Benedict Cumberbatch and Elisabeth Moss will star in Jane Campion’s new film, “The Power of the Dog,” an adaptation of the Thomas Savage novel. Campion will direct from a script she adapted, with See-Saw Films’ in-house sales arm, Cross City Films, launching sales at this month’s Cannes Film Festival. The movie will go into pre-production
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May 6, 2019 11:19AM PT Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has struck a deal to buy four small-market TV stations from Bayou City Broadcasting for $165 million. Entertainment Studios announced the Bayou City deal on the heels of Friday’s news that Allen has joined with Sinclair Broadcast Group in the $10.6 billion acquisition of 21 regional
In their conversation Sunday night at a private Netflix event honoring “Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese spent close to a third of the 45-minute chat discussing their mutual roots in east coast Catholicism and how they’ve both come to terms with a kind of faith. “I think as you get older, what
Clive Barker’s 1987 horror movie “Hellriaser” is getting the revival treatment at Gary Barber’s Spyglass Media Group. “The Dark Knight” writer David S. Goyer is on board to produce and pen the script. Spyglass will finance, develop, and fast track the film for worldwide theatrical distribution. This marks the first project since the company announced
Whether they’re fighting to keep their family together or fighting to hold on to their youth, there has been no shortage of memorable mother-daughter moments in film. This Mother’s Day, we’re taking cues from some of our favorite movie moms to find gifts that even the most discerning of them would approve of. From new
May 6, 2019 10:47AM PT Sony Pictures Animation has named Alison Mann as a VP of creative and strategy, Variety has learned exclusively. Mann joins the Culver City studio from Illumination Entertainment, in a newly created role. She will report directly to Sony Pictures Animation president Kristine Belson She will advise on film and series-based
Although an interested buyer continues to circle the troubled direct-to-fan music marketplace PledgeMusic, the company is in pre-administration — the U.K. equivalent of pre-bankruptcy — sources close to the situation confirms to Variety. While the source notes that the company is not yet in administration, it is likely if a buyer does not emerge by
If there’s one takeaway for the hundreds of ASCAP Expo attendees who sat for a Saturday afternoon panel featuring Ariana Grande’s “songwriting dream team” of Tommy Brown, Victoria Monet and Social House, it’s that the craft of making hits takes time, tenacity and sacrifice. In the case of Social House member Mikey Foster, he recently
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, “Veep” airs its final episode on HBO, and “Empire” season 3 comes to
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu has signed a significant four-year overall deal with Disney’s 20th TV, Variety has learned. Under the new deal, which represents his first overall in television, Chu will develop and executive produce projects – some of which he will direct – as well as potentially direct existing projects. Chu’s deal is
CBS is doing all it can to make sure the “Star Trek” franchise lives long and prospers. The network has announced it is launching a “Star Trek” global franchise group that will “manage and maximize the expansion of the brand beyond the traditional boundaries of linear broadcasting and streaming,” with the goal of broadening the “Star Trek”
May 6, 2019 9:30AM PT Amandla Stenberg has been cast as the lead in Damien Chazelle’s Netflix series “The Eddy,” which will globally debut in 2020. The eight-part musical drama is expected to debut in 2020. It revolves around a club in Paris, highlighting its owner, the house band, and the chaotic city that surrounds
Colin Cowherd Yo, Baker Mayfield … Let’s Just Be Friends! 5/6/2019 9:26 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE FS1 star Colin Cowherd desperately wants Baker Mayfield to know he doesn’t hate him … telling TMZ Sports, “Baker thinks I don’t like him. I love Baker.” Of course, the two have had a rocky relationship over the past few
Emmy: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the awards campaign trail, and CBS All Access will seek out new voters this month at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. The streamer and CBS Television Studios have launched a new “For Your Consideration” exhibit at the Paley Center for “Star Trek: Discovery,”
Aloha, Paul Rudd! The “Avengers: Endgame” star will receive the Nova Award at the 2019 Maui Film Festival. “With empathy, compassion, grace, kindheartedness and, as we’ve all enjoyed so many times, a perfect sense of comedic timing, Rudd breathes life into characters in blockbusters and picture-perfect indie films that delight us,” festival director and founder
