Half of Bandcamp’s staff laid off following Songtradr acquisition

Ava DuVernay‘s TV follow-up to her film “Origin” isn’t happening anymore. Deadline reports that the director’s romantic drama series for Starz with Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff will fold as DuVernay’s overall deal with Warner Bros.

Ava DuVernay‘s romantic drama series, which landed a three-year script-to-series commitment in May 2022, is not moving forward at Starz, Deadline has confirmed.

Seasoned agent and commercial exec Ian Moffitt has joined IMG‘s studios business in London after exiting BBC Studios.

The Detroit Lions and their starting quarterback, Jared Goff, are having a great NFL season so far…and fans are hoping for another great game during their Monday Night Football match up against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Taylor Swift has shared an appreciation post for her friend and collaborator Jack Antonoff, revealing in the process that their song ‘Sweeter Than Fiction’ has received the ‘Taylor’s Version’ treatment.Last night (October 29), Swift to social media to praise Antonoff, saying the song was the first they wrote together. “There you’ll stand ten feet tall, I will say ‘I knew it all along’.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic A movie’s central character needn’t be someone we admire, but he should probably be someone we’re drawn to, someone we vibe with in sympathetic fascination, who we feel we know and understand even as he crosses over to the dark side. Few movies have lived out that dynamic more cathartically than the underworld dramas of Martin Scorsese.

Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley are looking in love following a dinner with Taylor Swift to celebrate the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)!

Since first arriving on our screens back in March 2021, EastEnders star James Farrar has captured the heart of the nation with his portrayal of Zack Hudson in the iconic BBC soap. The 36 year old actor has delighted audiences at home with Zack’s antics over the years, which have included a selection of very rocky romances with everyone from Nancy Carter to Sam Mitchell, Janine Butcher and most recently Whitney Dean.

EXCLUSIVE: Array Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative change collective Array, has picked up rights to the PJ Raval doc Who We Become for the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. The film will debut exclusively on Netflix on Friday, December 1.

Taylor Swift and he co-writer and co-producer Jack Antonoff are celebrating their latest chart win after “Cruel Summer” claimed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100!

This is day 99 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Ron Swanson is on the road.Actor, comedian, singer and “Parks and Recreation” icon Nick Offerman has eight gigs remaining on his ‘The 2023 Tour’ schedule from Oct. 19 through Nov.

Suits has been a huge success for Netflix since it launched on the streamer, breaking streaming viewership numbers.

Layoffs have hit Bandcamp, according to multiple posts from current and former employees on Twitter, with as many as half of the platform’s workforce cut from their jobs. Bandcamp was sold by Epic Games in September to Songtradr.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Half of the employees at Bandcamp, the artist-centric indie music platform, have been laid off just weeks after the company was acquired by Songtradr, a rep for the company confirms to Variety. In a statement, Songtradr confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of Bandcamp and continued: “Over the past few years the operating costs of Bandcamp have significantly increased. It required some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy company that can serve its community of artists and fans.

Netflix dropped the full trailer for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the anime series based on the graphic novels created by Bryan Lee O’Malley. The series premieres on the streamer starting November 17. Watch the preview in the video posted above.

The BBC has reached 'an agreement' with Andrew Flintoff after he was involved in a crash while filming Top Gear, the corporation has said. The former England cricket captain, 45, appeared with facial injuries in public for the first time in September, nine months after he was taken to hospital after he was hurt while filming the BBC motoring show at its test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome last December.

Jack Antonoff has opened up about his journey with his longtime friend and music collaborator Taylor Swift.While appearing as a guest on Sunday Today with Willie Geist, Antonoff said “I could quantify our relationship in very reductive ways about the things we agree on, the sounds we like. But the truth is, we’ve just grown together.

Trish Deitch Commercial theater — theater written mostly to entertain audiences, for the purpose of making money — is the enemy in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical, “Merrily We Roll Along,” now on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre. According to “Merrily,” it’s theater that doesn’t sacrifice its profundity to make it easy on audiences that has any real value at all.

Troubled musicals, like troubled friendships, can often seem like defeats lying in wait, sponging up every last second of loving care, effort and good intention. So Maria Friedman’s smartly tended production of that most troubled of stage properties, the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth backwards musical Merrily We Roll Along deserves all the applause – and ticket-buying business – it’s getting at Broadway‘s Hudson Theatre.