Lindsey Vonn is trading her Olympic medals for dog leashes. The famous athlete, and her dog Lucy, are teaming up with Amazon for a canine competition series. Titled “The Pack,” the Vonn-hosted unscripted series will celebrate the bond between dogs and their human companions, and is set to premiere later this year. The series consists
Month: August 2020
A significant chunk of Fox Corp.’s employee base is likely to work from home for the rest of 2020 to keep the coronavirus from spreading among staffers, the company’s chief executive revealed in a memo. “In the near-term, we want to maintain a low density in our offices for those employees whose jobs do require
It’s been 25 years since the Grateful Dead played their last show at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995. A month later, on Aug. 9, founding member and idolized frontman Jerry Garcia was dead of a heart attack. But the music never stopped, and in the decades since, Garcia’s legend has grown — and
“’You are one of the few designers that can open a movie,’” costumer Mona May recalls Happy Madison co-founder Jack Giarraputo once telling her. Perhaps no appraisal can sum up the fashion-design-trained May’s auteur-like contribution to cinema as succinctly. Her bold colors, unapologetically soft silhouettes and feathery boas — signature touches that at once highlight
Saban Films has bought North American distribution rights to Dennis Dugan’s “Love, Weddings & Other Disasters,” starring Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons. The romantic comedy also stars Maggie Grace, Jesse McCartney, Chandra West, Diego Boneta, Andrew Bachelor and Veronica Ferres. Dugan, who penned the script, also served as a producer along with Align’s Adrian Politowski
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The situation at Condé Nast’s Bon Appétit remains in flux, following the June ouster of editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport after allegations of racial discrimination at the food-media brand and a photo of Rapoport in brown-face circulated online. The media and publishing company announced that Sonia Chopra, former director of editorial strategy for Vox Media’s Eater, is
Forrest Frank, 25, and Colin Padalecki, 23, who make up rising duo Surfaces, are the unlikely hitmakers behind one of the hottest songs of the summer, “Sunday Best.” While it seemingly came out of nowhere, the song was, in fact, made in a dorm room — more specifically a closet — belonging to Padalecki at
For an event that was launched a quarter of a century ago, in the midst of a four-year siege that devastated the city during the Bosnian war, it was perhaps to be expected that this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival would try to forge ahead, even in light of a coronavirus pandemic that has turned the
Sarah Snook was sleeping at friend’s house in her native country of Australia when this year’s Emmy nominations were announced. “He was the one who woke me up to tell me. He ran into my room,” Snook says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast The Big Ticket. “He went and bought some
It’s almost shocking to consider this now, but the very same week in March that the entire entertainment industry effectively shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Walt Disney Company hosted a lavish and star-studded red carpet premiere in Hollywood for what was expected to be one of the year’s biggest theatrical releases: “Mulan.”
UPDATED: Confusion has reigned among Taylor Swift fans in the U.K. — and as a result, the worldwide music press — over the early release of her “Folklore” CD there, several days ahead of when it was scheduled to come out globally. News accounts suggested the CD came out early there in an attempt to
Jacob Elordi isn’t just another heartthrob. The 23-year-old actor has the grit to travel to dark places on the HBO TV series “Euphoria,” where he plays Nate, a high school jock with anger management issues. More recently, Elordi switched courses to reprise his role as Noah in the Netflix rom-com “The Kissing Booth 2,” a
Chinese moviegoers are set for a Christopher Nolan bonanza on the big screen: the director’s sci-fi epic “Tenet” will launch in Chinese theaters on Sept. 4, a week after an Aug. 28 re-release of his 2010 film “Inception.” “Tenet,” starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, is expected to be the first China release for
Breaking News Ex-NFLer Justin Bannan has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in his attempted murder case … after the defensive lineman allegedly shot a woman back in 2019. 41-year-old Bannan — who played 11 seasons in the NFL — was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault and burglary back in October
Talk about a bad [bleep] Addison Rae! The future of TikTok may be uncertain — as the Chinese-owned app’s forced sale talks with Microsoft continue — but the the most popular influencers on the platform have reaped a huge haul from their short-form celebrity. Addison Rae leads a new list of the top-earning TikTok stars,
