Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, the Creator, Luke Combs and Hozier are the headliners for the 2025 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, taking place June 12-15 on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, Tenn. Other top-billed artists include Vampire Weekend, Justice, Queens of the Stone Age, John Summit, Dom Dolla, Avril
Month: January 2025
Golf media personality and content creator Tisha Alyn will launch her first podcast, “Welcome to the Par-Tee,” with iHeartPodcasts on Jan. 15. “Welcome to the Par-Tee” will be the first women’s golf-focused podcast to join iHeart Women’s Sports, the first-ever audio platform dedicated exclusively to amplifying women’s sports. The podcast will feature interviews with top
Play video content Getty Ryan Reynolds has resurfaced for the first time since getting caught up in all the legal drama involving his wife, Blake Lively, and Justin Baldoni. The actor showed up Tuesday night at the National Board of Review Awards in NYC to introduce the wildly popular “Wicked,” which was picked for best
Tim Allen and Kat Dennings are both network sitcom royalty — he from “Home Improvement,” she from the surprisingly long-lasting “2 Broke Girls.” (It’s hardly a classic, but that show made it to 138 episodes. That’s well within the syndication zone!) With the sitcom “Shifting Gears,” a midseason debut that brings Allen back into the
NBCUniversal and Nexstar Media have renewed their ongoing distribution deal across NBC affiliate TV stations. The companies announced the renewal Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new pact is a multi-year agreement across NBC TV Network affiliates in 33 markets in the U.S., including 29 stations owned by Nexstar, three owned
It’s fair to say that the curiosity of more than a few people was piqued by Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Elvis Presley’s career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Austin Butler-starring biopic “Elvis.” He’s become the archetype for the svengali music manager, although he was neither a colonel nor named Parker but was actually a
Audible has signed Ronan Farrow, the award-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author, to a multi-project deal. Farrow’s first podcast under the pact is slated to premiere this spring. Farrow hosts “Not a Very Good Murderer,” which is described as “a wild, genre-bending investigative podcast.” It will release March 20, 2025, exclusively on Audible as the
Regent Street, one of central London‘s busiest shopping districts and also home to a number of arts and media companies, has been evacuated due to a suspected bomb. The evacuation took place around 2pm local time. “Road closures are in place in the vicinity of Regent Street and New Burlington Street while officers investigate a
Gold House has unveiled its fifth annual Gold List with “Wicked” and “Moana 2” among the films being honored. The list spotlights the most exceptional achievements in film by Asian Pacific creatives over the past year. It also serves as a guide for awards voters and celebrates a monumental year for Asian Pacific representation in
“Mo” has revealed a new set of guest stars along with its Season 2 trailer. Comedians Hannibal Burress, Matt Rife, Liza Koshy and Ralph Barbosa plus rapper Slim Thug are all a part of the Season 2 guest cast, joining previously announced guest stars Simon Rex and Johanna Braddy. The trailer opens with Mo (series
With Oscar voting starting today, double Oscar-winner Jane Campion is championing young Italian director Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” Italy’s contender in the international film category. The intimate period drama, set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters, has
Priyanka Chopra Jonas has boarded the short film “Anuja” as executive producer. The film, which won the live-action short award at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Academy Awards in the live-action short film category. Directed by Adam J. Graves and produced by Suchitra Mattai, “Anuja” centers on the 9-year-old
BOND’S BOUNTY The London Critics’ Circle will present Daniel Craig with its Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the org’s 45th annual ceremony, set for Feb. 2 at London’s May Fair Hotel. “This is such an immense honor and I’m incredibly grateful to the London Film Critics’ Circle,” Craig said. Critics’ Circle Film
Piers Morgan is exiting Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire following a lucrative three-year deal and taking ownership of his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” show and business. The chat show — which pivoted to YouTube-only earlier this year — will be acquired by Morgan’s own Wake Up Productions company, with what it says is a “view to further grow and
Prominent Italian journalist and podcaster Cecilia Sala has been freed from Tehran’s Evin prison for political prisoners, where she had been detained since Dec. 19. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Italian Premiere Giorgia Meloni’s office said Sala – who was arrested while reporting in the Iranian capital – was flying home on an airplane following “intensive
