Billboard’s Latin Music Week took place this week, celebrating its 30th anniversary as the longest-running and biggest Latin music industry event featuring intimate artist conversations, industry panels, workshops and performances. Some of the highlights of the first-ever virtual conference and showcases included various superstar Q&A’s between Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, Rosalia and Pharrell Williams, and […]
“DON’T EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF,” the rapper captioned the photos. “LIFE BEGINS RIGHT NOW!!! MY DEDICATION IS DIFFERENT!! I WOULD NEVER PUT OUT AN ALBUM AND NOT BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE!! I RESPECT MYSELF TOO MUCH AND I RESPECT Y’ALL TOO MUCH!!! I’M ONLY HERE TO INSPIRE!!” Rhymes also thanked […]
Koma shared the same video on Instagram, writing, “lol quarantine was fun. Baby #3 – 2021.” Duff and Koma were married last December in Los Angeles. The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Violet Bair, in October 2018. She is also the mother to her 8-year-old son, Luca, whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Comrie. […]
Get your McLovin ID ready because the “Superbad” cast is reuniting. Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Martha MacIssac, director Greg Mottola, producer Judd Apatow and co-writer Evan Goldberg are reuniting for a virtual script reading and fundraiser benefitting the Wisconsin Democratic Party. The event will feature the actors’ commentary and […]
“Black-ish” Season 7 has received a back order for six additional episodes at ABC. The order means the critically-acclaimed comedy series will have a full seventh season consisting of 21 episodes, despite the fact that its launch was delayed by the production shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Season 7 of “Black-ish” debuted on ABC […]
An 80-foot prehistoric shark is returning to the big screen with “The Meg 2,” and Warner Bros. has hired “Rebecca” filmmaker Ben Wheatley to direct. Development of the sequel comes two years after “The Meg” took in an impressive $530 million worldwide. That film revolved around the monstrous megalodon emerging from the Mariana Trench, the […]
HAIM guested on last night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers in matching lacy wedding gowns. The sibling trio played “3 AM,” the band’s riff on guys who leave women indiscreet late-night voicemails. In this instance, the “emotional vampire” was played by former vampire Robert Pattinson. Check out the full performance below, along with […]
Sigur Rós have announced a new album, out at the end of the year. Titled Odin’s Raven Magic, the project is an orchestral work that the band premiered at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in 2002. It’s out December 4 via Krunk/Warner Classics. Listen to “Dvergmál” and see the tracklist below. Odin’s Raven Magic follows 2013’s […]
Bright Eyes have shared a new song to benefit Planned Parenthood. “Miracle of Life” is available exclusively on Bandcamp until October 28. Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers sing on the track, which features electric piano and synthesizers from Nathaniel Walcott, electric guitar and pedal steel from Mike Mogis, bass from Flea, and drums by Jon […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to join the ensemble cast of David Leitch’s action movie “Bullet Train,” starring Brad Pitt. The Sony Pictures project is based on Kotaro Isaka’s Japanese book “Maria Beetle” and centers on a group of hitmen and assassins with conflicting motives on a train in Tokyo. Zak Olkewitz wrote the script. Kelly McCormick […]
It’d be easy to glance at “Truth Seekers” and mistake it for a satirical farce. The new Amazon series comes from Nat Saunders, James Serafinowicz and the vaunted duo of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who have collaborated on genre comedies like “Shaun of the Dead” and “The End of the World.” Starring Frost as […]
Fresh from shepherding the “X-Men” franchise for over a decade, Simon Kinberg has signed on to write and produce Universal’s feature adaptation of the sci-fi franchise “Battlestar Galactica,” Variety has confirmed. Kinberg is joining producer Dylan Clark (“The Batman,” “War for the Planet of the Apes”), who has long overseen development on a “BSG” movie […]
Tigers Jaw have announced their next album, I Won’t Care How You Remember Me. The Pennsylvania-based band’s sixth record arrives March 5 via Hopeless Records and features production from longtime collaborator Will Yip, as well as contributions from Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull (who sings backing vocals on the title track). Below, check out the music […]
New Zealand singer-songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick has announced a new album: Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby arrives on February 5, 2021 (via Ba Da Bing/Rice Is Nice). She’s leading the record with “Every Loser Needs a Mother.” Check out the track’s video, directed by Geoffrey O’Connor, below. Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby follows […]
The Weeknd has released the music video for his After Hours song “Too Late.” The new clip continues the storyline from the “In Your Eyes” video, which ended with the Weeknd getting beheaded. In the “Too Late” video, two women find the Weeknd’s disembodied head and bring it back to their mansion. They also cut […]
