Apple has become the latest entertainment company to suspend additional overall and first-look deals this month as the WGA strike is getting past the four-and-a-half-month mark.
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McKinley Franklin editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the “Claim to Fame” Season 2 finale, which aired on ABC on Aug. 28, streaming the next day on Hulu. Known for heralding romance shows “Love is Blind” and “Married at First Sight,” the production company Kinetic Content threw its hat into the ring of competitive reality television when creating “Claim to Fame.” Unlike “Survivor,” which recruits average, everyday people, “Claim to Fame” taps a unique demo — contestants who are related to celebrities.
“We were looking for a way to create a show [with] a different mechanism for elimination competition,” executive producer Eric Detwiler tells Variety. “To have a game that’s celebrity adjacent combined with a world of mystery and intrigue, it’s a fun show.” The ABC series challenges contestants to conceal their celebrity relatives’ identities while living together in a house, and competing in a series of challenges.
Unlike other reality shows, in “Claim to Fame,” everyone is related to someone famous — and the objective is to find out whose who. At the end of each episode, one person subsequently goes home each week in a “Guess Off.” For Detwiler, it was “a lightbulb moment” when conversations about Kevin and Franklin Jonas hosting the series began.
“[They have] a real connection to the idea of what the show is,” he said. “Kevin is a star, a household name.
And Franklin, when we started the show in Season 1 — not so much.” Among Season 2’s cast were Tom Hanks’ niece and Eddie Murphy’s daughter, but it’s not the nepotism that makes the show entertaining — it’s the personalities. “They’ve never had their own opportunity to have a turn in the spotlight, and to show what they can do out of that shadow
.Apple has become the latest entertainment company to suspend additional overall and first-look deals this month as the WGA strike is getting past the four-and-a-half-month mark.
EXCLUSIVE: SF Studios, the Nordic film and TV studio behind A Man Called Otto, is shutting its UK production arm as part of a restructure.
Jaden Thompson Seasons 3 and 4 of David Moscow’s travel and food show “From Scratch” will premiere on Tastemade, set to release on the streaming platform on Oct. 18. In “From Scratch,” actor David Moscow is presented with a recipe from a chef and he subsequently hunts, dives, forages and grows every ingredient to create the meal.
Forrest Gump hit our screens and instantly became a Hollywood classic.It went down in history as one of Tom Hanks’ best performances, and won six Oscars, including Best Picture (beating out Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction), Best Director, and Best Actor.On a budget of $55 million, it grossed nearly $680 million at the box office, becoming a bona fide hit.Many lines from the film have been firmly cemented in popular culture forever (“life is like a box of chocolates” anyone?).“Run Forrest, Run” is another famous one – who could forget little Jenny Curran yelling this to Forrest as he broke free of his leg braces to escape a pack of bullies?With her big blue eyes and wavy blonde hair, little Hanna Hall, who was just 10 at the time of filming, won hearts around the world in her powerful role as childhood Jenny.Now 29 years later, fan are losing their minds at seeing her all grown up.Speaking to House Of Horrors about how she landed the gig, Hall explained that it was very unexpected.“It was very random. Nina Axelrod, my manager, was tired of LA and moved out to Colorado to teach classes,” the now nearly 40-year-old said.“She had a relationship with an agency that she would get represented by and she had an open casting call in the newspaper when I was seven years old.“My mother didn’t want to take me.
Tom Hanks or Jennifer Aniston.There’s also various metrics to measure someone’s wealth, between being self-made or the parameters of defining “net worth” – which often encompasses finances, assets, stakes in companies, real estate and other factors.According to Celebrity Net Worth, Jami Gertz is technically the richest actress in the world right now (September 2023) with a net worth of $8billion.Gertz is best known for her early career in the 1980s, starring in films Crossroads, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero and TV series Square Pegs. More recently, she’s had small roles in Modern Family and This Is Us.Her wealth, however, is largely due to her marriage to billionaire businessman Tony Ressler, with the pair being part-owners of NBA team Atlanta Hawks.Others on the list include Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who have a combined net worth of $500million, and Jennifer Lopez with $400million.In a list of ‘America’s Richest Self-Made Women’ published on Forbes in 2023, Reese Witherspoon was named the richest self-made actress, with a net worth of $440million.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer NBCUniversal Entertainment has tapped Universal Television Alternative Studio exec Christine Cowan as its new senior vice president of casting and talent. In her new role, Cowan will head up casting and talent management for scripted and unscripted shows, with a particular focus on unscripted, across the NBCUniversal Entertainment brands NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, SYFY, USA Network, Universal Kids and Peacock.
majority stake in Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, the parties involved said Thursday.Financial details of the deal, in which Artemis will buy the financial stake belonging to private equity firm TPG, were not provided.
