Dev Patel set to star in movie about exotic male dance troupe the Chippendales

The independently financed thriller PH-1 starring Mark Kassen, Abubakar Salim, Dina Shihabi, Vinessa Shaw and Jesse L. Martin has wrapped production. Kassen directed the pic from a script he co-wrote with Cheryl Guerriero and Brent Cote. Kassen will also produce alongside Iliana Nikolic under his production banner Like Minded Entertainment.

black midi, the spiky and uncompromising British post-punk band, kick off their North American tour tonight (March 22) and have dropped a new covers EP to celebrate. Cavalcovers includes the group's take on "Love Story" by Taylor Swift plus “Moonlight On Vermont” by Captain Beefheart and King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." The latter features all three members of the band, bassist Cameron Picton, guitarist Geordie Greep, and drummer Morgan Simpson, on vocals for the first time. Check out the EP below.

Megan Thee Stallion is being sued by her record label in a countersuit that claims her 2021 release Something for Thee Hotties didn’t qualify as an “album” under her record deal, Billboard reports. Last month the Houston rapper accused 1501 Certified Entertainment of attempting to keep her locked into a deal after she has delivered what she signed up to in a “an effort to try to take further advantage” of her career.

her "Off the Vine" podcast.  "I saw at the end of the ['Bachelor' Season 26] finale that Jesse was announcing the two 'Bachelorettes,' and he said he was going to be by their side for that. So I guess, spoiler alert: I'm not coming back."Kaitlyn, a former "Bachelorette" lead, co-hosted back-to-back seasons of the reality TV show with fellow former franchise lead Tayshia Adams.

Jared Leto has big music news!

Amanda Holden has admitted that plenty of people mistook her on-screen niece for her real-life daughter while filming Neighbours.The star, 51, is set to appear in the Australian soap for a special London-based episode next week as Aunt Harriet, acting alongside Harlow Robinson star Jemma Donovan.Harlow jets off to London to meet with her aunt, but it isn't long before things take a turn for the worst - as Amanda's character Harriet loses her mum Prue's diary, leaving Harlow devastated.The pair thankfully manage to make amends, and at Corey's suggestion Harlow opts to burn the diary and the memories it holds.And for Amanda, there was even more going on off-set, as people thought Jemma was her real daughter.Away from the spotlight, Amanda shares two daughters with her husband Chris Hughes - Hollie, 10, and Lexi, 16.Lexi has just signed with Kate Moss' modelling agency, and it looks like her future will be filled with the same glittering showbiz lights as her mum's.And the Britain's Got Talent star admitted her co-star Jemma is "gorgeous"."The amount of times people stopped to ask, 'is that your daughter, Amanda?'. We do look quite similar.

Machine Gun Kelly has come under fire after a resurfaced clip showed him making offensive comments towards black women On the red carpet at the 2012 BET Awards, the rapper made an offensive sexual comment when talking about black and white women giving oral sex.He said: “Black women give the best h**d” and shortly after called a woman a “b***h” for walking away when she got offended by his comments.Alice Glass, the former frontwoman of Canadian electronic music group, Crystal Castles, shared the clip on her twitter page and began by giving followers a trigger warning, calling the video: “Disturbing.”This video was taken by Baller Alert and the full video is available here.In the video, the songwriter said: “Ya’ll either give the best 'h**d or you say you don't give h**d.

Lizzo is no stranger to show-stopping looks and her latest was no exception. The Truth Hurts hitmaker wowed the crowd on The Late Late Show with James Corden when she wore a striking, pale blue latex dress.Lizzo was promoting her new show, Watch Out For the Big Grrrls, and took the opportunity to also call out the entertainment industry for not representing a curvier physique. MORE: Lizzo highlights curves in string bikini during sun-soaked swimShe said: "If anyone has ever been to my shows, I have dancers called the Big Grrrls.  So, in 2014, I had been doing open-call auditions for big girl dancers that look like me. "And it's been really [expletive] hard because big girls don't get representation.

The son of “Sister Wives” stars Christine and Kody Brown, Paedon Brown, reports he was robbed while he worked out at his gym recently.

Caitlyn Jenner has hit a major milestone! The 72-year-old former Olympian announced on Monday that her 20th grandchild had been born.

Taylor Swift’s haunting new track “Carolina” features in the recently released trailer for “Where the Crawdads Sing”.

A Place in the Sun's Jasmine Harman, 46, has arrived in Spain for a photoshoot and met her co-star Laura Hamilton, 39, at the airport. Jasmine took to her Instagram story to inform her followers that the pair were "going [their] separate ways" for the rest of their holiday.Jasmine posted the update to Instagram in view of her 102,000 followers.In the video, Jasmine can be seen smiling at the camera, while Laura is sitting with her car door open.Jasmine told viewers: "So, Laura and I have arrived in Alicante.

