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EXCLUSIVE: A street shooting disrupted the filming schedule of the CW series All American Friday. According to sources, the drama had production set up in two Downtown Los Angeles locations for today. The unrelated shooting occurred in the vicinity of one of the locations, we hear. No one from the show was hurt.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) Lifetime Achievement Award from the Set Designers & Model Makers Council (SDMM) will be granted to set designer Luis G. Hoyos, the union has announced.

A crowd of approximately 100 gathered outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters Friday night in protest of the Memphis police beating of Tyre Nichols.

Everett Quinton, a staple of New York’s post-1960s downtown theater scene and diligent standard-bearer for the outrageously campy and hilariously melodramatic style of performance known as the Ridiculous, died of glioblastoma January 23 in Brooklyn. He was 71.

The Art Directors Guild will present Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with the William Cameron Menzies Award, to honor his visually striking and emotionally rich body of work. Del Toro will receive the award at the 27th ADG’s Excellence in Production Design Awards on Saturday, February 18 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and his longtime producing partner and collaborator, Oscar-winning production and costume designer Catherine Martin, will be this year’s recipients of the Art Directors Guild’s Cinematic Imagery Award. Their 30-year collaboration includes work on such films as The Great Gatsby, Australia, Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge! and last year’s Elvis.

Hear that? It’s the Cinema Audio Society’s nominations for its 2023 CAS Awards, which celebrate excellence in sound mixing for film and TV. See the list below.

maternity style just got a glam red-carpet upgrade.On January 4, the Nope star, wearing a sparkling Michael Kors gown with rib cutouts, attended the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Tao Downtown in New York City. Trading in the from her tropical babymoon with , the actor glowed in the silver sequined dress she paired with minimal gold jewelry. KeKe Palmer in New York on January 04, 2023After arriving at the event, Palmer hit the red carpet with director Jordan Peele and posed for a few solo shots, cradling her baby bump. For her makeup look, Palmer opted for a classic smoky eye and glossy lip look. Keke Palmer and Jordan Peele attend the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Tao Downtown on January 04, 2023.Keke Palmer attends the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Tao Downtown on January 04, 2023.Of course, the 29-year-old superstar did not walk away empty-handed.

The New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture Winner Tár by Todd Field has drawn accolades since its Venice premiere, the latest a major rave by Martin Scorsese last night: “The clouds lifted when I experienced Todd’s film.”

Scenic Artist Michael Denering will be honored in February with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors Guild.

DEALSLitmus Music – yet another equity fund buying up music rights – has acquired the recording rights of Keith Urban. “I have the deepest respect for Keith, his incredible talent and his passion for making great music”, says Litmus co-founder Dan McCarroll. “He’s a musically insatiable musician, record maker, performer and songwriter”.Downtown Music Services has signed up Colbie Caillat, Francis Karel, Lily Meola, Loren Gray, Rebecca Black and Yung Bae to it artist services offerings, including distribution, publishing administration, creative marketing and finance.

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Bardo) is set to receive the Cinema Audio Society’s Filmmaker of the Year honor at the59th CAS Awards, taking placing at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel on March 4.

Giving back. Meghan Markle helped prepare Thanksgiving lunch for more than 300 homeless residents of Los Angeles.

The American Music Awards 2022 brought the stars together under the Microsoft Theatre roof in Downtown Los Angeles. As the celebrities made their way into the venue, they flashed some of their fashion looks showcasing their personality.

Duckie Thot is so stunningly gorgeous, rapper Nicki Minaj felt the need to ask, “How are you even real?” It’s a good question and one WHO is also pondering after catching up with Thot in her home town of Melbourne, where she opened the Mumm champagne marquee at Flemington’s Birdcage.Watch: A Day In The Life Of Duckie ThotThe meat pie-loving model is out-of-this-world beautiful, but gives off an easy-going air and seems unaffected by the glamorous life she leads – although Thot might disagree with that description of her day-to-day.“You know what sounds glamorous to me – working nine to five. It’s hard work what I do!”“You know what sounds glamorous to me – working nine to five. It’s hard work what I do!” Duckie says of modellingOh, thank you! I had dinner with some friends at Cipriani Downtown in New York [her home since 2017]. And I had all my friends around and went to a nice bar that we rented out, and had a good time.It was nice to see them all before heading to Australia.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Los Angeles-based real estate developer The Ratkovich Company, which brought the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista to life for Google and YouTube Studios, and a J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives investment group have acquired a three-acre property near Downtown Culver City with plans to develop it into a creative campus like others in the area occupied by Amazon, Apple, WarnerMedia, Sony, TikTok, Nike and Adobe, Variety has learned exclusively. Dubbed “The Bowcroft Collection,” the 73,035-square-foot group of connected buildings stretches from 5950-5978 Bowcroft Street, near the intersection of Jefferson and Obama Boulevards in Los Angeles.

Robert Gordon, a rockabilly devotee and singer whose band the Tuff Darts was a staple of New York City’s CBGB and Max’s Kansas City punk scene of the 1970s, died today. He was 75.

