In another major blow to movie theaters, Disney announced “Mulan” will forgo its planned theatrical release. Instead, the live-action remake is premiering on Disney Plus on Sept. 4 for a premium rental price. Unlike the rest of the content available on Disney Plus, “Mulan” won’t come with a subscription to the service. Consumers in the
Fox Corporation said net income in its fiscal fourth quarter tumbled despite only a slight decline in revenue after the company exited a multi-year rights agreement with the U.S Golf Association and grappled with conditions set by the coronavirus pandemic. The owner of Fox News Channel, Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports, said net income during
Even amid a pandemic that has battered major parts of its business, including theme parks and studio entertainment, Disney flexed the power of its streaming service Tuesday, releasing whopper subscriber figures and announcing that its tentpole film “Mulan” will bypass American theaters and go straight to Disney Plus next month. Disney Plus now has over
Gen Z studio Brat TV has announced that the seventh season of “Chicken Girls” will release on Sept. 1, featuring brand new cast members. The updated cast will be led by 11-year-old Hayley LeBlanc, who is following in the footsteps of her older sister Annie, the previous star of the series. Also joining the cast
Giovanni Cianci, music producer of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” since 2017, has been let go from the show after a woman accused him of sexual misconduct in a 2010 incident, Variety has learned. “Gio is no longer employed by the show,” says a source with knowledge of the situation. Variety has reached out
The Walt Disney Company was brutalized by the coronavirus pandemic, which shuttered its parks and delayed the release of its films, setbacks that nearly sliced its revenues in half during its most recent fiscal quarter. And yet the big takeaway will not be the lackluster results, but the company’s bold decision to upend the way
Drugs, alcohol, more than half a billion dollars vanished and allegations of domestic violence. These are the makings of a PR nightmare, enough to ruin even the biggest star’s career. But for Johnny Depp, these headlines have become his reality, as the damaged A-lister undergoes a messy trial in the public eye where he has
Phil Schiller, Apple’s top marketing exec who has served in senior marketing roles at the tech giant over a career spanning more than 30 years, is stepping into a new role at the company as an “Apple Fellow.” In the new role, Schiller will still report to Apple CEO Tim Cook. As an Apple Fellow,
For Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, we interviewed TikTok stars about their lives in quarantine. Noah Schnapp goes to a regular school with normal people and cringes when his parents watch him on TikTok. He just got a Husky and regularly makes videos with his sister, Chloe. He also just so happens to star
Check out the official I Am Woman Trailer starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey! 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 11, 2020
Neil Young has made good on his threat to file a lawsuit against the Donald Trump campaign over its continued — and he contends legally unauthorized — use of his music for political purposes. Among the songs at issue in the suit is “Rockin’ in the Free World,” a long-contentious staple of the president’s campaign
Irish actor Colm Meaney reflects on his relationship with “Midnight Express” and “Evita” director Alan Parker, who died last week. I first met Alan in 1990 when auditioning for “Come See the Paradise”, his remarkable and, I think, under-appreciated film about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two. He was seated across a table,
Amy Adams and Adam McKay are coming together again for a Netflix limited series about a class action lawsuit against Walmart. Titled “Kings of America,” the series is based on real events and centers on the stories of three women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world’s largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick
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Jake Gyllenhaal and his Nine Stories production company signed a first-look feature film production deal with New Republic Pictures, the company headed by Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer. Gyllenhaal has previously collaborated with Oliver on “Everest” and Fischer on David Fincher’s “Zodiac.” Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker launched Nine Stories in 2015 and have teamed on “Stronger,”
Following his star turn in “Jauja,” a major hit at the 2014 Cannes Festival, Viggo Mortensen will re-team with Argentine director Lisandro Alonso on “Eureka,” one of the boldest upcoming art films from Latin America. Mortensen, who takes the lead role in “Eureka’s” first part, will be joined by France’s Chiara Mastroianni, a Cesar Award
For Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, we interviewed TikTok stars about their lives in quarantine. Emma Chamberlain is blonde again. “I was like, ‘Okay, I’m just going to dye my hair because I just want to feel something,’” said the internet “it” girl in a Zoom interview with Variety. Chamberlain, who rose to YouTube
Sony has bought the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” The studio plans to release the movie in theaters around Thanksgiving in 2022. Stella Meghie (“The Photograph”) directed the film from a script by Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Darkest Hour”). Music producer Clive Davis is producing “I
As the future of TikTok hangs in the balance, the general manager of the Chinese-owned app’s operations in North American said she wanted to “dispel any disinformation” — saying that none of TikTok’s businesses are based in China itself. However, in practical terms, any distinction between TikTok’s U.S.-based operations and its ownership by Beijing-based ByteDance
Rupert Wainwright will no longer direct “Not Without Hope,” a survival drama with Miles Teller that was scheduled to start shooting in the Dominican Republic this August. The filmmaker’s exit is being attributed to “creative differences.” The production is now looking for a new director, a search that will likely push back filming by at
Netflix has released a trailer for “Ratched,” its upcoming Nurse Mildred Ratched origin story starring Sarah Paulson, which is set to premiere Sept. 18 on the streaming service. The three-minute trailer introduces Mildred (Paulson), who moves to Northern California for a job at a leading psychiatric hospital. She presents herself as a perfect delicate nurse,
Like many of his dance music peers used to spending 200-plus days of the year playing to packed, sweaty crowds, DJ-producer Dillon Francis turned to virtual DJ sets to stay productive. and employed, during quarantine. But even for an artist used to playing multiple festivals a week, the impact on his output outside of DJ
Disgruntled employees at games developer Blizzard Entertainment — some of whom reportedly earn only minimum wage — have shared their compensation details in an internal document, hoping to spur the company to pay workers more fairly. According to a Bloomberg report, a company employee created a spreadsheet and encouraged others to share their compensation info
Samuel L. Jackson’s latest project, a docuseries which is looking to shed new light on 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World, has set its premiere date. Titled “Enslaved,” the six-part Epix series will premiere Sept. 14 in the U.S., and on Oct. 18 on CBC in Canada. The series uses
Dwayne Johnson made headlines earlier this week for acquiring the XFL, and the good news kept on coming for the former WWE star, as his NBC show “Titan Games” was the highest-rated programming on Monday night. The athletic competition series scored a 0.7 rating among adults 19-49 and around 3.7 million total viewers. That’s pretty
Capitol Records has promoted Arjun Pulijal to senior vice president of marketing for Capitol Records. Previously vp of marketing for the label since 2017, in his new position, Pulijal will lead the department and oversee all campaigns for the Capitol roster, which includes Katy Perry, Sam Smith, Migos and Lewis Capaldi. He’ll remain based out
The last dance is looming for Google Play Music, the subscription service that will be fully subsumed into YouTube Music by December 2020, the internet company announced. In streamlining its music offerings, Google is coming down the home stretch of a months-long migration of users from Google Play Music — which will start shutting down
SiriusXM and Pandora are teaming up to launch a joint weekly chart and playlist, the Top Thumb Hundred, which will collect the top 100 “most-thumbed-up” new songs on Pandora. The same user data will be used to create a weekly countdown radio show on SiriusXM’s Pandora Now channel. The two services’ Top Thumb Hundred chart
BTS, Doja Cat and J Balvin will perform at MTV’s 2020 Video Music Awards, airing live on Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. The show will feature BTS’ first VMA performance and the TV debut of the group’s new English single, “Dynamite,” set for release on Aug. 21. Last year, the South Korean boy band (RM,