We’ve heard of some pretty wild TV show concepts but Fox’s Labor of Love has to take the biscuit for the most adventurous of them all.
05.05.2020 - 16:15 / variety.com
By Andrew Hampp
A 30-year veteran of music rights and sample clearances, Deborah Mannis-Gardner has long been on the frontlines of negotiating complex licensing deals, whether it’s clearing samples for songs by big-name artists (Eminem, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and beyond), film music for Oscar-winning directors (Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers) or Tony-winning Broadway scores (Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton.”)
So as Mannis-Gardner and her 10-person team at DMG Inc. saw their clients’ revenue
We’ve heard of some pretty wild TV show concepts but Fox’s Labor of Love has to take the biscuit for the most adventurous of them all.
Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas' Maricela Martínez's last paid gig was March 17, right before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially canceled any and all sorts of social events deemed the bread and butter for mariachi musicians."After everything got canceled, I didn’t even want to even open my case and get my trumpet to practice," she says.
Spike Lee will now join the ranks with Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Noah Baumbach, and Bong Joon Ho as the latest auteur director to develop a movie for Netflix. His latest joint — the first since his Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman — is Da 5 Bloods, which set to debut on Friday, June 12. On Monday, the streaming service released a trailer for the pic, and it looks appropriately epic.
Katy Perry is back in bloom — and baring it all.
By Dominic Patten
Driver license photos are usually not the most flattering portraits of ourselves — but that doesn’t apply to Kylie Jenner, of course. The billionaire revealed her new license photo on May 13, and it looked like it was snapped in Harper Bazaar’s photo studio rather than the DMV! Kylie looked picture-perfect, no pore in sight (as expected of the businesswoman who has creative control over Kylie Skin).
A dating show where «love is optional?» That might be a first.
As the country works through the trauma created by the coronavirus, Americans are showing pandemic fatigue and increasingly turning to music for cheer and self-improvement, according to the third installment of Nielsen Music/MRC Data’s survey series, "COVID-19: Tracking the Impact on the Entertainment Landscape." It makes sense: With businesses closed for a month and a half, unemployment skyrocketing and people tiring of self-isolation, music is an affordable escape.
Dua Lipa is finding new ways to still release epic music videos amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Me & Dad Radio will see Eilish and her father discuss their favourite music
Including titles on Gil Scot Heron, L7 and Chuck Berry
By Jon Burlingame
By Mike Fleming Jr
Now that people are getting used to staying at home, they’re increasingly grabbing their popcorn and turning to entertainment to escape the grim pandemic news, according to the second installment of Nielsen Music/MRC Data’s survey series, "COVID-19: Tracking the Impact on the Entertainment Landscape."So how can music companies take advantage of this shift? We pulled four key insights from Release 2 for music executives looking for ways to help their artists cut through the noise.1.