BET, Facebook, Hulu, NBCU and Showtime Execs Join ‘Building New Worlds With Entertainment Marketing’ Panel

It’s been eleven years since her feature “Bright Star” (2009) and four years since her last series, the second season of ‘Top Of The Lake,‘ titled “Top of the Lake: China Girl,” but legendary auteur Jane Campion (“The Piano“). is finally back.

William Earl The “Succeeding in Global Content Discovery and Curation to Build Audiences” panel in the Variety Streaming Room, presented by Vuulr, on November 10, will explore how programming is a competitive and distinguishing feature for today’s crowded streaming platform environment.Panelists include Reemah Sakaan, CEO, BritBox International; Ian McKee, Founder and CEO, Vuulr; Jason Kwong, Chief Strategy and Digital Officer, Redbox; Amy Kuessner, SVP, Content Strategy and Global

A copyright infringement lawsuit over the circles of hell image famously used on Nirvana’s merchandise since the 1990s has been dismissed, but mainly because a judge in the Californian court where the lawsuit was filed reckons the legal battle would be better fought in the UK courts.The image in question was seemingly created in the late 1940s by British writer CW Scott-Giles, depicting Upper Hell as described in Dante Alighieri’s ‘The Divine Comedy’.

Young Thug fans will remember the sheer magic he made with "High," a 2018 song that sampled Elton John's classic song "Rocketman." John was more than happy with the collaboration, calling it "so cool and so good" when it dropped. The song is now ranked among Thug's best, so it's good news that Sir Elton and Young Thug have teamed up once more on "Always Love You," a new song that also sports a feature from Nicki Minaj.

Louis Walsh has created the likes of Westlife and Girls Aloud, now he wants to recreate that magic in 2021.

The owner of a historic hall which has stood in Bury for more than 300 years hopes to fund its restoration by building three new homes elsewhere on the site.

EXCLUSIVE: Independent film and television production company Phiphen Pictures will open Phiphen Studios, a 10,000 square-foot boutique post-production and office space, in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in 2022.

Minecraft developers Mojang has put a strong emphasis on preserving players’ worlds in the new 1.18 update which will be coming in “a month or two”.During its Minecraft Live showcase on October 16, it announced that the new 1.18 update featuring ‘Caves and Cliffs part 2’ would be released soon as it is almost finished.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based manager and producer Tara Beppel has joined Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. Beppel, who has experience booking clients on such series as Showtime’s Ziwe, brings with her a roster of multi-hyphenate talent.

Terry Flores Taylor Bradley has been named publicist for the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, Louisiana’s largest literary and theatrical festival.

Rachael Ray revealed that she’s grateful just to be alive after suffering two tragedies at her New York properties roughly one year apart from one another.  In August of 2020, the celebrity TV chef, 53, revealed that her house in Lake Luzerne, New York burned down in a fire.The cause was determined to be an issue that started in her fireplace chimney that allowed flames to spread on the roof. Ray, her husband John Cusimano and their dog Bella were luckily not harmed in the fire.

Elton John has set a new record in the UK charts with his latest single, ‘Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)’.The track, which also features Dua Lipa, is taken from John’s upcoming new collaborations album ‘The Lockdown Sessions’.As the Official Charts Company notes, ‘Cold Heart”s entry into the UK top 10 singles chart last month – where it currently sits at number two – means that John has now scored a top 10 song in the UK in six different decades.‘Cold Heart’ is John’s 33rd top 10 single in the UK, with

Ben Croll New projects from filmmakers Tatiana Huezo (“Prayers for the Stolen”), Mads Brügger (“Cold Case Hammarskjöld”), and Nishtha Jain (“Gulabi Gang”) will mark this year’s IDFA pitch forum, which will return as an in-person event, running concurrent to the larger festival from Nov.

Elton John sets a new record as the only act in Official UK Chart history to score a Top 10 single in six different decades, the Official Charts Company can reveal.

Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong will make her New York stage debut this December in an Off Broadway production of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner’s classic 1977 solo play that starred Lily Tomlin and was made into a 1991 film.

Gallery: Jess Wright's show-stopping Spanish wedding with husband William – best photos (Hello!)Cena and Shariatzadeh first met when he was filming Playing with Fire in Canada where she resides. They made their official red carpet debut at that film screening the following October, where he publicly gushed that she was 'someone special' and called her his 'beautiful date.

From “So Good” to “So Done.” Joan, the band that consists of Alan Benjamin Thomas and Steven Rutherford, is exclusively debuting their brand new single and music video.

Michael Appler On Friday evening, halfway through the march of this year’s New York Film Festival, the legendary director and writer Jane Campion joined Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos in premiering her newest film, “The Power of the Dog,” to a New York audience. Friday’s event spilled over into Central Park’s Tavern on the Green for an intimate after party.

Dexter’s Michael C. Hall looks chilling in the key art for Showtime’s upcoming revival Dexter: New Blood.