Month: January 2023

Zion Clark has signed with WME for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively. Clark will now work with the powerhouse agency in spaces like marketing, books, speaking, and digital. He continues to be managed by Craig Levinson of CL Talent, who has been with Clark since 2018. Clark was born with Caudal Regression
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A “King of the Hill” revival has been ordered to series at Hulu, I tell you what. The updated version of the beloved adult animated comedy hails from original series creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels as well as Saladin Patterson. All three are also executive producers on the show, with Patterson also set to
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APPOINTMENTS Sweden-based Embracer Group, the new owners of Middle Earth Enterprises – the holding company that owns “The Lord of the Rings” among other J.R.R. Tolkien titles – has appointed Careen Yapp to the newly created position of chief strategic partnerships officer. Yapp will serve as part of the group executive management team that also
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Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is launching a new original series in Canada. Production has begun on “The Cases of Mystery Lane,” starring Aimee Garcia and Paul Campbell. The duo portrays “a married couple who find a new way to keep the mystery alive… quite literally.” “‘The Cases of Mystery Lane’ combines romance, humor and intrigue,
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Check out an Official Behind the Scenes Featurette for Cocaine Bear starring Keri Russell! ► Buy Tickets for Cocaine Bear: https://www.fandango.com/cocaine-bear-2023-230407/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: February 24, 2023 Starring: Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Christian Convery Directed By:
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Former Investigation Discovery chief Kevin Bennett and “Anatomy of Murder” podcast co-host and producer Scott Weinberger are launching Authentic Wave, a new multi-media podcast venture focused on the true-crime genre. The New York-based venture will develop and produce premium true-crime and mystery series with unique audio and video components available for distribution on multiple platforms,
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Asthon Kutcher opened up about Danny Masterson in a new Esquire profile as part of the former’s recent acting comeback that includes reprising his “That ’70s Show” character Kelso on Netflix’s sequel series “That ’90s Show” and starring opposite Reese Witherspoon in the upcoming Netflix rom-com “Your Place or Mine.” Kutcher and Masterson first met
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The North Road Co., the global production studio roll-up formed by Peter Chernin last year, has received an $150 million investment from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the country’s sovereign wealth fund. The funding builds on the capital North Road secured at launch, which includes up to $500 million from longtime Chernin partner Providence Equity Partners
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Boygenius, LCD Soundsystem and Steve Lacy are three artists that don’t have much in common — except that they each have a lot of pent-up demand for concerts that has gone unfulfilled, for different reasons. The supergroup Boygenius’ entire touring history until now has been limited to a single month in 2018; LCD Soundsystem’s itinerary
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Columbia Records has promoted Jenifer Mallory to the role of president, the company’s chairman/CEO Ron Perry announced Tuesday. Mallory, who will continue to report to Perry, has served as the company’s executive VP and general manager since 2018. In her new post, she will continue to oversee marketing, digital, publicity, video production, licensing, and brand
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After a 12-year run representing some of Nashville’s most high-profile artists at the Big Machine Label Group, Jake Basden is exiting that familiar role to join Sandbox Entertainment Group in the role of president. At Sandbox, the company led by manager-producer Jason Owen, Basden will be working with a roster of artists that includes Kacey
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Female artists are increasing their presence on popular music charts, but representation behind the scenes is still an uphill battle. The latest findings of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?” report show a 7% increase in women artists from last year’s report, but the presence of female songwriters, producers, and engineers
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Hit songwriter and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, veteran artist manager Ron Laffitte and former Downtown Music Chief Business Officer Andrew Sparkler have launched Runner Music, a new venture that initially will be primarily focused on music publishing, both by acquiring existing copyrights as well as entering into inspired partnerships with established and emerging songwriters, according
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UPDATED: Roku and Fox Corp.’s Tubi are set to bring a big bucket of free, ad-supported content from Warner Bros. Discovery to their streaming platforms. Roku and Tubi are the first two partners for WBD’s new free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels. The deals come after Warner Bros. Discovery in December announced that it was
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Two-time Grammy-winning singer Lauren Daigle has signed with Atlantic Records in partnership with Centricity Music, the companies have announced. The Louisiana-born singer, who also has won four American Music Awards and seven Billboard Music Awards, will release her next album in the spring. Daigle’s last album, 2018’s “Look Up Child,” debuted at No. 3 on
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Between the Netflix documentary “Pamela, A Love Story” and the memoir “Love, Pamela” from HarperCollins, Pamela Anderson has been spilling plenty of tea, including some embarrassing, ’90s-era anecdotes about Tim Allen and Sylvester Stallone. And while both actors have emphatically denied Anderson’s claims, director Ryan White is pushing back in defense of his leading lady.
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African streaming service Showmax has inked a two-series slate deal with Tshedza Pictures, the South African production company behind the International Emmy-nominated telenovela “The River,” the company announced Tuesday at the start of the Joburg Film Festival. “Adulting,” Tshedza’s first Showmax Original, is an eight-part drama series set in the parallel universes of four varsity
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Long before they joined forces to found Mashina, arguably Israel’s most popular rock band, Yuval Banay and Shlomi Bracha were 16-year-old surfing buds, catching waves along the Mediterranean coastline. So it seemed fitting that three days after selling out the 5,000-seat Tel Aviv exhibition Hall with their ‘Mashina Celebrates’ show — marking 40 years of
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