Roku, Showtime, CBS Interactive, Ad Council and PwC Execs to Discuss Breakthrough Marketing

San Diego Loyal SC just scored a major goal — for shutting down homophobia!

At a time when millions of Americans are facing unemployment and crushing medical debt, it seems that the number of babies with expensive designer bags is also, inexplicably, on the rise.

Global’s “Saturday Night Live” is returning home to 30 Rock.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe ninth episode of Variety’s Rebooting the Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10:00 a.m.

Natalie Oganesyan editorConsumers are increasingly turning toward connected television streaming platforms, thereby transforming the landscape of TV advertising, and the ways marketers and storytellers reach target audiences.As part of Variety’s Streaming Room series, presented by software company The Trade Desk, Variety interim editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton, and deputy awards and features editor Jenelle Riley moderated a conversation on the future of connected TV advertising and

Hispanic Heritage Month, McDonald’s and Sony Music wants to uplift and fuel us all with pride by presenting En Vivo Live!, a unique digital music experience to connect fans with some of their favorite Latin artists.The Livestream series consists of intimate and exclusive performances via the artists’ Facebook channels. The first concert will feature Puerto Rican Reggaeton singer and songwriter, Farruko, on September 27 at 7 p.m.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Pathé's Venice-bowing comedy-drama The Duke for a range of territories worldwide, including the U.S. The distributor also picked up the film —starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren —for Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe (excluding Poland, the Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia), Russia/CIS, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, South Africa, India and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China).

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe eighth episode of Variety’s Rebooting The Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, will debut on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m.

Sure, Donald Trump is president of the United States, but in Chris Rock’s opinion, he’s not the one with the real power.

“Wolfwalkers” director Tomm Moore and co-director Ross Stewart joined Carlos Bustamante to talk about the making of their animated folklore film, which they finished off in quarantine to get it ready in time for its premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

Ellise Shafer editorWith the COVID-19 pandemic keeping everyone indoors for most of the year, it’s no secret that streaming has skyrocketed on a global scale.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman and The Meg and Batwoman star Ruby Rose are leading cast in George Gallo’s (The Comeback Trail) action-thriller Vanquish, which is currently filming on location in Biloxi, Mississippi.In the movie, Freeman plays a retired police commissioner who blackmails his caretaker (Ruby Rose) by kidnapping her daughter, forcing her into helping him double cross his team of dirty detectives in an attempt to clean up the city.Bad Boys

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: HanWay, 47 Meters Down outfit The Tea Shop and Riverstone Pictures (Wind River) are among the team on UK genre pic A Banquet, which will star Resident Evil franchise actress Sienna Guillory.Recently wrapped in London, the psychological horror also stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks) and Lindsay Duncan (Private Lives).Ruth Paxton’s directorial debut follows widowed mother Holly who is radically tested when her teenage daughter

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe second season of “Rebooting the Entertainment Industry,” sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, will begin its five-episode run on Sept. 15.