Slash's Sixth Solo Album 'Orgy of the Damned' Debuts as the #1 Blues Album in the U.S. and U.K. Orgy of the Damned has officially debuted as the #1 Blues Album in the U.S and the U.K., as well as achieving Top 10 chart positions in 7 countries around the world including the U.S., U.K., Australia ... 06/3/2024 - 10:21 am | View Link
Summer ritual: Dave Matthews Band brings good vibes, festive jams to packed Dallas show The two-song encore included Matthews doing “Some Devil,” the title track from his 2003 solo album, by himself before the band returned for a raucous rendition of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower ... 06/2/2024 - 12:58 pm | View Link
Dave Matthews Band (Eventually) Found Its Groove at Dos Equis Pavilion This money directly supports the journalism Dallas Observer produces and helps ... although getting to the good stuff was an exercise in patience. The band is, theoretically, touring behind its 10th ... 06/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Celtics/Mavericks by the numbers Dallas Mavericks The Celtics aren’t a team you want to get into a shootout with — they’re just as talented on offense but have a far more dominant rearguard, which should prove to be the difference ... 06/1/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Van Halen’s free 1991 concert in Dallas’ West End to be released on video Van Halen played its last show in 2015, five years before the death of guitarist extraordinaire Eddie Van Halen. All these years later, the group’s ... 05/29/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
The filmmakers behind Netflix’s latest documentary—How to Rob a Bank— do not want viewers to take its title literally. Although the film, out June 5, features accounts from real bank robbers who explain how they got people to hand over cash, directors Seth Porges and Stephen Robert Morse hope nobody gets ideas after watching it.
Production has begun on a second season of “Scrublands,” the Australian crime thriller series starring Luke Arnold (“Black Sails”) and Bella Heathcote (“The Neon Demon,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”). With action set a year after the events of the first season, award-winning investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Arnold) has returned to his coastal hometown, Port […]
The Newport Beach Film Festival will return to London Feb. 13 2025 for its U. K. Honors, recognizing outstanding work by British and Irish actors across film and television. The U. K. Honors will take place at Raffles London at The OWO in partnership with Variety, which will unveil Variety’s 10 Brits during the event, highlighting the […]
Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales has picked up international rights to “Petroleo,” the fiction debut of doc Spanish filmmaker Álvaro F. Pulpeiro, lauded worldwide for his sensory and lyrical filmmaking, most recently displayed in the CPH:DOX-selected “So Foul a Sky.” The Galician-born filmmaker said the project was significantly influenced by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished book “Petrolio,” […]
Programmers from Sundance, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto, and Rotterdam, sales agents such as Goodfellas and Coproduction Office and U. S. distributor Magnify Pictures are among 50 top international guests expected at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, which is due to unspool June 10-14. More than 300 delegates have signed up for the co-pro […]
Going all-in on its exploration of the role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) has unveiled a 15-title AI Film competition. The films will compete for jury-selected and audience awards and cash prizes of up to KRW1.5 million ($11,000). “We were able to see the new creative possibilities […]