Fresh off the release of her second studio album “SOS,” SZA has announced her first-ever arena tour. With support from Omar Apollo, the tour will open on Feb. 21 in Columbus, Ohio, and wrap up on March 22 in Los Angeles. SZA will also hit arenas including Chicago’s United Center and New York City’s Madison
Samantha Bee is bringing her late-night comedy to local venues. The former host of TBS’ “Full Frontal” plans to launch a national stage show in 2023, initially booking 15 dates for “Your Favorite Woman,” which will kick off in the Victoria Theatre in Newark, NJ, on April 7, 2023. “Many of the best segments we
Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab and British-Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar may not be Beyonce-level household names, but they both have an impressive number of Grammy nominations. Aftab won best global music performance last year for “Mohabbat” — the first winner of that new award category — from her stunning album “Vulture Prince,” which also earned her a
To put it mildly, last month’s Taylor Swift ticketing debacle has placed a renewed focus on Ticketmaster’s market dominance. A chaotic pre-sale and ensuing cancellation of the general on-sale for the singer’s “Eras Tour” have raised issues as to whether the company wields its power in a manner detrimental to the public interest. On November
CNN has a new recipe for Eva Longoria. “Searching for Mexico,” the series that puts Eva Longoria at the center of an exploration of Mexican culture and cuisine and was originally planned to debut on CNN+, will instead launch on CNN’s flagship cable outlet. CNN+, a streaming-video outlet that aimed to court fans of the
Jeff Zucker is aiming to get back into the media business after his departure from CNN. The veteran media executive, who has been CEO of NBCUniversal as well as president of the news outlet that is now part of Warner Bros. Discovery, will lead RedBird IMI, a joint-venture investment vehicle focused on acquiring and investing
Entertainment and technology platform TSX Entertainment, the company co-founded by ex-Spotify exec Nick Nick Holmstén, has entered into a long-term partnership with Roc Nation as the company’s strategic programming partner. According to the announcement, TSX and Roc Nation will collaborate to produce authentic, immersive, and exclusive experiences. Core components of the partnership include co-creating tentpole
Jin, the oldest member of globally successful K-Pop idol group BTS, began his mandatory military service in Korea on Tuesday. Jin (full name Kim Seok-jin) entered a military facility at Yeoncheon, near the frontier with North Korea, in the early afternoon in an unmarked car and with minimal fanfare. Despite the undramatic scenes, Jin’s arrival
“Normal People” producer Element Pictures is set to adapt “Bellies,” the debut novel from Nicola Dinan. Dinan will work with the Fremantle-owned company to adapt the novel into an eight-episode series. The book will be released in the U.K. and U.S. next summer. According to the logline, “Bellies” tells the story of “two queer students,
Studio Ghibli has announced its latest project from legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, titled “How Do You Live.” The feature-length film is set to open in theaters in Japan on July 14 next year. No other details have been announced although Studio Ghibli did release a sketch to accompany the news of a bird-like creature. The
Strand Releasing’s distribution label Altered Innocence has dropped the U.S. trailer for Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s (“Heartstone”) “Beautiful Beings” which is representing Iceland in the Oscar race. The coming-of-age drama world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year and won the Label Europa Cinemas Award. it went on to pick up accolades at Biografilm Festival, Off Camera, Stockholm, Taipei
Set to hit the BBC on Christmas Day in the U.K., “The Smeds and The Smoos” is the tenth in a series of screen adaptations based on books by iconic children’s publishing duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Starring the voices of “Bridgerton’s” Adjoa Andoh and comedian Bill Bailey, the film was produced by long-time
Team China is not competing at the soccer World Cup in Qatar, but that has done little to stop Chinese fans – and firms – from getting involved. Now a soccer-related movie is set to reach Middle Kingdom screens, just a few days ahead of Sunday’s final in the Chinese-built Lusail Stadium. Indie aggregator, Leeding
Already the biggest animation event in the world, France’s Annecy Festival is about to grow larger, adding another day to its schedule in order to run a full week in 2023. The expansion sees the festival’s opening day brought forward to Sunday June 11 with the Annecy Festival running through to Saturday June 17. Traditionally,
It was a Pandora family reunion at the Los Angeles premiere of “Avatar: The Way of Water” on Monday evening, though the film’s key patriarch was not able to attend. Director James Cameron, who spent 13 years developing, filming and designing the sci-fi sequel after his first “Avatar” became the highest-grossing film in history, had
