Month: November 2022

Comedian Jeff Dunham is returning to Comedy Central with a new one-hour special set to air during Thanksgving weekend later this month. The standup and his characters are behind “Jeff Dunham: Me the People,” which will premiere Friday, November 25th at 8 p.m. ET on the cabler. “Me the People,” which reps Dunham’s 11th stand-up special, was
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Jimmy Kimmel revealed on the most recent episode of the “Naked Lunch” podcast that he threatened to quit his ABC talk show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” when ABC executives expressed apprehension over him telling jokes about Donald Trump. It appears the execs once spoke to Kimmel about laying off Trump in order to not alienate Republican
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Special guest and DC expert Mike Kalinowski joins host Nikki Novak to discuss what’s going on between the critics an the audience score for Black Adam, pledging their needs for Hawkman and Dr. Fate solo films, and THAT mid-credits scene. ► Buy Tickets for Black Adam: https://www.fandango.com/black-adam-2022-223367/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc ► Learn more: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_adam?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel
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IATSE has joined the list of supporters for Karen Bass’ mayoral race and endorsed the congresswoman for Los Angeles mayor. With early voting underway ahead of election day on Nov. 8, Bass made a pitstop Thursday morning at IATSE headquarters in Burbank, Calif. where she met with representatives from various locals. Among the topics Bass
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Warner Bros. Discovery saw streaming subscriptions rise to nearly 95 million combined global customers across HBO, HBO Max and Discovery+ from July 1-Sept. 30, the quarter during which the highly anticipated “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” took flight. As the David Zaslav-led company works toward unifying the streaming platforms into one service
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During a keynote conversation at Variety‘s Business Managers Breakfast presented by City National Bank, “Community” and “Rick and Morty” creator Dan Harmon talked at length about the upcoming “Community” movie, sharing that Donald Glover is “down to clown” in the project. Entertainment business managers gathered at the Maybourne Hotel in Beverly Hills on Thursday morning
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Sony Pictures Television has parted ways with multiple executives, including head of comedy Glenn Adilman. Along with Adilman, his longtime lieutenant Scott Landsman is also understood to be out at SPT. The departures come a little over two months since Katherine Pope assumed the role of president of the independent studio. In a memo to
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“Last Seen Alive” debuted on the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 at No. 6 after the film’s Oct. 1 premiere on Netflix. Months after the film’s theatrical release in June, the Gerard Butler action-thriller managed to rake in 747 million minutes viewed. “Luckiest Girl Alive,” another Netflix film, also appeared for the first time on the
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Composer Sarah Schachner has stepped away from scoring “Modern Warfare II” citing “challenges in the working dynamic with the game’s audio director.” The game’s director of sound design is Stephen Miller, though Schachner didn’t name him or anyone specific in her post. “Over the past couple of months the working dynamic with the audio director
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Todd Field was working as an actor on Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” when star Tom Cruise took him aside. Cruise looked Field in the eye and told the budding auteur that he would one day be a director. “He basically pushing me onto the fighter jet,” Field recalls to Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I
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It’s hard to imagine where music would be today without Salt-N-Pepa. Since forming in 1985, the group pioneered a pop-leaning hip-hop sound with such hits as “Push It,” “Shoop,” “Let’s Talk About Sex” and“Whatta Man,” leading the way for generations of female MCs who would follow. The members of Salt-N-Pepa, originally a trio comprising Salt,
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After the enormous success of director Alek Keshishian’s Madonna feature documentary “Truth or Dare,” it seems obvious that the two would have reunited for a sequel. “I don’t think that’s in the cards,” Keshishian told me Wednesday night at the AFI Fest world premiere of his new doc, “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.” “She
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Rank Film Visual effects team Distributor 1 “Top Gun: Maverick” Ryan Tudhope (visual effects supervisor), Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator), Seth Hill (visual effects supervisor), Bryan Litson (visual effects supervisor) Paramount Pictures After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when
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Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service hired Laura Lee, a veteran media exec who has worked at YouTube, NBCUniversal and Viacom, as chief content officer. Lee takes over the role from Mike Aragon, Twitch’s former chief content officer, who left the company in January 2022 to join Lululemon as CEO of Mirror and Lululemon’s Digital Fitness line.
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Veteran animation executive Nate Hopper has joined Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures as the executive in charge of adapting the work of bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems.  Willems in the award-winning creator of iconic oddball kids characters including the “Elephant and Piggie” book series, and the “Pigeon” franchise which just released the New York Times
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and
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Check out the official TV spot for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever starring Winston Duke! ► Buy Tickets for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: https://www.fandango.com/black-panther-wakanda-forever-2022-226753/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: November 11, 2022 Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Winston
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Check out the official featurette for Strange World starring Gabrielle Union! ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Strange World: https://www.fandango.com/strange-world-2022-228137/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: November 23, 2022 Starring: Alan Tudyk, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White,
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