NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the active rape allegation against rapper Jay-Z won’t impact the league’s relationship with Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by rapper. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs. During a press conference in Irving, Texas on
Jim Carrey was recently asked by ComicBook.com if there was one character from his beloved movie career that he’d love the opportunity to play again. His answer? The Grinch, but only if he did it via motion capture. The comedian is not interested in being in the makeup chair for hours undergoing an “excruciating” transformation.
David Letterman said in an interview with GQ magazine that “retirement is nonsense.” The 77-year-old television icon spent 33 years hosting late-night television shows, starting with the 1982 debut of “Late Night” on NBC and continuing with CBS’ “The Late Show” from 1993 to 2015. He now hosts his own Netflix talk series, “My Next
David Letterman has launched “Letterman TV”, an 24/7 channel streaming all things Letterman, exclusively on Samsung TV Plus. Starting today in the United States and Canada, the channel will stream “The Late Show With David Letterman”, curated moments, interviews and never-before-seen commentary from Letterman. “Dave’s show was the original viral video,” said Walter Kim, Executive
Paramount Global is undergoing additional restructuring leading up to its expected merger with Skydance Media in 2025. The media conglomerate is integrating the group that handles distribution for the Paramount+ and Pluto TV streaming services with its U.S. TV networks distribution teams to “create one unified distribution team that is optimized for growth across our
After years of protracted legal turmoil in the Ramones estate, the future of Netflix‘s film adaptation of Mickey Leigh’s memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” with Pete Davidson attached to star could be in doubt, due to a new arbitration that also saw a director of the groundbreaking punk-rock group’s parent company removed. The decision
Rumors are swirling ahead of the 2024 Game Awards Thursday — but they’re not about who will take home the show’s prizes. Instead, most of the buzz ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Geoff Keighley-hosted event, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, is surrounding what big
“Wicked” choreographer Christopher Scott used to escape to the movies as a kid. When his family moved from Maryland to Los Angeles, Scott would head to the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to work out his angst. “I’d take my ticket stub, and they would let me back in, so I paid once, but I saw
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“I’ll sing when I’m ready to sing.” That’s a line from Pablo Larrain’s “Maria,” now streaming on Netflix, based on the final days of opera superstar Maria Callas. The film is peppered with flashbacks of arias by Verdi and Puccini when Callas was at the height of her success. And was Angelina Jolie, who portrays
Apple Original Films has scooped up “All Of You,” a slightly sci-fi, bittersweet romance from star and co-writer Brett Goldstein. The “Ted Lasso” alum shared scriptwriting duties with the film’s director William Bridges (“Black Mirror”) and co-stars with Imogen Poots (“The Father,” “Vivarium”). The project premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and went on
UPDATE: “The Brutalist” is coming to Imax. Tickets for early-access screenings in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 18 are available for purchase. The film will then expand to Imax screens across the U.S. throughout January. PREVIOUSLY: A24 has announced the first 70mm screenings of “The Brutalist,” which launches in the specialty format on
1 Silvia Tcherassi Ozara Dress For the black-tie gala you’ve been looking forward to, an off-the-shoulder dress that hugs all the right places always does the trick. Dress it up with major jewels and a sky-high stiletto. 2 Giuseppe Zanotti Intriigo Claire 105 An ultra-pointed toe and lace-up silhouette help this sandal scream “glam.” If
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. In retrospect, it read like a last hurrah. Under Paris’s Pont Alexandre III this past January, models play-acted as 19th-century roués, French cabaret singer Lucky Love performed live with a gospel choir, Gwendoline Christie strutted in a latex corset, and everyone
The “Friday Night Lights” reboot series has landed at Peacock in a highly competitive situation, Variety has confirmed. The series is now in development at the NBCUniversal streaming service. It was reported in November that a new version of the series was in the works, but it was not set up at a streaming service
When you build a film around an action star (Jason Statham, say), he’ll do a lot of things that only happen in the movies: lay waste to five goons with his bare hands in two minutes, drive vehicles at dizzying speeds down the ancient staircases of a European metropolis, leap from balconies and hang from
