Month: June 2021

The adage “think locally, act globally” has never applied more to a Hollywood programming executive than it does to Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of TV. A big part of her job overseeing content for Netflix’s more than 200 million subscribers in 190-plus countries is “allowing storytellers all around the world to export their stories,”
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Kevin Hart action-comedy series “Die Hart” has officially been renewed for a second season — again. Roku announced that it has ordered Season 2 of “Die Hart,” which naturally will be titled “Die Harter,” as an exclusive for the free, ad-supported Roku Channel. “It’s been great to see the incredible response to ‘Die Hart’ on
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The coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on cinema chains across the globe, with protracted lockdowns, limited seating capacity, and delayed releases of Hollywood blockbusters sending the likes of Alamo Drafthouse into—and out of—bankruptcy and pushing giants like Cineworld and AMC to the brink. Yet for Russia’s Karo Cinemas, the past year has hardly slowed pre-pandemic growth;
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Rock Films, the production house founded by veteran Russian director Alexey Uchitel, has shared the first teaser for its forthcoming Syrian war drama “Palmyra” with Variety. The company is presenting the film this week during the Key Buyers Event. [embedded content] “Palmyra” follows a Syrian Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team targeted by ISIS militants, while
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Mark Zuckerberg wants Instagram and Facebook to be “the best platform” for creators to make money, the Facebook CEO said in unveiling new monetization tools and programs — including a way for Instagram influencers to earn commissions from online sales they facilitate. Zuckerberg announced the news at the inaugural Facebook/Instagram Creator Week event on Tuesday.
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“Hacks” has been renewed for Season 2 at HBO Max. The series, which will wrap up its first season on June 10, follows Jean Smart as veteran Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance and the dark mentorship that she forms with an outcast 25-year old comedy writer (Hannah Einbinder). “I am absolutely thrilled we are picked
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The Sundance Institute has unveiled the latest recipients of grants for documentary projects spanning the globe. The 18 projects, all in various stages of development, will split a total of $590,000 in unrestricted grant support, provided by the Open Society Foundations, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Luminate. This year’s projects represent
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The lush and storied wineries of Lafite Rothschild will be the subject of a new original documentary from Somm TV, the streaming service dedicated to wine, food, travel and hospitality. “Verticals: Lafite Rothschild” will premiere on June 18, and mark the first time cameras have been invited to capture the properties owned by the famous
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Taking place across outdoor venues in all five boroughs of New York City, the Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary June 9-20, screening a bevy of features, shorts, TV series, podcasts and games in what is being billed as the first major in-person film festival to take place in North America since the
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During their conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Elizabeth Olsen told Kaley Cuoco that she’d been playing Wanda Maximoff for two years straight, having gone from the Disney Plus series “WandaVision” straight into the upcoming Marvel Studios movie “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Cuoco’s first reaction was, “I was like, ‘What’s it
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Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY has earned the Peabody Institutional Award, with the honor presented by Oprah Winfrey. DuVernay and Winfrey collaborated on 2014’s “Selma” and 2018’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” and among other projects, the duo also executive produce “Queen Sugar,” which DuVernay created for Winfrey’s OWN network. Selected by the Peabody Board of Jurors, the
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If you ever yearned to hear concerts by your favorite artists one night and listen to their TED talks the next, then Park City Song Summit may be your kind of music festival. That’s even though the Utah gathering is avoiding that particular F-word, “festival,” in emphasizing that its inaugural edition — set for Sept.
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Netflix announced that “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” will return for Season 2 on July 6. The sketch comedy series, which delivered some of TV’s most memeable moments, brings Robinson’s absurdist humor to life’s most bizarre and mundane situations. “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” is created and written by
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It may not have been a full Broadway production, but the Roundabout Theatre Company nonetheless knows how to welcome live theater back to New York City. The 56-year-old performing arts organization hosted its 2021 gala, “Curtain Up, Light the Lights!,” in Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield on Monday night. It marked one of the first large-scale
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