Producer Steve Lillywhite: “The Beatles never made anything you could play in a stadium”

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer On the heels of its splashy debut, the producers behind Netflix’s “One Piece” say scripts for a possible Season 2 are completed and that the next season could be “ready to air” in a year, once production is able to begin. “We’ve got scripts ready,” Marty Adelstein, CEO of Tomorrow Studios, which produces the live-action “One Piece” in partnership with manga creator Eiichiro Oda and publisher Shueisha, told Variety Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Nichols spent two decades considering how to approach what would become his new film The Bikeriders because he did not want to glamorize motorcycle culture.

On the evening of February 24, 2022, Lindsey Bridges received the first of two phone calls which will haunt her forever.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Roman Polanski’s Italian producer Luca Barbareschi got emotional at the press conference for “The Palace,” a black comedy that is the director’s new work and premieres at the Venice Film Festival today. “It’s been very difficult to make this film,” said Barbareschi, a multi-hyphenate who also stars in “The Palace.” “Polanski is not easy [to finance]” he added, noting that “there is a hole – France – in the middle of this film,” since French companies refused to participate in its production. Polanski’s previous film, “An Officer and a Spy,” a period drama about the Dreyfus affair, scooped the Grand Jury Prize at Venice, won best director at the Cesar Awards and was one of the highest grossing French films of 2019.

reads a statement on YouTube’s support page.According to the page, those who are in the beta group can toggle the new feature from YouTube’s voice search and “hum or record the song you’re searching for 3 or more seconds.”Once the song has been identified by the software, the video-sharing website will send the user all “relevant official music content, user-generated videos, and/or Shorts featuring the searched song in the YouTube app.”The Google-owned company stated that while only a small portion of Android users currently have the feature, the brand-new update will soon be released to everyone.Should the update prove successful, the new feature will put YouTube in direct competition with the Apple-owned app Shazam.According to Google, their goal is twofold: One goal is to “make it easier for users to find” and engage with content on YouTube, while the other is to relieve some of the pressure put on creators to upload multiple times a day. The Post reached out to Google for comment.

86TVs, the new band of The Maccabees’ Felix and Hugo White, have spoken to NME at Reading Festival 2023 about the “perfect heartbreak” of their old band never headlining the festivals.The group – comprising the White brothers and their third brother Will (the latter formerly of mid-noughties indie band Talk Taxis and his solo project BLANc) and The Noisettes’ drummer Jamie Morrison – recently released their debut single ‘Worn Out Buildings’.Speaking to NME at this weekend’s Reading Festival, where they played a secret set on the BBC Introducing stage, they discussed their hopes for the band, their history with the festivals, and how they believed The Maccabees could have one day headlined.Asked whether they ever believed they would top the bill at the dual festivals, Felix said: “That is so heartbreaking to hear you say that, because I definitely had that [thought]. I used to keep all those yellow [line-up] posters, and the first one The Maccabees did, we were the first on the new bands tent.

Though Tony Gilroy has been a staple in Hollywood for decades already, you could make the argument the filmmaker is at his most powerful right now, especially after the success of his “Star Wars” series, “Andor.” In fact, during the ongoing WGA strike, Gilroy has been one of the most vocal supporters of the union and its fight against the studios. And in a recent picket line speech, Gilroy proved that he is one of the best advocates for the various writers in Hollywood.

Step foot onto the streets of Manchester and you will be hit with a cacophony of sounds you would expect to hear in any modern city.

As summer draws to a close and the nation prepares for the colder months ahead, now is the perfect time to check for any lost bank or building society accounts, forgotten pension pots or income top-ups, to give your finances a boost before Autumn. A cash windfall would also help ease the burden of the ongoing cost of living crisis.

The producers of The Blind Side are finally speaking out.

are speaking out amid Michael Oher's bombshell conservatorship lawsuit against Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, defending the 2009 film and sharing exactly how much they paid its real-life subjects. In a lengthy statement issued to ET on Thursday, Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove defended the film's integrity while shining a light on the nature of the 2006 business negotiations that resulted in securing the rights to the story.

Louis Theroux has criticised TV programme makers at the BBC for avoiding “difficult subjects” and “playing it safe”.Theroux, who is renowned for making cutting edge programmes and documentaries about controversial subjects, said there has been a welcome shift in mindset today so broadcasters such as the BBC are “more thoughtful about representation” and aware of “the need not to wantonly give offence”, which he said he was “fully signed up to”.“But I wonder if there is something else going on as well. That the very laudable aims of not giving offence have created an atmosphere of anxiety that sometimes leads to less confident, less morally complex film-making,” he told the Edinburgh TV Festival (via BBC News).He added: “As a result, programmes about extremists and sex workers and paedophiles might be harder to get commissioned.”The corporation, he went on was “trying to anticipate the latest volleys of criticisms, stampeded by this or that interest group, avoiding offence”.Theroux added: “Often the criticisms come from its own former employees, writing for privately owned newspapers whose proprietors would be all too happy to see their competition eliminated.

Bradley Cooper has said that being sober made it “easier” to play the role of a recovering addict in A Star Is Born.The 2018 film stars Cooper as boozing country singer Jackson Maine who falls in love with Ally, a talented young waitress-cum-singer (Lady Gaga).In a new interview with Bear Grylls on the latter’s TV programme Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge, Cooper discussed his two-decade sobriety and how it helped him “really get in” to the role as Maine.Asked whether he had any “wild years” early in his acting days, Cooper said: “In terms of alcohol and drugs, yeah, but nothing to do with fame though.“But I was lucky. I got sober at 29 years old and I’ve been sober for 19 years.

Lionel Messi held his first press conference as a player for Inter Miami. The event took place at the DRV PNK Stadium, ahead of the final against Nashville for the Leagues Cup which the team won on Saturday, August 19.

Ethan Shanfeld Bradley Cooper recently went deep into the icy canyons of the Wyoming Basin, where he opened up about his sobriety with Bear Grylls. On a Season 2 episode of National Geographic’s “Running Wild With Bear Grylls,” the British adventurer asked Cooper about his most meaningful roles. “‘The Hangover’ was pretty career changing,” Cooper said.

One Direction is undeniably one of the biggest boy bands to hit the scene since the early millennium bubblegum pop explosion, and the members of the group amassed impressive fortunes over the years.

Editor’s note: Dade Hayes and Jonathan Bing are co-authors of Open Wide: How Hollywood Box-Office Became a National Obsession. Hayes is Deadline’s Business Editor and Bing is Chief Communications Officer at Vice Media Group.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are together again!

.It's been reported that Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy and their family received 2.5 percent of the film's profits — the film grossed approximately $309.2 million — but that's not accurate. ET has learned that the family deal actually paid them the aforementioned percentage of, which is based on money left over after all costs are distributed.All in all, it's believed the family earned under $1 million from the 2009 film based on Michael Lewis' 2006 bestseller of the same name, which centered around Michael Oher and the evolution of the integral role played by the left tackle, or «the blind side.»The «under $1 million» figure lines up with what the Tuohys' family attorneys said at a Wednesday news conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

Michael Parkinson, the British chat show king who was confirmed dead on Thursday, will be remembered as one of the outstanding interviewers of his generation. During his show’s 36-year run across the BBC and ITV, Parkinson sat down with some of the biggest stars of our time, attracting acclaim and sometimes controversy. Scroll on for some of his most memorable moments.