In today’s TV news roundup, Showtime released a trailer for its docuseries, “The Comedy Store,” and “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team” has been renewed for the show’s 15th season on CMT. RENEWALS The CMT series “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team” has been renewed for a 15th season and is scheduled to premiere sometime
Regina King is not only bringing history to life with her film “One Night in Miami,” she’s making history of her own. After becoming the first Black female director to have a film at the Venice Film Festival, King and her cast reunited at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the movie’s early positive
In writer-director Emma Seligman’s hilarious, sneakily eruptive debut feature “Shiva Baby,” the acerbic Danielle is many things: an East Coast college senior majoring in gender studies; a young, bisexual Jewish woman; a sugar baby testing out the transactional powers of her sexuality. That last slice of her identity is a leap, but it’s the one
Running Sept. 18-26, and aiming to maintain an on-site format and all its main sections, 2020’s 68th San Sebastian Film Festival takes place in extraordinary times. The impact of COVID-19 will play out throughout the festival, for bad and for good. Here are some high-lights of an extraordinary edition of the biggest movie event in
Actress Chloë Grace Moretz stars in “Shadow in the Cloud,” an action/horror film about a female World War II pilot. Warning, small spoiler talk ahead. The film, which follows an officer named Maude Garrett, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12. As part of Variety‘s Virtual TIFF studio, presented by Canada Goose,
It’s been seven years since the Boston Marathon bombing put the Massachusetts capital in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and beyond the odd bright flash of #BostonStrong graffiti on a shabby streetscape, it’s not discussed directly in “City Hall.” It doesn’t need to be: Its community-wide burden of grief, caution and a shared
The original pilot for “Game of Thrones” was virtually unrecognizable compared to the one shown to audiences in 2011. Everything from hairstyles to actors to major scenes had to be reconsidered after the initial pilot failed to land with HBO executives in the early stages of the show’s development. Entertainment Weekly published an excerpt from
Bleecker Street has picked up the U.S. rights to director Alexis Bloom’s animated documentary “The Klarsfelds,” which centers on real-life Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. “Alexis and the team are creating a provocative and thrilling account of two of the most legendary Nazi hunters,” Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen said in a statement announcing
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Leona Lewis and record producer/reality singing competition tycoon Simon Cowell may have parted ways professionally when the sultry songstress left his Syco Record label five years ago, but it seems Lewis’s former mentor still has her back. The British-born pop chanteuse, discovered in 2006 on the U.K’s “X-Factor,” which Cowell created and served as a
BBC America is set to premiere “CripTales,” a collection of short films from creatives with disabilities, on Oct. 1 at 10 p.m., Variety has learned exclusively. For National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the six-part series will be available to stream across the digital platforms of BBC America, AMC, IFC, Sundance TV and AMC Plus. “’CripTales’ brings
HBO is developing a drama series that boasts Lily Rabe among its executive producers. The project is currently titled “The Big D.” Set during a hot and hotly contested summer in Dallas 1980, the show follows a triangle of women as their lives collide to unearth a secret past involving the city’s would-be First Lady,
At this point, there are several things you’re almost sure to encounter when diving into one of Ryan Murphy’s gilded television worlds. No matter where or when it’s set, the show will have impeccable, eye-popping costume and production design. No matter how it unfolds, it will do its damndest to shock and awe, probably by
“My mom can hardly see, so I want the whole world to see us.” That’s what MCA Abdul, the 12-year-old from Gaza who recently went viral when a video of him rapping while flanked by his schoolmates was posted to Instagram, told me when we first got on the phone to talk. He was describing
In her debut feature film, “Why Not You,” writer-director Evi Romen explores the tragic consequences of a deadly attack in a gay club in Rome and the ostracization of outsiders in a small South Tyrolean community in northern Italy. The story follows Mario, a troubled but artistic young man, portrayed by Thomas Prenn (“Biohackers”), who
