In today’s TV news roundup, MTV announced plans to honor Chadwick Boseman with a hero for the ages award, and Bravo announced the launch date for “The Real Housewives of Potomac” Season 5 reunion. DATES Bravo will premiere “The Real Housewives of Potomac” Season 5 reunion on Dec. 13 at 9:15 p.m., with host Andy
Month: December 2020
Dr. Luke, a.k.a. songwriter/producer Lukasz Gottwald, may be keeping a low public profile these days — in the aftermath of a years-long legal battle with Kesha — but in 2020, his streak as a hitmaker returned with Doja Cat’s “Say So,” which he produced under the stage name Tyson Trax. The song’s stratospheric success proved
Hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper has been sued his former manager, who alleges that the artist ignored his advice and then blamed him for the poor performance of his 2019 studio debut “The Big Day.” Pat Corcoran, who also goes by Pat the Manager, claims that Chance the Rapper, whose real name is Chancelor Bennet,
The Television Academy revealed several rules changes late Friday for next year’s 73rd Emmy Awards, including the surprising decision to merge variety talk and variety sketch back into one category. The org has also clarified that anthology series eligibility will now be firmly in the limited series field, and the category has been renamed outstanding
The horror genre loves its tropes — sets of rules that dictate survival based on stereotypes around morality, class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Much of the game in modern horror comes in examining and subverting those tropes, perhaps none so recent and notable as “Freaky,” Christopher Landon’s body-swap film from Universal Pictures that hits
“Mulan” lands on Disney Plus for subscribers at no extra charge this weekend. The live-action remake directed by Niki Caro is an adaptation of Disney’s 1998 animated film and based on Chinese folklore. The film stars Yifei Li as Mulan. Weta Digital crafted hundreds of visual effects shots to reinforce the authenticity of the film’s
Okay, we’ll admit it: We’re still hung over from celebrating after our stellar “Hitmakers” event last night — a virtual party that basically turned into a virtual mini-awards show with appearances from Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Lil Baby and many more. Congrats to the honorees, and if you missed it, you can catch the whole
Check out the Ammonite Official Trailer starring Kate Winslet! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Watch on FandangoNOW: https://www.fandangonow.com/details/MMV8D5C7F7E87D47E84E7B92207E9D82C2CD?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: December 4, 2020 Starring:
Boosie Badazz is taking his beef with Mark Zuckerberg to court … he says Instagram banned his account because he’s Black, so now he’s suing over it. The Louisiana rapper claims he was the victim of racial discrimination when IG put him in social media timeout back in August, and he says he’s suing the
When top hip-hop producer Murda Beatz crafted his first track nine years ago, he gave it to Toronto rapper Hardbody, who suggested that he drop a tag — a quick audio snippet that acts like a producer’s signature, à la DJ Khaled’s incessant “We the best!” — on it. “He was telling me, you gotta
Popular on Variety Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies
One of 2020’s biggest songs is also among its most surprising success stories. Credit 20-year-old Kazakhstani producer Imanbek who, in 2019, was virtually unknown to most of the world. That changed once he decided to “flip” 2016 R&B song “Roses,” by New York’s Saint Jhn, into a pitch-shifted dance-pop powerhouse. The track first took off
Producer of Argentina’s Oscar entry “Sleepwalkers,” Juan Pablo Miller’s Buenos Aires-based Tarea Fina has unveiled “El Hijo Deseado,” the next film by Berlinale Jury Grand Prix winner Ariel Rotter (“The Other,” “Incident Light”). Its announcement comes as Tarea Fina advances on post-production of “La Encomienda,” from Pablo Giorgelli, whose “Las Acacias” was awarded the Cannes
The movie theater industry’s annus horribilis will continue to drag well into next year, according to new research from consulting firm Deloitte. With coronavirus cases continuing to surge in the U.S., Deloitte’s Digital Media Trends 14th edition fall pulse survey asked consumers how they felt about attending a movie in a theater. Even if they
The upcoming Amazon series “Outer Range” has rounded out its main cast. Lewis Pullman, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos, and Isabel Arraiza have all been cast in the series, Variety has learned. They join previously announced cast members Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski, Tom Pelphrey, and Imogen Poots. “Outer Range” centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a
