There’s hardly been a more charged, fascinating moment in TV this summer than Jada Pinkett Smith sitting at her famed Red Table with her husband, Will Smith, to talk about their marriage like never before. In the 25 years they’ve been married, Pinkett Smith in particular has cultivated a brand borne of her willingness to
Organizers of the Palm Springs International Film Festival have announced that the 32nd edition of the event has been pushed back nearly two months to run from Feb. 25 through March 8. The festival, which had been set to open on Jan. 7, said, “The date change is to ensure the health and safety of our
AMC Theatres reached a debt agreement on Friday that could help the heavily leveraged exhibition chain avoid or at least forestall a liquidity crisis. Under the deal, Silver Lake Group will purchase $100 million in first lien notes, adding to the $600 million in convertible bonds that it already holds in AMC. The company, which is
Just a week after the posthumous release of Pop Smoke’s debut album, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon” comes another new album from yet another young rapper gone far too soon. Brooklyn drill master Pop Smoke and Chicago emo-inflected MC Juice WRLD were both lively innovators, utilizing melancholy, memorable and at times pretty melodies to
The Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins comedy “The Moodys” is getting a second season at Fox. The series, which follows a tight-knit but dysfunctional family, is an adaptation of Australian series “A Moody Christmas” from The Jungleboys Entertainment and Australian Broadcasting Corporation. CBS Television Studios is the studio behind the show. “The Moodys” debuted as
The search for “Glee” star Naya Rivera continues on Lake Piru in Ventura County, Calif., but searchers have scaled back operations amid difficult conditions underwater. Rivera went missing after renting a boat with her 4-year-old son on Wednesday afternoon. After she did not return to the rental stand on time, workers found her boat on
When Paul Cantelon was tapped by first-time feature director Harry Mavromichalis to score “Olympia,” the documentary on Academy Award-winning actress, Olympia Dukakis, he was more than prepared to craft music that underscored her Greek heritage. When Cantelon’s preacher father met his first-chair trumpeter mother, their family life becomes one of traveling evangelical tent meetings with
Since its debut “Unsolved Mysteries” has been sitting atop Netflix’s “Top 10” queue and while executive producer Terry Dunn Meurer is obviously “thrilled” with the reception of the streaming revival, Meurer also admits the production team “would be happier” if they could have solved the majority of cases explored within. But perhaps they still can.
Rapper YG might be severing professional ties to Nicki Minaj following her collaboration with Tekashi 6ix9ine. During an interview with Los Angeles’ Real 92.3 on Thursday, YG was asked how he felt about Minaj’s recent track with the controversial rainbow-haired rapper and if he would want to work with her again. “I don’t know, my
This unusual summer movie season continues this weekend with a particularly diverse batch of high profile releases hitting a variety of streaming platforms, along with the flow of independent and foreign films continuing to premiere on video-on-demand services. The romantic comedy “Palm Springs” made headlines when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
In the latest episode of Variety Critics Corner presented by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, director Alice Winocour spoke with Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge to discuss representing motherhood on screen and training as research for her film “Proxima.” “I thought in cinema, you don’t see very often [a character] being an astronaut and
Despite a pandemic that has forced many Americans to shelter at home, Nielsen will, after all, follow through on its plans to chase TV viewers in bars, hotels and offices. After meeting with a storm of criticism from TV networks, Nielsen is expected to reverse its recent decision to delay the inclusion of so-called “out
Less interesting subjects than Olympia Dukakis have been profiled in more compelling documentaries than Harry Mavromichalis’ “Olympia,” a fervently admiring but scattered and sometimes scatty portrait of a woman who is anything but. Although peppered with tantalizingly salty-mouthed anecdotes and wry observations on aging, sexuality, outsider status and the art of performance, the film is
Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures are teaming up on “American Skyjacker: The Final Flight of Martin McNally,” a new podcast about a hijacker whose idolization of D.B. Cooper ended in a 37-year prison stint. The 10-part series will debut on all platforms on July 21. The podcast will take listeners back to the late 1960s
