If the first “Walking Dead” spinoff following the finale of the flagship series, “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” seemed to mark the beginning of a new era for the franchise, the second certainly feels like a continuation — tonally, if not chronologically. “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” which premieres on AMC on Sept. 10, builds
Like the mournful dawn that crosses the sky during the Eagles’ 1973 mellow, moody “Tequila Sunrise,” a goodbye is always imminent. With that, after nearly six decades of countrified ballads, California sun-kissed soft rockers and harmony-driven pop tunes, co-founding drummer Don Henley, longtime members Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, and latter-day guitarists Vince Gill
Lil Baby’s concert in Memphis on Sept. 7 was cut short after someone in the audience of the FedExForum was shot and injured. Memphis Police arrived on the scene at around 10:23 p.m. that night while the victim was taken to Regional One Health Hospital in critical condition, according to a statement posted by the
Quentin Tarantino’s reputed “final” film will get a $20.2 million subsidy from the state of California, the state’s film commission announced Friday. The film has been rumored to center on the life of Pauline Kael, with a working title of “The Movie Critic.” It is among 16 films to be awarded state tax credits in
When it comes to Drake, it takes a village. He has investments and business ventures as wide-ranging and unpredictable as restoring an old surrealist art amusement park to launching his own production house, with the latter having earned him his first Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series as an executive producer on the HBO drama
Richmond-born singer-songwriter-activist Stephan Said had a viral hit political anthem 25 years ago. He has some advice for Oliver Anthony and thoughts about his No. 1 song “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Over the past couple of weeks, friends (and strangers) who know my peculiar musical career history have asked my thoughts on Chris Lunsford,
Almost 35 years have passed since Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons first met at the University of Manchester — and it’s taken that long for them to be willing look back on their work as electronic duo The Chemical Brothers. Coinciding with the release of their tenth album, “For That Beautiful Feeling,” Rowlands and Simons
The album Jimmy Buffett was known to have worked on earlier this year has been announced for a fall release. The 14-song “Equal Strain on All Parts” will be out Nov. 3 via the Sun label, with guests including Paul McCartney, Emmylou Harris, Angelique Kidjo and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Three advance tracks were
Newer fans may not be aware that in the early years of his career, James Blake’s music was really, really weird. The largely instrumental tracks featured lots of blipping, angular grooves and warped sounds and voices that were initially totally disorienting but would always coalesce into something melodic or rhythmic (if sometimes testing the boundaries of
The shows have been screened, panels attended, activations experienced, voting secured and the last free shrimp eaten. And now… we wait for January. The most unusual Emmy season in recent memory now breaks for a lengthy pause as the Oscar awards calendar takes over and faces some of the same limitations as the TV Academy
Country singer Maren Morris is firing shots at Jason Aldean, or it sure seems like it … because she referenced his hit song, “Try That in a Small Town,” in a teaser for her new music video. Maren shared a quick clip Thursday night from what appears to be a video for a new song,
Check out the official trailer for Nyad starring Annette Bening! ► Visit Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy ► Shop Rotten Tomatoes: http://bit.ly/3KvCU1M US Release Date: October 20, 2023 Starring: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans Director: Jimmy Chin Synopsis: Sixty-four-year-old marathon
When Peter Alexander opens Saturday’s broadcast of “Today,” he will find himself opposite a new host — and a potential sparring partner. Laura Jarrett, a relatively new arrival to NBC News, is taking over as his co-anchor on the weekend edition of the long-running morning program now that Kristen Welker is moving to host “Meet
Israeli drama “Fauda” is returning for a fifth season, Variety can confirm. Ilan Sigal, CEO of Israeli network Yes, revealed the news earlier this week, according to the Jerusalem Post. The newspaper reported that Sigal appeared alongside the show’s co-creator, Avi Issacharoff, at Yes’s annual “Bar Series” event to share the news. Netflix streams “Fauda”
Strong summer season performances by movies across the world have sped up the movie industry’s global recovery. And for the second time this year, analysis firm Gower Street Analytics has revised its forecast for the 2023 cinema year upwards. The London-based firm is now forecasting that the full-year global gross box office will weigh in
