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Oscar-winning actress and singer Julie Andrews will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with its Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement.

Best known for her iconic roles in “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music,” Andrews has starred in more than 40 movies, including a memorable performance as Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in “Victor Victoria” (1982), which was directed by her late husband, Blake Edwards. He also directed Andrews in “10” (1979) and in “S.O.B.” (1981).

“This Golden Lion is the well-deserved recognition of an extraordinary career which has admirably parsed popular success with artistic ambition, without ever bowing to facile compromises,” Alberto Barbera, the Venice Film Festival’s artistic director, said in a statement.

“I am so honored to have been selected as this year’s recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement,” Andrews said, thanking the festival’s parent organization, the Venice Biennale, “for this acknowledgment of my work.

The Amazon drama “Homecoming” will see another big change going into its second season.

In addition to Julia Roberts not returning to star, Sam Esmail will not direct any episodes for Season 2, Variety has learned. Both Esmail and Roberts will remain on the show as executive producers, however.

Amazon declined to comment.

Esmail directed all 10 episodes of the show’s first season, helping to define the show’s unique visual style as he did on the USA Network show “Mr. Robot.” Esmail is also credited as a co-creator of “Homecoming” along Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, who created the podcast on which the show is based and serve as co-showrunners.

The show received considerable critical praise upon its release, holding a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In her review for Variety, Caroline Framke wrote that Esmail “uses his signature long takes and off-center framing shots to disquieting effect, adding Hitchcockian angles

You can almost hear a collective sigh of relief mixed with anticipation as this weekend's release of Disney and Marvel's Captain Marvel should deliver a much-needed jolt to the domestic box office, which is down 27% compared to last year. In fact, while Captain Marvel will deliver the first $100+ million debut of 2019 the film will most likely outperform all previous weekends so far this year all on its own, needing $139 million to do so. Captain Marvel is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first to center on a female superhero with Brie Larson starring in the title role. The film will launch in a March record, 4,310 theaters * 3,000+ 3D locations, 400+ IMAX screens, 750+ Premium Large Format screens and 250 D-Box/4D locations * with previews beginning at 6Pm on Thursday night. Disney is anticipating a debut around $125+ million, though tracking has been pushing higher all week and we're expecting something a bit higher as well.

“Jack Ryan” showrunner Carlton Cuse will take a step back from the Amazon series for Season 3, TheWrap has learned.

Cuse, who has helmed the adaptation through its first two seasons, will step down from day-to-day responsibilities for the recently ordered third season to instead focus on his upcoming Netflix series “Locke & Key.”

“Jack Ryan,” a series adaptation of the popular Tom Clancy novels, was picked up for a third season by Amazon last month, well ahead of the show’s return for Season 2.

Cuse co-created the series with former “Lost” writer Graham Roland. He is expected to remain attached to the series as an executive producer, and a search is currently underway for his replacement as showrunner.

The series is described as a “reinvention” of the Tom Clancy hero played by John Krasinski, who also executive produces. The series

“Wedding Crashers” director David Dobkin has signed on to helm “Eurovision,” a comedy starring Will Ferrell that is being set up at Netflix, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Ferrell is co-writing the comedy with Andrew Steele, which is set around the Eurovision Song Contest, the longest running annual international TV song competition that is ripe for parody.

Ferrell is producing with Jessica Elbaum and Chris Henchy for his Gary Sanchez Productions, and Adam McKay is executive producing.

The Eurovision Song Contest is entering into its 64th edition, this year taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel and with the slogan “Dare to Dream.” Participants from over 41 countries will compete out of at least 50 eligible nations. While not many artists have seen huge career boosts from the competition, performers like Abba, Bucks

Sidney Sheinberg, who served for more than 20 years as president and COO of MCA, Inc and Universal Studios and helped build the former agency into a potent entertainment corporation, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 84.

Sheinberg’s son, Jonathan, confirmed the news in an email.

“He was an amazing man,” he wrote. Jonathan also remembered his father’s impact on the industry and the people whose lives Sheinberg touched through philanthropy.

“My heart is broken at this news,” said Steven Spielberg in a statement. “For now let me just say that Sid had a big personality and a tender heart. He was the tallest most stand up guy I ever knew. He gave birth to my career and made Universal my home. He gave me ‘Jaws,’ I gave him ‘ET’ and he gave me ‘Schindler’s List.’ We were a team for 25 years and he was

Adriana Barraza is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Showtime series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” Variety has learned.

