With awards season full steam ahead, the Grammys are next in line. A week’s worth of celebrations and honorary events will be scattered throughout Downtown Los Angeles and West Hollywood in the last week of January leading up to the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4. Spotify will throw its annual Best New Artist party
The early-release version of Warner Bros. Games‘ “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” had a weird glitch that let players “have full story completion” after logging on for the first time — prompting the game’s developer to pull the title offline as it sought to fix the issue. “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” is
It wasn’t child’s play, but Paramount Global has sold out all commercial inventory tied to a coming simulcast of Super Bowl LVIII set to air on Nickelodeon. The big NFL extravaganza will largely be seen via its February 11 broadcast on CBS, but Paramount is testing whether it can expand the event’s audience by running
Warner Bros. Discovery probably won’t see a transformative M&A deal this year — and given negative trends in its TV and streaming businesses, Wells Fargo analysts issued a downgrade on the media conglomerate’s stock. Wells Fargo on Monday downgraded its rating on WBD stock from Equal Weight from Overweight and trimmed its price target from
Just days after Amazon Prime Video announced that it was pressing pause on its original content production in Africa, leading local streaming service Showmax is gearing up for a February relaunch boosted by NBCUniversal’s Peacock technology and bolstered by an ambitious content offering that will see the streamer unveiling 21 new African originals next month
Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah’s production shingle SpectreVision is partnering with former co-founders of the pop culture collectibles company Mondo to launch Mutant, a new art and collectibles venture. Mutant CEO Jenny Jacobi will lead a team comprised of Spencer Hickman, Eric Garza, Mitch Putnam and Mo Shafeek, who worked until 2023 as creative directors for
Kate Hudson, the star of “Almost Famous,” “Glass Onion” and other screen projects, is making good on her longstanding promise to launch a music career as well, announcing Monday that she has signed with Virgin Music Group to release her recordings. Hudson’s first single, “Talk About Love,” is due out Tuesday. The song was co-written
Taylor Sheridan‘s upcoming Paramount+ series “Landman” has added four new series regulars, Variety has learned exclusively. Kayla Wallace (“When Calls The Heart”), frequent Sheridan collaborator James Jordan (“Yellowstone”) Mark Collie (“Nashville”) and Paulina Chávez (“The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia”) have all joined the series alongside previously announced lead Billy Bob Thornton and fellow series
Depending on whom you ask, Don Lemon is planting his feet firmly in media’s next frontier. Or its last one. The former CNN star anchor is the latest in a parade of onetime TV-news personnel to dip their toes into the entrepreneurial waters of digital and social media. He announced in early January that he
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With big advertisers demonstrating mixed feelings about TV ad spending, Paramount Global is making a new move to court their smaller counterparts. Paramount Global set a new senior vice president over its efforts to win small-and-medium-sized advertisers, another nod of the growing importance of non-traditional market segments to the business of TV, which has long
Welcome back to Lumon. “Severance” Season 2 has returned to production, which was delayed for months due to the Hollywood strikes. Season 2 of the popular Apple TV+ thriller stopped shooting in May 2023 when the Writers Guild of America first went on strike against the studios represented by the AMPTP. The writers strike ended
Britney Spears is all for Justin Timberlake‘s musical comeback, despite what her fans may think. In a Sunday night post on her Instagram (which is now private), Spears praised Timberlake’s new song, “Selfish,” while also apologizing for “some of the things” she wrote in her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” “I wanna apologize for some
Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden lead the cast of science fiction movie “Rogue Trooper,” written and directed by Duncan Jones, whose credits include “Moon,” “Source Code,” “Warcraft” and “Mute.” The animated film, which is being created with Epic’s 3D tool Unreal Engine 5, was adapted by Jones from the comic book published by
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Bill Murray, who suits back up as Peter Venkman in “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” out March 22. Murray isn’t the only franchise favorite to return for the chilly sequel, which sees the Big Apple covered in ice after an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force.
