Bernie Taupin Doc In Works From ‘Brats’ Producer Network Entertainment

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences the org formerly known as Promax that relaunched in February, has revealed its new board of directors, as well as an honorary board of advisors. GEMA, which has expanded from TV to also include verticals devoted to film, music, sports and video game marketing execs, has also announced plans for a two-day event in Los Angeles this fall dubbed “Converge.” The news was announced Thursday by GEMA president Stacy La Cotera.

What’s the status of people like Mel Gibson in Hollywood? Gibson was seemingly persona non-grata during the #MeToo movement, a sort of belated punishment for his past tabloid transgressions that hit in 2009 (racist, sexist, anti-semitic rants the actor has never been able to shake off), but Hollywood is fickle. #MeToo started in earnest in 2017.

Coronation Street's Joel Deering is at risk of his 'secrets coming out' in upcoming scenes and fans desperately await his comeuppance after it was revealed he is behind the disappearance - and assumed death - of Lauren Bolton.

EXCLUSIVE: Van Helsing is turning crime fighter in a new series in development at CBS.

EXCLUSIVE: Science fiction mystery comic book Mindset could be heading to the small screen.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky, Warner Music Entertainment and Screen Scotland are collaborating on a feature doc profiling the unique legacy of Scottish funk sensation Average White Band, with Warner taking North American distribution.

Lexi Carson “TikTok Star Murders” is the heartbreaking story of an abusive relationship between a couple that was almost hiding in plain sight — their worst moments were captured on social media. The married couple Ali and Ana Abulaban met in 2014 when they both served in the Air Force and were stationed in Okinawa, Japan. In 2019, Ali started to gain attention online under the name @jinnkid.

Elton John is set to premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival 2024.Elton John: Never Too Late will show John’s journey through the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, which began in 2018 and wrapped up in Stockholm last July. It was the first-ever concert tour to earn over $900million (£708million) in gross ticket sales, making it the highest grossing concert tour of all time.According to Music News, the documentary will also “pull the back the curtain” on the superstar’s life, featuring “never-before-seen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, as well as hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family”.Some of the footage taken from the farewell tour was filmed at his final US performance at the Dodger Stadium in November 2022.

After the best opening box office weekend of 2024, it’s safe to declare that “Inside Out 2” is the much-needed success Pixar hoped it would be. But has the sequel righted the studio’s ship entirely? Only time will tell there, but its continued success this week foretells the film may end up, against all odds, the movie of the summer, if not the year.

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Afshar‘s ESX Entertainment has signed on to develop and produce the musical biopic Wind of Change, about German rock band Scorpions, which will tell the story of three unlikely friends whose passion for rock n’ roll fueled their rise from the ashes of post-World War II Germany to the global stardom in the 1980s as the multi-platinum rock band Scorpions.

Pete Docter, the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios, is teasing the Inside Out spinoff series coming to Disney+ in 2025.

If you had to name the greatest documentaries of all time, well, that’s tough, but if you had to name the greatest portrait documentaries of all time, well, at the very least, “Burden of Dreams” would easily be in the top ten and likely on the all-time list too. Directed by the late legendary documentarian Les Blank, the award-winning “Burden Of Dreams” (1982) centers on German filmmaker Werner Herzog, actor Klaus Kinski, and the nearly disastrous making of their third collaboration, “Fitzcarraldo” (1982).

EXCLUSIVE: A new documentary will tell the harrowing story of 10 youngsters who fled the Nova Music Festival on October 7. They were subsequently attacked as they took cover in a bunker and had to hide under the bodies of those who had been killed to survive.

With “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” doing incredibly well at the box office, it would appear the Will Smith backlash has officially died. He can still lead a profitable movie and attract millions of fans.

The White House again is pushing back at the New York Post over a video that the Murdoch-owned publication claimed showed President Joe Biden freezing up at the end of his blockbuster fundraiser in Los Angeles with former President Barack Obama.

The BBC and Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films are teaming on a feature-length documentary about the state of Georgia‘s fight to put Donald Trump behind bars.

Jodie Comer is getting candid about her career and personal life.

EXCLUSIVE: At an age when most teenagers are trying to master basic hygiene, Sharb Farjami was working full time in the advertising business. Today, roughly three decades after that early start, he has risen to one of the top posts in the industry as CEO of GroupM North America. As the media buying arm of giant holding company WPP, GroupM controls billions of dollars in annual ad spending.

There must be something in the air lately because I have been seeing and reviewing a number of really good and intriguing documentaries on iconic showbiz figures. At Cannes I saw new docus on Faye Dunaway (Faye), Elizabeth Taylor (Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes) and others on Michel LeGrand and Jacques Demy. Currently on Max you can see a wonderful docu on the great Albert Brooks directed by his longtime friend Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.

he told Us Weekly. “Brats” is about the famous group of ‘80s stars, their memories of their heyday and their gripes with that moniker. The circle of stars associated with the label are Emilio Estevez, Ringwald, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Cryer and McCarthy.(Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr.