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Kendrick Lamar labelmate Isaiah Rashad is back with his first single of the year, ‘Lay Wit Ya’.Memphis crunk rapper Duke Deuce features on the new song, which is the latest from the Tennessee MC’s next record ‘The House Is Burning’.

Apple TV+ has given a 10-episode series order to Hello Tomorrow!, a half-hour dramedy headlined by Emmy-winning The Morning Show star Billy Crudup who will also serve as an executive producer. The series, directed by Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F***ing World), hails from MRC Television and Mortal Media.

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding will play Mr. Elliot opposite Dakota Johnson’s Anne Elliot in Netflix and MRC’s current day feature take of Jane Austen’s classic novel Persuasion. 

Apink has signed a contract with YG Entertainment as an actress.Earlier today (May 3), YG Entertainment spokesperson told South Korean media that it has signed an exclusive contract with “the multi-talented Son Naeun”. The agency said that ut will provide support for Son as she faces “an important period in which she is making a new start as an actress”.

In another timeline, Taylor Swift opened the brand new 70,000 seat Sofi Stadium in the summer of 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 made sure that didn’t happen in this world.

T-Street — the production banner run by director Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman — and Knives Out studio MRC Films have launched a new label to produce low-budget films from emerging filmmakers. The venture, which was announced by the T-Street principals and MRC's Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will produce three to four features a year from up-and-coming filmmakers, with creative and financial backing from the companies.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterT-Street, the production company formed by filmmakers Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman, are partnering with MRC Films for a new label supporting low-budget indie films.The unnamed venture has set a mission of supporting emerging filmmakers “who have a singular voice and a distinctive point of view,” an announcement said.The label hopes to streamline the complicated process of producing low-budget indies, making three to four films per year to start with modest

MRC Film and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street are hatching a new label designed to tap emerging filmmaking voices and support up and coming artists with distinctive points of view. The new venture was unveiled this morning by MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman and T-Street cofounders Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman. T-Street’s Ben LeClair will oversee day-to-day management.

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EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company, Magnolia Entertainment, has added manager Michael Klein to further expand its literary division, and its international client roster and production activities. Klein’s clients include filmmakers, Evil Eye directors Rajeev & Elan Dassani,  Never Back Down director Kellie Madison, Loteria writer Felipe Vargas, Oscar nominated animator/director, Javier Recio Gracia and Korean production company Zanybros.

Another married Hillsong East Coast pastor has left the megachurch following a sex scandal. Darnell Barrett — the creative director of Hillsong’s Montclair, New Jersey, chapter — resigned on Tuesday after allegedly sharing a revealing post-workout selfie with a church volunteer and trying to play it off as a mistake, the Daily Mail reported. “Hey! I think I might’ve added you to my close friends list by accident. I’m so sorry.

Kendrick Lamar album could be on the way following a teaser post from Top Dawg Entertainment boss Anthony Tiffith.The cryptic post, shared on social media today (April 28), said “THE WAIT IS OVAH!!!” with a teaser video of a retro ‘loading’ bar.

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Film, through its Elizabeth Cantillon-led romance label, has optioned feature rights to the bestselling Nicholas Sparks novel The Return. Perhaps this sparks the return of romantic films, a genre that the author has contributed to with 11 filmed novel adaptations that include The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, Nights in Rodanthe and Dear John. The Notebook is being adapted into a musical with music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDiscovery revealed the big challenge behind getting involved in the media industry’s streaming wars: A new broadband hub can bring in millions of new customers — but it also requires millions of dollars in investment.The New York owner of Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its flagship Discovery cable outlet said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit slumped after it ramped up spending for content and marketing related to Discovery Plus, the streaming-video outlet it

EXCLUSIVE: MRC and the Knives Out tandem of Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman are back in business.

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