Ahead of her keynote address at the Girls Build Summit in Los Angeles on Friday, super producer Shonda Rhimes previewed what the core message of her speech would be. “Vote,” she told Variety. “Go register to vote. Get your parents registered to vote. Get everybody out there to vote.” Rhimes gave her speech in front
September 28, 2018 12:40PM PT Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou is set to join the growing ensemble of Sony’s “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, joining Elizabeth Banks and Patrick Stewart as one of the film’s multiple Bosleys. Banks is also directing with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska set to portray the film’s Angels. Jonathan Tucker and
The force is strong with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy — for another three years, to be precise. The veteran producer and chief of the Disney content giant behind “Star Wars” has renewed her deal through 2021, an individual familiar with the negotiations told Variety, following a tumultuous year for the label under her control. The studio
Saba Nafees, a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) recipient and PhD candidate in mathematical biology at Texas Tech U., understands all too well what it’s like to live under the threat of deportation in Trump’s America. Born in Pakistan, Nafees immigrated to the States with her parents when she was 11 years-old, settling in
Stand-up comedian Nina Geld throws up after every set. That’s just one of the painful details we learn about the wonderfully complex character Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays in “All About Nina,” a striking and at times uncomfortably personal feature debut from writer-director Eva Vives that makes good on its title by not shying away from
They’re getting ready to start the stopwatch again at CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Over the course of its more than half-century of life, the venerable CBS newsmagazine has had only two chiefs, Jeff Fager and Don Hewitt. Now it has none. That won’t keep the show off the air. “60 Minutes” will kick off its 51st
CNN founder Ted Turner opens up about his battle with a brain disorder that is causing dementia in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” to air this weekend. Turner tells “CBS Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel he is grappling with a condition known as Lewy body dementia. “It’s a mild case of what people
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What’s your Abercrombie association? Everyone born between 1980 and 1995 tends to have a strong one. Whether it was a label you lusted over, wore with uniform regularity, or didn’t quite get the fuss about, it was a cornerstone of many of our mall-trolling high school years. (And oh, the smell! ‘Fierce’ is divisive, but
An appeals court on Friday vacated the jury verdict in the “Stairway to Heaven” copyright infringement case and ordered a new trial, finding that the district court judge gave faulty jury instructions. The ruling reopens the battle over whether Led Zeppelin borrowed from the 1968 song “Taurus” when it composed the classic rock anthem that
September 28, 2018 11:18AM PT The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday drew a massive audience for the cable news networks, according to Nielsen data. The hearing–which saw testimony from both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault–aired throughout most of the day Thursday. Fox
September 28, 2018 11:13AM PT Rashida Jones has planted her flag with MRC, setting up a first-look TV development pact with the indie studio. Jones and her producing partner, Will McCormack, will develop projects for MRC through their Le Train Train production banner. The pair at present are exec producers on TNT’s “Claws” and the
Warner Bros. has finally found the filmmaker to help them get to Sesame Street. Sources tell Variety that “Portlandia” director and co-creator, Jonathan Krisel, is set to helm the live-action “Sesame Street” movie for Warner Bros. The film will be a musical, according to sources. Shawn Levy is producing with Michael Aguilar. Mike Rosolio penned
September 28, 2018 11:01AM PT Show boss Lorne Michaels said so, but a source close to the show suggests otherwise. In a recent interview with “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, he said that Kanye West was not the first choice as the musical guest on this weekend’s season premiere: Michaels says it was Ariana
September 28, 2018 11:00AM PT Jennifer Beals has joined the cast of the upcoming “Swamp Thing” series at DC Universe, Variety has learned. Beals will appear in the recurring guest star role of Sheriff Lucilia Cable. Described as tough as nails and pragmatic, Cable’s fierce devotion to her son, Matt, is rivaled only by her sworn duty
