Pharrell Williams and Chanel Partner to Launch a Mentorship Program for Black and Latinx Entrepreneurs

with Wednesday’s announcement of a free, dedicated streaming channel — the Elvis Presley Channel, launching in early 2022 — through a new deal between Elvis Presley Enterprises and Cinedigm.The channel will include archival content and specials featuring Presley, as well as music content from other major rock ‘n’ roll artists.

Twenty-one DGA members have graduated from the guild’s 2021 TV Mentorship Program, which pairs seasoned episodic television directors with members seeking to develop TV directing careers. Read the names below.

Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson are preparing themselves for the end of .ABC renewed the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated sitcom for an eighth and final season on May 14, an announcement that creator and executive producer Kenya Barris called «both exciting and bittersweet.» For Ross and Anderson, that sums it up perfectly. «It'll be hard,» Ross told ET at the Rose Bowl during their drive-in style screening and panel of.

EXCLUSIVE: Almost a year after inking a development deal with UCP, Tanya Saracho is turning up the volume for Latinx voices in Hollywood, as promised.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicA year ago, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, Pharrell Williams braved air travel to head to his home state of Virginia and stand beside Governor Ralph Northam as he called for Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 (June 19) when the last slaves in Texas learned of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, to be declared a state holiday.The politician, a doctor by trade, had been in office less than two years and had already found himself marred in

K.J. Yossman Women in Animation (WiA) has released a featurette during Annecy Film Festival highlighting the valuable work of its mentorship program.The 14-minute video sees testimonies from both mentors – including animation writer Aydrea Walden, Alice Goldstone of Sony Pictures Animation and Pixar Animation’s Becki Tower – and mentees, many of whom have built portfolios and even gotten their first jobs after participating in the program.

A24 and director Kelly Reichardt‘s (“Wendy & Lucy“) upcoming film “Showing Up” takes place within the art scene with Kelly reuniting with four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (“Manchester By The Sea“), who plays an artist about to have a career-changing art exhibition while attempting to her chaotic life that should inspire some fantastic artwork.

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has rounded out its cast for Kelly Reichardt’s next film Showing Up with Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André Benjamin, Heather Lawless, Amanda Plummer, Larry Fessenden and James Le Gros all joining Michelle Williams, who will star. The film is penned by Reichardt and her longtime writing partner, Jon Raymond. Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, and Vincent Savino will produce.

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has rounded out its cast for Kelly Reichardt’s next film Showing Up with Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André Benjamin, Heather Lawless, Amanda Plummer, Larry Fessenden, and James Le Gros all joining Michelle Williams, who will star. The film is penned by Reichardt and her long-time writing partner, Jon Raymond. Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, and Vincent Savino will produce.

Pharrell Williams‘ non-profit organisation is set to launch a number of private schools for low income students in his home state of Virginia.Through his YELLOW non-profit, Williams will open multiple schools, with the first confirmed to be in the town of Norfolk.“If the system is fixed and unfair, then it needs to be broken,” Williams said in a press release of the project, which will see winners chosen by lottery and is open to third, fourth and fifth graders as The Virginia Pilot reports.“We

What happened to Vanessa Williams in 1983 would never happen today, but the multi-hyphenate was still able to get through her scandalous past all because she believed in herself!

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLes Femmes s’Animent (LFA), France’s highly active women in animation organization, will launch its first international initiative at this year’s Annecy Intl. Animation Festival, Parcours de Femmes (Women’s Journey).A mentoring program, the diversity drive will help six French-speaking women writer/directors – three from France, three from Africa – produce their own animated short film.

Pharrell Williams is paying it forward to students from low-income families by pledging to open a group of small nonprofit private schools in his home state of Virginia. The "Happy" singer and 13-time Grammy-winner revealed his master plan in a press release in which he called out the current state of affairs regarding the school system, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Christopher Vourlias Russian state film promotion body Roskino and public broadcaster Channel One are launching sales on a lavish, eight-part series based on the life of poet, singer, composer and cabaret artist Alexander Vertinsky, a cultural icon whose life played out against the backdrop of history-altering events in the first half of the 20th century.The series, which is being presented during Roskino’s Key Buyers Event, is available in two versions.

Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series The Mod Squad and Prince’s father in Purple Rain, has died. He was 81.

Pharrell Williams and his family are mourning the tragic loss of Donovon Lynch, Williams’ 25-year-old cousin shot dead by the police. “We had to bury my cousin on my birthday,” the musician and philanthropist told Town and Country.