How Just for Laughs Montreal Festival Has Boosted Comedic Careers

Grimes has spoken out about her love of Lizzo amid that lawsuit.

Clifton Oliver has sadly died at the young age of 47.

Hip-hop star 50 Cent once again expressed his enthusiastic admiration for Helen Mirren. The 48-year-old rapper raved over the 78-year-old actress in a new interview with Men's Health magazine published Friday. The "In Da Club" hitmaker first encountered the Academy Award winner in 2017 at the 57th annual Monte Carlo TV Festival.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Hannah Berner grew up dreaming of being a professional tennis player before becoming a viral sensation with comedy bits like “Han on the Street.” Nimesh Patel turned his experience with being diagnosed with testicular cancer into a heralded comedy special, “Lucky Lefty.” And Kurtis Conner was working at Starbucks when a frequent customer encouraged him to get into comedy. These were among the hilarious, surprising and touching revelations that emerged when Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2023 were celebrated with a panel discussion and cocktail reception sponsored by Cohen Gardner LLP at last week’s Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival.

Hinterland Music Festival is dropping into Saint Charles, IA’s Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater for three days of rock, country and folk music.This year, the genre-bending fest is bringing stars like Bon Iver, Zach Bryan, Maggie Rogers, Sylvan Esso and Noah Kahan to its mainstages.Alex G, Angel Olsen, Wallows, Houndmouth and Faye Webster are also set to perform.That’s just the beginning too.In total, 32 acts will entertain audiences over the long weekend.And if you haven’t picked up last-minute tickets for Hinterland yet, you’re not too late.At the time of publication, our team found three-day general admission passes going for as low as $326 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $150 before fees.Want to get in on the action before it’s too late?Here’s everything you need to know and more about the 2023 Hinterland Music Festival.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices on single and multi-day general admission passes can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Ellise Shafer HollyShorts Film Festival, the Oscar-qualifying celebration of short films, has announced the jury lineup for its 2023 edition. The 18-person jury includes Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”), Sam Worthington (“Avatar”), Zoey Deutch (“Not Okay”), Alexandra Shipp (“Barbie”), Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & the Six”), Christina Chong (“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”), Nelu Handa (“Run the Burbs” showrunner) and Jaime Ray Newman (“Skin”). Variety international correspondent K.J.

With the Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals right around the corner, it appears to be an opportune time for January’s major film industry event, the Sundance Film Festival, to provide an update for 2024. This celebratory 40th edition under the Sundance moniker is Eugene Hernandez’s first as Festival Director and he’s written a letter to the film community providing an update on this year’s event.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer WGA East president Michael Winship will not be seeking re-election amid the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “This is a decision that was made right from the start two years ago when I was asked to return to the presidency,” Winship said in a statement sent to guild members Tuesday, just as WGAE revealed the candidates up for officer seats in its upcoming council election this September.

As the SAG-AFTRA strike continues on, people are listening to what actors from all ranks have to say about Hollywood pay!

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag With fans excitedly gearing up for tonight’s Love Island final, some eagle-eyed viewers have ‘worked out’ who’s going to win the show and walk away with the £50,000 prize money. 32 islanders have entered the famous villa for the summer 2023 series, and on Monday night, two of those will be crowned champions.The final four couples were confirmed during a tense penultimate episode which saw Mitchel Taylor and Ella Barnes dumped from the island.

Kanye West has had his Twitter account reactivated, following a ban of almost eight months for offensive content.

Concerns are growing for the welfare of a teenage boy who has not been seen since nine days ago. Oscar, who is 13, is missing from his home in High Peak.

Triple Threat (★★★★★). For James T. Lane, it’s a double entendre and the title of his phenomenal, autobiographical, Off-Broadway solo play.

Warning: Oppenheimer spoilers ahead. Let me begin by saying that I worship at the altar of Christopher Nolan. From The Prestige to The Dark Knight, Inception to Dunkirk, I can never resist his particular brand of steely, high-concept blockbusters – their knotty plots, epic cinematography, thundering scores, sleek interiors, and mysterious and tortured protagonists.

As police in Hoover, Alabama continue to investigate what happened to Carlee Russell, her most recent Twitter posts are now coming to light.

Nick Clement Every year, the Just for Laughs Montréal Festival hosts an awards show that honors some of the most prominent names in comedy. This year’s awards show will be held on July 28 at the festival. Quinta Brunson Comedy Person of the Year The Philadelphia native, who got her start making Instagram memes, was selected for the Just for Laughs New Faces: Creators Award in 2017. Six years later, Brunson is an Emmy award-winning actor, producer, writer and creator, thanks to ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.” Last year, Brunson became the first Black woman to receive three Emmy nominations, going on to win a writing trophy for her work. The show’s second season was just nominated for eight more Emmy statuettes; Brunson was recognized for her performance on the series and as host on “Saturday Night Live.” 

Korea’s Busan International Film Festival issued a heartfelt statement today, promising to “do our best for the successful hosting” of this year’s edition of the October festival, which has been in turmoil for the past few months following a series of high-profile management exits.

Quentin Tarantino helped revive Justified for an unlikely new series, co-showrunner Michael Dinner has revealed.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Dinner detailed how they came to adapt Elmore Leonard’s crime novel City Primeval, which centres on a detective who tracks down ‘Oklahoman Wildman’ Clement Mansell in Detroit.“A lot of people had wanted to make this book before,” he said. “It almost got made by [Sam] Peckinpah years ago as a movie, and [Quentin] Tarantino wanted to make it as a movie, and a lot of people wanted to play with it in television, streaming or cable.”Dinner said he then received a surprise call from Timothy Olyphant, who was filming Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood at the time.

Members of SAG-AFTRA are showing their support after the labor union failed to reach an agreement with studios over fairer wages, the use of artificial intelligence in media and other issues.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Jane Campion, Laura Poitras, Mia Hansen-Løve and Martin McDonagh are among high-caliber members of the Venice Film Festival’s main jury. The prominent directors, most of whom are Venice regulars – Poitras last year scored the Golden Lion with documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” – will be joined on the Venice jury panel by Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (“Wajib”); Chinese star Shu Qi (“The Assassin”); Italian director Gabriele Mainetti, who was at Venice last year with “Freaks Out”; and Argentinian auteur Santiago Mitre whose “Argentina, 1985” also launched from the Lido last year. They will join Damien Chazelle who – as previously announced – will serve as president of the Venice competition jury.