March 5, 2019 9:00AM PT Hot off their Indie Spirit Award win for best feature for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Annapurna and Plan B have set their next film project with an adaptation of Alex Michaelides’ best-selling novel “The Silent Patient.” As part of their three-year production pact, the companies have optioned the rights
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Adan Canto has been cast in a lead role in the ABC drama pilot “The Hypnotist’s Love Story,” Variety has learned. In the show, after a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend (Canto). But then he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend (Graham) has been following him for
Winter has definitely come, and it looks icy. HBO has released the first trailer for the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones,” teasing the epic final battle every fan of the show has been waiting for. The new footage opens with Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) running for her life. “I know death, he’s
March 5, 2019 8:05AM PT K-pop group Tomorrow X Together — the newest addition to Seoul-based Big Hit Entertainment, home of global pop sensations BTS — have signed a distribution deal with Republic Records, the company announced today. The quintet, comprised of Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun and Hueningkai and ranging in age from 16 to
One of the first things Vincent Sadusky did after taking the reins of Univision Communications as CEO last June was to shift the company’s headquarters from New York to Miami. Under previous CEO Randy Falco, the locus of power at the company had been in New York. But Sadusky felt it was important to be
In Adnan Syed’s ongoing legal struggle, our culture seems to have stumbled on a successor to the O.J. Simpson saga — a “trial of the century” for the age of micro-fame. Born and raised in Baltimore, Syed was a teenager when he was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee; his story provided grist
Nick Bell, just months after leaving Snap as VP of content, has landed at startup-studio incubator firm Human Ventures where he’s focused on “attention economy” digital-content startups and will lead its new L.A. office. In addition, working alongside Bell as co-managing director, Human Ventures has hired Ashlyn Gentry, formerly SVP of commercial growth and strategy
There’s a lot of fear in the offices that comprise Rupert Murdoch’s and Bob Iger’s media empires. By the middle of March, the majority of the staff at 21st Century Fox will be working under new owners. Many are already staring at an uncertain future, one that will likely include brutal rounds of layoffs. The
What’s your four-legged friend really thinking? Universal Pictures teamed with Snapchat on a unique promo for Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming “The Secret Life of Pets 2” to let Snapchatters get an earful from their furry companions. The studio’s campaign, which launches Tuesday (March 5) on Snapchat, marks the first time Snap has sold a sponsorship for the
AT&T’s plans to reorganize WarnerMedia had been expected for months. But the telecom parent’s aggressive moves to shake up the media giant’s senior management ranks and begin consolidating key divisions have left company executives reeling and bracing for further turmoil. The sudden forced departures of two veterans — HBO chief executive Richard Plepler and Turner
Three major radio stations in Montreal have pulled Michael Jackson’s music from airplay in the wake of the blockbuster HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” in which two men accuse the late singer of sexually abusing them when they were children. The news was first reported in The Canadian Press. “We are attentive to the comments of
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By any measure, Kathy Griffin’s comedy tour last year was a big hit. She traveled to 15 countries and played regal venues (such as the Sydney Opera House) as she dished about the devastating fallout from a 2017 photograph in which she posed with a gory mask that looked like Donald Trump’s decapitated head. The
March 5, 2019 6:53AM PT Amazon Prime Video’s India service launched action-thriller original series “The End” in Mumbai on Tuesday. The series marks the streaming debut of bankable Bollywood star Akshay Kumar (“2.0”). Abundantia Entertainment, one of the producers of Kumar’s 2017 hit “Toilet – Ek Prem Katha,” will produce for Amazon, the second time
MADRID — Upcoming trans-Atlantic dark comedy “Villa Santa” will pitch at this year’s first edition of the FICG TV Pitchbox at the Guadalajara Intl Film Festival, a pitching and networking event hosted by Spain’s Filmarket Hub where promising TV projects can seek out co-producers, distribution or sales. “Villa Santa” was created and is lead-written by