“Normal People” star Daisy Edgar-Jones has boarded the drama “Where the Crawdads Sing” with Reese Witherspoon producing through her Hello Sunshine banner. The project is based on Delia Owens’ debut novel, which has sold nearly 8.5 million copies worldwide. The story is set against the backdrop of the mid-20th century South and centers on a […]
After the success of Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne’s fantasy show “Carnival Row,” Amazon has set its sights on another high-concept series from Legendary Television. The streamer has issued a series order for “Lightyears,” an hourlong sci-fi-drama produced by Legendary, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. “Lightyears” hails from Holden Miller and “The Son” writer and […]
Disney, NBCUniversal, Viacom, Sony Pictures Entertainment, WarnerMedia, Lionsgate, MGM, ITV, Entertainment One — the list of Hollywood heavy hitters that poured money into Quibi is a veritable who’s who of entertainment industry giants. Now, with the reported closure of the mobile streaming startup led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, just six months after launching, […]
Liturgy have announced their new “cosmogonical opera-album” Origin of the Alimonies with an aria called “Lonely OIOION.” Origin of the Alimonies is due out November 20 via Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s label YLYLCYN. Watch a trailer and hear the track below. Origin of the Alimonies is the followup to 2019’s H.A.Q.Q. It’s the first album the band […]
MorMor (aka Toronto singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Seth Nyquist) has shared a new song, “Don’t Cry.” It comes with a new video, created by Titmouse and directed by Otto Tang, which features the Toronto artist in a black-and-white animated visual. Check it out below. “Don’t Cry” follows last year’s “Won’t Let You.” In 2019, MorMor […]
Back in 2017, it was revealed that Todd Haynes was working on a documentary about the Velvet Underground. Now, Apple has announced that it has acquired the rights to the film, simply titled The Velvet Underground. The documentary, directed and co-produced by Haynes, will have its eventual premiere on Apple TV+. The Velvet Underground is […]
The finale of “Lovecraft Country” season 1 delivered plenty of drama and plenty of viewers for HBO. A total audience of 1.5 million tuned in on Sunday night across all platforms, marking a season high for the well-received drama. That number is up around 16% from the season premiere back in August. In terms of […]
Tom Petty’s annual birthday bash is taking on a bigger all-star cast as it goes virtual this year in celebration of the late musician’s 70th. Webcasts and satellite radio broadcasts Friday will feature five hours of music and testimonials to the singer-songwriter, including performances by Foo Fighters, Jackson Browne, Beck, Jason Isbell, Adam Sandler, the […]
Variety has reorganized its growing editorial operations, advancing and promoting a number of senior editors as the global entertainment brand expands the scope of its coverage. Claudia Eller will resume her role as Editor-in-Chief as of Oct. 26. Cynthia Littleton, formerly Business Editor, has been promoted to Co-Editor-in-Chief, reporting to Eller and Variety Chief Revenue […]
Nilüfer Yanya has announced a new three-song EP called Feeling Lucky? The record arrives December 11 via ATO. Today’s announcement comes with the lead single “Crash” and its corresponding music video, where she plays a flight attendant. The track was co-written and produced by Nick Hakim. Watch the video below. “The video for ‘Crash’ takes […]
Last year, Tegan and Sara released the memoir High School, which detailed the Quin sisters’ experiences growing up and forming a band. Now the memoir is being adapted into a TV series by Clea DuVall, Plan B Entertainment, and IMDb TV (Amazon’s free streaming service), according to Deadline. DuVall will write and direct the pilot […]
Last week, Brooklyn rapper and producer Chuck Strangers released his new Too Afraid to Dance EP on his website. The EP includes a collaboration with elusive Brownsville rapper Ka. And the full EP is now available across streaming platforms. Take a listen to Too Afraid to Dance and “Family Dollar” below. In addition to Ka, […]
Donald Trump continues to invoke references that might be obscure or passé to many of his supporters, and Monday’s tweets included references to “the late, great Bob Hope” and a reply to the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman saying “Every rally is BOFFO.” But what exactly was he trying to say? Boffo is one of […]
Fox Entertainment streaming service Tubi announced a partnership with China’s Wanda Pictures on Monday, saying it will now stream at least two of the latter’s films in both Chinese-language and English-dubbed versions. The headlining film in the deal is Wanda’s “Detective Chinatown 2,” which currently reigns as China’s sixth-highest grossing movie of all time thanks […]
Emmy winner and “Succession” star Jeremy Strong is in talks to portray the writer John Gruenn in Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic for Netflix. Strong won the Emmy last month for outstanding actor in a drama series for his portrayal of Kendall Roy in HBO’s “Succession.” He also plays Jerry Rubin in Netflix’s […]