David Rodriguez, Director-Producer of 'Animal Kingdom' and 'The Chi', Dies at 50

It’s a great irony of Hollywood that actors become stars due to their onscreen excellence, yet the fame that results can wind up interfering with the work that made them celebrities in the first place.

Janet W. Lee Lance Heflin, former executive producer of “America’s Most Wanted,” died Nov.

Also Read: 'Extraction' Executive Producer David Guillod Arrested Again After New Sexual Assault AccusationDuring the walk, Doe said that they came upon a park that was “darker and more secluded” than any other part of the walk.

Former CAA motion picture agent David Neumann has launched Newmation, a management company for film and TV animation creators. Neumann's initial clients include Oscar winner Hugh Welchman (Loving Vincent), Anita Doron (The Breadwinner) and Gary Trousdale (Beauty and The Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Dave McNary Film ReporterNetflix has signed “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps Entertainment to a first-look deal for features and extended his current television overall deal.Levy signed his overall TV deal with Netflix in 2017, a year after “Stranger Things” became a hit for Netflix. The series has been renewed for an upcoming fourth season and has made stars out of its cast members, including Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard and others.

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Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Origin Pictures’ David Thompson, producer of Catherine The Great, The Woman In Gold and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, is teaming with Sixth Sense Productions’ Richard Harding (The First Grader) on feature sports biopic Tether, about celebrated blind athlete Henry Wanyoike.The film will tell the remarkable story of the promising Kenyan runner who was struck blind after complications from a mild stroke at just 21.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerWolf Entertainment remembered director/producer David Rodriguez tonight with a tribute to him on One Chicago, the NBC Wednesday lineup of Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D and Chicago Med..Rodriguez, whose credits include The Chi, Queen of the South, and episodes of all Chicago fseries, died October 29 from complications of a stroke. He was 50.He worked in Corrections and Law Enforcement, including serving time as an undercover narcotics officer in South Florida.

David Robb Labor EditorWME partner Rick Rosen claims in court documents filed Wednesday that WGA West executive director David Young “repeatedly threatened to ‘kill’ me” during a heated phone conversation in August, as the guild and the agency were trying to work out a deal to end their ongoing legal standoff.Rosen said that he was so alarmed by the alleged threat that he called WGA West president David A. Goodman to complain about it, but didn’t get a satisfactory response.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWGA West executive director David Young is accused of threatening to “kill” WME veteran Rick Rosen during a phone call in August, according to legal filings that mark the latest twist in the litigation between the guild and Hollywood’s two largest talent agencies.The declaration by Rosen came as part of a motion WME filed asking a federal judge to intervene to force a settlement in the long standoff between WME and WGA over the guild’s new rules of engagement

A new online platform for Black content and creators is set to launch next year with buy-in from a stable of top talent. Blacktag is preparing the early 2021 debut of its platform, which will include both user-generated and premium produced content, with $3.75 million in backing led by Connect Ventures, the investment group launched by CAA and New Enterprise Associates.

It’s probably not a good idea to attack uniformed security guards. A guest at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Fla., reportedly assaulted a security guard in a seemingly unprovoked incident on Oct.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerWalter C. Miller, an award-winning television director and producer who served as an executive producer, producer and consulting producer for the CMA Awards for more than 40 years, died Friday night in Nashville.

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Discovery CEO David Zaslav forecasts high demand for his soon-to-launch direct to consumer streaming service, to be unveiled in December, because of a specific viewer: His mother. "I had to go to my mom's house to get her on Disney+ so she could watch Hamilton.

Pete Davidson’s whirlwind engagement to Ariana Grande began (and ended), his ex-girlfriend Cazzie David is finally telling her side of the story.The 26-year-old actress and daughter of comedian Larry David was dating Davidson, also 26, for over two years when she hit pause on their relationship in May 2018.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Four months after TV lit agents David Stone, a partner at WME, and Ben Jacobson, a partner at UTA, left their respective agencies to launch The Framework Collective, the management company has solidified their roster of clients, I have learned. It ranges from established producers, creators and showrunners to next generation voices, a number of whom were former clients of Stone and Jacobson on the agency side.

Naman Ramachandran Documentary producer turned Democratic politician Jon Ossoff’s hard-fought bid for one of two Georgia Senate seats will now go to a runoff election in January.Republican incumbent David Perdue had 49.8% of the vote while Ossoff was a close second with a 47.9% vote share.According to Georgia state law, if no candidate gets a simple majority of the votes in the ongoing election, the top two candidates move forward to a Jan. 5 runoff.