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Track-by-track, she breaks down the story, from addiction to acceptance, behind her autobiographical LP.

IAC-owned Vimeo is diving into live-streaming internet video with a one-two punch. Vimeo has reached an agreement to acquire Livestream, a professional-grade live video broadcasting provider. In addition, Vimeo on Tuesday is launching Vimeo Live, offering native live-streaming features for the first time in the platform’s 13-year history. Financial terms of Vimeo’s purchase of Livestream...

Target and Toyota Motor will speak loudly about NBC’s “The Voice” this TV season. Target will take advertising in the musical competition series to a new level. The retailer will run ads created with NBC that feature former winners of the show – Chris Blue, Sundance Head and Alisan Porter – which will air in...

Motion Picture Laboratories, backed by studios as a research and development venture, has tapped industry veteran Richard Berger as president and chief executive officer. He replaces Steve Weinstein, who was serving as interim CEO and will leave to spend more time on his entrepreneurship and teaching activities at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Motion Picture Laboratories...

Singapore-based investment giant Temasek has taken a stake in CAA. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. CAA said TPG Capital remains the majority owner of the powerhouse talent agency. Temasek’s investment comes on the heels of CAA selling a stake to China’s CMC Capital Partners earlier this year. “As one the most successful...

Peter Gerwe’s StoryFirst has bought Pinewood-Shepperton Studios out of their joint-venture production company, Pinewood Television. The company was set up in early 2016 as a producer of high-end TV drama for the international market. StoryFirst will now rename the business. Helen Gregory, the co-creator and co-executive producer of Shondaland/ABC series “The Catch,” runs Pinewood Television...

Italy has selected Jonas Carpignano’s slice-of-life drama “A Ciambra,” set in a Romani community in southern Italy, as its candidate for the foreign-language Oscar. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, “A Ciambra” stars Pio Amato as a 14-year-old growing up in a Romani community in Calabria. The coming-of-age drama has been described as a companion piece to “Mediterranea,”...

Channel 4 has scooped the U.K. rights to “Young Sheldon” and will air “The Big Bang Theory” prequel on its E4 channel. The spinoff series has just launched on CBS in the U.S. and follows 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper, one of the central figures in “The Big Bang Theory,” which is one of the most popular...

Since Hurricane Harvey, musicians and bands have been raising money to support those affected by natural disasters. Here's how you can help, too.

“Birdshot,” a coming-of-age drama by 24-year-old director Mikhail Red, has been selected by The Philippines as its contender for the foreign-language section of the Academy Awards. The film is the story of a girl who accidentally shoots a rare eagle. The choice was made by a specially-formed committee within Film Academy of the Philippines, which...

Australian director Phillip Noyce, known for such films as “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie, and “Patriot Games,” with Harrison Ford, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing at the Camerimage Film Festival, which will be held in Bydgoszca, Poland, on Nov. 11-18. Noyce’s films – which also include “Clear and Present Danger,” also with Ford,...