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EXCLUSIVE: Raven Banner Entertainment has boarded action thriller Trigger (Topakk), directed by the Philippines’ Richard Somes, to executive produce and handle international sales. 

Christina Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the filming of the third and final season of Dead to Me back in 2021. The Netflix show took a pause for about five months and the star is now recalling how she felt during that time.

Universal Orlando Resort today announced the closing of at least five attractions to make way for what it termed “new family entertainment.” Fievel’s Playland, Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster, Curious George Goes to Town, DreamWorks Destination and Shrek and Donkey’s Meet & Greet will permanently close at end of day on January 15 203, according to an announcement posted to the resort’s Twitter page.

A monster bash! Several A-list stars and influencers celebrated spooky season the right way by attending the third annual Unruly Agency Halloween Party this holiday weekend. 

Glamour honored Angela Bassett with for her work on stage and screen. Emmy-, Grammy-, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, who presented Bassett with her honor, said it best: “An actor, executive producer, a mother, a friend, and on, and on, and on…Were you surprised that she was cast as head of the Bad Bitch Support Group on Black Lady Sketch Show, and as Ramonda in Wakanda Forever, queen of the most powerful nation in the world? I wasn’t!”“Think about the way she sits with strength, and truth, whether it is on the stage, screen, you cannot take her eyes off of her, can you?” McDonald continued. “I can think of no one more deserving of Glamour’s Lifetime Achievement Award than Angela Bassett, a woman who I deeply admire, revere and honor, for all the stories that she weaves, the barriers she has broken, and the inspiration and leadership that she provides in our industry and to the next generation of artists.”When Bassett accepted her award, she bowed to McDonald with gratitude as she received a standing ovation.

ceremony, founder and director Dr. Rebecca Gomperts was honored for her work providing tens of thousands of women with access to medication abortion across America—from her headquarters in Amsterdam. The impact of was perfectly summed up by actor and podcast host Busy Philipps, who presented Gomperts with her award at the Tuesday, November 1 ceremony. “I had this realization a long time ago, but simply existing as a woman in this country and in many, many countries is a political act,”  Philipps said.

(that is, to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). And on Tuesday, November 1, the talk show host added another honor to her lengthy list of accomplishments: 2022 .She was presented with the award by Kelly Rowland, who praised Hudson as “resilient, talented, and honey that voice!" “In a business filled with competition and scarcity, Jennifer puts family, friendship, sisterhood, and community above all," Rowland continued.

Ziwe is back with the second half of the second season of her namesake talk show and she has declared a “diversity war.”

Not counting the series that are officially ending this season, the oldest scripted series on the air at the CW is flagship All American, currently in its fifth season. All other shows are three-years-old or younger. That is significant as series tend to get more expensive as they age.

2ND UPDATE: David DePape, the suspect arrested in the attack of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home, pleaded not guilty to state charges Tuesday.

ceremony in New York City, where they were for their contribution to music, pop culture, and sisterhood.On Tuesday, November 1, actor and known Haim super fan Sophie Turner introduced the trio to a crowd which included other Women of the Year honorees like and “They will always make you feel welcome, loved, important, and in the presence of something truly special,” said Turner of Haim. “Their sisterhood extends beyond each other, outside of the Haim circle.

at the Glamour on Tuesday, November 1. Olympian Sunisa Lee was on hand to present Kim with her award. “Chloe can tell you: your life changes overnight when you win a gold medal,” Lee told the crowd.

Aurora James challenged major retailers to do more than offer empty statements of support. “So many of your businesses are built on Black spending power,” she wrote in an Instagram post that quickly went viral. “So many of your stores are set up in Black communities.”Her ask: Create lasting change by dedicating 15% of shelf space to Black-owned brands.

J. Kim Murphy As Nintendo’s Bayonetta 3 closes in on its long-awaited release date of Oct. 28, the video game franchise’s fanbase has been rocked by a statement shared by the series’ original lead voice actor, Hellena Taylor, who shares that she did not return for the new entry after being offered only $4,000 to reprise her role. “The Bayonetta franchise made approximately $450 million. That’s not including merchandise. As an actor, I trained for a total of seven and a half years,” Taylor shared in a statement on her Twitter. “What did they think this was worth? What did they offer to pay me? The final offer to do the whole game — as a buyout, flat rate — was $4,000. This is an insult to me [and] the amount of time that I took to work on my talent and everything I’ve given to this game and to the fans.”

