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03/26/2021

Five Top TV Producers Explain How Streaming Changed Their Job

Five Top TV Producers Explain How Streaming Changed Their Job

Hollywood’s top producers discuss making shows for Netflix and filming during the pandemic.

03/26/2021

British TV Isn’t Afraid of Aging Women

British TV Isn’t Afraid of Aging Women

The lesser focus on youth and looks on British television might be a result of the country’s robust stage tradition.

03/25/2021

Jenny Lumet Inks Big CBS Studios Overall Deal

Jenny Lumet Inks Big CBS Studios Overall Deal

CBS Studios is keeping Jenny Lumet in-house. Lumet has signed a big four-year overall deal with the studio for whom she has co-created CBS' Clarice and Paramount+'s The Man Who Fell to Earth and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Under the pact, the David Stapf-led studio will have exclusive rights to p...

03/25/2021

Angela Robinson Inks 8-Figure Warner Bros. TV Overall Deal

Angela Robinson Inks 8-Figure Warner Bros. TV Overall Deal

Angela Robinson is on the move. The writer, producer and director has signed an exclusive multiple-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, moving her home base from Paramount TV Studios. Sources say J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot partner Katie McGrath — who are also based at the studio — ...

03/25/2021

Tracy Oliver Inks Eight-Figure Overall Deal at Apple

Tracy Oliver Inks Eight-Figure Overall Deal at Apple

In-demand screenwriter Tracy Oliver is making a home at Apple. The Girls Trip and Little scribe has signed a rich, multi-year overall deal with the iPhone maker. Apple outbid multiple suitors for Oliver's services. Terms weren't disclosed, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Oliver's deal is in....

03/25/2021

Jamie Foxx Inks Deal With ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Group

Jamie Foxx Inks Deal With ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Group

Jamie Foxx is getting into business with ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Group. The Oscar winner and his producing partner Datari Turner have signed a deal to develop and executive produce original mov…

03/25/2021

Sesame Workshop Is Talking More Explicitly About Race—and Welcoming Two Black Muppets

Sesame Workshop Is Talking More Explicitly About Race—and Welcoming Two Black Muppets

Meet the new father-son duo, Elijah and Wesley

03/23/2021

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03/19/2021

John David Washington Does the Right Thing

John David Washington Does the Right Thing

He’s Hollywood royalty and now a movie star in his own right — but he made sure to take a long, hard road to success

03/19/2021

More Oscar History Made as Two Black Composers Are Nominated for Best Original Score

More Oscar History Made as Two Black Composers Are Nominated for Best Original Score

The Academy music branch made Oscar history yesterday by nominating two films with Black composers for best original score: “Soul” and “Da 5 Bloods.” Previously, only six fi…

03/19/2021

MACRO, Warner Bros., The Black List Team Up for Screenwriting Incubator

MACRO, Warner Bros., The Black List Team Up for Screenwriting Incubator

Three major Hollywood companies have partnered to give one writer of color $10,000 to develop their film pitch to present to a Warner Bros. executive.

03/17/2021

Write. Stand Out. Get Paid & Produced

Write. Stand Out. Get Paid & Produced

Join our community of storytellers & screenwriters and attract story producers from all over the world. This is where storytellers can learn, build a profile, write individually or collaborate, and get paid and produced.

03/17/2021

'Judas and the Black Messiah' makes Oscar history as first Best Picture nominee with all Black producers

'Judas and the Black Messiah' makes Oscar history as first Best Picture nominee with all Black producers

In addition to the history-making nomination, 'Judas and the Black Messiah' stars Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield were also recognized.

03/17/2021

Ava DuVernay On Array Crew, A Database To Diversify Hollywood Production Personnel

Ava DuVernay On Array Crew, A Database To Diversify Hollywood Production Personnel

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her new database, Array Crew, and how it may help diversify who works on the sets of Hollywood productions.

03/17/2021

ARRAY CREW | Build Entertainment Careers

ARRAY CREW | Build Entertainment Careers

ARRAY CREW provides film and television hiring managers access to crew members with diverse backgrounds. A database founded by Ava DuVernay.

03/17/2021

Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen Will Star in Virtual Reading of Angry Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous | Playbill

Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen Will Star in Virtual Reading of Angry Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous | Playbill

Tony nominee Camille A. Brown directs the event for the Spotlight on Plays series.

03/16/2021

Oscar noms are more ‘diverse' but largely leave out Latinos

Oscar noms are more ‘diverse' but largely leave out Latinos

The 2021 Oscar nominations celebrate actors, actresses and directors of color. But Latinos are mostly shut out from the top categories.

