Charlie Puth, who is credited with one of the most successful movie songs of all-time, “See You Again” from the “Fast and Furious 7” (4.5 billion views on YouTube and counting), has lent his name to the upcoming animated feature “Scoob!” Collaborating with Lennon Stella, “Summer Feelings” is an upbeat tune produced by Invincible (Cardi
CMT has brought more music stars on board for a June special that is slated to pay tribute to first responders and other heroes of the pandemic, with Brandi Carlile, Carrie Underwood, Luke Combs and Sam Hunt among those being added to “CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special,” airing on June
As dubbing studios shuttered with COVID-19, Europe’s broadcasters were forced to pull U.S. shows that they couldn’t dub – France’s TF1 with “Grey’s Anatomy” – or, in the case of global platforms, sometimes release foreign series with subtitles but no audio dub. Dubbing studios are now cautiously returning to work in Spain, France and Germany,
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mega-hit, zeitgeist-tapping, precedent-breaking, Broadway smash “Hamilton” will land on Disney Plus just in time for our Nation’s birthday. The rap-infused look at Alexander Hamilton’s life and formative role in American history will now be released on the streaming service on July 3, roughly a year before it was supposed to debut. It had
U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has revealed that the country’s furlough scheme has been extended to the end of October. There will be changes from the end of July, however, with the cost of paying salaries set to be shared by the government as well as employers. Previously, the government was carrying the full burden of
As countries across the EU begin lifting lockdown restrictions, European film and TV producers are busy hammering out national physical production safety protocols with local authorities, unions and insurers. The Brussels-based European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) is gathering these single EU country production protocols and posting them on their website as part of an ongoing effort to provide
An American actor-turned-screenwriter living in Sweden, Schiaffino Musarra dared to tackle his adoptive country’s “greatest tragedy and biggest embarrassment” in his crime comedy “We Got This,” which bowed May 3 on Swedish broadcaster SVT. The show, which is repped by Banijay Rights, follows George English (Musarra),
a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who
Netflix and Italy’s Fandango are teaming up to develop a series based on “The Lying Life of Adults,” the latest novel by globally bestselling Italian novelist Elena Ferrante. The book, which became an immediate bestseller in Italy after its November 2019 publication locally, will be launched in 25 countries on September 1 and will be
The coronavirus outbreak weighed on costs at Tencent Music Entertainment, China’s largest online music business. But the stay-at-home orders helped the group to increase its paying subscriber numbers. For the first three months of the year, revenues the company showed revenues gaining by 10% to RMB6.31 billion ($891 million), and net profits down 10% to
European Film Promotion, an agency that promotes European filmmaking worldwide, has launched its flagship program, Producers on the Move, as a virtual series of events, replacing the physical events that usually take place at the canceled Cannes Film Festival. The 20 up-and-coming producers from 20 European countries selected by EFP for the 21st edition of
Vue, one of Europe’s largest cinema chains, has revealed a number of measures it will look to enforce this summer when cinemas look to reopen in the U.K. The cinema operator said it “welcomes” the government’s plan to open cinemas from July 4, which was confirmed yesterday as part of an official recovery roadmap shared
Japan’s ultra-long-running animation show “Sazae-san” has run out of fresh episodes due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on production. The show will stay on air but with repeats for the foreseeable future. The show, about a suburban housewife called Sazae, has been on air continuously since 1969. It plays on Fuji Television Network
Canadian singer Bryan Adams posted an expletive-ridden rant about his concerts that were canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. Adams shared a video of himself playing his 1983 hit “Cuts Like a Knife” on a guitar on Instagram Monday morning. In the caption, he bemoaned a series of canceled concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in
When the mobile, short-form content app Quibi launched on April 6, co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg surely wasn’t expecting it to release in the midst of a worldwide virus outbreak. In a New York Times interview, Katzenberg blames all of Quibi’s launch struggles on COVID-19. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus. Everything,” he said.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fifth episode of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.” The final four couples on “The Bachelor presents: Listen to Your Heart” headed to Las Vegas on the May 11 episode. The eight contestants packed up their bags and hopped on tour busses for a
