Random House will publish a memoir by Wicked director Jon M. Chu this summer.
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Charles D. King made history tonight, becoming the first African American producer to accept the PGA Milestone Award.
It’s an award that’s bestowed to producers or production teams that have made historic contributions to the entertainment industry. The 2023 recipients were Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. Other past honorees include Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as Steven Spielberg, Bob Iger, Sherry Lansing, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron and more.
When the MACRO founder and boss first got the news of the honor, “I was a little shocked and surprised. I was without words. I was filled with tremendous gratitude.”
“I stand on the shoulders of all the incredible producers, executives, my parents and our ancestors who kicked down doors, made sacrifices and blazed a trail for me to be able to do what I’m blessed to do,” said King who shared the leap of faith he took when he exited WME nine years ago to launch MACRO.
King told the room here at Hollywood and Highland’s Ovation Ballroom how the night was one coming full circle: For just a street away on Orange Drive was where King and his family first lived when he was a young assistant at WME back in 1999.
Ryan Coogler presented the Milestone Award to King, remembering when he first began working with the former William Morris Endeavor partner.
“He was so calm and relaxed. I shared with him what my film Fruitvale Station was about. He shared with me a story that happened to him when he was coming out of law school. He’d never shared the story with anybody else in the industry,” said Coogler.
“He gave me some game on how he would help me with the film and the other films I’d be doing,” added the filmmaker, “I
Random House will publish a memoir by Wicked director Jon M. Chu this summer.
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Raye is heading home from the 2024 BRIT Awards having made history.
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Jordan Moreau The 2024 Producers Guild Awards, one of the major precursors to the Oscars, are underway at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood Sunday night. Like most of this awards season, the major force this year is “Barbenheimer.” Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” are both up for the top PGA prize, and they’ll face off against “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” “Poor Things” and “The Zone of Interest.” Those same 10 films are also up for best picture at next month’s Academy Awards.
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