Producers Tim & Trevor White On The Rise Of ‘King Richard’ – Crew Call Podcast

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie has set his feature directorial debut with Spark. The drama will Saniyya Sidney as Claudette Colvin, an unsung pioneer of the Civil Rights era. Sidney is coming off a breakout performance as Venus Williams in King Richard. Mackie is producing with Kellon Akeem, Jason Michael Berman and Marc Ambrose.

Robbie Williams has said he was the target for a hit man at the height of his fame.The former Take That star, 47, revealed how the terrifying threat eventually went away due to an intervention by friends.The singer, who shares four children with his wife, model Ayda Field, made the revelation in a new interview as he discussed how he has dealt with his years in the spotlight. “I’ve never, ever said this, but I had a contract put on me to kill me. I’ve never said that publicly before,” Robbie told The Mirror.

Staying friendly! Though it’s been almost 19 years since Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton called it quits, she still remains on good terms with his children.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle experienced a "wake up call" after the Palace released a photo featuring the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George, a royal commentator claims.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

It was a mixed bag of good and bad news for many films in this morning’s announcement of nominations for the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, and as the first major guild to weigh in on this year’s race what the nominating committee of randomly chosen SAG/AFTRA members said takes on real import as the guild has an excellent track record of reflecting where Oscar nominations might also be headed.

An investment firm backed by Blackstone and run by onetime Disney colleagues Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs has taken a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc.

Federation Entertainment has taken a majority stake in Jean-Yves Robin’s Robin & Co, signalling the first major Euro M&A deal of 2022.

Christmas tune that was shown during a carol concert.Walker, 30, performed a new song, “For Those Who Can’t Be Here," accompanied by the 39-year-old Kate playing the piano, in a prerecorded segment shown during the concert broadcast on ITV on Friday.Walker said he had kept the performance a secret — even from his mother.“She was in floods of tears watching it on the telly,’’ he told the BBC.

Merry Mayhem, indeed! Audrey Liddell had a lot of ups and downs, with most problems stemming from falling for her college roommate’s ex-boyfriend, Pacey Witter. In Dawson’s Creek’s 2002 Christmas episode, Audrey gets drunk at dinner and crashes his new car into Dawson’s house — which Busy Philipps remembers all too well.

Clayton Davis The Black Film Critics Circle has named Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard” the best film of 2021.The drama that focuses on the rise of Venus and Serena Williams picked up three additional awards, including best actor (Will Smith), supporting actress (Aunjanue Ellis) and original screenplay (Zach Baylin).Denis Villeneuve, who helmed “Dune,” walked away with best director, his first precursor prize of the awards season, while the film also nabbed best cinematography for Greig

Camilla Blackett Guest ColumnistFor Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Camilla Blackett pens a tribute to “King Richard” (screenplay by Zach Baylin).Determined is a word you will hear many times when speaking of the Williams family and their hard-won Mount Olympus status in the world of tennis, but determination of sportsmanship is far from the only thing at play in Zach Baylin’s stunning “King Richard” script.More than anything, it is the determination of Black fatherhood that struck me most deeply