‘Dignity’ Producer Maria Elena Wood Powers Up Own Shingle (EXCLUSIVE)

BritBox, the U.K. content-focused streaming service launched by BBC Studios and ITV, has promoted Emily Powers to executive vp and head of Britbox North America.

For decades, we’ve heard stories of immigrants arriving in the United States in search of the American Dream. Sadly, for many of them, the dream never comes to fruition.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWe’re only days away from the second coming of Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, and Variety has an exclusive clip of one of his many misadventures.From producer and star Sacha Baron Cohen and distributor Amazon Prime Video, the sequel to Cohen’s hit 2006 mockumentary returns again to the United States to probe cultural divides — this time, with his teen daughter (reportedly played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova) in tow.On a pit stop in the Carolinas, Borat

Emma Roberts is taking on an exciting new project.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has handed a series order to First Kill, a YA vampire series based on the short story by New York Times bestselling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, with American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Emma Roberts set to produce via her Belletrist Productions.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has handed a series order to First Kill, a YA vampire series based on the short story by New York Times bestselling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, with American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Emma Roberts set to star and produce via her Belletrist Productions.

 Mariah Carey  is so ready to vote that she will also take her glam squad to the ballots on November 3rd. The award-winning singer took social media to share a snap of her and her team.

Megan Thee Stallion has published a powerful new op-ed championing Black women which also sees her address the alleged Tory Lanez shooting incident.In a piece for The New York Times titled Why I Speak Up For Black Women, Megan opened by observing how Black women have become “a highly courted voting bloc” who are “expected once again to deliver victory for Democratic candidates” in next month’s US election.“Despite this and despite the way so many have embraced messages about racial justice this

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes HBO is development a limited series about the rise of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private rocket company that is in the midst of reviving the United States’ space aspirations.The six-episode series would tells the story of Musk as he handpicks a team of engineers to work on a remote Pacific Island where they build, and launch, the first manned SpaceX rocket into orbit — the Falcon 9 — on May 30, 2020.

Christopher Vourlias New series “Lafayette” will be presented this week at the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA), the film and TV market taking place in Rome. Variety spoke to the show’s producer Nicolas Deprost, CEO of the French production outfit Wild Horses, and writer, Oscar winner David Franzoni (“Gladiator”), ahead of the market.

Heartbreaker singer shares twins Monroe and Moroccan with US TV and music star Nick Cannon.The star appeared on Watch What Happens Live recently to discuss her memoir, The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.Talking with host Andy Cohen, she told how Moroccan, affectionately known as Rocky, has been subjected to bullying.The Grammy winner said: “Rocky just got bullied the other day by a white supremacist person that he thought was his friend.“It's like, insane.

Spitting Image producers have claimed NBC backed out of airing the show in the US due to “too much nervousness”.Executive producer Jon Thoday, who also founded Avalon, told The Times that the US broadcaster was on board until just six weeks before the scheduled premiere date.“It’s basically quite a difficult show to do in the environment that exists, particularly if you’re attacking tall poppies,” Thoday explained.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: APA has signed writer-producer and creator David McKenna.McKenna’s feature writing credits include such notable pics as New Line’s Oscar-nominated American History X and Blow, the Warner Bros. Sylvester Stallone movie Get Carter, Sony’s 2003 reboot of SWAT starring Samuel L.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Raimi Productions and Starlight Media’s supernatural horror film, Umma, starring Golden Globe winning actress Sandra Oh, who also serves as executive producer.Iris K. Shim, wrote the screenplay and will make her feature film directing debut, making the film the first horror studio film written and directed by a Korean American woman and starring a Korean American Actress.

Also Read: Clark Middleton, 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blacklist' Actor, Dies at 63 From West Nile VirusBorn in The Bronx, after graduating from Michigan State University, Edward S. Feldman was hired by 20th Century Fox to work as a writer in the studio’s press book department in Manhattan.