largest movie theater business, has decided to suspend payments of dividends to its stockholders. The freeze on payments applies to the 2019 fourth quarter dividend of 4.25c per share and upcoming 2020 quarterly dividends. In addition, the executive directors have “voluntarily agreed to defer payment of their full salaries and any
The Melbourne International Film Festival, which was to have been held in August, has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Organizers said that the accompanying 37 Degrees South Market and the Accelerator Lab would also not go ahead this year. Australia is currently in a state of lockdown in order to ensure social
The Singapore International Film Festival has shaken up its leadership ahead of a 31st edition that is currently on course to take place from November. Experienced arts manager, Emily Hoe has been hired as the festival’s executive director. She takes over from Yuni Hadi, who held the role since 2014. Kuo Ming-Jung, who was last
A trio of THR editors have been tapped as interim leaders in the wake of editorial director Matthew Belloni’s abrupt departure from the publication on Monday, multiple individuals familiar with the company told Variety. The interim editors are Jeanie Pyun, Belloni’s deputy editorial director; Tom Seeley, senior vice president of digital media; and Lacey Rose,
Judges appear to be getting more and more skeptical of music copyright lawsuits. In the latest ruling, a federal judge has thrown out a suit claiming that the 2003 Josh Groban song “You Raise Me Up” was based on an Icelandic song from 1977 called “Soknudur.” The plaintiff, Icelandic singer-songwriter Johann Helgason, hired Judith Finell,
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “Bagman,” the eighth episode of of “Better Call Saul” Season 5. Jimmy McGill’s descent into Saul Goodman has been on full display in Season 5 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” and on Monday’s episode, it took an even more dangerous turn. Much to the
In today’s film news roundup, “Surviving Supercon” releases its trailer prior to its opening night slot of the Florida Film Festival, a coronavirus movie has completed production, Javier Bardem’s “The Roads Not Taken” gets a virtual release and 1606 Studio adds to its staff. FILM FESTIVAL Abyssmal Entertainment has released its first trailer exclusively to
In a move that could shake up the Emmy comedy actress race, the Television Academy has ruled that Showtime’s “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” is a drama, not a comedy. That means star Kirsten Dunst, who had been considered one of the top front runners to earn a nomination in the outstanding comedy
Eddie Kramer, an engineer famous to rock fans for his work with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, KISS and the Beatles, will be the subject of a feature documentary, “From the Other Side of the Glass,” with Joe Berlinger (“Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”) and Spencer Proffer (“Chasing Trane”) among those on board as producers, and
Exclusive Amazon’s hit series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” is ripped straight from the pages of a 6-year-old book with an eerily similar and struggling character … at least according to the author. Jodi Parmley just sued Amazon Studios for allegedly jacking several different creative elements from her 2014 book, “F.I.F.I. Financial Infidelity F**k It: The
In today’s TV news roundup, Cartoon Network announced the launch of its CNCheckIn initiative, and ATX Television Festival will take place virtually June 5-7. FESTIVALS ATX Television Festival will take place virtually June 5-7. Rebranded as “ATX TV… From the Couch!”, badge and ticket holders can experience screenings and panels from the comfort and safety of
American Media Inc. executive Dylan Howard is out after more than a decade at the publishing company, Variety has learned exclusively. Howard’s contract, which expired on March 31, was not renewed. Reasons for his departure were not immediately clear, though rumors of his exit had been brewing internally at the owner of Us Weekly and
Orlando Puerta, a veteran of Warner Bros. Records, where he worked from 1997 to 2009 as a promotion and marketing executive, and a longtime advocate of dance music, died in the early morning hours of Saturday (April 4) of an upper respiratory infection. Although he was tested for the coronavirus, the results had not been
U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt today dismissed Soundgarden’s litigation in the lawsuit against Universal Music Group that was filed by five artists last year over damage the artists’ musical recordings allegedly suffered in a 2008 fire that destroyed many assets in the company’s vault. Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle and the estates of Tupac and Tom
With self-isolation being employed universally to combat the spread of the coronavirus, Instagram Live has become the go-to for musicians of all stripes but especially stars of rap and R&B. Thanks to live battles, hundreds of thousands of viewers are able to witness a hitmaker’s skills in going up against a peer song-for-song while also
Need a refresher course on everything Poppy and Branch have been up to prior to their new movie? Here’s everything you need to know before you watch ‘Trolls World Tour’, premiering at home on April 10! Watch More: ► Trolls World Tour Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrCxgngVHtvWLg358HxoXkL ► Exclusive Interviews: http://bit.ly/2D4tzw4 ► Set Visits: http://bit.ly/2mktEBb ► Celebrity Games:
George Ogilvie, who co-directed on the third Mad Max film, “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” along with George Miller, and led Russell Crowe in his film screen debut in “The Crossing,” has died in Australia. He was 89. For the 1985 “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” Ogilvie focused on working with the cast on dialogue and dramatization
Aside from his acting talents, Ed Helms proved he’s certainly a jack-off-all trades as he showed off his guitar skills for Variety’s first episode of “Show & Tell” “I’m very passionate about instruments. I have lots of instruments, lots of guitars, banjos, ukuleles, you name it and I love to play them,” Helms revealed. The
Months in the making, new streaming service Quibi has officially debuted. With dozens of new shows to browse, Quibi is flooding its burgeoning audience with options ranging from news hits, to scripted “movies in chapters,” to deeply silly reality shows, and more, more, oh, so much more. It’s far too early to know how well
Over the six seasons of “Schitt’s Creek,” one character has arguably changed more than any other: Annie Murphy’s Alexis Rose. When the Rose family landed in the small town they once purchased as a joke, Alexis had already dated a Saudi prince, a Sultan’s nephew, Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry and all three Hanson brothers; she
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been placed in intensive care as he battles to defeat the coronavirus that has plagued him for more than 10 days. Johnson, 55, was admitted to hospital Sunday night for routine testing, but remained there on Monday. According to a Downing Street spokesperson, Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic
Kelly Clarkson is returning to the airwaves this week with her syndicated talk show, and plans to continue airing new episodes weekly throughout the Spring. Her “Kelly Clarkson Show,” like virtually every other series, was forced to shutdown production on March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but managed to get enough episodes in the
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