‘Marvelous And The Black Hole’ Trailer: Sundance Comedy Teams Up A Teenage Delinquent & Surly Magician

Eddie Vedder resumed his ‘Earthling’ US tour this week, and his first show back saw him perform a cover of Pretenders‘ ‘Precious’ alongside Duff McKagan.A couple of the Pearl Jam frontman’s tour dates in California were postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak, but on Monday (February 21) he got back on the road with his first show back taking place at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.The setlist for the show was littered with covers, including Tom Petty’s ‘Room At The Top’, Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’, The Who‘s ‘I’m One’, George Harrison’s ‘Isn’t It A Pity’, and Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’.There was also a cover of Pretenders’ 1980 record ‘Precious’, which Vedder performed with help from Guns N’ Roses bassist McKagan. You can see footage below.Elsewhere in the show, Vedder performed several Pearl Jam classics – ‘Porch’, ‘Wishlist’, ‘Corduroy’, and ‘Dirty Frank’ – as well as some tracks from his new solo LP, ‘Earthling’.His backing band, the Earthlings, is a musical supergroup consisting of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney, and former Chili Peppers and current Pearl Jam touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

Ed Sheeran and The Who are on the lineup for the returning Teenage Cancer Trust concert series, which has been on hiatus for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. The music and comedy event will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London between 21-27 March. Liam Gallagher, Yungblud, Madness and Don Broco are among the other musical guests booked to perform.

The Queen once gave the Duchess of Sussex a very special present to commemorate their first joint outing together. Less than a month after marrying Prince Harry at Windsor Castle, Meghan Markle appeared alongside the Queen in Cheshire in June 2018. The pair opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre and also attended a lunch at Chester Town Hall.The outing was the first time that the Duchess had attended an event with the Queen, now 95, without her husband the Duke of Sussex.

A big, blended family. Megan Fox’s response to Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess’ baby news couldn’t have been more supportive. The mother of three is “thrilled” that her ex-husband is expecting another little one with his girlfriend.

Channing Tatum’s abs and Brad Pitt’s heroism in “The Lost City” teaser have landed a commercial spot during Sunday’s big game.

EXCLUSIVE: Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment (FME) has bolstered its slate for the virtual European Film Market (EFM) with several fresh titles.

Focus Features, Peacock and Jordan Peele’s MonkeyPaw Productions have acquired worldwide rights to the megachurch satire starring Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall.

previously snagged the rights to the next film by Nikyata Jusu, the director of “Nanny” whose film won the Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance. “Honk for Jesus” is a comedy and satire filmed partially as a faux-documentary, and it follows Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown) and his wife, First Lady Trinitie Childs (Hall), as the heads of a Southern Baptist mega church as they try and bounce back from a scandal that’s forced them to shut their doors and led their congregation to leave in a mass exodus. The film picks up in the aftermath as the Childs, still insanely wealthy, try and host an Easter service and drum up attention for the community with a feeble attempt telling passers by on the highway to “Honk for Jesus.” The movie satirizes the culture of for-profit religion and the corruption, back biting and ego that goes on behind the scenes.

Utopia has acquired the U.S. rights to writer-director-producer Lena Dunham’s Sundance comedy “Sharp Stick,” which follows a young woman’s unexpected quest of sexual exploration and self-discovery, Utopia announced on Monday.Utopia will release the film theatrically in the U.S.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen filmmakers utilize Zoom and telecommunication to help tell stories when in COVID lockdown. Not only is filmmaker Stephanie Liang’s “Family Squares” another entry in the unique, COVID sub-genre of Zoom films, but she has used the “limitation” to enhance the emotion and frame the storytelling in a way that feels strangely organic.

Sasha Urban editorYou’re never too old to believe in magic.That’s the guiding philosophy behind writer-director Kate Tsang’s “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” which tells the story of a young delinquent who forms an unlikely friendship with an older magician. FilmRise has given Variety exclusive access to the trailer for the film (above), which opens in select theaters on April 22.The coming-of-age comedy tells the story of Sammy (Miya Cech), a Chinese American teenager who keeps acting out in the wake of family trouble.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterWarner Bros. and HBO Max has nabbed “Am I OK?,” a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson as a woman grappling with her sexuality.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFocus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “Brian and Charles,” a quirky and heartfelt comedy about an unlikely friendship that debuted to rave reviews this week at the Sundance Film Festival.The film centers on Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who builds unconventional contraptions that rarely work. He soon sets out on his biggest project yet — spending three days to turn a washing machine and various spare parts into Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages.Polygon’s Oli Welsh praised the film’s “warmth and tenderness” while Thrillist’s Esther Zuckerman wrote that the movie is “adorably whimsical and downright touching.” Director Jim Archer developed the film with Film4, which co-funded the production, and the BFI, which awarded funds from the National Lottery.

IFC Films and Shudder have taken North American rights to Andrew Semans’ psychological thriller Resurrection starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper.

Glasgow residents face a whopping 40 per cent price hike for parking permits if a proposal by a council department is accepted.

Officials in SNP-run Glasgow city council have drawn up a series of “brutal” options to fill a £34m funding black hole.