We’ve been reluctant to jinx it, but after a disastrous non-launch earlier this month, the website for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Relief Grant (SVOG) was up and running at noon E.T. on Monday and in its first 24 hours, received more than 17,000 applications and submitted nearly half of them. The website, also
Month: April 2021
“The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” series at Apple is rounding out its main cast with five new additions, Variety has learned. Walton Goggins (“Justified,” “The Unicorn’), Omar Miller (“Ballers,” “The Unicorn”), Marsha Stephanie Blake (“I Am Your Woman,” “When They See Us”), Damon Gupton (“Black Lightning,” “Bates Motel”), and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (“Coyote,” “Real Husbands
“Star Wars” actor Domhnall Gleeson has been tapped to play a key Watergate figure in HBO’s limited series “The White House Plumbers” from the team behind “Veep.” Gleeson joins previously announced cast members Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux. The series will be a co-production between HBO and wiip. Per the logline, the five-part series tells
DraftKings is making another big media play: The sports-wagering site announced a multiyear content distribution, monetization and sponsorship agreement with Meadowlark Media, the digital media company formed by ex-ESPN boss John Skipper and ex-ESPN host Dan Le Batard. As part of the deal, DraftKings secured rights to sports and pop-culture podcasts “The Dan Le Batard
WEA, the Label and Artist Services division of Warner Music Group, today announced that Benjamin Blank has been named president of media, a newly created position. In this role, Blank will lead WMG’s new digital advertising and creative content division, unifying WMG’s digital advertising under one unit. Based in Los Angeles, Blank will continue to
Al Schmitt, one of the most revered engineers and producers in the annals of the music business, died Monday at 91, his family confirmed. No cause of death has been given. Schmitt received more Grammys for engineering — 20, not including his separate Latin Grammys and a National Trustees Award — than anyone else in
Spotify, the world’s top paid music-streaming service; Hybe, the company formerly known as Big Hit that spawned BTS; and Clubhouse, the actual-human-conversation-based social-media platform launched just last spring, have made Time magazine’s annual “100 Most Influential Companies” list. According to the announcement, “To assemble it, Time solicited nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, transportation,
Rachel Lindsay, former star of “The Bachelorette,” is departing her “Bachelor Nation” podcast, effectively ending her contract with the franchise. Lindsay’s decision to exit the podcast comes after years of criticizing “The Bachelor” franchise for its lack of diversity efforts, continuously holding the dating show accountable for lack of representation both in front of the
A world of vampires, werewolves and wizards is on its way to screens big and small. Married writer-producers Eric Heisserer (“Shadow and Bone”) and Christine Boylan (“The Punisher”) and production company Hivemind (“The Witcher,” “The Expanse”) have partnered with game publisher Paradox Interactive to develop the World of Darkness story universe for film and television.
In a time of quarantine, the documentary “Truffle Hunters” is a heavenly delicacy meant to be savored, a true meditation on nature and food. But how did directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw convince the elusive inhabitants of the forest of Piedmont to agree to be filmed? Their very livelihood is tied to the secrecy
Donald Trump has returned to criticizing Hollywood and Sunday’s record-low Oscars telecast. Via his Save America political action committee, Trump issued a scathing statement, obtained by The Hill, where he called the Oscars “politically correct and boring” and called for the return of a host to the awards show. “What used to be called The
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have recently become a tulip-bulb-level mania among the digerati — with artwork, music, tweets and other content selling for millions of dollars in some cases. But Ellen DeGeneres fans, it seems, aren’t irrationally exuberant about the NFT hype: Her first non-fungible token sales netted a total of $30,955. NFTs let people
Nicolas Bedos, the French writer-director behind the Cannes-premiering “La Belle Epoque,” is set to direct “Mascarade,” a French Riviera-set drama-comedy with Isabelle Adjani, Pierre Niney and Francois Cluzet. The ambitious film boasts a significant budget of €14 million ($17 million) and is bring produced by Francois Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne at Les Films du Kiosque,
Reese Witherspoon’s Reese’s Book Club has launched LitUp, a fellowship for unpublished women writers from marginalized communities, Hello Sunshine announced Tuesday. LitUp will help elevate, mentor and champion new authors with the mission of spotlighting more diverse stories. “As our community and reach continues to grow, we have all collectively sought out innovative ways to
Palestinian director Amer Shomali is set to explore the allegedly illegal excavation of Palestinian antiquities by Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan — who remains a divisive figure around the world — in a hybrid film project that examines the loss of cultural history by way of an action-packed, partly animated heist thriller. “Theft
Paula Salvatore, who was for many years the face of Capitol Studios to every client that passed through its doors, has been named to a freshly created VP role by Universal Music Group that will see her responsibilities expand to working with all of the company’s U.S. studios. Salvatore’s new role is vice president of
It was this week a year ago that Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Audra McDonald went viral with their boozy rendition of “Ladies Who Lunch” during a virtual birthday celebration for Stephen Sondheim that raised money for Artists Striving to End Poverty. “It was a sloppy, drunken mess done in our back offices,” Baranski cracks.
