Jake Paul‘s proving revenge really is a dish best served cold … ’cause after almost 2 years, he’s finally responding to Gigi Hadid, brutally clapping back over the drama surrounding Zayn Malik and her family. “Your ‘rEsPeCtFuL KiNg’ punched your mom in the face,” Paul Tweeted on Friday. Let’s explain. Jake’s beef with the model
Month: October 2021
“Eternals,” the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has received the lowest rating of all Marvel films from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, though it still scored a “fresh” rating with 62%. “Eternals” is currently rated a touch lower than the previously lowest-rated Marvel film 2013’s “Thor: Dark World,” which sits at a 66% rating.
More than eight years after the fall 2013 conclusion of its third season on Bravo, a revived version of “The Real Housewives of Miami” will premiere in December on Peacock. After its third season on Bravo, “The Real Housewives of Miami” was shelved, but never killed. The revival for Peacock, the NBC Universal streaming service,
Lila Byock has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Signature, Variety has learned exclusively. Byock spent five years on the editorial staff of The New Yorker magazine. She has written for TV shows including “Watchmen” and “The Leftovers” at HBO, “Manhattan” at WGN America, and “Castle Rock” at Hulu. “Lila is a wildly talented award-winning
“Acapulco,” a romantic comedy series very loosely inspired by the 2017 film “How to Be a Latin Lover,” is a vibrantly hued trip down ’80s memory lane in a gorgeous resort with endearing staffers and guests. But the Apple TV Plus show, wholesome and sweet like “Ted Lasso,” carried a level of creative risk: Its
The legendary New York studio Power Station at BerkleeNYC, formerly known as Avatar Studios and the Power Station, officially reopened on Wednesday with a reception showcasing its $15 million renovation, which includes high-end video capture, professional lighting, 360 cinematic virtual reality, and spatial audio and broadcast live streaming capabilities. Singers Cyndi Lauper and Nona Hendryx,
Rock legends Metallica are now holding forth in their first-ever internet class. In their online course, offered through celeb-oriented learning company MasterClass, the group’s foursome — James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo — will reflect on four decades of their partnership. The course comprises 15 individual video lessons, spanning 2 hours and
An actor filed a grievance on Tuesday accusing Allan Graf, the stunt coordinator on “Rust,” of engaging in unsafe practices involving firearms on the set of a different Western film two months ago. Shawn-Caulin Young worked on “Dead for a Dollar,” which was filmed in New Mexico in August and was directed by Walter Hill.
Clifton Collins Jr. has run the gamut in Hollywood. He’s worked with actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Capote”), Robert Redford (“The Last Castle”) and Benicio del Toro (“Traffic”). He’s performed for directors like Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (“Babel”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood”) and JJ Abrams (“Star Trek”). Next up, he brings life
As cinematographer Eduard Grau was seeking his next project after “The Way Back,” he wanted to work with a director whose vision was to elevate the material into something intellectually profound. Actor Rebecca Hall, making her directing debut with “Passing,” proved to be the ideal partner. “She was already going in that direction, and focused
When CNN shut down its airport network in March after nearly 30 years, Lynnwood Bibbens already knew a lot about those orphaned screens. Bibbens had been working on a deal with CNN to collaborate on an evolution of CNN Airport — which would have been called the Airport Television Network — when the COVID-19 pandemic
Zayn Malik‘s family is stepping in to support the singer in his now very-public feud with Yolanda Hadid and the mother of his child, Gigi. Malik’s sister, Waliyha, posted a series of family photos, Zayn’s statement denying the shoving allegation as well as a quote about karma on her Instagram Friday. The quote reads, “Karma
Comedy Central announced its annual 31-day holiday extravaganza, featuring two new movies: “A Clüsterfünke Christmas,” debuting Dec. 4, and “Hot Mess Holiday,” premiering Dec. 11. Both of these movies will air at 7 p.m. The network will announce additional titles for its”31 Days of Going Home for the Holidays” programming slate at a later date.
