Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures to Premiere New Video Series About Sneaker Industry (EXCLUSIVE)

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLive from New York or Beverly Hills, it’s the 78th Golden Globe Awards.While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced earlier this month that the Globes would be broadcast live from both costs, with Tina Fey from New York’s Rainbow Room (at the top of Rockefeller Center) and Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton, plans were not revealed for how presenters and nominees would appear.Variety has learned that Globe producers are

Blake Shelton has just unveiled a new music video for his latest single “Minimum Wage”.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorListen to the theme song of Nicolas Cage’s new horror movie “Willy’s Wonderland” and chances are you won’t be able to get it out of your heard.Here, Variety gives you the first listen to the full creepy, yet catchy “The Birthday Song and Willy’s Jingle.”In the Kevin Lewis-directed film, Cage plays a man whose car breaks down. In order to pay for the repairs, he agrees to clean an abandoned amusement park fun house.

After wrapping up five seasons of Greenleaf for OWN, creator Craig Wright said he and his creative team were ready to tackle a larger project.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Attention Cardi B! Kesha may be sliding into your DMs. The “Praying” singer-songwriter tells me she’d love to have the “WAP” hitmaker on her podcast “Kesha and the Creepies.” “I just love listening to her, and she makes me feel calm,” she says.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJoe Allen may have named his New York City restaurant after himself, but he was never one to seek the spotlight, even as the eatery became more renowned than he could have ever imagined.“He would never brag about himself,” Chita Rivera, Allen’s longtime friend and former girlfriend, told Variety. “In fact, if people would carry on too much about him, he would say, ‘Come on now.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Spectrum Originals and BET have partnered on a mystery drama set in the world of women’s basketball starring Rose Rollins.“Long Slow Exhale” follows J.C. Abernathy (Rollins), the head coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a career-shattering sexual abuse scandal.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKenny Beecham, best known as YouTube star KOT4Q, is set to premiere a new weekly talk show “Called Game.”Beecham, 24, has teamed with content studio and social media network MALKA and talent management and entertainment company Up North to produce the new series, which will focus on sports, sneaker culture, gaming and more which is set to debut this month on YouTube.

Is Montana Yao throwing more not-so subtle shade at Larsa Pippen? Malik Beasley‘s ex-wife, 23, hopped on Instagram to spit bars about a “clout chaser,” and the lyrics have her followers thinking it could be a reference to Malik’s new woman. “I bet on me i cant be beat and that’s without a doubt /  We ain’t tryna hear u bulls**t man please just shut yo mouth / I can’t f**k with these lames cause all they ever chase is clout / Tough ass b**ch so you can’t ever take me out.”

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe sun had just come up on a Monday morning in the middle of summer in New York City. It was that time of day when the sidewalks are beginning to fill with people walking their dogs, heading to work or, like my friend Scott, going to the gym.Me? I was on my way home from another night of drug-filled unmentionables when I ran into Scott.“Good morning,” he said.“Good morning,” I replied.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety“…Rupert Grint may have co-starred as Ron Weasley in all eight “Harry Potter” movies, but he hasn’t actually watched most of them. “I’ve probably seen the first three at the premieres, but after that I stopped watching them,” Grint, 32, tells me from his home in the U.K.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCheech Marin is one of the foremost collectors of Chicano art in the United States. The comedian, best known as one-half of Cheech & Chong, has a collection that’s so highly regarded that the city of Riverside, just outside Los Angeles, is set to open the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum in the fall.

Selena Gomez announced a new Spanish-language EP, REVELACIÓN, is set to drop in March. The singer also shared the visuals for her latest single "Baila Conmigo" alongside Puerto Rican artist Rauw Alejandro.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman are not only relaunching the website for their Thirty Five Ventures multi-media platform Boardroom today, but they’re also announcing some of its new programming.I can exclusively report that in addition to Nick DePaula’s video series about the sneaker industry I first told you about last week, Boardroom will also soon see the premiere of “More Explanation Needed.” The show will feature host Pierce Simpson

IDLES have shared a new video for ‘Carcinogenic’, the latest track to be released from their third album ‘Ultra Mono’.Recorded live for Independent Venue Week, the clip which you can view below, sees each band member performing the track from separate venues across their hometown of Bristol including The Louisiana, Exchange, The Mother’s Ruin, The Old Duke and Trinity Centre.It follows the release of previous videos for ‘Reigns’ and ‘Kill Them With Kindness’.Speaking about Independent Venue

rollercoaster life of fame and infamy will get a closer look in a new, three-part docuseries on Showtime.“Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine” puts the social media sensation-turned-snitch under the microscope, chronicling his ascent to super stardom and stunning downfall to convicted felon.“Superheroes always die,” the rainbow-haired rapper says in the trailer out Wednesday. “Villains never die.

Archie Renaux goes shirtless as he wraps an arm around Jessie Mei Li in this first look still from Netflix‘s upcoming fantasy series, Shadow and Bone.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLong before Jo Ellen Pellman was cast in the starring role of Emma in Ryan Murphy’s movie adaptation of “The Prom,” she saw the original production of the Broadway musical.“I’m only 25, yet I still wish I had this story growing up,” Pellman says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”“The Prom” is about a group of theater stars from New York who try to drum up some positive publicity for themselves by

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJohn Magaro doesn’t have a lot to say in Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow.”He stars as Otis “Cookie” Figowitz, the cook to a group of fur catchers in 1820s Oregon, who is befriended by King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) on the run for killing a Russian man.His performance, which earned the 37-year-old actor a Gotham Award nomination, is made even quieter because he’s covered by unruly facial hair, a hat and layers of dirt-covered

As the global faces of Coach, Jennifer Lopez and Michael B. Jordan are joining the luxury brand for “Coach Conversations”.