Ethan Shanfeld At the inaugural The Gotham + Variety Audio Honors, presented by Wondery, leading podcast creators discussed their top tips for building an audience, and how the entertainment industry can do better to spotlight underrepresented voices. The event took place on Friday, Oct. 14, at Second Floor NYC in Midtown Manhattan. The 10 podcast honorees were selected for their innovations in audio storytelling by a committee of industry professionals chaired by Brittany Luse, new host of NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute.” Variety executive editor Brent Lang hosted the panel and delivered opening remarks alongside Gotham Executive Director Jeffrey Sharp.

told Elle Magazine. “That is a clear example of the lengths that Hollywood will go to to save itself and to protect offenders.”Rae voiced her thoughts on the ongoing controversy surrounding “The Flash,” as Miller, who stars in the film, faces felony charges and abuse allegations yet remains involved with the production, most recently returning to the set in October for a day of pickup shots.

Ethan Shanfeld Not much is known about Nintendo’s upcoming “Super Mario Bros.” movie, but Keegan-Michael Key revealed to Variety that his character Toad has a musical moment in the film. When asked if Toad shows off his singing chops in the animated movie, Key said, “He does. I got to improvise a song in ‘Super Mario Bros.,’ which was an absolute blast. That was just a stick of fun, that whole thing.” Regarding Toad’s voice, Key said, “I was working on the voice with my partner and trying to find the voice through the internal journey of the character. And then with the directors [Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic], we sprinkled some things in, we moved it around.”

. This one—which, we must say, looked a lot like a second Prime Day—officially wrapped up on Wednesday, October 12.While many of the best discounts have disappeared for good, you can still find plenty of unbeatable deals across every category imaginable.

Dame Angela Lansbury, best known to a generation for the series Murder, She Wrote, and who won children's hearts as the voice of Mrs. Potts in the animated movie Beauty and the Beast, has died aged 96.  In a statement to the BBC, Lansbury's children confirmed that she died in her sleep just five days before turning 97.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. In a surprise turn of events, Amazon announced last month that they would be holding a second Prime Day this year. Following the two-day deals event that the retail behemoth holds every summer comes what the site is calling the Prime Early Access Sale, which kicks off on Oct. 11. The event will see much of the same price cuts on products in every category, from apparel and tech to home entertainment and beauty. While the major deals event (Prime Day 2.0, if you will) comes just in time for the holiday shopping craze, it’s also the result of retailers having too much stuff. A record $732 billion of merchandise is sitting in warehouses, which is why brands like Target, J. Crew, Nine West, Brooklinen and dozens more are also having sales this week.

do love a good glass of red wine (or two) while you’re cooking. (And doesn’t that have some health benefits? That’s right, you’re in it for the !) Likewise, getting to bed earlier is a forever goal for just about everyone we know, but something always gets in the way–I mean, you’re midway through season two of Indian Matchmaking, and who can watch just one episode at a time? And, of course, there’s healthy eating and physical activity.

“Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” book series is now a major motion picture. The live action/CGI musical comedy stars a whole host of names, including one Canadian singer as the voice of a talented crocodile. The film will feature songs performed by star Shawn Mendes and written by the songwriting team behind “The Greatest Showman” — Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — with an ensemble cast that includes Javier Bardem and Constance Wu.For “Lyle,” Pasek and Paul are joined by Ari Afsar, Emily Gardner, Xu Hall, Mark Sonnenblick and Joriah Kwamé.

mixed results. It wasn’t quite Mario or Italian, and it mostly sounded a lot like Pratt’s normal voice.

Third time is the charm? The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been a major topic of conversation ahead of its release — from the mysterious plot to lead actor Chris Pratt‘s accent in the film.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Whoopi Goldberg and Zendaya are just some of the stars who appear in Elvis Mitchell’s “Is That Black Enough for You?” Netflix documentary. Mitchell’s doc bows this weekend at the New York Film Festival. Mitchell, a film critic who has written for LA Weekly and The New York Times takes on the role of writer, director and narrator as he traces the history of Black representation in cinema. The documentary examines Black cultural achievement in the 1960s and ’70s and debunks the notion that Black cinema in that period only meant Blaxploitation films.

