November 27, 2018 3:44PM PT Fox Family, the division of 20th Century Fox that focuses on a wide range of family film projects, and Chernin Entertainment are teaming on the live-action/animated family movie “Paper Lanterns,” with author Jonny Sun penning the script. Sun is the illustrator behind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New York Times bestseller “Gmorning, Gnight!:
November 27, 2018 3:31PM PT In today’s TV News Roundup, watch the trailer for the upcoming fourth season of “Fuller House.” FIRST LOOKS “Fuller House” returns for a fourth season Dec. 14 exclusively on Netflix. This season, Steve and DJ rekindle their flame, and the Tanner-Fuller-Gibblers prepare to welcome a new member of the family
Ten years after the release of Kanye West’s seminal fourth studio album “808s and Heartbreak,” producer Malik Yusef has announced an anniversary tour featuring local artists performing renditions of tracks from the album. The tour will hit 15 cities across the U.S., including New York, Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, before coming
UFC’s Rachael Ostovich Cleared to Fight Paige VanZant … ‘Fight Back On!’ 11/27/2018 3:21 PM PST Breaking News Great news for Rachael Ostovich — the fighter has been cleared to get back in the Octagon after her domestic violence incident … and now her fight with Paige VanZant is BACK ON! TMZ Sports broke the
NPR’s “Fresh Air” program has ended its association with David Edelstein following the film critic’s controversial joke about the “Last Tango in Paris” rape scene in the wake of director Bernardo Bertolucci’s death. In a Facebook post, Edelstein posted an image of the rape scene with the caption, “Even grief is better with butter,” referencing
Federal Trade Commission chairman Joseph Simmons on Tuesday said he would investigate video game loot boxes to ensure that children are being protected and parents are educated on the matter. Simmons testified Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security about the commission’s work. Following his testimony, a
Singapore-produced films are increasingly being showcased at major international festivals. They have a secret ingredient. Award-winning titles from 2010 breakout “Sandcastle” through to 2018’s “A Land Imagined,” with “7 Letters”, “Apprentice,” and “A Yellow Bird” in between, have a common factor. Producer, Fran Borgia. “There wasn’t just a wave, but more of a continuous current
The epic fantasy novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire” and its mega-popular HBO adaptation “Game of Thrones” may have made author George R.R. Martin a pop culture superstar, but it was “Nightflyers,” a 1980 novella mashing up horror and sci-fi and the 1987 film adaption that followed, that Martin believes saved his life
November 27, 2018 3:00PM PT Netflix has ordered a new procedural series that will be set in four different countries. “Criminal” is a police procedural that takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite. It is described as a stripped-down, cat-and-mouse drama that will focus on the intense mental conflict between the police
Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s “A Land Imagined” will have its home-town premiere at the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) on Dec. 8 and is also in competition at the festival’s Silver Screen Awards. The film’s lead actress Luna Kwok will be presented SGIFF’s Swarovski Inspiring Woman in Film award on Dec 7. The film arrives
Indian companies, 1018mb and Vkaao are poised to bring theatrical-on-demand cinema services to Singapore and other Asian territories in the coming months. 1018mb has set up an office in Hong Kong to explore interest in the region. Vkaao is in discussions with similar platforms in Asia-Pacific territories, and in Europe. Both platforms are conceived as
November 27, 2018 2:58PM PT Thai film and TV company JKN Global Media will use next week’s Asian TV Forum in Singapore to give an Asian sales launch to hit movie “Nakee 2.” The fantasy-romance film has earned over $12.1 million (THB400 million) since its release last month. The story involves a detective sent to
November 27, 2018 2:41PM PT Activision Blizzard Studios is already getting the gears turning on a sequel to “Call of Duty,” tapping “Black Panther” scribe Joe Robert Cole to pen the upcoming second installment. The studio hired “Sicario 2” director Stefano Sollima earlier this year to helm the first film, which is an adaptation of the popular
November 27, 2018 2:11PM PT Telltale Games’ episodic point-and-click adventure series “Minecraft: Story Mode” is now on Netflix. “Minecraft: Story Mode” features a cast filled with celebrities and veteran voice talent, including Patton Oswalt, Catherine Taber, Brian Posehn, John Hodgman, Matthew Mercer, David Fennoy, and Corey Feldman. The first three episodes are available now, with
