Debra Byrd, a vocal coach for such shows as American Idol, Canadian Idol, Military Idol, The Voice, Majors and Minors, and others, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 5. She was 72 and no cause or location was given.
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Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline!
Today I’m chatting with M88 Managing Partner and Co-Founder Phillip Sun who has a unique outlook and philosophy and uses that forward thinking to propel the firm to the top of the business. This is why he’s ascended the ranks as one of the most dynamic representatives.
As a former partner at management company WME, Sun, Launched M88, a full-service management firm, in August 2020. This was done in partnership with MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King. The firm represents a diverse generation of talented artists who bring fresh perspectives to create a much needed cultural shift. As the first major BIPOC-led representation company, M88 is behind some of today’s biggest filmmakers and sought after talent of color, passionately elevating clients at all levels (studio fare to Sundance sales titles), building out their businesses, production companies and more.
M88’s client roster includes Michael B. Jordan (Creed Franchise), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Issa Lopez (True Detective Season 4), Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple), Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman) and Naomi Scott (Aladdin), Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things), Blitz Bazawule (The Color Purple), and many more. Sun and M88 continue to be at the forefront of culture as an extension of their clients.
“When I see the executives here, and the managers working with their clients, pushing the mission to bring it to fruition is gratifying,” said Sun when asked about journey M88 has taken within the last three years. “It’s fun to watch and just reinforces that we’re doing the right thing, the right way, and doing it at the
Debra Byrd, a vocal coach for such shows as American Idol, Canadian Idol, Military Idol, The Voice, Majors and Minors, and others, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 5. She was 72 and no cause or location was given.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter CBS and the NAACP are developing a new daytime soap opera under their content partnership. The series, currently titled “The Gates,” would air on the CBS Television Network with the CBS Studios NAACP production venture producing in partnership with P&G Studios, a division of Procter & Gamble.
EXCLUSIVE: It was a moment of high drama befitting a premium TV series and yet was playing out in real time in front of the people of Poland.
It could end up being a very chilly March for certain areas in Scotland as new weather maps show temperatures plunging to a bone-chilling -5C around the middle of the month.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director It sounds like Daniel Day-Lewis is serious about his retirement from acting and won’t be returning, at least according to his longtime director Jim Sheridan. The Irish filmmaker directed three of Day-Lewis’ most prominent films: “My Left Foot” (1989), “In the Name of the Father” (1993) and “The Boxer” (1997). Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor with “My Left Foot” and was also nominated for “In the Name of the Father.” “He says he’s done.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Jacob Scipio is headed back to the “Bad Boys” universe. Actor Scipio, who most recently starred opposite Pedro Pascal and Nicolas Cage in the meta adventure “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” will reprise his role as Armando Aretas – the estranged son of Will Smith’s Miami-Dade police detective character Mike Lowery. Scipio is getting a narrative upgrade from his debut in 2020’s “Bad Boys for Life,” we hear, as the script will see him play the main antagonist in the action film led by Smith and Martin Lawrence.
When Erik ten Hag was in charge of Bayern Munich's B team some at the club had a nickname for him: Mini Pep. This had more going for it that just a similar look up top, as it were. The Dutchman was preaching a style and a philosophy similar to Pep Guardiola's.
EXCLUSIVE: Middle grader book series Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond is getting the animated television adaptation treatment.
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment announced on Monday that Hard Miles, its cycling drama starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), will hit theaters nationwide on April 19. They also unveiled a series of first look stills, which you can view above and below.
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Rochdale has found itself at the centre of a national political storm. What was expected to be a straightforward by-election for Labour has turned into one of the strangest and most chaotic in recent memory.
Zendaya is giving back in a major way!
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere today at the Berlin Film Festival, Cohen Media Group has secured all North American distribution rights to Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger.
, he goes and gives an interview to the comparing himself to Danny Masterson, O.J. Simpson, and George Floyd.
Warning: Spoilers aheadThe crime drama Deadwater Fell, starring David Tennant, has arrived on Netflix – but who killed Kate and the children? Read on to find out. The four-part drama was originally broadcast on Channel 4 in January 2020, but it is now available to stream on Netflix, with many choosing to binge through the episodes to find out how the story resolves. The tale revolves around a tragedy in a remote Scottish village in which a fire rages at the home of the Kendrick family.
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Monday’s episode of NCIS.
Marta Balaga Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu and his Bucharest-based company Mobra Films will join forces with Poland’s Kijora Films on “Tales of the Golden Age – The Warsaw Pact,” a follow up to his 2009 sketch comedy referencing urban legends from the Ceausescu regime. Expanding to accommodate stories from different ex-communist Eastern European countries, including Poland, it will be written by Mungiu and directed by Ioana Uricaru.
Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories on Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger, the Martin Scorsese-narrated doc set to debut this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
Alex Ritman ‘Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger,’ the documentary produced and narrated by Matin Scorsese, has been acquired by Mubi ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The arthouse streamer, distributor and production company has bought all rights for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America, Turkey and India.
That’s a wrap on the 2024 People’s Choice Awards!