iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God Team Up for First-Ever Black Effect Podcast Festival

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorColman Domingo says his younger brother gave him the best compliment about his new autobiographical animated short, “New Moon.”“He was overcome,” Domingo tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “He said, ‘More than anything, you brought the feeling of mom back.’”“New Moon” tells the story of a little boy who is shown how to dream by his hardworking single mom. It is based on Domingo’s play “A Boy and His Soul.”Domingo is the voice of the narrator as well as the mother.

Thursday night's episode of Love Island will see yet another recoupling, with the choice being in the boys' hands.The recoupling comes after viewers were tasked with choosing their favourite individual Islanders - leaving the least popular at risk of being dumped. In tonight's episode, there will be excitement in the air for some desperate to get off the daybeds and nerves for others about who will choose whom. As the newest Islander, Adam Collard gets first choice.

Kelly Clarkson has a reputation for having a contagious sense of humour and is never afraid to challenge her coworkers. Blake Shelton, her voice co-star, is her most recent victim. MORE: Why Kelly Clarkson has reason to celebrate away from her showThe beloved coach, interior designer and all round host, ahead of the season four premier of The Kelly Clarkson Show, took the time to reflect on her most recent season.The former American Idol read through a yearbook made by her crew and shared fond memories of the more than 1,000 famous visitors who dropped by.WATCH: Kelly Clarkson was beaten at her own game on The Kelly Clarkson Show when Anne Hathaway guessed her song before she couldThe yearbook found that Kelly performed 169 "Kellyokes," a karaoke version of her name, and  taped a total of 180 episodes.MORE: Kelly Clarkson opens up about the impact her divorce had on her careerShe also praised the fact that they had nine Emmy nominations for season three and two Sports Emmy awards for the previous season, saying: "It really is exciting, my team works extremely hard."Kelly then reflected on the immense amount of awards she and her team achieved, and one statistic made her think of a certain country music icon. She said, “I competed in 28 games and I only won 15 of them.

cancer, which the star battled back in 2004. In a throwback interview Watts recalled the moments after his diagnosis he shared: "It was benign, but [the doctor] said we should take it out. On the slide, it had tiny cancer cells on it.

Gabby Petito‘s parents are sounding hopeful they’re getting closer to some form of justice — and they have good reason to!

The original Buzz Lightyear has finally spoken about the controversy over Chris Evans voicing the main character in Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear origin story.

do change it is because they have established an empathic bond with someone else, meaning that they have started to see that other person as a human being with their own experiences and their own perspectives rather than someone that they can argue with or who doesn’t understand,” she says.Offer background on why you believe the way you do. Share personal experiences that can help contextualize why it matters to you.

Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Josh Gad has signed with CAA. Gad is best known for voicing Olaf in the Frozen franchise, for which he won a Grammy; his Tony Award-nominated role as Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book Mormon and his performance as LeFou in the live-action adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRadio host and entrepreneur Charlamagne Tha God is producing the first Black Effect Podcast Festival in partnership with iHeartMedia, aimed at celebrating and amplifying Black voices in the podcast industry.The event will take place Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Brooklyn Mirage’s Avant Gardner venue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Christopher Vourlias Bogdan George Apetri’s “Miracle” took home the top prize in the Romanian Days competition at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, which saw nine first-time directors among the 12 filmmakers competing in the annual showcase of domestic cinema.It’s the first time such a formidable number of debuts have featured in the competition, offering a snapshot of what the fest’s artistic director Mihai Chirilov describes as a “balanced landscape” of new and established voices in Romania’s celebrated film industry.It’s been nearly two decades since Cristi Puiu’s “The Death of Mr.

Hayden Christensen shared the adorable way his 7-year-old daughter, Briar Rose, helped him prepare for his return as Anakin Skywalker a.k.a. Darth Vader in the Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi”.

“The Black Phone,” the new Universal Pictures and Blumhouse release that finds Ethan Hawke playing a masked killer, from the mind of “Sinister” and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” filmmaker Scott Derrickson.But how and where is “The Black Phone” available to watch? Your answers below.“The Black Phone” will be released on Friday, June 24 exclusively in theaters. The only way to watch it opening weekend is by going to a movie theater, and you can check local listings here.However, since it’s a Universal Pictures release, the film is expected to be streaming on Peacock roughly 45 days after it first hits theaters.

Tara McNamara “Black Santa.” In two words, the progressively provocative title of Minneapolis-based Travis Wood’s Indeed Rising Voices short is likely to spark intrigue about this emergent filmmaker with a fresh perspective. The 10-minute comedy follows Henry, an Atlanta father who makes an annual tradition of working as a mall Santa Claus with his son Otis as an elf sidekick. Now in his self-conscious middle school years, Otis is embarrassed by the charade until he learns that his father has a noble ulterior motive: to help teach him how to upend stereotypes and increase positive Black representation. In both commercial and personal efforts, Wood specializes in telling stories about the Black experience.

The teaser trailer for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is here!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn today’s podcast news roundup, Will Ferrell joins with Las Culturistas’ Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers for a series showcasing up-and-coming comedy talent; Apple TV+ digs into the notorious case of the Unabomber; iHeartMedia premieres a show about NFTs hosted by… three NFT characters; and more.iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network are set to launch “Clown Parade: An Anthological Character Piece Carefully Curated by Las Culturistas,” a comedy podcast series presented by Ferrell and Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers of the “Las Culturistas” podcast. The first episode of “Clown Parade” will premiere on iHeartRadio and all major podcast platforms on June 29.

Audible has entered into a first-look deal with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company, Higher Ground.“At Higher Ground, we have always sought to lift up voices that deserve to be heard — and Audible is invested in realizing that vision alongside us. I’m looking forward to partnering with them to tell stories that not only entertain but also inspire,” the former President said in a statement Tuesday.“We are so proud of the stories we have been able to tell at Higher Ground, and there’s no one we’d rather write our next chapter with than Audible.

President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground has found a new podcast home.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLake Bell first explored the power of voice in her award-winning 2013 film about the voiceover industry, “In a World…,” which she wrote, directed and starred in.Now, nearly 10 years later, the actor-writer-director-producer further unpacks the fixation in “Inside Voice: My Obsession With How We Sound,” an audiobook set to be published by Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries on Nov. 1, 2022.“Inside Voice,” Bell’s first book project, will delve into her complicated opinions about voice — and “how this vital piece of our identity serves as an X-ray of our personal histories, exposures, vulnerabilities and conditioning,” according to Pushkin.“Without hyperbole, the subject of voice has been a lifelong passion, inspiring my work and life from every angle,” Bell said in a statement provided to Variety.

Tiffany Red Tiffany Red is a Grammy-winning songwriter and songwriter advocate who has written hits for Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Jason Derulo and Zendaya, among others. She is founder and executive director of the 100 Percenters, a 501 c3 organization with the stated goal of advocating “for all music creatives with a focus on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and marginalized creatives.” She has spoken at length about the challenges faced by songwriters; this is her second Juneteenth essay for Variety.I think we can all agree that black culture drives pop culture.