‘The Idol’: HBO “Adjusting” Cast & Crew On Music Industry Series From The Weeknd & Sam Levinson

EXCLUSIVE: John Cho rounds out the Season 2 ensemble cast of Apple TV+’s hit murder mystery comedy series The Afterparty, from Oscar winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

EXCLUSIVE: Anne Heche (13 Minutes), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and McKaley Miller (Ma) will topline Full Ride, an upcoming horror-thriller from directors Jerren Lauder (The Inhabitant) and Beth Hanna (The Reappearance), which has wrapped production in Georgia. Quiver Distribution holds worldwide rights and is planning an early 2023 release.

Sony Music Publishing has signed a global deal with songwriter Ashley Gorley, in partnership with Domain Capital Group. The agreement encompasses Gorley’s complete catalog of songs, as well as future compositions.Gorley has written 59 Country No.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRepublic Records has announced the promotion of Chris Blackwell to EVP of A&R and Content Strategy, as announced today by label president Wendy Goldstein.According to the announcement, in this new role, Blackwell will continue to shepherd the creation and development of content for the entire Republic Records roster. Additionally, he will work with new artists to identify and maximize content opportunities at the onset of their careers. Blackwell played a major role in Coi Leray’s rise by producing her viral “Cooking With Coi Leray,” and also collaborated with Ka$hdami, Lil Wayne, Benee and Kash Doll on upcoming programming.

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Tunes are very important to Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, but it’s sometimes a challenge to give him exactly what he wants, the HBO/HBO Max series’ music supervisor Jen Malone says.

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Boyd Holbrook (The Premise), Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby), Vondie Curtis Hall (Harriet), Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man), Norbert Leo Butz (Bloodline), Victor Williams (The Good Lord Bird) and Vivian Olyphant are set as leads opposite Timothy Olyphant in FX’s Justified: City Primeval, the limited series inspired by Elmore Leonard’s City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. Production begins this week in Chicago.

Thania Garcia Universal Music Publishing Group has signed Dave Bayley of Glass Animals to an exclusive, global publishing agreement. Glass Animals, who are signed to UMG’s Republic label in the U.S., were  named Group of the Year for Variety’s Hitmakers.Jody Gerson, chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am a Glass Animals fan and I am especially delighted to work closely with UMPG’s global creative teams to amplify Dave Bayley’s talents as a writer and producer, not only for his band but also for other artists who inspire and excite him.”Glass Animals manager, Amy Morgan of September Management, added, “After the success of ‘Heat Waves’ and ‘Dreamland,’ the next chapter for Dave is going to be a really important one.

A true wild card. Miranda Lambert is known for speaking her mind through her music — and she’s not afraid to get candid about the country music scene, either.

EXCLUSIVE: More details about the creative overhaul of HBO drama series The Idol are starting to emerge.

The Weeknd and “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson have teamed up for a new HBO series, “The Idol,” which focuses on a female pop singer who starts a romance with an enigmatic L.A. club owner that happens to be the leader of a secret cult, because what else would you expect from Levinson? Amid HBO’s announcement of a “new creative direction” on the music industry show, it has led to some prominent crew members exiting.

HBO series from The Weeknd and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson is undergoing an overhaul, according to reports.In a statement released on Monday (April 25), HBO said the series, titled The Idol, is “adjusting” its cast and crew to serve a new direction.“The Idol’s creative team continues to build, refine, and evolve their vision for the show and they have aligned on a new creative direction,” a statement reads.“The production will be adjusting its cast and crew accordingly to best serve this new approach to the series. We look forward to sharing more information soon.”According to Variety, director Amy Seimetz (The Killing) has departed the project.

Entertainment Weekly's podcast The Awardist, the star revealed which dangerous scene made her believe her character Cassie wouldn't make it to Season 3.“When I first read [the script for Season 2 episode 1], I thought that Sam was killing me,” said Sydney Sweeney, referring to Euphoria's showrunner Sam Levinson. In the premiere episode, the main characters attend a tumultuous New Year's Eve house party. Nate (played by Jacob Elordi) runs into Cassie at a gas station and offers to give her a ride to the party, which she accepts. In arguably one of the most nerve-racking scenes of the entire season, Nate increasingly speeds down the highway while drinking beer and distractedly looking at Cassie.

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Seimetz, who was set to direct all episodes of HBO’s upcoming music industry drama series The Idol, is leaving the project.

Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney has said she thought her character was being killed off in the hit show.The actor, who plays Cassie Howard in Sam Levinson’s HBO series, recently said she misinterpreted a key scene in season two.Discussing a scene in which Cassie takes a ride to a party with Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi) and takes off her seatbelt while he continues to speed, Sweeney said she thought Cassie would die.“I thought that Sam was killing me. I thought that I was going to get killed,” Sweeney said on Entertainment Weekly‘s The Awardist podcast, adding that she chose to hang out the window herself.“And the hanging out the window, actually, was just me hanging out the window.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust two days after Record Store Day, the company Vinyl Me, Please has announced that it is building an audiophile-grade vinyl pressing plant in Denver that is scheduled to open by the end of 2022 for production, tours and special events. The news also comes after years of a vinyl-manufacturing backlog that has caused the delay of vinyl copies of many releases.“Quality control and availability are critical to maintaining and expanding our leadership position in the vinyl industry,” said VMP CEO Cameron Schaefer.

HBO has set a June premiere date for Irma Vep, its limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film, starring Alicia Vikander. Irma Vep, which will world premiere as an Official Selection at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, will debut on Monday, June 6 at 9 PM on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. We’re also getting a look at Vikander as Mira in three first-look photos (see above and below).

Mixmag reports, the initiative – which is called Face The Music Now – was set up by author and talent manager Dorothy Carvello, who became the first female A&R scout for Atlantic Records.“As a survivor myself, I have seen and experienced firsthand how sexual harassment and abuse shatters survivors psychologically, financially, and professionally,” Carvello said in a statement.“It’s not a matter of money; it’s about helping them put the pieces back together. This is about the decades-old and widespread abuse of power in the music industry.

Roger Daltrey has said he believes that the music industry has been “stolen” from artists.During a recent interview with The Independent, the frontman of The Who claimed that the band’s 2019 album ‘WHO’ left him £10,000 out of pocket. “Musicians cannot earn a living in the record industry anymore,” Daltrey told the publication.“That is ridiculous, and they’re being robbed blind by streaming and the record companies, because the old deals with record companies that existed in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, they’re still working on the same percentage breaks.”He continued: “And of course, they don’t do any work.

Barbie Ferreira had a lot less screen time in the second season of Euphoria than she did in the first season and now she’s responding to theories over why that happened.