Variety’s Business Managers Elite of 2023

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. You can’t buy your way into becoming a fitness fanatic — or in other words, the breed of person who wakes up at 6 a.m to cram a workout in before work — but there are certain products that can help maintain a healthy, fitness-forward lifestyle. And ahead of the holidays, these types of wellness-centric products make for the perfect gift for the fit people in your life.

Bankable Productions, the entertainment company founded by Emmy-winning television producer, host, entrepreneur and supermodel Tyra Banks, is relaunching as SMiZE Productions, a nod to her globally expanding, impact-driven ice cream company, SMiZE & Dream with locations in Australia (coming January 2024) and Dubai.

Paramount+ has announced a lot of renewals and cancellations this year…and there’s some new news this week.

to try, especially as an alternative for pricey in-office treatments. The rich, multipurpose oil has gone viral for its ability to revive hair on the scalp, eyebrows, and lashes, with many crediting it as the catalyst for longer, fuller locks. Which begs the question, is there actual science backing up these claims or is it simply a beauty myth? With a healthy bit of skepticism, we reached out to dermatologists to find out more about castor oil's benefits.Castor oil comes from pressing the seeds of (castor oil) plant.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Alibaba, China’s e-commerce and entertainment giant, revealed a 9% revenue improvement and a return to profits in the three months to the end of September, the second quarter of its financial year. The group, which is in the process of breaking itself up into six separate businesses, had revenue of RMB225 billion ($30.8 billion). Net income of RMB26.7 billion ($3.66 billion) compared with a net loss of RMB22.5 billion in the same period last year.

n 2020, Emerald Fennell turned heads with the powerful and emotionally-charged revenge thriller that was Promising Young Woman. The movie took the industry and awards season by storm and so expectations are high for her follow-up, Saltburn. Telling the story of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a scholarship student at Oxford University, Saltburn is yet another remarkable accomplishment from Fennell.Saltburn opens with Keoghan’s Oliver speaking directly into the camera.

We’re more than halfway through the current season of Bachelor in Paradise, but if you can’t wait until the end, spoilers have already been revealed about what happens in the finale.

Variety hosted “U.S. Filmmaking in France: Living the French Experience,” a series of panels with directors, producers and executives who discussed their experiences filming in the European country.

William Earl The Variety Entertainment Summit returns to CES on Jan. 10 at the Aria featuring a day of panels and keynote conversations.

ITV has revealed a first-look at the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2023 camp. The hit ITV reality show is now just days away from returning to screens and this year's campmates have already been revealed.

Latin Grammys are hours away! Hosted in the The Conference and Exhibition Centre of Sevilla, also known as FIBES, the show marks the first time that the event is hosted outside of the U.S. But aside from that, the show should be pretty similar to previous occasions, with plenty of amazing musical performances and indelible pop culture moments. Before tuning into the show though, it’s important to know how it works, especially how the winners are selected on a yearly basis.

Latin Grammys 2023 are right around the corner. The awards, celebrating the best in Latin and Hispanic music, will be hosted in Sevilla, Spain, with some of the biggest stars in the world in attendance. While Latin music has many perks and many things it excels at, duets are one of our strenghts.

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Mariah Carey is marking a career first at the upcoming 2023 Billboard Music Awards!

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there is a bible for the music industry, it’s Donald Passman’s book, “All You Need to Know About the Music Business.” Since the first edition came out more than 30 years ago, it has guided countless musicians and executives, and has prevented many of them from making decisions they’d later regret. Considering the deep detail Passman gets into about contracts, royalties and other complicated business arrangements, his tone is remarkably conversational, and he makes sure readers don’t miss the important stuff: The section on business managers begins with him saying “Listen to me!!!” in italics with several exclamation marks.

Latin Grammys are bound to be one of those culture moments you can’t miss, representing the best in Latin music while showcasing a new stage and a new approach to the awards, as this is the first night in the show’s history where the awards are hosted outside of the U.S.Latin Grammys 2023: These artists could win the Latin Rock or Alternative awardDanna Paola shines in Seville with a jaw-dropping flamenco lookThe 24th Latin Grammy Awards will be broadcast this Thursday November 16. The program will begin at 8 pm ET.For the first time ever, the Latin Grammys are being hosted in Sevilla, Spain, at the Conference and Exhibition Center (FIBES).

all have one thing in common: they take their hobbies into consideration. Noise canceling , for instance, are a (or for ) who study with music on.

Variety celebrates the accomplishments of women in Hollywood — and there were plenty of those again this year, even during a rare double strike that upended the entertainment industry for months. Several of the women on this list were actively involved in negotiations or advised clients about how to navigate guild rules related to the labor stoppages; others had to shut down productions when SAG-AFTRA members joined writers on the picket lines in July.

