It isn’t alive, unfortunately. “Lisa Frankenstein” is facing a quiet opening at the domestic box office after earning $1.7 million from 3,144 locations on its opening day, including $700,000 in Thursday previews. The Focus Features release will likely fall behind the second frame of Apple Studios’ “Argylle,” which crashed in its debut last weekend. “Lisa
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UPDATED: After a long series of fakeouts that have become standard operating procedure for Kanye West releases, the embattled artist and Ty Dolla $ign have finally dropped their “Vultures 1” album. Contributors to the new album apparently include Lil Durk, Bump J, Freddie Gibbs, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, Quavo, and West’s oldest daughter, North. The
Seasoned Danish writer-director Birgitte Stærmose, recently credited for the Netflix show “In From the Cold,” Starz’s “The Spanish Princess” and Göteborg 2023 closing pic “Camino,” is due to bow at the Berlin Film Festival’s Dokument program her hybrid pic “Afterwar”. Variety has secured in exclusivity the trailer for the helmer’s anti-war pamphlet produced by Magic Hour
This Super Bowl Sunday, don’t forget Uber Eats — but also, as the food-delivery service has learned, don’t forget that trying to make fun of a life-threatening allergy is bad PR. Uber Eats, a division of the ride-sharing company, on Feb. 6 debuted its 60-second 2024 Super Bowl commercial, centered on the running joke of
Usher has had a career filled with many sparkling moments, and yet this one feels like it outsizes them all. After dazzling Las Vegas with his “My Way” residency for 100 shows, the singer didn’t stop to catch his breath—in fact, he braced for maximum impact, announcing the release of his ninth album “Coming Home”
“Talk to Me” was the runaway winner at this year’s main awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The native production, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year and was acquired by A24 for North American distribution, scored three of the evening’s top prizes, including wins for best film, best
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Part 5,” the fifth episode of HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country,” now streaming on Max. Poor, wrong-headed Hank — with his broken “90 Day Fiancé” heart, and his thwarted dreams of being police chief — is dead. And by the hand of his son, Peter, no less. At the
“Oppenheimer” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” were among the winners of the top honors at the Advanced Imaging Society’s Lumiere Awards. The 14th annual awards luncheon took place on Feb. 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with Google Cloud, Barco Cinema, Microsoft and Ryff sponsoring. Celebrating “Masters and Magic” this year, the Lumiere Awards recognize
Sony Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to “YOLO,” a mainland Chinese comedy film that releases in China on Saturday, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday. The film is written, directed by and stars Jia Ling, China’s top-grossing female filmmaker. She portrays Le Ying, an unemployed woman in her thirties who still
She’s the reason that rising female stars are often called “the It girl.” She starred in the first movie to win an Oscar for best picture. By 1930, she’d made in 45 movies in six years. By 1933, after struggles with men and mental illness, Clara Bow’s Hollywood career was over. There’s been a surge
A3 Artists Agency, a talent representation business whose majority owner Adam Bold was recently sued by his partners, will cease operations next week, multiple sources told Variety. The shop — which counts clients like Lorraine Bracco and Anthony Michael Hall, and represented late stars like Carl Weathers and Angus Cloud — will shut down at
Everything’s ready for the big game this Sunday: treats, poop bags, pee pads and all. No, not that game. The Puppy Bowl is back again for its 20th year, featuring sports’ most revered face-off between Team Ruff and Team Fluff. It takes a small village to pull off the match-up, with 120 crew members and
FX‘s John Landgraf is not sure the media ecosystem supports television shows that run beyond just a few seasons. “I think our attention spans have declined radically and I think our patience with things that are a little demanding have gone down,” Landgraf said during his annual executive session at the Television Critics Association winter
The graceful movements of 12-year-old Anthony Madu, a boy from Lagos, Nigeria, with a zeal for ballet, are inherently cinematic: arms stretched out to the sky, his body contorting like a determined feather fending off a gust of wind, just before he pirouettes with elegant agility that commands attention. At school, however, he faces constant
