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Marti Noxon and Jessica Rhoades are behind Torchlighter Dinners, a series of gatherings for women in television to talk all things industry – from finding the right agent, creating a diverse writers room to fighting for pay parity. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic the duo, who became close friends after executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Though her highly-anticipated series The Underground Railroad doesn’t bow for another couple of weeks, Thuso Mbedu is lining up her next feature film as she has come on to TriStar Pictures' The Woman King starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis. The pic will be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood…

EXCLUSIVE: Jurnee Smollett, hot off a SAG ensemble nomination and a Best Actress TV Drama series Critics Choice nom for the HBO series Lovecraft Country, is boarding the Netflix movie Lou as star and executive producer. Smollett joins Oscar winner Allison Janney, who is also starring and executive producing the Anna…

EXCLUSIVE: Emile Hirsch is making his screenwriting debut with In Tandem, a rock climbing thriller in which he will also star. The adventure pic centers on two former high school pals who reconnect at a rock-climbing gym. Inspired by the documentary The Dawn Wall, they decide to climb a real mountain together, despite…

EXCLUSIVE: Even with Black Widow set to make its world premiere this July, Florence Pugh is continuing to add to that ever-growing dance card as she is set to star in the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder. A Fantastic Woman director Sebastián Lelio will helm the pic with Ed Guiney and Tessa Ross producing…

Keith Le Goy has been promoted to chairman of distribution and networks at Sony Pictures Entertainment. The promotion gives the company three chairman-level execs running the studio’s main areas of business. The others are Tom Rothman, chairman of the motion picture group, and Ravi Ahuja, chairman of the company’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Shannon Rhoades has been tapped as a development executive for John Ridley’s production company, International Famous Players Radio Picture Corporation. At the company, which houses the Oscar winner’s projects across all media, Rhoades will report directly to Ridley and focus on overseeing new projects. "I…

Exhibition veteran and former Universal theatrical distribution exec Steve Bunnell is headed to the newly launched event cinema company Iconic Events as CEO. The company was formed by former Village Roadshow Pictures Group co-owner and co-chairman Michael Lambert, former Cinemark CEO Tim Warner, Mark Rupp and Steven…

There will be a second edition of DC FanDome after its successful launch last August, with DC Comics and Warner Bros saying Wednesday that DC FanDome: A Global Experience is set for October 16. The first edition came after much of the entertainment industry’s in-person events were shuttered over the past year because…

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli filmmaker Rotem Shamir is set to direct Savior, an action thriller script by Todd Komarnicki that will be financed by Oakhurst Entertainment and Capstone Group. Shamir directed the second season of the acclaimed Israeli espionage series, and is co-creator and writer of the Indian TV series Hostages,…

Atlas Entertainment and Gal Gadot and Jaron Varsano’s production label Pilot Wave have snapped up the rights to Catriona Silvey's debut novel, Meet Me in Another Life, which the Wonder Woman star will headline in a feature adaptation. Meet Me in Another Life, published yesterday, April 27, by HarperCollins’ William…

EXCLUSIVE: This just in: former STX co-president of marketing Alissa Grayson is heading to Warner Bros. as their new EVP of Global Publicity. Prior to STXfilms, Grayson was at Universal for 22-years as EVP of publicity, working on campaigns for Despicable Me, Fast & Furious, Pitch Perfect, Bourne, Les Miserables, Train…