Egomeli Hormeku has been appointed Senior Vice President & Creative Director, Def Jam Recordings, company EVP and GM Rich Isaacson announced. According to the announcement, Hormeku will provide creative oversight in content creation, digital and social strategies, and brand identity and partnerships. Based in New York, he will report to Isaacson. “A successful mover and shaker
Month: July 2020
L. Chris Stewart, the trial attorney currently representing the families of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, is teaming with eOne for a documentary series about his pursuit of justice for victims of police brutality. The series, titled “Burden of Justice,” will see Stewart open up his life and his legal practice to show the harsh
Wendy Williams is returning this fall — and not from her home, but from the purple chair in her Manhattan studio. The queen of daytime gossip announced on Tuesday that her long-running syndicated show will resume production in-studio on Sept. 21. “I can’t wait to get back to all of you and to my amazing
Snapchat boosted its daily active user rolls with a hefty gain of 9 million in the second quarter of 2020, as the company grew revenue 17% year over year to beat analyst expectations on the top line. But investors had been expecting a bigger coronavirus-fueled lift from still-unprofitable Snap, which again — citing the pandemic
Mitch Slater, a trailblazer of the concert promotion business, died on July 21 following an extended illness. He was 59. His brother, former Capitol Records CEO Andy Slater, commented: “To most people he was one of the architects of the modern concert era, but to me he was my baby brother. When he started in
Check out the official Sputnik Trailer starring Oksana Akinshina! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Visit FandangoNOW: http://www.fandangonow.com/?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 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: August 14, 2020 Starring: Oksana
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Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood led a protest in London on Tuesday in support of incarcerated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 79-year-old Westwood, dressed in a canary yellow outfit, chanted slogans of protest such as “Free Julian Assange!” while being suspended in a giant birdcage outside London’s Old Bailey criminal court. Westwood, a longtime supporter of
As Hollywood takes stock of the best ways to diversify its ranks, Chris Chalk implores the industry not to forget the hair and makeup trailer. The need for more diversity in the hair and makeup department is often discussed when Black women like Gabrielle Union, Yvette Nicole Brown or Nia Long speak out about their
“Benjamin” opens on a film within a film, the long-awaited sophomore feature by thirtysomething Irish director Benjamin Oliver (Colin Morgan), whose once-clamorous career buzz has slowed to a murmur. The scene we’re shown looks promising enough: a tartly worded lovers’ argument between two men, one played by Benjamin himself, diffidently explaining his existential struggles with
Check out newly announced release dates, which movies are coming to home video this week, and recommendations from your host Khail Anonymous and film critic Katie Walsh in this new episode of ‘Weekly Ticket’! ► Buy or Rent Movies on FandangoNOW: https://www.fandangonow.com?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Tune-in to Weekly Ticket every Tuesday to help you decide what to watch
CAA announced Tuesday that Praveen Pandian has been promoted to head up the agency’s TV literary department. “Praveen is an exceptional agent with a tremendous work ethic and great taste,” said Joe Cohen, CAA Board Member and Head of Scripted Television. “He is a shining example of what we stand for at CAA, and I
Elisabeth Moss is making a giant leap into developing and producing her own content. “The Handmaid’s Tale” star has inked a joint first-look deal with the show’s platform Hulu and Fox 21 Television Studios. Moss has also launched her own production company called Love & Squalor Pictures, which will focus on creating TV and film
After “Avatar: The Last Airbender’s” resurgence on Netflix, its sequel series, “The Legend of Korra,” is also headed to the streaming platform. “The Legend of Korra” will be made available to stream on Netflix on Aug. 14, Nickelodeon revealed in a tweet on Tuesday. Following an avatar named Korra, the show explores a more modernized
HBO is tapping its ruby slippers and heading to Kansas. The premium cabler has issued a series order for a new comedy titled “Somebody Somewhere,” which is set in Kansas and will star Kansas-born comedian and singer Bridget Everett. Inspired by Everett’s life, the series will center around Sam Miller (played by Everett), a true
