Former AMPAS President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Named Director of Arizona State University Film School

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Legendary music exec Clarence Avant‘s wife Jacqueline “Jackie” Avant has been shot and killed at home during a home invasion.

Curley Culp was a Hall of Fame nose tackle who won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.Curley Culp was drafted as a defensive lineman out of Arizona State in 1968 by the Denver Broncos. The Broncos wanted him to play offensive guard instead of defense but that did not work out so they traded him to the Kansas City Chiefs.

The University of Southern California has landed one of the biggest fishes in college football, naming Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley to take over its faltering football program.

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Joaquin Phoenix hits the red carpet for a special screening of C’mon C’mon at Fine Arts Theatre on November 16, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentCheryl Boone Isaacs has been named founding director of the newly established Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State U. Boone Isaacs will be director of the three-campus film school starting Jan. 1.

Julio Lugo was a former Major League Baseball shortstop who won the World Series in 2007 with the Boston Red Sox.Julio Lugo was a Dominican-born shortstop who played for seven teams during his 12 year Major League Baseball career. In 2007, he won a World Series ring with the Boston Red Sox when they they swept the Colorado Rockies.

Veteran Marketing and Public Relations executive and former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named to serve as Founding Director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Boone Isaacs who is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will begin as director the new three-campus  film school at ASU  starting on January 1, 2022.

Red Arrow Studios has agreed to sell Gravitas Ventures, the prolific narrative film and documentary distributor with a 3,000-title catalogue, to Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a multi-platform media company with offices and studios in Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville, New York, Kansas City and Toronto.

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Woods, a scripted podcast series from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment, is being lined up for a television adaptation.