Inspire Entertainment Signs Rudy Valdez, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Behind ‘Choir’ & ‘Carlos’

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Now, imagine being a critically acclaimed drama on a premium network/streaming hybrid in a season where the drama race is pretty wide open. You’ve got big stars, high production values and well-known source material. Shoo-in, right? Not if you’ve been canceled.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.

Thania Garcia Carlos Vives has been tapped as the Latin Recording Academy‘s 2024 Person of the Year. Touting over 30 years in the Latin entertainment industry, Vives is known for introducing authentic Colombian genres like cumbia and vallenato to a more global audience by incorporating pop and rock rhythms.

YG Entertainment has announced plans for BABYMONSTER and TREASURE to release new music in the coming months.Today (May 20), YG Entertainment released a video featuring founder Yang Hyun-suk announcing and detailing upcoming plans for BABYMONSTER and TREASURE to release new music in the coming months.Yang first announced that a performance video for BABYMONSTER’s ‘BABYMONS7ER’ album cut ‘Like That’, which was produced and gifted to the group by Charlie Puth, will be released sometime by the end of the month.He also shared that the seven-piece will then be gearing up to release their first full-length album sometime in October. While Yang himself only verbally mentioned October as a release window, the English subtitles noted that the release would be in “either September or October”.In the lead-up to BABYMONSTER’s upcoming album, Yang shared that the girl group will be dropping a song from the album as a pre-release single sometime in July.

Naman Ramachandran A short film fund aimed at championing female and non-binary filmmakers led by “Doctor Who” star Jodie Whittaker has unveiled its first project winner at the Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes 2023, women’s and non-binary visibility platform Primetime and Bournemouth Film School’s Funding Futures unveiled an initiative to spotlight women and non-binary filmmakers.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “La Mesías” star Carmen Machi, Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma and Blanca Portillo, a Cannes best actress co-winner for Almodóvar’s “Volver,” are set to star in “The Prey” (“Dia de Caza”), billed as a contemporary revision of Carlos Saura’s 1965 pic “The Hunt,” quite possibly his crowing achievement. The film is set to shoot in July in Spain’s Extremadura, with theatrical release scheduled for summer 2025. Brutal, kinetic at times and taking no prisoners, Saura’s original won a Berlin Silver Bear.

EXCLUSIVE: Amelia Isaac Jones has signed with Inspire Entertainment. The in demand actress, who had been taking a ton of meetings with other reps, can currently be seen as the lead in season three of Neil Forsyth’s BBC series Guilt alongside Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives. The series is currently airing on PBS here in the US.

BLACKPINK have launched their first digital collectible collection, inspired by their hit 2022 song ‘Pink Venom’.According to a report by South Korean news outlet The Korea Herald, BLACKPINK’s new digital collectible collection will be released from May 22 to 26 through VeVe, a New Zealand-based company that specialises in licensed digital collectibles.VeVe has since released a video featuring the members of BLACKPINK introducing the new digital collectibles, which are inspired by the girl group’s 2022 single ‘Pink Venom’ from the album ‘Born Pink’.Get ready VeVe fam & Blinks!

Brian Eno, as well as members of Fontaines D.C., R.E.M, Bastille and more have read out letters from Palestinians suffering in Gaza as part of a ‘Voices For Gaza’ initiative.The clips have been shared on the Instagram page for Voices For Gaza, and sees famous faces from across the entertainment industry read letters from those in Palestine aloud, recalling the graphic details of the war.It aims to help raise funds for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians and bring awareness to the ongoing crisis happening in the country.At time of writing, the conflict has led to the deaths of over 34,600 Palestinians. The attacks by Hamas on October 7 last year killed over 1,200 people.Among those who have taken part in the charity initiative is Brian Eno, who reads out a letter from a civilian in Gaza, written in February 2024.

The CEO of WABC in New York said that Rudy Giuliani was removed from the station after being repeatedly warned about not discussing unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

EXCLUSIVE: Manager Quinn Crum has joined the Talent department at Echo Lake Entertainment, Deadline has learned.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Gordon Ramsay and Fox are set to launch Bite, described as a global food brand and entertainment platform. Bite falls under Ramsay’s deal with Fox Entertainment and their production partnership, Studio Ramsay Global.

Gordon Ramsay and Fox Entertainment have teamed to launch Bite, a food and entertainment brand featuring culinary and lifestyle content, products and more.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Sony Pictures Entertainment has completed state-of-the-art upgrades to its mix stages. Among the soundstages that underwent substantial improvements are the Cary Grant, William Holden, Kim Novak, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn and Jimmy Stewart theaters, as well as Dub Stage 17.

EXCLUSIVE:  Studiocanal and The Picture Company have added seven names to the cast of the James McAvoy starrer Control as the pic enters production in Berlin. 

Jamie Lang Netflix and “Elite” creator Carlos Montero have reteamed on the new medical drama “Breathless,” and Variety has been given exclusive access to new first images from the show. “Breathless” is produced by Montero’s El Desorden Crea and executive produced by Montero and Diego Betancor.

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine on their own are forces to be reckoned with in Prime Video‘s Mr. and Mrs. Smith. But when they have to face off against one another, things really heat up.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor With the appetite of a hungry grizzly, “The Bear” could gobble up a few Emmy records for its sophomore season. Fresh off a smashing first season that set a new benchmark for comedy series wins with 10 trophies, FX’s awards-gobbling show shows no signs of letting up.

F1 star Lando Norris is having a great day at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix at Miami International Autodrome on Sunday (May 5) in Miami, Fla.

Formula 1 stars Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz pose for a photo with Team Principal Frederic Vasseur during preview day at Miami International Autodrome on Thursday (May 2) in Miami, Fla.