Bravo may have turned out the lights on Shahs of Sunset earlier this year, but Mike Shouhed of the Ryan Seacrest-executive produced reality series is in the spotlight on a mix of domestic violence and weapons charges.
07.07.2022 - 02:13 / variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — The Elon Musk watch is on.The first full day of Allen & Co.’s exclusive conference and retreat for the wealthy and well-connected concluded Wednesday at the luxe Sun Valley resort. Even among the assembled 1%-ers, there was anticipation for the arrival of the maverick leader of Tesla and SpaceX, who is expected to make an appearance at the annual meeting of moguls and C-suite titans.Following Tuesday’s many arrivals and some solo morning time, during which Verizon chief Hans Vestberg went for a run around the resort in the 6 a.m.
hour, the agenda kicked off with an outdoor breakfast held for the business, media and tech moguls and their guests in a shaded area behind the lodge. After the catered affair, the day was filled with private meetings and well-guarded guest speaker sessions, which usually focus on heady global economic and public policy topics.
The lineup is planned by Allen & Co. for the few hundred executives who attend the invite-only event, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (who hasn’t yet been spotted by press, but Variety has confirmed is on the property) and his soon-to-depart No.
2 Sheryl Sandberg. There’s also Warner Bros.
Discovery chief David Zaslav, Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch (a last-minute attendee who is lying very low at the event while his soon-to-be-ex-wife Jerry Hall is also said to be in attendance), Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, journalists Anderson Cooper and Tom Brokaw, Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution chief Kareem Daniel, ICM Partners leader Chris Silbermann and more.As of Wednesday afternoon, Musk has not yet arrived at the Sun Valley Lodge.
.Bravo may have turned out the lights on Shahs of Sunset earlier this year, but Mike Shouhed of the Ryan Seacrest-executive produced reality series is in the spotlight on a mix of domestic violence and weapons charges.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterGeorge R.R. Martin and the cast of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” came out for the “Game of Thrones” prequel’s first-ever San Diego Comic-Con panel Saturday, revealing a few significant tidbits about the show ahead of its Aug. 21 premiere.
The trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released during a panel at 2022 Comic-Con and it’s an action-packed look at the upcoming DC Comics movie.
Erik ten Hag says he will not use the pitch as an excuse when Manchester United face Aston Villa in their fourth pre-season friendly.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe “Severance” team is hard at work writing Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ drama — so hard at work that they need to avoid fan theories in order to properly carry out the task of telling the Innies and Outies of the second season as they envision them.“I was warned not to go on Reddit, on the subreddit for this show, at all. And I held off for about six minutes and then I went on and I was just on it every day.
Bradley Cooper and Huma Abedin are "in no rush" to get serious about their new relationship and plan on keeping their romance "under wraps" for the time being. Cooper, 47, was first introduced to Hillary Clinton’s longtime political adviser earlier this year through Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the couple has been seeing each other for months.
The full length trailer for Peacock’s horror film They/Them just debuted online.
Disgraced New York politician Anthony Weiner stepped out for a bike ride around New York City Wednesday following reports his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, is dating Oscar-winning actor Bradley Cooper. Taking the news in stride while also plugging his new podcast career, Weiner tweeted a link to a new episode and wrote, "I love celebrity gossip as much as the next fella, but in case you need to catch up on ‘Keys to the City,’ here ya go." He also showed more love to his ex by re-tweeting another big announcement as Freida Pinto signed on to star as Hillary Clinton's longtime aide in a TV adaption of her bestselling memoir, "Both/And, A Life in Many Worlds." Weiner and Abedin married in 2010 but separated in 2016 after one of his many sexting scandals. The catalyst to the end of their marriage was a suggestive photo he sent to a woman showing their son in bed in the background.The following month, it was revealed Weiner had sent sexually suggestive images to a minor.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTesla mogul Elon Musk made a less-than-grand entrance at Allen & Co.’s exclusive conference for billionaires at the Sun Valley Lodge Thursday, Variety has learned.His much-anticipated arrival, which happened through the back entrance away from the prying eyes of press, came following a day of chatter about a Wednesday report of him secretly fathering twins with a Tesla exec last year, and just after the Washington Post published a story stating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is “in serious jeopardy.”According to The Washington Post, the Musk-side of the deal has decided that Twitter’s data on spam accounts is unverifiable and is now ceasing talks with potential investors for the purchase. The vast majority of the elite, uber-wealthy attendees at the Sun Valley event — which include Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal — arrived on Tuesday ahead of the first full day of the top-secret conference’s sessions on Wednesday.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — The moguls have arrived.On Tuesday, dozens of titans of the business, media and tech worlds came out to play at the Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho for the start of Allen & Co.’s annual meeting of movers and shakers.The invitation-only conference will include three days of seminars and meetings that are held away from the prying eyes of the public, which kick off Wednesday morning. So today was all about meeting and greeting each other at the posh retreat in Idaho’s picturesque Sawtooth Mountains.Arrivals began at the Sun Valley Lodge around 11 a.m.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — David Zaslav was upbeat as he arrived in Sun Valley, Idaho on Tuesday for Allen & Co.’s gathering of business media and tech moguls. The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO had kind words for Netflix and “Stranger Things,” and he told reporters that he expects the annual summit to be “a great week” amid “a lot of turmoil in the business.”Zaslav indicated that Warner Bros.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — Rupert Murdoch will attend Allen & Co.’s Sun Valley conference this week, Variety has confirmed.The annual event colloquially known as “summer camp for billionaires” kicks off as usual on July 5 at the Sun Valley Lodge in the titular Idaho resort town. Murdoch, 91, arrived on site during the July 4th holiday on Monday, according to a source familiar with the matter, two days after the Fox Corp.
The mountains are as gorgeous as ever, the deal climate not so much as boutique investment bank Allen & Co. prepares to host its annual Sun Valley retreat. After guests arrive on Tuesday, official activities get under way Wednesday.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAs of June 30, we’re at the halfway point for 2022 — and for the Oscar eligibility year. There are dozens of possibilities coming up and many familiar elements — plenty of biopics, a reliance on fall film festivals, a heavy dose of streamers — but this could be an unusual year.In the first six months of the year, A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” seem likely.
The darkness is coming to an end.
“Knives Out 2” isn’t the only murder mystery hitting theaters later this year, as Searchlight Pictures has released the first trailer for “See How They Run” that finds Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan investigating a suspicious murder in 1950s London.Written by Mark Chappell (“Flaked”) and directed by Tom George (“This Country”), “See How Thy Run” takes place in the West End where plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after the film’s Hollywood director (played by Adrien Brody) is murdered. A weary inspector (Rockwell) and an eager rookie constable (Ronan) take on the case, and quickly find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground.“Knives Out” surely didn’t invent the comedic whodunit and “See How They Run” owes as much to Agatha Christie as anything, albeit with a wry, Wes Anderson-like flair.Check out the trailer in the video above.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Jason Momoa-led Apple series “See” will conclude with its upcoming third season.The announcement was made with the release of the Season 3 teaser trailer and premiere date. The eight-episode final season of the show will debut its first episode on Aug.