Russell Tovey remembers being told early in his acting career that he shouldn’t come out as gay. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m hearing you. Thank you very much. I appreciate your advice, but I’m going to do this because this feels authentic to me,’” the actor tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for
Month: November 2022
There’s a great show hiding inside the convoluted plots otherwise obscuring “The English.” From writer and director Hugo Blick (“Black Earth Rising”), Amazon Prime Video’s new limited series taps Emily Blunt (also an executive producer) and Chaske Spencer (“Banshee,” “Sneaky Pete”) to play Cornelia and Eli, an especially odd couple who forge an equally unlikely and unshakeable
Chris Rock will be the first comedian to air a live streaming special on Netflix, the company has announced. Details are scarce, but the special is expected to air globally in early 2023. Rock previously collaborated with Netflix on the comedy special “Tamborine” in 2018. He also appeared at the streamer’s “Netflix Is a Joke”
Alex Jones and his media company Infowars have been ordered to pay an additional $473 million to Sandy Hook families for promoting false conspiracy theories about the 2012 school shooting, bringing his total damages up to nearly $1.5 billion. According to AP, Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis imposed the extra punitive damages on Thursday morning. In
Ke Huy Quan, who played Harrison Ford’s 11-year-old sidekick Short Round in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” is all grown up now and ready to be an Oscar contender. Quan, 51, has received rousing reviews for his turn as Waymond Wang, the delightfully goofy husband in the Daniels’ whimsical multiverse comedy “Everything
Eight-time Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker has announced a special run of live dates for 2023. The 15-date tour, produced by Live Nation, launches on February 11 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fla. and wraps in Oakland, Calif. on December 23. The tour celebrates the 40 th anniversary of Baker’s debut album, “The Songstress,” and marks the
CBS dramas “The Equalizer,” “East New York,” and “FBI” lead the primetime broadcast competition among African American audiences so far this fall, according to Nielsen ratings through November 6. Excluding all sports programming, the Queen Latifah-led “Equalizer” sits atop the chart at No. 1 with an average of 2.01 million Black people after four episodes
Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media has added veteran managers Danielle Robinson and James Shani to the leadership team at ColorCreative, the talent management company co-founded by Rae and Denise Davis in 2014. Robinson will assume the role of co-head of talent and manager, while Shani has been named executive producer and talent manager. Both Robinson and
The third annual “Variety Salute to Service” special will air at 8 p.m. Nov. 11, Veterans Day, on the History channel. The special will focus on the many contributions made by America’s veterans and military families, profiling extraordinary individuals who are giving back to their local communities and supporting other veterans through numerous initiatives. The
Elon Musk is planning to dismantle Twitter’s decade-plus-old verification program, designed to increase trust in the social network by providing a visual signifier that high-profile accounts are, in fact, who they say they are. Going forward, Musk’s $7.99/month Twitter Blue subscription will the only way to get the “verified” blue check-mark — except that the
Universal Pictures has acquired rights to Susanna Hoffs’ novel “This Bird Has Flown,” setting a feature adaptation with Liza Chasin and Bruna Papandrea producing. “This Bird Has Flown” is the debut novel for Hoffs, the singer and co-founder of pop-rock band The Bangles. Due April 4, 2023, from Little, Brown and Company, the book serves
Phoebe Bridgers is no longer facing a $3.8 million defamation lawsuit filed by producer Chris Nelson, who alleged Bridgers was using her platform to make false and defamatory statements against him. The decision to dismiss the suit was issued by Judge Curtis A. Kin of the Los Angeles Superior Court, according to Billboard. There were
Netflix has ordered a series version of the Judy Blume novel “Forever” from Mara Brock Akil, Variety has learned. The show was first reported as being in development at Netflix in September 2021. Brock Akil will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series under her Netflix overall deal. This marks the first series
Mila Kunis, Debra Messing and Mayim Bialik are among more than 200 celebrities and entertainment executives who have signed an open letter calling on Amazon and Barnes & Noble to remove the antisemitic documentary and book, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” from their respective platforms. The letter was released by Creative Community for
I started my path to become a Marine in 1962 when I signed on to the Platoon Leaders Class program as I entered Fordham College in New York. At Fordham, the Jesuits drilled me on the importance of ethics and integrity. The Marine drill was all about discipline, leadership and, indeed, legacy. Combined, these foundation
