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Caroline Brew editor Within a week of the 146-day Writers Guild of America strike ending, all seven writers in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2022-2023 have landed jobs. “Now that writers’ rooms have resumed, our ParamountWriters Mentoring Program has demonstrated remarkable success, with all seven 2022-2023 season participants securing staff positions in a matter of days.
This achievement highlights the invaluable support, guidance and exposure the Mentoring Program provides to emerging writers,” said Marva Smalls, executive vice president and global head of inclusion at Paramount, in a statement. “We’re incredibly excited for their future prospects and remain ever committed to diversity and inclusion in the television industry.” Camille D’Elia has been staffed on “CSI: Vegas,” India Gurley on “Fire Country,” Daniela Labi on “S.W.A.T,” Kahlil Maskati on “So Help Me Todd” and Lizzie Perrin on “Matlock.” Edith Rodriguez is working on an unannounced series, and Teresa Tuan is writing for “Watson Independent,” which is currently in development.
The eight-month program, helmed by the Paramount Office of Global Inclusion, offers selected writers mentorships, career development and support. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands — including Paramount Television Studios, CBS Studios and CBS Television Network — whom they meet with regularly to discuss and receive feedback on their work, in addition to career advice “The Paramount Writers Mentoring Program has proven to be a force for change in our company and the industry at large,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, executive vice president of diversity and inclusion, West Coast, Paramount.
CBS is revealing their new TV schedule!
John Oliver started off Last Week Tonight talking about the SAG-AFTRA strike ending but then questioning if movies were still needed.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer “Saturday Night Live” host Timothée Chalamet took full advantage of his ability to promote his latest movie, the upcoming movie musical, “Wonka,” following the conclusion of the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike, which had prohibited actors from promoting any work for the studios.
It’s been another very busy week in the world of pop culture!
SAG-AFTRA national board approved its new contract with the major studios with an 86% approval vote, sending it to membership for ratification. The official approval was announced by the guild at a press conference Friday afternoon, which finally got started at around 3:20 p.m. after an 80-minute delay.
In a full-circle moment, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher is holding a press conference at 2 p.m. today in the James Cagney Boardroom of the guild’s Wilshire Boulevard headquarters, the same place that she fired up the troops with her strike-launching speech on July 13.
More movies potentially for next year’s starved 2024 theatrical release calendar: Focus Features has taken U.S. distribution rights to Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front filmmaker Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave. The movie’s starry cast includes Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Carlos Diehz, Lucian Msamati, Brían F. O’Byrne, Merab Ninidze, Sergio Castellitto and Isabella Rossellini.
So the good news is that the half year double strike that ground Hollywood to a halt is over. The bad news is Billy Ray has just about come to the end of the road on Deadline Strike Talk, which to our mind has been superb and a light in the darkness. He will do one more episode or two to wrap up the lessons we hopefully learned from this labor discord, and then we will beg him to keep a podcast presence with Deadline. In sober and intelligent tones, and with a superb roster of guests, he has helped create an understanding of the intricacies, forces and history that went into the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The hope is he, and his initial co-pilot Todd Garner, will want to continue together or separately an inside baseball dialogue with the industry that Deadline serves. That is a conversation for another day. Here, Billy Ray discusses the settlement that puts the industry back to work. And he is joined by California State Senators Anthony Portantino and Dave Min to discuss the role of state government in supporting the labor movement.
posted a video of himself on social media recreating his iconic dance from “Footloose.” Still limber in his 60s, Bacon performed the dance in a barn, 39 years after first performing the dance in the 1984 classic.In the video, Bacon is backlit by the sun, and he’s shown in silhouette as he demonstrates that he’s still got his dance chops. Bacon gave his nostalgic video a simple caption, by way of explanation: “Strike over!” he wrote, tagging the official account for SAG-AFTRA. Dancing to “Footloose” is especially notable for Bacon, because in 2013 he went on “Conan” and talked about how he bribes DJs not to play that song when he attends weddings.
Some of the biggest names in entertainment were in attendance at the Academy Women’s Luncheon, which was timed perfectly to celebrate the end of the actors strike.
The SAG-AFTRA strike is finally over after 118 days.
Naman Ramachandran Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year, will open the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa. Robert Kolodny’s “The Featherweight,” which bowed at Venice, will close the festival.
The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2.
The first contestant for ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has touched down in Australia, two weeks before the show kicks off. Jockey Frankie Dettori was spotted Down Under after a successful race in the US over the weekend.
, there are trailblazers who not only recognize the existing disparities but are determined to alter the narrative. Anu Duggal, a visionary with a background in e-commerce, has been at the forefront of reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape for women.
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A super-fit GMP officer who thought she was 'bunged up' was horrified when her constipation turned out to be bowel cancer.
Mumbai Film Fest To Honor Luca Guadagnino & Mani Ratnam
There were two major new entries this weekend at the international box office, one local (Tamil thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet) and one from Hollywood. Starting with the latter, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon from Apple, Paramount and Imperative Entertainment, had a big opening with $21M in 63 offshore markets and No. 1s in 24 of those, including France, Germany, Australia, Spain, Netherlands and Switzerland. The global bow, factoring in its strong domestic opening, was $44M; great for a period movie with a long running time and at a moment when talent could not promote it due to the actors strike.
Naman Ramachandran Celebrated Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap was in vintage free, frank and forthright form at a masterclass in Toronto on Sunday. “I have a massive problem with authority and authority has problems with me,” was one of the many nuggets from Kashyap, whose very first film “Paanch” (2003) was banned in India and whose subsequent work has been the subject of domestic scrutiny while being celebrated both at home and globally. Kashyap’s cop noir “Kennedy,” which had its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year, is on an extended festival run.