Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven” was released in 1976 and it’s the perfect disco anthem for FX on Hulu’s “Mrs. America.” “It’s smart, classical and not too serious,” says Carol Wong, executive producer at yU+co, the design company behind the show’s main title sequence. “Mrs. America,” which comes from creator and showrunner Dahvi Waller,
Month: May 2020
France’s President Emmanuel Macron outlined in a televised address on Wednesday new relief measures for the culture sector, including a temporary indemnity fund for canceled or postponed TV and film shoots during the pandemic. Macron said the temporary indemnity fund will be launched by the National Film Board (CNC), in collaboration with the regions and
Play video content Breaking News Waddle & Silvy / ESPN Chicago Charles Barkley says he’s still VERY sad about his broken friendship with ex-BFF Michael Jordan … but he’s down to bury the hatchet if MJ would just give him a call. “The guy was like a brother to me for, shoot, 20-something years,” Barkley
Derek Cianfrance, writer-director of the HBO limited series “I Know This Much Is True,” has set a two-year overall deal with HBO. The deal calls for the helmer to develop a range of projects for the pay TV powerhouse. The pact comes a few days before the six-episode series bows on May 10. Cianfrance partnered
Tuesday night on TV featured a flurry of finales across the major networks, none of which scored a boost of any kind. On ABC, “The Conners” aired its last episode of season 2 to a 0.9 rating and just over 6 million total viewers, which represents a slight tick down week-to-week in the former metric.
Florian Schneider — cofounder of German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk, one of the most influential music groups of the past 50 years — has died, a rep for the group confirms to Variety. He was 73. “Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” a statement
Ron Howard and comedy site Funny or Die have teamed up on a pitch for the Motion Picture Television Fund. The six-minute video, which dropped online on Wednesday, is titled “Ron Howard Digs Up a Very Strange Voicemail His Agent Left Him in 1983.” The clip delves into the development of Howard’s comedy “Splash” following
Mark Gooder and Alison Thompson’s sales company Cornerstone Films, and Debbie Gray and Julian Gleek’s production company Genesius Pictures have teamed with distribution executive Lisa Garner to form The Reset Collective, an Australian production and distribution company. The company’s distribution arm will focus primarily on digital and theatrical releases, and “will build innovative release strategies
BBC factual controller Alison Kirkham is set to join streaming platform Apple TV Plus. Kirkham will join Apple TV Plus this summer, reporting into creative director for Europe Jay Hunt. Based in London, the executive will have responsibility in Europe for unscripted original series and films. Kirkham is the first major hire for Apple’s U.K.
If everything had gone according to plan, the Tribeca Film Festival would have just wrapped its 19th edition, celebrating the best of indie film in the heart of New York City. Alas, the coronavirus had other ideas, shuttering the festival and leaving its backers without a clear way to move forward. Founders Jane Rosenthal and
The Melbourne International Film Festival, originally scheduled for August, but then canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, is to hold a digital edition. The online showcase has been nicknamed MIFF 68½ and will run during the original festival dates, Aug. 6-23, 2020. MIFF 68½ will present a smaller selection line up than the previously conceived
For years, Nadia Hallgren would say that her best experience as a documentary cinematographer was shaking Michelle Obama’s hand in Liberia while shooting the 2016 CNN Films project “We Will Rise,” about the first lady’s efforts to expand education for girls worldwide. So when Hallgren got invited to meet with Obama one-on-one in 2018 to
Check out an official Extraction featurette starring Chris Hemsworth! 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 Release Date: April 24, 2020 Network: Netflix Starring: Chris Hemsworth, David
300 Entertainment today announced the appointment of Leesa Brunson-Boland as Head of A&R Operations. In the role, she will serve as “a gatekeeper of the music, maintaining trusting relationships with artists and managers, and acting as a liaison with all other departments at the label,” according to the announcement. She will report to the company’s CEO and Co-Founder Kevin Liles.
