EXCLUSIVE: Gersh’s Digital division has promoted three and made three new hires. New additions to the company include VP Amron Lopez and agent Dane Cohen from The Team (formerly Wasserman), agent Amanda Harris from UTA’s Digital Brand Architects, and coordinator Alondra Pangilinan from The Team. Chinazam Nnorom and Kashia Hormuth, meanwhile, have been promoted to coordinator […]
Continue Reading‘Death of a Salesman,’ ‘Giant’ and ‘Ragtime’ continue to see box office momentum post-Tonys.
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My first reaction when I heard of a new animated feature film adaptation of Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, Carmen, was that despite the animated form it was taking, this had to be for adult and fans of opera, especially this one which is perhaps the most performed around the globe to this day. Wrong. This […]
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Basketball Hall of Famer and entrepreneur Carmelo Anthony weighed in on the New York Knicks’ historic championship win, the unifying power of sports and Timothée Chalamet’s fervent fandom during a high-spirited conversation with Variety’s co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh at Cannes Lions. The former Knicks player, who was speaking as part of Variety and Google TV’s Industry […]
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Fact proved as action packed as fiction for Rogue Trooper star Aneurin Barnard as he attended the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France for the film’s premiere this week. Barnard, who plays the titular Rogue Trooper in the sci-fi movie blending motion capture with animation and unreal technology, revealed he had just been involved […]
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Paramount Skydance on Monday promoted two veteran labor relations execs, Nicole Lang and Sheldon Kasdan, to lead a new standalone division responsible for navigating the company’s relationships with entertainment unions. Both have long tenures with the company. Lang has been head of industrial relations at Paramount Pictures since 2013, while Kasdan has been a top […]
Continue ReadingThe Paramount project, which was announced out of Annecy, is based on the graphic novel by Yehudi Mercado about a family vacation gone awry.
Continue ReadingDaisy Chain Fields will take place in Irvine this August, with net proceeds going to nonprofit groups including Baby2Baby, Planned Parenthood and the National Domestic Workers Alliance among others.
Continue Reading“We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget,” she explains about the project that had Julia Garner attached to portray the music superstar.
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Uppendahl (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, The Beauty) has been set to direct the pilot episode of Prime Video’s Bishop, a thriller drama from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. Uppendahl will also executive produce. Bishop follows homicide detective Bishop Graves (Joel Kinnaman) – brilliant, battle-scarred – will put all of his […]
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