‘Slay’ Supernatural Drama Executive Produced By Regina King In Works At the CW

Regina King is saying goodbye to her 2020s Emmys looks for a good cause.On Friday, October 23, the Couture House Schiaparelli announced that it teamed up with Christie’s to auction off The Watchman star’s custom suit and dress worn to the 72 Emmy Awards to benefit the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance.“Working with Schiaparelli has been very gratifying.

In 2020, Hollywood agents and managers who represent female and minority filmmakers are experiencing a mostly welcome, if long delayed, phenomenon — lots and lots of incoming calls.

Suzanne Mackie, creative director at The Crown's production company Left Bank Pictures, has left the acclaimed Brit producer, setting up her own London-based entity Orchid Pictures that will work across TV and film. Mackie will remain engaged by Netflix through Orchid Pictures, and will continue as executive producer on The Crown for seasons 5 and 6.

debut on Disney+ in December. He is represented by CAA, LBI Entertainment and Rogers & Cowan/PMK.Perry is represented by WME and Mortimer PR, while Strahelski is represented by WME, Mortimer PR and attorney Tara Kole of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNetflix has paused shooting on “The Harder They Fall” after a member of the production tested positive for COVID-19, Variety has confirmed.The Western, which stars Idris Elba and Regina King, was roughly five weeks into shooting in New Mexico. No members of the primary cast tested positive, according to an insider.

Christopher Vourlias “Game of Thrones” co-executive producer Vince Gerardis is setting up a production company in Italy, Variety has learned.The new venture, dubbed CIAO, or Creatività Italiana Americana Organizzata, is the latest move from the Miami-based executive, who specializes in packaging and selling large-scale, world-building film and television projects based on literary properties.Gerardis is in talks with an Italian publisher for a deal that would give CIAO access to a range of

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Oscar and Emmy winner Regina King has been saluted as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year.The Watchmen star will be among those celebrated during a virtual event on October 19, 2020, when special guests including Ryan Reynolds, Gabrielle Union, John Legend, and New York politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be on hand to praise the honorees.Others recognized as Women of the Year are Atlanta, Georgia mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill, labor

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina King is set to executive produce a drama series currently in development at The CW, Variety has confirmed.Titled “Slay,” the series focuses on Carson Jones.

One Night in Miami made its world premiere in Venice. King’s feature directorial debut is an adaptation of the Kemp Powers play of the same name, which follows Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown through a night of celebration, conflict, fellowship, and moral and political epiphany after Clay defeats Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight boxing championship title.Weeks later, King accepted her fourth prime-time Emmy for playing Sister Night, a.k.a.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing American Heritage, a drama from writer Matt Lopez (Bedtime Stories).

Almost a month after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87, an array of leaders will pay tribute to theSupreme Court Justice. Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Stacey Abrams, and more are set to headline a virtual "Honor Her Wish" event on Monday, Oct.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAnil Gupta, the BAFTA-winning executive producer of the UK version of The Office, is joining Sky Studios in the newly-created role of creative director of comedy.Gupta will focus on boosting in-house comedy production at the Comcast-owned company and will report to Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ director of comedy.As well as Ricky Gervais’ The Office, his credits include Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at No.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Red, White and Blue,” the fifth and final film of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology (and the third to be shown at this year’s New York Film Festival, after the lilting reggae house-party movie “Lovers Rock” and the wrenching social-protest courtroom drama “Mangrove”), Leroy Logan (John Boyega), a British research scientist, figures that he’s had enough of the lonely work of staring at tissue specimens through a microscope, so he decides to become a member