Streaming platform Pandora has unveiled its Most-Thumbed Movie Songs Playlist. Based on Pandora listeners’ thumbs-up activity, 102 of the most popular movie songs were rounded up. Among the most-thumbed tracks are “Earned It” by the Weeknd from “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth from “Furious 7” and “A
Variety’s first virtual invite-only Power of Law event, presented by City National Bank, will be held on July 15. Variety Power of Law is tied to the annual Legal Impact Report, which profiles the top attorneys working in entertainment and media. City National Bank’s chief executive officer Kelly Coffey will participate in an interview with
Jada Pinkett Smith followed up on her promise to bring herself to the Red Table. In a surprise episode, Pinkett Smith sat down with her husband, Will Smith, to address recent rumors regarding the status of their relationship. R&B singer August Alsina stirred up controversy on June 30 when he claimed in an interview with
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Johnny Depp alleged that his former wife Amber Heard or one of her friends defecated in their bed, a court heard on Friday — the fourth day of his libel trial in London against the publisher of The Sun newspaper. Depp said the incident was “a fitting end to the relationship.” Depp is suing Rupert
UPDATED: Amazon instructed company staff to delete TikTok from their phones because of potential “security risks” earlier Friday — but the ecommerce giant now says that was sent by mistake. “This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error,” an Amazon spokesman said in a statement to Variety. “There is no change
And the battle between the two Lady A’s — mega-successful white country band v. obscure Black blues singer — continues. Now lawyers are involved, and no matter who ends up being victorious in the quest to stake a legal claim to the name, the Lady A formerly known as Lady Antebellum has already lost. The
Along with the pandemic-induced avalanche of new songs dropping every week is an increasing number of pandemic-inspired songs. Initially they were largely about either loneliness or hopeful optimism, and most of them still are, but huge props to Avenue Beat for being the ones to say “F— 2020”: December 31st, I grabbed a beerThrew it
For Burt Bacharach, what it’s all about is continuing to write and record music. Not many pop legends in their 90s are releasing new music this year instead of fondly gazing at their trophy shelves, but Bacharach, one of the most celebrated songwriters in pop history, has found a new partner and muse in Daniel
Capitol Records has hired Chris Turner as senior director of A&R, reporting to Jeff Vaughn, who was named president of the label in December 2019. Turner was previously an A&R executive at L.A. Reid’s HitCo Entertainment, signing the popular acts Yella Beezy and Rubi Rose. Prior to HitCo, he signed hip-hop group Devine Council to
Twentieth Century Fox Television has signed “Hamilton” and “Fosse/Verdon” director-producer Thomas Kail and producer Jennifer Todd to a new overall deal, through which they have created a new TV company that will develop for all platforms under Kail’s Old 320 Sycamore banner. “Jennifer and I have been looking to find a project together for years,”
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Love,” the penultimate episode of “The Bold Type” Season 4. Meghann Fahy knows Freeform’s “The Bold Type” isn’t necessarily the most realistic, but in an interview with the Variety “After-Show,” she recognizes Sutton’s slow rise from assistant to junior stylist as a true-to-life arc.
This year’s virtual Comic-Con@Home has announced its schedule for Friday, July 24. The highlights are below. The virtual event replaces the annual San Diego Comic-Con, the largest fan convention in North America, which was to be held July 22–26 at the San Diego Convention Center, until the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation. In June, Comic-Con
“The Killing” may have been ahead of its time. Veena Sud’s crime drama, which first ran on AMC and was later picked up by Netflix, delivered a 13-episode first season in 2011 that declined to solve the central mystery of who killed small-town teen Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay). When the season ended that June, there
Alternate history series have been all the rage for quite a few months now, something “Watchmen” executive producer Damon Lindelof says could be happening because “alternate history is just more palatable than real history.” His HBO limited series adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel of the same name explores the 1921 Tulsa
With the debut of Quibi, the short form categories at the Emmys may never be the same. The launch of the mobile streaming service hasn’t exactly been smooth: There were early questions about its business plan and whether consumers would want to pay for such content when free platforms including YouTube exist, subscriptions have already