LADbible Group’s LADstudios Hires Vice Media’s Clare Priestley as Head of Production (EXCLUSIVE)

LA-based Hackman Capital Partners just announced its latest project — working with the City of Toronto to develop a new complex called Basin Media Studios amid a production boom in that city and a global race to expand capacity to accommodate the explosion of TV and film production. 

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Jane Campion is not a fan of superhero movies. “I hate them,” the Oscar winner told me at the AFI Fest screening of her new drama, “The Power of the Dog.” “I actually hate them.”Campion offered her thoughts when I asked if she would be interested in directing a superhero movie.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterBron Media Corp. has named executive Josh Miller to a top new role in the non-scripted space.Miller will serve as a senior vice president at Bron Life, a vertical at the award-winning company dedicated to unscripted film and television.

Olivia Munn and John Mulaney have a lot on their plate!

Rockstar has added a secret big head mode to GTA: The Trilogy, which fans can unlock by using an infamous cheat code.The secret cheat code allows players to run around in GTA: Trilogy with enlarged heads, along with every other character in the game.

Time for war. John Mulaney’s divorce from Anna Marie Tendler has gone on for long enough, and he wants it to be over by the time his girlfriend, Olivia Munn, gives birth.

Prairie Surf Media has named former Starz executive Paul Goldman as Executive Vice President, Head of Production at the company and its new Oklahoma-based Prairie Surf Studios.

World Productions Boss and YouTube EMEA Head Win RTS Fellowships

It has been confirmed that Matthew Hutchins, the husband of the late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has hired a law firm that specializes in wrongful death lawsuits.

Deadline has confirmed that the husband of late Rust DP Halyna Hutchins, Matthew Hutchins, has hired personal injury-wrongful death litigation LA-based firm Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi with Brian Panish acting as lead counsel.

An aspiring Corrie star has plastered her face on a billboard at Media City in a bid to be cast in the soap.

EXCLUSIVE: Carolina Groppa has joined Issa Rae’s ColorCreative Management and Hoorae Media in the new position of Executive in Charge of Production. She will report to ColorCreative president Talitha Watkins.

Kyle Pleva has been named vice president of corporate communications for the U.S. at Vice Media Group.

Emiliano De Pablos Medellín-based Héroe Films, the production company behind Henry Rincón’s “The City of Wild Beasts,” an HBO Max-Outsider Pictures pickup for the U.S., is teaming with Panamanian director Arturo Montenegro’s Q Films (“Everybody Changes”) to produce Paloma Valencia feature debut, “El susurro del río” (“The Whisper of the River”).Héroe is also partnering with Colombia and U.S.-based 36 Grados and Colombian director-producer Felipe Martínez’s Proyectil on “God Level,” a “City of

Adele has announced two huge shows at London’s Hyde Park next summer.The singer is set to perform on July 1 and 2 for her first shows in the UK since 2017.“Oiii Oiiiiiiiii,” Adele wrote on Instagram announcing the dates.Fans can sign up here from 8am today (October 26) to access Adele’s pre-sale which begins at 10am on Thursday (October 28).

Clare Crawley and Dale Moss sure sound like they are done for good this time — so no wonder she isn’t holding back any more!