Barraza joins previously announced cast members Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Jessica Garza, Johnathan Nieves, and Nathan Lane. She will play Maria Vega, the powerful matriarch of the Vega family, who will go to any lengths to protect her children from the dangerous world of 1938 social politics, as well as from the chilling supernatural forces invading their lives.

Barraza is a Mexican film and television actress and director. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed role in “Babel,” which

FX is developing a TV series based on Don Winslow’s “Cartel” book trilogy, with Ridley Scott on board as an executive producer.

Winslow will executive producer the series with Shane Salerno, who will co-write the pilot. The project is currently looking for a full-time writer and showrunner to steer the series. FX is producing it with Salerno’s The Story Factory.

The book trilogy spans a 45-year period and follows a DEA agent named Art Keller through America’s long-running war on drugs. The through line is a blood feud between the DEA agent and Mexican drug kingpin Adan Berrera.

Winslow published the first book in the trilogy, “Power of the Dog,” in 2005, with its follow-up coming a decade later with 2015’s “The Cartel.” The third book in the series, “The Border,” was published on Feb. 26 and debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times’ Best Seller List.

Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell, John Dickerson and Bianna Golodryga have scored a notable string of scoops for “CBS This Morning” in recent weeks. Now executives at the network’s news division are considering something that would also make headlines — a new anchor lineup for the show.

As CBS News president Susan Zirinsky examines the division she took over officially just last week, executives are mulling a potential morning scramble that could send at least two of the show’s four anchors to other assignments. Meanwhile, CBS News is in contract talks with King, who has emerged as the most

Corey Feldman says he “can no longer” defend Michael Jackson, his friend, after watching Part 1 of HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland.”

“I don’t want to be perceived as I’m here to defend Michael, because I can no longer do that,” Feldman told “Headline News.” “I cannot in good consciousness defend anyone who’s being accused of such horrendous crimes. But at the same time, I’m also not here to judge him, because again, he did not do those things to me and that was not my experience.”

“My place is not to be the judge and is not to be the accuser and not to be the defender — my job in this is to focus on what’s most important, which is helping to reform the statutes of limitations in every state, because if we can reform the statutes of limitations, we can prevent things from ever getting to this point,

The Jonas Brothers joined James Corden for the latest installment of The Late Late Show‘s “Carpool Karaoke” in what the band jokingly called their first performance since reuniting.

The clip featured plenty of classic Jonas Brothers hits including, “Burning Up,” “Year 3000,” “When You Look Me In the Eyes” and the grand finale, “Love Bug,” which featured plenty of backseat air guitar. The band also sang along to their new single, “Sucker,” which was released last week.

During the ride, the Jonas Brothers also discussed how they came to reunite the band.

While premium large formats such as Imax, Dolby Cinema and 4Dx played a key role in boosting the French box office in 2018, the Immersive Cinema Experience (Ice) launched by French multiplex chain Cgr, proved to be the most popular premium format in the country.

With movies such as “Deadpool 2,” “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Aquaman,” Ice theaters lured 80% more moviegoers than IMAX in France and saw a 55% year-on increase on ticketing revenues compared to classic screens; as well as 40% more in B.O. gross compared to regular screens in the same location in 2018, according to data unveiled by Cgr.

France’s second biggest multiplex chain, Cgr boasts a total of 680 screens, including 27 Ice screening rooms. A ticket for Ice is on average €12 to €13 compared to €6.90 for a classic screen. Last year, 75% of B.O. generated at Cgr screens came from Ice-equipped cinemas. The numbers are particularly strong considering that

Before the release of The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 industrial-metal masterpiece, which came out 25 years ago today — Trent Reznor felt the need to apologize to his label.

“I said to the label, ‘Look — sorry, but I don’t think there’s a fucking single in here. I don’t think it’s going to sell for shit, but I had to make this record, because it’s what I’m about right now; I believe in it 100 percent,'” he told Rolling Stone in 1997. “‘I’m sorry, though, there

In a deleted scene from Cameron Crowe’s grunge-steeped 1992 rom com Singles, Matt Dillon’s character, Cliff Poncier, busks on a Seattle street. A friend walks by and asks him what happened to his band, Citizen Dick. “They didn’t get it; they weren’t with the program,” the dudely, long-haired singer-songwriter says. “But I’m solo now — I’m doing some really, really interesting things.”

