Billie Eilish, Metallica, Lizzo, Coldplay, Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monáe, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys and many others will perform in a 10-hour, globally broadcast, multi-location concert on Sept. 26, 2020, as part of a year-long initiative titled, “Global Goal Live: The Possible Dream.” Created in partnership with advisory firm Teneo, the globally broadcasted event will span
Elton John opens up to the BBC in a new TV special, “Elton John: Uncensored,” about his childhood, stardom and battles with addiction. BBC Studios, the commercial and production arm of the British pubcaster, has the exclusive distribution rights and will bring the TV special to the international market. In a separate BBC radio show,
“Modern Family” co-creator Steve Levitan is extending his relationship with 20th Century Fox Television, inking a multi-year overall deal at the studio and effectively joining the Walt Disney family. He will create, write, develop, direct and supervise series projects for 20th, and continue to oversee “Modern Family” with co-creator and executive producer Chris Lloyd through
In today’s TV news roundup, Starz announces new and returning cast members for “The Spanish Princess” and Bravo sets the Season 12 premiere date for “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” CASTING Hulu has announced AnnaSophia Robb will play the younger version of Reese Witherspoon’s character Elena Richardson and Tiffany Boone will play the younger version of
New Cadence Productions has set a first-look development pact with WarnerMedia to produce comedy specials and to develop a series for WarnerMedia platforms. Headed by writer-producer Jeff Valdez, New Cadence launched earlier this year as a production venture designed to develop series and other content from Latinx creators, actors, directors and producers. Valdez’s partners in
The next season of the Overwatch League is going to look a lot different. After this weekend’s big Grand Finals event in Philadelphia, the league will look to Season 3, which will fully adopt a home-and-away format, the first e-sports league to do so. Each of the 20 teams will host at least two homestands
Terence Carter is leaving 20th Century Fox Television to become co-president and head of television at Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios, overseeing TV production and development there. “Terence’s deep relationships with creators, commitment to collaboration, and remarkable experience across television genres make him an excellent leader and creative force,” said Westbrook co-founders
At the eleventh hour, Endeavor has pulled its plan for a public offering of shares on Friday in the face of lukewarm investor reaction to the company’s financials and instability in the IPO market in recent weeks. A knowledgable source confirmed that Endeavor has tabled plans to go public as of Friday with an offering
The upcoming Netflix comedy series “Space Force” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned. John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Tawny Newsome, and Diana Silvers will all appear in series regular roles, while Jimmy O. Yang and Alex Sparrow have landed recurring guest star roles. They join previously announced cast member Steve Carell, who is
Oscar-nominated performer Andrea Bocelli will receive Variety’s inaugural Intl. Achievement in Music award in December. Throughout the course of his career spanning almost three decades, Bocelli has sold in excess of 90 million albums and achieved new levels of crossover success with his 15 recorded pop and classical albums, three greatest hits albums, and nine
Apple TV Plus this month moved off a project in which Richard Gere was set to play a Vietnam veteran whose life is upended when the woman he loved 50 years ago dies in a car crash. According to the logline for the shelved series, her death leads to his and another character’s “lifelong regrets
Elon Musk’s Tesla is adding a bevy of new entertainment options with the latest system software update for its electric vehicles. The new Tesla Theater feature lets owners of Model S, Model X, and Model 3 vehicles connect to Netflix, YouTube and Hulu (or Hulu with Live TV) accounts to stream video from the cars’
September 26, 2019 1:44PM PT Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings has partnered with independent marketing company, record label and publisher, 740 Project. Based in Los Angeles, 740 was founded by partners Jesse “Punch” Edwards, Rahim Wright and Charley Greenberg and amassed an impressive client roster that includes Migos, Lil Baby, H.E.R., Trippie Redd, Lil Uzi Vert,
September 26, 2019 1:39PM PT Facebook is getting ready to test whether hiding like counts will make for better conversations: The company will begin to hide the number of likes and other key engagement metrics from posts in Australia this coming Friday, it announced Thursday. “We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and
The Stana Katic series “Absentia” has been picked up for a third season at Amazon, Variety has learned. In addition, Geoff Bell and Josette Simon are joining the cast, while Will Pascoe (“Orphan Black,” “Shut Eye”) has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner. “Absentia” centers on FBI agent Emily Byrne (Katic), and the new season opens
