Month: December 2020

Here are the top trailers for movies coming to home video in December 2020! What will you watch? Watch All the Best New Trailers from November 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD46Iw_L2qsaylAbBOe7T-sIK&cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 00:00 Freaky 02:43 Ammonite 04:54 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters 07:09 What Lies Below 09:13 Honest Thief 11:25 Songbird 14:14 Wild Mountain Thyme 16:54 The Stand-In 19:14
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“The Masked Singer” and “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” went head-to-head on Wednesday night, with the NBC festive event coming out on top in the total viewers column. A total of 7.1 million viewers tuned in to the special, which featured the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Meghan Trainor, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dolly Parton and Jimmy Fallon. Meanwhile 6.4 million
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is launching Mercury Studios, a new outfit that will encompass existing global film and television producer Eagle Rock Entertainment (ERE). The new content studio will develop, produce and invest in innovative, music-based storytelling. Music will serve as the foundation for projects across performance/live, factual/reality, scripted, artist and filmmaker partnerships and remastering
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Coming into 2020, Maren Morris had already been a massive crossover artist — but with a massive asterisk attached to that. The country star’s previous pop success had been as the featured vocalist on Zedd’s ubiquitous 2018 smash “The Middle.” Could she cut out the middleman, as it were, and strike gold at pop formats
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Janet Rollé, general manager of Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment, is joining BuzzFeed’s board of directors — the first woman to serve on its board. At the same time, Andreesen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon, who has been a BuzzFeed board member since 2014, is stepping down from the company’s board. BuzzFeed founder/CEO Jonah Peretti announced the changes
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Victor VIRGILEGetty Images Natacha Ramsay-Levi has stepped down as the creative director of Chloé. The French designer spent four years helming the Parisian fashion label, where she presented collections marked by intricate tailoring combined with the maison’s signature boheme, flowing silhouettes. She also often collaborated with women artists. “I want to thank Chloé for this
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Following a lengthy production shutdown in British Columbia due to the coronavirus pandemic, the B.C. film and TV industry is now officially back in full swing. Given the jurisdiction’s appealingly lower COVID-19 infection numbers, productions have been betting on B.C. — in fact, it’s even busier than prior to the March 13 shutdown. For example,
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In April 2020, just when “The Challenge” audience was getting used to sheltering in place in their own homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MTV launched the “Total Madness” season of that reality competition series, which sealed its contestants off from the general public and housed them in a bunker, due to its post-apocalyptic theme.
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Technology has stepped up its game when it comes to dealing with various production challenges brought on by COVID-19. Given the two-week quarantine requirements for entering Canada, not all producers and writers are able (or willing) to travel to set anymore. Instead, they connect via services such as Evercast, which allow execs to remotely view
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The upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon is adding 20 actors to its cast, Variety has learned. The new additions are: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait,
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ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group is committing $250 million over the next three years to nurturing content from women- and BIPOC-owned and operated production companies, by providing them with funding, production infrastructure, services and staff. Unscripted executive producers Lashan Browning and Adam Gonzalez, who last year inked overall deals with MTV Studios, will create their own
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Lily Cornell Silver, elder daughter of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, made her debut public performance during a tribute to Alice in Chains on Tuesday night. The 20-year-old singer paid homage to the event’s honorees with a version of their 2009 song “Black Gives Way to Blue,” accompanied by fellow Seattle native Chris DeGarmo of
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Rotten Tomatoes has launched a new Top Critics program for its Tomatometer rating system, including new criteria aimed at boosting inclusion and recognizing individual achievement in criticism. “At Rotten Tomatoes, we continue our commitment to building a more inclusive critics pool that reflects and serves the global entertainment audience, and today we took another important
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In today’s bulletin, Olivia Colman leads the cast of BBC’s pantomime “Cinderella”; season 3 of “Das Boot” commences production; Discovery Plus orders a Dutch adaptation of ITV Studios format “Sex Tape”; and Amazon India reveals Hindi-language anthology “Unpaused.” Olivia Colman (“The Crown”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”) will headline a virtual version of popular
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The last less-regulated corner of China’s highly censored internet is about to get a lot less interesting. Chinese authorities have issued new regulations to clamp down on live-streaming, one of the country’s most lucrative and fast-growing entertainment and e-commerce sectors, seeking to use AI and big data to promote only “positive” broadcasts in line with
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Content Partners LLC has acquired the FilmDistrict​ library, including “Olympus Has Fallen,” “Looper” and the first two “Insidious” movies. “We’re thrilled to bring these popular titles from FilmDistrict to new platforms while building our library and continuing to be leading owners of intellectual property in the entertainment industry,” said John Mass, executive vice president of
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CineLife Entertainment is handling the U.S. release of a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with a British voice cast including Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Martin Freeman, Simon Russell Beale and Andy Serkis. The film has been scheduled for more than 200 U.S. locations and will begin opening Dec. 4. through January. This retelling of the
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Shamier Anderson (“Wynonna Earp”) and Stephan James (“Homecoming,” “American Son”) want to break down barriers of discrimination and combat systemic racism in the Canadian arts. On Dec. 3, the Scarborough, Ont. brothers announced the formation of The Black Academy, an expansion of their not-for-profit B.L.A.C.K. Canada (Building a Legacy in Acting, Cinema + Knowledge), which
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The U.K. Cinema Association, the trade org representing 90% of U.K. cinema operators, has launched a social media campaign aimed at persuading government to provide further funding for its COVID-affected members. Titled ‘Keep the Magic Alive,’ the campaign has been launched via a short film narrated by actor and writer Stephen Fry (“Wilde”) that reminds
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South Korean animation, or “K-animation,” has been positioned to be the next chapter of “K-wave” following the global success of Korean film, K-pop and K-dramas, says one of the agencies that pledge to put the content on the world stage. The success of animated feature thriller “Beauty Water,” which has been a film festival circuit
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Magdalena Orellana’s “Until The Place Becomes Improbable,”  Eduardo Crespo “The Wind’s Cave,” Manuel Muñoz Rivas’ “Manantial,” Marina Palacio “And Thus It Will Go On” and Mina Fitzpatrick’s “Wandervogel” are the five projects selected for this year’s Ikusmira Berriak. A project-based training-residence program, the development initiative has been launched by the San Sebastian Film Festival, the
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Argentina’s Magma Cine is powering up a female-dominated slate with some of Latin America’s biggest talent. Chile’s Paulina Garcia, best known for her Berlinale Silver Bear Best Actress-winning performance in Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” plays opposite another giant talent, Argentine thesp Mercedes Moran (“La Cienaga,” “El Angel”) who co-wrote the dramedy “Norma” with Santiago Giralt, who
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