Content Boom Fuels Diversity Gains for Film and TV Talent

Gabrielle Union revealed that her America’s Got Talent exit was her hardest moment in the industry so far.

Lee Daniels, Lulu Wang and Taraji P. Henson are among the talent participating in a series of virtual panels about inclusion and equity in Hollywood hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The masks are on, both for celebrity contestants and the crew as The Masked Singer has returned to production.Deadline understands that Fox’s mystery talent format has resumed production on its fourth season ahead of its fall premiere, which is set for September.The show went back in production today at Red Studios in Hollywood with rigorous health and safety protocols in place.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThailand is famous for having a tourist industry that repeatedly bounces back from military coups, natural disasters, and unfortunate man-made incidents.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina’s Tencent Music Entertainment has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Thailand’s GMM Grammy.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterParts of Thailand aren’t necessarily responding well to the Imelda Marcos documentary The Kingmaker directed by Lauren Greenfield. The country has banned the pic in the South.Thida Polpalitkarnpim, the founder of the Documentary Club in Thailand, posted on Facebook that they would be showing the docu, but has since pushed the screening.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAmerican-made documentary “The Kingmaker” has been banned from screening to audiences in the South of Thailand.The film, about the life of infamous political wife Imelda Marcos, was written and directed by Lauren Greenfield.

Also Read: Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Signs First-Look Deal With AppleDiCaprio recently worked with Sony on Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to Hollywood, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” which earned the actor his 7th Best Actor Oscar nomination.Appian Way has produced several films starring DiCaprio, including three-time Academy Award-winner “The Revenant,” Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning “The Aviator,” and

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmAppian Way Productions’ Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson have set the production company into a multi-picture, multi-year first look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce scripted feature films.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterClayton Davis, an experienced journalist who has covered film awards season for 15 years on his website AwardsCircuit.com, is joining Variety as film awards editor as of Sept. 1.As the editor-in-chief and owner of AwardsCircuit, Davis has become an influential voice in Hollywood when it comes to covering the annual Oscar race.

SAS soldier who was a bodyguard for Sir Billy Connolly has been laid to rest in a poignant ceremony in Thailand. David Penman was renowned for his bravery after he pulled an injured comrade from a burning plane in 1999.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJordan Fisher got quite emotional when he saw the poster for his new Netflix coming-of-age comedy “Work It” because the cast is so diverse. Of the nine actors featured on the poster, seven are people of color.

pronounced Yosemite as “Yo, Semites.”Also Read: Watch Trump Pronounce 'Yosemite' as 'Yo-Semites' (Video)“Yo, Semites, who wants to take a trip to Thighland?” the journalist Lesley Abravanel tweeted.“When you see ‘Thighland’ trending there are really only two options. An infomercial gone horribly wrong.

Either Donald Trump read phonetically off a teleprompter or he had upper legs on the brain with a word gaff while on the campaign trail in Clyde, OH on Aug. 6.

What’s old is new again in Hollywood.

In the 30 years since the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990, only small gains have been made in Hollywood as far as on- and offscreen representation in the industry goes.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSeveral dozen young protesters took to the streets of Bangkok on Monday dressed in Harry Potter costumes.

Fixer Upper is coming back to television. The hit renovation and design series will return with new episodes on Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network, which launches in 2021.