September 26, 2019 1:27PM PT Singapore has chosen Yeo Siew Hua’s “A Land Imagined” as its entry to the international feature film category at the Oscars. The film follows a construction worker from China who goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and an insomniac police investigator who is on the case. It bowed
“The Blackcoat’s Daughter” director Osgood Perkins has signed on to write and direct the supernatural thriller “Incident at Fort Bragg” for Lionsgate. The project is inspired by the true story of Irish priest Malachi Martin, who was brought in by the U.S. government to perform a sanctioned exorcism on a young soldier at Fort Bragg,
It’s a pretty great time to be Jennifer Lopez. Fresh off her much buzzed performance in the movie “Hustlers,” the multi-talented performer has announced she will be hosting the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show alongside Shakira. The duo follow in the recent footsteps of Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, and Lady
September 26, 2019 1:00PM PT Showtime has renewed the Kirsten Dunst-led comedy series “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” for a second season. Dunst stars as Krystal Stubbs, a minimum-wage water park employee in 1990s Florida who lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise (FAM) — the cultish,
Natalie Portman has a long history with space. She’s been to a galaxy far, far away in “Star Wars,” traveled between worlds for “Thor,” and now she’s playing an astronaut in “Lucy in the Sky.” But first, she had to put on the spacesuit. “It was really complicated. I was shocked at how many people
“We are building AR glasses.” When Facebook’s vice president of augmented and virtual reality Andrew Bosworth officially announced the company’s plans to build a consumer augmented reality (AR) device during its Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, he spilled one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets. Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
Yandy, the costume company behind risqué Mr. Rogers and hot tariff, has debuted a fizzy new Halloween number in the form of a sexy White Claw can—just in time for spooky season. The so-called “Hard Outlaw” two-piece costs $54.95 and features the words “Outlaw, Party Hard” (a play on the meme “Ain’t no laws when
Subscribers to the Dish satellite service found themselves without stations and sports networks owned by Fox Corporation Thursday after the two sides found themselves at loggerheads over a new carriage deal. Dish and Fox have been haggling for weeks over new terms. And each company blamed the other for the situation. In a statement, Fox
Finn Wittrock and Zoe Chao have signed on to star in the independent romance drama “Long Weekend” from writer-director Steve Basilone. The cast includes Damon Wayans, Jr., Casey Wilson, Wendy McLendon-Covey and Jim Rash. Wittrock plays a struggling writer, with Chao as an enigmatic woman who suddenly enters his life. Wayans Jr. and Wilson portray
Despite becoming the first female director to receive the 2019 pioneer of the year award from the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, “Charlie’s Angels” helmer Elizabeth Banks told Variety that directing wasn’t necessarily always her goal. “It was something that I dabbled in and something that I did in college and over time, I
Arthouse cinema isn’t generally inclined toward “Alien vs. Predator”-style franchise mashups, but if some kind of icy faceoff were engineered between the troubled, seething music instructors of Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher” and Ina Weisse’s “The Audition,” all bets would be off. As played with customary, finely razored emotional control by Nina Hoss, violin teacher
To say that Tuesday’s announcement of the Latin Grammy nominations got a strong reaction from artists, producers and industry insiders is a major understatement: The Latin Recording Academy found itself under a hailstorm of criticism for what many considered a snubbing of the urban Latin music genre. Within hours, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Natti Natasha,
In a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kourtney Kardashian FaceTimes Kim to get her opinion on an ultra-short mini dress covered in a mosaic of cotton candy-colored rhinestones. “It’s vintage Dior,” the doyenne of reality television brags of the piece, which she winds up wearing to Kylie’s skincare launch event. The Kardashians
There’s a certain breed of scuzzy inept criminal yokel — he’s the sap trying to hide what he did, but doing it in such an amateur way that his scheme devolves into a shambolic mess — who has become inseparable, in movies, from a kind of downscale-heartland-of-America hipster satire. The Coen brothers, in a number
Amazon ranks as the biggest purveyor of European films outside of Europe with two times more titles than Netflix, according to a report by Ampere Analysis for the European Audiovisual Observatory. European films make up 14% of all unique titles in the 79 global subscription-based VOD services across 21 countries worldwide, according the data collected