The , Roc Nation and Pepsi announced today that Emmy- nominated producer Jesse Collins has been named an executive producer of the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show, taking place in Tampa, Florida on Super Bowl Sunday, February 7, 2021. He is the show’s first-ever Black executive producer. Collins joins executive producers Roc Nation, who debuted in that role earlier this year with a
Month: September 2020
DaBaby and Roddy Ricch led the nominees for BET’s 15th annual “Hip Hop Awards” with 12 and 11 nominations respectively, the network announced. Drake and Megan Thee Stallion followed with eight nods each. The awards will air on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 9 p.m ET/PT. The full list of nominees appears below. Other notable nominations
J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna are the top nominees for the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday morning. The awards are voted on by The Latin Academy’s international membership body of music creators, who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, mixers and engineers. Artists with multiple nominations include
Venues are coming up with all kinds of ways to keep their sense of purpose alive during lockdown, but the Theatre at the Ace Hotel has come up with what may be a unique one: “5-7-5,” an “open air text-based art project” with poetry on its marquee. Twelve poets, songwriters, and text-based artists will contribute
Disney Plus has buddied up to the “watch party” trend: The Mouse House streamer is launching GroupWatch in the U.S. The new feature lets Disney Plus subscribers invite up to six friends and family members to synchronously stream a TV show or movie together, from wherever they happen to be. Unlike other “watch party” implementations,
Cinemas in different parts of Asia-Pacific are increasingly able to expand their operations, as local authorities around the region judge the need for social distancing to be reduced. Singapore, Australia’s New South Wales and India’s West Bengal are all easing up. In Singapore, where theaters re-opened in mid-July, operators of large auditoria of more than
Netflix has announced a Nov. 15 premiere date for the fourth season of hit show “The Crown.” “Change is coming. 15th November,” Netflix tweeted on Tuesday, as it released four new images from the series. Inspired by the award-winning play, “The Audience,” “The Crown” tells the inside story of the decades-long reign of Queen Elizabeth
Cara Sheppard is joining the U.K.’s Twickenham Studios (TW1), where she will lead and guide all aspects of production, post-production and emerging technology as managing director. Sheppard joins from post-production facility Warner Bros De Lane Lea, where she was managing director for the last four years. She previously spent some five years with Sky as
The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled a smaller, more compact selection for its 33rd edition (Oct. 31-Nov. 9). Exceptionally, this year’s Tokyo festival is held in partnership with Tokyo Filmex. Three of the Tokyo festival’s traditional main sections – competition, Asian Future and Japanese Cinema Splash – are combined in into one, Tokyo Premiere
Julie Bristow, former CEO and president of Bristow Global Media (BGM), has launched The Content Catalyst Fund (CCF). The initiative will focus on content developed, delivered and designed by women and about women. Based in Canada, with an international reach, CCF will develop and invest in unscripted and scripted content, with an initial focus on
Rapper 21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin have announced the release of their latest collaborative project, “Savage Mode 2,” with a video featuring the voice of actor Morgan Freeman. Over imagery of crows with blood-red eyes, a snowy graveyard and Savage and Boomin in the studio, Freeman’s soothing voice informs viewers of the true meaning
Taiwan has selected Chung Mong-hong’s dark drama “A Sun” as its contender for the best international feature film section of the Academy Awards, previously referred to as the Oscar for the best foreign-language film. The selection was announced by the Ministry of Culture, which said that its special panel at the Bureau of Audiovisual and
When he’s not drumming up a Grammy-winning record for Vampire Weekend, the critically beloved New York-based rock band he co-founded in 2006, Chris Tomson relaxes in the hip L.A. neighborhood of Silver Lake. Over the summer, the 36-year-old laid out $1.6 million for a traditional 1930s cottage with impressive views of the Hollywood Sign and
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the country’s top experts on the coronavirus pandemic, called some of Fox News’ reporting on the virus “outlandish” and added that some media stories are “taken out of context or are actually incorrect.” In an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter on Monday, Fauci spoke about the news media’s handling of
Disney’s ‘Secret Society of Second-Born Royals’ features princesses, superheroes and action. Now streaming on Disney Plus, the film follows Sam (Peyton Elizabeth Lee), the second-born princess of the kingdom of Illyria. She lives in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Eleanor (Ashley Liao). Sam is sent to summer school, and discovers she’s actually entered
