You don’t say no when J.K. Rowling invites you to explore New York City. The Harry Potter author and the cast of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” formed an armada of wizards, witches, and few lucky muggles as they traveled around the Big Apple raising awareness for the upcoming film. The event was ostensibly
September 24, 2018 5:09PM PT The husband-and-wife team represent the first couple and the first musicians-songwriters of Hispanic descent to receive the honor. Emilio and Gloria Estefan will be the next recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The announcement was made today (Sept. 24)by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The
September 24, 2018 5:09PM PT The cast of “One Tree Hill” is partnering with Random Acts to raise money for Hurricane Florence relief in Wilmington, N.C., where the show filmed for more than 10 years. Using the hashtag #Capefearlesschallenge, cast members are encouraging direct donations from fans of the show as well as fans of
Brett Kavanaugh I Was a Virgin for a Looong Time … No Way I Sexually Assaulted Anyone 9/24/2018 4:58 PM PDT Breaking News Brett Kavanaugh just played his virgin card to defend himself against multiple accusations of sexual assault … saying he never had sex — or anything close to it — through high school
September 24, 2018 4:42PM PT Adam Berkowitz, a longtime top agent in CAA’s television department, is departing from the agency, Variety has learned exclusively. CAA declined to comment on the reason for Berkowitz’s exit beyond confirming he is no longer an employee of the agency. Berkowitz served as CAA’s co-head of television, where his client list
Red Granite Pictures has paid off the balance of its $60 million settlement with the U.S. government, bringing an early end to its involvement in a $4.5 billion Malaysian corruption case. The production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a deal with federal prosecutors in March. Under the agreement, the
In today’s TV News Roundup, the Paley Center for Media is hosting a “West Side Story” celebration event and Fox is partnering with Turnaround Arts for a new social media campaign. DATES Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights for the rom-com “California No” and is set to release the film Dec. 4 on VOD,
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams will make his feature directorial debut with “Till,” a film about Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman. The movie will focus on Till-Mobley’s search for justice following the murder of her 14-year-old son in
Last year, Balenciaga made Dad sneakers “fashion” with the release of its Triple S chunky sneaker. The trend hasn’t died down, as several brands from Louis Vuitton to Fila released their own iterations of the must-have sneaker. Balenciaga is moving on though. Today, September 24, Balenciaga released its Track Sneaker, featuring a chunky silhouette—sans the
Brazil’s Carlos (Cacá) Diegues, whose poem-inspired drama “The Great Mystical Circus” vies for a foreign-language Oscar next year, is in pre-production on “The Dame” starring Betty Faria (“Bye Bye Brazil”) and his daughter Flora Diegues, who stars in “…Mystical Circus.” Diegues and Faria are both in Miami for the 22nd Brazilian Film Festival of Miami (BRAFF)
“New Amsterdam,” like the mammoth hospital it’s set in, has a whole lot of enthusiasm and too many areas in which to direct it. Based on Dr. Eric Manheimer’s book on New York City’s Bellevue Hospital (“Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital”), NBC’s new medical drama paints a simultaneously promising, bleak, and (unintentionally)
If you were a child of the nineties, bucket hats, jelly sandals, colored sunglasses, and of course, mood rings were the too-cool-for-school accessories you had stashed in your bedroom. And now, because fashion’s love affair with the 90s isn’t dying down anytime soon, Fossil is bringing the mood trend back to our jewelry boxes with
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A prosecutor urged the judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual abuse case on Monday to sentence the disgraced entertainer to five to 10 years behind bars, while Cosby’s defense lawyer said incarceration would be an “excessive hardship” for the man once known as America’s Dad. Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill is poised
The birth of the technology industry is an interesting story, one fueled by big money, hubris and creators’ unique ability to see a world that might be overlaying the one that exists. That’s the message that comes through in about half of National Geographic’s new series, “Valley of the Boom,” which had its world premiere
September 24, 2018 2:00PM PT The CW is developing a drama series based on Kathy Parks’ book “The Lifeboat Clique,” Variety has learned. When a freak tsunami hits a Malibu house party, a group of teenagers from diverse social circles are swept out to sea. The place where they wind up is new, but the high
September 24, 2018 1:30PM PT Mel Gibson is coming on to write and direct a remake of the classic Sam Peckinpah western “The Wild Bunch” at Warner Bros. Gibson will co-write with Bryan Bagby and also exec produce the pic. The project is based on the classic Peckinpah film that follows an aging group of
