September 26, 2018 12:14PM PT The tune is the title track from her first album in eight years, due Oct. 26. Months after she played a snippet of the song at her Red Bull Music Academy talk — and eight years since the release of her last studio album — pop savant Robyn has finally
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At first blush, “God Friended Me” is an easy target for mockery. Its title promises something wacky and miraculous, with a bonus social- media tie-in for relevance. In actuality, the new CBS drama is almost too earnest to ridicule, wrapping its absurd premise with the kind of moralistic sincerity that has fueled broadcast network dramas
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to “The Female Persuasion,” an acclaimed best-seller by Meg Wolitzer. The movie will be produced by Lynda Obst (“Contact”), Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, and Per Saari (“Big Little Lies”). Blossom Films, Kidman’s production company, recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon — this film will be a part of
September 26, 2018 12:01PM PT Susan Johnson, noted indie filmmaker and director of the Netflix social media sensation “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” has signed with CAA and Management 360. Based on Jenny Han’s New York Times bestseller of the same name, “To All the Boys” was one of several romantic comedies to
G-Star Raw x Jaden Smith After announcing its “Most Sustainable Jeans Ever” (produced using 75 percent less water) last February, G-Star Raw is bringing star power to their fabrication. The denim featured in Jaden Smith’s new Forces of Nature capsule collection is Cradle to Cradle Gold Level Certified, meaning it was rigorously vetted for best
September 26, 2018 11:28AM PT [embedded content] Lucasfilm’s immersive R&D unit ILMxLab is getting ready to embrace Facebook’s new Oculus Quest VR headset: “Vader Immortal,” a new 3-part VR series, is going to debut as a launch title when Oculus Quest becomes commercially available next year, ILMxLab’s executive in charge Vicki Dobbs Beck announced at
September 26, 2018 11:20AM PT Look out Saskatoon! The real “Rocket Man” is coming … Unstoppable showman Elton John has added 25 more dates to his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour, taking him nearly to the end of 2019. He’s added multiple dates in Las Vegas, Philadelphia and several Canadian cities, among other stops (the
September 26, 2018 11:00AM PT LaMonica Garrett has been cast in this year’s “Arrowverse” crossover event, which is being dubbed “Elseworlds.” Garrett will play Mar Novu aka The Monitor, who is an “extraterrestrial being of infinite power” and was originally created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez for DC Comics. Perez will also illustrate a
Gaumont’s animated comedy “Bionic Max” has been greenlit by France’s Gulli, the kids entertainment channel owned by Lagardere. Created by Gaumont’s Thomas Digard and Manu Klotz, “Bionic Max” is a buddy comedy between two very different but lovable friends: Max, the first and only prototype for a bionic guinea pig born in a laboratory, and
September 26, 2018 10:59AM PT Facebook’s Oculus Go VR headset is getting access to more than 800,000 360-degree videos, thanks to a new partnership with Google’s YouTube service. The service’s YouTube VR will launch on the headset soon, announced Oculus Go product manager Sean Liu at Facebook’s Oculus Connect VR developer conference in San Jose,
September 26, 2018 10:31AM PT CBS is preparing to build a large-scale television and film production facility outside Toronto, reflecting the high volume of shows that CBS Television Studios shoots north of the border. CBS said Wednesday it has secured a long-term lease on a 260,000 square-foot space in Mississauga, which is 18 miles from downtown Toronto.
