‘African Folktales’ Podcast Producer ABF Creative Signs With ICM

Rihanna, 33, and A$AP Rocky, 32, turned heads on the set of a recent photoshoot! The lovebirds were all smiles while standing next to each other and holding hands on a sidewalk in New York City. RiRi looked amazing in  brown leather bustier top under a matching long brown jacket and baggy brown pants while her rapper beau wore a black button-down long-sleeved top and black pants.

Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde took the top prize at the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling the word “murraya.” For those who aren’t botanists — or brilliant 8th graders — murraya is “a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae,” according to Wikipedia.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorArchewell Audio, the podcast arm of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s production firm, has tapped award-winning podcast producer Rebecca Sananes as head of audio.Most recently, Sananes for the last two years has been lead producer for New York Magazine’s “Pivot” tech, media and business podcast hosted by Recode cofounder Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway.Archewell Audio, founded by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last year, inked a multiyear pact with

Christopher Vourlias Hype Film, the production company behind Kirill Serebrennikov’s Cannes competition title “Petrov’s Flu,” has signed a first-look deal with IVI, the largest Russian VOD platform.As part of the two-year deal, Hype Film will develop 10 and produce at least two Russian-language scripted shows exclusively for IVI, which boasts more than 59 million unique visitors per month.Vadim Sokolovsky, head of IVI Originals, said: “Hype Film is a recognizable brand name in the Russian and

EXCLUSIVE: Insecure star Jay Ellis is behind a new podcast series that will aim to give voice to formerly incarcerated young authors.

An offer they can’t refuse. That’s what’s in store for the Big Brother houseguests this summer for the upcoming 23rd season of the CBS reality competition series.

Pam Fryman (How I Met Your Mother) has boarded How I Met Your Father as an executive producer. She will also direct and exec produce the Hulu spinoff series’ pilot.

EXCLUSIVE: Tortoise Media, the “slow news” brand set up by a group including former Director of BBC News and Times of London editor James Harding, has signed with CAA.

Longtime fans of Reese Witherspoon know that apart form being an accomplished actress and producer, she is a dedicated mother to her three kiddos — sons Tennessee James Toth, 8, and Deacon Reese Phillippe, 17, and daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, 21. Ava is undoubtedly her mom’s mini-me.

Taylor Swift‘s ex-boyfriend Conor Kennedy, 26, showed off his new girlfriend Ava Dash, 21, at a fundraiser for Keshet, an organization that campaigns for equality for LGBTQ people in the Jewish community, in the Hamptons on Friday June 18. The event was their first public outing as a couple! In the photos from People, WHICH YOU CAN SEE HERE, Ava wore a sexy sheer star-patterned black dress with a black and red corset over it.

Reese Witherspoon is a fan of her daughter Ava Phillippe’s other half Owen Mahoney.

Ava Phillippe is giving fans a rare peek inside her relationship with boyfriend Owen Mahoney!

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, singer and satirist, Randy Rainbow is partnering with Sean Hayes Hazy Mills Productions on a new podcast endeavor. The goal is to bring Randy’s sensational style of parody to audio while also incorporating a new form of interview not yet seen in the podcast space.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAdd “podcast host” to Elizabeth Banks’ multihyphenate résumé.Banks has inked a multi-project development and first-look deal with Audible. The actor-producer-writer-director has set up two exclusive podcast projects with Audible under the pact: “My Body, My Podcast,” hosted by Banks, above sex, motherhood and more; and “Fugly,” a scripted ensemble comedy.The six-episode “My Body, My Podcast” is scheduled to debut July 29, exclusively on Audible.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran executive producer Sabrina Wind has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

She previously declared he was The One, but Ferne McCann was forced to call it quits with boyfriend Jack Padgett after realising they had no future together, a source told new! magazine. “Ferne really loved Jack and they had a great time together,” the source said.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHad “The Misfits” been made 22 years earlier — say, in the sweet spot between James Bond globe-trotter “The World Is Not Enough” and the release of Guy Ritchie’s “Snatch” — chances are, audiences would’ve had a pretty good time watching “Die Hard 2” director Renny Harlin’s idea of a cutting-edge heist movie.

Writer-Producer Laeta Kalogridis and New Republic Pictures’ President Bradley Fischer have taken the film and television rights to the entire library of Adam Roche’s podcast, The Secret History of Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: The final years and death of radio legend and entertainer Casey Kasem is explored in a new documentary podcast series narrated by The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Martin Kove.