Lena Waithe said embracing her identity has ultimately helped her navigate Hollywood. “People assume that because I’m Black, or because I’m queer or because I’m a woman, those are going to be the things that I’m bumping up against all the time,” the Emmy winner said Thursday during the Legacy Keynote Conversation at the Human
Courtesy of the filmmakers.Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The calendar may not, at first or even third glance, seem like the chicest invention in human history. An airless grid crammed with names, it’s a visual record of the stodgy process of parceling out time.
Billie Eilish promised a new song would drop this month, and sure enough, “Therefore I Am” arrived on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT. The track comes with an official music video also directed by the 18-year-old, five-time Grammy winner, and was shot in a deserted Glendale Galleria shopping mall, a familiar stomping
As first reported last week by Variety, the Los Angeles-based Television Academy has eliminated its children’s program category at the Primetime Emmys, ceding kids awards to its New York counterpart: the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which administers the Daytime Emmys (as well as sports, news and documentary and other awards). That may
Bustle Digital Group has voluntarily recognized the Writers Guild of America East for the purpose of collective bargaining after an “overwhelming” majority of employees in that unit signed authorization cards. BDG’s bargaining unit will include approximately 200 editorial, video, design and social staffers from Bustle, Elite Daily, Input, Inverse, Mic, Nylon, Romper and The Zoe
The Producers Guild of America has shifted some of its key dates for the upcoming 32nd annual Producers Guild of America Awards, which will remain on March 24 in a virtual format. The awards season has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the Academy Awards being pushed back to April 25 with an
The 41st American Film Market was the first AFM to take place online, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the the world of independent film has kept its chin up amid daunting challenges. “I would say it’s a comfortable mixture of cautious but buoyant,” said David Garrett, CEO of Mister Smith Entertainment. AFM opened on
Adam Kimmel is the cinematographer of such acclaimed films as “Beautiful Girls,” “Capote” and “Never Let Me Go.” He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers, two esteemed organizations. He’s shot short films directed by Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. He’s a prolific director
“It’s an honor just to be nominated” is the overused line that many Oscar nominees have said over the years, particularly after a loss. Though that’s true, winning a coveted statuette is the real prize. The highest-profile overdue veteran actor competing for an Oscar this season is Glenn Close, the wisecracking Mamaw in Ron Howard’s
“Ane Is Missing,” the feature debut of Spain’s David Pérez Sanudo, begins with a fixed shot of a woman security guard sitting in a hut on a construction site. For a full 45 seconds absolutely nothing happens until a firebomb suddenly flares outside the hut. Lide, the security guard, grabs a fire extinguisher. Later, having
Spanish sales agent Agencia Freak has picked up the international rights to Malaga Film Festival featured documentary “Drowning Letters” (“Cartas Mojadas”), director Paula Palacios’ debut feature on Europe’s half decade-long refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Produced by Madrid-based Morada Films, and one of 20 titles making their market bow at the Malaga Spanish Screenings,
Do married couples in the movies ever go on vacation just for the hell and fun of it? Or is it always to get away from something, to cover over an absence, to shorten a yawning distance between them? Alice and Niklas, the Viennese pair at the center of “What We Wanted,” aren’t about to
Has there ever been a better time to indulge in a little retail therapy? After several months of uncertainty, anxiety, and many, many hours doom scrolling—we deserve this. Consider this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals as penance for the year at large. From marked down handbags to cult-favorite beauty sets, adding to cart
Morgan Wallen looks determined to release his sophomore and junior album all at once. The much-talked-about young country star announced plans Thursday morning to issue a 30-song set, “Dangerous: The Double Album,” on Jan. 8. For anyone thinking 30 is not enough, Wallen will also be issuing a Target-exclusive edition of the two-CD set that
Elite World Group has launched EWG Management to handle brand, fashion and beauty endorsement for actors, musicians, athletes, models and social media personalities. Clients include musicians Lily Allen, A$AP Ferg, Gucci Mane, Gnash, Dylan Jagger Lee, Hayley Kiyoko, Banks, Trevor Daniel, Daya, Bishop Briggs, IDK, Madison Beer, Young Thug and Justine Skye. The roster also
