Almost two months after Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in a New York State prison, the disgraced movie mogul is still facing a host of legal problems both at home and abroad. In the U.K., a previously unknown sexual assault complaint was revealed on Wednesday, when an appeals judge issued a public ruling
Month: May 2020
For as intriguing as innovations in TV structure are, the first question I had about “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” doing an “interactive” special was simply, “….why?” For as long as books and games and even YouTube playlists have indulged “choose your own adventure” style storytelling, which gives its audience the illusion of free will while picking
Quaranteens rejoice! Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande have collaborated on a new charity single called “Stuck with U” to benefit the First Responders Children’s Foundation. The two artists share management — Scooter Braun’s SB Projects — and directing credit on the “Stuck With U” video (along with Braun, Rory Kramer and Alfredo Flores) which features
Writer-director Lara Jean Gallagher’s “Clementine” resides willfully (and more often than not, skillfully) in the spaces between loss and desire, anger and reckoning, trust and suspicion, often to unnerving effect. A viewer would be right to wonder, is this visually canny story of a young woman who heads to her ex-lover’s empty lake house a
Check out the official trailer for The King of Staten Island starring Pete Davidson! Let us know what you think in the comments below. 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 Home Release Date: June 12, 2020
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), Scandinavia’s leading streaming company, has come on board “Orca” (working title), a Swedish drama dealing with social distancing created, written and directed by Josephine Bornebusch (“Love Me”) . The series, which started to film this week, is headlined by Swedish stars, including Johan Rheborg (“Partisan”), Gustav Lindh (“Love Me”), Alba
Bob Dylan released his third new song in six weeks, “False Prophet,” Thursday night — and now the question of whether his career paradigm for the 2020s has switched to being strictly a “singles artist” has been answered. Embedded in the artwork for the song was the promise of a new album, to be titled
Universal released the trailer for Pete Davidson’s summer comedy, “The King of Staten Island” on Thursday, starring the “SNL” comedian in his first lead feature role. The semi-autobiographical comedy, directed by Judd Apatow, incorporates elements of Davidson’s own life, including losing his firefighter father during the Sept. 11 attacks. The film centers around Scott (Davidson),
Duncan Millership has joined Anonymous Content as a manager. Millership is joining the company from WME where he was a partner and represented talent such as Hugh Jackman, Richard Madden, Matthew Rhys, Pedro Pascal, Nick Jonas, Helena Bonham Carter and Jonathan Pryce. The news comes as WME announced it would be cutting 20 percent of
The Jazz Foundation of America’s annual “Great Night in Harlem” benefit at the Apollo in New York in April had to be called off after the pandemic broke out this year. But the music charity is now aiming to bring a different kind of great night to homes nationwide May 14 with an online benefit,
Some musicians rock too hard, but Queen’s Brian May gardened too hard. The lead guitarist announced he’s been hospitalized after ripping the muscles in his glutes “to shreds” after working too furiously in his garden. May posted a photo and video on his Instagram on Wednesday with the unusual announcement. “As well as getting over-stretched
Writers from “The Tonight Show” virtually joined Variety’s Marc Malkin to discuss working from home, ideas that didn’t make it to air and how Tuesday’s hilarious “Tiger King” sketch came to be. Presented by the Writers Guild of America, the panel consisted of “Tonight Show” head writer Rebecca Drysdale along with Gerard Bradford and Jeremy
In today’s film news roundup, the Animation Guild steps up with a $210,000 donation for IATSE members, Fathom Events hires a former AMC executive, the Vail Film Festival goes virtual and Breaking Glass comes on board Gabriel Sousa’s “Waking Up Dead.” GUILD DONATION The Animation Guild is donating $210,000 to support International Alliance of Theatrical
Rebecca Black, of viral “Friday” fame, is releasing a new song to benefit Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to helping create opportunities for people with disabilities. “Alone Together” hits all streaming services at midnight EST on May 8 and will be available for purchase. Black’s affiliation with Best Buddies, which was formed in 1989
The entire nation is ready for some football. Whether or not the game can really be played is still unknown. The NFL threw a long pass Thursday night, detailing the ins and outs of its 2020-2021 season across four different networks even though the ability of its teams to field games in normal fashion in