Check out the official Vivo Teaser Trailer starring Zoe Saldana! Let us know what you think in the comments below. 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: 2021 Starring: Zoe Saldana, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brian Tyree
NBCUniversal hired Jim Denney, a TiVo veteran who most recently was at Hulu, as executive VP and chief product officer of direct-to-consumer, overseeing Peacock’s global product strategy. Denney will start at NBCU next month. He will be based in New York and report to Gidon Katz, NBCU’s president of direct-to-consumer. In addition to Peacock, Denney
Heavy Metal magazine, the influential sci-fi and fantasy publisher, has set a significant intellectual property deal with Range Media Partners. In partnering with the upstart management company, Heavy Metal hopes to leverage its library for film and TV projects. The publisher is credited as an inspiration behind “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element,” and also
There are two ways to view this year’s Academy Awards telecast. One of them isn’t pretty. The other is strangely … hopeful. But both speak to the powerful transitional moment in which the movie industry is now caught. Version #1: This year’s Oscar night, by bending over backwards to “reinvent” itself, wound up as a
More than 18 months after cameras last rolled on “Vanderpump Rules,” and after several seismic firings in the off-season that have changed the main cast, the Bravo docusoap is scheduled to begin filming next month, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to Variety. This announcement flies in the face of the widely disseminated misinformation in
The man charged with breaking into Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s office during the Capitol riots insists he wasn’t calling her a “bitch” on paper — he was just calling her his “biatch” … so it’s not nearly as bad as the feds are making it sound. Richard Barnett is set to appear Tuesday in court to
After dropping a brief video on Monday sporting her new blonde look, Billie Eilish has announced that she will release her second full-length album, titled “Happier Than Ever,” on July 30, and will drop a new song on Thursday morning. “MY NEW ALBUM ‘Happier Than Ever’ OUT JULY 30TH!,” she wrote in a social media
With romantic comedies, action-packed thrillers and buzzy documentaries, Netflix’s upcoming summer film slate has a little something for every movie lover. The streaming service on Tuesday released a preview of its 2021 popcorn season offerings, a list that includes the final chapter in the “The Kissing Booth” trilogy, Kevin Hart’s touching drama “Fatherhood,” “Bob Ross:
In today’s Global Bulletin, Sky commissions supernatural thriller “The Rising” and Channel 4 and Peacock wage “The Undeclared War”; The Garden, BBC Studios Productions and Constantin Film Development reveal senior appointments; Rakuten TV expands AVOD offering; and Disney India picks up kids series “Dr Tenali Rama HMKD” from Cosmos-Maya. COMMISSIONS Sky original series, supernatural crime
Apple TV Plus revealed that the first three episodes of the upcoming drama-comedy series “Physical” will premiere on June 18. The final seven episodes of the season will be released weekly every Friday. Created by Annie Weisman, the series is set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of sunny 1980s San Diego. It stars
Production on AMC-Movistar Plus high-end original “La Fortuna,” starring “Supernova’s” Stanley Tucci, wrapped Tuesday in Spain, ending principal photography on one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most ambitious upcoming drama series. Scheduled to bow this fall, “La Fortuna” also marks the first TV show from Oscar winner Amenábar, who directed “The Others” and “The Sea Inside.”
Italy’s Leone Film Group has teamed up with Wattpad, the user-generated fiction entertainment company, to develop a feature film based on “The Bad Boy’s Girl,” which is among the most popular stories on the storytelling platform. Leone Film Group, a leading Italian production and distribution company, has also optioned the full series of novels in
The Teaching Co. — founded in 1990, well before Netflix or YouTube were a twinkle in anyone’s eye — has sold audio and video learning classes for decades. Now, as media companies of all sizes rush to embrace streaming, The Teaching Co. is following suit, hoping to capture a bigger audience for its lineup of
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