Netflix’s original documentary series “ReMastered” investigates high-profile events affecting major figures in music. Helmed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist (“The Two Escobars,” “Favela Rising,” “Nossa Chape,” “Pelé”), the Zimbalist brothers and directors Kief Davidson, Barbara Kopple, Sara Dosa, Brian Oakes, Stuart Sender, B.J. Perlmutt, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Sam Cullman, each episode investigates
Apple has yet to release a single frame from any of the original scripted shows it has ordered during the past year, but the soon-to-be streaming giant is already making a big impact. Apple has budgeted approximately $1 billion to date on their initial series development slate that will power its push into the streaming
September 24, 2018 1:00PM PT Martin Gero and Brendan Gall have scored a pilot production commitment for a drama series in the works at CBS, Variety has learned. Titled “The Secret to a Good Marriage,” the project follows an elite pair of CIA spies who are pushed to their limits both professionally and personally, fighting to save
Kanye West & Nick Cannon Beef Squashed … Over Kim K Sex Talk 9/24/2018 11:02 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Kanye West and Nick Cannon have come to a mutual understanding after going at each other on social media over Kim Kardashian West — and the consensus is this … R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Sources tell us that Kanye and Nick
The bachelor wasn’t the only person to find love on the Vietnamese version of the popular reality show. During a shocking rose ceremony, two “Bachelor: Vietnam” contestants, Minh Thu and Truc Nhu, decided to leave the show for each other, rather than continue competing for a relationship with bachelor Nguyen Quoc Trung. “I went into this competition
September 24, 2018 12:39PM PT With Warner Bros. and DC entertainment getting closer to assembling its team for its Harley Quinn pic “Birds of Prey,” the studio has dated the film for Feb. 7, 2020. Cathy Yan is directing with Margot Robbie reprising her role of Quinn, which she first put on display in “Suicide
September 24, 2018 12:35PM PT Domhnall Gleeson has been cast in a lead role in the upcoming comedy pilot “Run” at HBO, Variety has confirmed. The project is described as a romantic-comedic-thriller that follows Ruby, a woman living a humdrum existence, who one day gets a text, inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact promising true
TV and film have long been fascinated with the inner lives of spies, assassins, and people who otherwise operate underground and out of sight. Untangling the possible motivations someone might have to live such a life, not to mention carry out startling and sometimes downright horrific acts, provides so much narrative catnip that hardly a
Michael Moore’s trump card failed him this weekend. “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Moore’s satirical takedown of President Trump and the current political landscape in America, picked up an abysmal $3.1 million when it opened 1,719 venues. It was the best start for the left-wing filmmaker since 2009’s “Capitalism: A Love Story,” but it’s a far cry from 2004, when
September 24, 2018 11:30AM PT Zoe Kravitz has been cast in the lead role in the series adaptation of “High Fidelity” at Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Variety has learned. The series, which has received a 10-episode order, is inspired by Nick Hornby’s novel and the Touchstone film of the same name. It reimagines the story from
Check out the official Colette Trailer starring Keira Knightley! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Colette: https://www.fandango.com/colette-2018-212794/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc US Release Date: September 21, 2018 Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson Directed By: Wash Westmoreland Synopsis: Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name.
A beloved sports movie will receive the live-to-picture concert treatment when “Rudy” is screened on Nov. 10 at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium with an 80-piece orchestra performing Jerry Goldsmith’s original score. Star Sean Astin, director David Anspaugh, writer Angelo Pizzo, producer Cary Woods and Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger (the real Rudy) are all slated to appear
The real-life misadventures of central figures in the 2013 Major League Baseball doping scandal play like outrageous twists and turns in the seriocomic crime fiction of Carl Hiassen or Elmore Leonard throughout “Screwball,” an impudently entertaining documentary that suggests what might result if the Monty Python troupe were given carte blanche to produce an investigative
September 24, 2018 9:48AM PT Snap is adding visual product search to Snapchat to let its users identify products just by capturing them with their phone camera, the company announced Monday morning. Snapchat’s visual search is being powered by Amazon, and consumers will be able to easily order recognized products through the e-commerce giant. “We’ll