During an interview at Variety’s virtual studio at the Toronto International Film Festival, Kate Winslet — who stars in the festival’s lesbian romance “Ammonite” — elaborated on the regrets she recently expressed about working with directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. In an interview with Vanity Fair that published last week, Winslet talked about how the #MeToo
Check out the official Trailer for The Nest starring Jude Law! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Visit Fandango: http://www.fandango.com/?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: September 18, 2020
AMC has ordered a stop-motion animation dramedy that hails from Steve Conrad and the team at “Robot Chicken” producer Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. The series is titled “Mega City Smiths.” The story, unfolding via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters, hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of
For two and a half hours on Sunday night, the latest Verzuz episode — the DJ battle where two hip-hop or R&B legends compare their catalogs in (usually) friendly competition — was more like a cross between a mutual-admiration society, a church service and a good talking-to from your mother. The Sept. 13 session matched
“Cuties” filmmaker Maimouna Doucouré says that Netflix’s initial marketing campaign opened up the film to a level of criticism that it didn’t receive after its Sundance Film Festival debut in January, and that she’s fighting “the same fight” as her critics. Speaking on Monday as part of a virtual 10 Talents to Watch panel hosted
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is adding to his already deep roster of shows at Starz, with the premium cabler developing two new shows on which Jackson will serve as executive producer under his rich Starz overall deal. Both shows will be produced by Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television. The first series is an untitled drama
HBO’s “Watchmen” walked away the big winner at the 2020 Television Critics Assn. (TCA) Awards, picking up four trophies: program of the year; new program; outstanding achievement in movie, miniseries or special; and individual achievement in drama, for actor Regina King. Pop’s “Schitt’s Creek” was the second-biggest winner, earning two trophies this year: outstanding achievement
Netflix has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to a new animated take on Norman Lear’s classic sitcom “Good Times.” Lear and his Act III Prods. shingle is partnering with basketball star Steph Curry and his production company, Unanimous Media, as well as Seth MacFarlane and his shingle Fuzzy Door, to develop the show. Both Act
Real-life couple Ben Lewis (“Arrow”) and Blake Lee (“Fam”) have been cast in “The Christmas Setup,” Lifetime’s first-ever LGBTQ-lead original holiday movie, while Jacky Lai (“V-Wars”), Tony Giroux (“Motherland: Fort Salem”) and Tzi Ma (“Mulan”) will star in “A Sugar & Spice Holiday,” centered on an Asian American Family, the network announced Monday. Lifetime also
Big Sean lived up to his name by debuting on top of the weekly album rankings with “Detroit 2.” It collected 97,400 album units to lead the Rolling Stone album chart, as Taylor Swift finally ceded the top spot after a historic six-week run at No. 1 for “Folklore.” 6ix9ine’s “TattleTales” didn’t do nearly as
“I’m having an old friend for dinner”-Hannibal Lecter, “The Silence of the Lambs” Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Spencer Tracy. Besides being some of history’s finest performers, they are also the select few that have won two Academy Awards for best actor, with just Daniel Day-Lewis
Check out the official The Trial of the Chicago 7 Teaser Trailer starring Eddie Redmayne! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Visit FandangoNOW: http://www.fandangonow.com/?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release
UPDATED: CAA has agreed to sign a franchise agreement with the Writers Guild of America, Variety has learned, but the guild says it will not accept the terms as presented by the agency powerhouse. Per a statement sent out by the agency, CAA has agreed to the same terms that ICM agreed to when it
Sunday night saw the gigantic new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood christened with a “” kick off between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. While the game itself ended with a narrow victory for the Rams, the numbers for the game were hardly a victory for NBC. According to early Nielsen numbers, around 15
Khalid, Post Malone, J. Cole and producer Nick Mira among the top honorees as BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) unveiled its annual list of winners for the R&B/hip-hop awards Monday morning. Song of the year honors went to Khalid’s “Talk,” which had also been nominated for record of the year at the 2020 Grammys. As a