New York City-based restaurateur Keith McNally has made a shocking announcement about James Corden.

Kep1er have dropped their new comeback single ‘We Fresh’, the title track lifted from their new mini-album ‘Troubleshooter’.The K-pop girl group’s new EP dropped on October 13 at 6pm KST, alongside an accompanying music video for its lead single ‘We Fresh’. In the visual, the members of Kep1er are spotted having breakfast together in an otherwise empty diner, before the scene cuts to a futuristic, cyberpunk setting.“Roaring, we fresh / Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go / We fresh, hop on ta / Stuck in a rut, break all the same old rules / We will show you, for you / Come on, touch down,” they chant on the track’s high-octane chorus.Aside from its title track, the ‘Troubleshooter’ mini-album features three new B-side tracks – ‘Lion Tamer’, ‘Downtown’ and ‘Dreams’ – as well as a remastered version of ‘THE GIRLS (Can’t turn me down)’, which was previously released as Kep1er’s original mission track during their stint as contestants on Queendom 2 earlier this year.

Katie Reul editor “Encanto” swept the 37th annual Imagen Awards, which was held Sunday at Downtown Los Angeles’ La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, but the Disney musical movie was closely matched by several wins from Hulu’s “Love, Victor.” Overall, “Encanto” creators took home the most awards of any nominated project and were recognized for Best Feature Film, Best Music Composition for Film or Television, Best Music Supervision for Film or Television and Best Director – Feature Film, which co-director Charise Castro Smith was not expecting. “I’m pretty sure my mom is never going to live down the fact that I won a best director award when nominated against Stephen Spielberg,” Castro Smith, who is also known for producing “The Haunting of Hill House,” joked with the audience during her acceptance speech. “That’s serious bragging rights for her Zumba class.”

Sasha Urban editor After a low opening turnout in theaters for LGBTQ rom-com “Bros,” writer and star Billy Eichner wrote on Twitter Sunday that it was “disappointing” that “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up.” Dot-Marie Jones, who co-stars in the film, echoed Eichner’s sentimentsSunday evening at the Best in Drag Show, an annual parody drag pageant that functions as a charity benefit for people living with HIV/AIDS, and at which Jones was serving on the panel of judges.     “There’s so much heart and so many wonderful good laughs in this [movie],” Jones told Variety at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s, you know, LGBTQ. It’s not contagious — fuckin’ go see a movie, you know what I mean? It’s crazy.”

Honey Dijon has announced details of her upcoming album ‘Black Girl Magic’, following the release of new single ‘Show Me Some Love’.‘Black Girl Magic’ is due to be released on November 18 via Classic Music Company. ‘Show Me Some Love’ was released earlier this week and features Channel Tres and Sadie Walker.The album is made up of 15 tracks and collaborations with artists including EVE, Josh Caffé, Mike Dunn, Hadiya George and more. Previously released singles from the album include ‘Work’, ’Not About You’, ‘Downtown’, ‘Beyond’, ‘La Femme Fantastique’ and ‘Love Is A State Of Mind’.Dijon worked closely with Classic Music Company founder Luke Solomon on ‘Black Girl Magic’, as well as frequent collaborator Chris Penny.Speaking about the album, Dijon said: “This album is dedicated to love.

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has announced details of his debut solo album ‘Radio Songs’ and shared new single ‘Devil’s Island’.The record, which is released via Cooking Vinyl on January 23, 2023, was produced by Leo Abrahams, who has previously worked with Wild Beasts, Brian Eno, Ghostpoet.“The idea of Radio Songs is me spinning through the dial,” he said. “It sounds like you’ve got a radio tuned to some static and you spin the dial, and the song pops out of it.

Five-time Oscar-nominated production sound designer Peter J. Devlin is set for the Cinema Audio Society’s 2023 Career Achievement Award. He’ll pick up the prize at the 59th CAS Awards on March 4 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Manhattan’s Downtown Community Television Center celebrated the opening of the media arts center’s long-anticipated nonprofit, 67-seat movie theater, Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film, on Tuesday.The only movie theater in New York City dedicated to screening documentaries, Firehouse is an official Academy Award-qualifying theater that will screen first-run films and curated programs.On Sept. 23, Abigail Disney and Kathleen Hughes’ self-distributed “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” about the growing inequalities in America and better pay for Disneyland cast members, will be the inaugural docu to play at Firehouse cinema. The week-long screening will serve as the film’s qualifying run in New York. Disney is set to appear in person for opening weekend Q&As.

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company is developing All-of-a-Kind Family, a live-action one-hour drama series about a hardworking Jewish family in Manhattan’s bustling Lower East Side in 1911, based on the collection of books by Sydney Taylor.

Afropunk was back in its birthplace for the first time since 2019 this past weekend.

