MGM Inks Two-Year First-Look Deal With Top Israeli Banner Tadmor Entertainment

The Walt Disney Co. on Monday announced an overall first-look deal with Colin Kaepernick.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorColin Kaepernick has signed an overall first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company via his Ra Vision Media. The partnership will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity, and will provide a new platform to showcase the work of Black and Brown directors and producers.

Dirty Films — the production banner from Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton — has signed a first-look film deal with New Republic Pictures. New Republic, run by producers Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer, was behind the Elton John biopic Rocketman and Sam Mendes' World War I drama 1917.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Aaron Altaras, star of Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series Unorthodox, has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for U.S. representation.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple is adding another international co-production to its streaming repertoire.The streamer has boarded the Israeli psychological thriller series “Losing Alice.” The show is produced by Israel’s Dori Media Productions in association with HOT. The eight-episode series is currently airing on HOT and will stream worldwide later this year on Apple TV Plus.The series hails from creator Sigal Avin, who served as director in addition to writing.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorApple TV+ has picked up its second Israeli drama series this month after taking the global rights to neo-noir thriller Losing Alice.Apple has partnered with Dori Media on the eight-part show, which is currently airing on HOT in Israel.

Also Read: River Road Entertainment Taps MACRO Producer Kim Roth as Chief Creative Officer“One of the most important aspects of what we do at MACRO is to identify and uplift Black voices in front of and behind the camera,” added MACRO TV Studios president Marta Fernandez who is overseeing both series for the studio. “Kevin is an exciting new producer with fresh ideas and a point of view not always put forward in television.

Ben Croll Israeli multi-hyphenate Dani Rosenberg marks his feature debut with “The Death of Cinema and my Father Too,” a self-reflexive hybrid film that mixes fact, fiction and autobiography as it grapples with the big questions.Presented under the Cannes 2020 label and sold internationally by Films Boutique, the film follows a rising director as he tracks his father’s final days, camera in hand, telling a story culled from Rosenberg’s experience and interspersed with footage from his own

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Menemsha Films has picked up North American rights to Tribeca Film Festival entry Asia, starring Unorthodox actress Shira Haas.The Israeli drama, directed by Ruthy Pribar and co-starring Alena Yiv, is a mother-daughter story of a young, free-spirited single mother named (Yiv) and her daughter (the fast-rising Haas), who is coming of age and living with physical disabilities.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSaban Music Group (SMG), the music company bearing the name of entertainment mogul Haim Saban, has entered into a global administration deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the companies announced today.Running SMG since its July 2019 launch is Gustavo Lopez, himself a Universal Music Group veteran.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is searching out international formats with U.S.

Israel, one of the most LGBTQI friendly countries in the world, is likely to add another rainbow feather in its cap.The BBC reported that Yorai Lahav-Hertzano (31) from the Blue and White party will be sworn in next week to become the sixth openly gay Member of Parliament.The Knesset, national legislature of Israel has 120 seats, which means that 5% of Parliamentarians are now openly gay, including two cabinet ministers.“It’s rewarding to see an increase in the number of members of the Knesset

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSalma Hayek has signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO Max. As part of the pact, the actress, producer, director and Oscar nominee will first bring projects to the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service for potential development via her Ventanarosa production company.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSalma Hayek and her production company, Ventanarosa, have signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO Max.Under the deal, Hayek will bring projects to HBO Max first for potential development. Jose Tamez, president of Ventanarosa, will serve as her producing partner.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMatthew Cherry has signed a first-look development deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.Cherry is best known for his Academy Award-winning project “Hair Love,” an animated short film about an African-American father attempting to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.Under terms of the multi-year deal, Cherry will develop new television programming for all platforms, including cable and streaming.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Kids+Family is partnering with Lion Forge Animation, the company behind 2019 Oscar-winning animated short film Hair Love after the two companies struck a first-look deal.The division of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s company will partner with David Steward II’s business to co-develop short-form project, TV series and digital stories.Lion Forge Animation, which launched less than a year ago, produced Hair Love, the animated short directed by Matthew

Peter White Television EditorMGM has struck a first-look television deal with Israeli production company Tadmor Entertainment, founded by oil and gas entrepreneur Gideon Tadmor.The deal will see The Handmaid’s Tale producer develop and co-produce original scripted series for global audiences with the company, which has offices in LA, New York and Israel.

Model Bar Refaeli has agreed to serve nine months of community service in Israel as part of a plea deal over tax evasion charges.

Model Bar Refaeli has agreed to serve nine months of community service in Israel as part of a plea deal over tax evasion charges.The beauty and her mother, Tzipi Refaeli, had been under investigation in their homeland for several years amid allegations suggesting they had misled tax authorities about Bar’s earnings and whereabouts from 2009 to 2012.They claimed that for 2009 and 2010, she had been living in the U.S.