Topic Studios, ‘The Climb’ Filmmakers Wrap Production on ‘God’s Time’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNascar champion Jimmie Johnson is getting ready to take part in a different sort of race.The veteran driver, a seven-time Nascar Cup Series champion, has started a new production company.

90 Day Fiancé took an uncomfortable turn when Brandon and his parents had a candid chat about practicing safe sex with his fiancée, Julia.During the Sunday, December 6, episode, Brandon and his parents were gearing up for Julia’s arrival from Russia.

Naman Ramachandran Cult Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red is deep in post-production on action thriller ‘Arisaka.’ The shoot was temporarily delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic and following COVID-safe production protocols, principal photography was completed in the third quarter of 2020.News of the film was first announced by Variety during the Singapore Media Festival’s Southeast Asian Film Financing Project Market in 2019.Variety has been given exclusive access to the first teaser for

Is your kid a fan of The Mandalorian series, or specifically Baby Yoda? Well, then we have the perfect gift idea for the holidays this year!

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicIf chart momentum keeps apace for Columbia Records in these final days of 2020, the label could lay claim to the No. 1 song in the U.S.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFormer NFL linebacker Spencer Paysinger’s senior year in high school as the captain of the Beverly Hills High School football team was an essential one to kick-start his professional football career.

EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi arm Dust has teamed with Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood’s Balboa Productions to develop the sci-fi sports drama series Mesh based on the short story by the same name by Rich Larson. Edward Ricourt (Jessica Jones, Wayward Pines, Raising Dion) is on board to adapt.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star spent the day, which also happened to be her 54th birthday, isolating due to a COVID-19 scare on the set of Housewives.

As the second coronavirus wave closes down Canadian movie theaters, again, Hollywood production hubs in Vancouver and Toronto have returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity. Cinemas in Manitoba and British Columbia have shuttered, while multiplexes in and around Toronto and Montreal, the country's main theater-going markets, have also been ordered to close down by health authorities as the number COVID-19 cases surges on both sides of the border.

straight to your inboxFormer Manchester CIty and Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez has announced he will retire when Boca Juniors' campaign in the Copa Libertadores is completed.The 36-year-old returned to South America in 2018 for a third stint with his boyhood club, having moved from Juventus to Boca in 2015 but moving to Shanghai Shenhua in 2017.Tevez made history during his time in Manchester, first moving to United from West Ham in 2007 and spending a two-year stint at Old Trafford.

Ben Groh and Dion Costelloe are toplining God's Time, a crime comedy set in Coronavirus-stricken New York, directed by Daniel Antebi for Topic Studios. The indie from The Climb producers has wrapped pandemic-era production in New York City and also stars newcomer Liz Caribel.

Jamie Lang Chile’s Storyboard Media and Cine Matriz are teaming with Colombia’s Romeo on documentary feature “Still Stares,” the debut feature of director Patricia Correa.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentTopic, the U.S. streaming service from First Look Media, and Non-Stop Production, the Russian film studio behind Oscar nominated “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” will jointly produce “Frozen Land,” an eight-part limited series exploring the story of real-life Russian serial killer Dmitry Lebed, who terrorized a provincial Russian town from 2012 to 2017.

Columbia University has temporarily banned 70 students who traveled to Turks and Caicos in violation of the school’s travel policy, according to a report. “The Turks & Caicos trip was a group event that violated this policy and thus was met with disciplinary action,” university spokesman Christopher Cashman told CNN.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTurkish director Nisan Dag, who is a Columbia Film School Graduate, made a splash at Slamdance and other fests in 2015 with debut feature “Across the Sea,” a relationship drama that she co-directed.

Depending on who you talk to, whether it’s someone who has worked with Marvel Studios in the past or someone that refuses to work with the superhero studio, you get very different ideas about what responsibilities the directors have. You have people like the Russo Brothers who talk about how Marvel gives them a ton of creative control to do what they want, while others, such as filmmaker Xavier Gens paints a very different picture.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorActivist Tamika Mallory, a Time 100 honoree and co-founder of 2017’s Women’s March, will make her literary debut with “State of Emergency,” which will also be the first release from Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Privilege Publishing, a new imprint from Atria Books at Simon & Schuster.Described as “a searing indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black lives,” “State of Emergency” will also explore how best to continue the country’s