Courtesy “All my friends have holes – in their bodies, in their homes and in their hearts,” Lebanese streetwear designer and creative director of La Terre est Folle Joe Arida wrote on Instagram just two weeks after a devastating explosion leveled the port area of Beirut, Lebanon. “Yet all my friends are whole, they are
As part of a long retrospective era that’s included a documentary, a speaking tour and more, the Beastie Boys will release a 20-song compilation on Oct. 23 covering their entire career called “Beastie Boys Music.” The album is available digitally, as a CD and, more interestingly, a double-LP vinyl set. The collection is a companion
Peacock is going mad for the monkey. An all-new “Curious George” animated movie is coming to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service, along with the first nine seasons of the TV series, three films and two holiday specials from the beloved franchise. Peacock original film “Curious George: Go West, Go Wild” will be available to users on
Daniele Luchetti’s “The Ties” (“Lacci”), the first Italian film to open the Venice Film Festival in 11 years, garnered warm reviews on its world premiere on Wednesday evening, and has been sold by MK2 Films in a raft of territories around the world. MK2 Films has been able to lure major distributors in key markets,
Over the next few days some 350 international movie talents and industry executives will be disembarking on the Venice Lido, coming from all corners of the world, many from countries with high Covid-19 infection rates. Those expected to be soon strutting down Venice’s unique coronavirus-era catwalk, which is shielded by an outer barrier, include multi-hyphenate
UPDATED: Robert Pattinson has tested positive for coronavirus, prompting “The Batman” to suspend filming in the United Kingdom days after it went back into production, according to a source familiar with the situation. Warner Bros. confirmed earlier on Thursday that production was being halted after a crew member tested positive but did not confirm the person’s
Film permit applications rose 40% in August over July as location production restarts in the Los Angeles area amid COVID-19 restrictions, FilmLA reported Thursday. Since it resumed operations in mid-June after the pandemic forced the film and television business to essentially shut down in March, FilmLA has received 1,127 film permit applications from 829 unique
The students who graduated this summer have never faced a more uncertain future. As they navigated the new quarantine normal, we invited college photography graduates from around the country to showcase their skills in the form of fashion images. The models were their nearest and dearest—parents, roommates, siblings, significant others—who were excited to don high
Universal Music Group has named Eric Hutcherson, former EVP and chief human resources officer of the National Basketball Association to the newly created role of executive vice president and chief people and inclusion officer, which will see him working across the company’s record labels, publishing division and operating companies worldwide. Hutcherson, whose appointment is effective
Country singer Blanco Brown received “significant injuries” in a head-on collusion Monday night and underwent 12 hours of surgery as a result of the accident, his record label announced Thursday morning. The singer, who became known for his crossover hit “The Git Up” in 2019, was said to be resting in an intensive care unit
Music documentary “Fandango at the Wall,” chronicling an extraordinary journey undertaken by musician Arturo O’Farrill and producer Kabir Sehgal — both multiple Grammy winners — to Veracruz, Mexico to recruit master musicians for a live album recording at the U.S.-Mexico border wall, is set to premiere on HBO on Sept. 25. HBO Latino and HBO
Veteran agent and former WME head of music Marc Geiger says the live-music business will rebound in a big way once the coronavirus pandemic recedes. In a conversation with Goldman Sachs’ music specialist Lisa Yang at the International Festival Forum in London on Wednesday, Geiger said the “claustrophobia economy” of the pandemic will be replaced
This week’s release of “Mulan” marks the tenth adaptation of a beloved Disney animated film to live-action, a process that began back in 1996 with “101 Dalmatians” but really took off with 2006’s “The Jungle Book.” While many may feel the originals could never be improved on, the resulting reboots have all been major hits
The future of film in an age of plague may be crystallized this weekend. That’s because after numerous delays and months of anticipation, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — the time-bending sci-fi epic that hopes to revive the beleaguered movie business — is finally hitting U.S. cinemas. But when it touches down in domestic theaters, “Tenet” will
Facebook Watch, the social giant’s two-year-old video streaming platform, has become a massive destination — now attracting over 1.25 billion users each month, the company claims. The growth of Facebook’s aggregate global video audience, which is tuning in to live events, original shows, sports, news, music videos and user-generated content, is an indicator that it’s