National correspondents Jericka Duncan and Adriana Diaz will take over as anchors of “CBS Weekend News,” the ViacomCBS unit said Friday, setting in place a more formalized structure for the weekend evening-news broadcast after its logistics were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Diaz will anchor the Saturday broadcast from Chicago and Duncan will anchor Sundays
DC Comics character Naomi could soon be coming to The CW thanks to Ava DuVernay and former “Arrow” writer and executive producer Jill Blankenship. DuVernay and Blankenship are attached to write and executive produce “Naomi.” The potential series follows a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a
Twenty-six-year-old Diamonté Harper, better known as Saweetie, has taken the rap world by storm this year with her no-nonsense lyricism and breezy ’90s flow. “Tap In,” the lead single from her upcoming debut album “Pretty Bitch Music,” has garnered more than 90 million Spotify streams since its June release and spurred a viral TikTok dance
Lil Baby received the voice of impact award presented by Motown Records for his work this year supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and his record “The Bigger Picture.” The award was presented by president of Motown Records Ethiopia Habtemariam.
Billie Eilish announced that she is officially canceling her “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” tour to enable fans to receive refunds for their tickets. The tour, which was supposed to last for at least six months, launched in March but was postponed after just three shows due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Welcome to my fifth annual “Fearless Five”: the five companies that made the boldest and most audacious entertainment-media-tech moves of the year. This doesn’t mean these companies ultimately will be the most successful. What it does mean is that they were the most fearless and made the biggest, boldest bets in 2020. Each can be
David Fincher’s “Mank” premiered worldwide on Netflix Friday following a limited theatrical release in November. Capturing the events behind screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s development of the 1941 film “Citizen Kane,” “Mank” uses its greyscale imagery to reflect the time period in which it’s set. Fincher made the choice to mirror the films of the “Citizen
This past summer, I happened to watch “The Godfather Part III” again. At the time, it wasn’t known that Francis Ford Coppola was preparing a new version of the movie, one that would be retitled “Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.” It’s probably a good thing that Coppola hasn’t decided to
Check out the official Greenland Featurette starring Gerard Butler! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanALERT for Greenland: https://www.fandango.com/greenland-2020-223133/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release
Judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) is a good and righteous man. Showtime’s new limited series “Your Honor” wants its audience to know that upfront so that when he starts doing some very bad things, all in the name of protecting himself and his son, he will be viewed as “a damaged man [who] loses himself
Netflix is the target of yet another employee-poaching lawsuit. In a suit on Friday, Activision Blizzard accused the streamer of showing “contempt” for state employment law when it poached the company’s chief financial officer two years ago. Netflix has been sued twice before — by Fox and Viacom — for allegedly luring away employees who
In today’s Global Bulletin, the European Film Awards detail this year’s special five-day virtual ceremony, the Spain Film Commission extends an invitation to international productions, ITV Studios sells more than 300 hours of content in India and the National Lottery announces a special Pantoland performance for key workers. AWARDS The 2020 European Film Awards have
Taking place on site in five cities – Madrid, São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá and Santiago de Chile – and online for the rest of the world, Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market, climaxed Friday with a virtual awards ceremony for its major industry competitions hosted out of Buenos Aires. Awards went to some
How do you create sound design for a film that hinges on silence? That was the challenge for composer-sound designer Nicolas Becker on writer-director Darius Marder’s drama “Sound of Metal,” in which Riz Ahmed plays Ruben, a heavy metal drummer who is slowly losing his hearing. The Amazon Prime release is available Dec. 4. Becker
When executive producer John Wells was working on the final season of “The West Wing” in 2006 he recalls having a very “easy” end point because the show began with the first year of Jed Bartlett’s presidential administration and, seven years later, it would be poetic to end with him leaving the office and a
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