MTV Launches Initiative To Bolster Content From BIPOC And Women-Owned Production Companies

Disney this morning has named Alan Bergman as Chairman, Disney Studios Content, with Alan Horn continuing to serve as the division’s Chief Creative Officer.

Lee Isaac Chung is maybe not a filmmaker that you’re familiar with yet, but after you watch “Minari,” you’re definitely going to want to see everything he works on in the future. While not his first feature film, “Minari” is the big breakout feature that is sure to launch the indie director into the Oscar discussion as we end 2020 and enter 2021.

German studio Leonine is acquiring Munich-based production company SEO Entertainment effective January 1, 2021.

Lena Waithe is launching a mentorship program to give marginalized storytellers a boost. Waithe’s production banner, Hillman Grad Productions, has unveiled the Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab, a program designed to provide opportunities for marginalized storytellers to connect, grow, and accelerate their careers in television and film, according to today’s announcement.

British writer Charlie Mackesy is teaming with Oscar-nominated producer Cara Speller (Pear Cider And Cigarettes) to form production company NoneMore Productions, which will focus on developing his works for the screen.

“I've been wanting to do a menswear line for over a decade,” says Janie Bryant, the Emmy-award winning costume designer behind Mad Men. In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec.

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Sherwood has unveiled his next venture, almost two years after he stepped down as President of Disney-ABC TV Group and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks in March 2019, after Disney’s acquisition of key Fox assets was completed.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAnthony Padilla, one of YouTube’s OG creators, rose to internet fame with Smosh — performing goofy, comedic sketches with his longtime friend Ian Hecox.In the three years since exiting Smosh, Padilla has been a solo act on his YouTube channel, which just hit 5 million subscribers.

Range Media Partners has signed CrichtonSun, the LA-based archive, publishing and production company of late author Michael Crichton which is overseen by President Sherri Crichton and her producing partner, Laurent Bouzereau.

Every director has one big project that never materialized but still serves for interesting thought experiments, from Darren Aronofsky‘s “Batman: Year One,” Stanley Kubrick‘s “Napoleon,” to Guillermo del Toro‘s hundred different passion projects (but really, especially “At the Mountains of Madness“). Despite his very successful career with practically blank check status, there is one film Christopher Nolan has never been able to do, a Howard Hughes Biopic.

Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley are set to star in a biopic about iconic dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Amazon Studios and Automatikare behind the movie — titledFred & Ginger —which will be directed byThe End of the F*ucking World creator Jonathan Entwistle.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNascar champion Jimmie Johnson is getting ready to take part in a different sort of race.The veteran driver, a seven-time Nascar Cup Series champion, has started a new production company.

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in the UK on C.S. Lewis biopic The Most Reluctant Convert, directed by BAFTA-winner Norman Stone (Shadowlands).

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA film about the life of comedy icon Carol Burnett has found its writer-director.The adaptation of Burnett’s bestselling memoir, “Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story,” will be helmed by Tara Miele, whose feature “Wander Darkly” opens this Friday.

With two fairly successful films under his belt in the “Kingsman” franchise, filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is still prepping his prequel film, “The King’s Man” for release sometime…in the future? Honestly, with how movie theaters are doing right now, we have no idea where/when we’ll see “The King’s Man.” That said, it appears that Vaughn’s production company, MARV, is far, far, FAR from done with the franchise and has several new sequels and spinoffs in the works.

fainting on live TV in a Statue of Liberty costume.Executive produced by Williams herself, “Wendy Williams: The Movie” charts the host’s “scrappy upstart days in urban radio” to her current status has host of her own syndicated talk show.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group is committing $250 million over the next three years to nurturing content from women- and BIPOC-owned and operated production companies, by providing them with funding, production infrastructure, services and staff.Unscripted executive producers Lashan Browning and Adam Gonzalez, who last year inked overall deals with MTV Studios, will create their own third-party production ventures with an equity investment from MTV Entertainment.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAllison Baver, a three-time Olympic athlete, is expanding her footprint in the world of entertainment.

French execs Valérie Billaut, Stéphane Cadoch and Hugues Laigneau are launching Paris-based production company Taleseed.