Linda Robson said she is “keeping busy” by spending time with her family after confirming she had split from her husband Mark Dunford. The pair had been together for 33 years but for months there has been speculation that they were going through marital problems. And now the Loose Women panellist, 65, has finally confirmed they have gone their separate ways - saying "enough is enough".

Anna Marie de la Fuente As 2023 hits its final straights, Spain’s “Nowhere,” a mother-baby survival thriller, rates as the most-viewed non-English title – film or series – of 2023, with 77.9 million views. It also ranks as Netflix’s second most-watched non-English movie of all time, currently punching 141.6 million hours, bettered only by Norway’s “Troll.” “Nowhere” also has legs: No other non-English Netflix movie has punched 1.6 million views on its seventh week of release.

Clyde have turned to former Partick Thistle and Dundee United boss Ian McCall in their search for a new manager.

Chrishell Stause and G Flip are hitting the red carpet!

SPOILER ALERT – Do not continue reading if you don’t want to know what happened on Dancing With the Stars’ latest episode!

There are now 6 contestants remaining on Dancing With the Stars season 32 following yet another elimination.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large GLAAD — the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization — has been named the recipient of the Television Academy‘s 2023 Governors Award. The honor will be presented during the 75th Annual Primetime Emmys telecast, set to be broadcast live on Fox (after a lengthy Hollywood strikes delay) on January 15.

FX has some of the most acclaimed shows on TV, and sadly, a bunch of them have ended or will be ending in 2023.

, not to mention for your own . The holiday sales start earlier and earlier every year, anyway so who says we can’t enjoy a few steep markdowns right now?While we’re still waiting for the official November 24th list of of 2023 to materialize, it’s a great time to go deal hunting: Summer clothes are on final sale, while more seasonal picks (like and ) are just starting to be marked down.

sleigh. The famed momager released her highly anticipated 2023 Christmas card — and long gone are the days of getting the entire KarJenner family gathered for an elaborate David LaChapelle photo shoot. In the pink card exclusively obtained by The Post, Jenner, 68, and her longtime boyfriend Corey Gamble, 43, smile in a vacation photo as “Happy Holidays” frames the picture in gold font.

Guns ‘N’ Roses and their management for copyright infringement and sexual harassment allegedly perpetrated by the band’s manager Fernando Lebeis.Katarina Benzova filed a lawsuit on Saturday (November 11) which states that she worked on a freelance basis for Guns ‘N’ Roses between 2010 and 2022 across 364 concerts.Guns N’ Roses, Gundam LLC (the band’s business and holding company), Team Brazil and Lebeis are listed as the defendants in the case.The suit claims that the band and their team committed copyright infringement on Benzova’s photos “through the reproduction, public display, distribution, creation of derivative works, and holding out of Benzova’s photographs for licenses and sale to third party publications after termination of any right to do so,” and altered various photographs in order to cover infringement and falsely claim ownership of them.Benzova also alleges in the suit that Lebeis had made unwanted sexual advances towards her on numerous occasions since he began managing Guns ‘N’ Roses in 2016. The suit claims Lebeis became aggressive and hostile when Benzova repeatedly rejected him, and it even escalated to “name-calling, ridicule, demeaning remarks, humiliation, bullying, and lying.”In addition, Benzova alleges that Lebeis eventually lowered her fee without notifying her, withheld payments from her, moved her to cheaper hotels during travel, demanded she pay out of pocket for travel expenses that Team Brazil promised to cover and refused to credit her for her photos.Furthermore, she claims that her efforts to use written contracts with the band were ignored.

EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company The Cartel has signed John Pogue, Michael Alaimo, Rebecca Ewing & Danney Mackey and Lisa France.

North West is following in Kim Kardashian’s businesswoman footsteps — but with her own twist!

Edgar Barrera has received the highest number of nominations, totaling 13. His nominations include composer of the year, producer of the year, and song of the year.

Geddy Lee toured all over the world with Rush from 1968 all the way to 2018 when the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band called it quits.Now, five years later, he’s on his first-ever book tour.Lee, 70, is taking his memoir “My Effin’ Life” on the road to venues all over North America up until Dec. 7.He kicked off the 14-show run at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Monday, Nov.

Latin Grammys are right around the corner, providing us with the perfect chance to learn our history and some of these years’ nominees. One of the evening’s most intriguing categories, the Latin Rock/Alternative Grammy, could make for an interesting contest this year. Here’s why: Latin GRAMMYs 2023: the ten tracks competing for ‘Song Of The Year’Peso Pluma, Karol G, Carlos Vives, and more nominated for the 2024 GRAMMYS: Full ListLast year, Rosalia took home the award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative album, a surprising yet deserving win.

K.J. Yossman The U.K.’s independent film sector is heading for “market failure” due to industry conditions and inflation, producers body Pact has said. Pact, which represents a range of indie production companies, made the alarming assessment in a response to the U.K.

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