Spirit Music Group Acquires Masters for Three Tim McGraw Albums

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Michel Franco’s dystopian social thriller “New Order.” The movie was this year’s winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.Set in a near-future Mexico City while protests rage, “New Order” focuses on a high society family preparing for a wedding when a former employee seeking emergency medical funds intrudes on the festivities.

Geoff Mayfield Loud Records, the hip-hop label that launched Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep and Big Pun, is about to make noise again, as founder Steve Rifkind revives the brand to launch a nimble indie. The new venture kicks off today — Monday, Sept.

A performance from country music superstar Tim McGraw was one of the many highlights of the night during the 2020 CCMAs.

Yee-Haw! Canada’s biggest night in country music is almost here and ET Canada has your ticket to the show.

Run The Jewels have scored their first ever Top 10 album on the Official Irish Albums Chart.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

It’s Faith Hill‘s 53rd birthday, and her adoring husband, Tim McGraw, wasted no time sharing the very first birthday tribute to his wife of nearly 25 years. In a post the “Here on Earth” singer, 53, added to Instagram, Tim positively gushed about his gorgeous wife, sharing a professional photo of her, in which the country singer gazed at the camera and looked positively angelic. But Tim’s words were the most beautiful part of his tribute.

Legendary country star Tim McGraw gives a tender performance at the Bluebird Cafe.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired the North American rights to the Brian A. Metcalf-directed Adverse which will debut in theaters January 23, 2021, followed by a release on media platforms through Lionsgate Home EntertainmentAdverse stars Thomas Nicolas as a rideshare driver who discovers his younger sister (Kelly Arjen) has become entangled with an underworld boss (Mickey Rourke) in drugs and debt.

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Michele Amabile Angermiller Universal Music Group (UMG) and Daddy Yankee have teamed for a strategic global partnership that encompasses music, film and television projects, the company announced today (Sept. 10).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs has acquired Big Deal Music Group and brought board its senior staff, with Kenny MacPherson becoming CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group and reporting directly to founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis. He is joined by Co-Presidents Casey Robison and Jamie Cerreta and Executive Vice President Dave Ayers (New York) as well as Senior Vice President Pete Robinson (Nashville) all of whom have signed new five-year contracts, according to the announcement.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box Films has scooped U.S. rights to French auteur Francois Ozon’s “Summer of 85,” a highlight of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection which is set to play at Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterWarner Music Group announced that Kareem Chin has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations, effective immediately. Chin comes to WMG from iHeartMedia, Inc., where he held the same title.

Sony Music has launched a new pop quiz for Amazon Alexa devices called ‘Number One Fan’. Developed by the major label’s 4th Floor Creative division, the game will feature a different Sony-signed artist each month.Each artist will ask a trivia question per day about themselves over a 30 day period via the Alexa ‘skill’.

Chris Willman Music Writer“Linda and the Mockingbirds,” a documentary about Linda Ronstadt making a journey to Mexico to explore her musical roots there, has been picked up for worldwide rights by Shout! Studios, the distribution and production division of the Shout! Factory home video company.The film was originally slated to premiere at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterUniversal Music Group has named Eric Hutcherson, former EVP and chief human resources officer of the National Basketball Association to the newly created role of executive vice president and chief people and inclusion officer, which will see him working across the company’s record labels, publishing division and operating companies worldwide.Hutcherson, whose appointment is effective immediately, will serve on UMG’s Executive Management Board and report

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an effort to rally support for the countless music venues impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of buildings across the U.S. — from New York’s Empire State Building to Seattle’s Space Needle — were illuminated in red light on Tuesday evening (Sept.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentShowrun by Lucía Puenzo and produced by Fremantle and Fabula, “Señorita México” (“Miss Mexico”) has added two writers, María Renée Prudencio and Tatiana Merenuk, as it advances towards production, which is scheduled for the first half of 2021.The new series will be produced for Starzplay and Pantaya in Latin America and Spain, in a deal brokered by Fremantle’s international distribution arm, Fremantle and Fabula confirmed Tuesday, as they also

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are the definition of the term: “relationship goals.” The country singer, 53, took to Instagram on Monday to reminisce over his 1996 Spontaneous Combustion tour, in which Faith served as the opening act. “Thought I’d take y’all back a bit…. From the Spontaneous Combustion Tour… we just started dating…..,” Tim captioned the vintage photo, which showed the pair singing a duet on stage.