Rita MacNeil To Be Inducted Into The Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame

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Lives hang in the balance in Lenox Hill, a nine-part Netflix documentary series that offers a rare and gripping look inside a big-city hospital.

EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company, Magnolia Entertainment, has added manager Michael Klein to further expand its literary division, and its international client roster and production activities. Klein’s clients include filmmakers, Evil Eye directors Rajeev & Elan Dassani,  Never Back Down director Kellie Madison, Loteria writer Felipe Vargas, Oscar nominated animator/director, Javier Recio Gracia and Korean production company Zanybros.

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In March 2020, Amazon Prime Video announced plans to “The Kids in the Hall” — plans that were immediately paused due to the pandemic.

AMC and UK’s Alibi have rounded out the the three leads of crime drama series Ragdoll, with Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Irregulars, Killing Eve) and Thalissa Teixeira (Too Close, Trigonometry) joining previously announced Lucy Hale. The series, which begins production today in London, hails from Sid Gentle Films, the British production company behind Killing Eve. Toby MacDonald (Old Boys, The Duchess) and Niall MacCormick (The Victim, The Song of Lunch) will direct.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHenry Lloyd-Hughes and Thalissa Teixeira will star alongside Lucy Hale in the AMC-Alibi series “Ragdoll,” Variety has learned.The six-episode show, which was ordered to series back in February, is set to begin production on April 19 in London.

Angelique Jackson UTA has signed award-winning filmmakers Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz for representation in all areas.Known for making character-driven projects that touch on taboo subjects under their Yulari Films banner, Barash and Shatz created, produced and directed the Netflix docuseries “Lenox Hill,” which takes an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at the renowned New York City hospital.In his review of the medical documentary series, which launched in June 2020,

Jon Burlingame Sometimes the backstories of Oscar-nominated songs are as compelling as the songs themselves.Last week, the Songwriters Hall of Fame corralled nine of this year’s 12 nominated songwriters for a round-table discussion of how their songs came to be written, and how they feel about contributing to the art of cinema.Paul Williams, Oscar winner (“Evergreen”) and president and chairman of the board of ASCAP, and Nile Rodgers, Grammy-winning producer-writer and Songwriters Hall of Fame

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Xiang Yue, one of the producers of Chinese box office juggernaut franchise Detective Chinatown, is launching U.S. production banner Bamboo Curtain.

For its fifth year of celebrating the crop of musical artists vying for a gold statuette, and the opportunity to hear them share craft and career tips, the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s “A Conversation With 2021 Oscar-Nominated Songwriters” will be held virtually, which means for the first time the event will be open to the public. The program takes place Tuesday, beginning at 4 p.m.

Leslie Odom, Jr. and Diane Warren are among the Best Original Song Oscar nominees invited to attend a special Songwriters Hall of Fame virtual event.

Antonio Ferme editorThe 5-year-old son of Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) came home one day to tell his father a story about an older child that kept calling him “Chinese boy” over and over again.

In the Oscar-nominated documentary short A Concerto Is a Conversation, acclaimed composer Kris Bowers traces a line from his family history to the premiere performance of his original concerto "For a Younger Self" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2019. Following that line is Horace Bowers Jr., Kris Bowers' 91-year-old grandfather, who sits down with his grandson to tell the story of his journey out of the Jim Crow-era South in the pursuit of his American Dream.

Eric Church is setting his sights on five Canadian cities as the country singer heads out on a 55-city full arena North American tour starting this fall.

Renfrew. Tam Love is our worthy £100 winner this week for his cracking picture of light trails in front of Renfrew Town Hall.

Makeup and special effects artist Cleve Hall, whose work included Ghoulises, Twisted Nightmare and Book of Fire, has died. Hall’s publicist, Mike Arnold confirmed the artist’s death to Deadline. He died Wednesday from a heart attack at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He was 61.