A deep dive with the Disney+/Marvel series executive producer/head writer on the series (season?) ender for the Disney+/Marvel series reveals what happened and why, where Scarlet Witch is going and what it means for the MCU’s future. “This was always going to be a story about grief,” Schaeffer says, “and we took that seriously.”
Under severe criticism for the lack of a single Black member among their influential ranks, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today finally laid out some specifics of how they intend to try to rectify matters.
“We understand the importance of building a more inclusive organization and becoming more transparent…
Entertainment marketing outfit Create Advertising Group has hired Callie de Quevedo as SVP and Head of Integrated Marketing. In her new role, de Quevedo, who earlier in her career held pubic relations posts at NBC, Disney, and Fox Television, will create strategy-driven, integrated campaigns for Create clients which…
Geoff Sawyer, most recently Red Bull's Director of Global Music Services, has been hired by UTA as an agent in its Video Games division. In the newly created role based in Los Angeles, he will focus on fostering collaborations between UTA's music clients and the gaming industry.
At Red Bull, Sawyer oversaw a team and…
Los Angeles County on Tuesday qualified for the red tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 reopening plan. It’s the first time since the governor introduced his Blueprint for a Safer Economy that the state’s largest county has qualified to move out of the most restrictive purple tier and into the red. If LA can…
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith and his Mr. SAS Productions (Stephen A's World, Why Not Us?) have teamed with Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ Propagate (Hulu's Hillary) and Confluential Films (OWN’s Black Love) for Black Excellence, a documentary series examining the legacy of Historically Black…
From The Deuce to Random Acts of Flyness to The Hate U Give to Project Power, Dominique Fishback has built an acting career that has a strong foundation of perspective and point of view. With her most recent role in Judas and the Black Messiah, Fishback takes her career to a new level.
The film directed by Shaka King…
Disney CEO Chapek Bob Chapek Tuesday said he doesn't "really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning" – responding to a shareholder who accused Hollywood and the company of a double standard in firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian because she's a conservative.
The stockholder, speaking…
Editor's Note:Brian Tee has become a notable face of Asian Hollywood, providing representation to a community that has been wildly been underrepresented and, on more than one occasion, misrepresented. He has appeared in big banner films such as The Wolverine, Jurassic World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the…
Adonis Hoffman, a longtime fixture in Washington media and regulatory circles, has withdrawn his board nomination at Tegna, citing a racially charged interaction with the company’s CEO.
Hoffman, who is Black, told the company that conflicts of interest had arisen which would have prevented him from serving on the…
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks, who most recently directed the latest Charlie's Angels installment, has signed on to direct Cocaine Bear for Universal Pictures. Written by Jimmy Warden, the film is described as a character-driven thriller inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985.
Banks and Max Handelman…
Peacock has given a series order to Dan Brown's Langdon (fka Langdon), based on Brown's best-selling thriller novel The Lost Symbol.
The Ashley Zukerman-starring Dan Brown's Langdon, produced by CBS Studios, Imagine Television Studios and Universal Television, was originally developed by NBC and was ordered to pilot…
Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains details about the ending for Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman.
On today’s Crew Call before Oscar nominations drop on Monday, March 15, we speak with Promising Young Woman director/writer/producer Emerald Fennell and the pic’s production designer Michael Perry on how they…
