The co-directors and producer of a new Netflix documentary about the life of iconic television astrologer Walter Mercado are hoping to adapt the film into a scripted biopic. Cristina Costantini, who directed “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado” with Kareem Tabsch, tells Variety that they asked Mercado who he wanted to play him.
Month: July 2020
The battle over the use of the name “Lady A” ratcheted up Wednesday with a lawsuit from the country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum against Anita White, the singer who also goes by Lady A, asking a Tennessee court to declare that both artists can use the moniker going forward. Among the more interesting
Can extra soccer games kick ViacomCBS more directly into TV’s streaming wars? ViacomCBS picked up an extra run of UEFA Champions League games in a deal that will put the European soccer organization’s tournaments on broadcast, cable, and, perhaps most important, streaming at a time when the media conglomerate is trying to spur new interest
Play video content A Black NYPD cop recorded himself making fun of societal calls for police to be more cautious during arrests — and while he and his buddies thought it was hilarious … D.L. Hughley says this guy’s part of the problem. The officer, whose video’s been reposted on social media, does an impersonation
Facebook kicked Roger Stone, the Donald Trump associate who faces prison time after being convicted of seven felonies, off Facebook and Instagram. The company said it had found evidence that Stone was behind a network of fake accounts in the U.S. designed make themselves appear “more popular than they were.” The company said it “identified
For Jackie McGuire, CEO and founder of production company Rave Family, music has always felt like more than a hobby. But with a burgeoning career in finance, McGuire settled for attending any EDM festival she could to blow off steam – until an opportunity fell into her lap during the inaugural year of Camp EDC
“Batwoman” has found its new series lead, with Javicia Leslie set to step into the cape and cowl for the show’s upcoming second season on The CW. “I am extremely proud to be the first Black actress to play the iconic role of Batwoman on television, and as a bisexual woman, I am honored to
In today’s TV News Roundup, NBC set a “Weakest Link” revival with Jane Lynch as host, and Amazon Prime Video released a teaser for Season 2 of “The Boys.” DATES Hulu has announced that Season 2 of its comedy series “Pen15” will premiere on the streamer on Sept. 18. Season 2 consists of 14 episodes.
It’s safe to say that “Chasing the Cure,” the acclaimed medical series that marked Ann Curry’s return to the small screen, is unlike anything else on television. Over the course of each 90-minute episode, the TBS and TNT series used crowdsourcing and a network of doctors and specialists to try to solve various medical mysteries
The Emmys are still set for Sept. 20, and besides host Jimmy Kimmel, there’s very little we know about how this year’s ceremony (to be broadcast on ABC) will be handled. But we now have a better idea of how it might look: The first non-host key art for the 72nd Emmy Awards is out,
Here are the top trailers for movies coming to home video in July 2020! What will you watch? Watch All the Best New Trailers from June 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD46eMfN-ghrmoaEAh_CqoUoY&cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Watch More Trailers: ► Hot New Trailers: http://bit.ly/2qThrsF ► Drama Trailers: http://bit.ly/2ARA8Nk ► Action/Sci-Fi Trailers: http://bit.ly/2Dm6mTB 00:00 Force of Nature 02:22 Viena & The Fantomes 04:25 The
One would assume that the powers that be at Disney and Marvel have approached Charlize Theron about joining the MCU. But no, Theron says, she hasn’t heard a peep. “I swear to God. I’ve never gotten anything,” the Oscar winner says during an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big
Check out the official Halloween Kills Teaser Trailer starring Jamie Lee Curtis! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Visit Fandango: http://www.fandango.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: October 15,
On-location film in Los Angeles plunged to its lowest levels on record for the second quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic, the FilmLA permitting agency reported Wednesday. The report showed overall production plunged by 97.8% to only 194 shoot days as production remained shut down from March 20 to June 15. State and county officials
“The Invisible Man” director Leigh Whannell is in negotiations to helm Ryan Gosling’s “Wolfman” for Universal Pictures. Whannell will also be writing the treatment for the film, based on an original idea of his own. Blumhouse, which teamed with Whannell on “The Invisible Man,” has come on board to produce “The Wolfman.” Variety first reported
