1091 Pictures Buys ‘Varginha: The Roswell of Brazil’ From ‘The Phenomenon’ Director (EXCLUSIVE)

Coco Rocha’s mini-me is a budding HGTV host. 

Jamie Lang Discovery Plus will tap into South America’s largest customer base when it launches in Brazil this September.

It's been over 30 years since the first episode of  aired on NBC, but many of the show's themes and messages are still relevant in today's society. Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison reunited over a video call to chat with ET about their adventure with their former castmates on E!'s new series,  how they tackled the difficult issues and why those conversations are still significant.  began airing in 1987, focusing on students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia.

The News & Advance.Lynchburg Police spokesperson Carrie Dungan said police are investigating to see whether the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicA year ago, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, Pharrell Williams braved air travel to head to his home state of Virginia and stand beside Governor Ralph Northam as he called for Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 (June 19) when the last slaves in Texas learned of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, to be declared a state holiday.The politician, a doctor by trade, had been in office less than two years and had already found himself marred in

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAmazon is thinking outside the box for ways to promote its new sci-fi action movie ‘The Tomorrow War.’ Literally.For the first time, Amazon will be branding its shipping boxes to promote an Amazon Studios film. The boxes will be used in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia beginning Friday, June 18.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaYellow Veil Pictures is launching a new North American distribution arm and has secured its first release in Frida Kempff’s “Knocking.” The announcement comes in advance of the Cannes market this month and marks an important step forward in the evolution oof the sales outfit, which has carved out a niche for itself in the arthouse genre sector. Now it will move into self-distributing its movies.

Christopher Vourlias The CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for women documentary filmmakers conceived with a focus on Southern and Eastern Europe, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film Market, Variety can reveal.Hailing from the program’s backyard in the Balkans to as far afield as Brazil and Taiwan, the selection reflects the growing ambition of a program now in its third year.“Although CIRCLE

Emilio Mayorga Brazilian producer-director Andrés Lieban is set to direct his first animated feature, “My Big Big Friend – The Movie.” It is set up at his 2DLab label, which has specialized to date in TV animation production.

Naman Ramachandran “The Masked Singer” producer Fox Alternative Entertainment (FAE) and Dublin-headquartered outfit BiggerStage will jointly produce variety competition series “The Big Deal” for Ireland’s Virgin Media Television.The series, presented by Vogue Williams, features celebrity judges including pop legend Boy George; comedian and actor Deirdre O’Kane; Aston Merrygold, formerly of boy band JLS and recent finalist on “The Masked Singer”; talent show favourites Jedward; and rising music

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench film critic Edouard Waintrop, a former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight chief, has joined Saudi Arabia’s nascent Red Sea International Film Festival as artistic director.Waintrop, who between 2012 and 2018 headed the independently run Cannes section, had previously been an advisor to the ambitious Red Sea fest which, after a delay due to coronavirus, is now on track to hold its first edition Nov.

Holly Willoughby headed out into her garden on Wednesday to enjoy the 27-degree heat that took over London – and couldn't help but take a selfie to share with fans.MORE: Inside Holly Willoughby's stunning garden at £3million London homePosing with her Ray-Ban sunglasses and her Panama hat, her followers were left mistaken about her location – with many thinking she had travelled to Portugal, which is now on the Government's amber list. WATCH: Holly Willoughby reveals huge error at homeHolly

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSony Pictures has boarded Alê Abreu’s buzzed up animated feature “Perlimps,” the acclaimed Brazilian director’s follow up to “Boy and the World” which was nominated for best animated feature at the 2016 Academy Awards.A best animated feature-winner in the independent category at the 43rd Annie Awards, “Boy and the World” also took the top Cristal at the 2014 Annecy Festival.Several excerpts for the film will be screened on June 17 in this year’s