03/16/2021

HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition

HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition

Deadline for the #HBOVisionaries Short Film Competition is Apr 1

03/16/2021

Jamie Chung to Asian Creators: 'No Better Time' to Tell Your Stories

Jamie Chung to Asian Creators: 'No Better Time' to Tell Your Stories

Chung is the ambassador for HBO's APA Visionaries Short Film Competition, whose winners are featured on HBO and HBO Max

03/15/2021

Viola Davis Is Now the Most-Nominated Black Actress in Oscars History

Viola Davis Is Now the Most-Nominated Black Actress in Oscars History

Davis and Andra Day both landed in the Best Actress race, making it only the second time in Oscars history where two Black women will compete in the category in the same year.

03/15/2021

5 Films Shot With A Smartphone

5 Films Shot With A Smartphone

Filmmakers Who Opted to use a Smartphone to Shoot Their Films

03/15/2021

The Netflix Guide for Non-Approved Cameras - Y.M.Cinema - News & Insights on Digital Cinema

The Netflix Guide for Non-Approved Cameras - Y.M.Cinema - News & Insights on Digital Cinema

So, let’s suppose that you’d like to shoot a film for Netflix. And let’s suppose you want to use other cameras that are not included in the 40 Netflix Approved cameras. If so, you should read this guide that defines the best practices and settings for Non-Approved Netflix cameras. Moreover, th...

03/14/2021

Comprehensive Guide On Netflix Approved Film Cameras For 2021

Comprehensive Guide On Netflix Approved Film Cameras For 2021

Netflix Approved Film Cameras – If you are an aspiring filmmaker thinking about producing a project to Netflix? Then you will need to know what specific filmmaking cameras are required to broadcast on Netflix.

03/13/2021

'Selling Sunset' Creator Sets Black Woman-Owned Real Estate Series At Netflix - Shadow and Act

'Selling Sunset' Creator Sets Black Woman-Owned Real Estate Series At Netflix - Shadow and Act

Netflix is doubling down on its docusoaps. Renewing Selling Sunset and Bling Empire for second seasons, it has ordered two new ones, including one that is also from the creator of Selling Sunset, Adam DiVello. The untitled reality series will focus on Florida's Allure Reality. "These shows follow a....

03/13/2021

Davita Scarlett Inks Overall Deal With CBS Studios

Davita Scarlett Inks Overall Deal With CBS Studios

EXCLUSIVE: In just two short years, Davita Scarlett has emerged as one of Robert and Michelle King’s MVP writer-producers, simultaneously serving as a co-executive producer on two of the duo&…

03/13/2021

Black representation in film and TV: The challenges and impact of increasing diversity

Black representation in film and TV: The challenges and impact of increasing diversity

New research reveals the barriers that Black talent in the film and TV industry faces, the economic fallout, and solutions for an inclusive, equitable workplace.

03/12/2021

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03/12/2021

Kristin Dodson Cast in Showtime Comedy ‘Flatbush Misdemeanors’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Kristin Dodson Cast in Showtime Comedy ‘Flatbush Misdemeanors’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Kristin Dodson has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman co-created comedy series for Showtime, “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” Variety has learned exclusivel…

03/11/2021

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Could Make History for Black Producers

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Could Make History for Black Producers

A best-picture nod would make Charles D. King, Ryan Coogler, and Shaka King the first and only all-Black team of nominated producers.

03/11/2021

New Study Finds Undervaluing Of Black-Led Projects Costs Hollywood $10 Billion Annually

New Study Finds Undervaluing Of Black-Led Projects Costs Hollywood $10 Billion Annually

When it comes to diversity, inclusion and representation, Hollywood is far from where it needs to be, but we are seeing progress. However, there are many blind spots that have been overlooked and c…

03/10/2021

Alamo Drafthouse Partners With Harlem Film House to Highlight Essential Black Movies

Alamo Drafthouse Partners With Harlem Film House to Highlight Essential Black Movies

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is collaborating with Harlem Film House, the organizers of the Hip Hop Film Festival, to present a curated series of culturally significant Black films. Labeled the Vanguard…

03/08/2021

Coming 2 America: How Rapper Rick Ross’s Atlanta Mansion Turned Into Zamunda

Coming 2 America: How Rapper Rick Ross’s Atlanta Mansion Turned Into Zamunda

The sets of the sequel were modernized for a new generation, with the My-T-Sharp Barber Shop built at Tyler Perry Studios

03/08/2021