Leonardo DiCaprio, LACMA trustee Eva Chow, Gucci Creative Director Sabato De Sarno, and Gucci President and CEO Jean-François Palus, proved to be a dazzling affair, even amid the backdrop of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.
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Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor For Eva Longoria to have the chance to direct “Flamin’ Hot,” she says she had to “overcome the stigma of being a dumb actor.” “I’m more than the actor you know from TV,” she tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I’ve been directing for 12 years. I started with short films.
I directed episodic TV, half-hours, one-hours, dramas, comedies, baby pilots, and big pilots. I’ve touched every rung of the ladder.” On this Variety Awards Circuit Podcast episode, we sit with Longoria to discuss the chance to helm the inspirational true story of a Latino who achieved the American dream. In addition, the Awards Circuit Roundtable discusses the continuation of the SAG-AFTRA strikes and how that will affect the awards season, with actors unable to campaign.
Listen below: The “Desperate Housewives” alum is making her feature directorial debut with “Flamin’ Hot,” an inspirational story about a Frito-Lay janitor who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. The Hulu/Searchlight production won the audience award at the SXSW Film Festival. When it was released in June, the studio announced it was the most-watched streaming movie on its platform.
Getting the chance to helm this project wasn’t easy for Longoria, and as she looks to the future, she gets candid about Hollywood and what opportunities will be afforded to POC. She feels a case of “diversity fatigue” is going on in Hollywood. “Sometimes they say, ‘Oh well, you’re only on that list because they needed a Latina, so you’re the token one,'” Longoria says.
Leonardo DiCaprio, LACMA trustee Eva Chow, Gucci Creative Director Sabato De Sarno, and Gucci President and CEO Jean-François Palus, proved to be a dazzling affair, even amid the backdrop of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.
A delivery driver who murdered his wife, set fire to their home, and then blamed their teenage son and a man who bludgeoned a woman to death with a dumbbell were among the worst offenders sent to jail in the UK in the last month.
EXCLUSIVE: Steven Soderbergh has dedicated more than four decades to shaping his legacy in Hollywood as a director, cinematographer and producer. But instead of splurging on yachts or a home in the South of France, he is investing in the future of independent filmmaking by mentoring directors like Joe and Anthony Russo, Christopher Nolan and most recently Eddie Alcazar. He and Alcazar’s second collaboration (after 2018’s Perfect) is Divinity, which hits theaters nationwide Friday after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. In 2005, Alanis Morissette starred in a Gap campaign in which she, Keith Urban, Jason Mraz and John Legend were tapped to sing a rendition of their favorite song to promote the brand’s new line of fall denim. Her pick: “Crazy” by Seal, which she also recorded for her greatest hits album “The Collection” earlier that year.
AFM will get picked up. But given the climate in Hollywood, many projects won’t officially hit the market until February at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Industry veterans Amanda Sherwin, Mike Messina and Seth Needle are teaming up to launch Blue Harbor Entertainment, a new distribution, marketing and consulting company. The news comes as the American Film Market kicks off this week in Santa Monica where the executives will be on the ground looking for partners. Blue Harbor is looking to distribute 10 to 15 feature film releases per year, as well as provide advisory services to third parties.
In the 26th episode of Deadline Strike Talk — which for below the liners signifies half a year without a paycheck that hasn’t come from Uber fares or waiting tables — host Billy Ray hits on a zeitgeist theme that gets voiced a lot by people who just feel that the business isn’t as remotely as exciting or near as much fun as it was before the folly that signatories put themselves into by chasing Netflix as it became the preeminent streamer. The result has put just about every other streamer pursuit in a position of being money losers that have strained the economics, and accelerated the demise of those conglomerates’ traditional networks, and so many other things.
Angelique Jackson America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Greta Lee, Yara Shahidi, Celine Song and Linda Yvette Chávez will be feted at the 2023 WIF Honors. The annual benefit will be held on Thursday, Nov.
America Ferrera, Eva Longoria and Linda Yvette Chavez, and Celine Song and Greta Lee have been set as recipients of this year’s WIF Honors.
Eva Longoria is elevating her look for a special occasion. The Hollywood star attended the Savannah Film Festival and shared some of her thoughts and experiences throughout her career in the entertainment industry, both as an actress and as a director.EVA LONGORIA CELEBRATES SISTER’S BIRTHDAY IN LAS VEGASEVA LONGORIA REVEALS THE SPECIAL THINGS SHE LEARNED FROM VICTORIA BECKHAMEVA LONGORIA CELEBRATES THE OPENING OF THE FLAMIN’ HOT EXHIBIT AT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUMThe 48-year-old filmmaker decided to wear a three-piece suit for the event, stepping on the red carpet and posing for the cameras in an all-gray ensemble.
Who is the best Chris of Hollywood? It’s a debate that seems never ending.
By Even if you’re unfamiliar with the name Heather McMahan, you’ll probably recognize her face. That’s because there’s a high likelihood that, at some point, a friend has sent you one of her comedy videos on Instagram—maybe the one about her undying love for or about that (fake) debate you do at dinner before spinach dip—with the message, “omg, this is so us.”McMahan, 36, spent years grinding away trying to make it as a comedian and actor in Hollywood before taking a break following her father’s sudden passing from Home in Atlanta, she started posting quippy musings on life, funny stories, and highly entertaining observations on pop culture to Instagram.She soon attracted a following of mostly millennial women who found, in McMahan, an over-the-top hilarious bestie who always has the right thing to say about the mundane, weird, or most tragic parts of being a woman.
Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper seem to have gotten some help from a very famous friend for some privacy. A new report claims Taylor Swift lent her home to Hadid and Cooper, allowing them to get away from the city while enjoying some much needed privacy.
Eva Longoria made her film directorial debut this year with Flamin’ Hot. The award-winning film is celebrated with Chicano culture in what she’s called a ‘love letter’ to the Mexican-American community.
Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego, two of the most high-profile Latinos in Hollywood, have joined forces.
The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer have today announced a summer tour of the UK and Ireland in 2024.
confirmed his updated relationship status with 26-year-old at New York Comic Con. “I got married,” Evans told the crowd while wearing his gold wedding band, according to .
EXCLUSIVE: Crime star Dougray Scott and Buccaneer Media, the Scottish police drama’s producer, have hired a Creative Director for Buccaneer Scotland, as it seeks to supercharge the scale of its productions in the Celtic country.
Amber Heard is moving on and finding happiness after her defamation trial with Johnny Depp ended over a year ago on June 1, 2022. The actress has found herself in the news again amid the release of her latest film ‘In The Fire,’ scheduled to be released in the United States on October 13.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix on Thursday morning unveiled Improv: 60 and Still Standing, a comedy special celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Improv comedy clubs, which will premiere globally on the streamer November 7th.