Allen Media Group Taps Veteran Film Exec Matthew Signer As EVP Production & Content

Two days before the start of the much delayed, and anticipated, Cannes Film Festival, the town awoke to a rainy, muggy Sunday with little action on the ground. And while the skies cleared later in the day, it remained difficult to discern the festival vibe. Apart from at the Palais proper, there’s no sign of the promotions we’re used to seeing here. That goes for posters adorning hotels or piers for any film, regardless of provenance.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorPenske Media Corp. will launch a three-day culture festival, LAC3, in Los Angeles in December that aims to celebrate entertainment, food, comedy art, fashion, sports and music as well as the great diversity that defines the City of Angels.The event, staged by the parent company of Variety, is set to take place in venues around Los Angeles from Dec.

Alan Cumming has called for meat and dairy products to be banned at the COP26 climate change summit to be held in Glasgow later this year. The Scots actor has written to COP26 president and Tory MP Alok Sharma demanding that only vegan food is served at the event.

Angelique Jackson Frieze and Deutsche Bank announced the winner for their second annual Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, a $10,000 prize awarded to an emerging L.A.-based filmmaker.The award went to John Rizkallah, while Jane Chow earned the initiative’s first-ever audience award, which was voted for by the public.

George Clooney, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington, Don Cheadle, Mindy Kaling and more Hollywood stars have joined forces to create a public film school in Los Angeles.The A-list actors want to increase diversity in the film industry, as they explained that the purpose of launching the school is to teach young people about cameras, editing, visual effects and sound “and all the career opportunities that this industry has to offer.”Clooney also stated that he wants young people to have the

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick is set to direct Rebecca Banner’s 2016 Black List screenplay Space Oddity with Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp and Madeline Brewer starring. The pic reps Sedgwick’s second feature directorial after Story of a Girl for which she received a DGA nomination. Space Oddity is set to begin production this month in Rhode Island.

George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, Nicole Avant, Eva Longoria, Working Title Films founders Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) co-chairman Bryan Lourd are funding a specialized Los Angeles high school with the goal of creating a “pipeline of diverse, career-ready young people” for Hollywood jobs, particularly below-the-line roles, the stars and producers announced Monday.Created in partnership with Los Angeles Unified School

Hollywood is giving back to Los Angeles public schools.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has landed What’s Going On, a biopic of iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye that Allen Hughes will direct, and produce with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar.

The surviving members of Soundgarden have been handed back control of their website and social media accounts in “a productive first step towards healing and open dialogue” with the estate of late frontman Chris Cornell.Since Cornell’s death in 2017, the band’s website and social media accounts have been controlled by his wife, Vicky Cornell.

According to a report in Deadline, A New York judge on Tuesday ruled for the extradition of Harvey Weinstein from New York to Los Angeles where he could reportedly be facing a new set of charges while serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

Los Angeles. The 54-year-old actress and Jaya, 16, were spotted together in the upscale Brentwood eating and running errands.

Broadway received the musical equivalent of an engraved invitation last night when Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy Fallon in a star-packed stage-themed production number on The Tonight Show, with the two, alongside Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Jackson, heralding the industry’s imminent return.