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Writer-director Travon Free has signed a first-look producing deal with Endeavor Content after, along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, winning the Oscar for best live-action short for Two Distant Strangers. “Over the last year, I’ve developed some great creative relationships with some wonderful people at Endeavor Content, who I’ve found to be as committed as I am to making art that is not only entertaining, but challenges our society, our culture and the world we live in.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will not launch a fully fledged Fox News-style news channel in the U.K., finding that such a move would not be financially viable. Rebekah Brooks, CEO of the company's News UK unit, told staff in an email memo Tuesday that there would not be sufficient payoff for shareholders in starting an outright channel, with the company instead focusing on producing streaming video content.

Bull star Yara Martinez has grabbed the lead role in dramaGood Egg, from writer-director Nicole Gomez Fisher. Martinez is set to play a high school drama teacher who, after failed attempts at in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, is forced to consider an unconventional egg donor scenario that plunges her into a dangerous and exhilarating adventure with her husband.

Vice Media has hired ABC News veteran Van Scott to be vp of communications. Scott will lead all U.S.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday said he believes Caitlyn Jenner has a chance to become the next governor of California as Gavin Newsom faces a recall election in the fall. Actor and former California Gov.

Glenn Close wants everyone to know that her headline-making Oscars dance was indeed an impromptu moment.

Hasbro saw first quarter film and TV revenues trail surging toy sales as it deals with the continuing impact of the pandemic. The toy giant, as it released its latest financial results on Tuesday, saw overall revenue rise 1 percent to $1.11 billion dollars as its consumer products division reported toy sales, underpinned by its Play-Doh, Nerf and Transformers brands, rising 14 percent to $653.9 million.

In mathematics and science, the symbol "delta" is used to represent change, the comparative way of measuring difference in value or position or other things I haven't understood in decades. Something similar is necessary in television, where one of the great differentiators in long-form storytelling quality is the willingness and ability to engage in narrative change, to push a storyline or a character to a new place and live with those changes.

Last month marked one year since much of Europe and the U.S. was plunged into pandemic lockdown.

Jenna Coleman —the Victoria star recently seen as a serial killer's accomplice in BBC/Netflix miniseries The Serpent —is set to lead upcoming TV drama The War Rooms, telling the untold story of the women that worked in Winston Churchill's secret Whitehall bunker during World War II.

The NYU Girls, stars of the Clubhouse comedy show NYU Girls Roasting Tech Guys, have signed with WME. The group is made up of eight college friends who launched an interactive comedy room with a dating-game format on Clubhouse that went viral overnight on the new social audio platform.

Another classy Chinese action thriller whose dazzling style seems to take place in a deliberate narrative void, Cliff Walkers (previously titled Impasse) marks leading Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s first foray into the espionage genre.

Comcast's European pay giant Sky is working on a new eight-part supernatural crime thriller. The Rising —which starts filming in the U.K.'s Lake District next month —marks the first series produced entirely in-house by Sky's production arm Sky Studios, which is is working with exec producer Julian Stevens, who produced BBC dramas The Fall and Informer.

A representative for The Crown has strongly denied reports that producers are having difficulty finding anyone to play controversial royal Prince Andrew for the fifth and sixth seasons of the hit Netflix drama.

Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon had some fun with Daniel Kaluuya's Oscar acceptance speechsex joke on their shows on Monday night. Accepting the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah on Sunday, Kaluuya said in a much-discussed moment, "We're enjoying ourselves tonight ...

Organizers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

The National Hockey League has completed its next TV rights package — and for the first time in 16 years, NBC Sports won't be a part of it. As first reported by Sports Business Journal, NBC pulled out of negotiations for the partial rights for the league's next TV deal.

Bernie Kahn, a sitcom writer who contributed to episodes of such shows as Bewitched, Get Smart, Maude and Three's Company, has died. He was 90.

The Oscars looked different last night from other years, but that didn’t stop our favorite A-listers from serving beauty looks worthy of their star status at the 93rd annual Academy Awards, held at Union States in downtown Los Angeles. Unlike Hollywood’s cream of the crop, the average person doesn't have the top hair and makeup artists in the world on speed dial.

While the Oscars put on a glamorous and innovative in-person show at Union Station on Sunday, organizers faced criticism over the weekend for the impact its production restrictions had on those outside of Hollywood.

From Geena Davis' pearl-studded Jett Paris piece inThelma & Louise to the teen gang uniforms in The Outsiders, denim jackets have shaped some of the most iconic film characters. Since its debut in the late 1800s by denim inventor Levi Strauss, jean jackets have gone from blue-collar workwear essentials to versatile wardrobe staples worn by truckers and Hollywood stars alike.

An abbreviated red carpet and an intimate event planned for Sunday night’s 93rd Academy Awards resulted in a decidedly smaller, more curated audience than at past Oscar ceremonies — but all those close-up looks at actresses at L.A.’s Union Station also resulted in some terrific glimpses at diamonds and gemstones.

Endeavor Content, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Brad Weston's Makeready have picked up the English-language remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round (Druk), the Danish dramedy that won the Oscar for best international film on Sunday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Endeavor and Makeready are set to finance the movie remake that potentially could star DiCaprio.

Magnolia Pictures is expanding its movie streaming offerings to Canada with local partner Mongrel Media. Magnolia and Mongrel will launch Mongrel Home Cinema, targeting Canadians with a subscription streaming service to debut on April 30 and priced at $6.99 monthly or $69.99 annually.

Naya Rivera and Jessica Walter were notably missing from the in memoriam portion of the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, a snub that angered fans of the beloved late actresses.

Leslie Jordan has some stories to share.

This year's awards season has been unlike any before (and hopefully, after): virtual events, at-home press tours and films consumed almost entirely on streaming services rather than in theaters.

Thomas P. Kelly Jr., an Oscar-nominated producer who served as a professor and dean of Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts for nearly three decades, has died.

Roku and Google are in the midst of a significant dispute, one that could see Google's YouTube TV app pulled from Roku's platform. The stakes are high for both sides, with YouTube TV among the market leaders for streaming pay-TV services with more than 3 million subscribers (only Hulu with Live TV has more), and Roku the dominant streaming video platform with more than 51 million active users.

Josh Hartnett is set to take the lead in upcoming mini-series The Fear Index for Comcast's European pay TV giant Sky. The four-part thriller, based on the bestselling novel by Robert Harris (Pompeii, Enigma), is being adapted by Paul Andrew Williams and Caroline Bartleet, and directed by David Caffrey (The Alienist, Peaky Blinders), and will also star Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie, Innocent), Arsher Ali (The Ritual, Informer) and Grégory Montel (Call My Agent).