Month: September 2023

EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP. The company has reinstated all of
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Outfest‘s Board of Directors has decided to recognize the 11-member Queer Filmworkers United as a union, per Zackery Alexander Stephens, who as we told you yesterday, has been upped to Acting Executive Director amidst a 45-day leave of absence by Exec Director Damien S. Navarro. “I am proud to report that Outfest’s Board of Directors
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EXCLUSIVE: Camille Jaquier and Mohamed Kordofani, a pair of fast-rising international filmmakers whose respective films Thunder and Goodbye Julia have both recently been submitted for International Feature Oscar consideration, have signed with Jewerl Ross at Silent R Management. Representing Switzerland is Jaquier, whose first solo feature world premiered at TIFF last year. Pic is set
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Actor Michael Gambon — best known for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the ‘Harry Potter’ films — has died from pneumonia. In a statement released Thursday, Gambon’s publicist said he passed away peacefully in a hospital surrounded by his wife Anne and son Fergus. The rep also said Gambon’s family is “devastated” and requested
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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 18 finale of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Season 18 of NBC’s summer mainstay America’s Got Talent concluded Wednesday night with a finale at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium which culminated with Adrian Stoica & Hurricane named the winners. Also Wednesday night, NBC announced officially that America’s Got
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Currently behind bars on a 30-year sentence for rape, Danny Masterson is heading back to court. In a short hearing today in downtown LA, Judge Upinder Kalra lifted the long stay on the 2019-filed harassment case against the That 70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology. At the same time in the 10-minute session,
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