Pop singing sensation Joe Jonas and actress Sophie Turner have now released a joint statement following weeks of speculation surrounding their divorce. The pair had four "wonderful" years of marriage together which has now come to an end.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner's marriage has hit a rocky patch, according to reports, with rumours of a split beginning to circulate over recent days. Jonas Brothers star Joe, 34, and Game of Thrones actress Sophie, 27, tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2019 after meeting in 2016, and have gone on to welcome two daughters together.
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of ‘A League of Their Own’: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood,” by Erin Carlson, out now (Hachette Books). And Davis wasn’t even the second choice for the now-classic movie, which tells the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a real-life professional women’s baseball league that existed during World War II.Seemingly every young actress in Hollywood wanted to be part of the movie, including Sean Young — who showed up to auditions in an “antique Yankees uniform.” Courteney Cox, Cindy Crawford, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tatum O’Neal, Brooke Shields, Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Robin Wright and even Marla Maples all vied for roles. Farrah Fawcett also wanted in, despite being in her 40s by then.“When you see a movie in which all the leads are women and all the men are supporting parts, you want to be in it,” said Lori Petty, chosen to be Dottie’s kid sister, Kit.
Meg Ryan was scheduled to return to her romantic comedy big screen stomping ground on Oct. 13, however, Taylor Swift spoiled it. No prob, the Ryan directed and starring What Happens Later holiday-set feature from Bleecker Street will now go on Nov. 3, the last weekend of AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie. Hopefully by that time, the Swifties will be interested in other movies.
Nick Cannon’s brother Gabriel Cannon is confused about his children. The father of twelve, eleven of whom are still living, has inspired diagrams and charts for the public to understand what children belong to each of the six baby mamas.
EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brit Stuart Ford has operated at the sharp end of international film sales and movie financing for more than two decades.
Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber look so in love during a date night in Beverly Hills, Calif on Monday night (August 28).
The Equalizer film franchise, said director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) – and he considered using the tech on new film The Equalizer 3.Speaking to NME in an exclusive interview to promote vigilante ex-hitman Robert McCall’s third outing, in UK cinemas August 30, Fuqua said: “I definitely thought about it a lot. Especially now with the new technology and the AI and all of that kind of stuff… Is there a story to be told about how [McCall] became this person – the younger version. I’ve had that conversation with Richard Wenk [who co-wrote all three Equalizer films] quite a bit.”De-aging older actors has become commonplace in recent years, with an 80-year-old Harrison Ford getting the treatment for a flashback scene in Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny; and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman aging down Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.
Jonas household — according to their mother!Kevin, Joe, Nick and Franklin Jonas' mother, Denise, says that while everyone thinks her favorite child is Nick, she loves all her boys equally.«I think they all think Nick’s the favorite,» Denise said during an interview with on Monday. «But I really don’t have a favorite.
Kevin Jonas and wife Danielle are getting candid about the struggles that they sometimes face as parents.
Darius Jackson is seemingly setting the record straight.
Joe Jonas for their new ink!On Monday, Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas (the Jonas Brothers) continued The Tour with their first stop in Boston at the TD Garden arena — and Joe took the time to give one fan a memory that will last forever. «Can't believe this happened,» the fan, Tarryn, captioned the moment in a video shared on TikTok.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have been permanently hit by the love bug. In honor of the Jonas Brother singer's 34th birthday on Tuesday, many of the special people in his life — including his three famous siblings — took to social media to share some special wishes. But wife Sophie's tributes may have won.The alum honored Joe with a selfie of them together seemingly in a closet rocking matching striped pajamas.