A new trade group — the Streaming Innovation Alliance — brings together Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and other players to promote their interests to politicians and government entities. It marks the first time competing streaming-video providers have banded together in a unified lobbying front. The launch members of the Streaming Innovation Alliance (website
Month: September 2023
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 reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences
Live Nation has launched a new program called “On the Road Again” to financially support developing artists and their teams facing growing costs of touring expenses. In making the announcement, the concert promoter has partnered with Willie Nelson, who lent his 1980 country single as the anthem for the initiative. Live Nation-owned and operated clubs
MrBeast continues to rake it in. The YouTube mastermind who has orchestrated dozens of over-the-top stunts and big-money giveaways pulled in an estimated $82 million over the past year — more than twice the earnings any other internet creator, according to a new Forbes report. The figure for MrBeast, whose name is Jimmy Donaldson, is
Actor and rapper Nashawn Breedlove, who faced off against Eminem in an “8 Mile” rap battle, has died in New Jersey. He was 46. He died Sunday in his sleep, according to TMZ, and the cause of death is unknown. His mother Patricia confirmed his death on Facebook, writing “Nashawn was a rapper, singer, songwriter,
“The Hunger Games” film franchise is returning to the big screen after an eight-year hiatus with the upcoming release of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel film starring Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow. With one prequel down, Entertainment Weekly asked franchise director Francis Lawrence
The Kansas City Chiefs did more than take down the Chicago Bears during the Sept. 24 game. Sunday night’s telecast of Fox’s “America’s Game of the Week” got the Taylor’s Version treatment and delivered a total audience of 24.32 million viewers and scoring the highest among female demographics across the ages of 12-17, 18-49 this
Kanye West’s 2019 collaboration with Dr. Dre has leaked, Variety has confirmed. Titled “Jesus Is King 2,” the album is a follow-up to West’s Grammy-winning first full gospel album. Apparently an unfinished version of “Yeezus” called “Thank God for Drugs” has also leaked, but details were less clear. As reported by HipHopDX, “Jesus Is King
CollegeHumor is dropping its collegiate moniker after nearly 25 years… to become Dropout. The company is officially rebranding from CollegeHumor to Dropout, the name of the ad-free, subscription streaming platform it launched in 2018. CollegeHumor was founded in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen — back in the days before the streaming revolution
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will bestow a replacement Oscar for supporting actress winner Hattie McDaniel to Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts during a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” in Washington D.C. on Oct. 1. Taking place at the Ira Aldridge Theater,
Yeti has launched a $200,000 grant to support emerging documentary filmmakers. The global outdoor brand’s Pretty Wild fellowship will support four directors as they create short docs that give a fresh perspective on the beauty, grandeur, and vulnerability of the outdoors and the people and stories that live there. Fellows will be offered mentorship, $50,000
This home improvement show isn’t like anything you’ll see on HGTV. “The Curse,” a genre-defying series starring Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder, will premiere on Nov. 10 via Paramount+ with Showtime ahead of its on-air Showtime debut on Nov. 12, the network announced Tuesday. Showtime has debuted a series of first-look images, giving audiences a
Billie Piper, “The Great British Bake Off” and “Derry Girl” have landed nominations at the 2023 International Emmy Awards. The nominations, which were unveiled on Tuesday by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, are across 14 categories and span 20 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan,
“Moonlighting,” the Emmy-nominated 1980s television series that gave Bruce Willis his breakout role, will stream for the first time ever on Oct. 10 on Hulu. All five seasons, consisting of 67 episodes, will be available to watch on the platform. The show, created by Glen Gordon Carron, also features Al Jarreau’s Grammy-nominated title track. Cybill
The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the ecommerce and technology giant is a monopolist that “uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.” Among the accusations, the FTC’s lawsuit, which was joined by 17 state attorneys general, allege that Amazon’s actions allow
The creator of “The Creator,” Gareth Edwards, started his filmmaking career teaching himself VFX at home. He’s an innovator on that front, devising ways to generate creepy CG monsters for “Monsters” more than a dozen years ago, then overseeing deceptively massive blockbusters, like “Godzilla,” ever since (deceptive because much of that stunning scale comes from
Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Allen White and Riz Ahmed find themselves caught in a love triangle in the new Apple film “Fingernails,” which debuted its first trailer Tuesday morning. Directed by Christos Nikou and produced by Cate Blanchett, the sci-fi film is set in a not-so-distant future. The story follows Anna (Buckley) and Ryan (White) who
Every year at the Americana Honors & Awards program in Nashville, Jim Lauderdale will exclaim, as a running joke, “Now, that’s Americana!” — usually right after someone has given a rousing performance in a style that most people wouldn’t reflexively classify as Americana. The fact that it’s said both enthusiastically and slightly facetiously does beg
After a six-year run, Google Podcasts will be shutting down next year. Instead, the internet company plans to double down on making YouTube Music the preferred destination for podcasters and listeners. YouTube announced that in 2024, it will be “increasing our investment in the podcast experience on YouTube Music.” As part of that, later in
Disney’s Agatha Christie adaptation “A Haunting in Venice” stayed atop the U.K. and Ireland box office for the second successive weekend with £1.4 million ($1.8 million), per numbers from Comscore. The film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, where he plays detective Hercule Poirot, now has a total of £4.9 million after two weekends in release. Lionsgate’s
To be dripping in diamonds usually means that one has reached the upper echelons of success. The sparkling stones often represent life’s milestones—a diamond ring may signify everlasting love, a diamond pendant can symbolize a significant work anniversary. But that’s changed in a lot of ways, thanks in large part to Pandora’s lab-grown diamond collections.
Kasie Hunt left a fast-track career at NBC News in 2021 to dip her toes into digital waters at CNN. Two years later, she’s just starting to find out whether she might sink or swim. On Wednesday, Hunt will launch “State of the Race,” a new hour-long weekday show for CNN’s international service focused on
Tubi, Fox Corp.’s ad-supported video-streaming service, has turned to OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial-intelligence agent to suggest new TV shows and movies to watch — although the feature is really just a form of natural-language search. Tubi’s Rabbit AI is powered by ChatGPT-4. The AI feature, which shows up on the bottom of Tubi’s mobile app, lets
Cannes darling “May December” has unveiled its first trailer starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton. Directed by filmmaker Todd Haynes, the film first premiered back in May and is set for a limited theatrical release before hitting Netflix. “May December” is based loosely on the true story of Mary Kay Letourneau, an American
The National Film Board and the City of Paris have set strict guidelines for film and TV shoots before, during and after the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will unfold July 26 to Sept. 8. While the sporting celebration will span roughly six weeks, the restrictions impacting filming will stretch over nearly a year, starting this
During the weeks that comprise fashion month, most people have their eyes firmly fixed on the clothes. And that’s wholly understandable, especially if you’re keeping a tab on the best spring 2024 fashion trends. But, coming from someone who lives by the sartorial rule that accessories make an outfit, you simply cannot overlook the details
Deborah Roberts is taking up co-anchor duties at ABC News’ “20/20,” the latest in a line of distinguished anchors that includes Barbra Walters, Hugh Downs, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas who have led the long-running newsmagazine. Roberts is no stranger to the series’ rhythms. She has been contributing to it for 28 years,
Chevy Chase appeared on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast (via Rolling Stone) and claimed that “,” the NBC sitcom he starred on for 83 episodes, was “not funny enough for me.” Chase played millionaire Pierce Hawthorne on “Community” for four seasons. His co-stars on the Dan Harmon-created comedy included Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette
Sony Electronics and Olivia Rodrigo have announced the release of “LinkBuds S x Olivia Rodrigo,” designed and tuned in collaboration with the three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Based on Sony’s LinkBuds S noise-canceling wireless headphones, the new limited edition LinkBuds S x Olivia Rodrigo feature Custom EQs (special equalizers) have tuned by Olivia and her producer Daniel
There’s little question that the Birthday Party — Nick Cave’s first major band — was one of the most aggressive and confrontational groups of the ‘80s if not all of rock history. Their bruising, brutal sound and genuinely dangerous concerts are the stuff of legend, but as Cave’s intensity has been channeled into more-refined and less-blunt art,
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