Acort International Has Acquired Director Michael Matteo Rossi’s ‘Shadows’

Jason Momoa has just seen “Ambulance”, the new Jake Gyllenhaal action thriller from director Michael Bay.

Who is Mattea Roach? A three-day “Jeopardy!” champion, that’s who.

Rachel Maddow plans to return from her MSNBC hiatus on April 11.

Naman Ramachandran London-based Endeavor Content has closed several international territories on high profile crime drama “Tokyo Vice” (8 x 60’), which has a pilot episode directed by Michael Mann.Handling global sales on the project, Endeavor Content has inked deals with Crave (Canada), Canal Plus (France), Paramount Plus (Australia) and OSN Plus (West Asia and Northern Africa).The series was commissioned by HBO Max in the U.S. and by Wowow, Japan’s leading premium pay-TV broadcaster, with Endeavor as co-producer. It will also debut on HBO Max (Latin America and EMEA) and HBO Go (Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong) and Starzplay (Austria, Germany, German-speaking Switzerland, Ireland and the U.K.).

slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.Bay, who directed Smith in “Bad Boys” and “Bad Boys II,” was not watching the 2022 Oscars live, but was flooded with texts about the incident.“I wasn’t watching. I saw it. First of all, it’s wrong to begin with,” Bay told Yahoo! Entertainment.“I don’t really care.

Transformers director Michael Bay wasn’t watching the Oscars so he missed everything that went down, including the moment when best actor winner Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face on the Oscar stage. 

Michael Bay is sharing his thoughts about the aftermath of Will Smith‘s 2022 Oscars slap.

Afternoon all, Max Goldbart here looking back on quite a week. Lots to digest so the Insider has you covered. Read on.

Angelina Jolie paid a personal visit to children who have fled from Ukraine.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentRussian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov — the director of Cannes competition titles “Leto” and “Petrov’s Flu” — has left the country following the end of a three-year travel ban, and has arrived in Paris.A picture of the iconoclastic Russian helmer popped up on social media on Wednesday. In the pic, Serebrennikov wears a T-shirt that reads “I turn the TV off,” which alludes to the propaganda flooding Russian TV since the invasion of Ukraine on Feb.

Will Smith’s soliloquy during his best actor acceptance speech on Sunday – after he smacked Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head at the Oscars – will forever go down in the memories of many throughout the world as equally bizarre as the sound of the unprovoked slap that permeated the rooms of millions of viewers. In his diatribe for which he cried and seemed to don his method actor cap, the "7 Pounds" actor apologized to several people for his behavior — though not explicitly to Rock.That about-face came in the evening hours on Monday. "I want to apologize to the academy.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIn support of Ukraine, the Executive Committee of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced that it will bar all programs from Russia from this year’s International Emmy Awards competition.

Rishi Sunak's wife has a £490 million stake in a company which is still operating in Moscow and has links to a major Russian bank.

Life imitating art. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys played a married couple on The Americans — and then they fell in love in real life.

Sasha Urban editorIn a conversation on CNBC’s “TechCheck” on Monday, Live Nation Entertainment CEO and president Michael Rapino said he expects a record year for the company’s ticket sales, despite the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.“We don’t have a lot of shows in that area so that hasn’t really affected our business,” Rapino told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin. “Europe seems to be business as usual right now for the summer, so we haven’t seen any disruption in our core business around the world in terms of touring.”He continued, “We’re still tracking 30% plus up year over year, we’re seeing consumers buying tickets on sale this weekend.