The unknowability of one’s romantic partner is well-trod ground for art, and for good reason. The contradiction between the idea that love ought to be able to break through anything and the frequent reality of the fundamental mystery of someone else’s mind is rich, juicy, and provocative. Or it can be — later this month,
“Fleishman Is in Trouble” — the 2019 novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and the new television series adaptation Brodesser-Akner has created — operates a bit like a reverse “Gone Girl.” In both cases, the disappearance of a woman from the family home amid marital discord presents the left-behind husband a mystery to solve, and memories to
Sofya Levitsky-Weitz has signed with CAA for representation. She continues to be represented by Kelly Miller at Luminosity Management. Levitsky-Weitz is a renowned playwright and film and television writer whose credits from the last year include the critically-acclaimed Watergate series “Gaslit” for Starz, FX’s hit drama “The Bear,” as well as the Emmy-winning Elizabeth Holmes’
Henry Cavill may be exiting Netflix’s “Witcher” franchise, but Michelle Yeoh is on deck to lead the four-part prequel series “The Witcher: Blood Origin.” Netflix released a new teaser for “Blood Origin,” which takes places 1,200 years before the events of “The Witcher.” The prequel series will explore the creation of the first prototype Witcher
Sandra Oh, Kieu Chinh and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen have joined the cast of “The Sympathizer” at HBO in recurring roles. A satirical espionage thriller, “The Sympathizer” follows the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States. The series is based
Charlie Collier surprised the industry in September when he exited his perch as CEO of Fox Entertainment for something a bit more unconventional: president of Roku Media. But anyone who knows Collier, or has followed his career, knows the move jibes with the exec’s longtime entrepreneurial spirit. At AMC, Collier helped turn what was American
Jordan Peele, the filmmaker behind hit thrillers “Get Out,” “Us” and “Nope,” is taking his penchant for horror to his first audio-only series. “Quiet Part Loud,” the first fictional audio series from Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, is slated to launch exclusively on Spotify on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The show, produced by Monkeypaw and Spotify’s Gimlet Media,
Check out the Official Trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4 starring Keanu Reeves! ► Buy Tickets to John Wick: Chapter 4 on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023-228578/movie-overview?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: March 24, 2023 Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Rina Sawayama
Composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir wrote a great deal of music for “Tár” that is never heard in Todd Field’s film about the classical music world. However, one piece that does feature in the movie has now become a music video from Deutsche Grammophon. The three-and-a-half-minute piece is titled “Mortar,” an unsettling, minimalist piece performed
John Wick is back in action. The official trailer for “John Wick: Chapter 4” has been released, featuring Keanu Reeves playing the beloved gun-fu action hero once again. While the plot had remained largely under wraps, a teaser trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July showed Wick in some familiar territory: his revenge tour.
For all its vast cultural influence, YouTube is a fairly opaque and anonymous company, with even its top executives stepping into the spotlight only occasionally. That dynamic extends to YouTube Music, where chief and industry veteran Lyor Cohen tends to do the talking — yet there are literally hundreds of people who work on the
Audio Up Media and WME have formed a new strategic partnership to support the development of artists from Audio Up’s podcast slate. Under the partnership, WME will advise Audio Up on touring and content opportunities across film, TV and digital. In addition, WME will provide the company access to its network across music, entertainment and
After Elon Musk took over Twitter and introduced a surge of new policies regarding verification and impersonation, Mark Cuban is giving the fellow billionaire advice on how to fix the app. With Musk’s new $8 per month Twitter Blue subscription, anyone can buy a blue check mark and become verified on Twitter. For Cuban, this
A week into owning Twitter, billionaire tech titan Elon Musk fired half the company’s employees, leaving the task of carrying out his aggressive plans to generate new subscription revenue to the remaining 3,700 or so Tweeps. And that’s while many advertisers have frozen spending on Twitter over concerns about exactly what kinds of “free speech”
Nadie Es Perfecto, the Spanish production house founded by Kiko Martinez, has announced it is to produce smash hit Spanish-language young adult novel “Mala influencia,” written by Teensspirit for Wattpad Webtoon story telling platform. It will be produced with Mexico’s The42ndFilm and Wattpad Webtoon Studios. To be directed by Catalan helmer Roger Gual, the script has
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