Patrick Somerville & David Eisenberg Launch Film & TV Production Company Tractor Beam; First Projects In The Works ‘Gringos’ & ‘Ursa Major’

“Station Eleven” is quote-unquote “gone,” or over, but far from forgotten. In fact, the expansive HBO Max original limited series that ended in late January just keeps blossoming in the mind as the viewer keeps soaking up what they experienced.

Jennifer Lopez, 52, wowed on Feb. 4 when she made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an eye-catching set of outfits. The singer performed her new song “Marry Me”, from the new film Marry Me, with Maluma, and wore a flattering white bikini top under a matching cropped blazer and a long skirt. Before she sang, she also wore a long bright red dress with spaghetti straps as she happily chatted with the show’s host, Jimmy Fallon.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorChanning Tatum and his producing partner Reid Carolin aren’t just the brains — and brawn — behind “Magic Mike.” They’ve built up their company Free Association into a place to go for innovative storytelling, including the road trip movie “Dog” (which opens on Feb. 18), which they co-directed; the Starz TV series “Step Up: Highwater”; and the thriller “Pussy Island,” which will be Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut.“I think it’s a good partnership,” says Steven Soderbergh, who is directing “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” which Tatum will star in and Carolin wrote. “I think they have a shared sense of people and how the world works.”Tatum and Carolin speak to Variety about Free Association.

Abigail Hawk (Blue Bloods), Tobias Forrest (Coffee Wars), John Lawson (Pet Cemetery – Prequel) and Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show) are among the cast in feature drama Daruma.

Actor-producer Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars) today announced the launch of Dunshire Productions, a new Los Angeles-based creative content and production studio that she’s partnered on with longtime creative collaborators including director-producer Morgan Sackett (The Good Place, Hacks), director, producer and editor Dean Holland (The Good Place, The Unicorn), Bailey Brand Management founder Troy Bailey and multidisciplinary designer and creative director, Benjamin Hart.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHalle Berry’s new production company has hired WME motion picture department partner Holly Jeter to serve as president, Variety has learned.Jeter currently serves as Berry’s agent. She will stay onboard at WME for the time being as next steps are determined.

EXCLUSIVE: Holly Jeter, a partner at WME in the Motion Picture Department, has departed the agency to serve as President of client, Halle Berry’s, new production entity. The new, yet to be named entity, will produce a wide array of projects from hard-hitting dramas to light-hearted comedies, action, horror, and more with a focus on elevating complex, strong, women and women of color in leading roles both in front of and behind the camera. Jeter is partnering with Berry as she enters a new two-picture, three-year first look producing deal with Netflix.

said in a video, as the crowd cheered and applauded.Letterman, who hosted the NBC show from its very beginning in 1982, departed in 1993 to host CBS’ “Late Show,” which is currently hosted by Stephen Colbert.Prior to his stint at CBS, Letterman was vying to host “The Tonight Show” in 1993 upon former host Johnny Carson’s departure. But much to his dismay, competing show host Jay Leno snatched the coveted spot instead, prompted Letterman’s exit from “Late Night.”The 74-year-old late night talk show veteran left CBS’ “Late Show” in 2015, announcing a retirement from television, only returning to the screen for his own Netflix series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” in 2018.Throughout his more than 30 years in his late show career, Letterman’s quirky charm and anti-humor earned him brownie points with his audience, landing him amongst the most well-known talk show hosts.

Brittany Matthews is not afraid to hit back at social media trolls.

Brittany Matthews has seemingly responded to the backlash she received for spraying champagne on football fans… and she doesn’t seem to be happy about it.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLulu Wang and Dani Melia have signed a first-look television deal with Amazon via their newly formed production company, Local Time.Wang and Melia first worked together on the critically-acclaimed 2019 feature “The Farewell.” Under the deal, Local Time will develop shows from emerging storytellers for Amazon. Wang is currently directing and executive producing the Amazon drama series “Expats,” based on the Janice Y.K.

Lulu Wang, director of Awkwafina comedy drama The Farewell, and producer Dani Melia have launched their own production company and struck a first-look TV deal with Amazon.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop made headlines awhile back thanks to the release of the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candles, and during her Friday night appearance on “The Tonight Show” she discussed the latest offering in Goop’s vaginal candle line.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe fear of seemingly harmless strangers that’s heightened during our era of online “relationships” (not to mention COVID) is cannily exploited in actor-turned-writer-director Christian Tafdrup’s “Speak No Evil.” Building on the thorny couple dynamics of his prior features “Parents” and “A Horrible Woman,” this excruciatingly slow-burn thriller has a young Danish family befriended on holiday by a Dutch clan, only to belatedly realize these new BFFs might be hazardous to their health.Tafdrup’s squirm-inducing tale is premiering in Sundance’s Midnight section, and should find ready berth among genre fans, with strong potential for remake bids. (Distribution rights have already been secured by horror streaming service Shudder.) At the same time, its all-too-palpable cruelty will repel some viewers, in the same way such prior atypical horrors as the original “Wolf Creek” and both editions of “Funny Games” did.

“Mom, do you think I can be political?” asks teenage YouTube musician Ziggy Katz (a wide-eyed Finn Wolfhard) to his uptight mom Evelyn (the consistently stellar Julianne Moore). There’s no shortcut to sounding smart, she replies, you have to do the work.

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Sports, the sports content division of Skydance Media, has set a partnership with Meadowlark Media for the production of unscripted sports content.

Rugby star Brian O’Driscoll’s sports production outfit 3 Rock has been backed by All3Media. Deadline understands the deal includes the production powerhouse taking a minority stake.

A TV husband has to have his TV wife’s back!