CollegeHumor, the IAC-owned comedy website that’s been around since 1999, was running into roadblocks in pushing the creative envelope. First, YouTube and Facebook have increasingly been cracking down on advertiser-inappropriate content, penalizing CollegeHumor’s edgier material by demonetizing or curtailing it — even some of its political comedy has been penalized by the tech platforms, said
Fox has committed perhaps the most baffling bummer of the fall with “The Cool Kids,” a series whose presence on the schedule may be evidence of their desire to stay in business with executive producer Charlie Day (FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) or of their perennial desire to “shock” through the dullest sort of
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his keynote at the company’s Oculus Connect VR developer conference in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday to announce the next major product coming out of the company’s VR subsidiary: Oculus Quest, which was previously known as Project Santa Cruz, will ship next spring for $399. Oculus Quest is a standalone VR headset, meaning
September 26, 2018 10:05AM PT Cardi B will make her first televised awards show performance since the birth of her child when she takes the stage at the 2018 American Music Awards. She will be joined by Latin artists Bad Bunny and J Balvin to sing her latest hit, “I Like It.” As previously announced, Benny Blanco,
When “Vikings” premiered on History in 2013, audiences were pretty sure they knew what they’d be tuning in to — a lot of red-bearded men in horned helmets doing battle. But by now, just weeks away from the bow of the second half of Season 5, which starts Nov. 28 (a year after the first
Frank Pugliese has signed on as the showrunner for TNT’s “The Angel of Darkness,” the sequel series to the cabler’s acclaimed limited series “The Alienist.” Pugliese most recently served as the co-showrunner on Netflix’s “House of Cards” alongside Melissa James Gibson. His other television credits include “Night of the Living Dead,” “Homicide,” “Love and Blood,” “Fallen
Jake McDorman was only two years old when “Murphy Brown” premiered on CBS in 1988, so he did not feel a personal sense of nostalgia when auditioning for the revival. But the cultural relevance of the show, which bridged politics and humor, seemed to resonate so much today that the “Lady Bird” and “American Sniper”
September 26, 2018 10:00AM PT J.K. Simmons, Sienna Miller and Taylor Kitsch have joined Chadwick Boseman’s action-thriller “17 Bridges” for STXfilms. The mini-major announced in July that “Black Panther” star Boseman would produce and star in “17 Bridges.” Brian Kirk, whose credits include “Luther” and “Game of Thrones,” is directing from a script by Adam Mervis
When writer-director David Lowery (“A Ghost Story,” “Pete’s Dragon”) set out to make his new film “The Old Man & the Gun,” a true-crime story starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, he quickly chose Fort Worth, Texas, as a primary location. Redford plays real-life professional criminal Forrest Tucker, who claimed to have successfully escaped from
Check out the official Creed II Trailer starring Michael B. Jordan! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Creed II: https://www.fandango.com/creed-ii-212475/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: November 21, 2018 Starring: Tessa Thompson, Sylvester Stallone, Michael B. Jordan Directed By: Steven Caple Jr. Synopsis: Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly
For a show that’s centered around a world-renowned and hugely accomplished journalist, “Murphy Brown” knows less than it ever did about how the media works. That’s the first mark against the rebooted “Murphy,” which returns to the air 20 years after its initial 10-season run concluded. Then, Brown (five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen) was host
Don’t come to “Alpha, The Right to Kill,” the latest rough-hewn slab of social realism from Filipino auteur Brillante Ma Mendoza, in search of revelations, either in form or content. A rumbling, street-pounding drug-war thriller, it’s far from the first film to paint cops and dealers on this beat as equally bent; a Mendoza joint
WASHINGTON — A third woman has come forward with sexual misconduct claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, contending that he and friend Mark Judge were present at high-school parties where girls were drugged and gang raped. The accuser, Julie Swetnick, made the claims in an affidavit that was posted online by attorney Michael Avenatti.
Ron Livingston is having a moment. The actor known for such films as “Office Space,” and TV series as “Sex and the City,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “Search Party,” is starring in three high-profile small-screen projects this fall: “A Million Little Things,” which bows Sept. 26 on ABC; the second season of “Loudermilk,” which hits Oct.
September 26, 2018 8:41AM PT AMC’s subscription service continues to add customers. The theater chain’s “Moviepass killer” now has 380,000 members, which the exhibitor claims outpaces its internal expectations. AMC has dubbed the program A-List. The servce lets users see up to three movies per week for $19.95 a month. A-List also lets members reserve
The Season 3 premiere of “This Is Us” on NBC handily topped the Tuesday overnight ratings in the key demo, but still saw double digit declines from last season’s premiere. Airing at 9 p.m., “This Is Us” averaged a 2.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 10.3 million viewers. That is down approximately 26% in the
September 26, 2018 8:28AM PT And now from the people who brought you the venerable Fox News Channel slogan “We Report. You Decide,” a new motto: “Opinion Done Right.” Fox News Channel will use that tagline for its new streaming-video subscription-based Fox Nation service, slated to launch in the fourth quarter of the year. The
September 26, 2018 7:42AM PT Warning: Downloading “Game of Thrones” on illegal piracy networks could potentially open the door for cybercriminals to hijack your computer. Piggybacking on pirated content is a tactic long employed by the internet’s underworld. But hackers are increasingly are turning to pirated episodes of popular TV shows as a vehicle to
21st Century Fox will offload its longtime 39% stake in Sky to Comcast for more than $15 billion, after the U.S. cable giant lodged the highest bid in a weekend auction of the European pay-TV heavyweight. Fox said Wednesday it would accept the £17.28-per-share offer Comcast made in the auction, which clears the way for Comcast