U.S. Congressman Robert Garcia has penned an open letter to CBS Entertainment president and CEO George Cheeks calling out the network’s failure to provide closed captioning during Bad Bunny’s appearances onstage at the Grammys on Sunday. The Puerto Rican rapper and singer performed at the opening of the show and later won the award for
The 2023 Grammy awards on Feb. 5 left long-lasting impressions, not only on the biggest winners but on the awards show’s 12.4 million viewers who were curious to discover the sounds and voices that dominated that night. The result? A striking spike in streaming numbers and album sales. The most notable surge went to Bonnie
The Lewis Brothers, filmmakers behind digital comedy shorts and a 2021 viral sensation about the late Robin Williams, are heading back to vintage Hollywood for their next project. Jake and Sam Lewis will release “The Cowboy & The Samurai,” a proof-of-concept about the tumultuous relationship between show business bad boys Jack Nicholson and John Belushi.
Forget the Super Bowl face-off between the Eagles vs. the Chiefs, the hottest weekend matchup is unfolding at the box office as several contenders — “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” and “Titanic” (yes, really) among them — compete for first place. The third “Magic Mike” chapter, this weekend’s only new nationwide release, is expected to bring
After the difficult news he had to deliver about layoffs and losses, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced several big news items for fans during the company’s earnings call for the year-end 2022 quarter on Wednesday. For animated film lovers, Iger announced that two new sequels to massive franchises — “Toy Story” and “Frozen” — were in
“From Bleak to Dark,” the title of Marc Maron’s latest comedy special, perfectly encapsulates his prickly worldview. Those looking for benign reflections on the sunny side of life should just… move along. But it also hints at the comedian’s ability to find a ray of humor in even the most tragic circumstances. “That’s what I
Disney CEO Bob Iger has implemented a sweeping reorganization of the company’s operations, creating a Disney Entertainment business unit to be led by Dana Walden and Alan Bergman, as well as a separate unit for ESPN’s operations including streamer ESPN+. Josh D’Amaro will remain in charge of the third division within the company, Disney Parks,
Disney+ lost a net 2.4 million subscribers in the last three months of 2022 — marking the streaming service’s first decline since launching in late 2020 — while the Mouse House’s quarterly earnings topped Wall Street estimates, thanks to a surge in revenue at Disney’s theme parks. The results are Bob Iger’s first back in
Bob Iger is back as Disney’s CEO — and swinging the axe. Disney will reduce its workforce by 7,000 employees in a bid to cut costs, Iger said Wednesday on the company’s earnings call for the year-end 2022 quarter. The figure represents 3.2% of Disney’s total headcount of about 220,000 worldwide as of Oct. 1,
WME has signed Seth MacFarlane as well as his production company Fuzzy Door. He was previously repped by CAA and continues to be repped by Jackoway Austen and manager Joy Fehily. MacFarlane is best known for creating “Family Guy,” the animated comedy that has been running on Fox since 1999. He also voices the characters
Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are teaming for an Amazon series based on Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels, Variety has confirmed with sources. Kidman would star as Scarpetta with Curtis playing her sister, Dorothy. Sources say that deals for the show are not yet done, but that it is nearing a two-season order of
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is not backing down on his controversial stand that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “provoked”: He repeated that charge Wednesday to no less a body than the United Nations Security Council itself, giving a 16-minute speech at Russia’s behest. Waters’ address, delivered to the diplomats via live video, was far
Check out the Legacy Trailer for The Fate of the Furious! Fast X trailer drops February 10! ► Sign Up for a Fandango FanALERT for Fast X: https://www.fandango.com/fast-x-2023-230799/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc ► Watch The Fate of the Furious on Vudu: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/The-Fate-of-the-Furious/839748?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers:
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The “Magic Mike” franchise is, at the center of its Red Bull-pumping heart, about hustling. Hustling for cash, for love, for good times, for protein powder at wholesale. Over 11 years, Channing Tatum’s stripper odyssey has produced two films, a reality dance competition, and a transatlantic stage show. Still, somehow, it keeps hustling up new