The European Film Awards is set to make its debut in Southwestern Europe in January 2027, when its 39th edition will be hosted in Athens. The award show, which were first presented in Berlin in 1988 to promote and support the European film industry, previously took place in London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Tallinn, Malta,
The global box office wrapped up 2024 with a bang, hitting an impressive $30 billion for the year, fueled by a sparkling $3 billion in December alone, according to U.K.-based film industry research firm Gower Street Analytics. December proved to be a blockbuster month, with the combined international (excluding China) and North American markets raking
“F1,” the new Formula 1 racing movie starring starring Brad Pitt, is the latest high-profile production to have shot in Abu Dhabi where cameras rolled during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last December. The hotly anticipated Apple Original film which, besides Pitt, stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia
Due to the devastating fires raging in the Los Angeles area, the Screen Actors Guild has canceled the 31st annual live SAG Awards nominations announcement at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Instead, the nominations will be unveiled on Jan. 8 at 7:30 PT via a press release. “In an abundance of
Taylor Kitsch is ready to return for the “Friday Night Lights” reboot. Well, sort of. While discussing the reboot of the hit NBC drama on Sirius XM’s “The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw” (via ET), series star Kitsch said he’s “been asked” to come back for it. And although he remains open to returning to the
Indian cinema heavyweight Yash marked his 39th birthday with the release of a first-look video from his upcoming feature “Toxic – A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups,” his first project since the blockbuster “K.G.F” franchise. The footage presents Yash in a white suit and fedora, cigar in hand, as he moves through an upscale nightclub setting.
“Police Academy” star Steve Guttenberg is doing his part to help evacuees escape the 1200-acre inferno ravaging the Pacific Palisades. While moving abandoned cars on Palisades Drive, Guttenberg approached a KTLA reporter to share an announcement about clearing the roadway for first responders and escaping citizens. “Here on Palisades Drive, if anybody has a car,
The Asia-Pacific video industry is poised for significant expansion, with online platforms driving revenue growth while traditional TV faces headwinds, according to a new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). The research firm projects $16.2 billion in incremental revenue across 14 APAC markets between 2024 and 2029. While online video is expected to generate $24.1
An attorney urged jurors on Tuesday to “send a message to the mainstream media” by finding that CNN defamed a security contractor in a 2021 report about Afghan refugees. Zachary Young is suing the network in Panama City, Fla., alleging that he was falsely portrayed as engaging in an illicit “black market” in the wake
LAS VEGAS — Delta is ramping up content-related offerings on its flights as the nation’s dominant air carrier banks on exclusive YouTube access, better WiFi and AI-powered convenience to court frequent fliers from the entertainment industry. Delta has set a deal with YouTube to make the ad-free YouTube Premium and YouTube Music services available free
DC Studios co-chief James Gunn stirred up buzz among comic book movie fans when he recently said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that he’s “contemplated” bringing Robert Pattinson‘s Batman into the new DC Universe. Pattinson debuted as the Dark Knight in 2022’s “The Batman.” Gunn’s DC Universe kicked off last month with the animated
If you think Nicole Kidman is playing the title role in “Babygirl,” the Oscar-winning actress wants a word with you. It’s just a few days before Christmas and I am talking to Kidman over Zoom for the first “Just for Variety” episode of 2025. Written and directed by Halina Reijn, the erotic thriller stars Kidman
At the Golden Globes red carpet, Mindy Kaling responded to the backlash against Meghan Markle ahead of the release of her Netflix cooking show “With Love, Meghan” on Jan. 15. Since marrying into the royal family in 2018, Markle has been no stranger to online trolling, especially racist remarks about her being biracial. After the
One of the chief pleasures of James Mangold’s acclaimed new Bob Dylan film biography “A Complete Unknown” comes from the assistance it provides to old-timers often trying, usually failing, to explain why the cultural landscape shift from folk to rock back in 1965 was such a big deal. In “Unknown,” of course, it’s a very
After Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Hollywood has officially entered the “playoff” stage of Oscar season. With over two dozen films vying for nominations across all Academy Award categories, the next week is make-or-break for awards campaigns. AMPAS members will begin voting on the nominations on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 9 a.m. PT. Studios are pulling
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