‘American Made’ Producer Johnny Lin on Laying the Storytelling Foundation to Inspire the Next Generation

William Earl Variety and Indeed present a night of cocktails and conversation on June 16 in New York City with this year’s 10 Rising Voices finalists from across the United States.Participants include Jalmer Caceres, “Empty Bases”; Leon Cheo, “The 25th Filial”; Shanrica Evans, “Amina”; Justin Floyd, “Malleable”; Georgia Fu, “Maps”; Gbenga Komolafe, “Tofu”; Cara Lawson, “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings”; Tara Motamedi, “Before Dawn Kabul Time”; Urvashi Pathania, “Beast” and Travis Wood, “Black Santa.” The conversation will be moderated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis.Established in February 2021 and now in its second season, Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Indeed partnered on Rising Voices to provide resources to the selected BIPOC filmmakers to create the short film that will have premiered earlier in the day at the Tribeca Festival in New York City. The finalists were selected from 900 applicants based on their submitted screenplays.

Amber Heard has spoken out in her first interview since her defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Following their trial, the American actress, 36, was asked to pay her former partner, 59, £8million ($10million) in compensatory damages and a further £4million ($5million) in punitive damages.

The Smile have announced their first-ever tour of North America for November and December 2022, in support of their debut album ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’.The band, which features Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, will begin their debut tour across the continent in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour will then take them across the US and Canada, including two New York dates at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and the city’s Hammerstein Ballroom.A pre-sale for the tour will begin this Thursday (June 16) from 10am local time, with the general sale following the next day at the same local time.

“American Dreamer” is a mess of a movie, in which scenes of startling wit and emotional truth co-exist alongside entire subplots that are utterly inexplicable. It’s all over the damn place; its good ideas in near equal proportion to its bad ones, feeling less like a polished production than a filmed first draft, released as a rough assembly.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard battled in a defamation case, the eyes of the world began to focus on the eloquent, intelligent, passionate, and knowledgeable attorney representing the actor. Dubbed “The Queen of Cross-Examination,” Camille Vasquez rapidly grew in popularity for her excellent judgment and communication skills.After becoming a viral sensation for objecting to Amber Heard’s legal team during the redirect session, Vasquez became a worldwide phenomenon, and viewers began investigating more about her life.Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has been elevated to partner at Brown RudnickJohnny Depp’s legal team: Who are the women becoming mini-celebrities?Despite representing celebrities, Vasquez is very private with her life.

Johnny Depp was left delighted when the Hollywood superstar stopped for a selfie with him outside a York hotel. Curtis, on Twitter as @Curtis1192, was left distraught earlier today after heading to the Hilton in York to ask for Johnny Depp's autograph.

fatal blow for #MeToo? We have always known that there would be false allegations of abuse among genuine #MeToo disclosures. Some women lie, just as some men do. And we knew that women would continue not to be believed.

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.

The jury in Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial against Amber Heard has their work cut out for them.

Jeff Beck fans in Scotland are wondering if Johnny Depp could be set for an appearance in Glasgow.

could appear on stage in Birmingham on Monday night. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor has appeared on stage alongside Jeff Beck in the UK for the second night in a row, amid his ongoing US legal battle.

Bradley Cooper is unrecognizable as Leonard Bernstein in first-look photos from the set of his new Netflix biopic, . The photos see Cooper aged-up as he plays both older and younger versions of the famed American conductor.The shots also see Cooper alongside fellow Oscar nominee, Carey Mulligan, who plays his wife Felicia Montealegre.

Paula Abdul has some big plans to celebrate her 60th birthday. ET's Matt Cohen spoke to the singer ahead of the June 19 milestone, and she revealed her ideas for her big day.«I'm gonna do something big,» Abdul told ET. «Maybe charter a yacht or go somewhere exotic [and] take some friends.»Even with those fun plans in mind, Abdul quipped, «Knowing me, I'll stay home, be with my dogs.» The singer went on to assure ET, though, that she'll make sure to venture out for some celebrations.«I wanna do something fun and something spectacular,» she said. «Every day we [should] celebrate ourselves.

This is the house that Jason built — and the American Cinematheque will celebrate both this year. The cultural arts org will present Jason Blum and his company Blumhouse with the 2022 Power of Cinema Award.