MrBeast is bringing his over-the-top YouTube competitions to television in a forthcoming new game show on Amazon Prime Video. The YouTube creator, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, announced the show on Monday in a post on X. Called “Beast Games,” according to Donaldson, it will feature 1,000 contestants vying for a grand prize of $5 million—believed to be the largest single prize in television history.
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He shared more details about the show during an interview with YouTubers Colin and Samir.
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Donaldson is one of the most followed creators on YouTube, with over 245 million subscribers, and is known for doing game show competitions on his channel.
Thirty years after its release, the supernatural superhero thriller “The Crow” is getting the remake treatment from director Rupert Sanders and star Bill Skarsgård. But Alex Proyas, the director of the original 1994 film starring Brandon Lee, doesn’t think that’s a good idea. “I really don’t get any joy from seeing negativity about any fellow […]
The upcoming Starz series “The Hunting Wives” has added four new series regulars to its cast. Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes and George Ferrier have all joined the series, alongside previously announced cast members Malin Åkerman, Brittany Snow, Dermot Mulroney and Evan Jonigkeit. The official description for “The Hunting Wives” reveals that the […]
Following her exit from the board of WeightWatchers, Oprah Winfrey has set an hour-long ABC primetime special about weight loss drugs. The special, titled “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” will air on ABC on Monday, Mar. 18 and will be available to stream the next day on Hulu.
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech. The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors (Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh), executives (Gary Barber, Gail Berman), creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors (Eli […]
North Carolina Rep. Jeff Jackson is losing thousands of TikTok followers after he voted “yes” on a bill that would effectively ban the app in the U. S. unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells TikTok. Jackson, who gained over two million followers on TikTok, voted yes on the bill passed by the House of Representatives on March 13 in a 352-65 vote.
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Jackson lost over 100,000 followers on TikTok that day, according to the social media analytics site Social Blade.