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After its previous world was sucked into a black hole, “Fortnite” is back — with an all-new island featuring a map with 13 different locations. The latest installment of the free-to-play battle royale game, which publisher Epic Games calls the first season of […]

Halsey, Rosalía, Becky G, Akon, Ava Max, and Mabel are the first artists announced as performers at the 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards, the global music show which will air live from Spain on Nov. 3. Pop star Halsey returns to the EMA stage with three nods for Best Collaboration, Best Pop and […]

Celebrating 10 years of achievement in entertainment technology, the Advanced Imaging Society today named 10 female industry innovators who will receive the organization’s 2019 Distinguished Leadership Awards at the its 10th annual Entertainment Technology Awards ceremony on October 28 in […]

The singer maintains that her hit single didn't steal from Flame's "Joyful Noise"

The buzz at Mipcom this year is about advertising-supported as much as subscription VOD, and Rakuten TV made a major move into that space Tuesday with the announcement of a new AVOD service in the 40-plus countries it serves in Europe. Rakuten TV has been focused on transaction-based […]

Radio broadcaster Entercom Communications is hoping to expand listenership of its live programming by bringing TiVo-like functionality to its Radio.com platform. Launching this week, Radio.com Rewind lets listeners pause, rewind and fast-forward live radio. It’s accessible via the online […]

Keeley Hawes will take the title role in “Finding Alice,” a drama series for ITV about a woman who loses her husband in a freak accident only to find he has left her to unravel a trail of secrets, debt and criminality. Hawes, who is hot off her star turn in Emmy-nominated […]

Cineflix Rights has pre-sold Australian wildlife documentary series “Inside Taronga Zoo” to Nat Geo Wild for the U.S. and More 4 for the U.K. The 10 part series is produced by McAvoy Media for Nine Network Australia, where it will air as “Taronga: Who’s Who In […]

“Watchmen,” the 1980s DC Comics series whose popularity demands adaptation and whose singular vision makes that near-impossible, might be too much itself to bring out the best in any artist. But it has brought out the most in Damon Lindelof. As a follow-up to HBO’s “The […]

Montreal-based producer and distributor Reel One Entertainment has partnered with U.S. producer Element 8 Entertainment and Paris-based La Sabotière to develop an anthology series based on the novels of American crime writer Mary Higgins Clark. U.S. screenwriter and author Ilene Rosenzweig, […]

In Variety’s third Mipcom Roundup Alibaba’s streaming platform Youku gets BBC programs, Lagardère buys full ownership of Barcelona’s Veranda, Banijay rolls out Guinness World Records series, Blue Ant International sells and renews and All3Media Intl. extends into […]

Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo dishes on the surprise new remix

Indie-rock band preview The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City with heavy single "Bam Rang Rang"

Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Steve Winwood, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Ronnie Wood, Joe Walsh, Buddy Guy also appear on six-disc Crossroads Revisited

Ted Gioia's "Music: A Subversive History" is daringly ambitious but, laments critic Robert Christgau, disdains the pleasure of "mere entertainment."

The Democrats are so dumb. They let the Republicans define the debate. Now the offender is California. It’s an uninhabitable wasteland filled with homeless that has no affordable housing. Taxes are high and the state is about to crater. THEN WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE LIVING HERE? The homeless […]

You can’t fight your battles alone. The Donald is making a major mistake making news every day, refusing to cooperate with Congress, he’s hanging it out for everybody to see. In other words, press can work for or against you. In this case it’s against. Who is on Trump’s […]

Justin Bieber shared a sweet snap of the necklace he made for his new wife Hailey via Instagram, apparently very proud of his handiwork.

Perry and the co-creators of “Dark Horse” are asking for a new ruling or a new trial in the legal battle over Flame’s “Joyful Noise”

The influential slowcore band’s new self-titled LP is out in December