Variety’s new weekly series, “Hollywood How-To,” will tackle all things writing, with broader conversations about everything from crafting characters to navigating the writer’s room. Hollywood’s top screenwriters, including Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”), Janet Mock (“Pose”), Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (“Someone Great”), Susannah Grant (“Unbelievable”) , Christina Hodson (“Birds of Prey”), Sarah Kucserka (“High Fidelity”) and Robin Thede
There’s not an obvious reason to compare the music of Hayley Williams and Hailee Steinfeld, besides the fact that they are both pop musicians (in the broadest sense of the term), and they share a name (albeit with conveniently different spellings). More concerning is that it would be easy to see this as just one
Celebrities have taken to social media to express outrage and demand justice for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was fatally shot by two white men with ties to law enforcement while jogging in February. Arbery was chased and shot on Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Ga. Police have identified the men who
A TV series based on the “National Treasure” movies is in development at Disney Plus. Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced both the original “National Treasure” and its sequel, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” revealed the news in a Collider interview for his upcoming Starz series “Hightown.” “We’re certainly working on one [‘National Treasure’] for streaming and
“The Last Kingdom” Season 4 debuted on Netflix on April 26, with the epic historical fiction series remaining in the streamer’s Top 10 shows ever since. Series star Alexander Dreymon said in an interview with Variety that he credits the fans of the show with building up buzz as the show has progressed. “The fans have
At the end of Live Nation’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Michael Rapino fielded questions about the company’s finances, but mostly, as expected, about when and how the concert industry might begin to reopen from coronavirus lockdown. Not surprisingly, the company’s earnings report revealed challenges, even though the lockdown began in the last three
After sharing the screen for six seasons of “Madam Secretary,” Téa Leoni and Erich Bergen have teamed up again for the massive undertaking of producing UNICEF USA’s first streaming event, “UNICEF Won’t Stop,” which will broadcast on Saturday, May 9. With Bergen as the event’s executive producer and Leoni serving as a UNICEF ambassador since
Variety’s Meredith Woerner sat down with Kyle Richards, star of reality series “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” to discuss filming without Lisa Vanderpump this season, how the cast is shooting their confessionals at home in quarantine and her new role in the upcoming film, “Halloween Kills.” The reality star couldn’t reveal any secrets about
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix announced that Jonathan Banks has joined the cast of “F Is for Family,” and HBO announced the premiere date for Yvonne Orji’s upcoming stand-up special. CASTING Netflix has announced that Jonathan Banks has joined the cast of its animated series “F Is for Family” for the show’s upcoming fourth
On March 19, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris notified the union’s 160,000 members that the national headquarters in Los Angeles was closed to members, with the staff working remotely to minimize risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Since then, about 60 SAG-AFTRA staff members of the performers union have continued to show up daily to the
Megyn Kelly has shared two clips on Twitter from her exclusive interview with Tara Reade, in which Reade calls for Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Reade, a former aide to Biden, claims that when he was a senator from Delaware in 1993, he pinned her up against a wall and penetrated her
Six seasons and a Zoom call. The cast of “” and creator Dan Harmon are reuniting for a virtual table read and Q&A, in order to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts. Among the participants will be Donald Glover, who departed “Community” during its fifth season — marking the first time he’s been a part of a
Who’s afraid of a pandemic-impacted market? Hip-hop artists aren’t, and neither is country star Kenny Chesney. Rap has dominated both the album and single charts in recent weeks and will again for the one that will be generated by the current tracking week, even as Chesney’s new “Here and Now” represents a conspicuous interloper .
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Dr. Phil may be a famous psychologist, but he’s also one of the most accomplished jury consultants in America, and he’s worried the court system could collapse in the wake of coronavirus, and judges may be dismissing all sorts of cases. Phil appeared on “TMZ Live” Thursday and he didn’t
Live Nation gets right to the point in the announcement accompanying its earnings statement for the first quarter of this unprecedentedly troubled year for the live-entertainment business. “At the beginning of the year, we were on track for tremendous growth across all our businesses with both fan demand and artist touring increasing on a global
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