Netflix’s crackdown on sharing passwords with individuals outside an account member’s household is expanding to four new countries — and the streaming giant said it’s going to start blocking devices that attempt to access a Netflix account without properly paying. Starting Wednesday (Feb. 8), Netflix is launching a “buy an extra member” option in Canada,
IFC has dropped the trailer and art for its upcoming comedy “Paint,” and leading man Owen Wilson goes full-on Bob Ross mode in it. The film stars Wilson as Carl Nagyl, Vermont’s top TV painter who has everything going for him, from a fanbase to a van and even a perm, until a younger artist
While the final five in the international category at the Oscars ended up being mostly Eurocentric, the shortlist was one of the most diverse. Especially notable are the number of edgy stories set in different Muslim societies. They come not only from the Arab world such as Morocco’s submission “The Blue Caftan,” helmed by Maryam
Check out the official trailer for Strays starring Jamie Foxx and Will Ferrell! ► 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 US Release Date: June 9, 2023 Starring: Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell, Will Forte Director: Josh Greenbaum Synopsis: An abandoned dog
Eugene Lee, the award-winning production designer for “Wicked” and “Saturday Night Live,” has died. He was 83 years old. His death was shared by the official Twitter page for “Wicked.” Lee had been with “Saturday Night Live” since its debut in 1975, and worked on sets including the “Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary” and “SNL
David Guetta is bringing the topic of artificial intelligence to the forefront after proving just how well the new technology works at replicating the voices of pop artists. Last week, the French DJ and producer shared a video of him playing a song during one of his sets that used AI technology to add the
Long considered one of pop’s secret weapons, Michael Pollack’s cover was blown when Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” dropped in January and went nuclear. A disco-tinged ode to self-love and independence, the emotional track amassed a record-breaking 100 million-plus first-week Spotify streams and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. As a co-writer of a
As Marvel gets ready to launch Phase 5 with the upcoming “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” its leading stars are taking a moment to celebrate the strength of their fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe actor Jeremy Renner. Both Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly have been in contact with Renner following the Jan. 1 snow plow accident
Slowly but surely, the Oscars are starting to reflect the best in international film, rather than simply celebrating the most impressive achievements in American (and occasionally English, Irish and Australian) production. That’s a good thing for world cinema — to be recognized at last by the historically Hollywood-centric awards show — but a tricky transition,
Somewhere in the multiverse, Brendan Fraser landed the role of Superman in the early 2000s when Warner Bros. recruited then-screenwriter J.J. Abrams to pen a new film about the Man of Steel. In our world, Fraser lost out on the role. The Oscar nominee recently opened up to Howard Stern about what it was like
You’d think the movie that won the critics’ awards trifecta of Los Angeles, New York and the National Society of Film Critics would be considered one of the best picture front-runners. Still, Todd Field’s psychological drama about a lesbian conductor’s rise and fall isn’t being touted as a possibility to win the best picture Oscar
In January 2020, the most popular movie on Netflix was “Don’t Look Up,” a newly released disaster comedy with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. But the second-most-popular movie was “Just Go With It,” an Adam Sandler flick from 2011 that had just started streaming on the service. Timothy Dowling, who co-wrote the screenplay for that
The Number 44, the production company co-founded by director-producer Ben Charles Edwards (“Quant”) and Goldfinch, has revealed its slate of productions due to be completed by the end of 2023. The company is currently in post-production with its previously announced project, “The Wheels of Heaven,” starring Mickey Rourke. The new slate of projects includes: “All
Prosecutors in New Mexico charged Alec Baldwin last week with a gun allegation that was not on the books at the time of the “Rust” shooting. Baldwin is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter as well as a “firearm enhancement” in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The enhancement carries an additional five-year
Amazon has ordered an animated adaptation of the comic book series “Wytches,” Variety has learned exclusively. The comic was created by Scott Snyder and Jock. It tells the story of “17-year-old Sailor Rooks, whose family moves to a remote New England town after a tragic accident, only to discover that a burrow of monsters—ancient creatures