MTV Books has announced that the first title under its relaunched imprint will be “My Life: Growing Up Asian in America,” which includes an introduction by former MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak. “With MTV Books, our mission is to cultivate and amplify new and pioneering voices who reflect the diversity of experiences that resonate with
When CNN shut down its airport network in March after nearly 30 years, Lynnwood Bibbens already knew a lot about those orphaned screens. Bibbens had been working on a deal with CNN to collaborate on an evolution of CNN Airport — which would have been called the Airport Television Network — when the COVID-19 pandemic
“The Crown” star and recent Emmy winner Josh O’Connor and “Normal People” BAFTA winner Paul Mescal will star in gay romance “The History of Sound,” an Oliver Hermanus-directed adaptation of an award-winning short story. Produced by End Cue, the story follows two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during the WW1 period, set
When Chinese indie documentarian Rikun Zhu set about chronicling the struggles of a young Maoist true believer artist, who dreams of a new life in New York, he knew he was taking on a puzzling contradiction, he says. “It interested me a lot,” the filmmaker says, “because he always says he is a communist and
Netflix has unveiled its plan to host a retrospective of nine original movies, including Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” at the French Cinematheque in Paris and the Lumiere Institute in Lyon in December. Called the Netflix Film Club, the event will take place Dec. 7-14 and will comprise screenings of six movies that
The BloodList, an annual ranking of the best unproduced horror and genre screenplays, has published the 13th edition of its “Fresh Blood” series just in time for Halloween. The reveal was made on Friday by Village Roadshow Pictures and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, who earlier this year announced a first-look partnership to mine the list for
When Rob Zombie’s reboot of “The Munsters” hits screens in 2022, it will mark his eighth feature film, and will reaffirm his status as the most prolific musician-turned-director in history. It’s no surprise, of course, that an artist as hyper-attuned to visual imagery as Zombie has been throughout his musical career would take to filmmaking
A looming war, deadly monsters and the supposed “end of days” — all in a day’s work for Geralt of Rivia. On Friday, Netflix released a new trailer for Season 2 of “The Witcher,” the high fantasy series starring Henry Cavill as the monster hunter Geralt. The video shows a new look at some of
Carley Shimkus will take up the co-anchor seat on “Fox & Friends First” opposite Todd Piro after Jillian Mele announced Friday that she was leaving the early-morning program. Shimkus has been a reporter for Fox News Headlines, a co-host on the Fox Nation streaming service and a substitute host on Fox News Channel. She joined
“Swagger,” the Apple TV Plus drama centered in the world of youth basketball, boasts an impressive pedigree with storylines drawn from the formative experiences of NBA standout Kevin Durant. But the series is anything but a TV-scaled biopic; its ambitions are decidedly bigger and more far-reaching than even the 6-foot-10-inch superstar. “The approach was not
In first phase sales, Alief has closed multiple major territories across Europe and Asia on “Cop Secret,” one of the key titles marking as move towards the mainstream in the lineup at August’s Locarno Festival, where it had its world premiere. Made on the near eve of this year’s American Film Market, the sales announcement
Actor, writer and comedian Anders Holm has signed with CAA for representation. Holm is best known as the co-creator, writer and star of “Workaholics,” the hit Comedy Central show which ran for seven seasons. In February, Paramount Plus announced plans for a “Workaholics” film, in which Holm will reprise his role as Ders Holmvik alongside
Lava Records founder Jason Flom is best known as a one of the most successful label heads and A&R reps of the past 30 years, with top posts at Atlantic Records and Virgin-EMI, and founder of Lava Records, with a remarkably diverse track record of artists, ranging from Tori Amos and Katy Perry to Kid Rock and
“I hope you die” is a line that Mountain Goats fans have been singing at the band’s shows for about 20 years. But suddenly, the song that contains it, “No Children,” has turned from a fans-only cult hit to a favorite among millions of new listeners. Or 15 seconds’ worth of it has, anyway, thanks
In today’s podcast roundup, the Clone Club returns for “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter” Season 2; “The Sesame Street Podcast With Foley and Friends” gets two more seasons on Audible; “The Paris Review Podcast” returns for a third season; and more. DATES Audio entertainment company Realm premiered “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter” Season 2 on
Ed Sheeran has perfected the recipe for a mega-selling album. Simply combine inoffensive ballads with up-tempo pop songs, before seasoning with a dash of something new to feign growth — in this case, synth-pop. As with previous entries in the superstar’s arithmetic operator series (“+,” “x” and “%”), “=” is engineered to please as many
The metaverse is coming, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook who is now trying to reinvent the company under a new name: Meta Platforms. In a presentation Thursday at the Facebook Connect conference, Zuck announced the corporate name change. He pitched the metaverse (which, for now, is mostly hypothetical) as a game-changer: “In
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