Here’s a daunting editing assignment: Take more than 300,000 videos and boil them down into one 90-minute documentary film. For YouTube’s forthcoming “Life In A Day 2020,” the video platform says it received more than 300,000 submissions from 191 countries in more than 65 languages, representing thousands of hours of footage, all recorded on the
Brianna Keilar isn’t looking for a fight in the early afternoon on CNN. Sometimes, she gets one anyway. In recent weeks, Keilar has tilted at Fox News Channel anchor Tucker Carlson in a fact-checking segment about his criticism of U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, and appeared to be on the verge of tangling with U.S. House
Stephen Colbert and James Corden finally have a good reason to get out of the house. Both late-night hosts are slated to return to their home studios next week, according to ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish, in a bid to restore CBS’ two mainstay late-night programs to some sense of normalcy amid the effects the coronavirus
Netflix unveiled the trailer for its new psychological horror film, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” based on Iain Reid’s book and adapted into a screenplay by director Charlie Kaufman. It is set for a Sept. 4 release on the streaming platform. An unnamed woman (played by Jessie Buckley) is at the helm of the film,
Epic Games, creator and publisher of the massively popular “Fortnite” game, announced a $1.78 billion round of funding — which the company says gives it a post-money equity valuation of $17.3 billion. The round includes the previously announced $250 million strategic investment from Sony Corp., under which Sony obtained a 1.4% stake in Epic. Following
ViacomCBS has raised the curtains on its long-anticipated global streamer, with plans set for an early 2021 launch. Having teased the prospect of a “broad pay streaming product” back in May, ViacomCBS Networks International has unveiled plans for a premium SVOD service for all audiences, underpinned by major output deals with Showtime and CBS All
Lucille Desiree Ball Born: Aug. 6, 1911 in Celeron, N.Y. Died: April 26, 1989 in Los Angeles Best known for: CBS comedy series “I Love Lucy” (1951-1957), “The Lucy Show” (1962-68), “Here’s Lucy” (1968-74). As Variety‘s Tom Gilbert observed after her death, “Ball’s elastic facial expressions and precise comic timing catapulted her into an American
ViacomCBS said its second quarter net income tumbled amid declines in advertising revenue at its cable and broadcast outlets, the latest sign of the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the operations of U.S. media companies. The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network, the Showtime pay-cable operation and the Nickeodeon kids-media empire
Matt Dillon’s “El Gran Fellove,” Julien Temple’s “Crock of Gold” and Harry Macqueen’s “Supernova” have been added to San Sebastian’s Official Selection, along with two other main competition players, from French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid and Argentina’s Eduardo Crespo. The five new features will all bow at San Sebastian as world premieres, the festival announced Thursday.
While resurgent waves of COVID-19 have caused new lockdowns and stay-at-home restrictions in places including California, Hong Kong and Australia’s Victoria State, nearly half of the world’s cinemas are now back in operation, according to data from the U.K.’s Gower Street Analytics. That should come as some relief to exhibitors and distributors who, in addition
ITV is ramping up its production might post-lockdown, with CEO Carolyn McCall trumpeting the company’s progress in resuming scripted drama production. “It is all good news on the drama front,” said McCall, during a Thursday morning earnings call. Although ITV declared revenue declines across the board in its half-year results, the chief executive was upbeat
The powerful bond between two female factory workers, and the complex desire it ignites, form the starting point of Myanmar director Aung Phyoe’s feature film debut “Fruit Gathering,” which is being presented as part of Locarno’s Open Doors co-production platform. Set in working-class Yangon, the film tells the story of a young woman, San, who
“Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the latest series in the franchise kicked off by Gene Roddenberry in 1966, doesn’t take place on the Enterprise, or the Voyager, or any of the similarly inspiringly-named ships in the fleet. This animated show depicts the comings and goings of the support staff on the U.S.S. Cerritos, a ship sharing
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will host physical screenings at its 33rd edition, which is on schedule to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 9, the festival office announced Thursday. It will also collaborate with the Tokyo Filmex festival, normally held later in November. Plans for a festival with live audiences may change, a TIFF representative
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