Pantaya, Pantelion Strike First Look Deals with El Estudio, The Lift and Traziende Films (EXCLUSIVE)

RuPaul is getting animated!The host and television personality lends his voice to Disney Channel's in Saturday's episode, and only ET exclusively premieres an official photo (see above) the first clip of RuPaul in animated action.Season 3 of finds Anne Boonchuy (voiced by Brenda Song) and the Plantars transported from Amphibia to her hometown of Los Angeles, where the frog family must learn to navigate the complexities of this modern-day world, conceal their identities as talking frog people and

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has entered into a first-look film deal with CrossCheck Studios, the production company founded this year by internet entrepreneur and mega-influencer Josh Richards and co-presidents Michael Gruen and Chris Sawtelle.

Anna Marie de la Fuente After a record-growth year fueled by pandemic-induced lockdowns, São Paulo-based VOD data and content aggregator Sofa Digital will be launching a Latin American film investment fund, Sofa Capital, on Nov. 9.As the number of streaming platforms proliferate and demand for online content continues to mount across the region, Sofa Digital plans to set up a fund that will enable it to produce 100 Latin American titles a year by 2024.

Naman Ramachandran Variety can exclusively reveal the first look at Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce in “A Spy Among Friends,” a limited series for BritBox U.K. and Spectrum.“A Spy Among Friends” is based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre.

Talk about losing momentum. It’s been three years since FX’s critically-acclaimed “Atlanta” show aired, and if the long-awaited and overdue season three doesn’t air by March 2022, it’ll have been four years in-between seasons.

Ted Lasso actor Phil Dunster has given an update on when season three of the hit Apple TV+ show will begin filming.Via Variety, Dunster said filming on the Emmy award-winning show is due to begin in the new year, on January 31 according to Variety journalist Marc Malkin.Dunster added: “Honestly, I’m not trying to be coy, but I don’t know anything,” he said when asked about what fans could expect from the new season.“I think they like to keep it fresh.

Matt Hausfater, Teddy Riley, and Aaron Buchsbaum, creators and executive producers of the upcoming Amazon Original adult animated comedy series Fairfax, have signed first-look deals with Amazon Studios. Under the pacts, they will create and produce projects via their The Adorable Trio production banner to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Six months after departing from Searchlight Pictures, that studio’s former Co-Chairman Nancy Utley is opening the doors to a new production company Lake Ellyn Entertainment which will produce film and TV content in a first-look deal with Chernin Entertainment.

Naman Ramachandran Variety can reveal the first look poster and trailer of the long awaited sequel to all-time British kids’ classic film “The Railway Children” from Studiocanal. Studiocanal is launching global sales on the film at the virtual AFM (Nov.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Hamilton” Tony nominee Christopher Jackson has signed a first-look deal with CBS Studios to produce across all platforms, including broadcast, streaming and premium cable.“I’m looking forward to continuing my partnership with CBS in this new capacity,” Jackson, whose work as George Washington in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” earned him Tony and Grammy nominations in 2016, tells me exclusively.

Coronation Street is gearing up for more emotional scenes as stars of the soap were spotted filming for a funeral.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRandall Einhorn and his Sad Unicorn banner have moved to Warner Bros. Television with a multi-year first-look deal, Variety has learned exclusively.Einhorn previously had an overall deal at ABC Signature.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a move aimed at powering up more content for the massive U.S. Hispanic market and beyond, leading indie production shingle BTF Media has teamed up with L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (ACI) to develop and produce a slew of Hispanic productions with predominantly U.S.

David Henrie will be playing a young Ronald Reagan in the upcoming film Reagan, which will be the first full-length feature film about the 40th U.S. president.

The Blacklist is turning over a new leaf.When season 9 kicks off Thursday, two years will have passed since the events of the finale and the death of Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Things have dramatically changed in the intervening years, with the Task Force disbanded, its team members in very different places and Raymond Reddington (James Spader) nowhere to be found.

Selome Hailu editorNetflix has acquired “The Henna Artist,” a series being developed by Sri Rao as an adaptation of Alka Joshi’s novel of the same name.Freida Pinto will star in and executive produce “The Henna Artist,” which is set in 1950s Jaipur, India and follows Lakshmi (Pinto) as the city’s most in-demand henna artist.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken in for development The Henna Artist, a series based on Alka Joshi’s bestselling debut novel from Miramax TV, with Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) attached to star and executive produce and Michael Edelstein executive producing. The project will be written and executive produced by Sri Rao as part of a first-look deal Rao has signed with Netflix.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh ’s first TV series, based on his 2008 novel Crime has released its first trailer.