Jamie Spears says his ousting from Britney‘s conservatorship will only hurt his daughter, and having a stranger take his place in her life is the complete opposite of what Britney needs. Jamie’s lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, goes after the judge for suspending Jamie and appointing CPA John Zabel in his place to temporarily manage her estate.
Courtesy of the designers; Prada: Emmanuel Wong Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Once, a collaboration was the ultimate in cred—high married to low, luxe mingled with quotidian. But after this just-concluded Milan Fashion Week, that kind of move looks so, well, 2020. Now, designers who once
Fremantle has completed its previously announced acquisition of 12 production labels in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark from Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group). The RTL Group-owned “Got Talent” producer will use their new assets — 12 companies in all across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark — to form Fremantle Nordics. The Scandinavian NENT Group had its unscripted
Happy International Podcast Day! In today’s podcast news roundup, Apple releases the top 10 most-subscribed podcasts and free channels, Spotify adds Q&A and polling features for podcast creators, and more. RANKINGS Apple for the first time has shared the top paid podcast subscriptions and free channels worldwide, from June 15 through September 15, providing a
Splice, the platform for rights-cleared sounds and beats, has established its first Global Music Council, a strategic advisory board of artist entrepreneurs, activists and experts in major music territories. According to the announcement, the advisors were hand-picked to provide diverse perspectives, and an artist’s lens, on expanding access to Splice’s music creation platform around the world.
Can storytelling help save the planet? Netflix thinks so: The company worked with the team behind the United Nations’ COP26 international climate conference to curate a collection of sustainability stories on the streaming service. The Netflix “Together for Our Planet” collection of 30 TV shows, films and documentaries includes real-life nature documentaries like “Our Planet”
Right out of the gate, “Venom” may have been one of the all-time worst reviewed Marvel movies — the film has an abominable 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes — but that didn’t stop audiences from flocking to see a bug-eyed Tom Hardy embody the character in the corny 2018 standalone, which racked up an astonishing
After being ousted from the conservatorship of his daughter on Wednesday, Britney Spears, on Wednesday, Jamie Spears has issued a statement via his attorney, Vivan Thoreen. “Mr. Spears loves his daughter Britney unconditionally,” the statement, issued early Thursday morning, reads. “For thirteen years, he has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether
Andy Cheng has earned tremendous kudos as the fight choreographer of the bus scene in Marvel’s recent “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The scene took nearly a year to plan and execute, and serves to demonstrate Simu Liu’s previously-hidden skills to an open-mouthed Awkwafina, and has since been released by Marvel as
EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-based film festival, will honor filmmaker and director Colin Tilley with its Achievement in Music Videos Award at its 29th edition, which will take place in Torun, Poland, on November 13 – 20, 2021. Tilley, CEO and owner of Boy in the Castle Productions, is a self-taught Bay Area filmmaker who began his
U.K. broadcaster BBC Two has pre-bought historical drama “Marie Antoinette,” created and written by Deborah Davis (“The Favourite”). The eight-part series tells the story of the modern and avant-garde young queen, played by Emilia Schüle (“Ku’damm 63”), who was barely 14 years old when she left Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. Growing from
Play video content TMZ.com Heather McDonald is absolutely not walking back her comment about Chrissy Teigen being hypocritical, and she’s also accusing her of being a social media manipulator … so yeah, the beef is still on. We got the comedian outside her “Juicy Scoop” podcast studio in L.A. and gave her a chance to
Coldplay has premiered the video for “My Universe,” their new collaboration with BTS on YouTube. The “My Universe” video is set in the distant galaxy of The Spheres where music is forbidden, but BTS, Coldplay and an alien supergroup called Supernova 7 unite via hologram to defy the ban. Sung in English and Korean, the
A true pop star is a master of reinvention. Being able to ride the waves of hyper-trends and shifting cultural moods requires intense self-security. Charli XCX is a connoisseur of pop in this way, always in tune with herself and doing the unexpected, as she says: “Playing into the contrast is so much more interesting
PBS dominated the documentary portion of this year’s News and Documentary Emmys, landing ten awards overall — including three for “POV,” two for “Independent Lens” and two for “Frontline,” which are three of the public broadcaster’s long-running, signature series. Netflix followed with four wins, then Showtime with three. The documentary Emmys were awarded on Wednesday
Robert Pattinson offered a teaser for what fans can expect from Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” at this year’s DC FanDome during the red carpet for the Academy Museum’s premiere party. Pattinson hinted that the footage that will be shown will give audiences a new look at his Bruce Wayne and Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman. “Me and
James Bond franchise film “No Time to Die” opened in top spot at the box office in South Korea on Wednesday. But the opening score on its commercial debut won’t require a rewrite of the local record books. The film earned $663,000 (KRW785 million) from 104,000 ticket sales, according to data from the Kobis box
While last summer’s racial reckoning and the #MeToo movement forced many in the entertainment business to take diversity and inclusiveness seriously — or at least a lot more seriously — Multitude Films founder and president Jess Devaney was already dug in. She bowed the LGBTQ-led shingle in 2016 with a focus on giving underrepresented voices
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Masked Singer” Season 6, Episode 3, “Group B Premiere,” which aired September 29 on Fox. “The Masked Singer” let the dog out. The third episode of Season 6 saw the quick exit of hip-hop star Tyga, who had performed under the Dalmatian costume.
