Mastercard expands Start Path program, adds 5 blockchain startups. The Start Path program showcases Mastercard’s leadership in fintech innovation Selected startups shall receive bespoke training and collaboration opportunities. Mastercard, the global fintech giant, has announced the addition of five new startups to its Start Path
“La Brea” star Josh McKenzie is returning to NBC. Variety has learned exclusively that the actor has joined the network’s upcoming drama series “The Hunting Party.” The show was picked up to series back in February. McKenzie will star alongside previously announced cast members Melissa
In a pre-feminist age, Karoline is what entirely too many people would call a “fallen woman.” Alone, unemployed and pregnant by a man not her husband, she is acknowledged only to be punished, and invisible for all remaining purposes. Women like Karoline don’t fall of
YouTube’s message to Madison Avenue: The video giant isn’t like traditional TV — it’s bigger, with literally billions of viewers, and better at targeting relevant audiences. At its annual Brandcast event, held Wednesday during the TV biz’s upfronts week, YouTube drilled home massive scale. On
“Bad Sisters” star Anne-Marie Duff will co-star alongside Matthew Gurney in upcoming BBC drama “Reunion.” Written by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager, “Reunion” sees Gurney (“Name Me Lawand”) play Daniel Brennan, a deaf man who finds himself in prison following a terrible crime. Duff stars
Independent filmmaking is no easy task — even if you’re Steven Spielberg’s daughter. Destry Allyn Spielberg is set to make her feature directorial debut with “Please Don’t Feed the Children,” a low-budget thriller, which was filmed last year in Santa Fe, N.M. But the film
Jay Marcus has been working in film and television for more than a decade, but he also has no problem boasting that he is a “theater nerd.” “I could talk about theater more than anything else in the world,” says Marcus, head of scripted film
Religion, Karl Marx said, is the opiate of the masses. Today, he would likely say that the opiate of the masses is fame — the desire for it, the things you have to do to get it, the fragmentary nature of it (the old “15