Kenan Thompson hosted this year's Emmy Awards, and managed to sneak in a little reunion with his old pal, Kel Mitchell.Midway through Monday's star-studded show at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, Thompson wandered over to the bar for one of the ceremony's comedic interludes, and struck up a conversation with the night's «honorary bartender,» Kumail Nanjiani.An overwhelmed Nanjiani — who had been tasked with serving drinks as a regular bartender and was totally unprepared — struggled to make drinks for people, before Thompson decided to order for a man slumped over on the bar, apparently passed out.«Excuse me, sir, can we get you a drink or something?» Thompson asked, as Mitchell sat up and smiled bright.«You know what, can I get a Good Burger?» he asked, as an exuberant Thompson hugged him and the pair jumped around excitedly.«Make that two Good Burgers!» Thompson yelled.

Oprah Winfrey to inspire and tug at the heartstrings. And that's exactly what the iconic media mogul did at this year's Emmy Awards.Taking the stage to present the first award of the night, Winfrey delivered a message about the importance of always getting back up when you get knocked down, regardless of the odds.«It's the most coveted television accolade on the planet and yet it's impossible to win one — almost,» Winfrey said, holding an Emmy trophy aloft. «There are eight billion people on this planet, but only 25 Emmys to be given out tonight.

star Amanda Seyfried has dropped in for the 2022 Emmy Awards red carpet. That was a horrible pun, but you know what isn't horrible? Seyfried's dress by Armani. On September 12, arrived at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, wearing an Armani Privé gown from the brand's Spring Summer 2022 haute couture collection. The strapless dress, complete with multi-dimensional embellished crystals, gave the illusion of mermaid skin.

ever been happier to see Sydney Sweeney hit the red carpet. On September 12, the actor arrived at the 2022 Emmy Awards in Downtown Los Angeles wearing a sparkling Oscar de la Renta gown with a Bridgerton-esque bustle. Back in July, secured not one, but two best-supporting actress Emmy nominations, marking the first and second time she's been honored by the Television Academy.

looking every bit the that she is.On September 12, Zendaya posted a glimpse of her Emmys gown while on her way to the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Styled by Law Roach, the actor and producer wore a black strapless ball gown by Valentino paired with a Bulgari choker and a black ribbon headband. In 2020, Zendaya made history when she for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for Euphoria at just 24 years old, making her the youngest woman ever to snag the prize. This year, Zendaya is officially the at 26 years old, having been nominated for outstanding lead actress yet again (she was just 25 when the nominations were announced in July 2022).To make her achievements even more historic, Zendaya is officially the youngest woman to ever be nominated in a producing category as an executive producer of Euphoria season two.

Sydney Sweeney stepped onto the red carpet at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards Monday night with a look that made a serious fashion statement.The star smiled brightly on the golden carpet outside the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, and was radiant in a gorgeous Oscar de la Renta dress.The striking star — who is also celebrating her 25th birthday today -- looked classic and elegant in the white gown, featuring a black floral print. Sweeney wore her blonde locks down, and went minimal with her accessories, rocking only two small rings.It's not only birthday, but there's a number of reasons it's a special day for the young star, who is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work on  and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for .ET spoke to the double Emmy nom in August, where she admitted that she was still processing the monumental moment.«No.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large And this is it, the final 25 categories from the 74th Emmy awards will be revealed, and winners crowned, on Monday at the Microsoft theater in Downtown Los Angeles. Will it ultimately be a roster of predictable victors and repeats from past years? Or are we in for some surprises? On this episode of the “Variety Awards Circuit Podcast,” it’s an all-roundtable edition as we go through all of the remaining categories and give out final best guesses and biggest dreams. Will predictable winners wind up on stage, or are we in for some big surprises from the likes of “Squid Game” or “Abbott Elementary”? What hints can be found in last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys winners? Listen below!

Come with us and be transported to another world! Perez was lucky enough to go a locals spots where a dazzling variety show takes place most nights a week in Las Vegas! Downtown is where it’s at and this venue felt like stepping into the Kit Kat Club or The Box! Miss Behave encourages you to misbehave and you’re  dazzled by raunchy, quirky, adult performers. Comedians, jugglers, aerialists, skaters, singers, freaks and more! Watch some of the highlights we caught and…prior to our R-rated shenanigans, we took our children on TWO outings that they loved! Perez is an overachiever like that! There was lots of sugar and lots of playing! Such a fun day! Watch!

Roy Trakin British synthpop pioneer Howard Jones has signed with Jonathan Wolfson, joining a roster that includes Daryl Hall & John Oates, Loverboy and Fee Waybill’s The Tubes. “Being a proud Gen X-er, I was always a big fan,” said Wolfson. “Not only was Howard Jones a ubiquitous force on MTV, but his eternally optimistic songs have also passed the test of time.  His current live show is a celebration of his legacy, as well as the present, and things to come.” Jones, who was managed from the beginning of his career in the early ‘80s by U.K.-based David Stopps, parted ways “amicably” seven years ago to handle his career with wife Jan, but was introduced to Wolfson by his agent, Paradise Artists’ Rick Shoor, who invited the manager to see the artist’s June show at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles.