Month: July 2022

The Critics Choice Association has set its schedule for its upcoming 2022-2023 awards season. The organization announced the upcoming lineup of ceremonies Tuesday morning. The upcoming 28th Critics Choice Awards will take place at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2023. The ceremony will broadcast live on the CW at
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RedBird Capital Partners has taken a majority stake in Talent Systems, the casting software and audition network run by entrepreneurs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin. Talent Spotlight operates a collection of casting-related software and audition network services, including Casting Networks, Spotlight, Cast It Systems, Casting Frontier, eTribez Casting Platform and Staff Me Up. RedBird is
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The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in Twitter’s favor Tuesday in the social network’s legal fight with Elon Musk, setting an October 2022 trial date for the company’s case against the billionaire. Twitter last week filed suit against Musk, seeking to force the mega-billionaire complete his $44 billion buyout agreement. That came after Musk on
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Pinar Toprak, whose billion-dollar status in films (“Captain Marvel”) and video games (“Fortnite”) has made her one of the world’s most sought-after women composers, has shattered another glass ceiling: She has written the theme for Amazon Prime’s “,” launching with a preseason game Aug. 25. The L.A.-based composer recorded the theme and multiple variations on
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During the 2021-2022 season 94 scripted series earned the ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced hiring. Among them were “Bridgerton,” “Euphoria,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Yellowjackets” and more. As 200 series were considered, 47% were found to earn the stamp — a 7% decrease since the previous year. Each “Stamped” series was found to hire women or individuals of
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“Euphoria” actor Storm Reid is set to star in and produce the Paramount Pictures’ feature “Becoming Noble,” which follows a high school senior who learns she’s a princess of an African nation and travels to her home country on the continent to discover her roots, and to determine if “royal” is something she really wants
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“The Woman King,” a historical epic starring Viola Davis, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The TriStar Pictures release centers on the Agojie, an all-female military regiment tasked with protecting the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s. These fighters inspired the Dora Milaje bodyguards that appear in the Black
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Swim Fan: ELLE’s July Shopping Guide Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jul 19, 2022 GOLDEN GIRL Embrace all things shiny and embellished for a seamless transition from pool to party. Isa Boulder Courtesy Daphne Swimsuit Oceanus
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Karim Ouelhaj’s fourth feature ‘Megalomaniac’ – about to world premiere at Fantasia – has been sold to South Korea’s Youngjin Creative, Japan’s STS Ent and Latin America’s Encripta, with Indeed Film handling German-speaking territories. Media Move handles world sales with XYZ in charge of North America. Ouelhaj is also about to wrap principal photography on
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Quinta Brunson channels her inner talk-show host to portray Oprah Winfrey in Roku’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” starring Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, as the frizzy-haired musical parodist. The movie is billed as “the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time.” “Weird,” which has a runtime of 108 minutes, is slated
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Rupert Everett and Malcom McDowell have joined the cast of Amazon heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds,” which is being produced as an original in Italy, where the streamer on Tuesday also revealed a slew of unscripted local shows. Amazon’s previously announced high-end show follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo —
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Lionsgate-owned Starzplay, Starz’s premium international streaming service, and Spain’s Bambú Producciones, producer of “Cable Girls,” are wrapping production on “Nacho,” one of Starzplay highest-profile productions as it builds its burgeoning international originals portfolio. Premium U.S. Spanish-language SVOD service Pantaya – already a partner with Starzplay on Lucia Puenzo’s “Señorita 89,” Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and
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“Victoria’s Secret for men.” That’s how International Male, the clothing catalogue founded by Gene Burkard is described in the opening moments of Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s “All Man: The International Male Story.” Only the description should have an important caveat: This smorgasbord of images of men in the sexy (if aggressively outrageous) outfits
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FESTIVALS A trio of global festival favorites — Pan Nalin‘s “Last Film Show,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki‘s “No Land’s Man” and Gurvinder Singh‘s “Crescent Night” (“Adh Chanani Raat”) — will open the 11th edition of the BMO International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA), Toronto (Aug. 11-21). The festival is in-person at venues across the Greater
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