Instagram confirms it will soon let users save drafts of stories the same way they can create drafts of regular posts. Instagram users will soon be able to create stories and save them as drafts to publish later, the company confirms in an announcement. Instagram has long offered the ability to save regular posts as drafts, while stories have always had to be created at the time of publishing. If […]
Jamie Foxx will play boxing great Mike Tyson in a new biographical limited series, Variety has learned. The series, titled simply “Tyson,” is not currently set up at a network or streaming service, but will no doubt find one quickly given the names attached to it already. Antoine Fuqua is onboard to direct and executive produce via Fuqua Films, with Martin Scorsese also executive producing via Sikelia Productions. The series is said to span the whole of Tyson’s life. […]
Google Lens has long been part of Google Photos to help you visually search images. On Android, Google Lens is now a more prominent part of Photos by identifying what pictures would benefit from the analysis and search tool. Today, Lens is activated by opening a photo and selecting the appropriate icon in the bottom bar. It appears alongside the share, edit, and delete actions. Google is now making […]
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is moving from October 2021 to April of 2022, two industry sources with knowledge of the situation tell Variety. It is expected that the country-music themed Stagecoach festival, which takes place the weekend after Coachella’s two weekends, will move as well. Reps for Goldenvoice, the event’s promoter, and AEG Presents, its parent company, either declined or did not respond to Variety’s requests for comment. The move, if […]
The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were held Sunday night on CBS. Trevor Noah hosted the ceremony from the Los Angeles Convention Center, just across the street from the award show's usual home at the Staples Center. As with other award shows held during the pandemic, there was no live audience for the Grammys this year, save for a limited number of performers and nominees. Performers at the event included Bad Bunny, […]
A notably diverse list of nominations for the UK's prestigious BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards were announced Tuesday following last year's controversy over a lack of representation. More than half of the 24 nominees in the acting categories are from ethnic minority backgrounds, including Daniel Kaluuya for "Judas and the Black Messiah" and Bukky Bakray for "Rocks." Four women were nominated in the director category, including […]
Despite selling millions of records and winning countless awards, Bruno Mars is not too proud to beg. The singer is petitioning for his band, Silk Sonic, to become a last-minute addition to this year's Grammys line-up. The "24K Magic" singer announced earlier this month that he and Anderson .Paak have teamed up on a project called Silk Sonic. Their debut single, "Leave the Door Open," which will appear on the duo's forthcoming collaborative album, […]
With the 2021 awards season is in full swing, the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards will honor the best and brightest in both film and television on Sunday. This year’s ceremony is an in-person/virtual hybrid show, with host Taye Diggs and some of the presenters filming from a stage in Los Angeles, while nominees appear remotely from various locations around the world (like Emmy and Golden Globe nominees). Netflix received 46 film nominations, […]
Google will move ahead with a plan to phase out third-party cookies that help advertisers track customers around the web, shunning alternative methods to track individuals. The Alphabet Inc. unit upended the advertising industry with its decision last year to phase out third-party cookies that help advertisers pinpoint customers with ads for websites they previously visited and monitor which ads convinced them to buy. “We’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, […]
