DJ David Guetta is ringing in the new year with a live charity concert. Insight TV, the Amsterdam-based global channel provider, has set a live charity broadcast with Guetta from a secret location in Paris on New Year’s Eve. The fundraising concert will be part of the United at Home series, which Guetta launched earlier
Month: December 2020
A federal judge on Friday urged WME and the Writers Guild of America to set aside their “egos” and come to an agreement that would end the 20-month writers’ boycott. WME has asked U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte to order an end to the boycott, which the agency argues is an illegal abuse of
¡Ay, caramba! Now you can learn the secrets of the voice-acting trade from Nancy Cartwright, who’s provided the iconic voice of Bart on “The Simpsons” for more than 30 years. Cartwright, an Emmy-winner actor who has worked more than 100 animated shows, this week launched a virtual online class on voice acting through e-learning platform
The day after “The Flight Attendant” season finale premiered on HBO Max, the streaming service announced Friday it was renewing the Kaley Cuoco-starring series, which appears to be one of the nascent streaming service’s first-word-of-mouth hits. The stylish, eight-episode dramedy thriller premiered to strong reviews on Nov. 26, and ended its first season by tying
“Locke and Key” has been renewed for Season 3 at Netflix. In addition, series executive producer and co-showrunner Meredith Averill has signed an overall deal with Netflix for TV and other projects. News of the renewal comes ahead of the debut of the show’s second season, which is set to launch in 2021. Production is
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for “The Auschwitz Report,” Slovakia’s entry for international film to the Academy Awards. The movie, directed by Peter Bebjak and based on Alfréd Wetzler’s novel “What Dante Did Not See,” tells the true story of two imprisoned Slovak Jewish men, Rudolf Vrba and Wetzler, who escape
Will Ferrell first became obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest, the infamous international competition, about 20 years ago when he and his wife went to Sweden to visit her family. “It just happened to be the night of the finale and they all wanted to watch and as soon as I saw it I was
The Academy Museum opening planned for April 30 has been postponed. Bill Kramer, Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, officially announced that the long-awaited opening would open to the public on Sept. 30, 2021. It will be preceded by a suite of opening events, including a gala on Sept. 25. “We
Kiersey Clemons will star in 141 Entertainment’s “Susie Searches,” a darkly comic thriller from Sophie Kargman. “Susie Searches” centers on Susie (Clemons), an awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate. Her investigation reveals that the truth and Susie aren’t
Sony Classics’ “The Father” is an act of daring; it could have gone wrong in so many ways, but it works like gangbusters. The film marks the movie debut of writer-director Florian Zeller, whose background is as a novelist and playwright; in many cases, that would send warning signals. What’s more, it all takes place
The very core of George C. Wolfe’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the film’s music. Based on the August Wilson play, the film, debuting Dec. 18 on Netflix, follows famed blues singer Ma Rainey as she steps into a recording studio one hot summer day in 1927 Chicago. Levee, an ambitious young trumpet player, is
Promoted as a modern spin on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” sans any such onscreen accreditation, “The Bloodhound” does eke an atmosphere of suffocation and doom from one domestic interior — in this case, an impressive mid-century modernist manse whose stark clean lines seem to repel human warmth. Patrick Picard’s
Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Man Who Sold His Skin” has been sold by Paris-based Bac Films International to further territories. The movie will represent Tunisia in the Oscar race for best international feature film. “The Man Who Sold His Skin” world premiered at Venice, where it won the best actor award for Yahya Mahayni. The
With Australia in the depths of lockdown, due to the coronavirus, the Melbourne International Film Festival announced in April “with sadness” that its 69th edition in August was to be canceled. Less than a month later, organizers realized that they could go ahead with a virtual edition instead, and announced MIFF 68½. The festival’s artistic
Michelle Pfeiffer has been weathering through the pandemic and lockdown primarily focusing on her fine fragrance line, Henry Rose. “We’ve all just sort of pivoted,” the Oscar-nominated actress says. “We somehow are making that all work. It’s just one big improvisation, isn’t it?” In this bonus episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Pfeiffer joins
Midway through Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s stirring documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” Jane Fonda briefly appears as the film’s most famous talking head. Remembering the time they were making the hit 1980 comedy “9 to 5” inspired by various stories of workplace sexism collected from the period’s fed-up administrative women, Fonda jokingly
