Cassandra Vargas Joins 42West As VP In Entertainment Marketing Division

As investigators work to determine a motive behind the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, attention has turned to a Los Angeles entertainment executive who was gifted two Tennessee homes by the suspect. Michelle Swing, 29, was given the two properties – worth more than $400,000 combined – in the past two years, despite paying nothing for them, property records show.

The suspect wanted in the Christmas Day RV bombing in downtown Nashville allegedly transferred two properties to a Los Angeles entertainment executive within the last two years, according to reports. County records obtained by Deadline show that Michelle Swing, an artist development director at AEG Presents, was given two houses by Anthony Quinn Warner, the man believed to be responsible for the bombing.

A Los Angeles entertainment executive has been connected to the main suspect in the Christmas morning bombing in Nashville, according to numerous news reports.

Prince Charles has enlisted some members of Hollywood royalty to help him narrate a classic holiday poem. 

EXCLUSIVE: CMA Entertainment, a boutique management firm with over 20 years’ experience in developing and managing talent, will acquire Prevail Artist Management, with Prevail principal Lori Kay joining as a talent manager and producer. With the move, CMA continues to grow its management team and expand its production arm.

Bella Thorne is drawing ire for her involvement with OnlyFans once again.

Will Packer Media has tapped Netflix’s Carolyn Newman as Head of Scripted Television and Production. Reporting to Alix Baudin, President of Will Packer Media, Newman will oversee the development and production of the company’s television projects.

Stephen Amell is putting his fit body on display while in St. Barts!

Naomi Scott is starring in a new role!

EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Coleman has joined Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller 65, starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt and written and directed by A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods.

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV creator Matt Miller is extending his long relationship with Warner Bros. TV by renewing his exclusive overall deal with the studio. As part of the new pact, Miller will executive produce Peacemaker, HBO Max’s TV spin-off of James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie, starring John Cena. The eight-episode series hails from Gunn, producer Peter Safran and Warner Bros. TV.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has hired Mónica Marie Zorrilla as a TV reporter.Zorrilla most recently served as a breaking-news reporter at Adweek. At Variety, she will cover the television-programming business, including streaming services, studios, networks and development for all Variety platforms.

Marvel Boss Kevin Feige announced that the title of Peyton Reed’s third Ant-Man is Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, but also that Big Little Lies actress Kathryn Newton was joining as Cassie Lang. She’s the daughter of Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and she has the same powers as her father: the ability to shrink and grow in size. She did get her powers long after her first exposure to Pym Particles. She has the superhero alias Stature.

Time magazine will announce its 2020 Person of the Year tonight in a first-ever broadcast special, but editors named their picks for Entertainer and Athlete of the Year on Twitter today: South Korean K-pop boy band BTS and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran A&R exec Rob Stevenson is joining 300 Entertainment as a partner, the company announced Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Body Brokers, a new crime thriller written and directed by Run with the Hunted helmer John Swab and starring Jack Kilmer and Alice Englert. A release in select theaters nationwide is set for February 19, 2021.

Los Angeles Times, Sheehan had been battling cancer for years and passed awat on Tuesday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered last week.Coined the “Dean of Hollywood Entertainment Reporters,” Sheehan was a founding member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (now Critics Choice Association).Sheehan started his career and broke ground as the first entertainment interviewer and reviewer on Los Angeles television when he joined CBS in 1970.

David Sheehan, who was one of the first television entertainment reporters in Los Angeles broadcast coverage, died earlier this week at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. He was 82 and passed from complications of a stroke.