Danny DeVito will return to the Broadway stage this October in a new play by Theresa Rebeck called I Need That.
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CNN will launch its new dayside lineup in April as CNN News Central, an effort to highlight its newsgathering and coverage of breaking stories and events.
The network announced in January that the lineup would feature anchor trios in the 9 a.m. ET-noon and 1 p.m. ET-4 p.m. blocks. They will appear in newly designed studios featuring heavy use of graphics and emphasizing updates from correspondents in the field.
John Berman, Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner will anchor the morning program, based in New York. Brianna Keilar, Boris Sanchez and Jim Sciutto will anchor in the afternoon from Washington. The blocks will be produced in Atlanta. Inside Politics will remain at noon-1 PM ET, anchored by John King.
Chris Licht, CNN Worldwide chairman and CEO, has been embarking on an overhaul of the network’s lineup. In February, CNN’s average total day audience was 474,000, down 24% from the same period a year earlier.
The network also has been working on plans for its 9 PM ET hour, a key primetime slot that has been without a permanent host since Chris Cuomo’s exit in December, 2021. The network has recently been slotting special programming in the slot, including a townhall scheduled for March 9 with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a potential candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024. Sources say that CNN’s ultimate plans are to fill the slot with a mixture of shows featuring well-known personalities, including those outside the news business, and special events and interviews.
When the dayside overhaul was announced, Licht said, “We are leaning into our greatest strengths, showcasing our unparalleled newsgathering operation and giving our anchors the room to be more authentic. We’ve seen how our audience responds to this format,
Danny DeVito will return to the Broadway stage this October in a new play by Theresa Rebeck called I Need That.
EXCLUSIVE: The Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews, held in northern Scotland, has set the lineup for its second edition, running April 14 – 16.
EXCLUSIVE: Bat in the Sun Productions and Bascule Productions Ltd. have set a North American theatrical release for the late Power Rangers star Jason David Frank’s final film, Legend of the White Dragon.
Showtime has unveiled an April 14th premiere date for their documentary Personality Crisis: One Night Only, on New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, also debuting a trailer for the pic directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz) and Emmy nom David Tedeschi (The 50 Year Argument), which you can view above.
a candid and emotional episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” in September 2021.“Baby J” is the latest in a line of specials from Mulaney that also includes 2012’s “New in Town” and 2015’s “The Comeback Kid.” Mulaney also created and starred in the Netflix kids special “John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch” in 2019.Mulaney rose to prominence as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” before making a name for himself in the standup world.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter John Mulaney’s newest standup special, titled “John Mulaney: Baby J,” will premiere April 25 on Netflix. It marks Mulaney’s third Netflix standup special following 2015’s “The Comeback Kid” and 2018’s “Kid Gorgeous.” One of his earlier comedy hours, 2012’s “New in Town,” is also available on Netflix. He also worked with the streamer on the Emmy-nominated children’s variety special “John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch” in 2019. Alex Timbers directed “Baby J,” which features music from David Byrne of Talking Heads. It was filmed in Boston’s Symphony Hall in February 2023.
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has acquired North American rights to the documentary Chop & Steele, about the creators of the Found Footage Festival, announcing plans to release the film in April at Alamo Drafthouse theaters as part of a double bill with another newly-acquired doc, A Life on the Farm.
The legal battle between Bam Margera and his estranged wife isn’t getting any less messy, we’re afraid.
Bam Margera has found himself in more trouble.
David Chase has set his next series at FX with Hannah Fidell with Chase and Fidell attached as creators and co-writers.The series, which is in development with a pilot commitment, is based on a previously unproduced script by “The Sopranos” director featuring a contemporary take by Fidell.Fidell is set to direct the pilot with FX Productions producing the pilot. Chase, Fidell and Chase Films’ Nicole Lambert will serve as executive producers.In addition to creating HBO drama series “The Sopranos,” which collected 21 Emmys through its time on air, Chase also created “Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” and made his feature film debut with “Not Fade Away.” “The Many Saints of Newark,” the feature film prequel to “The Sopranos” was released in 2021 by Warner Bros.Currently under a first look film and television deal with Warner Bros.
Amazon Freevee’s new docu-style comedy series Jury Duty is set to premiere with four episodes on April 7. The 8-episode multi-camera comedy starring James Marsden will drop two new episodes each Friday thereafter until April 21.