The conversation around Chris Pratt’s casting as the voice of Mario in Illumination and Nintendo’s upcoming The Super Mario Bros Movie was well underway before Thursday. But it hit a new gear after the first trailer – and first listen of Pratt’s interpretation of the video game icon — was released at New York Comic-Con. It hits theaters April 7, 2023.

Chris Pratt could be the hero of the mushroom kingdom.

At New York Comic-Con today, attendees finally got a look at Illumination Animation/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, which features the voices of Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad.

first trailer for Illumination and Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has arrived and, well, it looks pretty much exactly like you’d expect an animated movie based on the beloved video game franchise would look.

The first trailer for the upcoming film The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released!

Demi Lovato was forced to take a difficult decision in the middle of her successful ‘Holy Fvck’ tour, after she realized that she had woken up with “no voice” following her last concert.The singer, who recently surprised the audience in Los Angeles with some special guests, announced that she had to postpone her show in Rosemont, Illinois, explaining to her fans and followers that she had to reschedule it at a later date.And while Demi says that this was “the absolute last thing” she wanted to do, she had no choice but to postpone the concert. “Rosemont, today I woke up and had absolutely no voice,” she wrote.

Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer “A Chinese Canadian tween undergoes magical puberty and turns into a giant red panda.” As far as elevator pitches go, it’s not exactly “‘Jaws’ in space” or “snakes on a plane.” But that highly specific logline is the one that Domee Shi used to persuade Pixar to greenlight her feature directorial debut, some half a decade ago when the then-20-something was a budding storyboard artist on the studio’s Emeryville campus. Shi’s film, “Turning Red,” delivers on every bit of that premise, focusing on a confidently nerdy Toronto girl named Mei and her loving yet strict mother, Ming, whose perfectly ordered lives are thrust into chaos by Mei’s sudden transformation. The film was released last spring, and immediately notched a number of milestones for the studio: the first Pixar feature solely directed by a woman, the first Pixar feature with all-female creative leads, and only the second Pixar feature directed by a person of Asian descent. But the particulars of Shi’s identity aside, it also represented the emergence of a singular new voice within the celebrated studio, and everything from its cultural specificity, to its animation style — impressionistic, frantically paced, anime-influenced — to its openness in addressing the messiness of early adolescence (from menstruation and mother issues to the suggestion that a tween girl’s love of a particular boy band might have some extra-musical motivations) felt both of a piece with the Pixar tradition and something invigoratingly new.

Shawn Mendes opened up about his mental health this week after the sudden cancellation of his Wonder World tour this summer, telling ET he now feels more relaxed ahead of the premiere of his new movie, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile”. 

some of Pratt’s Mario – or, at least, his backside. Illumination is, of course, the studio behind the “Despicable Me,” “Minions” and “Secret Life of Pets” franchises so many have been curious to see what “Super Mario Bros.” looks like, but the film was made with the explicit involvement of Nintendo, which co-financed the movie alongside Universal Pictures, and the Mario world does not appear to be Minion-ized here.Pratt voices Mario in something of a controversial choice, although the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor is no stranger to voice work having led the “LEGO Movie” franchise.“Super Mario Bros.” also stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.Originally scheduled for release in December, the film opens in theaters in the U.S.

Sherri Shepherd is looking back at the influential women and mentors who have guided her along the path to hosting her own show.ET's Rachel Smith joined Shepherd at the studio for her new talk show, , and the outspoken host excitedly showed off her four themed greenrooms, each dedicated and modeled in homage to some of the women who have influenced her most — including Marsha Warfield, Lucille Ball, Joan Rivers and her former co-host on, Whoopi Goldberg.«Whoopi Goldberg has just always been amazing to me,» Shepherd shared. «When I met her, she just became like my protector. She gave me so much great advice about how to be in Hollywood.»«Whoopi was also this person who wasn't just one thing, she also was a game show host, she led The View, she was an actress, and she could do comedy,» Shepherd reflected.

Shawn Mendes opened up about his mental health this week after the sudden cancellation of his tour this summer, telling ET he now feels more relaxed ahead of the premiere of his new movie, «It doesn't feel like such high pressure,» Mendes told ET's Rachel Smith about the film. The movie will be the first time fans hear his singing voice after announcing canceling the tour dates.