Month: October 2020

This is it, it’s Halloween weekend and you’re ready to fill the hours with a horror movie marathon. You’ve seen our list of the best horror movies to binge on Netflix, now it’s time for Amazon Prime. Here are the best of the scariest, spookiest and downright disturbing flicks to fill your time. And the
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Neither “Filthy Rich” nor “Next” will be getting second seasons at Fox. The network has decided to cancel both series after only a single season, Variety has learned exclusively. Sources say that rising production costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic played a significant part in the decision. Fox will air the remaining episodes of both shows, which
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The Campfire Writers Room partnership between CBS Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat has born two new projects which have been nabbed for development at CBS. The network has put into the pipeline government mind control series “The Tempest,” which hails from “Nightflyers” writer Jeff Buhler, and disaster relief drama “Activation,” which is being penned by
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Legendary Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John has struck a partnership with Primary Wave Music Publishing that includes the catalog of masters and publishing assets owned by the singer. These include such hits as “Physical,” “I Honestly Love You,” “A Little More Love,” “Please Mr. Please,” and “Have You Never Been Mellow,” as well as some of
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Ever since the start of his solo career, Busta Rhymes has been predicting grand, global, life-altering concepts such as man-made pandemics, holy wars, hidden government conspiracies and incendiary racial awakenings. None of Rhymes’ work, however, was as focused or ferocious as 1998’s mega-apocalyptic “Extinction Level Event: Final World Front.” Or as successful, as he received
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Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed music producer and songwriter Johnny Goldstein to a worldwide co-publishing deal, the company announced Friday. Sony/ATV has also partnered with Artist Publishing Group (APG) to provide creative services to Goldstein. Goldstein, a Variety Hitmaker of the Month, worked with Will.I.Am to produce the Black Eyed Peas’ eighth studio album “Translation,” for
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A federal judge has preliminarily blocked the Trump administration’s ban on TikTok, which has been scheduled to take effect Nov. 12. The case was brought by three TikTok creators, who argued that President Trump’s executive order directing a complete U.S. ban on the Chinese-owned short-form video app infringed their First Amendment rights to free expression.
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With the spotlight on inclusive storytelling shining brighter than ever before, women in Hollywood, both on and off screen, joined Variety Power of Women: Conversations which was a part of thee Broad Focus Initiative from Lifetime. This year’s virtual program covered everything from the making of “Grey’s Anatomy” to launching a women-centered production company. The
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The thoughtfully curated doc tribute section Black Cinema Matters has generated wide interest at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival – and not just among Czechs. Screening 13 films covering three decades, ranging from the 1963 polemic “Take This Hammer” through Madeline Anderson’s provocative 1969 doc “Tribute to Malcolm X – Black Journal Segment” to
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The 23rd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival has announced this year’s competition award winners. Best narrative feature went to “Killing Eleanor,” while “Kusasa” won best documentary feature. “My Brother’s Keeper” won the Jury Award for exceptional storytelling. A key stop on the festival circuit leading up to the Academy Awards, SCAD screened more than 150
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Composer Michael Giacchino has finally managed to realize a long-held dream: his first solo album, released Friday, which combines science-fiction storytelling with lounge music and an overall theme that is unexpectedly relevant to our times. It’s called simply “Travelogue, Volume 1,” and is credited to “Michael Giacchino and his Nouvelle Modernica Orchestra.” Mondo is releasing
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Elvis Costello knows that, this deep into a four-decade-plus career, he will always be asked the inevitable then-and-now questions about how his attitude has changed, beckoning the 66-year-old to pit the late-1970s version of himself against the gentler and more accomplished Costello that constitutes this century’s model. That doesn’t mean he has to like it;
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“Doctor Strange” filmmaker Scott Derrickson will direct the horror movie “Black Phone” for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. Derrickson will also co-write the adapted screenplay with Robert Cargill. The duo teamed on the script for “Doctor Strange” and “Sinister.” “Black Phone” is based on Joe Hill’s horror novella of the same name. The book revolves around
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Every October, a wave of horror movies, creepy gore and spine-chilling stories unfurls with overwhelming force to usher in the Halloween season. It’s a time for fans of all things strange and terrifying to rejoice in a bounty of petrifying options — and a time for the rest of us wimps to retreat into our cobweb-free corners until it’s all over. Luckily for those
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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg have been messing around with the occult ever since they first became friends. In fact, the two used to drive around in Pegg’s square-shaped Renault 5, looking for spooky spots to stop, “smoke bongs and scare ourselves,” according to Frost. It’s perhaps appropriate, then, that in the pair’s latest series,
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If you’re a fan of Maynard James Keenan’s rare and complex brand of art-damaged music and refrigerator-magnet prose, the last few years have been golden. Along with his crepuscular metal band, Tool, releasing its first new album in 13 years, “Fear Inoculum,” in 2019, Keenan’s spidery alterna-rock act, A Perfect Circle, unleashed its latest album,
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May the force be with Michigan democrats. Mark Hamill has joined Friday’s table read of the 1985 film “Fright Night” with original cast members Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, Jonathan Stark, Dorothy Fielding, Art Evans and Chris Hendrie. Hamill will take on  the role of Peter Vincent, originally played by Roddy McDowall, and
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