Round Hill’s new royalty fund has announced it expects to IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Friday and has raised $282 million ahead of the flotation, well short of the $375 million goal the company announced last month, according to a report in Music Business Worldwide. A rep for the company declined Variety’s request
It felt like an episode of “The West Wing.” Civil servants in battleground states were thrust into the spotlight as the nation’s political future hung in the balance of vote-counting efforts in convention centers and sports arenas. State and local officials with election-related duties put a human face on voting in America as they updated an
Italian state broadcaster RAI has announced the appointment of writer, journalist and top media industry executive Maria Pia Ammirati as its head of drama, ending the bureaucratic impasse hampering the local industry since her predecessor Eleonora Andreatta left to become vice president of Italian Original series at Netflix in June. RAI’s board has officially announced
Fresh out of the Wharton School, Chris McCarthy’s path to becoming a television executive began on the white sand beaches of Panama City Beach, Fla. It was spring break 2005. The executive who now leads the second-largest unit of ViacomCBS by revenue was tasked with hawking MTVU-branded credit cards to college students in various stages
In today’s Global Bulletin, Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing shares the trailer for Takeshi Fukunaga’s “Ainu Mosir,” Fremantle and Viacom deal on “Tough as Nails,” Eccho Rights and Born Wild team on a new output deal, King of Sunshine Productions announces two holiday musical specials for Channel 5, StudioCanal gets its second lead for “Un año,
Nearly six months after HBO Max’s launch, Roku still doesn’t have a deal to distribute the WarnerMedia streamer. But now Roku has added a feature to many of its 4K devices that provides a new workaround to watch HBO Max. Roku is releasing the OS 9.4 update for select 4K-enabled models of its streaming devices,
Billie Eilish’s chart-topping “Bad Guy,” which dethroned “Old Town Road” on the Billboard Hot 100 last year, surpassed one billion views on YouTube on Wednesday morning. The song becomes the latest addition to the billion views club, reaching the mark just over a year-and-a-half after the video’s release. “Bad Guy” is the singer’s first track
Pop star Britney Spears’s bid to remove her father James Spears from the conservatorship of her estate has suffered a temporary setback with a Los Angeles court declining the application. James Spears has been her co-conservator since 2008, when the singer suffered a very public breakdown. He became sole conservator in 2019 after attorney Andrew
Allu Arjun, one of the most popular stars of South Indian cinema, has started principal photography on action drama “Pushpa.” The project was delayed by several months due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and finally started shooting in the thick forest of Maredumilli in Andhra Pradesh on Nov. 10. The film revolves around
Zhang Yimou’s censored film “One Second” apparently now finds itself in the Chinese government’s good books: it has been given pride of place as the opener at the government-run Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. The film was initially set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019. But its treatment of
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 10 episode of “The Bachelorette.” Tayshia Adams has been ushered in as ABC’s new Bachelorette. After replacing Clare Crawley during last week’s episode, Tayshia started her journey as the new Season 16 lead. During a season of unconventional paths, her first night
TikTok, staring down the Trump administration’s Nov. 12 deadline for parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. assets, asked a federal appeals court to invalidate and “set aside” the government’s divestiture order to give TikTok and ByteDance time to work with officials on addressing security concerns. President Trump in August ordered Beijing-based ByteDance to sell
It’s soon to be February again at the Chinese box office, where older pre-pandemic Hollywood titles are preparing to hit local theaters amidst a relative dearth in new foreign content. The psychological horror film “The Invisible Man,” which debuted more than eight months ago Stateside on Feb. 28, is now set to screen in the
Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to produce a film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-selling novel “The Water Dancer” for MGM, Variety has confirmed. Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Pitt’s Plan B will produce alongside Kamilah Forbes, who is the executive producer of the Apollo Theater. Forbes recently directed the theatrical adaptation of Coates’ “Between
It’s common knowledge that consumer behavior and industrialization have a major impact on the environment; as consumers, we’re responsible for both the current and future condition of our planet. We may think that our small, individual actions won’t have an immediate or major impact on the environment, but we all need to start somewhere. First
We always watched “Jeopardy!” in my house when I was growing up. We watched Art Fleming do it when Don Pardo was the VO. We used to play the home game. Later, when Alex Trebek hosted, my brother was on the show and lost, which was hilarious. He’s a comedian, and the Final Jeopardy! category
“This Is Us” returned for season 5 on Oct. 27, and also returned to its usual place at the top of the delayed ratings charts. The NBC drama grew its premiere by 86% after seven days of delayed viewing, jumping from a 1.4 rating in Live+Same Day to a 2.6 rating in Live+7. Not only
Major donors to President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign are being asked this week to contribute to his transition effort, as the Trump administration has refused to turn over millions in federal funding. The Biden-Harris transition is holding a Zoom event for donors on Thursday with Evan Ryan, a Biden adviser and former assistant secretary of state.
