Diane Weyermann Dies: ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Producer & Longtime Chief Content Officer At Participant Was 66

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.

Gregg Goldstein Documentary features and docuseries have become some of the most popular and profitable content around — especially for streamers — but what makes a project rise above the sheer volume of nonfiction fare now flooding the marketplace? That’s the question on the minds of top doc producers, directors, dealmakers and distributors who, on the eve of the American Film Market, are all searching for the secret ingredients that will distinguish the next breakout nonfiction projects.In

Gene Walsh, who rose to head NBC’s Press & Publicity departments on both coasts during a three-decade career at the network, has died. He was 87.

All about elegance! Stars slipped into stunning, chic and sparkly ensembles for the American Ballet Theater’s Fall Gala, which was held on Tuesday, October 26.

Diane Kruger sparkles on the red carpet while arriving for American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Gala held at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night (October 26) in New York City.

Ed Sheeran is causing Saturday Night Live producers to panic.

Former top ABC News producer Michael Corn Friday asked the New York State Supreme Court to throw out a sexual assault suit against him by one of the show’s staffers saying it’s past the statute of limitations and that the allegations are false.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe former top producer of ABC’s “Good Morning America” has asked that a sexual-assault lawsuit filed against him be dismissed, citing New York’s statute of limitations on harassment claims and alleging the plaintiff in the case has fabricated claims against him.A lawsuit filed in August in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by ABC News producer Kirstyn Crawford raised troubling allegations that Michael Corn, a longtime senior producer at ABC News who

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a move aimed at powering up more content for the massive U.S. Hispanic market and beyond, leading indie production shingle BTF Media has teamed up with L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (ACI) to develop and produce a slew of Hispanic productions with predominantly U.S.

Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way that documents and catalogues videos, recordings, and other media highlighting the actions, incendiary rhetoric, and lies or misrepresentations made by conservative politicians and activists, was the first to share the clip of Robinson’s speech at Asbury Baptist.Among the assertions Robinson made in his speech were that public schools teach children how to “hate America,” that they overemphasize issues of racial and cultural diversity

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coronavirus cases surged in New York and the state shut down most court matters.Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.A few months later, Gooding was charged in two additional incidents as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse.He was accused of pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touching

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Jenevieve Brewer, who founded her Jenevieve Brewer Talent Management in 2015, has passed away. She was an agent at About Face Talent for 10 years and a manager at Terrific Talent before setting out on her own.

Addie Morfoot ContributorDiane Weyermann, chief content officer at Participant and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died Thursday of cancer in New York. She was 66.For the last three decades, Weyermann played a seminal role in supporting the documentary community and shaping the nonfiction landscape during stints at Participant and the Sundance Institute.