‘Our Planet’ Producer Silverback Films Launches Studio Silverback For Environmental Impact Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

Roger Berlind, a producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals and the winner of 25 Tony Awards, has died. He was 90.

James McClain One of 2020’s biggest deals in the historic Los Feliz neighborhood was the transfer of this lovely Mediterranean compound, which sold for exactly $7 million last month. Built in 1928, the house was restored and extensively upgraded by the sellers, filmmaker Guy Shelmerdine and his wife Ashley Jacobs.The estate’s new custodian is Andrew McClain Hershey, a Cleveland, Ohio native and current Brooklyn, N.Y.

Comedian John Mulaney exhibited signs of a relapse during a bizarre skit he performed with Seth Meyers weeks before he checked into rehab, according to a new report. The former "Saturday Night Live" writer entered a rehab facility in Pennsylvania over the weekend, according to Page Six, following an alleged relapse consisting of alcohol and cocaine abuse.

Will Thorne Staff WriterTaika Waititi has set another series at FX.The prolific filmmaker, who already has “What We Do in the Shadows” heading into a third season at the network, is teaming with Native American writer and director Sterlin Harjo for half-hour comedy “Reservation Dogs.”“Reservation Dogs,” which has been handed a series order by FX, follows four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma who spend their days committing crime and fighting it.The pilot was co-written by Waititi and Harjo

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively acquired a new feature thriller pitch from screenwriter Sean O’Keefe to be produced by Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho. The project is billed as being in the spirit of Ron Howard’s 1996 action kidnap thriller hit Ransom but with a female bent.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi director Shahad Ameen‘s feminist fable “Scales” has been selected as Saudi Arabia’s official candidate for the Oscar in the international feature film category.“Scales” draws on Arabic folklore about a young woman named Hayat – played by newcomer Basima Hajjar – who rebels against the tradition in her fishing village of sacrificing female children to monstrous mermaids lurking in the sea.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSingapore-based mini-conglomerate GHY Culture Media made its debut on the local stock exchange on Friday. In early trading its shares traded up by more than 6%.The company was founded and remains headed by screenwriter and producer Guo Jingyu and has significant mainland Chinese connections.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has nabbed North American rights to South African Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie,” a queer war film that is set against the backdrop of a South African border war. The indie studio will release the film in April 2021.Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFor the first time in its 63-year history, BBC Studios’ renowned Natural History Unit is setting up shop outside the U.K. In 2021, the NHU will launch a permanent satellite office in Los Angeles.The NHU is behind some of the world’s most iconic natural history programs, including “Blue Planet II” and “Planet Earth II,” which have been watched by more than a billion people globally.

It’s going to be hard to top this experience. A North Dakota hunter was on his first hunt for bighorn sheep when he shot a ram that will likely set a new state record.

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The performances will take place at different music venues that have been closed this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Bacon is organizing “Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change," featuring Bon Jovi, Jon Batiste, Machine Gun Kelly, Snoop Dogg, Maren Morris and Sheryl Crow, at venues in Nashville, Tennessee; New York City and Los Angeles.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFormer Amazon Studios executive Bianca Gavin has joined “Gangs of London” producer Pulse Films as it looks to grow its scripted pipeline.Gavin joins Pulse as head of production for scripted television and film, and will be the primary production point of contact for all projects, from development through to delivery.

, as Gal Gadot tells ET the franchise was an all-hands-on-deck effort. The sequel brings Gadot back as Diana Prince, with director Patty Jenkins once again at the helm and includes the unexpected return of love interest Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine).«I couldn't imagine doing another one without him,» Gadot tells ET, crediting Pine as a key reason why the first movie was such a success.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamers Sundance Now and UMC have inked a deal for the North American, Caribbean, Canadian, and UK rights to South African horror series Dead Places.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterProducers Stephen Robert Morse and Max Peltz are joining forces to launch a new production entity, Lone Wolf Studios.The full-service production, sales and financing film and television company will have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.

TV giant All3Media has acquired natural history specialists Silverback Films. The production company, founded in 2021 by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, was behind the recent documentary David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, which had a worldwide theatrical release at the end of September, becoming the widest-ever documentary release in British cinema history, before launching globally on Netflix.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn April 2020, just when “The Challenge” audience was getting used to sheltering in place in their own homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MTV launched the “Total Madness” season of that reality competition series, which sealed its contestants off from the general public and housed them in a bunker, due to its post-apocalyptic theme.Having shot that season before the pandemic swept the globe meant that production on “Total Madness” was business as