EXCLUSIVE: Michael MacMillan retired from the world of television 17 years ago. Except, he didn’t.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Google today revealed the four writers who were selected as the inaugural Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellows. The recipients are Beverly Chukwu, Shannon Hawkins, Brandon Hines, and Duchant Johnson. More information about the Fellows is below.
The Black Voices Fellowship provides financial grants and creative support to writers in developing proofs of concept for a television show pitch. Each Fellow will receive $40,000 each for the purpose of producing a proof of concept and developing a pitch for their television series that authentically reflects the Black experience.
The Black List and Google also pair each fellowship recipient with one showrunner mentor and two additional writer mentors. This year’s showrunner mentors are Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias), Owen Smith (Blask-ish), Aaron Rashaan Thomas (Friday Night Lights), and Larry Wilmore (Insecure). Additional writer mentors included Kay Oyegun (This Is Us), Karen Joseph Adcock (The Bear), Amanda Idoko (Breaking News In Yuba County) Joy C. Mitchell (Bridgerton), Felicia Pride (Grey’s Anatomy), Gia Gordon (Law And Order) Davia Carter (Queen of the South), and Jon Dorsey (This Is Us).
“In March of 2021, McKinsey & Company released a study estimating that Hollywood misses out on $10 billion every year due to anti-Black bias,” said Black List founder Franklin Leonard. “That bias takes many forms. One of them is an underinvestment in the early careers of creators with extraordinary talent, and we’ve been incredibly proud to partner with Google alongside this incredible team of mentors to invest in exactly that sort of extraordinary talent. The folks who continue to do so will be rewarded greatly, as might we all if we
EXCLUSIVE: Michael MacMillan retired from the world of television 17 years ago. Except, he didn’t.
EXCLUSIVE: The Black List is opening submissions for six diversity lists in partnership with GLAAD, CAPE, the MPAC Hollywood Bureau, The Salon, the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, 1IN4 Coalition, and the WGA Disabled Writers Committee, in addition to establishing the Desi List-–a new, curated list that will shine a light on the most promising feature scripts and pilots from South Asian writers.
Holly Jones Keshet International has commissioned the six-part docuseries “Hitler’s Treasure Hunters” from production outfit Perpetual Entertainment(“Troppo”). KI’s second straight-to-series factual order for international distribution, which figures into a new Greenlight: Factual & Formats commissioning initiative, the show centers Heinrich Himmler’s Das Ahnenerbe, a branch of the Nazi SS that sought religious relics and high-value international artefacts – such as the Holy Grail and Thor’s Hammer – in order to gain solid footing in the war and advance Aryan supremacy.
The Trump family continues to make headlines following their four years in the White House.
The Weeknd has finally shared the music video for ‘Popular’ featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti. Check it out below.The video first premiered in the game Fortnite last week.
Palme d’Ors don’t grow on trees, so it’s small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet’sAnatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. Hüller’s turn dominates the ‘sort of’ courtroom drama of the film, in which her German novelist — also called Sandra — is accused of pushing her French husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), also a writer, from the top floor of their alpine home. Sandra maintains he fell, or jumped, and the film spends much of its runtime chewing over the truth, though never revealing it.
TWICE have released the music video for ‘One Spark’, from their new mini-album ‘With YOU-th’.TWICE’s new music video for ‘One Spark’ is largely focused on the group’s choreography for the song, which they perform on various lavish sets, from a luxurious dining hall to a stark white soundstage. The clip ends with the K-pop act dancing on a bridge as fireworks go off around them.“Cuz my heart is burning, burning, burning / So good that it’s hurting, hurting, hurting / How do you make the pain so perfect, my favourite person? / It’s our golden days,” the girl group sing on the chorus of ‘One Spark’.‘One Spark’ is the title track of TWICE’s newly released 13th mini-album, ‘With YOU-th’.
The family of Wendy Williams has had “limited contact” with the former talk show host since she was placed in a financial and secretive guardianship last year, niece Alex Finnie said on The View today.
Christopher Vourlias Abel Ferrara has made a career out of staring unflinchingly into the abyss, interrogating man’s weakness and depravity and daring his audiences to look away. Faced with the catastrophic violence of the war in Ukraine, however, which he chronicles in the Berlin-premiering documentary “Turn in the Wound,” even the iconoclastic director finds himself at a loss — for words, and for easy answers.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Fubo, which bills itself as a sports-first TV subscription streaming service, is suing Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery over the trio’s plans to launch a sports streaming bundle.
Rachel Leviss is making her voice heard on a very important matter — and specifically because it is something she says her disgraced former did not do several months ago. Of course, Rachel and Tom Sandoval
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.
Years spent in self dispute, tumultuous childhoods and standing up to ignorance - they all had one simple wish...to live their truth without justification or judgement.
Two And a Half Men first hit TV screens over 20 years ago!
EXCLUSIVE: Film Mode Entertainment has locked a series of deals on Blue Light, the latest feature from American filmmaker Andy Fickman (Race to Witch Mountain, Parental Guidance, The Game Plan, and She’s The Man).
As Gogglebox returns to our screens with a brand new series, once again viewers will be treated to a mischievous cast of avid telly critics as they share their views about the week’s best shows and movies to hit our screens. Yet while some of the stars appear on the show alongside their families, others prefer to keep their partners out of the spotlight.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music These days it can be all too easy for rock fans to fall into despair. What was the last truly culture-shifting new rock band? The Strokes? The White Stripes? Alternative forms of rock have been thriving, but it’s been a grim two decades for traditional guitar-based rock, as even the powers-that-be behind Grammy nominations seemed to have trouble finding worthy nominees beyond the usual Queens-of-the-Foo-Kings suspects (although they have branched out in recent years).
EXCLUSIVE: The Love List has released its inaugural list highlighting the best 14 unproduced romance-centered screenplays and pilots of the year just in time for Valentine’s Day.
is many things. She's a national treasure, a queen, a cross-genre musical genius, and mother to baby superstar Blue Ivy, to name a few. But Beyoncé is also an aunt, which is why she made her surprise appearance at the Luar fashion show, where her nephew Daniel “Julez” Smith Jr.
Duke and Duchess of Sussex are back to business — and have quietly launched a new website. SussexRoyal.com now redirects users to the newly-launched Sussex.com, which features bios for Prince Harry, 39, and Meghan Markle, 42, as well as links to their Archewell Foundation and Archewell Productions organizations.The foundation’s website has also gotten a face-lift, to coordinate it with the new hub’s dark navy and beige theme.Additionally, the Sussex.com site offers a news tab that summarizes the pair’s achievements.