Instagram account with his 300,000 followers.The Glad You Came singer stressed that the new book was “not about dying: It's a book about living".The video featured an animation of a book with flipping pages, with clips of important moments in Tom's life playing on them. Some of the clips show Tom with his wife, Kelsey Hardwick, and their children Aurelia, two, and son Bodhi, one.Tom’s The Wanted bandmates also featured alongside him in parts of the video.He captioned the post: “Hi, I’m Tom Parker, a lot of you know me as one fifth of The Wanted, but I am also a father, a husband, and a son, that’s battling brain cancer.“My book, coming this July, is not about dying: It's a book about living.“It's a book about finding hope in whatever situation you're dealt, and living your best life no matter what.”Tom concluded: “It will show you how having faith in hope and daring to dream means you can carry on, against all odds.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been slammed after she mocked a typo issued by South Wales police official Twitter account following a homophobic killing in Cardiff last year.The best-selling children's author, 56, mocked the police department which saw them mistake virtue signalling for "virtual signalling" in error.In view of her 13.9 million Twitter followers, Rowling pointed out the error in a recent tweet, which was met with fury from social media users."Like virtue signalling, but for people who aren’t really a***d."The author's post comes after the Welsh police department shared their LGBT+ outreach efforts near the site of a homophobic hate crime.Following Rowling's post, social media users flocked to the comments to weigh in on her tweet.@gracepetrie replied: "I don’t want to assume that this tweet is as badly motivated as it seems, so could you clarify that you’re not actually mocking the police for promoting the safety of the LGBT community in an area where a man was recently homophobically murdered."@AlGordon1980 added: "As a writer, do you do any research or is it just whatever falls out of your head first?"However, @RyanSpires8 fired back: "And how would she have known about the link to the Bute Park incident from the initial tweet? She was responding to it at face value like most of us do! As always people are using 'reaching' techniques to concoct faux outrage." (sic)While @CeilNoyle replied to the author: "Not that you'll care, and not that anyone should have to justify anything to you, but here's the context.""Virtual signalling.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorExpanding accessibility is an ongoing concern for Broadway — and this spring, the musician Gaelynn Lea arrives with lessons she learned from advocating for the cause in the music industry.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“Maybe the biggest lesson that I’ve learned is just how much people haven’t thought of [accessibility], and why it’s important to talk about it,” said Lea on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast. The singer-songwriter, a wheelchair user who was born with the genetic condition osteogenesis imperfecta, will soon get her first Broadway credit as the composer of the original music in the Broadway revival of “Macbeth,” starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter nine years of generating headlines for CNN, Jeff Zucker is giving new thought to testing his acumen for the world of sports.The former WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal executive, who abruptly left his job as head of CNN in February after acknowledging he failed to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, CNN’s former chief marketing officer, is said to be mulling some offers from the sports sector, according to two people familiar with the matter. None of these conversations are believed to be in their final stages, according to one of these people, and Zucker is said to be having discussions around a wide array of potential opportunities.Sports wouldn’t be a new area for Zucker.

Jennifer Aniston, 53, had a super sweet message for Reese Witherspoon on her 46th birthday on Tuesday March 22. The Friends actress posted a bunch of photos of herself and Reese through the years to show how long they’ve been working together along with penning a cute caption for her pal on Instagram. She posted photos from the pair acting together on Friends as well as a behind the scenes video from The Morning Show and a few more pictures of the two of them just bonding.

Kelly Clarkson and Anne Hathaway faced off in a singing competition, and the outcome was very unexpected. On the March 22 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the two stars played a game of “Sing That Name That Tune” hosted by Matt Iseman. Kelly, 39, and Anne, 39, stood on opposing platforms as the beginning tune of a song would play, and once they recognized the song, they would step out on the platform and sing the lyrics. Well, after Anne beat Kelly in the first three rounds, the American Idol champion was frustrated things weren’t going her way.

After breaking out in 2008 thanks to his lead role in the Oscar-winning film, “Slumdog Millionaire,” Dev Patel has continued to be one of the most interesting actors working today. And it appears that he’s ready to take on one of his most unique roles yet, as a strip club owner and creator of the Chippendale’s male exotic dancers in a new crime drama.

Ellise Shafer editor“Chippendales” has found its director. Craig Gillespie, who helmed the 2017 Oscar-winning film “I, Tonya,” is officially on board to direct the movie, a source close to the project tells Variety.The film has been in development for two decades by Permut Productions’ David Permut.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After years of development, the incredible American Dream gone wrong story behind the 80s male strip club Chippendales, is getting closer to the big screen treatment. Sources tell Deadline that Craig Gillespie is attached to direct the murder saga with Dev Pattel attached to star.