The Recording Academy has announced the launch of its Black Music Collective, which it describes as a group of prominent Black music creators and professionals who share the common goal of amplifying Black voices within the Academy and the music community. The move is part of a wider diversity initiative by the Academy announced earlier
Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” world is getting a lot bigger, with an untitled film prequel and an anime series in development at Netflix. “I’m incredibly excited for the opportunity to partner with Netflix again as we expand the ‘Army of the Dead’ universe with both an international prequel, as well as exploring the
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem is played by not one, not two, but four different actresses in Julie Taymor’s upcoming film “The Glorias.” In a first-look that debuted on Thursday, the nontraditional biopic features Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson and Ryan Kiera Armstrong all portraying Steinem at different stages of her life. Based on Steinem’s
New BBC director general Tim Davie, who took charge Sept. 1, replacing Tony Hall, has addressed the long-discussed issue of the license fee that is a primary funding source for the corporation. “I do not want a subscription BBC that serves the few. We could make a decent business out of it, and I suspect
Three teenagers living in an institution for people with special needs fall into an unexpected love triangle, and are suddenly forced to navigate powerful new feelings of envy and desire. As their emotions threaten to upend the carefully structured world around them, the trio find themselves increasingly willing to resort to desperate measures to find
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Facebook is continuing its campaign to try persuade Americans that it’s doing everything it can to ensure the social platform isn’t going to gum up the U.S. elections this November. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced additional steps the company is taking to help secure the “integrity” of U.S. elections by encouraging voting, steering
“No Time to Die,” the 25th movie in the James Bond franchise, unveiled an explosive new trailer on Thursday. The trailer packs a serious amount of action in its 2 1/2 minutes and features all the thrills fans of the globe-trotting superspy could hope for from a much awaited big-screen outing. In the upcoming film,
Director Pedro Almodóvar has warned that remaining “imprisoned” at home after lockdown is a “dangerous habit,” for which the only antidote is cinema. The iconic “Pain and Glory” and “Volver” director is in Venice for his short film and first English-language effort “The Human Voice,” starring Golden Lion recipient Tilda Swinton. Both were present at
Ahead of its Venice world premiere, Beta Cinema has struck a number of pre-sales for James Norton starrer “Nowhere Special” from Uberto Pasolini. The film, which will bow at the fest on Sept. 10, has sold to a slate of distributors, including ARP (France), A Contracorriente Films (Spain), PIFFL Medien (Germany), Filmladen (Austria), Filmcoopi (Switzerland),
“Love Actually” director Richard Curtis will headline a webinar on Oct. 1, co-hosted by the Royal Television Society and green charity Global Action Plan. The event, titled “Making a Drama Out of a Crisis,” aims to offer new insights into what youth audiences want to watch. Research conducted by Global Action Plan reveals that 77%
Independent U.K. production outfits Fulwell73 and Empty Room Productions have partnered to develop and co-produce a feature film based on the true story of a Welsh community that hosted a drag show to raise funds needed to bring their church back from disrepair. The project, which has the working title “Dragged to Church,” is inspired
Tilda Swinton has praised the Berlin Film Festival for its decision to adopt gender-neutral performance awards, calling the move “eminently sensible and good.” The “Human Touch” actor was speaking as part of a masterclass session at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday morning, when she was asked how she felt about Berlin’s initiative — particularly
TrustNordisk has scored a raft of key territory sales on Maria Sodahl’s “Hope,” which won the European Cinemas Label Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. “Hope” world premiered at Toronto in the Discovery section in 2019. The heartfelt drama stars Stellan Skarsgard and Andrea Braein Hovig (“All the Beauty”) as a couple with a
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić, whose latest feature, “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” world premieres Sept. 3 in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is developing a slate of new projects, including a documentary about the Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist Emerik Blum, Variety has learned exclusively. The untitled project tells the story of Blum, the founder and