Media talent discovery app Husslup has moved from invite-only beta phase to a public launch of its service. The app, which allows allows media industry users a database to find above- and below-the-line freelancers for hire, has also introduced a demographic report of hires for companies to achieve their diversity goals. Husslup offers a database
U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4 has confirmed the 200 layoffs that were being planned earlier this month. The broadcaster is proposing to reduce headcount by 18% – around 200 redundancies – and the closure of some 40 unfilled roles. The layoffs are amid a continuous decline in TV advertising. The cost cutting also includes moving out
Copenhagen-based LevelK has pounced on world sales rights to the Swedish suspense thriller “Hunters on a White Field,” toplining stellar acting trio Jens Hultén (“Skyfall”, “Mission Impossible Rogue Nation”), Magnus Krepper (“The Promised Land,” “Queen of Hearts”) and Ardalan Esmaili (“The Charmer,” “Snabba Cash”). The pic will bow as an exclusive market screening at Göteborg’s
“Bird,” Andrea Arnold‘s first narrative feature in almost a decade, has been picked up by Cornerstone Films with the company set to launch the feature at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Little is known about the film, except that it was shot in the U.K. around the Kent area last summer and, like
Italian actor Sandra Milo, known for memorable roles in Federico Fellini’s “8½” and “Juliet of the Spirits” as well as her work with Roberto Rossellini, died on Monday at her Rome home. She was 90. News of Milo’s death was announced on social media by her daughters, Debora and Azzurra, and son Ciro, who said
It’s official: Taylor Swift is heading to the Super Bowl. And by Taylor Swift, we mean her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who led his team to victory against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night and clinched a spot in Feb. 11’s big game. Swift was on hand Sunday night to celebrate
Please don’t stop the music: Anne Fontaine isn’t done with it just yet. Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another melodic project. “It’s about a character who was a star at 10 years old. He had a ‘magic’ voice, but then he suddenly lost it.
The line sprawling along the corridors and staircases of De Doelen, the heart of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, alerted passersby that there was a star in town. The actor in question? German thesp Sandra Hüller, at the festival to support Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and to give an in-depth talk about her
LUCK IS A LADY Margot Robbie, lead actor and producer of “Barbie,” is to be awarded the AACTA Trailblazer Award next month by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. Hailing originally from Queensland, the presentation will be a homecoming of sort for Robbie. The award will be presented to her at the 2024 AACTA
Kim Kardashian is set to both executive produce and feature in an upcoming docuseries about Elizabeth Taylor. Commissioned by the BBC, the three-part documentary — given the working title “Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar” — is coming from the Oscar-winning “Searching for Sugar Man” production house Passion Pictures, behind the recent Sundance hit “Super/Man” about Christopher Reeve. The
Viacom18 and Marflix’s Bollywood actioner “Fighter” was the highest grossing film of the weekend at the global box office, with box office revenues of $25.1 million, according to data from ComScore. The film, directed by Siddharth Anand, whose previous film, Shah Rukh Khan starrer “Pathaan,” was one of the biggest Indian hits of 2023, stars
A feature-length fully-animated version of smash hit Korean series “Yumi’s Cells” will launch next month at the European Film Market in Berlin. International rights to the property were picked up by Barunson E&A, part of the Korean Barunson conglomerate that also produced Oscar-winning live-action film “Parasite.” “Yumi’s Cells: The Movie” is a 3D feature animation
CNN Philippines is to close down on Wednesday, the company announced on Monday local time. The move means up to 300 jobs will be lost. CNN Philippines was launched in 2015 under a brand licensing agreement between Turner and Nine Media Network, a Philippines company that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ALC Group of
Once upon a time, there was the Swedish queen of crime Camilla Läckberg, steadily delivering international best-selling adult/children’s books, cook books and song lyrics. Some of her books have turned into series –“The Fjällbacka Murders” – or soon will be – “The Golden Age,’ optioned by Legendary Entertainment. One day she met Swedish star actor
SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses plot points from Episode 3 of “True Detective: Night Country,” titled “Part 3.” In the second episode of “True Detective: Night Country,” Rose (Fiona Shaw), the Ennis resident who led the police to the corpsicle of scientists, warns Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) about getting involved with the investigation. She says,