Don Diamont‘s real life seems to be playing out like one of his TV soaps (in a bad way) — with an alleged stalker showing up at his house, and forcing him to go running to court for help. The veteran daytime TV actor — famous for his ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ and ‘Young and
“Manifest” has been canceled at NBC after three seasons, Variety has confirmed. The news comes as the supernatural drama has been released on Netflix, where it currently sits at No. 1 in the streamer’s U.S. Top 10. However, sources tell Variety that the show is hoping to find a new home elsewhere. The single-camera series had generally produced
CJ ENM, the South Korean entertainment giant behind “Parasite,” has struck a strategic alliance with Japanese terrestrial broadcast group Tokyo Broadcasting System. The deal, announced Tuesday, will see the joint production of content for the global market and cooperation in other new business areas. It also represents a further expansion of CJ ENM’s recently-announced plans
Stephen Colbert has, nearly every weeknight for the past 15 months, led the nation’s most-watched late-night show without many of the trappings viewers have come to expect. He’s had no live audience to respond to his jokes and monologues. His bandleader, Jon Batiste, made musical contributions from a remote location. And his interviews with newsmakers
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the June 14 episode of “The Bachelorette.” Katie Thurston’s reign as the sex-positive Bachelorette continued during her first group date of the new season of ABC’s dating competition. She was joined by podcast host Heather McDonald with 10 of her remaining men as they
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All products and services featured by Variety are independently selected by Variety editors. However, Variety may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Every pop-culture dad has their “thing.” Maybe it’s coming up with his own long-winded theories about who the
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George Lopez and his real-life daughter Mayan Lopez are slated to star in a “working-class family” comedy from Universal Television about “dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between.” “Lopez vs. Lopez,” which has a put pilot commitment from NBC, is produced by Mohawk Productions, Travieso Productions, Mi Vida Loba, and 3 Arts.
Free Stone Productions, one of Japan’s leading indie film sales firms, is poised to bring a big slate to Cannes. It has added three new titles and a catalog. And it expects to add more before the market gets underway. Highest profile is the recently-released animation film “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” directed by Watanabe Ayumu
“Witch Hunt,” the genre thriller and 2021 SXSW Film Festival entry, has sold domestic rights to Momentum Pictures. Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen and Elizabeth Mitchell star in the bleak tale of the last stop on an underground railroad of refugee witches hiding in a small U.S. border town to Mexico. As time passes, uneasiness turns
Conversations about Blackface, when white people darken their skin to perform exaggerated versions of nonwhite characters, often centers on the historical when it comes to the media’s role in perpetuating the racist act. In some cases, historical means the minstrels of 19th century theater, silent films, or the more recent history of satire like Robert
“In the Heights” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is addressing criticism over the film’s lack of Afro-Latino representation. In a statement posted to Twitter, Miranda apologized for not including more dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in the film’s cast, especially in the leading roles. “I started writing ‘In the Heights’ because I didn’t feel seen. And over the past 20
The Minnesota House and Senate have reached a deal to create a new $5 million-a-year tax credit for film and TV production in the state. The bill language was unveiled on Monday as the Legislature began a special session to pass a budget. The budget package is expected to pass both chambers either later this
Sony Pictures has scheduled two major tentpole films for 2022: David Leitch’s “Bullet Train” will debut on April 8, and Kitao Sakurai’s comedy “Oh Hell No” will release on July 1. Based on the book “Maria Beetle” by Kotaro Isaka, “Bullet Train” follows five assassins who find themselves on a bullet train in Japan and
After taking a Taylor Swift/Olivia Rodrigo break, hip-hop is back on top of the album chart, as “The Voice of the Heroes,” a joint album by Lil Durk and Lil Baby, debuted at No. 1 with 143,400 album-equivalent units. Although album sales were a scant 3,300, the collaboration attracted a massive 176.3 million individual song
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Louis Vuitton debuts its cruise 2022 runway show live tomorrow, Tuesday, June 15, at 2 p.m. CEST. (That’s 8 a.m. EST.) Watch the atelier’s latest collection from the comfort of your own home, below. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another
Banff World Media Festival Check-In: Year Two of Doing Things Remotely, But Even Bigger Normally this would be the time of year where producers, executives and talent from all over the world would be gathering at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada, for the annual Banff World Media Festival. Located in the
The “Assassin’s Creed” live-action series at Netflix has enlisted Jeb Stuart to serve as writer, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. The series was first announced as being in development in October as part of a deal between Netflix and Ubisoft to develop content based on the best-selling video game franchise. The deal includes live-action, animated,
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The Truth is Out There, and Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater and Clark Duke will find it in Netflix’s “Inside Job,” a new conspiracy theory office comedy animated series from “Gravity Falls” writer Shion Takeuchi and creator Alex Hirsch, both of whom have development deals with the streamer. In an announcement made during Netflix’s Adult Animation
Virtual reality, for all its hype and hope, hasn’t exactly taken the entertainment world by storm. Now a new venture is looking to deliver on VR’s promise of virtually transporting you to another time and place — but without the awkward headset, so you can have a shared, communal experience. The company, Illuminarium Experiences, is
YouTube will no longer sell ads for certain categories — including politics and alcohol — on its homepage, which Google says it the internet giant’s highest profile advertising real estate. YouTube’s “masthead” ads appear at the top of the YouTube homepage — which is “the most prominent Google advertising placement available to advertisers,” according to
Heatseeking indie distributor Decal has landed U.S. distribution rights to “Recovery,” a well-received comedy which played this year’s SXSW Film Festival. From directors Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek, the road trip adventure follows two lost-soul sisters traveling across country to rescue their grandmother, whose nursing home suffers a COVID-19 outbreak. The project is described as
Madison Avenue’s interest in digital ads, sports and new concepts tied to bolstering messages of diversity helped Disney close a fast-paced upfront that saw more than 40% of total dollars committed to the company go to streaming and interactive venues, the latest sign of how advertisers are working differently with some of the nation’s most
A one-time retrospective show by Kendrick Lamar has been announced for Day N Vegas, a three-day hip-hop festival to take place in Las Vegas Nov. 12-14. Travis Scott and Tyler, the Creator join Lamar as nightly headliners, with such major names as Lil Baby, DaBaby, Doja Cat and SZA also on the bill. Lamar’s appearance
Disneyland will no longer require fully vaccinated visitors to wear masks indoors or outdoors starting on Tuesday, said the Anaheim, Calif.-based theme park and resort, which has been engaged with a phased reopening since April 30. The move comes in conjunction with the State of California’s eased COVID-19 regulations on June 15, in which all
Really getting under the skin of a fully realized female character has long remained a challenge in television, but in recent years, the brilliant-yet-troubled heroine has been taking a back seat to someone more authentically human, whose personal struggle is no longer peppered in through lazy shorthand ciphers that check the “complex character” box. This
Robin Thede and London Hughes are set to star in a “Perfect Strangers” reboot that is in development at HBO Max, Variety has confirmed. In the multi-cam reboot, perfect strangers Deja (Thede) and Poppy (Hughes) unexpectedly discover that they are half-sisters when they both inherit a one-bedroom apartment above a trap yoga studio in Fort Greene,
When Steve McQueen was curating the narratives for his Amazon Prime Video anthology “Small Axe,” the year 1968 felt like the best place to start. This was because it was a year of mass strikes in France, a year in which Conservative politician Enoch Powell made his infamous “rivers of blood” speech and a year