Samsung Sets Exclusive Deal for Tennis Channel’s T2 Launch in U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMontea Robinson has been named chief executive officer of Ghetto Film School. The GFS alumna will guide the non-profit organization’s plans to expand its reach and impact, with an emphasis on building out its program and enhancing career opportunities for its students. Founded in 2000, Ghetto Film School serves 8,000 individuals, between the ages of 14 to 34, with locations in New York City, Los Angeles and London.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves were all smiles as they strolled through New York City together on Sunday, March 20.The happy couple enjoyed the inclimate weather as they bundled up and took a walk outside, interlocking arms before stopping at a local restaurant for a bite to eat.The Dallas Buyers Club actor wore a long coat over a pair of khakis and a light hoodie, adding a brown trucker hat over his long locks. His wife kept things just as casual, wearing an oversized denim jacket lined with shearling and a pair of black leggings that she tucked into some black boots.

Beyonce is reportedly in talks for a performance during the Oscars. The R B superstar is nominated for Best Original Song for 'Be Alive' from 'King Richard', the biopic about tennis aces Venus and Serena Williams and their father and coach Richard Williams. According to Variety, the 'Run the World' hitmaker could perform the song from a tennis court in Compton, where the sporting icons used to practice with their parent, which would be beamed into the ceremony.

Leonardo DiCaprio is enjoying a rare day out with girlfriend Camila Morrone!

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the first round of exhibition rotations scheduled for the 2022–2023 season, which further its mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema.

Now that’s a love that lasts! After nearly a decade of marriage, Matthew McConaughey, 52, and wife Camila Alves, 39, looked as happy as teenagers as they enjoyed a romantic stroll together over the weekend in NYC. Toting matching tan shopping bags as they crossed the street, Matthew and Camila were overcome with laughter and absolutely radiant as they enjoyed some one-on-one time.

Shawn Mendes is getting real about his life without Camila Cabello.

Sweet dreams are made in a house like this, for Annie Lennox .

DGA, SAG, VES, ACE, ADG, CDG, MUAHS, MPSE – has almost run its course.But a couple of awards remain to be handed out before we get to March 27’s Academy Awards, and one of them is very big indeed.That one is the Producers Guild Awards, which takes place on Saturday night in Los Angeles and may be the last remaining show that can give us valuable information about what’s going to happen at the Oscars.(The Writers Guild is handing out its awards the following night, but WGA rules make the Oscar screenplay nominees “The Power of the Dog,” “Belfast,” “The Lost Daughter” and “Drive My Car” ineligible, which means they’re no help at all as predictors for the Academy’s big night.)Crucially, the PGA is the only awards body other than the Oscars to use the preferential or ranked-choice system to count votes in its best-picture category, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: Hillman Grad Productions has named the 22 creatives selected for its second annual Mentorship Lab, geared toward uplifting marginalized creatives in film and television, which launches in Los Angeles on March 18, and will wrap up with a showcase event in October.

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that its feature documentary Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, co-directed by five-time Oscar nominee Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart) and Ryan Suffern (Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records), will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 13, before expanding to additional markets in the following weeks. It will open against IFC Films’ horror-thriller The Innocents, Roadside Attractions’ comedy Family Camp and Universal’s horror-thriller Firestarter starring Zac Efron and more.

Naman Ramachandran New York-based film and television studio and streaming network FilmRise has struck a production and distribution deal with Los Angeles-based Nicely Entertainment.Under the terms of the deal, FilmRise will co-produce and exclusively distribute in the U.S. holiday-themed films “Sappy Holiday,” starring Vanessa Sears (“The Last Man”) and John McLaren (“Heartland”) and “Snowball Effect” along with two newly completed productions from Nicely – “Adeline,” starring John Schneider (“Dukes of Hazard”) and “Snapshot to Love,” starring Lexi Giovagnoli (“Christmas Lovers Anonymous”) and Benedict Mazurek (“Danger! Danger!”).

Melanie Lynskey is a winner!

DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened tonight’s DGA Awards gala with a history lesson and a look ahead at the “exceptional challenges” facing the guild next year when it begins negotiations for a new film and TV contract. The guild’s current contract, reached just days before the Covid pandemic shut down production across the country, is set to expire June 30, 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov, the high-profile Russian-Kazakh director who is credited as the creator of the Screenlife genre with projects including Searching and Unfriended, has condemned the “tragedy” in Ukraine and is working on a project analyzing the digital aspects of the conflict.