“Barry” will conclude with the upcoming fourth season, which HBO has set to debut on April 16. The decision to end the series came from creator and showrunner Bill Hader, who with his team of writers began fleshing out Season 4 during the pandemic before they shot Season 3.“It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” Hader said in a statement.Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO & HBO Max Comedy Programming, said in a statement: “After three masterful seasons of ‘Barry,’ we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story.
Naman Ramachandran Documentary “The First Code,” which explores how Ukrainian techies are an integral pillar of the global IT industry, will debut in the spring. The film, from EASE (the European Association of Software Engineering), chronicles the birth and formation of Ukrainian IT, from the creation of the first computer by Ukrainian engineers in the 1950s to the present day, where it has become a powerful industry and an important front in the war with Russia. The film was made based on interviews with representatives of leading Ukrainian IT companies, including EPAM Ukraine, 3DLOOK, ELEKS, Looksery, Techiia holding, Sigma Software Group, SoftServe, Uklon, Infopulse Ukraine and Preply. The V. M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, have also participated in the film.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Warning: This story contains a graphic image. David Cronenberg has made a short film featuring female wax corpses made during the 18th century in Italy. The wax figures were intended for medical studies, in order to train surgeons prior to operating on real bodies. The Canadian director, known as the father of body horror thanks to films such as “The Fly,” “eXistenZ,” and his latest pic “A History of Violence,” has been recruited by Italian fashion house Prada to shoot the short film. It features anatomical wax works from the La Specola museum in Florence, one of the oldest scientific museums in Europe. The museum is currently being renovated and is closed to the public.
Fontaines D.C. have shared a cover of Nick Drake’s ‘’Cello Song’ – listen to it below.The song features on a forthcoming covers compilation album called ‘The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake’, out July 7 via Chrysalis.Along with the Dublin band’s cover, the new album will also feature contributions from Philip Selway of Radiohead, Let’s Eat Grandma, Emeli Sandé, Feist, Aurora, Bombay Bicycle Club and more.Listen to Fontaines D.C.’s cover of ‘’Cello Song’ below.The new album has been compiled by Chrysalis CEO Jeremy Lascelles and Nick Drake Estate manager Cally Callomon.“Nick Drake was not that concerned with promoting himself as an artist, but I think he would have been overjoyed to hear his art revisited and newly promoted by so many vibrant and talented artists,” Callomon said in a press statement.“Jeremy and I also felt it crucial that the album should flow, as a cohesive listening experience, as opposed to a gallery of separate exhibits. Whether we have succeeded in these two ambitions, only the listener can tell.
Funny Girl, Broadway’s riches-to-rags-to-riches smash hit, will close on Sunday, Sept. 3, with stars Lea Michele, Ramin Marmloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh extending their planned runs to see the show through to its final date.
Naman Ramachandran A film of Coldplay’s sold-out 10-night concert run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium in 2022 will get a worldwide release in April from Trafalgar Releasing. The concert was part of the band’s “Music Of The Spheres” world tour, which sold more than six million tickets. The film, “Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres: Live At River Plate,” is the director’s cut of the Oct. 28, 2022 worldwide live broadcast of the show across 81 countries. It will feature remixed/remastered sound and visuals captured using 30 cameras, racing drones and 360° filming techniques, by BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” a documentary about Brooke Shields and the sexual objectification she endured as a child actor, will release on Hulu on April 3. In the two-part documentary, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the actor and model opens up for the first time about her earliest experiences in Hollywood. The film tracks her rise as a child advertising model to her sexualization in movies, starting at age 12, in “Pretty Baby” (1978), and then at 15, in “The Blue Lagoon” (1980). “I spent my life owing people things and doing whatever they wanted,” Shields says in a new teaser dropped Wednesday morning. “I finally asked myself, ‘What will I be if I don’t allow that anymore?'”
A mysterious sea creature which looked like the Loch Ness Monster has been spotted off the Somerset coast - almost 600 miles from her 'home' in the Highlands. Visitors in Clevedon rushed to take photographs of the ‘creature’ that was spotted bobbing in the water right next to the town’s Victoria Pier.
EXCLUSIVE: Nic Pizzolatto has found his first feature film directing gig as the True Detective creator is set to direct the indie drama Easy’s Waltz. Vince Vaughn, Michelle Monaghan, Al Pacino and Simon Rex are set to star with Pizzolatto also penning the script. Margot Hand is producing.