HBO Max Launches Sixth Annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition

Keeping up with clues! Kylie Jenner welcomed her baby boy on Wednesday, February 2, and fans believe she named her little one Angel.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has given a pilot green light to Cal Fire, a drama from SEAL Team star Max Thieriot, Grey’s Anatomy alums Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Studios where the company is based. This is CBS’ second in-cycle drama pilot this season, joining a mother-and-son legal drama from Scott Prendergast and Dr. Phil McGraw.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterA+E Networks has promoted Sharon Scott to president of the company’s unscripted division, including Category 6 Media and Six West Media.In this newly created role, Scott, who most recently served as executive vice president of Category 6 Media, will have oversight of A+E Network’s expanding full-service nonfiction content creation unit. She will continue to report directly to Paul Buccieri, president and chairman of A+E Networks Group.Additionally, A+E Networks has upped Steve Ascher, who was previously executive vice president of Six West Media, to oversee development for the company’s entire unscripted division, including Category 6 Media.

Dominic Ianno, John Baldecchi, Alex Dundas and Griffin Gmelich have partnered to launch Los Angeles-based Roundtable Entertainment, we can reveal. The company will produce scripted and non-scripted content across film, episodic and podcasts, and will also distribute.

Dakota Fanning and Andrew Scott are hard at work on the set of their new series!

Actor-producer Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars) today announced the launch of Dunshire Productions, a new Los Angeles-based creative content and production studio that she’s partnered on with longtime creative collaborators including director-producer Morgan Sackett (The Good Place, Hacks), director, producer and editor Dean Holland (The Good Place, The Unicorn), Bailey Brand Management founder Troy Bailey and multidisciplinary designer and creative director, Benjamin Hart.

HBO Max has released the list of movies and TV shows being removed from the streaming service in February 2022, and it’s huge.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterWarner Bros. and HBO Max has nabbed “Am I OK?,” a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson as a woman grappling with her sexuality.

The deals keep coming at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. MUBI closed the docu Free Chol Soo Lee, including North America, and Warner Bros is negotiating a near $7 million WW rights deal for the Tig Notaro/Stephanie Allynne film Am I Ok? to place the film on HBO Max. The Lauren Pomerantz-scripted film stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, and Sean Hayes.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeCBS will utilize this Sunday’s AFC championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals to unveil a new fan-centric marketing campaign tied around the theme “Get Into Something Good.”And here’s the unique angle to the spots that viewers will see on Sunday: They don’t actually include clips from the shows. Instead, they focus on the superfans behind series like “Survivor,” the “FBI” franchise and freshman comedy sensation “Ghosts.”“We’re trying to really break some norms and look at things differently,” said CBS president and chief marketing officer Mike Benson.

Carol Speed, who lit up the screen in the cult blaxploitation film The Mack died on Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Okla. She was 76 her family announced her death in a statement published online, but did not specify the cause.

shortlist.Turner’s “Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day” looks back at the history of lynching in America through the ways they’ve been documented on souvenir postcards from 1880 to 1968.Turner described how photographers would take pictures of the lynchings and create postcards of the imagery that people would then send to their friends and family. She says that while the imagery was “graphic,” she tried to focus viewers’ eyes on the amount of people attending the lynchings and the fact that families were there, rather than the lynching itself, to properly contextualize the point in time.“We’re going beyond the brutality of the body itself, but that is also part of what I want viewers to confront,” she said.

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Bana (Munich) and Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina) have been set to star in Ridley Scott-produced thriller Berlin Nobody, which Protagonist and Augenschein will be launching sales on at the virtual EFM next month.

Joe Biden is back to his old self.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTrailblazing host and producer B. Scott has signed with WME in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively.Last March, the longtime media personality became the first out, trans non-binary personality in the history of BET. They anchor and executive produce an after-show companion to the network original “Twenties,” created by Lena Waithe.B.

Zooey Deschanel, 42, and her boyfriend Jonathan Scott, 43, had a cordial meet with her ex-husband Jacob Pechenik, 49, while giving the producer he and Zooey’s two kids: Elsie Otter, 6, and Charlie Wolf, 4. The exes seemed friendly, and everyone looked like it was a pleasant and short meet up on Monday January 24 in the new photos, which you can see here, via DailyMail. Both Zooey and Jacob seemed like doting parents, while the actress gave the kids to their dad.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the launch of the new interview series, “Seen.” Nick Barili, an Argentinean-American journalist, director, writer and producer, sits down for one-on-one conversations with some of the most influential artists and filmmakers with Latin-American and Spanish roots. The first season of the web series will include Academy members John Leguizamo, Eva Longoria and Oscar-nominee Edward James Olmos (“Stand and Deliver”), as they discuss their personal journeys, culture and breaking down barriers in filmmaking.Leguizamo will lead the first episode as he explores his beloved New York City and maneuvering through the industry over his long career, also covering the topics of colorism and tokenism.

Dakota Fanning and Andrew Scott chat with the crew of their new show Ripley during a break from filming their show Ripley on Friday (January 21) in Venice, Italy.

John Stamos has published his eulogy to Full House costar Bob Saget, noting how “Bob was there for me like no other.”

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann is ready to rip on Heat 2, a novel he has written with Edgar-winner Meg Gardiner that expands the tapestry of his 1995 crime classic film. The surprise here: the novel coming August 9 from William Morrow through the HarperCollins-based Michael Mann Books imprint will tell an original story about the lives of the characters in that movie both before and after the events depicted in the movie. (Watch the book’s trailer, accompanied by Moby’s ‘God Moving Over the Face of the Water,’ the famed final music that plays at the film’s end).