Marlee Matlin, ‘CODA’ & John Krasinski Saluted at Media Access Awards

Josh Ramsay is teaming up with Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger for a bold new throwback anthem called “Lady Mine”. 

The 2014 French drama La Famille Bélier centered on a young woman growing up in a family with deaf parents, but for the most part the filmmakers cast hearing actors to play the deaf roles. Writer-director Siân Heder was determined not to take that same approach when she set about making CODA, her award-winning adaptation of the French film, and thus began her collaboration with actress Marlee Matlin.

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Emilia Jones has a big career ahead of her!

Fans got a cool reminder this week that Stanley Tucci and John Krasinski are related.

Stanley Tucci and John Krasinski share something in common besides being famous actors — they’re also brothers-in-law, with Tucci married to literary agent Felicity Blunt, sister of Krasinski’s wife, actress Emily Blunt.

They’re here to save the world. And beg for treats.The first full trailer for Warner Bros.

Former Netflix Director of Original Series Carolyn Newman has joined John Morayniss’ fledgling Canadian production venture Blink Studios, with Transplant exec Virginia Rankin also signed as In-House Exec.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentCelebrated by a VIP evening event at Lisbon’s imposing Jerónimos Monastery, CNN and partner Media Capital will bow CNN Portugal today at 21:00 GMT, marking the biggest news launch for many years in Portugal.A 24-hour Portuguese-language channel, CNN Portugal will be run by Media Capital, Portugal’s largest media conglomerate  which also owns top broadcast network TVI and Plural Entertainment, one of the country’s biggest production entities.Media

Yet another disaster we didn’t even know about was averted on The Office!

The Office, in which his character Jim cheats on wife Pam.The actor appeared in the US version of the workplace comedy from 2005 to 2013, during which time Jim and Pam would become a central couple in the show’s storyline and also fan favourites.However in the show’s eighth season, it was suggested that Jim would kiss a temporary office administrator who takes over from Pam while she is on maternity leave.

Baumgartner posted to Instagram. “I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, ‘I’m not going to shoot it.'”“There is a threshold with which you can push our audience.

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. 

Not every idea the “Office” writers had got past John Krasinski.

CODA writer-director Siân Heder was joined by stars Marlee Matlin and Emilia Jones at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles to discuss the drama, which set a record when Apple paid $25 million-plus to acquire the film after its opening-night premiere at Sundance,

The stars are stepping out for the 2021 Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards!

Jesse Metcalfe and Chad Michael Murray have teamed up for an action cyber-thriller that is being released next month!

Tim Gray Senior Vice President“CODA” may be the most radical Oscar contender this year.Writer-director Sian Heder tells Variety, “We told a simple story about family dynamics. I was trying to portray a complicated family that felt real.”She’s right: The structure is straightforward and the story is indeed simple, about a hearing daughter from a deaf family who wants to pursue her own career.But the film is revolutionary because it centers on a deaf family.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe decision to make a second season of Netflix global hit “Squid Game” is a sound one, according to analysis firm Media Partners Asia which finds that Korean and Thai content have the strongest cross-border travel potential within the Asia-Pacific region.The company’s “Netflix in the Asia Pacific: The Scalability of Local Content” report is based on passive measurement of 30,000 streaming consumers in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines,