‘Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story’ Shows How Entertainment Mogul Overcame Trauma To Reach Incredible Success – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

Movies and movie channels are driving viewing on FAST services, a packed room at the Cannes Marché du Film heard today. Owners of movie libraries and IP stand to generate significant revenue from free streaming as the sector booms, the boss of Pluto TV, one of the leaders in the field told the Cannes audience.

EXCLUSIVE: Tamera “Tee” Kissen is joining the cast of Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, an new series coming soon to Netflix. The series comes from a previously announced creative partnership with Netflix, where Perry will write, direct, and produce feature films and series under a multi-year first-look deal. Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black follows two women leading very different lives. 

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Are we headed for a bon marché? A new class of finished films and packages (unmade movies with big stars and a director attached) will travel to Cannes this week in search of cash and homes with the studios, streamers and global indie players. The 2024 Cannes market comes equipped with some interesting contradictions. Stateside, the content buying machine is fraught.

Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd has opened up about how Shane MacGowan and The Pogues have influenced his work.Gadd’s recent Netflix series claims to tell the “true story” of his real-life stalking experience and reached the top of the streaming charts after going viral online.In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gadd opened up about his inspirations and in particular, the music of The Pogues and the late Shane MacGowan.The Irish musician and iconic frontman died “peacefully” in hospital from pneumonia on November 30. He was 65 years old.

Have fans figured out the gender of Hailey and Justin Bieber’s baby??

Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey are starting over… sort of!

EXCLUSIVE: This Sunday’s BAFTA TV Awards will “celebrate and remember the power of storytelling” at a “challenging” time for the industry, according to the new chair of the 77-year-old body.

Catfish & The Bottlemen have announced details of a huge upcoming show in Ireland, set to take place at RSD Simmonscourt in Dublin – find ticket details below.Announced today (May 7), the news of the new date marks the latest in what’s shaping up to be an epic summer of performances for the BRIT-Award-winning indie group, who have been announcing live shows and festival appearances over recent months.The Van McCann-fronted band returned with the single ‘Showtime’ earlier this year, marking their first new music in five years. The track will feature on Catfish’s yet-to-be-announced fourth album, which will follow 2019’s ‘The Balance’.Now, the band have dropped the news that they will be performing at RSD Simmonscourt in Dublin later this summer – marking their first performance in Ireland since 2019.The show will be held on Saturday, August 31, and tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday, (May 10).

Tyler Perry has conquered the entertainment world — the creative force between two dozen films, 17 television shows, bestselling books and 20 stage plays. He built a thriving studio complex in Atlanta, and just today Deadline reported he has signed a first-look deal with Netflix to produce faith-based films alongside DeVon Franklin.

Tyler Perry Studios and DeVon Franklin (Flamin’ Hot) have formed a partnership with Netflix to produce faith-based films under a multi-year and multi-picture first-look deal. This deal marks the latest extension of Perry and Netflix’s creative partnership which sees Perry write, direct, and produce films and series, however, these films will be produced by Franklin and Perry in conjunction with Tyler Perry Studios.

If you're doing a big shop anytime soon, there's a good chance you will be taking a trip to - or ordering online from - the likes of Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, or Sainsbury's.

With their newest film The Idea of You, a May-December romance based on the novel by Robinne Lee, filmmaker Michael Showalter and producer Jordana Mollick appear to have hit the zeitgeist yet again.

Feid is giving fans the opportunity of a lifetime. The Colombian singer, who recently won big at the Latin American Music Awards, is partnering with Airbnb during their latest summer release, featuring a series of extraordinary experiences; including a stay inside the Ferrari Museum, a living room session with Doja Cat, a re-creation of the X-Men mansion, and so much more.Did Karol G confirm engagement with Feid during her latest concert?Feid and Karol G are the biggest winners at the Latin American Music Awards: The full list of winnerThis time Feid is opening the doors of his tour bus during his summer world tour FERXXOCALIPSIS.

Tyler Perry Studios is moving further into the unscripted TV world.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic A distinctive, dynamic R&B vocalist who seemed on the verge of major stardom through the 1960s, Jackie Shane disappeared soon after — so completely that many fans and former associates assumed her dead. It was a riddle rendered all the more mysterious by her singular status within that field as a more-or-less “out” transperson, her persona an assertive exercise in gender-blur before that term existed.

Shonda Rhimes — the writer behind such television sensations as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “Bridgerton” — has smashed pervasive racist-casting tropes, and in doing so, changed the literal face of TV, whether that meant having “Scandal” revolve around Kerry Washington’s antihero Olivia Pope or elevating Regé-Jean Page to thirsty heights as a Black duke in Regency England on “Bridgerton.” What’s talked about less is how Rhimes has changed the way people speak. Any parent of a teenager who’s heard the derisive usage of “pick me” from Meredith’s “Pick me! Choose me! Love me!” speech in Season 2 of “Grey’s Anatomy” — used to describe, according to the Urban Dictionary, “a woman that is willing to do anything for male approval” — can tell you of Rhimes’ enduring power.

Jack Dunn Universal Studios Hollywood premiered “The Fall Guy Stuntacular Pre-Show” at the “WaterWorld” set on Saturday. The live stunt performance, featuring Ryan Gosling and “The Fall Guy” director David Leitch, came six days before “The Fall Guy” hits theaters May 3.

We have some more information regarding The CW’s renewal and cancellation TV show lineup for 2024.

Ryan Gosling surprised theme park guests at Universal Studios Hollywood when he made an appearance during a Waterworld pre-show inspired by his latest movie, The Fall Guy.

The success of the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building has exposed a new generation of viewers to the comedic brilliance and appeal of Steve Martin. But the actor-writer has been appearing onscreen since the late 1960s – and performing even before that, to smaller audiences, as a kid magician at the newly opened Disneyland.