Month: November 2020

Elite World Group has launched EWG Management to handle brand, fashion and beauty endorsement for actors, musicians, athletes, models and social media personalities. Clients include musicians Lily Allen, A$AP Ferg, Gucci Mane, Gnash, Dylan Jagger Lee, Hayley Kiyoko, Banks, Trevor Daniel, Daya, Bishop Briggs, IDK, Madison Beer, Young Thug and Justine Skye. The roster also
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Canadian comedian Russell Peters (“The Indian Detective”) will executive produce half-hour series “Late Bloomer,” featuring fellow Canadian comic Jasmeet Singh Raina (AKA Jus Reign), with independent production company Pier 21 Films. The show is currently in development at Canadian public broadcaster CBC. As Jus Reign, Raina has more than 167 million YouTube views with 974,000
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Sebastien Raybaud’s production and financing company Anton, which co-financed shows like “His Dark Materials” and “McMafia,” and sales and production company WestEnd Films are to co-fund a development slate of television series. The first project will be a thriller series from television writers/producers Ron Leshem (“Euphoria,” “No Man’s Land,” “Beaufort,” “Allegiance”) and Amit Cohen (“False
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This week’s episode of “The Bachelorette” saw many firsts. Tayshia Adams replaced Clare Crawley as the season’s leading lady, after Crawley made an unprecedented exit early on the season — and Adams became the second woman of color to step into the role of “The Bachelorette.” “I just love that I have the opportunity to
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Run The Jewels, the duo of Killer Mike and El-P, have just released their first new single since their “RTJ4” album earlier this year. “No Save Point” is the group’s contribution to the video game “Cyberpunk 2077,” and finds the duo in fierce spirit, trading verses on pointed social commentary in their trademark style. A
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The Kenya Film Commission has selected “The Letter” as the country’s official entry for the Oscars’ best international film category. “Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, ‘The Letter’ is an intimate family portrait that reveals an indestructible female power,” read promotional materials from the org. A Kenyan family drama of Shakespearean proportions, “The
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In a wide-ranging interview with Variety, British actor David Harewood has opened up about moving back to the U.K. after almost a decade in the U.S. and the continued challenges for Black actors in Britain. Harewood is this year’s recipient of the Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, distributed in association with the Edinburgh TV Festival. With
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Producer, mixer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Dean, who’s worked with many of the biggest names in hip-hop during an illustrious decades-long career, has entered into a creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group. The first signing to the new entity is buzzing Houston producer Apex Martin, whose credits include tracks by Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign,
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Mary J. Blige, Justin Bieber, Jose Feliciano, Jess Glynne and many more artists have recorded exclusive holiday songs for Amazon, the company announced Thursday. Fans can now hear Mary J. Blige’s take on Wham’s “Last Christmas,” Bieber’s rendition of Brenda Lee’s classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Carrie Underwood and her new, original composition “Favorite
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Amazon Prime Video has boarded Melanie Laurent’s anticipated period mystery thriller “Le bal des folles” as its first Original movie in France. “Le bal des folles” is produced by Alain Goldman and Axelle Boucaï at Legende Films (“La Môme,” “The Spy”). Amazon Prime Video will launch the film exclusively in France and around the world
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The U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has cleared broadcaster BBC of complaints over gender pay discrimination. Following complaints that female employees were not being paid equally to their male colleagues, the regulator opened an investigation last year and has been in discussions with the BBC about staff pay. The Commission looked at a
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Maria Sødahl’s “Hope” has been selected to represent Norway in the Oscar’s international feature film race. The film was selected by the Norwegian Oscar Committee out of three candidates which included “Disco” by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, and the documentary “Self Portrait” by Espen Wallin, Katja Høgset and Margreth Olin. Represented in international markets by TrustNordisk,
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U.K. broadcaster ITV’s revenues for the nine months of 2020, ending Sept. 30, have plunged by 16% compared to 2019 levels. The company in its Q3 results on Thursday posted total external revenue at £1.86 billion ($2.45 billion), down from £2.21 billion ($2.91 billion) in 2019. Revenues for ITV Studios, the broadcaster’s production-distribution engine, were
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Creepy horror film “Impetigore” by hotshot director Joko Anwar has been selected by Indonesia as its national representative in the Academy Awards’ best international feature film category. The news was announced by the Indonesian Academy Awards Selection Committee on Tuesday. Anwar quickly retweeted the information, adding: “Hopefully this film can be a good representation and
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HBO Asia is to begin screening its first original romantic comedy series “Adventure of the Ring” from mid-December. Joining other internationally-targeted shows made in Taiwan, “Adventure of the Ring” is directed by Helmed by Nelson Yeh (“Far And Away,” “Mad King Of Taipei”) and Kitamura Tayoharu (“Running Man,” “Q Series – Love Of Sandstorm”). The
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In the years since Mel Gibson fell from the grace of his celebrity, we’ve been through the Mel Gibson-is-canceled stage (which happened but didn’t take), the Mel Gibson-gets-a-cameo-as-found-object-of-infamy stage, the Mel Gibson-crawls-back-to-nail-a-nutzoid-lead-role stage (remember “The Beaver”?), the Mel Gibson-has-become-the-hero-of-Z-thrillers-that-exploit-his-disreputability stage, the Mel Gibson-has-a-real-deal-comeback-with-“Hacksaw Ridge” stage, the Hollywood-still-won’t-accept-him-as-an-actor stage, and (at last) the Mel Gibson-barely-even-has-to-be-an-actor-because-he’s-now-a-meme stage.
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