Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCity Parks Foundation has announced the 2022 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, New York City’s outdoor performing arts festival, bringing nearly 90 free and benefit shows to Central Park and 12 neighborhood parks across the five boroughs.Citywide parks and venues hosting SummerStage this season include Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Von King Park and The Coney Island Amphitheater in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, Crotona Park in the Bronx, Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island, as well as the newly refurbished SummerStage flagship venue at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. All performances will be free and open to the public, except for benefit concerts, and select shows will also be live-streamed on SummerStageAnywhere.org.
‘Teletubbies’ Licensor WildBrain Expands in Asia-Pacific, Opens Trio of New Offices
07.04.2022 - 13:49 / variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWildBrain CPLG, the agency and licensing arm of kids and family entertainment group Wildbrain, is to open three new offices in Singapore, Taipei and Seoul as part of a major expansion into the Asia-Pacific. The licensing team which is part of WildBrain’s existing Shanghai operations will be expanded and renamed WildBrain CPLG China.Maarten Weck, EVP & MD of WildBrain CPLG, will lead the Asia expansion and be responsible for the management and growth of WildBrain CPLG’s team and business in the region.
WildBrain’s current licensing team in Shanghai, managed by Wei Jianbo, MD for China, will be integrated into WildBrain CPLG and expanded. Wei will also continue to oversee WildBrain’s content business in China.
WildBrain CPLG’s expansion into APAC is intended to build the agency’s portfolio by taking on local brands and licensors as new clients, as well as growing the opportunities in Asia for the company’s existing clients and brands. The company has existing offices in the U.K., Benelux, Nordics, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Russia, India, the Middle East and the U.S.WildBrain-owned brands include “Strawberry Shortcake,” “In the Night Garden,” “Inspector Gadget” and “Teletubbies.” It represents third-party IP, including SEGA, Sauber Motorsport, spirits brands Absolut and Malibu, Parental Advisory, The Master Lock Company, Yale University and the University of Southern California.“We’ll offer both existing and potential new partners a truly global licensing solution, not only through a broadened footprint in the territory, but also through access to our wider network of global offices and integrated way of working.
California Covid: Test Positivity Up Nearly 50% In One Week As New Omicron Variant BA.2.12.2 Begins To Show
Covid test positivity in California is up 47.6% in the past week, according to the California State data dashboard. One week ago, the 7-day daily test positivity rate was 2.1%. Today, it sits at 3.1%. That’s quite a jump for a metric that is averaged over seven days to account for daily fluctuations in data reporting and testing.
New Line Acquires Rebecca Serle’s Novel ‘In Five Years’ For HBO Max; Aimee Lagos To Adapt
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.
New York Times’ new boss mocked over sexy ‘French girls’ photo spread
Wordle. As the Times named Joseph Kahn its new executive editor Tuesday, succeeding former honcho Dean Baquet, the Old Gray Lady sanctioned a splashy portrait and profile of their nascent leader for New York Magazine — which captured the promotion in a disarmingly seductive way.The resulting, perhaps unintentional, erotica — featuring enough arched-back and come hither gazes to make pinup pioneers Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe proud — might just drive foot fetishists everywhere into a frenzy, as well.
Composer Joe Wong Debuts New ‘Russian Doll’ Cue Spanning Main Themes From Both Seasons
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track recorded for Netflix’s Russian Doll, which is set for digital release on a Seasons 1 & 2 soundtrack tomorrow via Gardener Recordings, as the show returns for its second season.
Lorde Covers Rosalia at New York Concert — Rosalia Raves ‘Que Bonitaaaaaaa!’
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLorde covered Rosalía‘s track “Hentai” during her concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Monday night — and Rosalia gave her a big thumbs-up for her version in her Instagram story.The song is from Rosalía’s innovative latest album “Motomami,” which has earned rave reviews almost across the board, including from Variety.Fuckin hell @lorde covering @rosalia I can die now pic.twitter.com/vANjLYG7nM— Austin Rieders (@RiedersDigest) April 19, 2022Early Tuesday, Rosalía shared footage of Lorde’s performance on her Instagram Stories this afternoon and wrote: “Lorde que bonitaaaaaa” [how beautiful].As noted by NME, Lorde raved about “Motomami” in a recent letter to fans. “I’ve listened to the Rosalía album every day since it came out, fuck, it’s so good,” she wrote.
Mike Bossy, Canadian Hockey Icon And New York Islanders Legend, Dies At 65
Mike Bossy, one of hockey’s most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s dynasty, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Looks To Spell Near $160M WW Total By Easter; ‘Father Stu’ Sees $1.6M Opening Day Box Office
Warner Bros. which has traditionally ruled the Easter weekend box office is back, now a year later after Godzilla vs. Kong brought bread to reopening cinemas during the pandemic, with J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The pic’s stateside opening, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger went public.
Covid Prevents Barry Manilow From Attending Opening Night Of His New Musical ‘Harmony’: “Cruelest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Me”
A new stage musical co-written by Barry Manilow opens tonight in New York, but the decades-in-the-making project will have to go on without Manilow there to support it: He has Covid.
Johnny Depp is ‘out to destroy’ Amber Heard, lawyer says in opening statement
Amber Heard's defence attorney claimed Johnny Depp would try to turn the defamation cause against his ex-wife into a "soap opera," but warned that it was a distraction. Ben Rottenborn, Heard's lawyer, said the case was about her First Amendment rights to discuss her experiences, and argued that context matters and asked the jury to read the entire article she wrote for The Washington Post – which led to the lawsuit – and not just the parts highlighted by Depp.
Yankees get a new star -- chef in Marcus Samuelsson
NEW YORK -- The Yankees are getting a new star — chef.Marcus Samuelsson is expanding to Yankee Stadium this season, opening a Sweetbird food stand behind section 112 in the right-field area of the lower deck, partnering with the team and Legends Hospitality.Offerings include a hot bird sandwich, chicken and waffles and cornbread.“I feel like it’s such a privilege to be part of the most famous team and the most famous stadium in the world,” he said Tuesday.Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, Samuelsson was hired at 23 as executive chef of New York's Aquavit and gained fame from a three-star review by The New York Times' Ruth Reichl in September 1995. He left in 2010 after reducing his role for several years, and opened Red Rooster in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood later that year.Samuelsson has expanded to more than a dozen restaurants in New York, New Jersey, Las Vegas, the Bahamas, Canada and Scandinavia.New York City restaurants were closed to indoor dining on March 16, 2020, and weren't allowed to reopen until the following Feb.
Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila make New York Times Best Sellers list: ‘Having a tequila together’
Alright, alright, alright. Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, have made the New York Times Best Sellers list for their respective books. The couple took to Instagram on Wednesday to share the news.