Documentary+ Taps Sundance Senior Film Programmer Charlie Sextro As Editor-In-Chief

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorShaquille O’Neal says he turned to The General when he was in college and no one would give him a good price on car insurance. “When I was in college, The General was the only insurance I could afford,” he says in an interview.These days, he’s helping the company win new recruits.Once known primarily for sprinkling dozens of direct-response ads around cable, The General is changing tactics.

NEW YORK -- The Reuters news service has promoted Alessandra Galloni to be its new editor-in-chief, making her the first woman to take that role in the company's 170-year history.The London-based Galloni will replace Stephen Adler, who has been the newsroom's leader for the past decade and announced that he will be retiring at the end of the month.Galloni has been Reuters' global managing editor since 2015, coming to the company two years before that after working for 13 years at the Wall Street

Soul, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman and The Cuban were among the film winners at the 2021 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. The Trial of the Chicago 7's "Hear My Voice" won best song written and/or recorded for a film at the virtual event on Sunday night celebrating achievement in music supervision in film, TV, games, advertising and trailers.

Film and television development executive Jessie Henderson is joining Apple Studios as a feature executive, reporting to Apple Original Films’ Matt Dentler, head of features. Henderson, who joins the company next week, will be part of the growing Apple Original Films team based in Los Angeles, which includes feature executive Lejo Pet, who recently joined Apple from Paramount Pictures.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterPaul Dano will join Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical film about his family, playing a version of Spielberg’s father, Arnold.The project is loosely based on Spielberg’s childhood in Arizona in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with Williams playing a version of his mother, and Rogen playing a version of his favorite uncle.

Fox has unveiled its summer schedule, setting premiere dates for Season 3 of Rob Lowe-hosted Mental Samurai (May 25), Hell’s Kitchen Young Guns (May 31), Season 2 of Lego Masters with Will Arnett (June 1), Masterchef: Legends (June 2) and Season 4 of Beat Shazam (June 3), hosted by Jamie Foxx.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJason White has worked to capture attention for Nike, Apple’s Beats and cannabis products. Now he’s bringing his marketing acumen to the world of TV.White has been named chief marketing officer for ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group, a heady job that involves touting MTV, Comedy Central and Smithsonian Channel among other popular media brands.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDisney’s search for a new leader for ABC News continues weeks after the company unexpectedly disclosed the former president, James Goldston, would leave the post.Goldston’s last day came at the end of March and the company has yet to hone in on a candidate to replace him, according to four people familiar with parts of the search process. When ABC News heads like David Westin or Ben Sherwood left in years past, Disney identified a successor.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEarlier this year, South London musician DWY (pronounced “Dewey”) released a concept album called “8-Bit Memories.” The tracks varied from “Black Boy,” an observation of society, to “Summers Over,” a song about growing up.Now the singer-songwriter has a short film, titled after the album, which producer RadicalMedia is planning to take on the festival circuit.

The ReelAbilities Film Festival is set to open with Michael Parks Randa and Lauren Smitelli’s inclusive musical romancer Best Summer Ever, executive produced by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Amy Brenneman, and Mary Steenburgen. Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard and Benjamin Bratt have cameo roles in the feature shot with a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities and which bowed at SXSW.

Jimmy Fallon and Addison Rae caught backlash after performing dances on "The Tonight Show" without crediting the Black creators that came up with the routines.  The TikTok star appeared on the late-night show Friday to perform a series of eight dances that have been taking the popular social media site by storm.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis year’s Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival will include 10 feature and 41 short films.Among the feature titles are “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Caught,” “Crystal Diaries,” “Chosen Fam,” “Forgotten Roads,” “Kapana,” “Ma Belle, My Beauty,” “Nowhere,” “See You Then,” “Summertime” and “Unapologetic.”The shorts include “Mariam,” about a young Arab American amateur drag queen, and “God’s Daughter Dances,” the story of a trans woman in South

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMemphis rapper NLE Choppa was arrested Sunday in Davie, Fla.

When Machine Gun Kelly left for Puerto Rico in March 2020 to film Midnight in the Switchgrass opposite Megan Fox, he had been dating model Sommer Ray, 24. He even invited her to come visit him on the island, but ended up falling hard for his co-star Megan instead.

Waka Flocka Flame is stressing to fans the importance of a dad being there for his daughter, and showing it as well. In July 2020, he and wife Tammy Rivera thew a Beauty & the Beast themed quinceanera when her daughter Charlie — who Waka has raised as his own — turned 15-years-old.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBuzzFeed announced Danielle Belton, currently the top editor of G/O Media’s The Root website, as the new editor-in-chief of HuffPost.Her appointment comes after BuzzFeed earlier this month laid off 70 HuffPost employees — eliminating nearly 30% of the site’s U.S. newsroom positions — and took other cost-cutting moves following the acquisition of HuffPost from Verizon Media.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Edinburgh TV Festival has appointed fashion designer Tan France as international editor of its advisory board, while Screen Scotland will be a joint headline sponsor for the event alongside YouTube.France is known as one of the Fab Five in Netflix’s Emmy-winning makeover hit, “Queer Eye.” The NY Times best-selling author and influential tastemaker also fronted Netflix’s global fashion design competition series “Next in Fashion,” and also hosts popular celebrity

Victoria Beckham has once again got us swooning over her summer style. The star looked as trendy as ever as she shared a video over on her Instagram in a matching linen set from her newest collection.READ: 11 celebrity brides with coloured wedding dresses: Victoria Beckham, Kaley Cuoco, Gwen Stefani and moreTalking about the set over on her Instagram, she wrote: "Today’s look! Love this matching set from my Spring Summer collection.