Naomi Watts Signs With CAA

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV director Anton Cropper has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

Also Read: Zendaya, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby Among Santa Barbara Film Fest Virtuosos Award HonoreesOther past recipients for the Montecito Award have included Lupita Nyong’o, Melissa McCarthy, Saoirse Ronan, Isabelle Huppert, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Rush, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Javier Bardem, Bill Condon and Naomi Watts.Seyfried will be honored as part of the 36th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival on April 9, and the festival runs

CAA has signed documentarianJamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseriesAfrican Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNaomi Watts is set to headline “Infinite Storm,” the highly anticipated film from Polish helmer Malgorzata Szumowska (“Never Gonna Snow Again”), with Bleecker Street and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions on board.Bleecker Street will take U.S. rights while Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is handling international rights on the film.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAudiences who feel like their movie options have been a little light on actual movie stars this past month get a boost of A-list energy this weekend, between the Justin Timberblake small-town ex-con drama “Palmer” on Apple TV Plus and Netflix’s feel-good “Penguin Bloom,” in which a disabled woman played by Naomi Watts bonds with a baby magpie.But the really starry option is Warner Bros.’ “The Little Things,” a big-budget serial-killer thriller starring three Oscar

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and director Seth Porges (Class Action Park) has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

The new movie Penguin Bloom is now streaming on Netflix and anyone looking for a movie about penguins might be disappointed, but the film is definitely worth a watch.

Penguin Bloom” after she falls from a Thailand hotel balcony, shatters her spine and is paralyzed from the waist down. Sam and her three young boys discover the sweet little bird, hurt and malnourished, under a bench and nurse it back to health. The kids call the black-and-white magpie Penguin, and his recovery parallels Sam’s own struggle to get her life back.Running time: 95 minutes.

straight-to-series order in October 2019. It is being eyed for a 2022 premiere and stars Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy.Just last week, news broke that HBO was developing another prequel, based on Martin's fantasy novellas. HBO passed on its other prequel, which had shot a pilot led by Naomi Watts. For more on , watch below.To stay up to date on breaking TV news, sign up for ET's daily newsletter.

Naomi Watts is shining a light on disability and healing from trauma with an unlikely hero at its center in her new drama Penguin Bloom. The film is based on the true story of Australian mother Sam Bloom who, while vacationing in Thailand over the holidays with her husband Cameron and three boys, fell 20 feet from the roof of their hotel's balcony after a rusty railing gave away and fell to the concrete below.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterKrysten Ritter has signed with CAA for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively.Ritter joins the agency from WME. She continues to be managed by Kyle Luker at Industry Entertainment and Steve Caserta at Principal Entertainment LA.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked screenwriter Matt Lieberman.

Game of Thrones spin-off show is in the works after a Naomi Watts-fronted prequel failed to be greenlit to a series.Tales of Dunk and Egg is a prequel to the events of A Song Of Ice And Fire – the books the fantasy drama series was adapted from – and would be based on the three fantasy novellas by the saga’s author George R. R. Martin.The one-hour show would follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and a young Aegon V.

reports. The show would follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and a young Aegon V Targaryen (Egg) 90 years before the events of .Martin's three novellas were released in 1998 (), 2003 () and 2010 (). If moves forward, it would be the second prequel at HBO. received a series order in October 2019, just after the networkpassed on its other prequel, which had shot a pilot starring Naomi Watts. Based on George R.R.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actress Alexandra Shipp.

It’s been a long while since “Master of None” became a critical darling and award-winning comedy series for Netflix. In fact, it’s been nearly 4 years since Season 2 debuted on Netflix in 2017.