I’m not sure anyone on Earth could give Naya Rivera the tribute she deserves. In fact, the process of losing her has been such a nightmare, I find myself wondering if Naya was even real or if she was just a dream all along. How could a human being be that talented, that hilarious and
Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I have always been supremely jealous of people who slumber like the proverbial log. I’ve never been able to, but especially not now. Not when my brain is an arid desert and my dreams are peopled with a Robert Altman-sized
Malika James is a bicoastal makeup artist and a member of both Makeup and Hair stylist guild local 706 and local 798. She’s worked with stars like Gabrielle Union, Danai Gruyere, Keke Palmer, and T.I. Her credits include “Grownish”, “America’s Got Talent,” “LA’s Finest”, “The Voice: Australia”, and “The Walking Dead.” “Hell, no.” That was
Juice WRLD’s posthumously released album “Legends Never Die” posted the biggest debut of 2020 on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, and also topped its Artist and Songs charts, with 8 of the top 10 songs on the former chart. With 517,800 album-equivalent units, “Legends” becomes the first album to shift more than 500,000
To get to the center of the story of documentary “Father Soldier Son,” about a single dad raising two boys while fighting in Afghanistan, editor Amy Foote locked herself in a bubble for two months poring over 10 years of footage. Journalists-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis make their feature debut with the doc, now
A series titled “Revelations” based on Stephen King’s short story “The Revelations of ’Becka Paulson” is in the works at The CW, Variety has learned. In the potential one-hour drama, after accidentally shooting herself in the brain with a nail gun, a Pollyanna-ish Becca Paulson is recruited by an over-it Jesus to be his “chosen
The world seems to be quickly coming to understand that navigating life as a Black person in America is an emotional and difficult journey. But what about paving a path in Hollywood? As support for the Black Lives Matter movement emboldens more Black people and people of color in the industry to speak out about
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson loomed large on the broadcast TV landscape on Monday night. The star’s “Titan Games” competition series scored the highest rating across broadcast on the night for NBC. Its 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 was even on last week’s episode and its season 2 premiere back in May. A total of 3.8
Actor and comedian Jay Pharoah had never interacted with the police before April 26, 2020, when he heard a police officer yell for someone to “get on the ground.” “I’ve only been able to see it over the years, but to finally have that happen to me, personally, I understand fully the rage of all
Robin Williams, who was born on July 21, 1951, broke through in “Mork and Mindy” but the small screen couldn’t contain this comedic giant. Williams, who died in 2014, could do drama just as well as comedy. In real life he was a great interview giving quotable quips in a torrent. He was one of
Live Nation Philadelphia, in partnership with the Philadelphia Phillies, has announced plans for a four-week local drive-in concert series coming to the parking lot of Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies. The Live-In / Drive-In Concert Series presented by Budweiser Zero kicks off on Sunday, August 16 with comedian Bert Kreischer, and will continue with a
Raven Capital management, the U.S. private equity firm that last year acquired distributor Open Road, is to finance a slate of TV projects from South East Asia’s Coconuts. The arrangement will kick-off with pilots for seven unscripted TV shows. Raven and Coconuts TV will partner on global licensing and distribution deals for the series. Coconuts
For more than 20 years, the business of owning cable TV channels was seemingly too good to be true. Todd Juenger, senior media analyst for Sanford Bernstein, crunched the numbers and found that entertainment giants with big cable TV footprints — think Disney, Fox, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal, Discovery and AMC Networks — generated astounding 30%-40% returns
Italian soccer icon Francesco Totti will be the subject of a six-part Sky Original series with the working title “Speravo De Mori’ Prima – The Series About Francesco Totti.” Produced by Mario Gianani for Wildside, part of the Fremantle group, with Virginia Valsecchi’s Capri Entertainment, The New Life Company and Kwaï, the series is based
As Hollywood commits to featuring more Black actors on camera, another question arises: What is being done about the support staff around them — and particularly in the hair and makeup trailers? When “The Bold Type” star Aisha Dee posted a letter on Instagram on July 15 detailing her experience as a biracial woman in
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