Netflix hosted its first ever global fan event Tudum on Sept. 25, giving viewers first looks and trailers from over 100 upcoming Netflix films and series. Netflix says Tudum garnered over 25.7 million views across Netflix’s 29 Netflix YouTube channels, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok and Tudum.com. The streamer also said that 15 minutes after the
While many businesses, guilds and unions across the country activated programs to address diversity in the past year, the impact of COVID job losses on women and women of color especially in the entertainment business — a fact that Women in Film’s Hire Her Back program addresses. “Given our mission, we thought that we needed
Apple Studios has landed the hot movie package starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt with Jon Watts directing that’s been the subject of a feverish bidding war, according to two sources with knowledge of the project. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” director Watts will write, direct and produce with Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment producing.
Britney Spears‘ fate is now in the hands of the judge in her conservatorship case, and we’ve learned almost out of the gate there was a move to end the conservatorship. We’re told Britney’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, just asked the judge to boot Jamie Spears immediately, citing what he calls “abuse” over years. He points
Mark Hoppus of the band Blink-182 has updated his health status on his social media accounts, and the news is good, with the singer/bassist saying that the chemotherapy treatments he had recently tweeted about undergoing have done their job. “Just saw my oncologist and I’m cancer free!!” he wrote on Instagram and Twitter Wednesday. “Thank
Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, has been ousted from her conservatorship, following a drawn-out legal battle that has persisted since the pop star was placed under the court-ordered arrangement in 2008. Judge Brenda Penny ruled that Spears’ father will no longer serve as the conservator of his daughter’s estate, immediately removing him from control of
From network presidents to CMOs to a WNBA star, Variety‘s Power of Women Summit Presented by Lifetime brought together more than two dozen women with remarkable achievements to talk shop, share war stories and take stock of gender dynamics in the entertainment industry. Here are 10 key takeaways from the daylong summit that coincides with
Following a quiet stretch at the domestic box office, Sony’s comic book sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” looks to make some noise. The film opens in theaters on Friday after five delays, something of a pandemic-record. Directed by Andy Serkis and starring Tom Hardy as an otherworldly lethal protector, the superhero movie is estimated
HBO Max announced that “Scoobtober” programming will begin Oct. 1 on HBO Max and Cartoon Network, featuring over 17 hours of Scooby-Doo content with new celebrity guests on the animated series including Cher, Sean Astin, Jessic Biel, Terry Bradshaw, Lucy Liu, Jason Sudeikis and Run DMC. The lineup includes new episodes of “Scooby-Doo and Guess
“The Wire’s” Felicia Pearson and Ed Burns are teaming up to develop a limited series based on Pearson’s life, Variety has learned exclusively. The show is currently titled “A.K.A. Snoop” and would delve into the hardship Pearson endured growing up in Baltimore. Burns and Pearson are co-writing the series. Burns will executive produce along with Philip
As Dog the Bounty Hunter makes his way back into the news by chasing down Brian Laundrie — the person of interest after his fiancée, Gabby Petito, was found dead in Wyoming — he’s also plotting his return to TV. Thinkfactory Media, the producers behind WE TV’s “Marriage Boot Camp” and “Mama June: From Not