Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (“The Lovely Bones,” “The Devil Wears Prada”) is set to star as a buccaneering treasure hunter in “La Fortuna,” a modern-day six-part adventure thriller from AMC Studios and Spain’s Movistar Plus, representing one of the most ambitious drama series to come out of Spain to date. Linking AMC Studios to
Month: July 2020
Dear Wiley, How are you? I ask that sincerely, as I’m sure the past week has been challenging for you, as it has been for many of us. Your words have hurt. Like a broken record, they’re anti-Semitic tropes we’ve heard for time immemorial. They go back to the very dawn of civilization, and they
Ahead of Spotify’s earnings call for its 2020 second-quarter results on Wednesday morning, the company’s cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek and CFO Paul Vogel got on the phone for a short call with Variety’s Jem Aswad and Todd Spangler. The conversation follows in full. How did you launch in 12 countries, including Russia, during a pandemic?
Buying a used designer handbag is a trust fall. You risk it all for the potential of finding your dream investment bag at a discount, while anxieties of authenticity, quality, and value retention lurk in the back of your mind. Am I going to destroy my vintage Birkin bag if I clean it with water?
The Beijing International Film Festival will go ahead after all, organizers announced Wednesday. The festival was originally scheduled for late April, but was postponed in March due to the coronavirus outbreak. It was replaced with a hastily pulled together online event in early May, operated in partnership with streaming platform iQIYI. Now, the 10th edition
South Korean animation “Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs” opens Wednesday in some 300 cinemas in France, giving the fairy tale derivative a further chance demonstrate its resistant to coronavirus. Using the fairy tale format to tell a story about the true meaning of beauty, the film was written and directed by Hong Sung Ho
Spotify’s user and subscriber growth came in at the top end of expectations, but the company’s bottom line was hit by a 48% increase in operating costs from stock-related compensation charges. In addition, ad revenue fell 21% — which Spotify blamed on the coronavirus pandemic — but the drop wasn’t quite as bad as forecast.
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe Film Sales has acquired world sales rights to “A Piece of Sky,” Swiss director Michael Koch’s sophomore feature, which was selected for The Films After Tomorrow strand of the Locarno Festival. “A Piece of Sky” is based on the real-life story of Anna and Marco, a couple who
The Edinburgh TV festival has revealed the 30 successful candidates selected for its popular ‘Ones to Watch’ program. Reflecting the nature of the U.K. television industry, more than 70% of the candidates, including producers, directors, writers and journalists, are freelance, and the rest are from leading production companies and broadcasters, including the BBC, Lime Pictures,
Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired the music catalogue of four time Grammy winner Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, who will also be joining the investment adviser’s advisory board with immediate effect. Hipgnosis has acquired 100% of Rodney Jerkins’ Writer’s Share of Income in his early works and 100% of his Publishing interest and Writer’s Share of Income
South Korea came relatively late to the zombie-cinema sweepstakes, making up for lost time most notably with 2016’s “Train to Busan,” which has already generated a sequel. Nonetheless, “Zombie for Sale” will seem most familiar not necessarily to horror fans, but rather those who grokked the comedy of family dysfunctionalia in prior genre-expanding local breakouts
Who would have thought a romantic comedy on the pain of being different could become such ironic and timely viewing in a global pandemic? In “I Weirdo,” a kooky and innovative debut by Taiwanese writer-director Liao Ming-yi, a couple with OCD trying to fit in to so-called “normal” society now looks like social-distancing heroes in
What do Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Lionel Richie, Courtney Love, Panic! at the Disco, Pearl Jam, Sia, Aerosmith, Lorde and Linkin Park have in common? Among probably many other things, one definite is a desire for politicians to keep their grubby hands off their music. (Unless, perhaps, they ask nicely.) Those and dozens of
Lena Waithe and CBS’ chief creative officer David Nevins have been conducting a “great social experiment” over the past couple months, Waithe tells Variety. The findings of her preliminary research on “Twenties” — the semi-autobiographical sitcom she has been shopping for over a decade that began airing its eight-episode season on BET in March —
The theatrical window has been shattered, and it’s a pretty good bet that it will never be patched back together. That means that the movie business will never look the same. The Universal and AMC Theatres deal enabling the studio to release new movies on premium video on-demand within three weeks of their debut has
