Imax Promotes Natasha Fernandes To Chief Financial Officer

rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis, had performed as recently as last month but had been in declining health in the past week.He opened Gilley’s, “the world’s largest honky tonk,” in the early 1970s in Pasadena, Texas. Several years later he hit the charts with “Room Full of Roses” and enjoyed follow-up success with a string of hits like “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time” and “She’s Pulling Me Back Again.”Gilley had 39 Top 10 country hits over the course of his career, including 17 No.

Mickey Gilley, a country singer and actor who was featured in the 1980 John Travolta film “Urban Cowboy,” has died. He was 86.

Mickey Gilley, who ran one of the world’s largest honky tonks in Pasadena, Texas and was credited with helping foster country music’s revival in the late ’70s as a key part of the Urban Cowboy film, has died. He was 86 and his death was announced by the Pasadena, Texas mayor, where the club was located.

EXCLUSIVE: The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest producer Geoff Keighley has partnered up with Imax to level up the two annual gaming events.

Nine Inch Nails covered two David Bowie songs as they kicked off their 2022 tour in the US last night (April 28).The performance at Red Hat Amphitheatre in Raleigh, North Carolina, marked the first time the Trent Reznor-led band has taken the stage since 2018.After playing a set of their best-known songs during the first half of the set – ‘Closer’, ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’ and ‘The Frail’ among them – Nine Inch Nails decided to mix things up by playing two tracks in tribute to the late Bowie, Reznor’s friend and collaborator.First, the band played ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’ (watch it below), which Reznor co-produced with Bowie in 1997 and previously covered during their 2018 tour.Nine Inch Nails then gave fans a live rendition of the star man’s 1980 hit ‘Fashion’. Though they hadn’t played the song together before last night, Reznor had previously performed the track during a Bowie-tribute livestream last year.

Nine Inch Nails have revealed the list of support acts joining them on their first US tour since 2018.Boy Harsher, 100 Gecs, Yves Tumor, Ministry and Nitzer Ebb are among the openers personally curated by frontman Trent Reznor. The tour, which was announced back in February, is set to kick off on Thursday (April 28) in Raleigh, North Carolina.The line-up announcement comes after the news that Nine Inch Nails would be replacing Foo Fighters at two festivals this summer, following the death of the band’s drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefImax and Major Cineplex, Thailand’s biggest cinema operator, have struck a deal for three Imax With Laser installations in capital city Bangkok. The agreement will expand the Imax screen total in Thailand to seven.Two of the three installations are upgrades in central Bangkok locations.

Crown Media Family Networks has upped Hallmark veteran Sabrina Wiewel to chief operating officer. She’ll assume responsibility for Crown Media’s corporate strategy and business development, and will lead the company’s non-cable business units, including SVOD, international, publishing, home entertainment, and licensing.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAfrican American-founded, faith-based channel Impact Network is making a big push into entertainment and lifestyle content with the ramping up of its Saturday programming slate, the hiring of a new chief creative officer and executive producer of original content, and the launch of a 6,000-foot production facility in Detroit with a music division, Variety has learned exclusively.The privately owned Impact Network has a reach of 80 million homes and distribution deals with DirecTV, Comcast Xfinity, Charter Spectrum, Verizon Fios, Frontier, Cable Bahamas, Cox and Altice USA. Founder and CEO Bishop Wayne T.

There’s No Security (In The Champagne Room), it seems. It sounds like the dancers at Sapphire need to get themselves some barbed-wire jewelry and have their pasties custom-fitted with mace. Because Page Six hears that the strip club has hired Cuba Gooding Jr.

Carson Burton Trioscope Studios, the entertainment company that created the hybrid animation technology used in “The Liberator,” has hired Chester Rodeheaver to serve as chief financial officer for the company. Brian Lavin and Nikka Duarte were also promoted to executive vice president of development and manager of development, respectively.Rodeheaver recently joined Trioscope from Pont Capital, a strategy and financial consulting firm that he founded with offices in Miami and Dubai. He has advised on a variety of startups, private-equity firms, family offices, investment companies and real-estate investors with his expertise on investment funds, real estate, entrepreneurial strategy, entertainment and finance.

Fernandes, a 15-year veteran of the premium format film company, will report directly to CEO Rich Gelfond. She succeeds Joseph Sparacio, who served as the company’s CFO from 2007 to 2016 and rejoined Imax last year in the same role on an interim basis.

arrested in June 2019 following an incident at a Manhattan nightclub, where a 29-year-old woman accused him of squeezing her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in New York.Following the incident, two more women came forward with allegations of inappropriate touching. The actor was accused of pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touching a woman inappropriately at the LAVO nightclub in 2018.Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding, Jr. has plead guilty to forcibly touching a waitress in New York City.

UPDATED, 12:50 PM: Cuba Gooding Jr. has made a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time over his June 2019 arrest on misdemeanor sex abuse charges. The Jerry Maguire Oscar winner agreed to plead guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to one count of forcible touching, and his conviction would be reduced to a violation and his criminal record cleared if Gooding complies with the terms of his deal.

Fox News reports.The Oscar winner was arrested and released in June 2019 after a woman told police Gooding squeezed her breast without her consent.