Harry Jowsey proposed to Francesca Farago with a Ring Pop on Netflix’s reunion episode of “Too Hot To Handle,” but the breakout couple from the streaming reality show isn’t actually engaged — yet. “I asked him, like, ‘Are we engaged?’ And he’s like, ‘I asked you to marry me, so I don’t know,’” Farago told
Check out an official featurette for The King of Staten Island starring Pete Davidson! Let us know what you think in the comments below. 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 Home Release Date: June 12, 2020
The cast of “Lizzie McGuire” has finally reunited –- though not for the much-anticipated series reboot. Instead, Hilary Duff surprised fans by posting a Zoom table read to Instagram TV. The cast — including Jake Thomas as Lizzie’s little brother Matthew, Adam Lamberg as Gordo, Lalaine as Miranda and Hallie Todd and Robert Carradine as
ABC unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming highlight show “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” on Monday night. The series, which was originally titled “The Bachelor: The Most Unforgettable – Ever!,” was exclusively reported on by Variety in April. The decision to air it came after production was halted on the upcoming season of
Martin Pasko, a writer best known for working on DC properties in both comic books and television, died Sunday night of natural causes. He was 65. Former DC publisher Paul Levitz, a friend of Pasko, announced the writer’s death through a Facebook post on Monday. “The odds are you’ve read his work, credited or not,
“LA’s Finest,” a show that two years ago was passed on by NBC, only to be picked up by Spectrum’s video-on-demand service, has finally found a broadcast home in Fox. The network will air Season 1 of the Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union crime series on Mondays this fall. The move is an unusual one
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested “Ink Master” star Daniel Silva for murder, it announced Monday night. Silva was arrested in the death of YouTuber Corey La Barrie, who was a passenger with him in a car crash in Los Angeles on Sunday night, according to TMZ. It was La Barrie’s 25th birthday.
6ix9ine has officially broken the internet… again. The New York rapper was just released from prison in March due to concern over the spread of coronavirus within the corrections system and capitalized on being sprung by bragging on Instagram Live then dropping a new single and visual titled “GOOBA.” [embedded content] Breaking Eminem’s previous record
Major media and entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks said that after its internal data systems were hacked — and a vast trove of information on its clients was stolen — it has informed its roster of A-list clients of the breach. “We can confirm that we’ve been victimized by a cyberattack,” the
In the race between Kenny Chesney and Drake for the top of the album chart, the country music superstar bested his rivals in a week that saw hip-hop otherwise dominating the upper ranks of the listings, as the genre has for weeks. Chesney’s “Here and Now” enters the Rolling Stone album chart at No. 1
In today’s film news roundup, Tim Story is in talks to direct Kevin Hart in “Night Wolf,” Michael Moore calls off this year’s Traverse City Film Festival, and New York’s Israel Film Center Festival goes virtual. DIRECTOR ATTACHED STX Films is in final talks for director-producer Tim Story to re-team with Kevin Hart on the
Actor Martin Freeman and director Paul Andrew Williams joined Variety senior editor Michael Schneider in the Variety Streaming Room presented by Britbox to discuss their new true crime series, “A Confession.” Premiering on May 12, “A Confession” portrays the real-life story of Steve Fulcher, a detective who in trying to catch a woman’s killer, spurs the
Viewers shouldn’t expect much new fare during the 2020-2021 broadcast season. Last year, the broadcast networks collectively ordered 36 new series out of pilot season, on par with the historic lows of years past. This year, the number of series ordered is on track to be a fraction of that, likely somewhere between 10 and
In today’s TV News Roundup, CBS All Access announced the premiere date of Season 2 of “The Twilight Zone,” and Bravo announced the premiere date of Season 5 of “Below Deck Mediterranean.” DATES CBS All Access has announced that Season 2 of “The Twilight Zone” will premiere on June 25. All 10 new episodes of
Twitter has introduced new labels and warning messages to posts that contain “disputed or misleading information” related to COVID-19, the company said Monday. The new labels — which will be retroactively applied to older tweets — will link to a Twitter-curated page (or an external “trusted source”) with additional information on the claims. If a