Month: April 2022

Kanye West’s 2010 track “Power” has sparked a lawsuit against Universal Music Group over its sampling of prog rock band King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.” Declan Colgan Music Ltd (DCM), which own the mechanical rights (the original version of the track) to “21st Century Schizoid Man,” claim that UMG has been underpaying on streaming
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Pharrell Williams has announced the return of his summer music festival “Something in the Water,” produced by Redrock Entertainment and Live Nation. The festival will take place in Washington, DC on Juneteenth weekend (June 17-19) with the rapper and producer included on a lineup that also features Lil Baby, Chloe x Halle, Lil Uzi Vert,
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Freeform has renewed “Single Drunk Female” for Season 2 while also giving out a series order to the dramedy series “While You Were Breeding.” “I am thrilled to bring ‘Single Drunk Female’ back for a second season,” said Freeform President Tara Duncan “Jenni Konner, Simone Finch and Daisy Gardner created a series that struck a
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XTR, the award-winning nonfiction company behind “They Call Me Magic” on Apple TV Plus and the Oscar-nominated “Ascension,” announced its acquisition of a 30,000 square-foot studio located off Alvarado St. in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, just west of downtown. The new XTR Studios space includes production and post-production facilities, a sound stage,
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HBO is firing back against criticisms of its Lakers drama series “Winning Time.” The show has come under fire by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jerry West, two Lakers veterans who are prominently featured as characters in the HBO series. Both men have taken issue with how “Winning Time” portrays Lakes coach West, played by Jason Clarke
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Variety.com, the digital arm of the legendary entertainment trade Variety, scored record-breaking traffic in March 2022. Some 36.9 million unique users visited the site in March, officially making it the biggest month in the brand’s history, according to Comscore. Additionally, March was the seventh consecutive month that Variety placed No. 1 for readership among entertainment trades,
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Following a tortuous journey and dozens of crazy rumors, the Cannes Film Festival has landed Vincent Lindon, the French actor of last year’s Palme d’Or winning “Titan,” as jury president of its 75th edition. Lindon, who won best actor in 2015 for his role in Stephane Brizé’s movie “The Measure of a Man,” will be
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Check out The Black Phone Official Trailer starring Ethan Hawke and Mason Thames! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanALERT for The Black Phone: https://www.fandango.com/the-black-phone-2022-225820/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to
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Ryan Reynolds will receive the 36th American Cinematheque Award. The ceremony and tribute to the actor will take place Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills. “Ryan Reynolds is a Renaissance Man 2.0 for our times,” American Cinematheque board chair Rick Nicita said in a statement Tuesday morning. “He is an
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Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Elie Grappe’s Ukrainian gymnast drama “Olga,” which world premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week last year and won a prize. Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release on June 24, with 10% of proceeds to be donated to Direct Relief in Ukraine. Grappe’s debut feature, “Olga”
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Check out the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Official TV Spot starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy tickets for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: https://www.fandango.com/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-222999/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel
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SHARIF HAMZA/Trunk Archive Scrolling through the Instagram account @starterpacksofnyc feels like flipping through a pack of trading cards, except instead of stats, each archetype comes with outfits and drink orders. Resist all you want, but you’ll likely identify with one of the curated personalities on the feed. There I was in the binder, I realized:
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Some 45 years after their first performance, new wave icons the B-52s have announced a farewell tour that kicks off this summer. The jaunt — billed as “Their final tour ever of planet Earth” — will hit 11 cities across the U.S., launching August 22 in Seattle and running through November 11, where it will finish
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Supporters of a measure to expand arts and music education in California schools announced Tuesday that they have submitted 1 million signatures, more than enough to qualify the initiative for the November ballot. The initiative is led by former L.A. Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner, and has garnered support from scores of Hollywood executives and entertainers,
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Twitter is now in Elon Musk’s hands. What his successful maneuver to buy the company means for its 200 million-plus users — or for media and entertainment companies that use the platform to reach global audiences — is anything but clear. In the space of three weeks, Musk went from disclosing a 9.2% stake in
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Saudi Arabia’s cinema classification board is disputing reports that the upcoming Marvel tentpole “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has been banned in the country due to a gay character played by Xochitl Gomez. The movie finds “The Baby-Sitters Club” actor making her debut as America Chavez in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nawaf Alsabhan,
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Check out the official Bodies Bodies Bodies Trailer starring Amandla Stenberg! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanALERT for Bodies Bodies Bodies: https://www.fandango.com/bodies-bodies-bodies-2022-227771/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up
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SiriusXM and Audio Up Inc., which announced in October a creative programming and strategic agreement that will see the development of new original scripted series and audio entertainment concepts, have announced the launch of two original scripted podcasts, “Make It Up As We Go: Season 2,” starring Garrett Hedlund, Scarlett Burke, Elle King, Nile Rodgers
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