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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Sony’s TriStar Pictures has won a hot and heavy auction for I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the feature film on the life and music of iconic songstress Whitney Houston. The studio has already staked out a Thanksgiving, 2022 release date for the film.

The online charity performance series Quarantunes, created by WME Agent Richard Weitz and his daughter Demi, is continuing to build momentum as it pushes past the $7 million mark for funds raised for charity.

A posthumous live album from the Man in Black is on the way, courtesy of Jack White’s Third Man Records.

Jack White of The White Stripes, has announced that it will be releasing a newly unearthed Johnny Cash live album.Recorded in 1973 as part of ‘A Week To Remember’ – a week of concerts put on by Columbia Records and record executive Clive Davis – the man in black’s performance at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles will be made available for the first time ever on July 31.Entitled ‘A Night To Remember’, the 2 LP set features a gold foil LP jacket, a “double vintage white LP,” a gold 7″ featuring

A never-before-heard solo version of the late Aretha Franklin’s collaboration with Mary J Blige about faith and race has been released on Juneteenth.

Like most of the rest of us mere mortals, legendary music executive and producer Clive Davis has been quarantining at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Also like many of us, he’s been using this time of social distancing to listen to lots and lots of music. Over six decades in the business, Davis shepherded the careers of some of the most legendary performers of th

A feature film about Whitney Houston’s life is in the works from the screenwriter of Bohemian Rhapsody.

The film will be produced by Clive Davis and directed by Stella Maghie in association with Houston's estate

LOS ANGELES — A feature film about Whitney Houston’s life is in the works from the screenwriter of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The biopic is being shepherded by the Whitney Houston Estate, music producer Clive Davis and Primary Wave Music, the partners said Wednesday.

Whitney Houston’s life is getting a feature film tribute. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” will chronicle the life of the late singer who died in 2012 at age 48.The project is set to be written by Anthony McCarten, the mastermind behind the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which earned four Academy Awards.

Music producer Clive Davis is working with the estate of late singer Whitney Houston for the biopicI Wanna Dance With Somebody. Anthony McCarten, the writer behind the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, will pen the screenplay, while Stella Meghie, who was behind the Issa Rae romance The Photograph, will direct.

There’s some good news for all the ardent fans of Whitney Houston as a biopic based on the late singer’s life is in the making under the guidance of Clive Davis, Grammy-winning music producer. The movie has been officially titled as I Wanna Dance With Somebody and will be produced by Oscar-nominee Anthony McCarten who will also be responsible for its scripting. There’s one more individual who will be associated with the production and she is Pat Houston.

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston is headed back to the big screen in a feature film about the singer’s life that took her to the heights of fame but ended in drug addiction and tragedy.

Whitney Houston’s iconic career is about to come to life on the big screen.

By Dave McNary

Music producer Clive Davis is working with the estate of late singer Whitney Houston for the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.Anthony McCarten, the writer behind Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, will pen the screenplay, while Stella Meghie, who was behind Issa Rae romance The Photograph, will direct.Pat Houston will produce the movie on behalf of the Houston Estate, along with Davis, Primary Wave Music's Larry Mestel, Denis O’Sullivan and McCarten.With the backing of the estate, I Wanna Dance

By Mike Fleming Jr

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In an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the PBS documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (which premiered last year at Sundance) fits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making.

Music industry veteran Clive Davis will be honored by NYU Tisch School of the Arts at the school’s annual gala. A graduate of the program in 1953, he’ll join fellow alumnus Ang Lee, who received an MFA in film in 1984. The event will take place Monday, April 6, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan.

Some would brand it a return to form, others would call it a retreat to safety. Kelly Clarkson's My Life Would Suck Without You was birthed out of one of biggest pop myths of the 2000s: the relative commercial failure of her third album My December, rumoured to have been brought about by her label boss Clive Davis after she went against his advice to stay in the same lane as her thunderously successful Breakaway album. 

In an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the PBS documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (which premiered last year at Sundance) fits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making.

Few debut albums launch artists from complete obscurity into the heights of cultural and commercial appreciation like Whitney Houston's 1985 eponymous set. Crafted under the careful eye of Arista Records' Clive Davis, the 10-song collection was the result of Davis' two-year voyage for tracks that served his ultimate vision: crossover between the R&B and pop markets.

Arista Records is back in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in years thanks to the arrival of Louis Tomlinson’s debut album Walls. The venerable label was relaunched in 2018 after shuttering in 2011.Walls was released via 78/SYCO/Arista on Jan.

There is the Miles Davis you think you know and then there is the raw and wounded version that gets explored in the fascinating and heartbreaking documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.

Mase has accused former collaborator Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of hypocrisy following the music mogul’s controversial speech ahead of this year’s Grammy Awards.

Following Diddy's speech at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala calling out the Recording Academy for not taking rap and R&B music from black artists seriously, Mase had a few thoughts to get off his chest.

Despite a decades-long bond that appeared to be strong, Mase is letting people know that Diddy is no friend of his after alleging that the music mogul has been “robbing” him and other artists of what they’re owed for years.

Kathie Lee Gifford is ready for love!

© FilmMagic Diddy took aim at Grammys organisers Sean 'Diddy' Combs has used the annual pre-Grammys bash to take aim at the organisers over a perceived lack of respect towards black music.