Two members of Duran Duran will pay tribute to one of their greatest influences when Simon Le Bon and John Taylor induct Roxy Music into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ceremony on March 29. “I remember seeing them on television, and they were just like nothing we’d ever seen before, were
March 5, 2019 6:00AM PT Amazon’s Alexa assistant can now be used to control Roku TVs and Roku streaming devices: Roku launched an official Alexa skill for its streamers Tuesday, making it possible to control video playback and more with the help of Amazon’s Echo speakers. The new voice control feature comes after Roku first
Television historians may well remember 2013 as the year that everything changed — and that goes for the Emmy Awards as well. That year, Netflix’s “House of Cards” won three trophies, including one for director David Fincher, making it the first streaming series to win an Emmy. The dam had broken. Netflix earned 14 nominations
In “Captain Marvel,” Brie Larson radiates an ability that too many comic-book heroes never get the chance to show: the superpower of expression. She plays a Kree warrior, known as Vers (pronounced verse), who has been trained in the familiar comic-book-movie art of kicking cosmic butt (she specializes in leaping and flying martial-arts moves and
March 5, 2019 5:06AM PT Saban Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Danny A. Abeckaser’s “Mob Town,” a drama with “Scream” star David Arquette. The film follows local trooper Ed Croswell (Arquette) as he foils a mafia summit in the rural town of Apalachin, New York and exposes the mob’s brutal tactics to the
Getty Images Karl Lagerfeld famously said many things, and one of them was that he did not like funerals. “I do not want anyone to come to mine. Do what you want with the ashes,” he told Vanessa Gregoriadis in a 2002 profile in New York. “Send them down the garbage chute.” If guests at
Audible has released the cover art for “Heads Will Roll,” the audiobook giant’s first foray into comedy originals. Set to launch May 2nd, the absurdist 10-episode medieval series comes from the minds of “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kate McKinnon and her sister Emily Lynne, who both star. McKinnon plays the evil Queen Mortuana of
March 5, 2019 5:00AM PT Samsung Electronics and Epic Games have announced the release of a new K-Pop infused outfit and emote to “Fornite,” based on the coveted iKONIK outfit and Scenario emote that is inspired by Jung Chanwoo from the K-Pop band iKON. The outfit and emote will be available in “Fortnite” this Friday,
The gradual death of celluloid is wistfully mourned in the cine-manic thriller “The Projectionist,” and that’s before it takes on an altogether darker metaphoric resonance — as both physical and psychological projections are spliced in the mind of a lonely traveling cinema manager. The latest feature from prolific young Dominican writer-director José María Cabral —
Comedy Central has tasked comics from around the globe with solving major global issues with new versions of its shortform series “Comedians Solve World Problems” underway in the U.S. and elsewhere. The original version of the show was made by Comedy Central International for the U.K. and is now being taken into Asia and the
March 5, 2019 2:12AM PT Greenacre Films, the producer behind Netflix original film “Been So Long,” has inked a first-look deal with Banijay. The U.K. indie has several projects in development with British broadcasters and wants to break into the U.S. scripted market. Under the terms of its first-look deal with Banijay, the company’s distribution
March 5, 2019 12:04AM PT India’s leading OTT platform, the Fox- and Star-owned Hotstar will launch its recently announced original programming slate, branded Hotstar Specials. It has commissioned four shows produced by Applause Entertainment, the content arm of the $43 billion Aditya Birla conglomerate. “Criminal Justice”, the BAFTA winning British series, the first season of
Once considered as a Japanese industry outsider, Hirokazu Kore-eda has thoroughly conquered that insider bastion, the Japan Academy Prizes, scooping eight trophies for his dark family drama “Shoplifters” at the 42nd annual award ceremony on March 1. Among them were best picture and best director honors – with the latter Kore-eda’s second in a row.
Sean Gunn, brother to “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn, confirmed at Monday’s “Captain Marvel” premiere that the third movie is a go. “I don’t know exactly how that’s all gonna work,” he told Variety‘s Marc Malkin when asked whether the film could work without his brother at the helm, “but I feel like
Five years before Luke Perry joined the class of “90210,” the young actor had another school-themed role: he was a jean-jacket clad, MTV-shirt wearing extra in the video for Twisted Sister’s 1985 single “Be Chrool to Your Scuel.” The song was from 1985’s “Come Out and Play” album, the less-successful followup to the 1984 album