LA-Based Sobini Films Teams With Motoko Kimura & Yintai Investment For Movie Development Fund — Cannes

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Cinemart, the documentary team of directors Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason and producer Mike Gasparro, is partnering on the documentary LuLaRich with Based on Media’s Blye Faust and Cori Shepherd Stern.The doc will investigate LuLaRoe, the billion dollar clothing empire which has recently been accused of misleading thousands of American women with their multi-level marketing platform.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kevin Garnett’s Content Cartel is partnering with Village Roadshow Television, Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions and Marc Levin’s Blowback Productions to develop Lo Lifes: Stealing The American Dream, a scripted series based on the story of the 1980s Brooklyn street crew. The Lo Lifes formed in 1988 from the marriage of two shoplifting crews from Brooklyn: Ralphie’s Kids from Crown Heights, and Polo U.S.A.

(This article does NOTcontain any spoilers for the Apple TV+ film “Greyhound” starring Tom Hanks)Even 75 years after the end of World War II, the subgenre of films about that global conflict is going strong.

HBO Max is breathing new life in an acclaimed short film with a sweetly powerful message.

BTS member RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook dressed to kill as they sat down for a special interview this weekend. The Bangtan Boys are releasing their new Japanese album, Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey ~.

The Office.Baker, who played Stanley Hudson in all nine seasons of the US version of The Office, teased the “Uncle Stan” project in a new Instagram video.In a post accompanying the video, Baker wrote: “It’s True! I’m really back! Uncle Stan coming soon!“The Kickstarter (Link In Bio) will be going live at 12pm PST. Tomorrow, Thursday (July 2nd) is the big day! I’m excited to share this project with you!”You can see the full post below.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana movie Spencer, which is set to star Kristen Stewart as the former royal, was a hot seller for FilmNation out of the Cannes virtual market.The New York-based firm all but sold out on the project, closing deals for the UK, France, Italy and Benelux (STX Entertainment), Germany and Switzerland (DCM), Australia/NZ (Roadshow), Latin America, Spain and Portugal (Sun), South Korea (Green Narae) and Japan (Tohokushina).Buyers

Is that a diamond we see? Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson sparked engagement rumors with a ring photo on Instagram. The speculation started after the Good American designer took to her Instagram on Tuesday, June 30, to share a photo of her and her siblings, Kendall Jenner and Rob Kardashian, from her 36th birthday part over the weekend. The picture showed Khloé with a big smile on her face as she posed between Rob and Kendall.

Penny Dreadful creator John Logan returns to his dark, televisual universe for a new spin-off series.

NEW YORK -- Kimberly Jones, the author and activist whose "How Can We Win?” video following the murder of George Floyd was shared online by Lebron James and Trevor Noah among others, has a deal for two books. Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that for the first book Jones will expand upon the 3-minute video, in which she likened the economic history of Blacks in the United States to a rigged game of monopoly.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSaban Films has bought North American and UK rights to Jared Cohn’s Reactor starring Bruce Willis as the leader of a gang of mercenaries who holds a nuclear power plant hostage.Casting is underway for the lead role, a former soldier who takes down Willis and his crew. Cohn wrote the script with Cam Cannon and Stephen Cyrus Sepher.

Loch Ness monster has been spotted for the fifth time this year.Kalynn Wangle claims to have seen the mythical creature on June 3.The 27-year-old's sighting has since been confirmed by the Official Loch Ness Monster register.It comes not long after a walker allegedly spotted the beast and took the 'best snap ever' of her.Kaylnn didn't see Nessie in real life.The Loch Ness monster enthusiast, from Oregon, United States, was watching Urquhart Bay via webcam.She claims Nessie appeared for around

NEW YORK -- Kimberly Jones, the author and activist whose “ How We Can Win ” video following the murder of George Floyd was shared online by Lebron James and Trevor Noah among others, has a deal for two books. Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that for the first book Jones will expand upon the 3-minute video, in which she likened the economic history of Blacks in the United States to a rigged game of monopoly.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorSaban Films has acquired North American rights to John Berardo’s Initiation. The horror crime thriller was previously selected for a world premiere in the Midnighters section at SXSW under its original title Dembanger.

Jamie Lang A bit of luck and a bit of good planning has seen Spanish arthouse production company Potenza Films board upcoming historical drama “The Cardinal” in a now four-country co-production with Chile’s Storyboard Media, Argentina’s Magma Cine and Brazil’s Gullane.Already a massive period drama proposal from the Latin American producers, the COVID-19 pandemic would have been a much greater threat to production had Potenza not joined.“This was key because it allowed us to complete our

Lin-Manuel Miranda is talking about Hamilton.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine India has optioned Damyanti Biswas’s bestselling Indian crime novel You Beneath Your Skin to develop as a multi-part drama series, with all proceeds from the option going towards social enterprises in the author’s native New Delhi.Set in contemporary New Delhi, the multi-strand narrative concerns an Indian-American single mother and her autistic teenage son, whose comfortable middle-class lives are turned upside down by a police