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Sam Haskell Jr. Dies By Suicide While Awaiting Hearing On Murder Charges
Sam Haskell Jr., the son of a prominent television producer, died by suicide just days before his preliminary hearing to determine whether he should stand trial for allegedly dismembering...
CAA And Comcast Ventures Among Backers In $84M Funding Round For AI Firm Moonvalley
Moonvalley, an AI firm known for using a model trained on fully licensed content, has raised $84 million in new financing from backers including CAA and Comcast Ventures. The...
Plimsoll Is Chomping At The Bit To Bring ‘Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters’ To U.S.
Plimsoll Productions, the company behind natural history titles such as Apple’s Tiny World and Disney+’s A Bug’s Life, is fishing for a U.S. sale of its shark infested reality...
Prime Video’s ‘Bloodaxe’ Adds Six As Series Regulars
Mon – 7 am Prime Video‘s Viking drama Bloodaxe has added six as series regulars: Karlis Arnolds Avots (January), Rod Hallett (Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes),...
ABC News To Produce First Original Daily News Show For Disney+ With ‘What You Need To Know’ Series
ABC News will debut its first original daily news show for Disney+ on July 21, with What You Need To Know, anchored by James Longman and Rachel Scott. Each...
‘Emily In Paris’ Set For August Shoot In Venice
After Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s opulent, star-studded wedding in June, A-list celebs will be hitting Venice again in August for the shoot of Netflix show Emily in Paris....
Lizzy Greene & Harry Collett Confirmed For Adaptation Of New Adult Bestseller ‘Easy’ As Filming Wraps In Malta
EXCLUSIVE: Lizzy Greene (Ransom Canyon) and Harry Collett (House of the Dragon) have been confirmed as the leads in coming-of-age love story Easy, an adaptation of the bestselling novel...
BBC Review Finds ‘Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone’ Broke Accuracy Rule In “Serious” Editorial Failure
The BBC‘s internal review in Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary breached an editorial rule on accuracy, but the corporation has stopped short of...
Final Cut In Venice: New Features By Mamadou Dia & Sara Ishaq Unveiled In Eight-Picture Selection
Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Film Festival industry program supporting works in progress from all African countries and Middle East territories Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen,...
UK Actors Union Equity Enters High Court For Landmark Legal Action Against Spotlight, While A Campaign Over Commission Charged By Agents Kicks Off
EXCLUSIVE: A huge week for UK actors union Equity has kicked off with its landmark legal action against casting directory Spotlight. Tomorrow, top officials from the 50,000-strong union will...
42 Taps Former FilmNation Exec Martin Rakusen As COO Following David O’Donoghue Exit
Los Angeles and London-based management and production company 42 has tapped former FilmNation TV UK executive Martin Rakusen as Chief Operating Officer. Effective immediately, Rakusen is responsible for running...
Gregg Wallace Report: Presenter’s Position “Untenable” After 45 Allegations Substantiated While Law Firm Reveals Complaints Made About Others On ‘MasterChef’
Nearly 50 allegations against ex-MasterChef host Gregg Wallace have been substantiated by Banijay‘s report into his behavior, making his position “untenable,” while the report uncovered allegations against others on...