MONDAY, Nov. 9 Jordan Peele ‘Horror Event’ Film Slated Universal Pictures has scheduled its untitled “Jordan Peele Horror Event” movie for July 22, 2022, without revealing any plot details. The studio has seen Peele’s two horror films — 2017’s “Get Out” and 2019’s “Us” — generate $510 million in worldwide box office as each grossed
A few more familiar faces will be joining “The Masked Singer” panelists in the coming weeks as Season 4 heads to a finale. Guest panelists who will sit behind the “Masked” desk include Niecy Nash (Nov. 11), Cheryl Hines (Nov. 18), Jay Pharoah (Thursday, Nov. 26, on a special Thanksgiving night original episode) and Craig
Dish Network announced that it will permanently shut down all of Sling Media’s Slingbox services and end support for the devices in two years, at which point they’ll no longer work. On Monday, Dish’s Sling Media unit announced that Slingbox servers will be permanently taken offline 24 months from Nov. 9, 2020. “Until then, most
Giorgos Valsamis could not have predicted where his career path would lead almost a decade ago, when, as a student of fine arts and accounting, he bought a camera to photograph the dramatic landscapes of Iceland, where he was on a study-abroad program. “It never crossed my mind that I could be a cinematographer,” Valsamis
Going through the festival circuit has been part of the awards strategy for Amazon Studios’ “Sound of Metal,” which began its journey at Sundance back in January. As its awards prospects continue to grow for star Riz Ahmed in best actor, Variety has learned exclusively his co-star, Olivia Cooke, has been confirmed to campaign for
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When you’ve landed a gig in your dream field, nothing is more addictive than taking that first step on the proverbial corporate ladder. The combination of finally “making it” but also not knowing whether it will all go away with one unforeseen gaff can be anxiety-inducing and inebriating, but sometimes it also draws out bloodthirst.
YG’s song “F— Donald Trump” is four and a half years old and was released when a Trump presidency still seemed far-fetched. But its moment truly arrived last week and particularly on Saturday, as the presidential election gripped the country and finally — apparently — resulted in Donald Trump’s defeat. The song could be heard
Romanian-born filmmaker Bogdan George Apetri has made a life for himself in New York City, since moving there 19 years ago to study film at Columbia University, where he now teaches. But for the director whose second feature film, “Unidentified,” plays in the Meet the Neighbors competition this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece’s
The top distribution executive at Neon, which handled best picture winner “Parasite,” has expressed guarded optimism that audiences will return when the COVID-19 crisis begins abating. “People truly want to get out of the house,” said distribution president Elissa Federoff during Monday’s Future of Film Conference at the start of the virtual American Film Market. She
A German-speaking juvenile offender community in northern Greece is the unlikely setting of “Daniel ‘16,” the second feature film from Dimitris Koutsiabasakos. Based on real events, it tells the story of a teenage delinquent struggling with rehabilitation in a small town near the Turkish border, who forges an unexpected bond with a young Syrian refugee.
