Playwright Charly Evon Simpson Inks Overall Deal With HBO

NEW YORK -- The Paris Review has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but its third since 2017. Emily Stokes, currently a senior editor at The New Yorker, succeeds Emily Nemens, who announced earlier this month that she was leaving to work on a new book.“Emily (Stokes) will honor the Review’s tradition of discovery,” Mona Simpson, publisher of The Paris Review, said in a statement Tuesday.

Eboni K. Williams has an apple and she’s not afraid to use it! The Real Housewives of New York City newcomer is calling out OG Ramona Singer in the trailer for the upcoming 13th season of the Bravo hit.

New York Times.“We have long-awaited this moment,” Mooky Greidinger, the chief executive of Cineworld, said in a statement to the Times. “With capacity restrictions expanding to 50 percent or more across most U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Syreeta Singleton is expanding her relationship with HBO and HBO Max, signing a one-year overall deal with the premium cabler and streaming platform. Under the pact, Singleton will develop new material for the networks and showrun the upcoming HBO Max series, Rap Sh*t.

Clare Crawley and Dale Moss proved they are truly back together after packing on the PDA in New York.The pair met in 2020 on Clare's season of The Bachelorette, and left show bosses up in arms after they quit the show early to become engaged.In January 2021 they confirmed they had split but in recent weeks were spotted together holding hands in Florida.Now the two have reunited in New York City, with Clare, 39, and Dale, 32, pictured outside his apartment, and Clare wearing her engagement ring

Sealed with a kiss! Clare Crawley and Dale Moss were spotted packing on the PDA in New York City after Us Weekly broke the news that the Bachelorette season 16 couple were back together.

EXCLUSIVE: In just two short years, Davita Scarlett has emerged as one of Robert and Michelle King’s MVP writer-producers, simultaneously serving as a co-executive producer on two of the duo’s series, The Good Fight for Paramount+ and Evil for CBS. Scarlett is now joining the talent roster of CBS Studios, which is behind The Good Fight and Evil, signing a multi-year overall deal to develop new projects for the studio targeting all platforms.

Evan Dando recently performed in a New York pharmacy. Don’t worry though, times aren’t that tough for the Lemonheads frontperson, he was just saying thank you staff for finding his lost wallet.Last month, Dando announced on Twitter that he’d lost said wallet.

Celtic and completed his move to the New York Red Bulls. Harper moved to Glasgow's east end from Pateadores SC in 2018, after being scouted by Tommy Burns ’s son, Jonny, and was tipped for big things.

Bill C. Davis, whose 1981 Broadway hit play Mass Appeal was adapted for a 1984 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Željko Ivanek, died Feb. 26 following a brief illness, his family has announced. He was 69.

Martin Dale ContributorPortuguese director Susana Nobre’s second fiction feature film, “Jack’s Ride” is a 70-minute memory-laden road movie that weaves concentric circles through the urban, industrial and natural landscapes of a small town, 20 miles from Lisbon, while reminiscing about 1980s New York.63-year old, Joaquim (Joaquim Calçada) has just been made redundant after working in heavy industry in Portugal and as a taxi driver in the 1980s, in New York.To comply with the unemployment

Joe Otterson TV ReporterKeke Palmer as signed an overall television deal with Entertainment One (eOne), Variety has learned exclusively.“I am thrilled to be partnering with eOne to create entertaining, meaningful, fun television experiences that will deeply connect with audiences and be reflective of our current world,” Palmer said.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based distributor FilmRise has struck a deal with sales firm WaZabi Films for U.S. rights to TIFF 2020 and Berlin 2021 drama Beans.

Director Spike Lee and HBO Documentary Films are in production on NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½, a multi-part documentary described by the network as “an epic chronicle of life, loss and survival in the city of New York over the twenty years since the September 11th attacks.” The epicenters of the title refer to both 9/11 and Covid-19.

Writer-producer Soo Hugh is getting into business with UCP. Hugh has signed a multi-year overall deal to develop, write and produce projects for the studio, a division of Universal Studio Group. As part of the deal, Hugh will launch an incubator program with the mandate of helping new Asian voices create shows and establish careers in the industry.

NEW YORK -- Most playwrights who dip their toes into musical theater for the first time go small. Not Katori Hall: Her first assignment was to capture the life of a musical giant — Tina Turner.“I’m not really scared of much, which is probably why I felt like ‘Oh yeah, I’ll try this.