When Banijay closed its $2.2 billion takeover of Endemol Shine earlier this summer, it became the largest independent production player outside the U.S. The formation of the super-group, during a pandemic no less, raised questions about how it might leverage a monster 88,000-hour catalogue, and what its plans were for super-brands like Endemol Shine drama
Month: September 2020
With the release of “This Dream of You,” jazz pianist and soigné contralto vocalist Diana Krall will display her usual mix of tartness and tastefulness with selections from the Great American Songbook — from Irving Berlin to Bob Dylan’s title track — with a familiar cast of characters to go with the album’s cinematic arc.
Venturing out of the juggernaut that is the “Fast & Furious” franchise, actor Vin Diesel debuted his first single, “Feel Like I Do,” on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” before the song was released on Spotify and other streaming platforms on Friday. In a pre-recorded message, Diesel said he was honored to premiere the song on
Walt Disney Co. hired Diane Jurgens, a senior technology management exec with more than three decades of industry experience, as its new chief information officer. Jurgens will start at Disney on Oct. 5 and report to McCarthy. Jurgens replaces Susan O’Day, who retired as Disney’s CIO and EVP of enterprise technology in January 2020. Jurgens
Manuel Nieto’s trans-Atlantic co-production “The Employer and the Employee” scooped San Sebastian’s biggest industry prize this week, the EGEDA Platino Industria Award for the best Latin American work in progress. Its producers will receive $34,850 cash in kind to go towards finishing the film. Seven companies from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and France make up the
Exclusive Megan Thee Stallion‘s got more beef with Tory Lanez … her camp is accusing him of launching a smear campaign against her as retaliation for her accusing him of shooting her. Megan’s team alleges Tory’s camp is creating fake emails in an effort to plant false stories about MTS in the media. Her attorney,
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Utopia,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. For the first season of her Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Dennis Kelly’s original U.K. drama “Utopia,” Gillian Flynn wanted to end on “one of those old-fashioned cliffhangers” in which the audience would be wondering, “How can our
During the final episode of Variety‘s Sustainability in Hollywood event presented by Toyota Mirai, Rob Bredow, senior vice president and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, and Janet Lewin, senior vice president and general manager at ILM and co-producer of “The Mandalorian,” talked to Artisans editor Jazz Tangcay about how the virtual production
During the final episode of Variety‘s Sustainability in Hollywood event presented by Toyota Mirai, Rob Bredow, senior vice president and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, and Janet Lewin, senior vice president and general manager at ILM and co-producer of “The Mandalorian,” talked to artisans editor Jazz Tangcay about how the virtual production
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Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Valentino will debut its spring-summer 2021 runway show live from Milan on Sunday, September 27 at 2:00PM CET (8:00AM EST). Experience the collection from your own home’s front row seat, below. This content is imported from Third party. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or
Janelle Monáe’s “Turntables” is her first new single since 2018, when she released the Grammy-nominated album “Dirty Computer,” and what a power anthem it is. Written by Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III, and George A. Peters for the Stacey Abrams-produced documentary, “All In: The Fight for Democracy,”(streaming on Prime Video), the soulful, empowering song is a
Whew. The final Emmy has been handed out after a weird year, they’re packing up the lonely stage Jimmy Kimmel stood on inside Staples Center and that’s it. Time to let the film folks try to figure out what promises to be an even more bizarre Oscar season! Sucks to be them, right? Ha! You
The entire “Saturday Night Live” library is making its way back to streaming. All 45 seasons of the series (so far) will be available on NBCUniversal’s Peacock platform starting Oct. 1. NBCU had previously announced that the “SNL” library could be found on Peacock. But when the streaming service launched this summer, only episodes from
The best reality show I watched this year unfolded not on my TV but through an app on my computer screen. In April, a month into quarantine with no end in sight, some friends asked if I wanted to play a virtual version of “The Circle,” Netflix’s already lockdown-friendly series in which contestants live in
