Music streaming giant Spotify will soon introduce an AI Persona badge on profiles of artists that have been flagged, or self-identified, as not human. “True artist-fan connection can only be built on a foundation of trust and authenticity. In music, that means listeners need to be able to trust that the artist behind the music […]
Mari, the events company founded last year by Ari Emanuel, has agreed a deal to acquire West End and Broadway theater giant ATG Entertainment. Mari’s agreement with Providence Equity Partners is subject to regulatory approval. Financial terms were not disclosed, though the Financial Times previously reported that the deal valued ATG at £4.5 billion ($6 […]
Netflix has set the release date for The Body, an upcoming eight-episode series created by Quinn Shephard, as November 11. The series follows a group of badly-behaved Catholic school girls, who begin having prophetic visions that set off mass hysteria in town after a dance-team initiation goes wrong. Shephard directs the premiere and serves as showrunner for the gritty […]
Tom Felton will stay with Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for an additional two months, producers announced Tuesday, noting that it will be the final extension for the popular actor from the Potter film franchise. Felton, who plays the adult Draco Malfoy on stage (in the films he played the child Draco), will […]
At the start of the first teaser trailer for Gentle Monster, we see a montage of home video-style clips of a happy, loving family. That changes when a mother tells her daughter, “Darling, I feel that something is wrong.” In the next scene, the shirtless father/son-in-law answers the door and is told: “We have a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off a guest star role in an upcoming episode of NBC’s St. Denis Medical, Damon Wayans has signed with Verve for representation. A writer, actor, producer, comedian, and patriarch of one of comedy’s most enduring dynasties, Wayans is best known as a co-creator and star of the groundbreaking sketch comedy series In Living Color — the first […]
The 51st edition of the Toronto Film Festival rounded out its schedule Tuesday with 11 more films. bringing this year’s count to 293 titles. Of note, following the world premieres at Venice, Searchlight’s Martin McDonagh film Wild Horse Nine, Werner Herzog’s Rooney and Kate Mara movie Bucking Fastard, and Nanni Moretti’s It Will Happen One […]
Following in the footsteps of Phoebe Snow, Aretha Franklin and Boyz II Men, Brandy will sing the theme song for A Different World. Viewers will hear the new rendition ahead of each new episode of the Netflix sequel series releasing September 24, or by watching an early preview above. “Singing this iconic theme song for […]
Paramount CEO David Ellison told a group of the company’s top executives that he will start the process of exiting California on October 1 if the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta will not negotiate to settle an antitrust suit around the planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Bonta has just responded: “In a span of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Camille Delamarre will direct Andrea Iervolino’s sports car movie Bugatti: The Final Race. The director of pics such as Brick Mansions, The Transporter Refueled and Assassin Club will direct based on an English-language story from producer Iervolino about the life of race car driver Ettore Bugatti. The Andrea Iervolino American Company is producing. We […]