Marvel Sues Heirs Of Legendary Comic Creators In Hopes Of Keeping Copyrights To ‘Avengers’ Characters

EXCLUSIVE: Georgina Campbell (Apple TV+’s upcoming Suspicion), Nick Blood (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Wai Ching Ho (STXfilms’ Hustlers) have signed on to star in Lovely, Dark, and Deep, a psychological horror film from Midnight Mass scribe Teresa Sutherland, which has entered production in Portugal.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios’ longtime Chief Operating Officer Albert Cheng, who also has served as Co-Head of Television for the last three and a half years, will focus solely on his duties as COO going forward, with Co-Head of Television Vernon Sanders becoming Head of US/Global Television at Amazon Studios. The announcement was made this morning by Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, in a companywide memo obtained by Deadline.

No one seems more determined to will their franchise into being than Ivan Reitman and his Ghost Corps. company.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHenry Cheng Kar-shun, who is the chairman of property development group New World Development, has taken control of I-Cable, Hong Kong’s largest cable TV network operator and the territory’s second largest pay-TV operator.Cheng-owned company Celestial Pioneer disclosed that it had struck deals that give it 72% ownership of Forever Top, a company that owns a 43% stake in I-Cable.Celestial said that it was buying 40.5% of Forever Top from two existing investors.

Cenk Uygur is not scared of fighting Joe Rogan.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAndy Cheng has earned tremendous kudos as the fight choreographer of the bus scene in Marvel’s recent “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The scene took nearly a year to plan and execute, but serves to demonstrate Simu Liu’s previously-hidden skills to an open-mouthed Awkwafina, and has since been released by Marvel as a standalone YouTube clip.Cheng is now hard at work trying to shape the next Asian superhero as action director, stunt coordinator and

Jamie Chung squeezes Daniel Dae Kim in a hug inside the HBO APA Visionaries After-Party held at Majordomo over the weekend in Los Angeles.

K.J. Yossman Marvel filed four lawsuits on Friday seeking to block comic book creators and their heirs from seizing control of copyrights to such major characters as Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.The move comes after heirs of several Marvel authors filed dozens of termination notices with the U.S.

Marvel is launching a lawsuit to protect their characters.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has added nine actors in recurring roles to the upcoming series “The Girl From Plainville,” Variety has learned exclusively.Chinasa Ogbuagu (“Mare of Easttown,” “Nurse Jackie”), Kelly AuCoin (“Billions,” “The Americans”), Scott William Winters (“Oz,” “City on a Hill”), Kristin Griffith (“Succession,” “The Devil All the Time”), Ella Rubin (“The Chair,” “Gossip Girl”), Megan Lawless (“The Hate U Give,” “Play by Play”), John Henry Ward (“Yes, God, Yes,” “Murder Chose

Mario Camus, the acclaimed Spanish writer-director behind La colmena, Young Sánchez, The Holy Innocents and more, died in his hometown of Santander on September 18. He was 86.

London Fashion Week on Monday.   The television presenter, 37, looked stunning in the goth-meets-girly smock dress, which boasted black leather puff-sleeves and a pink floral ruffle skirt.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterStalwart Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso has been promoted to president of physical and post production, visual effects, and animation production.The 15-year veteran will oversee those departments across all Marvel film and series efforts.

San Sebastian Film Festival is in mourning as Spanish director Mario Camus, celebrated for his sober but caring adaptations of distinguished Spanish novels such as “La Colmena” – written by Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela – Ignacio Aldecoa’s “Young Sánchez” and “The Holy Innocents” by Miguel Delibes, died on Saturday in Santander, northern Spain, the city where he was born.

A Georgian chess champion has launched a $5-million defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line of dialogue referencing her in the chess-themed series “The Queen’s Gambit”.

Jessica Chastain isn’t the only connection between “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and the upcoming Paramount+ “George and Tammy” limited series. Abe Sylvia, a co-executive producer on “The Affair” and “Dead to Me,” is the screenwriter.