Variety and NBCUniversal Launch Virtual FYC House

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is calling for NBCUniversal to urge the International Olympic Committee relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing, citing the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Powell, co-creator of Inside Amy Schumer, and Aaron Augenblick, producer of Ugly Americans and The Jellies, are launching kids animation producer Future Brain Media.

When White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre first stood before the media in the White House briefing room last month, the moment made history: She was the first African-American woman to do so in 30 years and the first LGBTQ woman to do so, period.

Jay Weissberg A middle-aged gay American travel writer rents an apartment in Tel Aviv from a laid-back film student in Eytan Fox’s formulaic audience-pleaser, “Sublet.” Venturing ever so discreetly into the kind of darker ruminations that marked his best-known films (“Yossi & Jagger,” “Walk on Water”), Fox offers no surprises in this too-neatly packaged midlife-crisis story carefully designed to cater to an older gay demographic.

Country star Jason Aldean's wife took a subtle shot at Kamala Harris' controversial Memorial Day tweet this week after the vice president faced backlash. Brittany Aldean took to Instagram to share a series of photos of her family's gathering in honor of the significant holiday, showing "stars and stripes" balloons and an American flag waving in the wind.

The United States Football League, which challenged the NFL’s dominance in the 1980s before collapsing after just three seasons, will attempt a comeback in the spring of 2022.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe United States Football League, that mid-1980s counterpart to NFL play, is returning.The league will relaunch in the spring of 2022, with Fox Sports signing on as a broadcast partner and minority stakeholder in the company that owns the new sports entity.Longtime sports fans may recall an era when the New York Generals, Memphis Showboats and Houston Gamblers took to the field for three seasons between 1983 and 1985.

EXCLUSIVE: The Kissing Booth and Euphoria star Jacob Elordi will star with Star Trek and American Horror Story star Zachary Quinto in the road-trip crime thriller He Went That Way, which Mister Smith Entertainment is launching ahead of the virtual Cannes market.

Nintendo has announced the release dates for the next instalments of Pokémon games for Nintendo Switch.Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl – remakes of the Diamond and Pearl games released for Nintendo DS – will launch on November 19.The announcements arrived today (May 26) with little fanfare via Twitter unaccompanied by any new information of trailer, other than that the games were available to pre-order (US retailers only).Fans will however be able to pick up both Brilliant Diamond

Dry Cleaning have unveiled their full list of tour dates across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe supporting their latest album ‘New Long Leg’.Prior to the album’s release in April via 4AD, the band announced 2022 dates for the UK and Ireland. Now the London group have revealed that the tour has expanded to include shows in the US and Europe.The tour will now kick off in November 2021 at Los Angeles venue Teregram, continuing through the month in select US cities.

Megan Fox is one Hollywood celebrity that could wear a bin bag and still make it look incredible and leave us wanting to get ourselves our own versions.

If there's one evening where there was loads of drama involved, it was the Billboards Music Awards 2021. The in-person award show was held on Sunday evening in the US and saw some big names from the music industry strutting down the red carpet.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe L.A. Virtual Screenings ran May 11-20.