September 28, 2018 10:34AM PT Super-producer Greg Berlanti has set his next feature directing effort as part of an overall film deal at 20th Century Fox. Berlanti and the Elizabeth Gabler-run imprint Fox 2000 will team on an adaption of “The Editor,” about a young author named James who’s shepherded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when the
September 28, 2018 10:30AM PT ABC Studios has promoted Patrick Maguire to oversee drama development. Maguire succeeds Nne Ebong as the studio’s senior VP of drama development. Ebong exited ABC Studios in August. Maguire worked under Ebong as drama development VP. He’s been in the ABC fold since 2002 when he joined the network in
Annapurna Pictures has set Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic “Vice” to open on Dec. 25, 2018. The pic stars Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush. The film follows the story of how Cheney, a bureaucratic Washington insider, quietly
Stockard Channing returns to the New York stage in “Apologia,” opening Oct. 16 at the Laura Pels Theatre, following its successful West End run. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play concerns an art historian clashing with her past as a 1960s political activist. Channing has decades of stage experience, but most people know her from movie and
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September 28, 2018 10:09AM PT Grammy Award-winning EDM artist Skrillex and internationally renowned singer/songwriter Hikaru Utada are creating the opening theme song to “Kingdom Hearts III,” publisher Square Enix announced on Thursday. Skrillex is apparently a long-time fan of the role-playing game series, which mashes up Square Enix and Disney characters and locales. Originally, he
Likarion Wainaina’s “Supa Modo,” about a mother determined to bring joy to her dying daughter’s last days, is Kenya’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. The film, which world premiered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus program last February, was selected by the Kenya Film Commission on Friday. Produced by Tom Tykwer’s Kenyan shingle, One Fine
Facebook has reset the access to 90 million user accounts after finding a security breach, forcing the affected users to log back into their accounts, the company announced Friday. The breach allowed hackers to access other people’s accounts, and directly affected 50 million of those accounts. “We patched the issue last night,” Facebook CEO Mark
France’s La Victorine, a Hollywood-style centenary studio located on the French Riviera is joining forces with the Provence Studios, a five-year old studio, to become France’s largest studio hub. Created in 1919, La Victorine is located in Nice and has hosted shoots for iconic movies directed by Roger Vadim (“…And God Created Woman”), Jacques Deray
Los Angeles chef Evan Funke could have followed in his father Alex Funke’s Oscar-winning footsteps doing special effects photography for movies like “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” But instead, Funke became the king of handmade pasta, starting out at Spago and Rustic Canyon and then opening his own restaurants, the now-closed
Def Jam Recordings will issue the soundtrack for “The Hate U Give” on Oct. 12, featuring new songs by the rising stars Arlissa and Bobby Sessions (pictured above). The 20th Century-Fox film – which takes its title from Tupac Shakur’s acronym THUG LIFE, and deals with highly charged racial issues – opens a week later,
Two women who say they have experienced sexual assault confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator at the U.S. Capitol minutes after he announced that he will vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Flake (R-Ariz.), considered a key swing vote, was stopped, during a CNN live shot, en route to the Senate Judiciary
U.K.-based management firm the James Grant Group has been majority-acquired by private equity firm Trilantic Europe and rebranded as YM&U. Trilantic becomes the majority shareholder in YM&U in the wake of the deal, with the remainder held by management and employees. Music Business Worldwide estimated the purchase price at more than $100 million; reps for
It’s impossible to separate Lil Wayne’s long-delayed “Tha Carter V” from the tortured story behind it: The seemingly endless legal battle with Birdman, his mentor and Cash Money’s label boss (a family feud which the rapper finally won in June); the five years of release dates missed and rescheduled; even the chart race with Kanye
Daniel Cormier Jon Jones Is a Dirty Snitch! … ‘Go Do Some Coke’ 9/28/2018 8:46 AM PDT Breaking News Daniel Cormier just went OFF on Jon Jones — the latest in their nasty rivalry — this time, DC’s labeling Jones a cheating, coke-abusing “snitch” who rolled on one of his teammates. Jon started the latest