Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney On War With Apple And Google, ‘Fortnite’ Movie Premieres, Future Of Virtual Worlds & More

Carter Rubin has wowed the coaches on all season, and on Tuesday's show, he'll find out if he's headed to the finals!The 15-year-old crooner from Shoreham, New York, delivered the final performance of the night on Monday's live semifinals show, and it was a doozy.

NEW YORK -- Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year.Apple announced Thursday that Ricch achieved the feat with his hit “The Box” and his debut album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.”Rappers dominated the Top 5 most-streamed albums on Apple Music, with Lil Baby’s “My Turn,” Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake — LUV vs.

A small side-effect of the pandemic—very small, given the scale of the overall disaster—has been an obvious buckling of the film calendar. Dates have been pushed. Release dates revised. Decisions postponed. The awards season is a mess.

A New York Christmas Wedding, now streaming on Netflix, is a groundbreaking film. A about a queer Black woman, featuring a predominantly Black and Latinx cast? HELLO, FINALLY.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences plans to keep with an all-virtual roster of awards — including the Daytime Emmys — in 2021. The New York-based org made the announcement on Tuesday morning, and impacts the Sports Emmy Awards, the News & Documentary Emmys and the Technology & Engineering Emmys.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRobert De Niro, Viola Davis, Al Pacino, Jennifer Lawrence and more Hollywood stars have expressed gratitude to Sen. Chuck Schumer for advocating on behalf of movie theaters and “working to ensure the survival of New York’s critical arts and culture institutions.”Schumer has been a vocal supporter of the bipartisan Save Our Stages act, which would provide $15 billion in grants for arts and entertainment venues.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLongtime technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and former CEO of Zappos Tony Hsieh died as a result of injuries sustained in a house fire Nov. 18 while visiting family in Connecticut, the New York Times reported.

Mank director David Fincher.In a profile of the filmmaker published in the New York Times, Pitt, who is a close friend of Fincher, opened up about the experience of watching a film with the director.Pitt has starred in three of Fincher’s films so far – Seven, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. “He’s one of the funniest [expletive] I’ve ever met,” the actor told The Times.Discussing their movie nights, he added: “He’ll be muttering the whole time: ‘That shot works.

Naman Ramachandran Six-time Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan (“In the Name of the Father,” “My Left Foot”) is busy these days with Sky Studios documentary series “Murder in the Cottage,” but he has plenty more on his plate.One of Sheridan’s most celebrated films is “In America” (2002), where a family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen while grieving the death of a child.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorLeBron James said his emerging political nonprofit More Than a Vote has a lot more activity ahead of it beyond 2020.“We didn’t want this to just be a one-off. Everyone heard about the election and we knew how important that was.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorRuth Porat, CFO of Google said an antitrust suit the Department of Justice and 11 state attorneys general filed against the search giant last month is meritless.Google dominates search because it’s what users want, not because rivals can’t get a foothold, she insisted during a Q&A at The New York Times DealBook online summit Wednesday.The lawsuit filed in U.S.

Goldie Hawn, 74, and Kurt Russell, 69, have been together for more than three decades, but they haven’t starred in a movie together since 1987’s Overboard. Now, the longtime couple are headlining the Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles 2, and opened up about why it took them so long to act in the same project. “Material! Really, it’s about the material, and it just didn’t come along,” Goldie told The New York Times in a November 18 interview.

news release that it issued this change because the coronavirus caused app developers to have a particularly tough year — which is true, but not for gaming, and most gaming apps will remain exempt from this reduced fee as they bring in far more than $1 million in revenue each year.The change to Apple’s fee structure is unlikely to have a huge effect on the company’s bottom line.

Spoiler alert: This post contains mild spoilers from the new horror film “Freaky”“Real Housewives” fans will scream in delight knowing an iconic scene from the reality TV franchise appears in the new horror film “Freaky.”Warning, mild spoilers ahead.Midway through the film, the murderous Blissfield Butcher (Kathryn Newton) gets captured and tied-up in high schooler Josh’s (Misha Osherovich) house.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration is discriminating against houses of worship with coronavirus restrictions, Montse Alvarado, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty executive director, told "Fox & Friends" Friday.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Trump appears in the movie for just a few seconds during a scene where Kevin asks for directions in The Plaza Hotel (which Trump owned at the time).

Linda Woolverton— the veteran writer behind Maleficent,Alice in Wonderland and classic Disney animations— is set to pen a live-action feature adaptation of classic children's novel Eloise. First published in 1955, theEloisebooks follow a rambunctious girl with a big imagination who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of New York's Plaza Hotel.The books, written byauthor Kay Thompson, have sold more than 15 million English-language copies to date.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lesli Linka Glatter will direct Universal Pictures’ Ashley’s War, based on The New York Times bestseller written by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.Molly Smith Metzler wrote the script. Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Natalie Krinsky will produce.

NEW YORK -- Awards season, such as it is this year, got formally underway Thursday with the first notable film nominations yet announced in a pandemic-marred movie year.