Casting Director Brian Mathias Joins The Osbrink Agency As Voiceover Agent

A tentative agreement has been reached for a new three-year contract covering casting directors and associate casting directors in Los Angeles and New York.

Peter Caranicas Deputy EditorLaw firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has announced the addition of entertainment transactions lawyer Steven E. Hurdle Jr.

Millie Bobby Brown and her boyfriend Jake Bongiovi attended the premiere of “Stranger Things” together. The two have been dating over the past year, with this outing marking their second red carpet together.Millie Bobby Brown almost quit acting before landing ‘Stranger Things’Millie Bobby Brown reveals the ‘gross’ change she’s seen from media and fans since turning 18Millie and Jake attended the show’s premiere in New York, which was attended by all manner of stars. The two looked elegant, with Millie wearing a white gown with a slit in the leg and a black mesh shoulder.

Fox bosses have defended the casting of Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer who helped spread baseless lies that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, on The Masked Singer.

Millie Bobby Brown had a special date night! On Saturday, the 18-year-old attended the season 4 premiere in New York, with her love, Jake Bongiovi. The actress stunned in an ivory dress with a black accent half sleeve. Brown let her tresses flow past her shoulders. By her side for the evening was Bongiovi, who complemented his girlfriend’s look in a black suit with a white shirt underneath.The pair showed minimal PDA as they posed for pictures.

Millie Bobby Brown stunned on the red carpet of the Stranger Things season 4 premiere in New York where she debuted her new locks, as she posed beside her co-stars and boyfriend Jake Bongiovi. The 18-year-old looked stunning in a white satin gown with a black mesh shoulder and high-leg split next to her 20-year-old boyfriend, the son of Jon Bon Jovi. Millie was joined by her Stranger Things co-stars including Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp and Natalia Dyer, all looking equally as glam.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterGarrett Hedlund has joined the cast of the Sylverster Stallone-led Paramount+ series “Tulsa King,” Variety has learned exclusively.The series follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone) just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, OK. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.Hedlund will appear in the series regular role of Mitch Keller, an Oklahoma native and ex bull-rider who retired prematurely after injuries led to addiction.

EXCLUSIVE: Bash Naran, a literary manager and producer at Writ Large, is leaving the company to become an agent in the Scripted Television department of WME. He will be based in the agency’s Beverly Hills office.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Paramount+ drama series “Tulsa King” has added A.C. Peterson to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively.Sylvester Stallone will lead the series, with Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza and Jay Will also starring.

David Birney, an actor who found early success on Broadway before landing the co-starring role on "Bridget Loves Bernie," a 1972 sitcom that would be one of the most controversial TV shows of its era, died Friday of Alzheimer’s disease at his home in Santa Monica. He was 83.

EXCLUSIVE: Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) have signed on to star alongside Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) in the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Persephone, from director Jeffrey Morris (Oceanus: Act One).

EXCLUSIVE: Fantastic Beasts franchise star Katherine Waterston is boarding the drama thriller Black Flies opposite 2x Oscar winner Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan.

William Earl David Birney, who starred on the first season of the buzzy medical drama “St. Elsewhere,” as well as the short-lived but controversial sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie,” about a Catholic woman marrying a Jewish man, has died at 83.

Loose Women presenter Kéllé Bryan has looked back on being encouraged to lose weight while in the band Eternal after Kim Kardashian revealed she lost weight to fit into her Met Gala gown. Last night, Kim was one of the many A-listers who descended upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the fashion spectacle of the year, the theme for which was Gilded Glamour. The entrepreneur, 41, donned the exact dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in 1962 when she sang Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy, explaining that the garment couldn’t be altered at all to fit her.

David Birney, an actor who found early success on Broadway before landing the co-starring role on a 1972 sitcom, Bridget Loves Bernie, that would be one of the most controversial TV shows of its era, died of Alzheimer’s disease Friday, April 29, at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 83.

The New York Times reported that Birney died Friday at his home in Santa Monica of Alzheimer’s, citing life-partner Michele Roberge. The Times said he was diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 2017.Birney played the titular Bernie Steinberg on “Bridget Loves Birney,” a ratings hit in 1972-1973 that was nonetheless canceled after just one season.

New York Times reported.Birney first gained mainstream fame in 1972 opposite his future wife Meredith Baxter in the CBS sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie.” The show was popular — slotted between ratings juggernauts “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “All in the Family — but short-lived thanks to controversial protests by Jewish groups who disagreed with the “intermarriage” of Birney’s Jewish cabbie character, Bernie Steinberg, and Baxter’s Bridget Fitzgerald, a Catholic grade school teacher from a wealthy family.Both divorced at the time, Birney and the futxure “Family Ties” matriarch, who had two children from her first marriage, got hitched for real in 1974. The pair had three kids of their own before getting divorced in 1989.Baxter later claimed that Birney was emotionally and physically abusive in her bombshell 2011 book “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering.” He vehemently denied her claims, deeming them an “appalling abuse of the truth.”The son of an FBI agent, Birney was born on April 23, 1939, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sasha Urban editorAs soon as Daniel Craig announced in 2019 that “No Time to Die” would be his fifth and final film as international spy James Bond, rumors began — and haven’t stopped — swirling about who might take his place.Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba and even “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi have been whispered about in relation to the coveted role, and Lashana Lynch became the first woman to hold the 007 title when her role of Nomi took over Bond’s position in the last film.But Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli says “it’s going to take some time” before Craig’s replacement is named.“It’s a big decision,” Broccoli told Variety at the Longacre Theatre on Thursday at the opening night of “Macbeth” on Broadway, which she is producing and in which Craig is also starring. “It’s not just casting a role.