Kevin Lee, better known as Coach K, is cofounder of Quality Control, the multifaceted Atlanta-based label and music-and-sports management company that has brought the world Migos, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, City Girls and more, and also manages many athletes. In just eight years, Coach and cofounder Pierre “P” Thomas have built an empire that is
Trade body Pact, which represents U.K. indie production companies, has released two reports outlining how independent production has been hit by the pandemic, particularly small and medium companies. In particular, new program commissions suffered the most with these accounting for just 30% of broadcasters’ spend. This is despite Channel 4 and ITV marginally increasing their
Marvel says it has redesigned the Marvel Unlimited digital-comics subscription app from the ground up — with an update that includes some top-requested features and brand-new content. The revamped app, available starting Thursday (Sept. 9), launches with Marvel’s first major line of exclusive Infinity Comics, which are full-screen vertical comics designed for phones and tablets.
As the world exits the COVID pandemic and enters the streaming era, nobody can doubt that the entertainment industry is undergoing permanent changes. Few companies, however, are preparing for it in the fashion of Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures. It is going to be less American and more youth-driven, Silverman, a former president of creative development
“Ted Lasso” star Juno Temple has joined the cast of Doug Liman’s action-adventure thriller “Everest.” The movie has also struck a number of global pre-sales for HanWay Films. Temple will play mountaineer George Mallory’s wife, Ruth, who is left behind to handle their life during his life-threatening attempts to scale the mountain. The actor has
Director Max Newsom (“Plunge: The Movie”) returns with new film “Iceland Is Best,” featuring a winning turn from Judd Nelson (“The Breakfast Club”) and a fresh young cast. The film follows 17-year-old Sigga who tells her parents she is leaving her beautiful Icelandic fishing village to become a poet in California as her grandfather has
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday and promises to be more sparsely attended than previous iterations which packed the Canadian city with leading lights of Hollywood, power-players and star-gazers. It’s a painful concession to the complexities of international travel during COVID, which is keeping many filmmakers, stars, studio executives and sales agents from
TIFF and Toronto are back in person for the 46th edition. It’s not a complete return to pre-pandemic times as numerous health protocols to combat COVID-19 remain in place. Restaurants, hotels and theaters continue to adjust and adapt. Stand-up cocktailing is off-limits, although distanced indoor dining is allowed. To-go dining options are robust; socializing and
Music and technology conference Mondo.NYC have announced that the keynote speakers for its Music & Tech Law Symposium will be the newly-appointed Recording Academy Co-Presidents Valeisha Butterfield Jones and Panos A. Panay, interviewed by attorney Adrian Perry, Partner and Co-Chair of Music Industry Practice at Covington & Burling LLP. In one of their first public
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ESPN said it would place sports host Max Kellerman in a new mid-afternoon program after taking him off the popular hot-talk show “First Take” last month, unveiling a daytime schedule it hopes will keep viewers interested for a longer period of time. Kellerman’s new program, “This Just In,” will debut September 14 at 2 p.m.,
Stephen Chbosky never intended to create a film series. But with the films “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Wonder” and now “Dear Evan Hansen” under his belt, he jokes that he has made “The First Day of School Trilogy.” Based on the Tony Award-winning musical, “Dear Evan Hansen” will open the Toronto International Film
Amazon is officially in the TV set business. After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products, the ecommerce giant is rolling out the first-ever Amazon-built TVs: the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series ($410 and up), which provides hands-free Alexa voice navigation, and
In today’s podcast news roundup, “No Time to Die” official podcast featuring Daniel Craig and more debuts; Spotify launches incubator program for Latino podcast creators; Meghan Trainor sets a new podcast series on motherhood and mental health; Chance the Rapper explains why “Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrong”; and more. DATES The first two episodes of “No
Choose between the red pill or the blue pill, and strap in to watch the first look at “The Matrix: Resurrections.” The fourth installment in the Warner Bros. sci-fi film franchise sees the return of Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, though neither remember each other — or their pasts. In the
