How My Uncle, Hank Aaron, Guided My Career Path (Guest Column)

Editors note: Hanelle Culpepper received an NAACP Image Award nomination earlier this month for her work directing the pilot for CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Picard, which made her the first Black director and first female director to launch a movie or series in the Star Trek universe. The veteran TV helmer, who directed three episodes of Picard‘s Season 1, has penned a guest column for Deadline about her personal and professional perspective on the industry and the challenges achieving equality.

I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the pain of being told that you can’t talk to the most important person on your representative team because your union disagrees with his agency about packaging. It is the kind of loss you can only understand if you’ve emailed an executive’s assistant all by yourself to re-re-reschedule a meeting.

Editors note: Before he founded and became CEO of the Universal-based family film factory Illumination, Chris Meledandri was tasked with building an animation division at Fox. Early on, the president of Twentieth Century Fox Animation in 1998 acquired Blue Sky Studios for the studio.

Jay Ruderman The entertainment community prides itself on taking the lead in advocating for social change; consider its threat to curtail film and television projects in Georgia due to their laws limiting women’s access to abortion.

Carletta Higginson My earliest memories of Black History Month elicit images of Harriet [Tubman], Rosa [Parks], and Martin [Luther King Jr.]. Black and white visuals of the Civil Rights Movement were bookended by memorizing famous “firsts.” Every February, we engaged with Black life in the way one might a museum, quickly surveying each exhibit, reading brief summaries of pioneers and past relics.

direct to your inboxKate Garraway has challenged Matt Hancock in their first meeting since her husband became seriously ill with coronavirus. The Health Secretary appeared on Thursday's Good Morning Britain which was being hosted by Kate and Ben Shephard.

Discuss: does director David Leitch have the best cast of 2022 with “Bullet Train”? Because on top of starring Brad Pitt and a slew of interesting, top-shelf actors, the action thriller just added Sandra Bullock to the cast.

Sandra Bullock has hopped aboard Brad Pitt's. The actress is the latest star to join Pitt in the upcoming Sony action movie, according to multiple reports.  was first to report the news.

Sandra Bullock is the latest addition to the upcoming movie, Bullet Train.

Ellise Shafer administratorSandra Bullock is the latest star to come aboard Sony Pictures’ action thriller “Bullet Train,” Variety has confirmed.Bullock joins an ensemble cast jam-packed with stars, including Brad Pitt, Joey King, Lady Gaga, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Logan Lerman, Bad Bunny, Andrew Koji, Brian Tyree Henry, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, Hiroyuki Sanada and Karen Fukuhara.The details of Bullock’s role in the film are currently unknown.

Lisa Cortes This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.— Carter G. Woodson (1933)The invites always come as the year turns over.

Editors note: Gale Anne Hurd, a producer of films and television shows including the Terminator trilogy, Aliens, Armageddon and The Walking Dead, writes about the recent passage of a new copyright provision that targets streaming piracy, making it a felony to operate a large-scale, for-profit service. 

Delroy Lindo I started writing these words on Jan.

To a young generation, The Standard — which closed on Jan. 22, 2021 — was where they all came of age in Hollywood.

Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union’s members “stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to convert existing entertainment venues and convention centers into vaccination sites in order to get shots into the arms of Americans as rapidly as possible.” The Broadway League also promised support for the effort, joining other owners and operators of live venues in offering locations and staff to assist in

Wendy Williams is ready to level up in 2021!ET exclusively spoke with the talk show host via Zoom this month, where she shared her big plans for the new year and the qualities she's looking for in her next boyfriend («hopefully husband») now that she's single.Williams, who was married to Kevin Hunter for nearly 22 years, finalized her divorce from the TV producer last January.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentWarner Bros.’ “The Little Things” launches Jan. 29, marking the end of a 28-year journey for writer-director John Lee Hancock.

It’s 5 a.m., and my whole body is shaking. Not because I’m cold or having a caffeine or drug withdrawal, but because I have been up for 18 hours straight, six days a week, for the past three months, working on an unscripted TV show.

Sarah Kate Ellis Guest ColumnistIn 2014, my wife and I were invited to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll. When I first came out as a lesbian, I never imagined standing next to an Easter bunny in front of the White House balcony alongside my wife and our two kids.