Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album was sold to an anonymous buyer in the U.S. in exchange for imprisoned pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager, Martin Shkreli’s debt. Mark Shkreli, the now disgraced pharmaceutical exec, gained notoriety in 2015 after spiking the price of a drug by 5,000% using his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals. The 62-year-old drug, Daraprim,
Cathy Ang, Niall Cunningham, Alexa Swinton and Cree Cicchino have joined the cast of the HBO Max original series and revival of “Sex and the City.” Entitled “And Just Like That…,” the 10-episode TV sequel follows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) as they navigate the journey from the complicated
Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform, has recruited Constance Knight in the newly created role of VP, global creators. Knight most recently was at Instagram, where she was global head of video curation for short-form content. Before that, she worked at YouTube for more than nine years, most recently as head of content programs and partnerships
As soon as Chinese film fanatic Li heard the news earlier this month that the Cannes Film Festival had scheduled a surprise special screening for a documentary about political unrest in Hong Kong, he rushed straight to his computer to open the page for his favorite online bookstore. He already owned a copy of festival
John Mayer may be a step closer to putting a down payment down on a yacht, thanks to the success of “Sob Rock,” which tops the Rolling Stone album chart this week with a surprisingly robust 101,500 units. Included in that tally were an unusually healthy 56,700 copies moved in pure album sales, suggesting that
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Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will mount a film adaptation of “The Fortress of Solitude” at Amazon Studios, continuing his creative relationship with the streaming giant. Behind the festival hit “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” and Benedict Cumberbatch’s “The Current War,” Gomez-Rejon will direct the project based on Jonathan Lethem’s New York Times bestselling novel. Acclaimed
It’s been almost 25 years since two unknown actors came out of nowhere to write and co-star in the Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting,” minting them on spot as Hollywood boy wonders. And, according to Matt Damon, there might be a few more scripts on the horizon between him and Ben Affleck. At Monday night’s New
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Ben Crump is suing Johnson & Johnson for allegedly targeting Black women with a product he says has been linked to cancer — and it sounds like they’re going class action with this. The civil rights attorney put on his personal injury lawyer hat Tuesday with a major announcement — saying he and fellow attorney
It’s safe to say there hasn’t been a whole lot to laugh about over the past 12 months. From a deadly pandemic to political strife and the encroaching doom of climate change, all the way to the quarantine-related closures of comedy clubs, the impossibility of touring, and the stop-start struggle of shooting, it’s been harder
Since 2000, Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch list has been identifying and honoring comedy up-and-comers, including, over the years, such current superstars as Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Wanda Sykes. This year, the honorees will be participating in a virtual panel discussion during the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. For more information on the panel,
Dane Joseph will join Hulu Original’s expanding unscripted series team as a director. In his new role, Joseph will oversee the streaming platform’s growing programming slate of unscripted series, from development through production. “It is my great pleasure to welcome Dane to Hulu as we expand our offering of unscripted original series,” said Belisa Balaban
Lily Rabe has been cast as Lorena “Hick” Hickok in the Showtime anthology series “The First Lady.” The series is described as a reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. Gillian Anderson has been cast as Eleanor Roosevelt, with Viola Davis set to play
Ryan Adams, the singer-songwriter who has been largely persona non grata in the music business since multiple women alleged abuse beginning in early 2019, has taken to Instagram to beg record labels for “a second chance to make some music,” saying he is “scared” he will lose his home, his studio and his indie label
BET’s Nadja Webb has been named executive VP of programming business operations, and will now oversee scripted programming in addition to her other duties. BET president Scott Mills announced the promotion on Tuesday. As part of her new purview, Webb will now lead BET’s scripted programming functions, including development, casting and current for BET and
In “Jungle Cruise,” a Disney adventure that demonstrates how basing a movie on a theme-park ride may now be a more natural occurence than adapting it from a novel, Emily Blunt plays Dr. Lily Houghton, a London researcher-explorer who’s as fearless, in her demure way, as Indiana Jones, and Dwayne Johnson is Frank Wolff, the
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” has been tapped as the centerpiece selection for the 59th New York Film Festival. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Benedict Cumberbatch and will be released by Netflix. The streamer has awards ambitions for the Western, a historical drama that unfolds on a Montana cattle ranch
Sharpened Iron Studios has acquired the original musical screenplay “Amarillo” and has enlisted European filmmaker Ate de Jong to direct the film. “Amarillo,” written by Variety’s executive VP of global content Steven Gaydos, is set behind the scenes of a reality TV music competition series and tells the story of two young singer-songwriters who pretend
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It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that “Gone” would become a country chart-topper in July of 2021. It was an anomaly that superstar Dierks Bentley would even pick a song that he hadn’t co-written himself to record, much less release as a single. But having Nicolle Galyon’s name attached to the song as a writer might
Grammy-nominated rapper Jack Harlow and manager Chris Thomas, songwriter-producer Sean Douglas and manager Rachel Douglas, and Grammy-winning songwriting-production duo Nova Wav all have joined Range Media Partners; Thomas joins as managing partner and Rachel Douglas as partner in the company’s music division, respectively. Sean Douglas has written or co-written hits for Lizzo, Thomas Rhett and
Bert Kreischer can pinpoint the exact moment his life changed: Dec. 28, 2016. Before then, Kreischer had been a stand-up comedian for about 20 years and had achieved what appeared to be a good amount of success. As a student at Florida State University, he was the subject of a Rolling Stone article that crowned
Netflix has ordered the adult animated series “Chicago Party Aunt,” inspired by Chris Witaske’s Twitter account of the same name. Netflix has ordered 16 episodes of the half-hour series, with the first eight slated to drop on Sept. 17. Lauren Ash will lead the voice cast in the role of Diane Dunbrowski, AKA The Chicago
The key to Barack Obama’s electoral success — and to the ways his post-presidency will continue to evolve — could be his talent as a writer. It’s not simply his eloquence, his ability to convey his beliefs to a sprawling and fractious electorate. It’s also his gift at packaging his experiences and image of himself.
NBCU News Group said it plans to hire 200 people over the next few months as it adds several new hours of live, original programming for NBC News Now, its over-the-top streaming service. The majority of the new roles will support NBC News Now’s expanding streaming operations and programming. NBCU News Group said the additional
Willie Nelson is participating in a docuseries about his life, “Willie Nelson and Family,” with production said to be already “well underway” on the project from Blackbird Presents and Sight Unseen Pictures. The co-directors of the “definitive” multi-part series are Thom Zimny, best known as Bruce Springsteen’s regular filmic collaborator, and Emmy winner and Oscar
Steven Spielberg has added a new generation to the fictional family at the center of his semi-autobiographical film, which has the working title of “The Fabelmans.” Oscar nominees Judd Hirsch (“Ordinary People,” “Independence Day”) and Jeannie Berlin (“The Heartbreak Kid,” “Succession”), and veteran stage and screen actors Robin Bartlett (“Mad About You,” “American Horror Story”)
EXHIBITION Trafalgar Releasing are set to adapt London’s V&A museum’s blockbuster Alice in Wonderland exhibition for theatrical release. “Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser,” which explores the cultural impact of Lewis Carroll’s iconic protagonist on figures from Salvador Dali to Tim Burton, is to be made into a “special cinema event,” the museum has revealed, with a
To accompany the new Tom McCarthy-Matt Damon movie “Stillwater” — recently lauded at the Cannes Film Festival, and set to be released in theaters Friday — Focus Features and L.A. Times studios have partnered to produce a new podcast miniseries called “Convicted: Across Borders,” hosted by attorney and author Marcia Clark. The first episode has