Month: July 2020

The Emmy nomination ballots are now closed, but in scouring this year’s entries, I was sad to see that “Succession” composer Nicholas Britell didn’t submit the show’s seminal Season 2 rap, “L to the OG.” Featured in the “Succession” episode “Dundee,” the song was one of the cringiest, most memorable moments of the last TV
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The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, has dropped “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version),” a previously unreleased early version of the song from the forthcoming expanded reissue of Prince’s classic 1987 album “Sign O’ the Times,” which is out September 25. “I Could Never Take the Place Of
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Warner Chappell Music announced today that it has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement with Grammy Award-winning producer-songwriter-executive Mike WiLL Made-It, who has helmed hits for Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Young Thug and many others. The signing marks the return to Warner Chappell for the hitmaker, who helmed such recent hits as Kane Brown’s “Be Like
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Kate Winslet will have another award to add to her trophy case. The Oscar winner will receive the Tribute Actor Award during the 2020 Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 15. “Kate’s brilliant and compelling on-screen presence continues to captivate, entertain and inspire audiences and actors alike,” TIFF executive director and co-head Joana Vicente said in
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Award-winning Spanish producer Agustín Almodóvar on Thursday tweeted a set photo from the first day of shooting for his brother Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming short film adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice,” starring Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton. In the photo, taken in Madrid, Almodóvar is seen wearing a stylish black mask while Swinton employs
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Netflix is notoriously secretive about how many people watch the movies and television shows it spends so lavishly to produce. The streaming giant did offer a little more clarity on the popularity of some of its original films, revealing to Bloomberg that “,” a Chris Hemsworth action flick, “Bird Box,” a dystopian thriller with Sandra
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Charli XCX is releasing a documentary film called “6ft Apart,” based on the recording of her quarantine album, “How I’m Feeling Now,” which was released in May. The album, the first to be made in quarantine by a major artist. The prolific performer, songwriter and producer first announced the album on April 6th, giving herself
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Signaling one of the biggest deals ever struck by a U.S. company on a single Spanish drama series, AMC Studios and Spanish SVOD Movistar Plus are partnering on the production and distribution of a sunken treasure adventure series from Academy Award winner Alejandro Amenábar (“The Others,” “The Sea Inside”). Inspired by the Spanish graphic novel
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Michelle Obama will bring her voice to Spotify’s global streaming platform later this month with the launch of “The Michelle Obama Podcast.” It’s the first project from Higher Ground, the media production company founded by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, for Spotify under their exclusive multiyear pact announced in June 2019. And it’s the latest
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Sports radio talk shows, long a staple of AM/FM dials, are coming to Twitch — in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts. In the first deal of its kind, Amazon-owned Twitch will distribute video simulcasts of top sports talk programs from radio broadcaster and audio streamer Entercom Communications. Under the agreement, Twitch initially will
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South Korean zombie action film “Peninsula” made a blistering start in cinemas across Asia. It is the highest-profile, first-run summer tentpole to have released since the coronavirus forced many cinemas in the region to close. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, “Peninsula” is a survival story that takes place four years after the zombie apocalypse events recounted
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Following Banijay’s takeover of Endemol Shine Group, Nicolas Coppermann, president of Endemol Shine France, will be stepping down at the end of July, with François de Brugada taking the helm of Banijay France. As CEO of Banijay France, de Brugada will spearhead the combined unscripted and scripted footprint and lead the company’s talent base. Post
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Action-thriller Western “A Soldier’s Revenge,” which stars Neal Bledsoe (Amazon’s “The Man in High Castle”), and Val Kilmer (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Batman Forever”), has been picked up by several distributors including Well Go Entertainment in the U.S. The film, which also stars Rob Mayes (ABC’s “Mistresses”), AnnaLynne McCord (CW’s “90210”), and Jake Busey (“Starship Troopers”),
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Studiocanal, the leading European production, distribution and international sales powerhouse, is teaming with France’s CPB Films (“Savages”) and Leyland Films (“Murder in Provence”) to develop a high-end English-language drama series about the trailblazing African American entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker, whom the partners describe as the world’s first Black global star performer. Studiocanal,
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Even as some film industry events are now firming up their schedules, others are being forced to cancel, due to continuing travel restrictions and new outbreaks of the coronavirus. The result is a fast-changing calendar of conferences, conventions and festivals going into the northern hemisphere fall. On Wednesday, the CineAsia distribution and exhibition sector convention
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The Shanghai International Film Festival will take place July 25 to Aug. 2, after Chinese authorities announced Thursday that cinemas will reopen at long last, beginning next Monday in low-risk regions. The Shanghai International TV Festival has also set its dates. It is scheduled to run from August 3 to 7. Cinemas in China have
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China will begin reopening cinemas in “low-risk regions” from July 20, the China Film Administration (CFA) announced Thursday, ending nearly six months of closures that left thousands of theaters bankrupt. “Cinemas in low-risk regions can resume business in an orderly manner on July 20, with the effective implementation of prevention and control measures. Mid- and
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Nick Cannon will continue to host Fox’s top-rated reality competition series “The Masked Singer,” the network confirmed on Wednesday. The news that Cannon would stay on “Masked Singer” comes after the host issued an apology online for anti-Semitic comments he made on a podcast. “When we were made aware of Nick Cannon’s interview with Richard
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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the finale of “The Challenge: Total Madness.” As the contestants on “The Challenge: Total Madness” prepared for their final competition, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio toasted the group by telling them that out of all of the seasons of the MTV reality competition of which he
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In today’s TV news roundup, SiriusXM revealed Gayle King will host a weekly call-in show, and Rob Schneider announced his first-ever Netflix comedy special, “Asian Momma, Mexican Kids.” DATES FOX News Channel will debut “Harris Faulkner Presents: The Fight for America,“ a program about the current American conversations surrounding race, on July 19. The one-hour
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