Universal Pictures is teaming up with Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions to relaunch “The Scorpion King,” Variety has confirmed. “’The Scorpion King’ was my very first role ever on the silver screen and I’m honored and excited to reimagine and deliver this cool mythology to a whole new generation,” Johnson said in a
After news surfaced last week that Christina Aguilera had parted ways with Irving Azoff, her manager of 20 years, the singer has officially joined forces with Roc Nation management — at least according to the presence of her photo and bio on the company’s website. Reps for Roc and the singer did not immediately respond
In today’s TV news roundup, Bad Bunny is joining Season 3 of Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” and Disney Plus exclusively shared a trailer for “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse” with Variety. CASTING Netflix announced that Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino and Bad Bunny (née Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) have been cast in Season 3 of
“Hannibal” and “Doctor Strange” actor Mads Mikkelsen is in early talks to take on the role of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in “Fantastic Beasts 3,” replacing Johnny Depp in the role, Variety has confirmed. After playing Grindelwald in the first two “Fantastic Beasts” movies, Depp announced on Friday that Warner Bros. had asked him to
The only officer to be charged in the Breonna Taylor case is just now accused of sexual assault — something the alleged victim claims his bosses knew about, but did nothing to correct. Margo Borders is suing Brett Hankison, claiming he sexually assaulted her in 2018 after a night out at a bar where he
After watching all 10 episodes of “A Teacher,” there’s no doubt where it ultimately stands. Claire (Kate Mara) might be lonely, bored and self-loathing, but as she indulges her curiosity about her charismatic student Eric (Nick Robinson) to the point of seducing him, it’s clear that she’s committed an enormous violation for which there’s no excuse. Exploring three specific stages of their lives —
There have been dozens upon dozens of wartime epics committed to the screen, but none look like “The Liberator.” I mean this quite literally: after getting stuck in a lengthy development hell at the History channel once it became clear how expensive it would be to film, “The Liberator” team made a calculated artistic choice
“The Undoing” continues to be a ratings success for HBO. The miniseries’ third episode rose to series high viewership numbers on Sunday night, drawing 1.7 million viewers across all platforms. That represents roughly a 21% increase from the series premiere a couple weeks back, and an 18% up tick from episode 2 last Sunday. For
In advance of The War on Drugs’s forthcoming live album, inevitably titled “Live Drugs,” the group has announced “The Super High Quality Podcast” and unveiled the album’s second single, a cover of Warren Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr.” According to the announcement, “The Super High Quality Podcast” is a four-episode series, airing weekly beginning on the album’s release day.
Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” has been one of the best reviewed films of the year, starting its journey at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won the audience and grand jury prize. One of the big questions has surrounded its theatrical release plan, and Variety has learned exclusively that the film will have
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When Krista Vernoff read the script of the “Grey’s Anatomy” pilot in 2004, she was coming off the “most difficult job” of her TV career, writing on “Wonderfalls.” In an interview for Variety’s cover story about “Grey’s Anatomy” for the magazine’s Power of Women issue, Vernoff said of the quirky Fox dramedy: “I just kept