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Halle Berry is looking back at a historic moment in her career.

Best Picture Oscar nominees CODA, West Side Story and Don’t Look Up were among the winners at the Casting Society’s 37th annual Artios Awards, which were handed out today during a virtual ceremony that streamed live on YouTube. Check out the full list below.

FX, Lee Daniels and 20th Television are taking another stab at adapting Sam Greenlee’s spy novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door as a TV series after a pilot, written by Leigh Dana Jackson and directed by Gerard McMurray did not go forward at the network.

Audio Up, home to such audio programs as Stephen King’s “Strawberry Spring,” Michael Cohen’s “Mea Culpa” and the just-released Audible exclusive “Maejor Frequency,” is bolstering its executive ranks with the hiring of music supervision trailblazer PJ Bloom and label marketing veteran Christine Kauffman.Bloom (pictured at left) will serve as co-president of music, alongside John Ingrassia. Kauffman has been named executive VP, brand strategy and partnerships.Bloom’s resume includes, most recently, a nearly five-year run at Warner Records, where he served as SVP of film and television music and soundtracks, leading the label’s creative, marketing and licensing efforts in the music for screens space.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix has emerged victorious in a bidding war for director Lee Daniels’ next movie.Several Hollywood players, including MGM and Miramax, were vying for rights to the Oscar-nominated director’s upcoming project. Netflix’s $65 million price tag — a hefty sum covering the film’s production budget and buyouts — secured the sale, according to Deadline Hollywood, who broke the news.The movie reunites Daniels and Andra Day, who recently worked together on Hulu’s musical biographical drama “The United States vs.

EXCLUSIVE: The devil got into Hollywood this weekend as seven bidders waged a head-spinning auction battle for a star-studded exorcism movie package that was won late last night by Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: The devil got into Hollywood this weekend, with seven bidders waging a head-spinning auction battle for a star-studded exorcism movie package was won late last night by Netflix. Lee Daniels will direct, reuniting with his Oscar-nominated The United States Vs Billie Holiday star Aundra Day, who’ll star with Octavia Spencer, Glenn Close, Rob Morgan, Caleb McLaughlin and Aunjanue Ellis. Day will play the mother of an Indiana family whose children purportedly became demonically possessed in a thriller inspired by an actual case. Sources tell Deadline that the package closed upwards of $65 million, covering the film’s budget and buyouts. Daniels and Tucker Tooley are producing. It is fast tracked to begin production by the middle of this year.

Fox launched three new drama series this season – The Big Leap, Our Kind of People and The Cleaning Lady.

GoFundMe page was listed as $14,000, with $10,500 raised. On Tuesday, the family met their initial $10,000 goal after donations from Berry and filmmaker Lee Daniels, who was one of the producers of the film.

BBC reported.Calhoun portrayed Berry’s son Tyrell in the 2001 drama that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress.Berry, 55, and producer Lee Daniels contributed $3,394 each to his family on their GoFundMe page.“We are blown away by the outpouring of love the community and Coronji’s adopted family has shown during our process of grief,” his mother, Theresa C. Bailey, wrote on the donation page.

Monster’s Ball, has died aged 30.His death was confirmed by his mother Theresa Bailey via a GoFundMe page, who said her son died on October 13.

Coronji Calhoun Sr., who played Halle Berry’s son Tyrell Musgrove in the 2001 film Monster’s Ball, has died of congestive heart failure and lung problems on Oct. 13. He was 30 and his death was confirmed by his mother.

Apple TV+ has scored rights to a four-part docuseries about NBA legend Magic Johnson.

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa De Sousa (The Best Man franchise) and McKinley Freeman (Titans, Queen Sugar) are set for recurring roles opposite Morris Chestnut and Yaya DaCosta in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels. The role reunites De Sousa with Chestnut, with whom she stars in The Best Man franchise. Joe Morton also stars in the series.

Lee Daniels and created by Karin Gist (“Grey’s Anatomy”), “Our Kind of People” (Tuesdays at 9 p.m.)  follows Angela Vaughn (DaCosta), a single mom and entrepreneur from Boston who’s moving to Oak Bluffs, Mass.

is a coming-of-age comedy that sees Dean Williams turning back the clock to the late 1960s as he recounts the story of growing up with his family in Montgomery, Alabama. While the series follows the template of the original, which starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, the cast of the reboot tells ET this version is more than just a copy. “It’s a remix,” says Elisha “EJ” Williams, who takes over the central role as 12-year-old Dean.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe idea of a series starring Black characters on a historically Black, monied island that’s completely unconcerned with the white power structures beyond it is a juicy one. Created by Karin Gist of Fox’s “Star” and “Revenge,” and executive produced by Lee Daniels, “Our Kind of People” embraces its singularity.

Precious director Lee Daniels has revealed he fired several “disrespectful” crew members on his film, including his director of photography who could not light Black skin properly.The filmmaker recently opened up about his 2009 drama alongside actor Gabourey Sidibe, saying he “didn’t feel good” about the shoot two weeks in.“I had a white line producer, a white AD, they also read [reviews that said my last film] Shadowboxer was the worst film ever made, and they had zero respect for me, my

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe first iteration of ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” which kicked off in 1988, featured a young Fred Savage as a kid growing up about twenty years in the past.If the revival of the format, now executive-produced by Savage along with Lee Daniels, Saladin Patterson, and Marc Velez, kept that gap, we’d be following a story that took place at the turn of the century, roughly the same territory occupied by Hulu’s “Pen15.” Instead, though, the show keeps its gaze fixed on

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA few years ago, John Sloss worried that the major talent agencies had figured out the formula for his secret sauce.

Morris Chestnut is gearing up to premiere his new series Fox’s Our Kind of People from executive producer Lee Daniels and isn’t sure where that leaves his character’s future in the network’s medical drama The Resident.

Yaya DaCosta addressed her shocking departure from NBC’s Chicago Med after six seasons and whether or not her role in Fox’s Our Kind of People from executive producer Lee Daniels played a role in her decision.

Original The Wonder Years stars Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, Dan Lauria will appear in The Conners, Home Economics, and The Goldbergs, respectively, on Oct. 13. ABC’s reimagination will premiere on Sept. 22 at 8:30 p.m. EDT.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s going to be an imperial reunion of sorts on Unmentionables.

EXCLUSIVE: Being Mary Jane alumna Raven Goodwin and Nicole Chanel Williams (Boomerang)  are set for recurring roles opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morton in the Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director-producer Jeff Byrd, who recently joined Fox’s new drama series Our Kind of People as co-executive producer, has signed with APA for representation in film and television.

Family sitcom The Ms. Pat Show, based on the titular comedian’s stand-up comedy and memoir, didn’t have the easiest road to BET+, executive producer Lee Daniels revealed during a the show’s TCA panel on Tuesday.

Our Kind of People, and Yaya DaCosta's Angela takes center stage. Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham's critically acclaimed book, , the series follows the rich and powerful Black elite of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, who have ruled their community with an iron fist for over 50 years.