Month: May 2020

Even though the coronavirus shutdown began just three weeks before the end of the quarter, Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s revenues dropped 20% to $199.9 million compared with last year, according to results released Monday. The company, which recently divided its entertainment and sports operations into two divisions, saw its operating losses for the three-month period
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There’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the upcoming Spring 2021 Fashion Week circuit, with brands like Saint Laurent and Marc Jacobs opting out of presenting due to the coronavirus pandemic. But Pyer Moss’s Kerby Jean-Raymond has found an alternative solution: a drive-in movie premiere. Jean-Raymond announced that instead of hosting a runway show, he’ll unveil
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It’s hard to disregard the “easy living” motif that covers the 10-year-old Furkan Demiri’s bed sheets in Dea Gjinovci’s “Wake Up on Mars.” The heartbreaking irony of the phrase stings, as there is nothing easy about this imaginative child’s life, brought to a halt amid endless immigration machinations in a frosty Swedish town. But citizenship
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Not even a pandemic can keep Boston’s Dropkick Murphys from playing ball, musically speaking. Following the veteran Celtic punk band’s “Streaming Up from Boston” Saint Patrick’s Day livestream concert, they’ve upped the ante and will perform at the city’s historic Fenway Park on May 29 — with no live audience, per state COVID-19 social distancing
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Marc Maron paid an emotional tribute to Lynn Shelton, his late girlfriend and creative collaborator who died Saturday from an unidentified blood disorder at the age of 54. On Maron’s popular podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” the comedian detailed his relationship with the beloved filmmaker. “She was my partner. She was my girlfriend. She was
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In the early moments of the annual game to lure advertisers to the Super Bowl, ViacomCBS is first and long. Signing 60 to 70 automakers, snack manufacturers and tech marketers  to sponsor the biggest TV event of the year is never an easy task. But doing so will be tougher for the newly-merged media conglomerate,
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Through its Design For All collaboration series, Target gifted customers two decades worth of designer collaborations featuring the likes of Missoni, Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, and and ranging from kids’ clothes to home goods. Now Target is introducing a new designer collaboration series built entirely around the most important wardrobe staple—the dress. The Designer Dress Collection,
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Downtown Music Holdings announced today that it has acquired South Africa-based Sheer Music Publishing, the largest independent music publisher in Africa. Building on a long-standing relationship between Sheer and Downtown’s eponymous music publishing division, this acquisition formally expands the company’s geographic footprint to the African continent, while also providing the African music industry greater access to artist and label services available
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ViacomCBS president-CEO Bob Bakish told investors on Monday that the company feels no urgency to pursue any major acquisitions at present. During ViacomCBS’ 40-minute annual meeting of shareholders, Bakish also said the TV giant is starting to see “green shoots” in the scatter advertising marketplace. And he talked up the growth in usage of the
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Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi is heading up a retelling of Roald Dahl’s classic “James and the Giant Peach” with an all-star cast to help in the fight against COVID-19. Waititi, whose credits include “Thor: Ragnarok,” “The Mandalorian” and “Jojo Rabbit,” hosts a complete reading of the entire book in 10 installments, featuring guests including Ryan
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Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard are coming back for more screaming, wailing and swearing at their fictional children. FX has renewed the comedy “Breeders,” in which the two British actors star, for a second season. The announcement was made by the cabler’s president of original programming Nick Grad. Season 1 of “Breeders,” which is produced
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Many of the most scarring breakups we suffer in life are not with lovers, but with friends: people we once trusted with our most closely guarded truths, reduced over the years to strangers, or more wrenchingly still, to polite occasional acquaintances. Yet we rarely refer to these breakups as such. We talk about “drifting apart”
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In Variety‘s feature story this week on Jason Isbell, a lot of territory was covered: where he fits in genre-wise, his willingness to be an emblem for rock’s recovery movement, the blowback he sometimes gets for being politically outspoken, and the songwriting sensibilities that were further crystallized still in his masterful new album, “Reunions.” And
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