MACRO To Produce Reginald F. Lewis Biopic Based On His Autobiography ‘Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?’

Leona Lewis was spotted cradling her baby bump in Los Angeles as she enjoyed a relaxing day out before becoming a mum. The X Factor winner, 37, placed her hand on her stomach feeling the baby while on a stroll over the weekend. She was wearing black skinny jeans and a black top, below an open blue shirt which was worn open to reveal her bump.

EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy (Narcos: Mexico), Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Emily Browning  (American Gods) are set to lead cast in psychological thriller Brightwater, which James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain) is aboard as executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: FunMeter, the production company behind HBO docuseries McMillion$, is bolstering its development team with the hire of former Lightbox and Lionsgate executive Nicole Laufer.

Kenny Nguyen of ThreeSixtyEight has signed up to Executive Produce drama film Scent Of The Delta. The film is a 2020 Sundance Film Institute script semifinalist, written by Thuc Doan Nguyen and directed by Adele Pham (Nailed It). The film addresses Vietnamese culture and growing up in the American South in the 1980s.

Wilson Chapman editorCedric the Entertainer is behind “Finding Happy,” an upcoming dramedy series set to premiere later this year on Bounce TV, the channel announced Thursday. Created by Kendra Jo, the ten-episode “Finding Happy” stars comedian and actor B. Simone as Yaz Carter, a single woman working in the Los Angeles radio industry.

Kailia Posey is being remembered by those who knew the late pageant star. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Maureen Francisco – who worked with Posey at her most recent pageant – shared that she was "in shock" when she heard the news.  "When I first saw the post that her mom posted about Kailia, I was in shock, I didn’t believe it. At first, I thought maybe her mother’s Facebook got hacked, so I had to wait.

EXCLUSIVE Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband/executive producer Todd Tucker have joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming The Piano Lesson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks.

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to the dramedy Small Town Wisconsin, starring David Sullivan (Sharp Objects), Bill Heck (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Kristen Johnson (3rd Rock from the Sun), Tanya Fischer (Life on Mars) and Cooper J. Friedman (9-1-1: Lone Star), slating it for wide release in theaters and on digital platforms on June 10th.

EXCLUSIVE: The Offer executive producers Nikki Toscano and Russell Rothberg have come on board Showtime’s upcoming series American Gigolo, from Paramount Television Studios. They will serve as consulting producers, working alongside Executive Producer David Bar Katz.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein’s highly anticipated anti-gang war documentary, The Holly  has tapped Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Hyperobject Industries founder, Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up) and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Todd Schulman (Borat) as executive producers ahead of its world premiere at Telluride’s this Memorial Day weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: Camila Mendes (Riverdale) has signed on to star opposite Rudy Mancuso in the film Música, which he is directing for Amazon Studios and Wonderland Sound and Vision.

MastersFX creature shop and Arcana, a comic and graphic novels publisher as well as an animation and live action studio, have signed a new multipicture deal to create and produce genre feature films based on Arcana’s vast library of characters and IP, the companies announced on Monday.Currently Arcana and MastersFX are in development on “American Wasteland,” the second of their planned joint venture films and based on an Arcana graphic novel property, the companies revealed to TheWrap via email. “American Wasteland” tells the story of truck driver Cletus McCoy trying to save his mother from a vampire apocalypse.

 has aired on TLC, it has produced a statistic that may seem staggering when it comes to reality TV shows centered around couples looking for marriage — its success rate is «well above» the national divorce rate.During a panel discussion about documentary and unscripted shows put on by, the show's producer, Mark Sharp, boasted that couples who have appeared on  fare «well above» the 50-50 divorce rate.«Sadly the divorce rate in the United States hovers around 50%-50% of couples [who] do not make it,» said Sharp, CEO of Sharp Entertainment, which produces the hit reality show. «Our couples are well above 75%.

TV shows that try to manufacture a romance don’t have the best success rate (here’s looking at you, The Bachelor). But it’s different for the folks who appear on 90 Day Fiancé, TLC’s wildly successful reality show that’s currently in its ninth season.

Angelique Jackson The late pioneering Black businessman Reginald F. Lewis is getting the biopic treatment from Charles D.

NeNe Leakes is taking Bravo to court!

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterDiscovery+ is set to launch a new docuseries focused on Black food history in America from producer Viola Davis, featuring scholar and cookbook author Caroline Randall Williams as host, Variety has learned exclusively.The four-episode show, titled “Hungry for Answers,” will follow Williams as she travels the country, “uncovering the fascinating, essential, and often untold Black stories behind some of America’s classic and emblematic food and spirits,” per the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer.

Producers of the Tony Awards have a strong message for any potential Will Smith copycats: Don’t even think about it.