STX Trims Theatrical Distribution & Marketing In Pivot Toward More Hybrid & Streaming Releases

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticMandolin, one of the most celebrated livestream platforms to have come to the forefront in the last two years, is looking to keep the concert streaming boom going with the launch of its Venue and Promoter Network. The newly announced initiative is aimed at providing artists’ camps access to a list of dozens of U.S.

Fox News. “Let’s just say a piece of material were to come across my desk, which has happened plenty of times over the last 22 years, that I don’t necessarily feel is what I believe or what I’m selling — then that’s not for me.”The “Cinderella Story” actor went on, “I don’t want to step in something that I don’t believe in any way because it’s going to destroy it for everybody else involved.”“If you don’t fully love and embrace the character that you are inhabiting, it will show on screen. I always want to give the people that I’m working with and the people who are going to watch the movie, the most of me,” he said.Murray added that he likes to keep his Christian faith close to him by putting on his “spiritual armor” every morning.

Chad Michael Murray doesn't back down from his religious beliefs. Murray, 40, admitted he's turned down projects that he didn't feel were compatible with his beliefs in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

death on Saturday sparked reactions from across Hollywood honoring the Grammy-winner singer of The Judds.Judd died at 76, with no further details disclosed about her cause of death. Celebrities to politicians, from Carrie Underwood to Gov. Mike Huckabee, shared their condolences and memories on social media.Underwood offered her prayers to the family on Twitter, saying that “country music lost a true legend.” While Huckabee said he was “devastated” by Judd’s death, adding on his Twitter that the duo The Judds “was one of great duos of all time.

Bill Murray had a lot to say about those “inappropriate behavior” allegations on the set of Being Mortal.

J. Kim Murphy Bill Murray has offered his first statement on the suspension of production on “Being Mortal,” which Searchlight Pictures deemed necessary after investigating complaints of inappropriate behavior against the actor.Murray shared his comments during an interview on CNBC Television at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Neb.

Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.

Chad Michael Murray is giving us hope of a “One Tree Hill” revival.

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Thania Garcia Fergie’s 2007 pop hit “Glamorous” is seeing a mini streaming increase of 70% following Jack Harlow’s sample of the track in his hit single “First Class” — which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month — according to data by Luminate (formerly MRC Data, formerly Nielsen Music, formerly SoundScan, etc.).Harlow’s strategic teasing of the track on TikTok helped to make the song an immediate success.

new film being shut down for an investigation into his alleged “inappropriate behavior” is taking on a darker tone amid a resurfaced on-set horror story that’s kept Hollywood whispering for decades.Disney was allegedly forced to hire bodyguards to protect the cast and crew of 1991’s “What About Bob?” after the actor hurled a glass ashtray at co-star Richard Dreyfuss and threatened to “throw” the film’s female producer “across a parking lot.”The bombshell accusation was dropped Thursday night by Dreyfuss’ son, Ben, just hours after Murray’s latest movie, “Being Mortal,” was suspended following a complaint about his conduct. Despite his enduring status as a beloved Hollywood bad boy, Murray has repeatedly been accused of violently clashing with co-stars — from alleged head-butting to “inexcusable and unacceptable” language — on numerous sets stretching all the way back to the 1970s. After this week’s new Murray mayhem, Ben, 35, took to Twitter to reveal that professional muscle had to be deployed to the Virginia set of the cult classic “What About Bob?” following Murray’s alleged violent outburst.

Harry Styles races into a third week at Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart with As It Was.

One third of the councillors who have served Dumfries and Galloway communities over the last five years will not be standing for re-election on May 5.

The 35th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, the largest showcase of Israeli cinema and television in North America, unspools this year both in theaters and virtually from May 5th – 26th.  The Festival’s Opening Night film on May 5th is director Avi Nesher’s critically acclaimed Image of Victory, nominated for 15 Ophir Awards; the evening also serves to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.  With leading Israeli filmmakers and talent in attendance for post screening Q&As, this year’s Festival will include five U.S. Premieres, six West Coast Premieres and 14 Los Angeles Premieres among the 30 award-winning features, documentaries and short films, announced Meir Fenigstein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival in L.A.

Deadly secrets come to light in the trailer for “Now and Then”, released by Apple TV+ on Tuesday.

Sean Murray and Gary Cole are opening up about the casting shakeup that happened in the current season of NCIS.

a trailer for “David Spade: Nothing Personal,” which marks his first comedy special with the streamer. You can check out the trailer above.“Someone tried to hug me today,” he says as he’s met with chuckles from the audience.

What’s their secret? J.P. Rosenbaum and Ashley Hebert make coparenting look easy, and the construction manager gave Us Weekly an inside look at their cordial dynamic.