Tara Beppel Joins Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDentsu’s The Story Lab has named Geneva Wasserman as the company’s first EVP of scripted development and production.With more than two decades of experience, Wasserman most recently spent two years at Condé Nast Entertainment, where her development and producing slate included “Spiderhead,” a feature adaptation of George Saunders’ short story “Escape from Spiderhead.” The New Yorker Studios film is set to premiere next year on Netflix.“I

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Ilinca Calugareanu’s documentary A Cops and Robbers Story, with plans for a day-and-date release January 14.

Richard Lewis’ Southpaw Entertainment has acquired the rights to Instagram personality and podcast creator Jedidiah Jenkins’s New York Times best-selling memoir To Shake The Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia. The book will get a feature film adaptation with the script written by Lewis and Steph Lady. Southpaw’s Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak will co-produce and oversee development and production.

Alison Rudnick is joining ABC News in New York as vice president of corporate communications.

Another former The View co-host is speaking out on the “toxic environment” of the set.

EXCLUSIVE: Dolphin Entertainment CEO and founder Bill O’Dowd announced that visual designer Anthony Francisco joins the company as Creative Director. 

Melanie C and Chris Martin are teaming up!

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Tucker has joined the cast of Fox’s dance dramedy The Big Leap in a recurring role. He will appear opposite stars Scott Foley, Simone Recanser, Teri Polo, Piper Perabo and Anna Grace Barlow. The series hails from Liz Heldens, Jason Winer, Sue Naegle, 20th Television and Fox Entertainment.

Tony Award-winning actor Lillias White will join Brandon Victor Dixon and The Roots’ Tariq Trotter this January in the Off Broadway world premiere of Trotter’s new musical Black No More.

EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Morris has signed on to the ensemble independent film Hayseed. The dark comedy murder mystery comes from first-time writer-director Travis Burgess. Michael V. Brown and Eric Cotti serve as producers.

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Collins Entertainment has brought on former eOne unscripted exec Madison Merritt as EVP, Unscripted Content and Alternative Programming. In her new role, Merritt will oversee development and current for series and documentaries.

Corbin Bernsen is set as a lead opposite Blair Underwood in L.A. Law, a new incarnation of the iconic Steven Bochco legal drama. which was officially picked up to pilot by ABC earlier this month. Underwood and Bernsen, reprising their roles as Jonathan Rollins and Arnie Becker, respectively, are believed to be the only original cast members who are series regulars in the sequel pilot. (More are expected to make guest-starring appearances on the potential series.)

Joe Jonas is enjoying his time in Miami!

Kathryn Gallagher is joining the Gossip Girl universe!

Addie Morfoot ContributorGeorge Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined Austrian director Friedrich Moser’s feature documentary “How to Build a Truth Engine” as executive producers through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.The docu, now in the final stages of filming, tackles investigative journalism and the fight against fake news.

Melinda Gates, 57, is by her daughter Jennifer Gates‘ side just days before she gets hitched. The doting mom was photographed walking with the 25-year-old beauty, whom she shares with ex-husband Bill Gates, 65, outside of the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Oct. 13. She wore a stylish pink sleeveless mini dress with a matching wrap and heels while the bride-to-be wore a short-sleeved long white lace dress and heels. Check out the pics HERE!

Harry Styles to David Bowie are going on show at the V&A as part of a major new show celebrating menswear. Clothes worn by Marlene Dietrich and Sam Smith will also feature in the exhibition alongside paintings and classical sculptures to explain the history and development of men’s fashion over the centuries.

It’s a curious fact that some of the most notable documentaries of recent years have revolved, in one or another, around skateboarding.

The cast of Ghostbusters: Afterlife had the best surprise for fans at New York Comic Con!

EXCLUSIVE: Geraldine Viswanathan is set to join Studiocanal and Imperative Entertainment’S psychological thriller Cat Person starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun. The film is based on Kristen Roupenian’s well-received short story, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. The film will be directed by Susanna Fogel and penned by Michelle Ashford.