Showtime is developing a limited series about entertainment icon and activist Lena Horne. The series is currently titled “Blackbird: Lena Horne and America,” named for Horne’s favorite poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Jenny Lumet, Horne’s granddaughter, will co-write the first few episodes of the series with Alex Kurtzman, with both also executive
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has released his first official song of 2020, “Here Comes the End,” which comes from the new season of “Umbrella Academy,” the Netflix series based on comics and graphic novels created by Way and Gabriel Ba. The song features singer Judith Hill, who previously worked with Prince, Michael Jackson and
Check out the official She Dies Tomorrow Trailer starring Kate Lyn Sheil! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Visit Fandango: http://www.fandango.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: July 31,
Giving evidence on the second day of a libel trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Johnny Depp denied slapping his former wife Amber Heard when she laughed at one of his tattoos. Depp, who is suing the publisher of The Sun newspaper for describing him as a “wife beater,” was being cross-examined
Few current TV series utilize makeup as expressively as HBO’s “Euphoria,” which follows a group of teenagers coming into their own identities and sexualities while dealing with problems involving trauma, drugs and love. In a video for Variety Artisans presented by HBO, Doniella Davy, head of the makeup department on the series, explained the show’s
“Sex and the City” and “Younger” creator Darren Star has inked an overall production and development deal with ViacomCBS’ entertainment and youth group. “Darren is a creative force behind some of the most seminal shows of our time and we are thrilled he will continue to call ViacomCBS his home as we rapidly expand our
A reboot of “The Wonder Years” has landed a pilot production commitment at ABC. The new half-hour comedy series would focus on how a black middle class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960’s made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too. That puts the new show in the same time
After giving Fox News Channel the business with an abrupt departure last year, anchor Shepard Smith is likely to find himself more engaged with news about the subject. He’s joining finance-focused news outlet CNBC to host a new evening-news program, marking one of the first major outside hires by the NBCUniversal-owned cable network in years.
. Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Traditional fashion shows weren’t working, the designer felt. They were too stuffy and exclusive, not in step with the rhythms of the technology-savvy present. So he decided to do something a little different. This sounds like a scenario that
KiKi Layne is a natural — and not just when it comes to acting. While training to star opposite Charlize Theron in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s graphic novel-based film “The Old Guard” (streaming on Netflix beginning July 10), the 28-year-old learned she’s quite adept at preparing firearms. “Our tactical trainer was blown away at how smooth all
Universal Pictures is pushing back the openings of “Candyman” and its two “Halloween” sequels, marking only the latest release date delays amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Candyman” will move back three weeks from Sept. 25 to Oct. 16. “Halloween Kills” has been delayed for a year from Oct. 16, 2020, to Oct. 15, 2021, and “Halloween
Documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor,” from Latinx filmmakers Cristina Costantini (“Science Fair”) and Kareem Tabsch (“The Last Resort”), focuses on the legacy of Walter Mercado, the iconic gender-nonconforming Hispanic astrologer who disappeared from the public eye, choosing to live off the grid in Puerto Rico, before resurfacing to prepare for the opening of a late-in-life exhibition
Laemmle Theatres is considering unloading at least one of its theaters that has been sitting idle for the past four months amid the pandemic-induced shutdown. The Claremont 5 theater has already been put up for sale and the company is mulling shopping one or more of the six other theaters the 82-year-old business owns and
Twenty years after its debut, durable gaming title “The Sims” is getting the reality-TV show treatment — a la “Project Runway” — in which 12 contestants vie for a $100,000 grand prize. Electronic Arts’ “The Sims Spark’d,” a show centered on challenges in the virtual-world game, will launch later this month on TBS under Turner
Ringo Starr is one of the few stars to take his birthday celebrations public every year — with in-person and online recitations of his “peace and love” mantra at an appointed hour — and he did not let the pandemic dissuade him from making his 80th a shared experience. In lieu of his usual gathering
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