Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo, and Endeavor Content have acquired the television rights for Alice Feeney’s new novel “His & Hers.” The novel tells the story of DCI Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown.
Month: June 2020
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has confirmed the first tranche of short films commissioned as a response to the killing of George Floyd. The five shorts explore the impact of the killing on Black Britons and are by Black British filmmakers. The films, under the series title “Take Your Knee Off My Neck,” will air weeknights
Star Wars Celebration has been canceled for the first time in the event’s history due to the coronavirus pandemic. The gathering was scheduled to take place from Aug. 27 through Aug. 20 in the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Organizers confirmed the Star Wars Celebration will resume in two years, and is expected to run
Some of the anchors on ABC News’ most popular programs have in recent days spent significant portions of on-air time covering an unorthodox topic: the inner workings of the company that employs them. Hosts including “Good Morning America’s” weekend on air staff and “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin took to their shows on Sunday and
The 2021 Oscars will go on — just not on Feb. 28. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards telecast has been postponed by two months to April 25, 2021. Variety was the first to report in mid-May that the Academy was considering delaying the big
“Anthony,” a commissioned 90-minute drama about Anthony Walker, a Black teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in Liverpool in 2005, will air on BBC One. Inspired by conversations with Anthony’s mother Gee Walker, “Anthony” is written by Jimmy McGovern, BAFTA-winner for “The Street” and “Hillsborough.” The drama looks at what Anthony’s life could
Howard Stern has addressed his use of blackface and the N-word in a New Year’s Eve special in 1993. The video was brought back to light by Donald Trump Jr., who retweeted the clip of the performance, originally posted by filmmaker Tariq Nasheed. The president’s son and Stern had been in a public spat since
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. As many across the country continue to practice self-isolation due to coronavirus, why not while away
Singers from Beyoncé to Lizzo have mastered it—the “mean mug.” You bring the edges of your top and bottom teeth together and lift your lips away from your gums. You must fully commit to the pose (bonus points for a mean squint). It’s the only way to show off a bejeweled mouthpiece: “grillz,” “mouth bling,”
ITV’s hit reality show “Love Island” will be absent from U.K. screens for a year due to coronavirus concerns. The U.K. broadcaster confirmed Monday that the show’s highly anticipated second winter edition, which was set to air in January and February, has been canceled, with plans to resume the South Africa-shot show in 2021 with
Canadian exhibition chain Cineplex has announced it will commence legal proceedings against Cineworld and seek damages after the U.K.-based exhibitor pulled its $2.1 billion takeover deal. Cineworld back away from the Cineplex agreement on June 12, citing alleged breaches of the merger agreement and a “material adverse effect” without providing details. “Cineworld’s decision to abandon
BMI announced the winners of the performing rights organization’s annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards on Monday, with an online unveiling of the recipients substituting for the ceremony that would have been taking place in Beverly Hills under non-quarantine conditions. The most awards, five, went to Icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson, who won for his
Wild Bunch AG, the pan-European film and TV group co-founded by Vincent Grimond, Brahim Chioua and Vincent Maraval, has secured a €35 million ($40 million) credit line from Germany’s Commerzbank. The company told Variety that the new credit line will be used by the banner to continue ramping up its production activities, increase its investment
Veteran French animation producer Aton Soumache and renowned comicbook artist-turned-filmmaker Joann Sfar (“The Rabbi’s Cat”) are launching Magical Society in the run up to the online Annecy Animation Film Festival. The Paris-based mini-studio is already boasting a slate of a dozen ambitious animation, hybrid and live action projects in various stages of development, with about
Splice has tapped Maria Egan as its chief music officer. She leaves Pulse Music Group, where she was president and head of creative, to take on the newly created position. Egan will have oversight of a new structure for music and industry relations at Splice, the popular platform for rights-cleared sounds and beats, according to
This year, the iconic Glastonbury Festival would have celebrated its 50th year in existence. However, the coronavirus pandemic forced the festival to cancel its 2020 edition, meaning that headlining performances from Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Paul McCartney and Diana Ross will have to wait until next year. The first Glastonbury Festival, then called the Pilton
