“Jackass” star Steve-O had a team duct-tape him to a Los Angeles billboard — prompting a respond by the Los Angeles Fire Department — on Thursday. The stunt was an advertisement for his new comedy special, “Gnarly,” currently available to stream on his website. He posted about it on Instagram, publishing a selfie from his vantage
Month: August 2020
Epic Games is trying to skirt the 30% revenue cut taken by Apple’s App Store and Google Play — announcing a 20% discount to “Fortnite” players who purchase the game’s virtual currency directly from Epic, instead of from Apple or Google. “If Apple or Google lower their fees on payments in the future, Epic will
That was fast: Apple, just hours after Epic Games announced a new direct-payment option for “Fortnite” to bypass the Apple App Store 30% “tax” on in-app purchases, has removed the game from its app store. In a statement, Apple said, “Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are
It turns out that Epic Games’ announcement that it was doing an end-around with “Fortnite” to bypass Apple’s App Store 30% “tax” was a gambit to prompt legal action. Earlier Thursday, Epic announced a 20% discount for “Fortnite” players who purchase the game’s virtual currency directly from the company, instead of from Apple or Google.
HBO has set an all-star lineup of featured performers in the adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.” The HBO version’s cast will include Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, “Black Lives Matter” founder Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, The Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Pauletta Washington, and Susan Kelechi Watson.
Singer JoJo met and chatted with JoJo Siwa, a singer and dancer who got her start on “Dance Moms.” The two performers shared their experiences being confused for one another and talked about the good and bad parts of being caught up in the entertainment industry from a young age. “When I really became super
Check out the official Unhinged Trailer starring Russell Crowe! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Unhinged: https://www.fandango.com/unhinged-157905/movie-overview?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
Kevin Hart is getting his “Celebrity Game Face” on once again. E! has ordered five more episodes of the Hart-hosted quarantine game show, which was previously a one-off special on July 6. These five new episodes will continue to see Hart and his wife his wife Eniko go up against four other celebrity couples in
Fox is launching its first digital short series. The network has given an eight-episode series order to “Bucket List Bistro,” hosted by Christy Carlson Romano (“Kim Possible”). The show, premieres Thursday, Aug. 27, will run on Hulu and Fox’s YouTube channel. New episodes will continue to roll out every Thursday through the fall. “Bucket List
Shakira has signed with WME in all areas, the agency announced today. The Latin superstar and multiple Grammy winner performed at the Super Bowl LIV Halftime show (alongside Jennifer Lopez) which is nominated for four Emmy awards. In a career that spans 30 years and 11 studio albums, Shakira made history as an artist from
The Gospel Music Association announced the nominations for the 51st annual Dove Awards Thursday, and the band For King & Country and Christian rock singer Zach Williams garnered the most. Destined to get at least as much attention, though, were three nods for first-time nominee Kanye West. The presidential candidate’s first full entry into the
Lady Gaga has been confirmed as the latest artist to perform at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga will join the group of performers who were previously announced, which includes BTS, Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Roddy Ricch and Maluma. The VMAs will air live on Sunday, August 30th at 8pm ET/PT. Lady Gaga
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While the coronavirus pandemic prompted the Sarajevo Film Festival to shift to an online edition just days before opening night, the organizers of CineLink Industry Days—Sarajevo’s buzzy industry confab—were prepared to go virtual from the moment that the virus began sweeping across Europe in March. That means plans have long been in place for an
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, reuniting the actor with the studio behind his recent hit “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Appian Way, co-run by Jennifer Davisson, previously produced “The Revenant, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and “Shutter Island.” The deal is described as “multi-year” and
Hey, bud — let’s party! Sean Penn will take part in an all-star table read of his classic 1982 coming-of-age film “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” The lineup will include Penn, Jennifer Aniston, Shia LaBeouf, Matthew McConaughey, Julia Roberts, Dane Cook, Morgan Freeman and Henry Golding, with more names to be announced over the next
Approximately seven weeks into the coronavirus pandemic “Good Trouble’s” Joanna Johnson made a deal with Freeform for a two-night special event series about relationships strained by social distancing. After about another two months, this series, “Love in the Time of Corona,” was filming in its actors’ homes. Filming this way, with only a few crew
The Comedy Central shows “The Other Two” and “South Side” are moving to HBO Max. In a deal between Comedy Central Productions and the streaming service, the first seasons of both shows will become available on HBO Max in 2021, with future seasons debuting exclusively on HBO Max instead of Comedy Central. In addition, HBO
One of the most infamous events in “Star Wars” history is getting resurrected on Disney Plus, through a lens made of Lego. “The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” will debut on the streaming service on Nov. 17. Set after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the special continues the partnership between Lucasfilm
Clayton Davis, an experienced journalist who has covered film awards season for 15 years on his website AwardsCircuit.com, is joining Variety as film awards editor as of Sept. 1. As the editor-in-chief and owner of AwardsCircuit, Davis has become an influential voice in Hollywood when it comes to covering the annual Oscar race. At Variety,
Though the Russian film “Sputnik” is a sci-fi movie that begins in the vastness of space, the goal for Arman Yahin and his VFX team at Main Road Post was a narrow one: to build out the alien hitchhiker that one of the cosmonauts unwittingly brings home. The film centers on Konstantin Sergeyevich (Pyotr Fyodorov,
Fresh off the considerable success of her Netflix action feature “The Old Guard,” Gina Prince-Bythewood is eyeing up more projects in the TV space. The “Love & Basketball” director and her producing partner Reggie Rock Bythewood have inked a multi-year first-look TV deal with Touchstone Television, the recently rebranded Disney unit which used to be
Box sets from classic rock bands have sometimes come under criticism for excessive trinkets — like the marbles included in some of Pink Floyd’s — but fans may not be so quick to roll away a bonus included in a forthcoming collection from the Scorpions: a piece of the Berlin Wall. The release, which is
Nick Cannon is NOT planning to file a $1.5 BILLION lawsuit against ViacomCBS for the rights to his show “Wild ‘N Out” … he says those reports are fake news!!! Nick’s reps are clearing the air after reports surfaced this week the comedian was going to sue the media conglomerate over the rights to his
Emmys’ song category (officially original music and lyrics) embraces a wide spectrum of tunes, from amusing late-night trifles to powerful concluding anthems. This year the Television Academy’s voting members chose seven worthy songs penned by Oscar winners, Grammy winners and more. The Black Godfather(Netflix)When Clarence Avant’s daughter, Nicole, asked songwriter Pharrell Williams to consider writing
“The first Black female self-made millionaire. A successful doctor also dealing with a full house. An artist who steps in to take care of a friend’s kids when she thinks she’s going to jail. A Satmar woman secretly educating herself and eventually breaking out on her own. This year’s lead actress nominees portray a breadth
Laura Linney and Kerry Washington are no strangers to multi-tasking. The Emmy-nominated performers (Linney with her second consecutive lead drama actress nod for Netflix’s “Ozark” and Washington entering the lead limited series/TV movie actress race with Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere”) not only starred in multiple projects this past television season, but they also pulled double
The Mother — that role that was once cautioned against for young actors — is far more realistic than it used to be. This year’s crop of comedy actress Emmy nominees plays an array of characters that embrace the authenticity of motherhood as a piece (not entirety) of the female experience, relegating June Cleaver archetypes
It’s no surprise that the announcement of Kamala Harris as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate was met with wild enthusiasm by large swaths of the music industry — after all, she’s a Bay Area-bred California senator who lives in Los Angeles with her entertainment-attorney husband, Douglas Emhoff. But less known is how
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