EXCLUSIVE: Seth Carr, known for his work in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Disney+’s The Mysterious Benedict Society, among others, has signed with Gersh for representation. Carr plays the series regular role of George ‘Sticky’ Washington on Disney+ series The Mysterious Benedict Society, which has completed filming its second season. He also toplined the Netflix […]
The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) announced the call for submissions for its third annual LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship which aims to champion underrepresented filmmakers within the Latino community. With continued support from Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, ten visionary self-identifying Indigenous Latino and Afro/Black Latino directors will each be awarded $30,000 for the […]
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor Abigail Cowen for representation in all areas. Cowen stars in Netflix’s teen drama series Fate: The Winx Saga, which topped the streamer’s Top 10 Movie and TV series for the entirety of its premiere-week run. Based on Winx Club, Iginio Straffi’s animated series for Nickelodeon, the show follows Cowen’s Bloom […]
EXCLUSIVE: Blockchain tech company GoldenArk via its subsidiary GoldenArk Media, and independent film start-up Cherry Blossom Studios enter into $10M partnership deal. Hammer Management brought the two parties together, spending the last two months structuring the terms between Mitch Ngo (of GoldenArk) and Kareem “Gorilla” Davis (of Cherry Blossom Studios). The investment will be directed […]
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, the roughly $700 billion climate, health care and tax package that passed Congress last week on a party line vote. Biden handed a pen to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) just after he signed the bill, a gesture to one of the Senate’s Democratic holdouts to earlier versions […]
EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s next feature film based on one of its classic theme park rides looks to be getting ready to leave the station as sources tell Deadline Bert & Bertie are in negotiations to direct a pic based on the Big Thunder Mountain attraction at Disney theme parks. LuckyChap Entertainment and Scott Free are producing, […]
EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Nadia Morales on the upcoming season of The Cleaning Lady. Eva De Dominici, who recurred as the character in Season 1, has been upped to series regular for Season 2 of the Fox series. De Dominici’s Nadia is Arman’s (Adan Canto) wife, who manages the exclusive cigar club La […]
CBS was the most-watched broadcast network Sunday, thanks to an original of Big Brother 24 and a repeat of 60 Minutes Presents. The network averaged 3.66 million viewers opposite mostly reruns on the other nets, other than originals of Celebrity Family Feud, The $100,000 Pyramid and The Final Straw on ABC, according to official national […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jaclyn Smith has signed with BRS/Gage Talent Agency for theatrical representation. Best known for her starring role as Kelly Garrett on all five seasons of Charlie’s Angels, Smith’s other series credits include McCloud, The Rookies and Switch. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for the title role as first lady in TV movie Jacqueline […]
The New York Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its Spotlight section lineup, which includes the world premiere of She Said, Universal’s drama based on the work of New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who investigated and wrote the bombshell 2017 Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse story. Maria Schrader directed the pic starring Zoe […]
Alec Baldwin is speaking out about the deadly shooting on the set of his film Rust. In an interview with incoming NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on his podcast The Chris Cuomo Project, Baldwin again insisted, as he has before, that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte is set to star in Eugene The Marine, a psychological thriller due to begin production this fall. Nolte will play Gene, a former marine and widower, who finds his highly regimented life deteriorating after his son begins pressuring him to sell his longtime home. When a mysteriously familiar woman […]
Lionsgate has released a first look image for The Hunger Games: Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. The film is a prequel to the wildly successful Hunger Games franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence. Susan Collins who wrote the original Hunger Games novels decided to follow it up with a prequel that takes place 64 years before Katniss […]
Post-production House Warner Bros. De Lane Lea Announce Move To New Soho Site Post-production house Warner Bros. De Lane Lea today announced it will be moving across Soho from its current home on Dean Street to Ilona Rose House, a new site developed by Soho Estates’ on Greek Street. Located over three floors of the […]
Darren Throop will step down from his role as president and CEO of eOne at the end of the year. Hasbro, which bought eOne for $4 billion in 2019, announced his departure this morning, indicating it would articulate a full transition plan before Throop’s exit becomes final. “Darren built a team with deep passion, creativity […]
Amazon Prime Video announced today that two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will premiere on Sept. 1 and 2 (depending on time zone). The rest of the episodes will follow a weekly, single-episode rollout. The episodes will launch at the same time around the world, so that all fans […]
Sam Mendes, whose latest movie from Searchlight, Empire of Light, is making its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be receiving the event’s TIFF Ebert Director Award. “From his first appearance at TIFF with American Beauty, director Sam Mendes brought his exacting and lyrical vision of cinema to Toronto,” said Toronto International Film Festival […]
Mark Hoffman announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down as the longtime head of CNBC in September. KC Sullivan will return to the network to become president, starting on Sept. 12. Cesar Conde, chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, said in a statement, “The growth and success of CNBC over so many years is […]
First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid, just over a week after her husband President Joe Biden returned to public events after contracting the virus. Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement, “After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to […]
BBC News journalists are considering striking over the merger of the domestic and international news channels that will see 70 jobs axed. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), which represents hundreds of BBC staffers, said a consultative ballot is taking place over action in response to the plans, which will see a rolling news service […]
Stephanie McMahon, the daughter of former WWE founder Vince McMahon and now the company’s Co-CEO, began the company’s second-quarter earnings call with a tribute to her father as a “true founder and entrepreneur.” Earlier this summer, she and Nick Khan were named Co-CEOs of the company as a board-initiated investigation into Vince McMahon’s conduct began. […]
Dwayne Johnson is putting up a fight just like his superhero character Black Adam. The Rock will be joining the DC universe in a feature film revolving around the antihero and it was the actor that fought to give his character his own origin movie. “When the first draft of the movie came to us, […]
Most of the giant cast of Amazon’s upcoming The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power series turned out tonight for the show’s Los Angeles premiere. They were joined on the red carpet by famous fans like Michael B. Jordan, Cynthia Erivo, Lena Waithe and Catherine Hardwicke. Showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne also […]
Desus Nice returned to late-night for the first time since his Showtime series ended. The comedian, otherwise known as Daniel Baker, was filling in as a guest host on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a month after it emerged that he had split up with late-night partner The Kid Mero and their show Desus & Mero […]
After months of run-ins with the law and a spiraling PR crisis for Warner Bros, Flash star Ezra Miller has decided to seek treatment to counter a self-described “time of intense crisis.” A week after the non-binary identifying Miller was slapped with a burglary charge by Vermont law enforcement, the Justice League alum said today […]