Ozzy Osbourne criticó a Kanye West por usar un sample de Black Sabbath en su nuevo álbum sin permiso, pero la esposa del rockero está aún más furiosa … Este es el asunto: Ozzy corrió a X el viernes para atacar a Ye por incluir un sample de una vieja canción de Black Sabbath en
Ozzy Osbourne slammed Kanye West for using a Black Sabbath sample on his new album without permission — but the rocker’s wife is even more furious … tearing him a new one. Here’s the deal … OO hopped on X Friday and absolutely torched Ye for featuring a sample of an old BS song on
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “One Day” now streaming on Netflix. Before auditioning for the latest adaptation of “One Day,” Leo Woodall watched its first iteration. In the 2011 film, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess starred as Emma and Dexter, a pair of best friends who reunite on the same day each year. The TV series
Peak TV has finally peaked. At FX‘s portion of the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Friday, chairman John Landgraf revealed his research team’s annual tally of adult original scripted series across U.S. broadcast, cable and streaming services. That number dropped to 516 in 2023, down 14% from a record 600 in 2022 — the
Fathers love football. Daughters love pop stars. This is one of the bedrock truths of the American family. How can these two disparate worlds be reconciled? Cetaphil is showing they can with a new commercial that draws on Taylor Swift’s frequent attendance at Kansas City Chiefs games in support of her boyfriend, tight end Travis
“The Bear” will return for its third season in June. The news was announced by FX chairman John Landgraf during the network’s presentation at the Television Critics Association’s winter 2023 press tour. Landgraf had little detail to share about the season, however — when asked if he could share whether the show would bring in
After seeing big viewership gains for “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video this past NFL season, Amazon is getting its hand on an extra bit of pigskin for the next one. Amazon’s Prime Video will have exclusive U.S. rights to one NFL playoff game in the 2024-25 season, Variety confirmed. The news was first reported
For most of her career, Camila Mendes has been known as Veronica Lodge. She portrayed the rich, confident high schooler on The CW’s “Riverdale” for six years, appearing in 136 of the 137 episodes before the series wrapped up last year. And now, she’s ready to put that behind her in order to show the
For renowned Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) multimedia artist Shelley Niro, the decision to film “Café Daughter” — a coming-of-ager about a Chinese Cree girl in 1960s Saskatchewan — in Northern Ontario was key to its success. Filmed in the streets, schools and businesses of Greater Sudbury in 2022, “Café Daughter” is based on a 2013 work by
Check out the new teaser for ‘Inside Out 2’! Let us know how excited you are. #shorts
Play video content Instagram /@judgegregmathis Katt Williams and Mo’Nique‘s sharing their “truth” on “Club Shay Shay” was the worst possible move for the Black community … at least in Judge Mathis‘ eyes. The man has been paid to have an honest gauge on uneasy situations — legal, ethical and otherwise — and according to Hizzoner,
Ozzy Osbourne has called out Kanye West for sampling a live version of “War Pigs” without permission, describing him an ” an antisemite and has caused untold heartache to many.” Osbourne apparently denied West’s request to feature a section of the Black Sabbath song on the rapper’s new album, but West “went ahead and used
Toronto-based Cream Prods. (“The Haunted Museum,” “Eli Roth Presents: My Possessed Pet”) formed an in-house sustainability team in 2021 and set out to green its production pipeline from top to bottom. It started by signing up for the Albert Calculator, an online toolkit that determines a production’s carbon footprint, then formulates a reduction plan. “We
In what is apparently the conclusion of a deal that Variety tipped a year ago, Sony Music Group has completed a transaction to acquire half of Michael Jackson’s publishing and recorded masters in a transaction that values the total catalog at around $1.2 billion, and possibly more, sources confirm to Variety. Billboard reports that Sony
Is politics a major buzzkill? Instagram execs seem to think so. In a blog post Friday, Instagram, the popular photo and video app owned by Meta, said it will no longer “proactively recommend” political content from accounts that users do not already follow. The same policy applies to Threads, the Twitter-copycat app launched last summer
Actor Josh Brolin and cinematographer Greig Fraser have documented the shooting of “Dune: Part One” and “Dune: Part Two” in a new coffee table book titled “Dune: Exposures.” Out Feb. 13, the book is published by Insight Editions and features rare on-set moments with the cast and crew. Brolin, who plays Warmaster Gurney Halleck in
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