Manchester United are currently focussing all their efforts on signing Frenkie de Jong, Vitinha and Malcolm Ebiowei, according to reports.
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EXCLUSIVE: Portal A, the production company backed by Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s Wheelhouse, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation across all verticals, including scripted, unscripted and podcast projects.
Portal A creates original series, feature films, podcasts and branded entertainment with a special focus on Gen Z and Millennial audiences.
“Portal A is a best-in-class company that is uniquely positioned at the intersection of traditional content and digital media, which is very synergistic with our company,” said A3 President Brian Cho. “We are incredibly excited about working with them and expanding their business together.”
Founded by partners Nate Houghteling, Zach Blume and Kai Hasson, Portal A’s recent originals include Snapchat’s award-winning scripted series Action Royale, the competition format Ultimate Home Championship for YouTube Originals, the SXSW premiere and GLAAD Award-winning feature documentary State of Pride, as well as the breakout true crime podcast Charges with Rex Chapman.
“A3 planted its flag in digital nearly 20 years ago, and they’re the perfect partner to meet this moment when a new wave of creators is breaking into long-form,” said Houghteling. “We’re looking forward to growing our originals output with A3 and alongside our partners at Wheelhouse.”
Portal A’s new docuseries Level Up with Stephen Curry, featuring the two-time NBA MVP, will debut on Snapchat this summer.
The company’s branded work includes longstanding partnerships with Google, Target, Universal Pictures, Clorox, Lenovo, YouTube, among others. It has been recognized as a top creative company by the Streamy Awards, Cynopsis Media Awards, the Digiday Awards, and others.
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Manchester United are currently focussing all their efforts on signing Frenkie de Jong, Vitinha and Malcolm Ebiowei, according to reports.
EXCLUSIVE: Reality star Harry Jowsey has signed with WME.
signed a pledge promising to portray guns in a responsible way onscreen.A batch of writers, actors, producers and directors — including Jimmy Kimmel, Mark Ruffalo and Amy Schumer — have endorsed an agreement titled #ShowYourSafety for Brady United.The organization is a gun-safety lobby launched in 1981 after Jim Brady, Ronald Reagan’s White House Press Secretary, was shot by a gunman who was attempting to assassinate the former president.“Hollywood has modeled positive culture change before: Seatbelt use, smoking, teen pregnancy, marriage equality,” the company explained on its website Monday. “Now, as America’s gun violence epidemic worsens, is the time to undertake a responsibility in storytelling depicting firearms and gun safety.”Other A-listers who notarized their signature include Debbie Allen, Judd Apatow, Betsy Beers, Adam Brody, Shonda Rhimes, Adam McKay, Liz Tigelaar, Chris Van Dusen, Krista Vernoff, Julianne Moore and many more.The petition does not ask Hollywood to rid of guns and gun violence on TV and film completely, but for creatives to be “mindful” of onscreen weapons and how they are depicted.The pledge implored “America’s storytellers” to entertain audiences, but also to “acknowledge that stories have the power to effect change.”“Guns are prominently featured in TV and movies in every corner of the globe, but only America has a gun violence epidemic,” the memo went on.
Molly-Mae Hague was joined by her boyfriend Tommy Fury at her book singing in Manchester.The former Love Island star, 23, released her book Becoming Molly-Mae last week, and she's already had plenty to celebrate after topping Amazon's bestseller list. Along with her boxing boyfriend Tommy, 23, Molly rose to fame on the 2019 series of Love Island, when the couple finished in second place.
KEITH JACKSON : At his most vulnerable point. The mob is gathering after Saturday’s horror show in Dublin and Clarke has no excuse for the ineptitude of that performance. He needs to get back to picking his best players because anything less than three points in Armenia could be catastrophic.
Portal-style first-person puzzle shooter The Entropy Centre has been announced during the GamesRadar Future Games Show livestream.READ MORE: ‘Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course’ preview: a tasty-looking expansion for a wider palate of playersWhile players won’t be thinking with portals, they’ll be using some kind of energy beam gun to manipulate objects and time as they progress through the game’s interior space-station environments. The game also seems to feature some degree of destructible objects.
Manchester City are interested in signing Leeds star Kalvin Phillips this summer, with Pep Guardiola keen to replace Fernandinho.
Instagram he has partial face paralysis due to varicella-zoster virus, causing Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Due to the diagnosis, Bieber is canceling his current tour in order to recover and regain movement on the right side of his face.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook once called its Portal family of devices, first introduced in 2018, “the future of video calling” — and spent big on ad campaigns pushing the products.Now the social media giant, since renamed Meta Platforms, is switching gears: The company will no longer produce consumer versions of the Portal and instead will focus on business uses, as first reported by The Information.The main feature of Meta Portal (which was previously called Facebook Portal) is video-calling, with the ability to start or join calls of up to 50 people. The devices feature built-in support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.In addition, the Portal line has been positioned as an entertainment device, providing access to Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Paramount+ and Showtime, as well as Spotify, Pandora and iHeartRadio (and, of course, Facebook Watch).
Angelique Jackson Lamorne Morris has signed with CAA for representation.Best known for starring as Winston on the hit Fox comedy “New Girl” opposite Zooey Deschanel, Morris currently leads the hybrid live-action and animated series “Woke.” The second season of the Hulu series premiered in April and followed the aftermath of Morris’ cartoonist character Keef Knight being thrust into the spotlight after standing up against the white police officer who had racially profiled and assaulted him in the series premiere. The eight new episodes explored how Keef, an apolitical artist-turned-activist, grappled with the responsibility of gaining a following.“The question for Keef this season is, what else can you do? Are you a one-trick pony?” Morris told Variety TV business writer Jennifer Maas ahead of the season’s launch.
Selome Hailu Jabari Banks is leaning into the comparisons to Will Smith.The 23-year-old stars as Will in Peacock’s “Bel-Air,” which reimagines Smith’s famed ’90s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a drama, but he began modeling his career goals after Smith’s long before the project’s conception.“It’s cosmic. I don’t know how to explain it,” he says of the uncanny similarities among his story, Smith’s and the fictionalized Will’s. For example, there’s the last name Banks, which he shares with Will’s aunt, uncle and cousins in the show, as well as their shared Philadelphia upbringing.There’s also the breadth of both Banks’ and Smith’s artistry.
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Laird has signed with CAA. She was most recently seen her star-making role in the Paramount+ series The Mayor of Kingstown starring Jeremy Renner. The first season was huge success for the streamer and was recently renewed for a second season and will go into production this fall.
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed up-and-coming filmmaker Sam Hayes (Pools) for representation.
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed actor, writer and producer David Koechner (Anchorman) for representation.
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