Bob Costas, the sportscaster who narrated World Series games, boxing matches and NBC’s Olympics telecasts and elevated his commentary to include politics and culture, is joining CNN as a contributor, the cable-news outlet announced Monday. He is expected to offer perspective on sports issues as that industry grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and a range
Month: July 2020
Beau Ferrari has been promoted to the role of Chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, succeeding Cesar Conde who departed to head up NBCUniversal News Group in May. In his new role, Ferrari will oversee the company’s media portfolio which includes the Telemundo broadcast network. He will report to directly to NBCUniversal Television and Streaming chairman
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Valentino will premiere its haute couture fall-winter 2021 runway show live from Cinecitta, Rome on Tuesday, July 21 at 10am EST. . Start your Tuesday off with an invite to one of the season’s most exciting (virtual) shows, below. This content is imported from Third party. You may be able to
Atlantic Records has named Keith “Keefa” Parker Vice President of A&R. Based in Los Angeles, Parker most recently served as an executive producer on Roddy Ricch’s breakthrough album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.” He is currently working with Ricch on his second studio album as well as A&Ring the new album from Ty Dolla $ign.
Cairo International Film Festival, having recently confirmed that this year’s 42nd edition will be held in person in November, has opened the window for submissions to the Cairo Film Connection sidebar, part of Cairo Industry Days. In its seven years of operation, Cairo Film Connection has helped Arab filmmakers secure funding and partnerships on more
When Europe’s theaters slowly began reopening mid-June, exhibitors were hopeful that after a few weeks spent warming up audiences with archive films and rereleases, they’d have big new U.S. movies to lure customers en masse mid-summer. But the successive delays of tentpoles such as Warner Bros.’ “Tenet” and Disney’s “Mulan” and the scrapped theatrical release
Italian A-listers Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”), Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) and Silvio Orlando (“The Young Pope”) are set to star in a high-profile prison drama to be directed by Leonardo di Costanzo, who is best known for social-realist drama “The Intruder.” Di Costanzo crossed over from documentary to feature filmmaking first with “The
Fox Sports has released what it claims is a “completely redesigned” app for livestreaming games, real-time scores, breaking news and more — timed for the debut of Major League Baseball’s delayed 2020 season. The app’s overhaul has been in the works for nearly two years, and Fox Sports decided to introduce the new version once
On what would have been Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell’s 56th birthday (July 20), his estate has posted the singer’s previously unreleased cover of Guns N’ Roses’ ballad, “Patience.” The song, originally released on GNR’s 1988 compilation “Lies,” unveiled a more acoustic and sensitive side of the band that it had showcased during low-key performances after
International production music company BMG Production Music (BMGPM) has acquired award-winning Los Angeles and London-based outfit Dynamic Music. The two companies started a global sub-publishing agreement in 2018 that saw Dynamic’s revenue double. Under the deal, the parties also secured more than 100 hours of music use across global television and radio stations from some
British actor Tilda Swinton and Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with Golden Lions for career achievement. Both are no strangers to Venice, where Hui’s “A Simple Life” and “The Golden Era” both world-premiered. Swinton is a Venice veteran. “This great festival has been dear to my heart
The Rotterdam Film Festival’s facilitation and talent incubator wing IFFR Pro has teamed with the Sundance Institute, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs and the Realness Institute for Creative Producer Indaba, a year-long professional development initiative aimed at supporting producers from Africa. The inaugural batch of 17 emerging producers was announced Monday. They will participate in online workshops
Moonyeenn Lee, the acclaimed South African agent and casting director who cast films such as the foreign-language Oscar winner “Tsotsi” and Oscar-nominated “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom,” died in Johannesburg on Saturday due to coronavirus-related complications. She was 76. Lee’s company, Moonyeenn Lee & Associates, announced the news in a statement on its Facebook page
China reopened its cinemas on Monday after nearly five months of closure, but audiences are only trickling in. The re-opening was restricted to theaters in cities and regions where the coronavirus is deemed to have been vanquished. That excluded Beijing, where recent weeks has seen a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. By 6 p.m. local time, cumulative
