Meta was buffeted by a broad ad-spending slowdown in the third quarter, reporting a year-over-year revenue decline of 4%, while its heavy metaverse investments continued to eat into earnings. The company said its flagship Facebook app had 1.984 billion daily active users on average in Q3, up around 16 million from 1.968 billion the prior
Month: October 2022
Nick Grad and Gina Balian have been given the new titles of co-presidents of FX Entertainment. The duo were previously the co-presidents of original programming for FX Entertainment, with Balian having been elevated alongside Grad in that role in 2019. At that same time, Eric Schrier was promoted to the then-newly created role of president
Taylor Swift’s music video for “Midnights” lead single “Anti-Hero” has been edited to remove a scene that shows her stepping on a bathroom scale that read “fat.” Variety can confirm the music video on Apple Music no longer shows the scale, instead, Swift’s anti-hero clone just looks at her with a face of disappointment. The
Danielle Deadwyler had just moved to L.A. with her 13-year-old son and was in the middle of looking for an apartment when her reps gave her the script. “I can’t look for a place and read ‘Till,’” she remembers telling herself, but what she meant was, “Who wants to read about the mutilation and murder
Disney is not currently in the market to buy another studio or network, chief executive officer Bob Chapek said. “We have the best creative teams, the best brands and franchises in the world,” said Chapek, speaking at the WSJ Tech Live 2022 conference Wednesday. “We’re quite happy to have the output level across our channels
Vella Lovell will star opposite Joel McHale in the upcoming Fox comedy series “Animal Control.” The single-camera series was originally ordered at Fox in June, with McHale joining the show in mid-October. The show is described as “a workplace comedy following a group of Animal Control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that
“True Detective” Season 4 has added three new cast members, Variety has learned. Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc (“Long Slow Exhale”), and Joel D. Montgrand (“Legends of Tomorrow,” “iZombie”) have all joined the HBO series’ fourth outing. They join previously announced leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as well as cast members John Hawkes, Christopher
The end of “Saturday Night Live” Season 47 saw the departures of longtime cast members such as Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd and Melissa Villaseñor. The latter comedian opened up about her exit for the first time in an interview with The Daily Beast, revealing that consistent panic
From “American Werewolf in London,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” to the new AMC series, “Interview with the Vampire,” makeup artist Howard Berger has over 800 credits and is the mastermind behind some of the most astounding transformations on film and TV. Earlier this year, longtime friends Marshall Julius and Berger released the book, “Masters of
Diva Media Group, in partnership with A Baker Production and Tello Films founder Christin Baker, is launching the LGBTQ streaming network DivaBoxOffice.tv. The channel premieres Dec. 1 on iTunes, Google Play, Roku and Amazon Firestick, among other major platforms. DivaBoxOffice.tv will include over 100 hours of queer programming, with Baker serving as president and CEO.
Though the 95th Academy Awards are still five months away, it’s never too early to look at some of the circuit contenders. Here’s some of the films that could score a minimum of two nominations in the major categories — picture, director, screenplay, international film and the acting races. ARMAGEDDON TIME(Focus Features)James Gray’s autobiographical coming-of-age
Top communications agency Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis set several promotions on Wednesday, bolstering executive leadership in offices across the country. Amelia Makin and Andrew Stein have been promoted to executive vice president roles, while Gabrielle Lee was elevated to senior vice president, diversity equity inclusion and accessibility and multicultural communications. Hollywood fixture Brooke Blumberg was named senior vice president
For decades, there was a standard path to sitcom stardom: Start out in standup, get spotted by a network or studio scout, land a development deal and then hopefully star in a hit comedy based on your routine. That pipeline peaked in the 90s, when comedians like Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano
CNN is about to enter an era of “noticeable change,” the head of the news outlet cautioned staffers in a new memo, hinting that layoffs and a reorganization could be in store as the unit’s corporate parent navigates a more uncertain economic climate. “There is widespread concern over the global economic outlook, and we must
Chloe Bennet and Ronny Chieng have joined the cast of the “Interior Chinatown” series currently in the works at Hulu. The pair join previously announced lead Jimmy O. Yang in the series. It was ordered at Hulu earlier in October, with the streamer also announcing that Taika Waititi had boarded the project to direct the