The Highwomen, Brittany Howard, Tanya Tucker, Nathaniel Rateliff, Drive-By Truckers and Brandi Carlile are among the multiple nominees announced Monday for this year’s Americana Honors & Awards, set to take place Sept. 16 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The annual Americana Music Festival originally scheduled for Nashville has been called off, but the show will go
Drake leads the 2020 BET Awards nominees with six nods, while Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch garnered five apiece, the network announced Monday. Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Lizzo, and DaBaby are the third-highest with four nominations each; the full list appears below. The “BET Awards” 2020 will simulcast live on Sunday, June 28 at 8 p.m. ET across ViacomCBS networks
Will Smith will star in the thriller “Emancipation,” which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, sources tell Variety. William N. Collage penned the script, based on the true story of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the punishing Louisiana swamp on a tortuous journey to the Union Army and his only
VidCon’s annual Anaheim convention, which had been scheduled to take place this week, was canceled because of COVID-19. In place of the in-person confab, VidCon is launching a weekly programming series — accessible for free — that will include virtual concerts and performances, panel discussions, Q&As, online “meet and greets,” and other interactive events. The
In a major victory for the LGBTQ community, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that people cannot be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The decision comes despite the high court’s rightward lurch and demonstrates the major cultural shifts that have taken place in terms of gay rights in recent
Virtual Reality producers Baobab Studios have announced that “Star Wars” actor Daisy Ridley will headline the company’s next VR project, “Baba Yaga,” presenting a Work in Progress panel at this year’s online Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival. “It’s easy to get caught up in the spectacle of a ‘Star Wars’ film and not to think
Producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller and director Mike Rianda offered an in-depth look at Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming feature “Connected” on the first day of Annecy 2020 Online, this year’s digital version of the Annecy Intl. Animation Festival and accompanying Mifa market. The animated comedy, which Sony is releasing Stateside on Oct. 23, follows Katie,
Gaumont has acquired French distribution and international sales rights to Melanie Laurent’s period mystery thriller “The Mad Women’s Ball” which is being produced by Alain Goldman’s Legende Films. Based on the award-wining novel by Victoria Mas “Le Bal des folles,” “The Mad Women’s Ball” will be headlined by up-and-coming French actress Lou de Laâge (pictured)
HBO has announced the launch of a digital Pride celebration on its Human By Orientation platform, which will host daily virtual events honoring the LGBTQIA+ community from June 18 to June 28. All of the events on the platform are free, including musical performances from Janelle Monáe, Todrick Hall and Kim Petras. Jackie Gagne, vice
Road signs for Penny Lane in Liverpool, which was immortalized by the Beatles’ 1967 song, were recently vandalized due to claims that the street was named after 18 th century slave trader James Penny. The signs had the word Penny blacked out and the word “racist” written above them late last week, according to the
Katy Perry and Black Eyed Peas will co-headline Democracy Summer 2020 on Thursday, June 18 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. The virtual event is co-hosted by Rosario Dawson and Logan Browning and presented by a coalition led by Rock the Vote, Voto Latino Foundation, When We All Vote and March For Our
REinvent, the banner launched by TrustNordisk’s former CEO Rikke Ennis, has come on board “Outlier,” a female-led crime thriller set in Arctic wilderness amid the Sami community. The eight-part series was created by Arne Berggren, the award-winning Norwegian novelist, playwright and rock musician, and Kristine Berg, the duo behind “The River” (“Elven), “The Dead Ones,”
“Jurassic World: Dominion” will resume filming on July 6 in the United Kingdom, Variety has confirmed. Pre-production on the big-budget sequel was halted in March as the coronavirus swept across the globe, upending economic activity and delaying work on most major movies and television shows. “Jurassic World: Dominion” was four weeks into its 20-week production
Acclaimed Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (“The Mustang”) will play the lead in thriller “Wildlands,” from director Kim Mordaunt (“The Rocket”). The “Rust and Bone” actor will play a jaded bomb disposal specialist who gets a final chance at redemption when he is sent to Angola — one of the most heavily mined countries in the
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