Lifetime has appointed Amy Savitsky as its senior vice president of unscripted development and programming. She joins Brie Miranda Bryant to co-lead non-fiction programming. Amy Winter, Lifetime’s executive vice president and head of programming, made the announcement Monday. “Having worked with Amy prior, we already have a shorthand and I know she can hit the
When Angelo Badalamenti, composer and renowned collaborator of filmmaker-musician David Lynch, died on Sunday at age 85, he left behind some of the most evocative soundscapes known to cinema. Lustrous orchestration and small combo jazz sounds for Lynch works such as “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” tweaked the senses while underscoring the grotesquerie below the
A new six-CD boxed set from the Beach Boys, titled “Sail On Sailor,” represents a point in time — specifically 1972 and the beginning of 1973 — when the venerable band was trying to get away from its classic image a bit and fit in more with some of the other rock music that was
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday based on a sealed indictment. Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Twitter that Bahamian authorities had made the arrest. “Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the
Check out a Babylon Official Behind the Scenes Featurette starring Margot Robbie & Brad Pitt! ► Buy Tickets on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/babylon-2022-229112/movie-overview?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: December 25, 2022 Starring: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Tobey Maguire Directed
Over the weekend, Bad Bunny closed his World’s Hottest Tour in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca but was met with a much less populated audience than usual on opening night. Hundreds of fans were denied entry to the stadium on Dec. 9 due to ticketing issues involving Ticketmaster Mexico, and as a result, Mexican authorities are
Metro Boomin scores his third No. 1 album with the release of “Heroes & Villains,” a 15-song, star-studded project featuring narration from Morgan Freeman and including verses from the late Takeoff, along with John Legend, 21 Savage, A$AP Rocky, Future, Gunna, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, the Weeknd, Chris Brown and Young Thug. “Heroes & Villains”
“Love Life” has been canceled at HBO Max after two seasons. The anthology romantic comedy series was originally ordered in May 2019 before HBO Max even had a name. The first season was released in May 2020 and Season 2 was released in October 2021. Anna Kendrick led the first season, while William Jackson Harper
Starz has canceled “Dangerous Liaisons” after one season — despite that the historical drama was renewed just last month, Variety has confirmed. Though executives at Starz had much faith behind the series, sources say the team decided to axe the show due to it not finding its audience. The remaining three episodes in the first
NBC’s reboot of “Quantum Leap” has been renewed for Season 2. The new version picks up 30 years after the events of the original series. It follows Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee), who has been hired to restart the Quantum Leap project started by Dr. Sam Beckett. But after Song makes an unauthorized leap into
“The Nevers” has been canceled halfway through its first season by HBO. The Joss Whedon-created sci-fi drama will be pulled from streaming on HBO Max, along with the recently canceled HBO series “Westworld,” Variety has confirmed. The Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly-led “The Nevers,” which aired Part 1 of its first season in Spring 2021,
Thanks to the pandemic, “The Territory” has become the documentary poster child for how to make a truly collaborative nonfiction film. When Alex Pritz began filming his Sundance hit in 2018, he wanted to provide an immersive look at the tireless fight of the Amazon’s Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by
Now into its second week of deliberations, the jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial has not yet reached a verdict. The jury began deliberating on Dec. 2. When jury members left the courthouse on Monday, they were approaching nearly 30 hours of deliberations. They are due back at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The 12-person jury
Courtesy + Design Leah Romero Alison Chemla, the jewelry designer behind cult-favorite brand Alison Lou, knows how to celebrate an occasion. Just look at her latest collection, CeLOUbrations, which fêtes her first decade in business. And when the occasion in question becomes the entire holiday season, she’s the perfect person to ask. For lots of
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 2 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on HBO Max. Rest in peace, Tanya McQuoid. While we mourn the crown jewel of “The White Lotus” — who in the Season 2 finale takes out a few “high-end gays,” falls off a yacht, knocks her head on a dinghy