In an unusual move, Apple has agreed to not collect the App Store’s 30% “tax” on purchases made through Facebook’s app for live paid events — but only through the end of 2020. Moreover, Apple will still take a 30% cut of paid livestreams from creators using the Facebook Gaming app. The ongoing clash of
Singer Lata Mangeshkar, dubbed Nightingale of India, turns 90 on Sept. 28 and in honor of the woman who made the Guinness Book of World Records for 25,000 songs recorded we at Variety chose 25 of our favorite tunes from Bollywood. There were many more we could choose, including duets with Hemant Kumar or Mohammed
Breaking News L.A. Lakers guard J.R. Smith is clapping back at Tory Lanez after getting DISSED on his latest album … calling the artist a “clown” and a “lil ass boy.” A bit of a refresher — the NBA vet was outspoken after Megan Thee Stallion accused Tory of shooting her in July … saying,
A survey of concert pros conducted by the trade magazine Pollstar finds some interesting splits between optimism and continued wariness as the industry tries to forecast what lies immediately ahead for their battered and still largely shut down business. “It is encouraging that over half of all respondents, 54.7%, believe the industry will return to
Tory Lanez finally broke his silence about allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion, but only in song — he dropped a new record that includes a full denial. The rapper released a 17-track album Thursday night called “DayStar,” and nearly every song seems to be about the altercation with Megan back in July when they were
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to “My Little Sister,” a poignant drama that will represent Switzerland in the international feature film race at the Oscars. “My Little Sister,” penned and directed by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, is handled in international markets by Beta Cinema. The Swiss drama world premiered at the Berlinale
A payment system claiming to automate the collection, tracking and allocation of film company revenues, as well as predicting future box-office success, was the second tech firm to pitch at the Zinemaldia Start Up Challenge, which broadcast live from San Sebastian Film Festival online Friday. A regular on the international film festival circuit, the U.K.-based
An Israeli-produced series debuting on Apple TV Plus, “Tehran” is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens. The protagonist, Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), infiltrates the nation following an emergency landing of a passenger jet in the capital city; she is on a mission that, should it succeed,
Basque filmmaker Ángel Amigo has drawn inspiration from courtroom sketch techniques for his documentary “Voces del pasado imperfecto” (Voices From the Imperfect Past), about the 1970 trial of ETA militants in Burgos, Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Making a virtue out of necessity, because of the lack of visual material, the documentary applies
In the absence of trustworthy institutions and the constant simmering resentment pulsing through politics and culture alike, the concept of some vast conspiracy tying all the disparate threads together must be, in its own twisted way, a comfort. When life feels particularly scattered, and faith in brighter days has dimmed, the idea that there are
Contemporary problems call for contemporary solutions, and with streaming changing the way audiences consume their content and spend their money, companies around the world are looking for ways to make an impact on the VOD marketplace. One such company is trans-Atlantic startup The Fifth Wall, which participated in this year’s Zinemaldia Startup Challenge at the
Two people severely injured in a knife attack outside the former Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are staff at production company Premieres Lignes, which made HBO documentary “Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks.” Variety has confirmed with Premieres Lignes co-director Paul Moreira that two of the company’s producers were involved
“In 2016, after the final trial took place about my case, I looked at the big box of correspondence sent to me during almost three years in prison,” recounts writer and director Arantza Santesteban in a cafe at the San Sebastian film festival. “I opened the box and looked at the letters. It was at
Viggo Mortensen is in San Sebastian this week with his directorial debut “Falling” to receive one of this year’s prestigious Donostia awards. On Thursday afternoon, the multi-hyphenate filmmaker held a press conference ahead of the evening’s award ceremony. Admitting nervousness, the actor graciously thanked the festival for the double honor of the career achievement award
The firestorm over controversial Netflix film “Cuties,” which led to a huge spike in U.S. customer cancellations following its debut earlier this month, burned out after a few days, according to new data. “Cuties” tells the story of an 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in Paris who struggles to find her identity, torn between her family’s
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