At that point, he reaches down and grabs a homemade demo tape from a box. “That’s my latest,” he says of the cassette,

Casting for the new James Bond movie remains to be ironed out, but a prominent part is set to be played by the ancient southern Italian town of Matera, Variety has learned.

The town of 60,000 people will provide the setting for what is expected to become “Bond 25’s” prologue action sequence, similar to “Spectre’s” opening segment in Mexico City during Day of the Dead celebrations, insiders say. Preparations to accommodate an estimated 500 production people for the shoot, which is expected to take place in late July, are already underway. Matera’s prehistoric whitewashed caves also provided the backdrops for the Jerusalem set of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”

Italy has been featured frequently in the Bond franchise, most recently in “Spectre,” which boasted a high-speed chase along the river Tiber in Rome, among other scenes. The opening scene of “Quantum of Solace” started with a car

Marshall Brodien, the Emmy-winning performer who played Wizzo the Wizard on Chicago’s “The Bozo Show,” has died, his former TV station Wgn reported Friday. He was 84.

He had been battling Alzheimer’s disease since a diagnosis in 2007.

Brodien became a fixture on Chicago-area children’s TV for his work on “The Bozo Show,” which aired for more than 40 years until ending its long run in 2001.

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Wizzo became popular on the show for the catchphrase “Doody, doody, do.”

In addition to an Emmy Award, Brodien also received the Chicago TV Academy’s Silver Circle Hall of Fame.

According to Wgn, he is survived by his wife, Mary, six children and stepchildren, and 14 grand and great-grandchildren.

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It was five hours before showtime and Lil Peep was in the back of his tour bus, getting high with two young fans. They were smoking dabs, high-potency doses of concentrated weed that are vaporized, then inhaled. This was Tucson, Arizona, in November 2017, and the afternoon heat hovered in the mid-80s. In the back lounge, the AC was cranked, and Peep, wearing a black, studded vest and multicolored checkered pants, had folded his long, lean frame onto an upholstered seat. Between him and the fans was a plastic table scattered with lighters,

“Captain Marvel” is on course to finish its opening day in Chinese theaters with a gross score of $30 million.

That figure, according to the Maoyan online ticketing service, takes in $2.2 million earned in previews on Thursday, plus Friday ticket sales to 8.15pm local time, for a running total of $29.8 million (RMB200 million). This puts the film on track to score one of Marvel Picture’s biggest opening days in China.

The film was released in the U.S. on the same day as in China, marking International Women’s Day.

Though gross box office for the year to date remains down 5% on last year, several Hollywood studio films have recently enjoyed record-breaking opening days in China.

In December, Warner Bros.’ “Aquaman” took in $24.6 million on its China opening day. In November, Sony’s “Venom” brought in $34.5 million. Fox’s female character-led “Alita: Battle Angel” brought in $18.7 million on its opening day in February.

The European Union has accepted commitments from Sky and several Hollywood studios over the geo-blocking of movie content.

Exclusivity and territory-specific clauses in deals between Sky U.K. and the studios prevented the pay-tv giant from making content available to consumers in other countries in Europe, and required the studios not to sell their films to other pay-tv services in the U.K. and Ireland.

Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sky have now agreed to eliminate those clauses in their content deals. E.U. competition authorities said late Thursday that they accepted those concessions, which specifically relate to deals

The European Union has accepted commitments from Sky and several Hollywood studios over the geo-blocking of movie content.

Exclusivity and territory-specific clauses in deals between Sky U.K. and the studios prevented the pay-tv giant from making content available to consumers in other countries in Europe, and required the studios not to sell their films to other pay-tv services in the U.K. and Ireland.

Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sky have now agreed to eliminate those clauses in their content deals. E.U. competition authorities said late Thursday that they accepted those concessions, which specifically relate to deals between the studios and Sky in the U.K. but could also apply in the future to other pay-tv operations across Europe.

Theoretically, the decision opens up the European pay-tv market, but Sky insiders said Sky U.K. would not start actively offering its services outside the British Isles. A