The National Association of Theatre Owners is imploring Congress to enact federal relief legislation to save local movie theaters hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. NATO said Monday that the situation is dire and noted that the industry cannot continue to operate in its current state. It pointed out that even in places where movie theaters
Longtime NBC exec Sahara Bushue has been tapped to head unscripted television at Westbrook Studios, the company founded by Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Miguel Melendez and Ko Yada. Bushue will be tasked with growing Westbrook Studio’s footprint in the unscripted arena by developing new series and expanding its slate of projects. She will report
Kathryn Hahn has been cast in the upcoming Apple series “The Shrink Next Door,” Variety has learned. Inspired by true events documented in the Wondery and Bloomberg Media podcast of the same name, “The Shrink Next Door” is described as an eight-episode dark comedy following the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist to the stars Dr. Isaac
Warner Bros. Television Group president and chief marketing officer Lisa Gregorian is leaving the studio at the end of the year, Variety has learned exclusively. “Lisa shared that she feels this is the right time for her to leave Warner Bros., her professional home for more than 30 years,” said Ann Sarnoff, chair and CEO
TNT, TBS, and truTV are set to air blocks of HBO Max programming over the Thanksgiving holiday. The first episodes of the DC series “Titans” and the new Kaley Cuoco series “The Flight Attendant” will both air during the “Thanksgiving to the HBO Max” block, which will run from Nov. 26-29 on each network. The
It was November 6, 2018. I’d just won my third game of “Jeopardy!” and if you’d been playing the Alex Trebek drinking game, you’d have taken another sip of Chardonnay, Alex’s favorite drink. “Yeah, enjoy the moment,” Alex said. I was enjoying the moment, though I took the comment as a simple throwaway. It was,
Billie Eilish promised a new song would drop this month, and sure enough, “Therefore I Am” will arrive on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT, she announced on her social media accounts Monday afternoon. Beyond adding “I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!,” further details were not available at press time, but the song’s
“Wheel of Fortune” is the latest daytime game show to land a primetime spinoff. (Pun intended.) ABC has given a series order to “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” which will add a new version of the long-running series to the Alphabet net’s ever-growing gamer roster. Also making the move to primetime will be “Wheel of Fortune’s”
“American Housewife” co-star Carly Hughes has left the ABC sitcom, claiming discrimination and a “toxic environment” on set. Hughes’ allegations triggered an investigation by producer ABC Signature, which resulted in series creator Sarah Dunn and line producer Mark J. Greenberg exiting their roles behind the scenes, Variety has confirmed. “American Housewife” showrunners Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener
CBS announced Monday that it aims to diversify its unscripted shows by setting a target to make the casts of all such shows at least 50% Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The aim is to make the change beginning with the 2021-2022 broadcast season. Per CBS, the network will also allocate at least
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. As many across the country continue to practice self-isolation due to coronavirus, why not while away
In today’s Global Bulletin, Telepool’s Global Screen consolidates sales and acquisitions and puts Julia Weber in charge, Izzy snags six series for streaming, ITV will adapt “Our House,” Abacus Media Rights will distribute Canadian Comedy “Sort Of,” and ZDFE and taglicht team on historical cold cases. APPOINTMENT Telepool’s international distribution division Global Screen is consolidating
When you think of the music genre that’s most military-amenable, you may think country music, simply because there are so many country songs that depict military themes. But the next step may not be leaping to think about songs that reflect wartime and post-combat trauma. That’s one of the reasons a new partnership between the
UPDATED: Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line revealed Monday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the second performer slated for Wednesday’s CMA Awards telecast to have to pull out on account of a COVID-19 diagnosis. “Some of y’all guessed it,” Hubbard wrote on Instagram. “Got the Rona. Asymptomatic. Quarantining on bus.
“Domino: Battle of the Bones,” a comedy from NBA player-turned-filmmaker Baron Davis, has scored domestic distribution rights from TriCoast Entertainment. The uplifting comedy stars Snoop Dogg and David Arquette, and tells of an elderly Black man who teams with his awkward, white step-grandson to defeat his rival in a domino tournament. Davis was an Emmy
DC Comics has promoted Marie Javins to editor-in-chief following a restructuring at the company in August that put her as co-editor-in-chief alongside Michele R. Wells. The move was announced Monday by Daniel Cherry III, senior vice president and general manager of DC Comics, to whom Javins will report. “Marie intrinsically understands the power of comics
UPDATED: Two top country stars, Morgan Wallen and Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley, have called out Biden supporters celebrating in the streets as “hypocritical” and used the spontaneous rallies to buttress their positions that live concerts need to resume immediately. “Time to start booking shows,” wrote Wallen on his Instagram Story, accompanied by a photo
Will legions of remote-wielding TV viewers start to think of their set-top box or broadband hub as a kind of shopping cart? NBCUniversal struck a partnership with PayPal that it says will make the relatively new concept of buying items suggested by TV programs easier and quicker, part of a growing bid by the Comcast-owned
Arclight Films is launching international sales on the horror-thriller “The Devil to Pay,” starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catherine Dyer and Jayson Warner Smith. Arclight chairman Gary Hamilton made the announcement Monday, coinciding with the launch of the online American Film Market. The story centers on a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community, who fights to save