Things got weird on the Chinese Internet in January. With at least 760 million of the nation’s residents — a group more than twice the size of the U.S. population — stuck at home amid coronavirus-imposed restrictions, people got creative and let their freak flag fly on the country’s local version of TikTok. As COVID-19
Get ready to see a tide of T-shirts, toys and other merch based on “Like Nastya,” the hugely popular Russian-American 6-year-old YouTube vlogger. The family of Anastasia Radzinskaya, star of YouTube’s Like Nastya channel with nearly 54 million subscribers, inked an exclusive global deal with IMG to develop a line of licensed consumer products. The
Lucinda Williams has joined Steve Earle, Brandy Clark, Cam, Skip Marley and DJ Twin Shadow for today’s version of “Sessions,” a virtual festival that will take place on four consecutive Wednesdays, starting today (May 6). The festival, a tag-team effort from Truideation with MusiCares and Twitch, goes live at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m PT on Twitch. Subsequent shows will
An Amazon employee who worked at its fulfillment center on Staten Island, N.Y., died after contracting the coronavirus, the company said Tuesday. He is at least the fifth Amazon worker to have died from COVID-19, according to media reports. In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said, “We are deeply saddened by the loss of an
Chinese romantic crime drama “Better Days” directed by Hong Kong’s Derek Tsang, scooped eight awards at this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actress. Critically acclaimed elderly gay drama “Suk Suk” took the best actor and best supporting actress awards, organizers announced on Wednesday afternoon. Winners, however,
As much of Europe begins to ease restrictions imposed on business and travel to curb the spread of coronavirus, Hollywood studios are looking ahead to summer and early fall when production is expected to resume in Hungary and the Czech Republic, Central Europe’s biggest production hubs. Executives at Mid Atlantic Films and Stillking Films, who
U.K. exhibitors are presenting evidence to the government that would allow them to safely reopen doors by the end of June. Phil Clapp, chief executive of the U.K. Cinema Association, tells Variety: “We’ve made representations to government on the safeguards which U.K. cinemas would look to have in place for audiences and staff alike upon re-opening,
Australian pay-TV leader Foxtel has renewed and expanded its long-standing content and channels deal with WarnerMedia. The deal includes a new agreement to co-produce original local content in Australia. The agreement covers programming from WarnerMedia’s Warner Bros., HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia networks, and allows Foxtel to play the content on its broadcast and on-demand platforms.
U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV has furloughed 800 staff, comprising around 15% of its local workforce. The majority of the furloughs are staff at production arm ITV Studios, which has taken a major commercial hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, losing around 80% of its business. The business has said it is “taking part in other schemes
Cinema operators in Australia are targeting mid-July as the date they will be open their theaters to the public. That would likely make Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” the country’s first tentpole release in the post coronavirus era. The optimism follows a board meeting of the National Association of Cinema Operators on Tuesday which weighed up Australia’s
Hollywood’s most acclaimed writers, including Damon Lindelof, Sarah Kucserka, Christina Hodson, Cord Jefferson, Susannah Grant, Janet Mock, Julio Torres, Robin Thede, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and Rob McElhenney spoke with Variety on how they overcome their own writer’s block. “I think the thing that is important is that you can always do something, so sure you can
In ordinary times, Paul Mescal’s life would be dramatically different after starring in one of the buzziest TV shows of the year. But for the most part, not much as changed for the actor since Hulu’s premiere last week of “Normal People,” a sprawling love story about two Irish teenagers. The 24-year-old Mescal is self-isolating
Exclusive Ariana Grande will have a court-ordered force field around her for the next 5 years — which will hopefully deter an obsessed fan who was arrested on her property 2 months ago. A judge just signed off on a permanent restraining order for AG’s mother, Joan — which also extends to Ariana — which
Chris Pratt and Antoine Fuqua’s series adaptation of Jack Carr’s “The Terminal List” has found a home at Amazon with a series order, Variety has learned. Development of the series was first reported in February. Pratt will star in and executive produce under his Indivisible Pictures banner, while Fuqua will direct and executive produce via
In today’s film news roundup, casting executives Deborah Aquila and Tricia Wood land at Paramount, sci-fi thriller “Volition” finds a home and Everlast Pictures launches in Los Angeles. CASTING EXECUTIVES Veteran casting executives Deborah Aquila and Tricia Wood have been hired as executive VPs of casting for Paramount Pictures and Paramount Television Studios. The duo will act as
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