London and Paris-based Film Constellation has taken international sales on Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky’s hotly anticipated Saudi-set travel movie “Hajjan,” ahead of its Toronto Film Festival world premiere. “Hajjan,” which will launch from Toronto’s Discovery section, is a followup to Shawky’s first feature “Yomeddine,” which had the rare distinction of making the competition cut
There will come a time, perhaps not even too far from now, when films like “Woman Of…” may feel, if not old hat, at least familiar, part of a genre unto itself: not a coming-of-age story but a coming-of-self one, tracing the particular life stages of identifying oneself as transgender, accepting oneself as such, and
The U.K. has a robust presence at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and several of the films screening there find contemporary resonance while exploring historical subjects. In Thea Sharrock’s 1920s-set “Wicked Little Letters,” Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play neighbors who get on each other’s nerves in a small English town where residents
Kevin Williamson, the creator of the “Scream” horror franchise who penned the scripts for “Scream” (1996), “Scream 2” (1997) and “Scream 4” (2011), appeared on the “Happy Horror Time” podcast and urged executives involved with the series to pay Neve Campbell what she’s worth so she can return as Sydney Prescott. Campbell headlined every “Scream”
The countdown to Halloween has officially begun, with “The Nun II,” the ninth and latest chapter in Warner Bros.’ “The Conjuring” universe hitting theaters this weekend. The horror movie scared up $3.1 million in previews at the box office. The movie is expected to open to around $30 million to $33 million this weekend, a
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When you think of couture, what comes to mind? Parisian confections floating down a runway, most likely. But American designer Ann Lowe’s custom-made designs for social fixtures from Jackie Kennedy to Marjorie Merriweather Post certainly qualify, even if not in the
Steven Meisel is an enigma to many. First and foremost, he’s a fashion god, as one of the premier photographers in the industry with a career spanning over 30 years. Considering he’s worked with virtually every publication, designer, and brand you could possibly imagine, you’ve likely seen his work, even if you don’t know it.
Apple TV+’s “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” has released its first teaser trailer. Apple has also set the premiere date, with the series now set to debut on Nov. 17. The first two episodes will premiere Nov. 17 followed by a new episode every Friday through Jan. 12, 2024. Watch the teaser trailer below. Based on
Before she issues her memoir this November, Barbra Streisand will be giving fans a couple of soundtracks for all that reading, in the form of two music releases due shortly beforehand on Oct. 27. One is a career retrospective, “Evergreens: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records,” and the other is “Yentl: 40th Anniversary Edition,” which
When people discuss busy U.S. production hubs outside of Los Angeles and New York, they tend to namecheck Georgia and New Mexico. But since Massachusetts enacted a 25% film and TV credit in 2007, the commonwealth has quietly established itself as another top destination for Hollywood, attracting a large volume of high-profile projects, including the
Jack Huston’s directorial debut “Day of the Fight” will make its North American premiere as the opening film for the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 5. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival, where Huston was honored with Variety’s Breakthrough Director Award. “Day of the Fight” stars Michael Pitt, Ron Perlman, Joe
Daniel Grabiner, Amazon’s head of originals for the U.K. and Northern Europe, has exited the company. He is set to be replaced by Tara Erer, who is head of local original movies for Amazon Studios. He will formally bow out in mid-October to set up his own production company. The move comes just months after
Jessica Chastain made an impassioned appeal to U.S. actors, urging them to promote indie movies on Friday at the Venice Film Festival press conference for Michel Franco’s drama “Memory.” “I was very nervous about coming,” said Chastain, who was wearing a black “SAG-AFTRA on Strike” T-Shirt, revealing that “there were actually some people on my
Shah Rukh Khan’s action thriller “Jawan” has shattered the star’s own Bollywood opening day record. “Jawan” is produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma for Red Chillies Entertainment. It opened on Thursday and its Hindi-language version grossed $9.4 million in India, with a further $1.3 million from Tamil and Telugu-language dubbed versions, according to numbers
“No More Bets,” the smash hit Chinese crime thriller that has earned more than half a billion dollars in its home market, is hurriedly adding new territories to release. It will release in the U.K. and Ireland from Friday through distributor Trinity Cine Asia. It will release in Hong Kong, on Sept. 21, through Haven