Emerging star Chinenye Ezeudu has joined the cast of Young Films’ “Silent Roar,” alongside Louis McCartney (“Grounding”), Ella Lily Hyland (“Intruder”) and Mark Lockyer (“Holby City”). The film, a contemporary tale of adolescence and surfing set on a Scottish Hebridean island, is being produced by Chris Young (“”The Inbetweeners Movie”) and is written and directed
In the pantheon of notoriously unavailable films, Jerry Lewis’ “The Day the Clown Cried” occupies a special plinth: Its outline — a circus clown is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp where he cheers up Jewish children before being forced to lead them to their doom — makes it one of the few movies to
Verizon and the NFL extended their longstanding relationship with a 10-year marketing and tech deal — but the telco is no longer going to be livestreaming football games on mobile. The deal establishes Verizon an “Official Technology Partner” and the “Official 5G Network” of the League. Verizon has already installed Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service
Chris Stapleton and Eric Church lead the crop of nominations for the 55th annual CMA Awards with five apiece, the Country Music Association announced Thursday, with newcomer Gabby Barrett moving in close behind with a surprise four nods, The Country Music Association announced the 2021 crop of nominations Thursday morning as the run-up to the
The evening of Sept. 11, 2001, was shaping up to be a busy but not unusually auspicious one for New York City’s vibrant music scene. Boy band O-Town was scheduled to play at the Hammerstein Ballroom, the Charles Lloyd Quartet would be at the Blue Note, and the mask-clad British alternative quartet Clinic had a
Following a delayed yet successful 2021 edition held last week, Series Mania will switch back to its usual spring slot in 2022. The next edition will take place March 18-25 in Lille, France. The event’s industry sidebar, the Series Mania Forum, will be held March 22-24. The Lille Dialogues, a one-day summit that brings together
Spain’s Lolita Films, co-founded by auteur Javier Rebollo (“La mujer sin piano”), is re-teaming with Argentina’s Amateur Cinema on road movie project “Camionero,” directed by “Para la guerra” helmer Francisco Marise. Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Camionero” is co-penned by Rebollo, who earned a best director award at San Sebastian
To shoot Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s eclectic dialogue-free drama “Il Buco,” about a group of speleologists who in 1961 discover Europe’s deepest cave, veteran Swiss director of photography Renato Berta and Frammartino first had to do some soul searching. “To prepare, with Michelangelo, we watched lots of movies together that we agreed and disagreed about,”
In Italian director Francesco Lettieri’s “Lovely Boy,” which is the closing film of Venice’s independently run Venice Days section, a rising star of Rome’s never before depicted trap music scene gets sucked into a spiral of self-destruction. “Lovely Boy” is the sophomore feature by Lettieri, who made his debut with “Ultras,” a drama about Neapolitan
After having swept San Sebastian’s Films in Progress with his second feature, “Rust” (2018) and quickly consolidated as one of the most talked-about of emerging talents in Brazil — a country of many talented young filmmakers — Aly Muritiba has come to Venice’s Biennale to screen his latest film, “Private Desert”(“Deserto Particular”), at its Giornate
China’s “One Second,” South Korea’s “The Book of Fish,” India’s “The Disciple,” and two Japanese films, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” and “Wife of a Spy” will compete for this year’s best film prize at the Asian Film Awards The awards again will be held again in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival. The
Kosovo has chosen Blerta Basholli’s Sundance triple winner “Hive” as its official entry for the Oscars’ international feature category. The film won the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic competition earlier this year. “Hive” is a drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi),
Lineups for the Los Angeles and London components of the “Global Citizen Live” broadcast have been revealed, with the L.A. show set for the Greek Theatre on Sept. 25 and featuring Stevie Wonder as headliner. Joining the veteran star on the Greek bill are H.E.R., Demi Lovato, Adam Lambert, Chloe x Halle, OneRepublic, the Lumineers,
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has revealed 12 local titles that will play at the festival this year. The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films. Seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have
Lindsey Buckingham has reopened the wound of his 2018 firing from Fleetwood Mac, placing the blame on former bandmate Stevie Nicks and manager Irving Azoff for his departure — who both responded with fierce rebuttals. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times centered around his upcoming solo album, Buckingham said he considers himself