Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti Form Production Company Double Dream

Chris Willman Music WriterBaz Halpin, the music touring creative director who founded Silent House 11 years ago, announced an ambitious expansion Tuesday, with his brainchild to now be known as Silent House Group and expanded into three separate companies — Silent House Studiios, Silent House Events and Silent House Productions.Key hires in the expansion include Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn, who will head up Silent House Productions.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla As a young girl, “The View” co-host and Emmy Award-winning legal journalist Sunny Hostin would use a hairbrush as a mic and mimic Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer in the mirror. She didn’t have many broadcast idols she could emulate — in those times, there weren’t many women of color headlining news shows.Now, with the launch of her latest venture, Roots & Wings Productions, Hostin will be able to spotlight characters neglected by Hollywood.

Katy Perry, 36, and Orlando Bloom, 44, took in a fun activity with their eight-month-old daughter Daisy on Apr. 29 and it was so sweet to see! The doting parents enjoyed a bike ride in Santa Barbara, CA with the tot while dressed in stylishly casual clothing. The actor had the baby girl safely seated on the front of his bike while the singer happily rode behind them on her own bike.

“The Big Sick” and “Little America” writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon are pairing again to write a feature adaptation of “The Doubtful Guest,” a 1957 illustrated short story by Edward Gorey.

Right now, Kumail Nanjiani and Andy Muschietti are knee-deep in the world of superheroes with “Eternals” and “The Flash,” respectively.

Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s (It: Chapter Two) newly-launched production company Double Dream has set up the feature pitch The Doubtful Guest with Amblin.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterBassett Vance Productions, the production company formed by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, has hired Lynnette Ramirez as head of development, Variety has learned exclusively.Ramirez is tasked with finding and developing diverse stories with a strong emphasis on BIPOC voices in front of and behind the camera for multiple platforms.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Dawn Porter’s Trilogy Films has inked an exclusive overall deal with Industrial Media. Trilogy, the production company behind the critically acclaimed documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” is the sixth company to partner with the independent production group.

Malibu real estate recorded another record year in 2020, with a 104 percent jump in single-family home salesand a 36 percent increase in condo sales from 2019, with a median listing price of $3.2 million, according to Realtor.com. As inventory remains low and prices high, agents have noticed an increased interest in other beach areas, including these alternatives: UNDERSTATED IN PALOS VERDESThe Palos Verdes peninsula sits an hour south of Malibu, on the southern coast of Los Angeles County.

All the ongoing royal family drama is still unresolved — and it may be that way for a while — but at least Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did something nice for Queen Elizabeth‘s 95th birthday.

Happy Hump Day, Hollywooders! Wanna know what’s Good in the ‘Wood today?!The Flash officially began production yesterday, and it’s confirmed that Michael Keaton will be returning as Batman.Director Andy Muschietti confirmed with an Instagram post:A post shared by Andy Muschietti (@andy_muschietti)Michael Keaton was previously hesitant about filming due to coronavirus concerns.“To be honest with you, you know what worries me more than anything about all this stuff? It’s COVID,” Michael Keaton sai

Robin Thede is staffing up her Warner Bros. TV-based production company.

Will Smith's production company, Westbrook, is moving their upcoming film, , out of Georgia due to the state's new voting laws.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneAlanna Brown’s “Trees of Peace,” about four women thrown together during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, won two awards, the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema and the ADL Stand Up Award.Other prizes went to Eduardo Crespo’s “We Will Never Die,” Henrik Ruben Genz’s “Erna at War” and Michael Webber’s “The Conservation Game.”The winners:Audience Choice Award: “Alaskan Nets,” Jess HarasimowiczBest Documentary Award:

Alaskan Nets, a documentary executive produced by Chris Pratt that centers on confluence of high school boys basketball and the culture of fishing on a native reserve in remote Southeast Alaska, has won the audience award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Katy Perry and fiance Orlando Bloom took an eco-friendly tour of her hometown of Santa Barbara, CA on Thurs. Apr. 8, biking around the oceanfront city. The pair rode S-Works pushbikes as they made their way around town, stopping by a furniture store and gardening shop. Katy did a superb rewear of a full-length, white-and-striped maxi dress she originally wore on a Sat. Apr. 3 trip to the beach with the couple’s seven-month-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom.