BTF Media Teams With American Cinema Inspires to Produce U.S. Hispanic Content (EXCLUSIVE)

It’s no secret that Nick Cannon has taken the Biblical edict about going forth and multiplying and really run with it, fathering seven different children with four different mothers — four of those children born within a six-month span.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterUbiquitous dating app Tinder has hired its first ever content executive, Variety can report exclusively.After getting its feet wet with the successful “Swipe Night,” an interactive series where users choose plot outcomes, Tinder has recruited former NBCUniversal exec Jaime Freedman as vice president of content.Freedman will be responsible for building out a strategy that will feed current and future “shared experiences” across the company, leadership said on

Terrie McEvoy and her husband David Fitzpatrick welcomed their first child together last week, a little baby girl.

Three days after local authorities locked the gates of Shanghai Disneyland, trapping 30,000 guests inside and refusing to let them leave before they submitted to Covid testing, China’s state-run Xinhua News agency posted a sunny video about the park’s reopening on Wednesday.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKatie Holmes has found her next project.The “Dawson’s Creek” and “Wonder Boys” actress will star in “Rare Objects,” in addition to directing, producing and co-writing the adaptation of Kathleen Tessaro’s novel of the same name. Production on the film has started in New York with Yale Productions and Holmes’ Lafayette Pictures producing the movie.Phaedon Papadopoulos co-wrote the script.

Anna Marie de la Fuente After a record-growth year fueled by pandemic-induced lockdowns, São Paulo-based VOD data and content aggregator Sofa Digital will be launching a Latin American film investment fund, Sofa Capital, on Nov. 9.As the number of streaming platforms proliferate and demand for online content continues to mount across the region, Sofa Digital plans to set up a fund that will enable it to produce 100 Latin American titles a year by 2024.

An aspiring Corrie star has plastered her face on a billboard at Media City in a bid to be cast in the soap.

Naman Ramachandran Chalk & Blade, the London-based production company behind the hit “Hunting Ghislane” podcast, which is soon to become a TV drama, has signed with talent agency WME. In addition, Jason Phipps is joining the as head of content and development.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Netflix has signaled its strong commitment to Latin American television content by teaming up with the region’s most important confab, Ventana Sur, on its TV strand, SoloSeries.For the first time, Ventana Sur and Netflix have joined forces to provide more impetus to women creators with a cash incentive of $5,000 (500,000 Argentine Pesos).

Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexico City-based Endemol Shine Boomdog has tapped former Argos Media Group chief creative officer Jerry Rodriguez as their new head of scripted content and senior VP.Rodriguez, an Emmy-winning TV producer and director of comedy and drama programming, had been with Argos since 1999 where he held various positions of responsibility through the years.His appointment signals Endemol Shine Boomdog’s steadfast commitment to produce more fiction content in the years to come.

Iman Shumpert and Daniella Karagach wowed the crowd on Monday's. The NBA star and his pro-partner hit the stage for Horror Night, delivering a contemporary routine inspired by the thriller .The duo came out with an incredible, quasi-acrobatic number that saw both of them embody the malevolent Tethered of the film — complete with red jumpsuits — as they danced to the song most iconically associated with the film, «I Got 5 on It (Tethered Mix)» by Luniz feat.

Cody Rigsby just earned his best score of the season!

Last Week Tonight.Cena came under fire in May after calling Taiwan a country during an interview. The actor, who was promoting Fast And Furious 9, said that Taiwan, an island separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait, would be the first “country” able to watch the film.“I made one mistake,” Cena said afterwards on Chinese social media network Weibo (as per South China Morning Post). “I love and respect China and Chinese people.

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver tackled the topic of Taiwan on Sunday night which made for the perfect opportunity to mock John Cena.

Jamie Lang Spanish showrunners Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, popularly known as Los Javis, are launching Suma Content, a new, Madrid-based but internationally operating independent production company which will replace their current, smaller label, Suma Latina.The pair are already superstars in Spain and their star is rising abroad.

the since-departed Emily VanCamp), just episodes prior. «Conrad losing Nic is a terrible tragedy and we felt like if we were going to tell a true story of grief, it would last for a really long time. And I don't think we wanted to spend multiple episodes, 10, however long it takes for a man to lose the love of his life and the mother of his 9-month-old child.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a move aimed at further building its roster of original content, LA-based Spanish-language streaming platform Pantaya and Latino Hollywood studio Pantelion have signed multi-year first look deals with Latin American companies El Estudio, The Lift and Traziende Films.Under the terms of the pact, each company will produce direct-to-platform Spanish-language pics to stream exclusively on Pantaya in the U.S.Pantelion will serve as the studio on the projects, tapping its

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners, which manages stars including Emilia Clarke, Bradley Cooper, Gabrielle Union and Michael Fassbender, is getting into the audio space.