Tragic singer Amy Winehouse, who died 10 years ago this month, will be honored in a new MTV International documentary, “Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne’s Story,” the network announced today. Told through the eyes of Winehouse’s goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, who is also a singer, the doc will feature never-before-seen archival footage of Bromfield with Winehouse,
Month: July 2021
Halsey has unveiled the cover and the release date for her forthcoming album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” due August 27. She unveiled the album’s cover art at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. See the unveiling here: [embedded content] “This album is a concept album about the joys and
When Chris Nee, the creator of the Disney hit “Doc McStuffins” last spoke to Variety earlier this year, she raved about the “fairy-tale” vision of artistic freedom that Netflix had offered her under an overall deal. “I was looking at the Shonda Rhimeses and the Ryan Murphys and wondering why somebody couldn’t take that active
Peacock has ordered a reality dating series inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” The series, titled “Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance,” is an original format that will see a “heroine” looking for her “duke.” Transported to a Regency-style England, a group of eligible hopeful suitors will have to win the heart of
Starz has promoted Superna Kalle to president, international networks. The executive previously served as executive vice president, international digital networks at Starz when she joined in 2018 to lead the international expansion of streamer Starzplay. Starzplay is now available in 58 countries globally. Reporting directly to Starz president and CEO Jeffrey Hirsch, Kalle oversees the
Giant Leap Accelerator has officially launched its first 12-week developmental program that will focus on cultivating new Asian/Pacific American (APA) stories, Variety has exclusively learned. Over the course of the 12-week program, eight emerging AAPI writers will be mentored by seven television and film writing veterans. Each writer will meet with their dedicated mentor once a
Play video content FOX 11/KTTV A Nashville man is lucky to be alive after a firework was thrown inside his convertible, and then blew up in his face … quite literally. 20-year-old Colin Kirby was heading home Sunday night in downtown Nashville ride with the top down on his BMW, when suddenly an Infiniti pulled
Starlings Entertainment and StoryFirst have partnered for a drama and family entertainment development fund, with Starlings also taking a financial stake in StoryFirst. The joint venture will enable the companies to mutual select drama, family entertainment and possibly even non-scripted projects currently in development to move forward. As part of the deal, which was announced
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Get ready for more LGBTQ+ representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So says Marvel Studio’s executive vice president of film production Victoria Alonso. Just days after it was revealed that Loki is fluid on his Disney Plus spinoff series, I asked Alonso if that was a sign of
“Many people changed their minds at the last minute and decided to come to Cannes,” said Jerome Paillard, executive manager of the Cannes Market, the business wing of the Cannes Film Festival. Those that did will have access to a large volume of new films making their market premieres. Paillard explained that the pre-Cannes online
Jodie Foster opened up – in French – about her risk-taking, achievements and perceived failures during an intimate Q&A during the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. And to the audience’s delight, the American-born, bilingual actress conducted the entire hour-long interview in the festival’s native language. The publicity-shy star, who got her first acting job at
Zack Snyder would like to formally introduce the Army of Thieves. The director shared first-look photos from the upcoming comedic heist film, a prequel to Snyder’s 2020 zombie thriller “Army of the Dead.” In the new film stills, Matthias Schweighöfer, returning as German safecracker Ludwig Dieter, appears alongside a squad of would-be bandits, a mismatched
*NSYNC’s Joey Fatone, Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter and Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris are teaming up for a nostalgic four-night engagement at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas in August. The musicians will unite in the intimate Sands Showroom for “The After Party,” an interactive show which will see the crooners perform
It might seem reasonable to expect a professional songwriter to have two songs officially released over the course of a year, and certainly within five or 10 years. But as many have found out, it’s not that simple. What sounds like an easy lift gets more complicated when one factors in how few contemporary hits
Cinedigm promoted tech exec Tony Huidor, a six-year company veteran, to the newly created position of chief technology and product officer. Huidor, who joined the streaming entertainment firm in 2015, was most recently SVP of product and technology and general manager of Cinedigm Digital Networks. He will continue overseeing product development of all desktop and
UPDATED: Former U.S. president Donald Trump — evidently still furious about getting kicked off social media platforms over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — said he plans to file class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google and the companies’ CEOs. The lawsuits against the three companies and their chief
Fangoria, the genre film magazine, is getting into the moviemaking business. Under the newly launched production shingle Fangoria Studios, the company is developing a feature-length film titled “Sitora.” Inspired by a lost Malay 1964 horror film “Sitora Harimau Jadian,” the upcoming creature feature “Sitora” centers on a tyrannical shaman who puffs up the threat of
A trio of hot young stars have been set for director Roxanne Benjamin’s “Fall Into Darkness,” an English-language reboot of the 2014 Spanish thriller “La Cueva.” “Servant” star Nell Tiger Free, “Gossip Girl” reboot breakout Thomas Doherty and “One Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor Lorenza Izzo have joined the cast. This re-imagined version was
Leading arthouse sales company The Match Factory has pre-sold Austrian director and screenwriter Sebastian Meise’s second feature “Great Freedom,” which plays in Un Certain Regard at Cannes on Thursday, to Paname Distribution in France. The Match Factory has debuted the teaser and the poster for the film, which was created by Vasilis Marmatakis, the designer
The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any real work of art: “A work of art should also be ‘an object difficult to pick up.’ It must protect itself from vulgar pawing, which tarnishes and disfigures it. It should
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” which will star Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman, Variety has learned. SPC, which previously worked with Zeller on “The Father,” acquired rights for North America and a string of international territories in Asia and Eastern
Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose video of George Floyd being killed went viral, has been left shaken by a death at the hands of police once more — but this time, it’s personal. The teen’s uncle — 40-year-old Leneal Frazier — was struck in his car by an oncoming Minneapolis Police squad car early Tuesday
Sundance title “Captains of Zaatari” has sold into Utopia for the U.S., where it will get a theatrical release this fall. London-based sales agent Dogwoof secured the movie with Robert Schwartzman and Cole Harper’s fledgling distributor Utopia, which is planning a day-and-date release in cinemas on Nov. 19 in New York and Los Angeles, alongside
The Mediapro Studio is teaming with “The Department of Time” and “Isabel” creator Javier Olivares to develop a new bio-series about former Spanish King Juan Carlos I in the style of Netflix’s “The Crown,” according to a report by Spanish paper El País and confirmed to Variety by The Mediapro Studio. No channel or platform
Michelle Williams will play Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, in Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand.” The film marks the English-language debut of Karim Aïnouz, and goes into production in the U.K. in early 2022. The film is produced by Gabrielle Tana (“Philomena,” “The Dig”) of Magnolia Mae Films, and written by Henrietta and
Rihanna had another unwanted visitor swing by her pad, and this one might have her thinking about digging a moat. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … cops were called to one of Rihanna’s L.A.-area homes last week after getting a call reporting a trespasser on the grounds pretty early in the morning — around 7
On-screen texts bookending “Dachra” claim this thriller is “inspired by true events,” and that “in North Africa hundreds of children are victims of acts of witchcraft.” Nonetheless, one might be forgiven for assuming this purported first-ever Tunisian foray into horror cinema is drawn less from local crimes or superstitions than from the familiar genre tropes
Dilip Kumar, one of the biggest stars of Indian cinema, died in Mumbai on Wednesday after being hospitalized for breathlessness. He was 98. The star had been ailing for several months and was in and out of hospital prior to his death. Born Mohammed Yusuf Khan in Peshawar, British India, in 1922, Kumar debuted in
Irish producer Paul Thompstone and Sorin Baluta have launched a new sales agency out of Ireland. The company, Studio Atlantic, launches in Cannes with a World War II feature set to shoot in Belgium this fall. Having specialized in production finance, Thompstone has a large network of funders, including private equity, for high-concept feature films
Italian genre outfit Minerva Pictures has teamed with New Zealand’s Black Mandala Films to co-produce and launch international pre-sales at Cannes on horror/slasher “What the Waters Left Behind: Scars,” to be co-directed by Argentine helmers Nicolas Onetti and Matías Salinas (“Omen”). Shooting is set to start in Argentina in September. Pic is a sequel to
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