Producers Guild Joins Chorus Of Opposition To Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Law

Adria Arjona is ready to walk down the aisle with Andy Garcia. She has been tapped to play Garcia’s daughter and the bride-to-be in Warner Bros and Plan B’s reboot of Father of the Bride. Gaz Alazraki has been set to helm the studio’s new reboot, which will revolve around a Cuban-American family, with Matt Lopez penning the script.

EXCLUSIVE: Limitless and The Code creator Craig Sweeny has signed a new three-year overall deal with CBS Studios. Under the pact, Sweeny will continue to develop new projects and work on existing series for the studio.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean-American star Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), star of upcoming Marvel film “The Eternals” will produce and star in “The Club,” an action series derived from South Korean scripted format “The Trap.”The production brings together B&C Contents, a company owned by Lee and Chris S. Lee, and U.S.-based Starlings Television.

Ryan Coogler is keeping the upcoming production of  in Georgia, despite the state's new voting law. On Friday, the actor revealed his decision in a letter published by Shadow and Act, explaining that he won't be moving production and will instead support voting rights organizations. «As an African-American, and as a citizen, I oppose all attempts, explicit and otherwise, to shrink the electorate and reduce access to the ballot.

dropped an epic trailer for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” featuring a kick-ass protagonist played by Chinese-Canadian actor Simu Liu. This marks the studio’s first film to center around an Asian superhero.

Remember a year ago when the world was obsessed with Joe Exotic and the “Tiger King” docuseries on Netflix? It seemed to be released at the exact right time when the world was shutting down, due to the pandemic, and everyone needed something to watch and laugh at. Well, since then, work has been happening on the upcoming series, “Joe Exotic,” which takes the Tiger King’s story and adapts it for a limited series event.

Korean-American action star Don Lee and producing partner Chris Lee are teaming up with Starlings Television to develop The Club, a drama series based on the popular Korean format Trap. Writer Jack LoGiudice (Sons Of Anarchy, Narcos) has been tapped as writer-showrunner.

Angelique Jackson Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler is denouncing Georgia’s new restrictive voting laws and explains why he will still film “Black Panther II” in the state.Coogler penned an op-ed, shared with Shadow and Act, speaking out against the controversial legislation.“The fight for full enfranchisement is fundamental to the African-American struggle in this country and to this country’s claim to functioning democracy,” Coogler wrote.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Minari” is filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical tale of a Korean American family starting a new life in 1980s Arkansas.

Lucy Liu may be an established Hollywood star but the recent surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans has her feeling «vulnerable.»The Chinese American actress, who covers the May issue of , calls the ongoing crimes “terrifying” and “outrageous." The attacks are also making her reflect on the power of words.

Lucy Liu isn’t staying silent. The Elementary actress, 52, explained in a new interview that she once vowed to stay apolitical due to her role as a UNICEF ambassador. But no more. Lucy is using her fame to speak out about the surge in Asian-American hate crimes in the United States and affect real change. “I’m willing to do that because I don’t want other people to feel unsafe. I want some of the people who think this is okay to know that this is not okay,” she told Women’s Health.

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Grace Kinstler brought it as she stepped on the “American Idol” stage during the Top 16.

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Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIsraeli-American actress-producer-author Noa Tishby was compiling research for what would eventually become her newly released non-fiction book “Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth” (Simon & Schuster) when she discovered that — save for Golda Meir’s 1973 autobiography and English translations of Israeli historian Anita Shapira’s work — there were no books on the history of Israel penned by a woman.

Martha Lou Gadsden was the owner of the iconic Charleston, South Carolina soul food restaurant Martha Lou’s Kitchen.After years of cooking at restaurants owned by others, Gadsden opened Martha Lou’s Kitchen in 1983 in a converted Charleston service station. There, she served a soul food that’s specific to the Low Country region of the South Carolina/Georgia coast.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorHelen Mirren, who won an Oscar for “The Queen,” will portray Israel’s legendary Prime Minister Golda Meir in “Golda.” The film will be directed by Academy Award winner Guy Nattiv, and produced by BAFTA winner Michael Kuhn (“Florence Foster Jenkins,” “The Duchess”).Embankment will represent international sales, with CAA Media Finance and ICM jointly handling the North American rights.

Addressing the new voting law in Georgia, SAG-AFTRA said today, “We oppose any effort to suppress the constitutional rights of Americans, including our members.”

Grace Kinstler closed Sunday’s “American Idol” with another incredible performance.