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Variety Entertainment News Service
Variety Entertainment News Service provides entertainment and feature sections with worldwide entertainment coverage from Variety's daily, weekly and on-line publications. Our web-based service offers breaking news and an array of articles, profiles and photos on the hottest developments in television, film, music, theater and the celebrity world. Variety has been the leader in the field for 100 years-they're experts even for insiders.
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Donald Trump, 'Modern Family' Writer Clash on Twitter
While most of Hollywood is shut down for the Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump and an Emmy-winning writer/producer on "Modern Family" are staying plenty busy on Twitter. Danny Zuker, who also serves an exec producer on the hit ABC series, is one of TV's most active creatives in the social media world and regularly takes shots at NBC's "The Apprentice" and its ...
Sony Classics Picks Up Jim Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's vampire drama "Only Lovers Left Alive" on the eve of its world premiere at Cannes in competition. Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin and Jeffrey Wright star. Story is set in Detroit and Tangiers and follows an underground musician who reunites with his lover. The film ...
Mike Darnell's Greatest Hits: 'Joe Millionaire,' 'Alien Autopsy' and Seth MacFarlane
Mike Darnell isn't just the best-known alternative programming exec at any of the major networks. He's the only guy who has held the post in the 27-year history of the Fox network, which he joined in 1994 after spending eight years on the news side of Fox's Los Angeles O&O, KTTV. "No one else has ever done this job here," he says. That made his decision to leave ...
Mike Darnell: For TV Critics, the Gift That Kept on Giving
Mike Darnell leaving Fox? After all the hell he put multiple entertainment chiefs -- including Sandy Grushow, Peter Roth and Gail Berman -- over the years? Say it ain't so. Years ago, somewhere between "When Animals Attack" and "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?," I suggested that some struggling network, like UPN back when it existed, should hand its programming ...
Mike Darnell to Exit Fox, Ending Era for Colorful Exec
An era has ended at Fox with Friday's news that Mike Darnell is stepping down after 18 years as a top programming exec at the network. Darnell confirmed he would step down from his post as prexy of alternative entertainment at Fox when his contract is up next month. Darnell and Fox positioned the departure as his decision, but his departure comes on the heels of "American Idol" ...
Cannes Palm Dog Award Goes to Liberace's Blind Poodle
Baby Boy, the partially-sighted poodle who appears in "Behind the Candelabra," has been named the top dog of the Cannes Film Festival as winner of the Palm Dog award. Judged by film critics, the prize is not an official part of the festival, but is independently-awarded like other prizes such as the Queer Palm. In the film, Liberace and Scott Thorson, played by Matt Damon, are ...
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