MTV has finally revealed its plans for this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. Instead of a regular show honoring the year’s best entertainment, the network has announced that this year’s edition will instead focus on the best moments in film and TV over the past 40 years. “MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of
Though they had never worked together prior to “The Nest,” Carrie Coon and Jude Law have much in common. They both consider themselves “actor’s actors” with a devotion for the stage. And then there’s the fact that both are Marvel action figures. “On my Marvel film, I was the bad guy that lost so, you
Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation have announced that The Weeknd will perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show on CBS at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Fla. on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. With more than 45 platinum and singles and albums over the past decade, The Weeknd released one of the
Canadian comedian Russell Peters (“The Indian Detective”) will executive produce half-hour series “Late Bloomer,” featuring fellow Canadian comic Jasmeet Singh Raina (AKA Jus Reign), with independent production company Pier 21 Films. The show is currently in development at Canadian public broadcaster CBC. As Jus Reign, Raina has more than 167 million YouTube views with 974,000
The 2020 edition of the CMA Awards drew the smallest audience in the show’s history. A total of 6.8 million total viewers tuned in the this year’s country music celebration, hosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker, which represents a substantial 40% fall from last year and is comfortably a new low. The previous smallest
Sebastien Raybaud’s production and financing company Anton, which co-financed shows like “His Dark Materials” and “McMafia,” and sales and production company WestEnd Films are to co-fund a development slate of television series. The first project will be a thriller series from television writers/producers Ron Leshem (“Euphoria,” “No Man’s Land,” “Beaufort,” “Allegiance”) and Amit Cohen (“False
This week’s episode of “The Bachelorette” saw many firsts. Tayshia Adams replaced Clare Crawley as the season’s leading lady, after Crawley made an unprecedented exit early on the season — and Adams became the second woman of color to step into the role of “The Bachelorette.” “I just love that I have the opportunity to
When you’re fighting a legion of undead, you need reliable weapons, a plucky attitude, and — this week, at least — a bottle of Mountain Dew. The citrusy PepsiCo soda will this Sunday appear in a new episode of AMC’s “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” and not only on screen. Characters will mention the beverage
Run The Jewels, the duo of Killer Mike and El-P, have just released their first new single since their “RTJ4” album earlier this year. “No Save Point” is the group’s contribution to the video game “Cyberpunk 2077,” and finds the duo in fierce spirit, trading verses on pointed social commentary in their trademark style. A
The starting pistol of awards season has been officially fired with the 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards announcing its nominations and making history. For the first time, women direct all the nominees for best feature. Among them are “The Assistant” from Kitty Green, “First Cow” from Kelly Reichardt, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” from Eliza Hittman,
Scott Eastwood and Mel Gibson have joined the action-thriller “Dangerous,” along with Tyrese Gibson, Famke Janssen and Kevin Durand. Eastwood will portray a reformed sociopath who, after the death of his brother, heads to a remote island which soon falls under the siege of a deadly gang of mercenaries. Forced to fend for himself, he
The Kenya Film Commission has selected “The Letter” as the country’s official entry for the Oscars’ best international film category. “Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, ‘The Letter’ is an intimate family portrait that reveals an indestructible female power,” read promotional materials from the org. A Kenyan family drama of Shakespearean proportions, “The
In a wide-ranging interview with Variety, British actor David Harewood has opened up about moving back to the U.K. after almost a decade in the U.S. and the continued challenges for Black actors in Britain. Harewood is this year’s recipient of the Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, distributed in association with the Edinburgh TV Festival. With
Producer, mixer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Dean, who’s worked with many of the biggest names in hip-hop during an illustrious decades-long career, has entered into a creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group. The first signing to the new entity is buzzing Houston producer Apex Martin, whose credits include tracks by Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign,
Mary J. Blige, Justin Bieber, Jose Feliciano, Jess Glynne and many more artists have recorded exclusive holiday songs for Amazon, the company announced Thursday. Fans can now hear Mary J. Blige’s take on Wham’s “Last Christmas,” Bieber’s rendition of Brenda Lee’s classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Carrie Underwood and her new, original composition “Favorite