Kobe Bryant’s Promising, Unfulfilled Entertainment Industry Legacy

Haley Bosselman editorCAA has promoted Albert Lee, Bryant Barile and Stephanie Smalling to agents in its motion picture literary department.

Creative Artists Agency has promoted Bryant Barile, Albert Lee and Stephanie Smalling to agents in its Los Angeles-based motion picture literary department, which directs CAA's film activities.

Pilot error has been blamed for the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant and eight others, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna, last year.

A24 has picked up the U.S. rights to Swedish writer-director Ninja Thyberg's porn industry drama Pleasure after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

A24 has acquired the U.S.

Volition Entertainment has hired film and television manager Luna Wise as its newest addition.

Polin Cohanne, an entertainment attorney who represented Martin and Charlie Sheen, the TV talent show Star Search and Aaron Spelling Productions, has died. She was 70.

Shaquille O’Neal says the one-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna‘s tragic deaths was a really “tough day.”

Shaquille O'Neal says the one-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna's tragic deaths was a really «tough day.»While speaking to ET via Zoom on Wednesday, the former Los Angeles Lakers star admitted it's hard to believe that a year has already passed since Kobe, Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California.«I'm sort of a tough cookie, but I was more worried about [Kobe's] parents,» Shaq told ET's Nischelle Turner.

When Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted regional stay-at-home orders across California on Jan.

Los Angeles Lakers memorabilia at a makeshift memorial outside the Staples Center, the arena where Bryant became a city icon during a two-decade playing career. Bryant, 41, his daughter and fellow passengers died on January 26 last year when the helicopter they were travelling in slammed into a hillside in Calabasas in foggy conditions.

 Kobe Bryant’s  family has asked the NBA and all of its teams not to hold tributes for the late Los Angeles Lakers legend.January 26, 2021 marks the one year anniversary of the helicopter crash that took the lives of Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and 7 others.

Antonio Ferme authorOne year ago on Tuesday, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter accident outside of Calabasas, Calif. He was one of nine confirmed dead, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, six family friends and the pilot.

Hollywood stars are paying tribute to the late basketball icon Kobe Bryant on the one-year anniversary of his death. On Jan.