Rare collaborations between Bob Dylan and George Harrison will be included on a deluxe reissue entitled ‘Bob Dylan – 1970’ that is due on February 26, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announced Friday. The collection will also include previously unreleased outtakes from the sessions that produced Dylan’s “Self Portrait” and “New Morning” albums, which
Amid yet another Grammy Awards season loaded with controversy, the Recording Academy will honor the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association at its 23rd annual Entertainment Law Initiative Event & Scholarship Presentation, which will take place during Grammy Week in a new virtual format. The event is invite-only. At the event, BESLA will be honored with the 2021 Entertainment Law Initiative
Andy Taylor, one of the pioneers of the U.K. digital space, has died from cancer. He was 50. Taylor began his career as a lawyer, but went on to hold several senior positions in media. The executive was managing director of Victoria Real — one of the first companies to help integrate the web and interactive
Eminem‘s clapping back at Snoop Dogg in a new song after Snoop left him off his top 10 rappers list … and he’s also giving Rihanna a long-overdue apology. The Detroit rapper just released a deluxe version of his album, “Music to Be Murdered By – Side B” and he responds to Snoop on his
(SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on if you have not watched the finale of season 2 of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian.”) After a thrilling main episode with a massive reveal of its own, “The Mandalorian” finale pulled off one last trick. In a post-credits sequence, we see Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) return to the palace
President Barack Obama, like the rest of us, appears to have spent a good portion of his year binging TV shows and watching movies to pass time during the coronavirus pandemic. In keeping with his annual tradition, on Friday he shared his favorite films and television series of 2020. Obama’s movie list includes “Ma Rainey’s
In today’s Global Bulletin, Amazon Prime Video snags Champions League rights in Italy, Dhanush joins the Russo brothers’ “The Gray Man,” Leigh Tavaziva joins the BBC as COO and “Big Brother Célébrités” finds its broadcaster in French-speaking Canada. SPORTS RIGHTS Amazon Prime Video has confirmed Italian reports that it has snapped up rights to exclusively
“Grey’s Anatomy” has been tackling coronavirus for the entirety of Season 17, and although the pandemic has inspired intense storytelling that mirrors the real state of the world, the medical drama also had a major boost of brightness recently with the return of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd. The beloved character, who was killed off in
While she wasn’t asked about it directly, Fiona Apple, who is up for three 2021 Grammy Awards, used her interview with The Guardian to slam the Recording Academy for its treatment of ousted president/CEO Deborah Dugan and its nomination of hitmaker Dr. Luke, who has been embroiled in lawsuit with singer Kesha over unproven sexual
Screen Media has bought North American rights to HBO’s “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” and will premiere the title at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in January. The documentary, inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book, is directed by Marilyn Agrelo and produced by Trevor Crafts and Ellen Scherer Crafts. The
The 32nd Grammy Awards took place February 21, 1990 at Los Angeles’ fabled Shrine Auditorium, where Milli Vanilli’s Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan sat in the front row, nervously waiting for Kris Kristofferson and Young MC to announce the winner of that year’s Best New Artist award from among a group that included folk duo
Last June, BMG announced that it was examining the contracts of the recorded-music catalogs is has acquired in an effort to find evidence of racial disadvantage. The Germany-based company, which was founded in 2008 but has acquired catalogs that date back to the mid 20th century, announced Friday (Dec. 18) that it has completed the
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), one of the key precursors to the awards season, is announcing their best-of-the-year winners after this very strange 2020. Comprised of nearly 50 critics and journalists from outlets such as Variety, Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, the East Coast group began voting at 9 a.m. and will announce
Hulu is now streaming a collection of warm fuzzies from The Dodo, the internet-first animal content powerhouse. Hulu on Friday launched 40 20-minute episodes of fan-favorite series from Group Nine Media’s The Dodo. The selections include “Comeback Kids,” “Reunited,” “Best Animal Friends,” “Adoption Day,” “Rescued!” and “First Taste of Freedom.” Collectively, the six series have
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