In the end, it wasn’t meant to be. Microsoft had pulled out all the stops for its Build 2019 developer conference keynote Monday morning. The company had partnered with Epic Games and Industrial Light & Magic chief creative officer John Knoll for a hugely ambitious demo of its Hololens 2 headset that aimed to recreate
Grammy winner Janelle Monae will contribute new music to the Disney Plus streaming title “Lady and the Tramp,” in addition to her voice role in the live-action reboot. Monae will perform two original songs for the film, led by Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux. Monae’s artist collective Wondaland is also “reinventing” a track from the
May 6, 2019 7:57AM PT Call her the Mother of Lattes? HBO’s “Game of Thrones” episode 4 season 8 included a scene in which a takeout coffee cup — possibly from Starbucks — is clearly visible on a table in front of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) at around the 17:40 mark. The anachronism was spotted
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame.”] Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is still reeling from the events of “Avengers: Endgame” in the latest trailer for Sony’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” “Everywhere I go, I see his face,” Parker says of Tony Stark, who died at the end of the last Marvel installment. “I just
May 6, 2019 7:44AM PT E! has pulled the plug on “Busy Tonight,” the late-night talk show hosted by actor Busy Philipps, after seven months. “Busy Tonight” bowed Oct. 28 and airedSunday through Wednesday in the 10 p.m. slot before moving in January to a Monday-Thursday 11 p.m. rotation. The half-hour series blended celebrity interviews
May 6, 2019 7:00AM PT Topic Studios has hired veteran HBO executive Maria Zuckerman as executive vice president to lead overall strategy including development, financing and production of films, documentaries, TV, podcasts and digital programming. Zuckerman worked for nearly 20 years at HBO, where she most recently served as senior VP of HBO Films. She
May 6, 2019 6:57AM PT The last vestiges of Amazon’s vision of giving anyone in the world a chance to break into the Hollywood big time are getting mothballed next month. As of June 30, 2019, Amazon’s free, web-based tools for scriptwriters — Storywriter and Storybuilder — will no longer be available, according to a
Except for a small sliver of humanity, “Other Music” — a film about a late, legendary, left-of-center New York record store and the community around it — is not a date-night movie. In fact, the documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, is almost a meta version of its subject, in that it’s proudly
Following the June 14 release of her “Madame X” album, Madonna, Live Nation and Maverick have announced a series of “rare and intimate performances” to take place exclusively in theaters. The “Madame X” tour will kick off September 12th at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York and will feature multiple nights of shows in each city
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Whether it’s two-part harmony or a 100-member orchestra, some of the greatest music happens when people come together. Policymaking works the same way. Last year, music and tech came together to support the Music Modernization Act (MMA) – a powerful new law that guarantees fair pay for legacy artists on digital radio, boosts royalties for
Olivia Jade Living Her Best Life Her Parents? Not So Much! 5/6/2019 6:56 AM PDT Olivia Jade‘s a walking testament to what Sunday Funday looks like … never mind her parents are engulfed in the biggest college admissions scam in American history. We got Lori Loughlin‘s youngest daughter out Sunday in L.A. where she was dressed
The “Free Britney!” cause can now claim a celebrity adherent. Miley Cyrus yelled out the slogan in Memphis while performing her decade-old hit “Party in the U.S.A.,” during the section that originally had Cyrus repeating the refrain, “And a Britney song was on…” It wasn’t immediately clear whether Cyrus was taking up the hashtag in
May 6, 2019 4:58AM PT The European Union will open a preliminary investigation into Apple following Spotify’s antitrust complaint, according to a report published in the Financial Times. In its complaint filed to the European Commission in March, Spotify, which ranks as the the market leader in music streaming, said Apple was “tilting the playing
Australia’s SBS is to launch a free-to-air movie channel dedicated to international cinema. SBS World Movies will begin operating from July 1, 2019. SBS or Special Broadcasting Service is a public private partnership operating as a TV, radio and online broadcaster. SBS World Movies describes itself as “a celebration of the diversity of global cinema.”