Gaumont Hires Former Amazon Studios Executive Michelle Sullivan As Its Animation & Family VP

Dave McNary Film ReporterMichael Franklin, who used to serve as the top executive at the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America West, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 96.Franklin served at executive director for the WGA West for two decades before becoming the first national executive director of the DGA in 1978.

David Robb Labor EditorMichael Franklin, who served as the top executive officer of both the DGA and the WGA West, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 96.An attorney, Franklin served as executive director of the WGA West — where he spent two decades — before being was hired by the DGA as its national executive director in 1978.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Michelle Obama will bring her voice to Spotify’s global streaming platform later this month with the launch of “The Michelle Obama Podcast.”

Amber Heard's former aide, Kate James, told a London court that the actress stole her story of sexual abuse and made it her own to receive mass sympathy.James gave her testimony remotely from Los Angeles, in support of Johnny Depp in his trial against The Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton.

Amber Heard‘s former personal assistant has accused the actress of having “stolen” her story of being “violently raped” in evidence given in Johnny Depp‘s libel claim against The Sun.Kate James accused Heard, 34, of “twisting” her own account of the machete-point rape in Brazil almost three decades ago ”for her own use”.Appearing via videolink from Los Angeles on Wednesday, Ms James said she discovered the Aquaman actress had “stolen my sexual violence conversation with her and twisted it into

Lea Michele looked somber and lost in thought as she walked around Los Angeles on July 14, holding her baby bump through her sundress. The actress, 33, was spotted just one day after her Glee co-star, Naya Rivera, was found dead of an accidental drowning. Naya’s body was found on July 13, the seventh anniversary of Lea’s fiancé, Cory Monteith‘s passing.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorAlan Donnes, who worked as a stand-up comic before producing films, acting, doing radio, writing about sports and running National Lampoon, died July 8 of bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles. He was 57 and had been hospitalized for three weeks.

Edwin T. Vane, a longtime television executive at NBC, ABC and Group W Productions, died June 26 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his family announced.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerEdwin T. Vane, a former ABC television executive and president of Group W Productions, died of natural causes on June 26 in Los Angeles.

It looks like Zachary Quinto‘s gift was too big to wrap!

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorA judge ruled on Thursday that former Bachelorette contestant Chad Johnson had proven multiple causes of action against a movie producer and studio he sued for sexual harassment. Johnson sued Sunset Studios Entertainment LLC and Cristina Cimino, an executive for the company, in Los Angeles Superior Court in July 2018.