Month: January 2022

Reservoir has acquired the publishing and recorded music catalog of Country singer and songwriter Travis Tritt. Financial terms were not disclosed but the deal encompasses all of Tritt’s work up to and including the 2021 album “Set In Stone.” Tritt’s sales tally is impressive, with seven albums certified platinum (signifying one million units sold) and
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A good filmmaker doesn’t just stage a scene. He or she creates a space (temporal, emotional, psychological, suspenseful). When that happens, we’re no longer just watching the characters — we’re drawn right into that space, until we’re almost floating in it, in sync with the characters’ identities and interactions, their minds and heartbeats. That’s the
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Journalist Sergei Rakhlin, a longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association died Jan. 21. He was 78. Rakhlin reported for print and broadcast, and had several key roles with the HFPA. Rakhlin was a longtime member of the foreign film committee (now knowns as the non-English language film committee) and served six terms as
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They remain nowhere near as well-represented as their male counterparts in the editing Oscar realm — the best-known is Thelma Schoonmaker with eight Oscar nominations and three wins — but women such as Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (“Belfast”), Pamela Martin (“King Richard”) and Teresa Font (“Parallel Mothers”) are seeking to make their mark in the race.
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. For his fall 1989 “Buick” collection, Manfred Thierry Mugler turned women into race cars. Clad in souped-up supermodel silhouettes that resembled high-design 1950’s automobiles, his models strutted around in their hubcap bra cups and fender peplums. They shared the hard-edged mien
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Taylor Swift issued a response on Twitter to Damon Albarn, the “Blur” frontman and “Gorillaz” co-creator who claimed in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times that Swift does not write her own music. Swift, who is officially credited with writing or co-writing all of her music, called Albarn’s accusation “completely false and so
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ddLouverture Films, the production company founded by actor Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, is moving into television as well as animation, gaming and installation works. With two new principal partners in situ, the expansion has enlisted a host of creatives, including directors Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Lucrecia Martel. Co-founded by Glover and Barnes in 2005 —
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Where others might see a crystal ashtray, DIY filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead envision some kind of haunted relic, a portal to another dimension or maybe just the ideal prop on which to base their next screwy sci-fi imagination-tickler. Audiences who’ve experienced a Moorhead&Benson film — eerie vacation-sex nightmare “Spring,” perhaps, or else
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The race for best cinematography is among the most competitive races this year at the Oscars. Black-and-white dramas, sci-fi dazzlers and Hollywood blockbusters are among the contenders, and it’s not entirely sure where it all might land. The American Society of Cinematographers, which announces its nominees tomorrow, will set a tone leading up to the
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Elysium Media has dropped the trailer for “My Transparent Life,” a documentary chronicling the gender transitions of TikTok star Jesse Sullivan and celebrity makeup artist Stassi Kihm. Hosted and produced by Serena DC (“Hollywood Disclosure”), the doc is set to hit streaming services on the International Trans Day of Visibility, March 31. “The reason I’ve
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“We don’t talk about ‘Encanto‘” is a phrase that may be being said in the Gunna and Weeknd households this week, as both of those hit artists had to step aside to let the smash Disney soundtrack reclaim its No. 1 position atop the Billboard 200 album chart. “Encanto” continues to grow, with 104,000 album-equivalent
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Netflix has ordered “Survival of the Thickest,” an eight episode scripted comedy starring stand-up Michelle Buteau. Based on Buteau’s 2020 essay book of the same name, “Survival of the Thickest” stars Buteau as Mavis Beaumont, a Black, plus-size woman navigating life after she finds herself newly single. The series was created by Buteau and Danielle
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Laurence Fishburne and Daniel Dae Kim will star alongside Kerry Washington in the upcoming Audible and QCode original podcast drama series “Prophecy.” Washington is also executive producing under her Simpson Street banner, along with head of development Pilar Savone, marking the company’s first Audible original production. Washington announced the casting of Fishburne and Kim in
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Prime Video and Easterseals Disability Services will co-present a candid conversation about authentic neurodiverse representation with “As We See It” creator Jason Katims and the cast of the prime video series — including including Rick Glassman (“Jack”), Sue Ann Pien (“Violet”), Albert Rutecki (“Harrison”), Sosie Bacon (“Mandy”), and Chris Pang (“Van”). The conversation, titled “#ActuallyAuthentic,”
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Timed to coincide with the beginning of the Academy Awards Phase One voting, Variety is rolling out a digital Voters’ Guide on Jan. 24, called “Awards Circuit Down to the Wire.” Coming out on the heels of Variety’s Ultimate Awards Guide, the stand-alone publication that Variety has been sending out as a deep-dive look at
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Dior debuts its haute couture spring-summer 2022 runway show live today, Tuesday, January 24 at 2:45PM CET. Watch the atelier’s latest collection from the comfort of your own home, below. This content is imported from Third party. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to
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