Having conquered Bollywood before moving to Hollywood in the mid-2010s, Priyanka Chopra Jonas now has her sights on new challenges. In October 2024, she hired veteran producer Anne Carey as president of film and TV of her shingle, Purple Pebble Pictures. Attending the Red Sea Film Festival for a special tribute – which will be
“Tangled” is the latest Disney movie to get the live-action treatment. The studio is developing a reimagining of the 2010 animated movie, a musical take on the Brothers Grimm story about the magically long-haired princess Rapunzel. “The Greatest Showman” filmmaker Michael Gracey is in talks to direct the film from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson,
The fourth edition of the Red Sea Souk, the market arm of the Red Sea Film Foundation, came to a wrap on Wednesday afternoon after five days of activities nested within the dates of the Red Sea Film Festival. Winners include “The Mother of All Lies” director Asmae El Moudir with “Holy Cow” and “Hiding
It was Rob McElhenney who first let it slip — via social media — that a long-rumored crossover between “Abbott Elementary” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” was in the works. And in the first teaser spot for that episode (scroll down to watch), “Abbott” star and creator Quinta Brunson is letting McElhenney have it.
As the French Canadians who attended the final night of Taylor Swift’s epic road show in Vancover might say: Au revoir to all that. The Eras Tour is now one for the history books, after 149 sold-out stadium shows, 10 million tickets sold and $2 billion in face-value sales … aside from spinoffs like a
In 1999, there was a film released about a child who sees ghosts that was a massive hit. Five weeks after it came out, “Stir of Echoes” was released. “There’s no way that ‘The Sixth Sense’ wasn’t going to be a massive hit,” remembers Kevin Bacon. “Both myself and [writer-director David Koepp] — and probably
At the Variety Lounge presented by Film AlUla at the Red Sea Film Festival, Variety‘s Alex Ritman spoke with Bettany Hughes, the host, historian and producer of the documentary “Lost Worlds With Bettany Hughes: The Nabataeans” as well as Zaid Shaker, acting executive director of Film Alula. The film traces the historical lineage of the Nabataean
Elon Musk, who seems to consider himself a comedian, has opined that “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” So it seemed reasonable to ask Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot from Musk’s xAI startup that last month became public to all users on X (née Twitter): Who would be the most hilarious actor to portray
Rising indie filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s latest, “Dead Lover,” has attached sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures to shop the project out of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. She serves as director, star and co-writer. Premiering in the Midnight section, the film stars Glowicki as a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses. When she finally meets her
Kendrick Lamar opened the door for California rapper Lefty Gunplay to make history — a move Wack 100 is calling a historic FAIL!!! Play video content BackOnFigg While speaking on ‘Back on Figg’s podcast, Wack expressed his disgust for Lefty’s feature on Kendrick’s “TV Off” from his chart-topping “GNX” album. Lefty closes the track with
Nexstar Media, which has built itself up in recent years with an acquisition spree that includes TV stations and the CW network, now has to make some trims. “Our broadcasting and sales divisions are streamlining their organizations to reduce our operating expenses and accelerate collaboration across the company,;” the company said in a statement. “While it is
“Dancing With the Stars” boogied to tremendous ratings growth throughout its Season 33, and that remained true for its season finale. The multiplatform numbers are out for the Nov. 26 finale, and after seven days of viewing on ABC, Disney+, Hulu and other digital platforms, the final episode of “Dancing With the Stars” averaged nearly
Gerry Turner, who starred in the premiere season of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” revealed Wednesday that he was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. Turner, 72, was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a form of blood cancer. He opened up to People about it and his split from Theresa Nist, who was the winner of his
Austin Butler is set to star in Luca Guadagnino‘s new interpretation of the book “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis for Lionsgate. While there had been rumors that Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Patrick Bateman, that casting didn’t come to pass. Elordi and Butler have something in common, having both played very different versions