Following the finalization of their divorce, it appears Kacey Musgraves and her (almost) ex-husband Ruston Kelly are giving each other some space, cowboy! As often happens with divorce, the erstwhile couple are selling their house — in this case a folksy Victorian-style bungalow in the hip Nashville neighborhood of Inglewood, which is newly on the market
Ava DuVernay Selected for Inaugural MacDowell Trophy Ava DuVernay will accept the inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award on behalf of her Array Releasing during MacDowell’s Virtual National Benefit on Oct. 19. “As I have learned more about MacDowell, and the range of artists who have been in residence over decades, I am moved by
Disney has moved its next D23 expo back a year until 2022, the company announced Monday. The seventh biannual event, held in Anaheim, Calif., at the Anaheim Convention Center, had been scheduled to take place next summer, but will now be held on Sept. 9-11, 2022. Disney said it will use the event to kick
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voter activist Stacey Abrams doesn’t want to see what happened in 2018 happen again in 2020. Abrams lost the Georgia election to Brian Kemp amid widespread accusations that Kemp’s campaign had engaged in voter suppression. That’s why she’s getting out the word far and wide about the need for every
Female-led caper mini-series “Unusual Suspects” has begin filming in Sydney this week. The four-part series, which also highlights Australia’ ethnic diversity, is being produced for publicly funded broadcaster SBS. Set in the upmarket eastern suburbs of Sydney, the story features the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who
In today’s TV news roundup, BET announced that “Sacrifice” has been picked up for 10 episodes following the same characters as in the 2019 film. GREENLIGHTS BET announced that “Sacrifice,” the legal thriller film starring Paula Patton, has now been picked up to series. The movie released in 2019 as the first original film on
Lil Yachty was arrested and charged with driving more than 150 mph down an Atlanta interstate, according to the city’s WSB-TV. Yachty (real name: Miles McCollum), was pulled over on Sept. 21 on the Downtown Connector near University Avenue in Atlanta. He was driving a white Ferrari at the time; in June, he crashed a
The K-pop group BTS is riding a global wave of popularity to new heights. The seven members — Jungkook (real name: Jeon Jung-kook), V (Kim Tae-hyung), Jimin (Park Ji-min), J-Hope (Jung Ho-seok), RM (Kim Nam-joon), Suga (Min Yoon-gi) and Jin (Kim Seok-jin) — have taken the world by storm, drawing comparisons to The Beatles. The
The federal judge who blocked the White House’s ban on TikTok downloads in the U.S. Sunday night said the Trump administration “likely exceeded the lawful bounds” of the powers afforded to the president under the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. President Trump invoked the IEEPA in his executive order to ban TikTok, the short-form
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Dior will premiere its spring-summer 2021 runway show live from Paris on Tuesday, September 29 at 2:30 PM CET (8:30AM EST). Every designer is getting creative with their seasonal outputs in the time of COVID, from quarantine-inspired fashion to audience-free unveilings. For the very first time, Dior will stream its ready-to-wear
If you’ve heard Mariah Carey’s albums since she burst onto the charts with her self-titled debut in 1990, you know her music is meant to inspire. But if you’ve really been listening in between all the upbeat No. 1s, you also know she has also been working through some deep-rooted pain. Songs such as “Looking
A report broadcast and published on Monday by the U.K.’s Channel 4 News alleges that 3.5 million Black American voters were targeted with TV and Facebook ads by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to deter them from going to the polls. The Trump campaign has denied the allegations, calling them “fake news.” Black voters were
After more than two and a half years of public jousting and legal jockeying, WME and CAA are ready to capitulate on the battle over the rules for talent agents representing writers. But the WGA isn’t in a rush to declare final victory. Multiple sources at the industry’s superpower agencies say there is growing frustration
Emmy award-winning television producer Kevin Burns, known for his work on the 2006 “Poseidon Adventure” remake and the “Lost in Space” reboot died Sunday of cardiac arrest, Prometheus Entertainment confirmed to Variety. He was 65. In a statement to Variety, Prometheus Entertainment vice president of marketing and development Derek Thielges said all members of the
Taylor Swift took a brief end-of-summer vacation from the top spot on the album chart, but after a two-week lull in which she settled for lower chart positions as some hot new entries arrived, she’s back on top. Her “Folklore” album is No. 1 for the seventh non-consecutive week, setting another endurance record for the
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