What is it about ‘80s rockers and imitation French homes? First Jon Bon Jovi listed his sprawling New Jersey take on Gallic-themed architecture, and now the “Red Rocker,” aka Sammy Hagar — solo artist and former lead singer of Van Halen — has done likewise with his French-inspired chateau that’s sited on the shore of
Villanelle is going to have to use all her crafty skills to pull off the mission that lies in front of BBC America/AMC’s “Killing Eve.” The stylish espionage thriller scored its second consecutive Emmy nomination for best drama series, a feat that is all the more impressive given that it is one of only a
David Rubin has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for a second consecutive term. The votes were cast on Tuesday by the Academy’s board of governors. The board also elected: Lois Burwell, First Vice President (chair, Awards and Events Committee) Larry Karaszewski, Vice President (chair, Preservation and History Committee)
Popular Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana is teaming with director Abhishek Kapoor on an as yet untitled Bollywood romance. Khurrana will play a cross functional athlete in the film. The project is set up by Kapoor’s outfit Guy In The Sky Pictures (“Kedarnath”) and a producer is being finalised. Khurrana has made it a point of
Breaking News George Floyd‘s memory, and the worldwide movement his murder started, is being honored with a new hologram that will be on full display across several Southern states. Change.org partnered with the George Floyd Foundation to create this hologram image of George along with his name … all in glowing yellow light. The image
Trace Lysette is going behind the camera. The trans actress, best known for her work on “Transparent” and in “Hustlers,” has signed on as executive producer of the upcoming documentary series “Trans in Trumpland.” The four-part series, created by New York City-based TransWave Films and directed by trans filmmaker Tony Zosherafatain and produced by Jamie
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix announced a premiere date for “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous,” and Acorn TV has commissioned a second season of “Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries.” RENEWALS Acorn TV renewed “Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries” for a second season. A spin-off of “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” created by Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox,
Lionsgate has nominated Mignon Clyburn, a former commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, to its board of directors. Lionsgate made the disclosure Tuesday afternoon as part of its filing of its proxy statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission. If confirmed at the company’s annual meeting on Sept. 15 in Vancouver, Clyburn will become the
Johnny Depp’s attorney David Sherborne described Amber Heard as a “compulsive liar” while delivering his concluding remarks on the ongoing libel case at London’s Royal Courts of Justice. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) and journalist Dan Wootton for an article on The Sun’s website that described him as a
Procter & Gamble has been one of the leading voices pushing to get the TV industry to change its decades-old “upfront” marketplace. But that hasn’t kept the consumer-products giant from doing business with the networks using the regular system. The company behind Pampers diapers, Crest toothpaste and Old Spice men’s grooming products has begun striking
There’s a degree of irony in the fact that Netflix unscripted dating show “Indian Matchmaking,” the most distinctly Indian content to originate from a platform aggressively expanding operations in India, was commissioned out of Los Angeles, rather than Mumbai. Netflix launched in India in 2016, but it took a while to warm up to homegrown
“Watchmen” picked up 26 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, making it the most nominated show of the year. Part of the critical praise the HBO limited series received was due to its exploration of a real moment in American history that is often overlooked: the Tulsa massacre of 1921, in which white citizens attacked an affluent Black
Citing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, giant screen producer-exhibitor Imax has reported a $26 million second-quarter loss, or 44 cents a share, on revenues of $8.9 million. During the 2019 quarter, Imax had reported earnings of $11.4 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenues of $104.8 million. Wall Street analysts had expected a
The U.K. government has revealed how its planned £1.57 billion ($1.9 billion) Cultural Recovery Fund will be disbursed across arts sectors. Of the total amount, the government has currently released £880 million ($1.14 billion), which has been split into two funding rounds. The first round of £622 million ($805.3 million) will be distributed immediately, while
The Weinstein Co. bankruptcy estate is scrambling to salvage a $46.8 million global settlement that was rejected by a federal judge two weeks ago. The estate informed a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday that the estate is working “feverishly” to arrange a deal with dozens of women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
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