When Will Music and Culture Return to the White House? (Guest Column)

When Universal, Disney and Warner Bros. revealed changes to their film release plans during the past nine months, the focus had been on tentpoles.

Narcos: Mexico star Fernanda Urrejola is on the call sheet for Cry Macho, Clint Eastwood’s drama that is wrapping up shooting in New Mexico. Eastwood is directing and starring in the feature that is based on a book written by N.

Editors Note: As chairman/CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment in the era of Titanic, X-Men, Independence Day and Braveheart, and producer of the Oscars and Oscar-nominated films like Hacksaw Ridge and Coraline, Bill Mechanic has been part of the fabric of the film industry his whole career. He thought he had seen every iteration and change in a business striving to stay relevant in the digital age.

The death of country music legend Charley Pride is being questioned by several of the genre’s stars, who are wondering whether his performance at the County Music Association’s indoor awards show a month before he acquired Covid-19 may be connected.

Peter Csathy COVID-19 forever changed many aspects of our lives this past year, and our collective media and entertainment choices certainly were no exception.The global pandemic fueled a massive industry divide where in-home entertainment choices thrived, while many out-of-home entertainment players, quite literally, died. Whereas Netflix living-room streaming reached new heights, many live music venues and movie theaters shuttered.

Lauren Appelbaum As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter people’s holiday celebrations, many people are finding that watching holiday films is one tradition that can continue.

Editors’ Note: Michael Shamberg is a tenured film and TV producer whose credits include Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Pulp Fiction, A Fish Called Wanda and many others.

Peter Csathy Welcome to my fifth annual “Fearless Five”: the five companies that made the boldest and most audacious entertainment-media-tech moves of the year.This doesn’t mean these companies ultimately will be the most successful. What it does mean is that they were the most fearless and made the biggest, boldest bets in 2020.

Dear Hollywood, I have worked with you for more than 20 years, heading up corporate communications and branding at Paramount Pictures, Time Warner and Comcast. You have also become regulars at Dear John’s, a revived old-school steakhouse in Culver City that I co-own with my husband, Hans Röckenwagner, and our partner, chef Josiah Citrin.

Guy Lodge Film CriticPropped shakily over the lapping waters of Lake Maracaibo in the Caribbean-facing northeast corner of Venezuela, the tiny settlement of Congo Mirador is as tranquil as it is far-flung, but only the most obtuse of passing backpackers would describe it as idyllic.

Ashley York As J.D.

I vividly remember calling out to my mum one evening in the '70s, "Mum, Mum there’s a Chinese man on the TV!" The whole family excitedly rushed in to see, only to be let down to see Benny Hill. False alarm.

I blame Frank Capra and John Ford and Aaron Sorkin … and even Steven Spielberg. Because of them, my idea of American politics was forever captured by the image of a rumpled Jimmy Stewart standing up to the forces of evil in Mr.

The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) will return in early 2021 for the first time in years amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the unit of ViacomCBS unveiled on Wednesday. The music celebration, which last took place in 2016, will be put on as avirtual event on Feb.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos are right now announcing that Netflix will boost its presence in the state by expanding its ABQ Studios and committing to an additional $1 billion in production spending.The Studio expansion will add 300 acres to the company’s existing studios, located in Albuquerque’s Mesa Del Sol area.