Selena Gomez will not be appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” tonight (Oct. 26), due to the singer contracting COVID. Gomez uploaded a photo of herself lying on a couch on the morning of her scheduled appearance to her Instagram story and informed her fans of the cancellation. “I’m not going to be
The flagship “Fast and Furious” franchise as we know it is set to end with the upcoming two-part finale, which begins with the Louis Leterrier-directed “Fast X.” However, most fans aren’t expecting the franchise to end anytime soon. There’s already been one spinoff movie, 2019’s “Hobbs & Shaw,” and there will surely be more considering
Check out the official Trailer for Plane starring Gerard Butler & Mike Colter! ► Visit Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: January 27, 2023 Starring: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Daniella Pineda Director: Jean-François Richet Synopsis: In
The original version of “The Witcher” — the fantasy video game that spawned the popular Netflix series of the same name — is getting fully rebuilt from the ground up, in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. “The Witcher” remake is currently in the early stages of development at Polish game studio Fool’s Theory, “where veteran
It’s official: Rihanna is making her long-awaited return to music with “Lift Me Up,” the lead single on Marvel’s blockbuster sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The song, a tribute to the life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman, was written by Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and director Ryan Coogler. It will be released on Friday, Oct.
Raw, raging realism clashes with melodramatic contrivance in Moussa Sène Absa’s “Xalé,” and that’s before a theatrical chorus of women seizes the screen to comment on the unfolding tragedy. The latest film from the veteran Senegalese director blends narrative styles and traditions with abandon, running the gamut from local folklore to Western-style soap opera, in
Act I This is a story about grief in New York. Hugh Jackman’s father died while he was making “The Son.” But instead of taking time off, Jackman kept playing Peter, a workaholic struggling to take care of his family: a new baby, a partner and a teenage son, Nicholas, suffering from a frightening depression.
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds shocked comic book movie fans at the end of September when they jointly announced Jackman’s Wolverine would be returning to the big screen in “Deadpool 3.” Jackman hung up his claws in 2017 with “Logan,” which was touted as his Wolverine swan song and ended with the character’s death. Just
Budapest-based animation studio Cinemon Entertainment has unveiled a teaser (below) for its upcoming animation feature “Four Souls of Coyote,” which is supported by Hungary’s National Film Institute, and is sold internationally by NFI World Sales. The film is created and directed by Áron Gauder, whose prior work includes “The District!,” awarded Annecy’s Cristal Prize for
Hugh Jackman revealed in a new cover story for Variety that he auditioned for the role of Sandra Bullock’s love interest, FBI agent Eric Matthews, in the comedy “Miss Congeniality.” The actor did not want to star in the film but his agent made him. Jackman said landing the role would have allowed his agent
“In Her Hands,” a Netflix documentary produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, has unveiled its first official trailer. The film — which won the audience award at the 18th Camden International Film Festival last month — is filmed over a two-year period, and tells the story of Zarifa Ghafari, who at 26 became one of
Green Lantern’s brightest day is still yet to come. Executive producer Greg Berlanti’s upcoming “Green Lantern” HBO Max series, which has long been in development, has hit another speed bump by losing its co-writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith, Variety has confirmed. The show is also being redeveloped to shift focus from Green Lantern characters Guy Gardner
On Saturday afternoon, hours before Kendrick Lamar’s sold-out second date at Paris’ Accor Arena, the darkened venue was buzzing with exponentially more activity than one usually sees even before a big show. Along with the usual tour personnel were dozens of camera operators and other technicians hunched over laptops, sound boards, lighting panels and a
Dana Carvey and Conan O’Brien, two “Saturday Night Live” alums, have teamed on a scripted comedy podcast that takes a weird trip back to the ’60s-era “Twilight Zone.” “The Weird Place,” executive produced by Carvey, is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure set featuring “manipulative aliens,” time-traveling pirates and a “power-hungry madman with a magic globe,”
ESPN has sold a majority stake in the X Games — its 27-year-old extreme sports event franchise — to private-equity firm MSP Sports Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MSP will assume day-to-day operational control of the X Games business, which will spin off from ESPN. ESPN Productions Inc. will retain a
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