IATSE Hails Canada’s Move To Save Its Arts & Entertainment Industries; Plan Could Require Companies Like Netflix To Remit Sales Tax On Digital Sales

MGM has signed a two-year second look film production deal with Plan B Entertainment. As part of this new pact, Plan B’s Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner have set several projects with the studio, an original sweeping love story from writer and director Lee Isaac Chung and Cory Finley’s film adaptation of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel Landscape With Invisible Hand. Finley will write and direct the adaptation and Annapurna Pictures will produce with Plan B.

In today’s Global Bulletin, Amazon Prime Video snags Champions League rights in Italy, Dhanush joins the Russo brothers’ “The Gray Man,” Leigh Tavaziva joins the BBC as COO and “Big Brother Célébrités” finds its broadcaster in French-speaking Canada.Amazon Prime Video has confirmed Italian reports that it has snapped up rights to exclusively broadcast 16 top UEFA Champions League soccer matches on Wednesday nights, live in Italy, along with the UEFA Super Cup, for three seasons from 2021/22.The

George Clooney, one of seven industry figures interviewed for this week’s Variety cover story.

As negotiations continue in Congress for a year-end Covid-19 relief deal, those connected to the live entertainment industry made an appeal to a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday for the urgent need of a lifeline.

Kylie Jefferson wants everyone to know ballerinas come in every shape, size and colour, and hopes Netflix’s newest drama “Tiny Pretty Things” can prove that.

Congrats are in order for Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden – the royal couple just announced that they are expecting their third child!

Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden have revealed some very happy news: Sofia is pregnant with the couple's third child."We are happy and excited, and are looking forward to welcoming our third child—a sibling for Prince Alexander and Prince Gabriel, and a new addition to our family," the couple said in a statement.

The Prom, Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical .You know the rest: The 25-year-old is the centerpiece of the film, singing and dancing her heart out alongside little-known actors like Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and James Corden. It’s her first feature film role…ever.

Sofia Richie loves who she’s “becoming.” The model, 22, shared a quote to her Instagram story on December 10 that seemingly referenced her ex Scott Disick, 37. Sofia and Scott, who began dating in 2017, when she was 19, split over the summer and now he’s dating  Amelia Hamlin, 19.

Ella and Alexander Clooney are already taking after their famous parents,  George  and  Amal Clooney . The proud father of two revealed which of his three-year-old twins is more like his wife in a new interview with  Entertainment Tonight Canada .

Disney has revealed more details of its international launch of general entertainment streaming service Star.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLarge parts of South Korea’s entertainment industry are reeling as the national government put capital city Seoul on the country’s second highest virus response footing.

Naman Ramachandran Canadian production house Frantic Films has scored several sales deals on factual series “High Maintenance” and “Killer In Plain Sight,” via deals brokered by U.K.-based distributor Abacus Media Rights.Hulu has taken U.S. rights to true crime series “Killer in Plain Sight,” originally commissioned by Investigation Discovery.

George Clooney is a man of many talents.

Bill Nighy To Narrate C5/Smithsonian River SeriesLove Actually and Shaun Of The Dead star Bill Nighy is to narrate a six-part Channel 5 and Smithsonian Channel Canada series, titled World’s Most Scenic River Journeys. The exploration of famous rivers is a co-production between Argonon’s BriteSpark and Blue Ant Studios’ Saloon Media, who will shoot in Europe and North America respectively to get around Covid-19 travel restrictions.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian actress Laurence Leboeuf, who is currently starring in NBC’s ER drama Transplant, has signed with Gordon Gilbertson and Michael Borden at management firm Gilbertson Entertainment.