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Amid the avalanche of news around Tekashi 6ix9ine over the past week, one of the lesser-noticed items after he was arrested on an array of federal charges last week is the fact that his “Dummy Boy” album was postponed from its scheduled Nov. 23 release. While the rapper remains incarcerated after his bail was denied
November 27, 2018 1:30PM PT Tracy Oliver’s “The First Wives Club” series is going to air on BET rather than Paramount Network as originally planned. The series adaptation of the film and book of the same name was ordered to series at Paramount Network back in April. It will follow a group of New York
Discovery and Tiger Woods have struck a multi-year agreement that will weave content crafted with the golfing legend part of the company’s soon-to-launch golf-focused streaming service, part of a joint venture with the PGA Tour. GolfTV is slated to launch in January of 2019, and Woods will collaborate with Discovery “on a wide range of
November 27, 2018 1:00PM PT “Little Woods” director and writer Nia DaCosta has been tapped to helm “Candyman,” a new retelling of the classic horror pic with Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and MGM producing. The film, a “spiritual sequel” to the original, returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago
November 27, 2018 12:48PM PT Kristen Stewart is in talks to star in TriStar Pictures’ “Happiest Season,” sources tell Variety. The studio acquired worldwide rights to the pic from writing duo Clea DuVall and Mary Holland earlier this year. DuVall is also on board to direct, which would mark her directorial debut. Marty Bowen and
November 27, 2018 12:34PM PT Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni has signed with Creative Artists Agency. Nyoni’s debut film “I Am Not A Witch,” which screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes in 2017, is currently the United Kingdom foreign language contender for the Oscars and Golden Globes. The film is currently nominated for an Independent Spirit
WASHINGTON — CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta posed pointed questions of press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the first official press briefing since the network went to court to restore his credentials, but the encounter was largely free of confrontation and contentiousness. After posing a first question about Paul Manafort, Acosta asked of
November 27, 2018 12:27PM PT French producer-distributor Samuel Hadida died unexpectedly on Nov. 26 at UCLA Santa Monica Hospital following a short illness, according to his brother Victor Hadida. He was 64. For more than three decades, the Hadida brothers have owned and managed Metropolitan FilmExport, a leading French distributor of American indie fare they
YouTube has concluded that its investments in original programming are better placed on the free, ad-supported side — not behind a paywall. In a shift in strategy, the Google-owned video platform said that starting next year it will move to make all of its original programming available for free for anyone to watch. With the
November 27, 2018 12:07PM PT Spider-Man’s web of movies is about to grow. Sony Pictures is already developing a sequel and spinoffs to its upcoming animated film, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” The announcement comes more than two weeks before “Into the Spider-Verse” hits theaters. Though the latest Spidey project launches on Dec. 14, the studio
November 27, 2018 11:46AM PT Variety’s second annual Hitmakers brunch will be held on Saturday, December 1 and will honor Maroon 5’s Adam Levine as Hitmaker of the Year, presented by BMI, along with Breakthrough Artist of the Year Dua Lipa and Songwriter of the Year Bebe Rexha. Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “Pee” Thomas will
David Charvet Files For Restraining Order Against Team USA Soccer Star Jermaine Jones 11/27/2018 11:35 AM PST EXCLUSIVE David Charvet has filed a request for a restraining order against Team USA soccer star Jermaine Jones — after Jermaine publicly accused the actor of trying to sleep with his wife. Jermaine — who played in the
November 27, 2018 11:25AM PT Zoey Deutch is set to join “Zombieland 2” for Sony Pictures, sources tell Variety. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin are reprising their roles Original “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer returns to helm and is re-teaming with original writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, who worked on both
Box office blockbusters such as “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” and small screen series including “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “One Day at a Time” and “This Is Us” are among the finalists for the 44th annual Humanitas Prize, Humanitas executive director Cathleen Young and president Ali LeRoi announced Tuesday. “It’s always an honor and
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