U.K.-based production company and financier Fugitive has signed a wide-ranging partnership with South African independent producer Helena Spring for a diverse slate of projects. Spring produced “Yesterday,” a 2005 Oscar nominee for South Africa in the foreign language category. The film was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award. The new
British actor John Boyega, who played the character of Finn in three recent “Star Wars” films, appears to have left the role behind him. Boyega revealed he has moved on from the character in response to a user comment on one of his recent Instagram posts showing the actor back on set. User @techsteveo wrote: “Force
The much-awaited release of “Peninsula” in South Korea lived up to the hype, despite capacity limitations and other social distancing measures imposed across the nation’s cinemas. With number one openings in four other Asian territories, it finished the weekend with a $20.8 million cumulative score. In Korea, the “Train to Busan” sequel earned a thumping
Canadian broadcast group Corus Entertainment has picked up a wide-ranging slate of comedies and dramas from Sky Studios. Sky Original dramas and comedies such as “Intelligence,” “Devils” and “Bulletproof” will land on Corus’s roster of channels and platforms, which includes national network Global Television, following the multi-year pact between Corus Entertainment and NBCUniversal Global Distribution,
The much-awaited release of “Peninsula” in South Korea lived up to the hype, despite capacity limitations and other social distancing measures imposed across the nation’s cinemas. The “Train to Busan” sequel earned a thumping $9.20 million over the weekend from 2,575 screens, giving it an unapproachable 93% market share. Including revenues earned between its Wednesday
Emitt Rhodes, a singer whose career began in the 1960s but who became critically acclaimed in the 1970s as a solo artist for his Paul McCartney looks and power pop stylings, died in his sleep on July 19, according to friend and record producer Chris Price. Rhodes was 70. A darling of the Los Angeles
Pixar technical artist Dylan Sisson will discuss the studio’s RenderMan technology and the art of movie magic during the VIEW Conference’s latest free PreVIEW event Friday, July 24, beginning at 2:30 p.m. PT. Sisson will talk about the ever-evolving RenderMan software, created by Pixar and used by visual effects and animations studios worldwide. The surfaces
Kanye West broke down in tears, made an outrageous claim about abolitionist Harriet Tubman, had a heckler ejected and claimed his brain was too big for his skull on Sunday at the first campaign event for his bewildering presidential run. “Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white
Disney World visitors can no longer eat and drink while walking around the theme park because too many people weren’t wearing face masks. The park’s website updated its face mask policy, as noted by several Disney World fan blogs over the weekend. It still allows guests to remove their face masks while eating or drinking,
August Alsina is capitalizing on everyone’s interest in his “entanglement” with Jada Pinkett Smith with a new song called, you guessed it, “Entanglements.” The singer released the song late on Saturday night, after which it became trending on Twitter by Sunday morning. The song, which features rapper Rick Ross, makes numerous nods to his relationship
Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign consultant whose prison sentence was commuted by the president, used a racial slur during an interview on “The Mo’Kelly Show.” While speaking with host Mo’Kelly, whose real name is Morris W. O’Kelly, Stone seemed to get frustrated by a question about his relationship with Trump and commuted sentence and
Kanye West has scheduled his first campaign event since announcing he was running for President two weeks ago. And despite the fact that there were reports last week that West was ending his White House bid before it ever started in earnest, the kickoff event in South Carolina (for registered guests only) is the clearest
Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and the original cast of 1998’s “The Parent Trap” will reunite on July 20, director Nancy Meyers announced via her Instagram. The virtual reunion will be the first time the cast has gotten together since its release exactly 22 years ago. Meyers, who directed the remake wrote, “Sorry for the mini
If “The Princess Bride’s” Inigo Montoya were to ever attend a Donald Trump rally or watch his campaign’s videos, it’s clear what he’d say: “You keep using that song. I do not think it means what you think it means.” From the 2016 campaign through the present day, music fans have been baffled by Trump’s
Rapper and former Trump supporter Kanye West has announced his first campaign event backing a bewildering presidential run. According to campaign documents obtained by Politico, West has set a campaign event for Sunday afternoon in South Carolina’s Exquis Event Center in North Charleston. Anyone who attends will have to sign a COVID-19 liability release form,
When Katori Hall was putting “P-Valley” together, music was at the top of her agenda. More specifically, female voices. Her goal was to find as many female emcees as she could using social media and asking for recommendations. She wanted 50-50 gender parity for the music-heavy show set in the world of Pynk, a strip
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