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Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment has struck a development deal with Culture Genesis, a leading-edge representation firm that packages the content of creator economy stars for sale at scale to mainstream buyers. The deal reflects crosscurrents in media and advertising, where all the heat is on social media creators and marketers’ demand for social video. The […]
Samantha Josephs’ upcoming debut horror novel “Carrying,” about a transgender woman living in secret who miraculously discovers she’s pregnant, is getting a feature adaptation from Tommy Dorfman’s Good Girl Productions. Dorfman is set to direct and produce the project while Josephs will pen the screenplay. An official logline for “Carrying” reads, “Martha is trans, so […]
Fugitive Films co-founder Jamie Gordon and former MTV scripted programming chief Maggie Malina have launched Rommi, a new romance genre-focused, vertical content production studio. Per the NYC-based team, Rommi’s strategy involves commissioning original stories from established, best-selling authors to be adapted for the screen prior to any publication debut. The studio will debut its first […]
Marketing and communications agency DDA has hired Keith Iddins, a luxury hospitality and entertainment veteran with more than 30 years experience, to the newly created role of travel relationship director for its DDA Travel and Logistics (Live) arm. Iddins, who has worked with major hotel groups including Dorchester Collection, Maybourne and Oetker, will report to […]
From “Hijack” and “Lupin” creator George Kay, HBO and Sky Television’s “War” is a thrilling legal drama highlighting a bitter, high-profile divorce. Though the couple at the center of the story are tech billionaire Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and A-list actress Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), their rapidly collapsing marriage anchors “War,” which looks well beyond […]
Some of the puzzles and trivia moviegoers see when they arrive before showtime at the cinema may be going the way of Good N’ Plenty and Jujubes. Movie screens under the aegis of movie-ad titan Screenvision will unfurl a new pre-show starting in October. The new concept tamps down on the old puzzles and behind-the-scenes […]
Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based entertainment and music investment firm co-founded by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, has acquired a 50% stake in the publishing and master music rights of Australian singer-songwriter, Sia, for $180 million. According to the announcement, Pophouse will support Sia in developing new creative ventures while continuing to steward her body of work. While […]
Rachel Zegler hesitated when “Evita” director Jamie Lloyd pitched her on his big idea for their West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical. Zegler was portraying Argentine first lady Eva Perón as a modern pop star, and Lloyd wanted his leading lady to perform the show’s best-known song, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” […]
In Madrid to present two of his actors, Alexi Wasser and Peter Vives, Woody Allen, 90, revealed some details about his upcoming plans to shoot in the Spanish capital for the first time. “Madrid is a very elegant and beautiful city and perfect for the kind of atmosphere that I wanted for the story,” said […]
A digital upstart thinks it has what it takes to help advertisers sweat the small stuff. Andrei Stenmark says he’s out to help marketers make sense of the so-called “IRL (in real life) economy,” or a myriad of events that might range from food festivals and bar promotions to even a pickleball tournament or the […]
Industry veteran Jamia Bigalow joined NBCUniversal as executive vice president of partner marketing in the media company’s platform distribution and partnerships group. She most recently headed up partner marketing for Amazon’s Fire TV. Bigalow, whose first day at NBCU is Thursday (Oct. 1), reports to Matt Schnaars, president of NBCUniversal Platform Distribution & Partnerships. She […]
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s wild Elizabeth Holmes documentary, “You Can See Everything,” screened at the New York Film Festival Wednesday night after it received rave reviews and Oscar buzz from its surprise Telluride Film Festival premiere weeks ago. The packed New York audience was laughing, gasping and cringing throughout the entire three-hour documentary, which […]
Marton Csokas (“The Lord of the Rings,” “The Equalizer”) and Jemima Kirke (“Girls,” “Sex Education”) have joined the cast of Woody Allen’s new feature, which is set to begin shooting in Madrid on Oct. 5. WestEnd Films has boarded world sales. Written and directed by Allen, the contemporary comedy will also star Jakob Oftebro (“Hamilton,” […]
Julianne Moore will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Rome Film Festival. The Oscar-winning actress will attend the Italian premiere of her new film “The Debut,” directed by Jesse Eisenberg, who will also hand her the prize. The Rome Film Festival honor for Moore was announced in a statement by Salvatore Nastasi, […]
Sabu’s “Arrested Memory” topped the field for the 63rd Golden Horse Awards with 11 nominations, one ahead of Shu Qi’s “Girl,” which picked up 10. Joseph Hsu Chen-chieh’s “Double Happiness” and Yeung Leung-chuen’s “We Are Born Good” are next with nine each. All four titles are in the running for best narrative feature and best […]
Ayuso and Almeida thank the New York director for choosing the capital and the region to film their 51st film. The filmmaker presents the shooting that will begin on the 5th
John Davidson, whose condition includes involuntary tics, shouted a racial slur during the Bafta Film Awards in February.
Chaos has surrounded the St Petersburg shows since the stadium said it had not agreed to host the rapper.
A tribunal rules that the model was unaware of misconduct at her charity Fashion for Relief.
The actor premires film, 'Nuda property', and tells us about his passion for aviation and adventure as a way to discover new roads, a quality he shares with JAECOO, and shares with us a escape to the aerodrome
