UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report Reveals TV Content From Diverse Writers & With Diverse Casts Resonated With Pandemic Audiences

EXCLUSIVE: The Black TV & Film Collective a nonprofit development and production hub for artists of Black and African descent, has merged with The Parity Project, a data-driven organization with the mission to create financial and narrative equity for African American professional writers within the TV industry, to address systemic racism in Hollywood.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentWinners of the 93rd Academy Awards were unveiled April 25, a day that included another notable announcement: The creation of 1in4, an advocacy group to help disabled workers starting out in entertainment.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterResuming its traditional post as the last stand of the fall festival season, the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest will return to its traditional home at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood, its first in-person fest since 2019.

Camila Cabello is making moves!The “Havana” singer just listed her 4-bedroom, 3,570 square foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $3,950,000.Cabello’s luxurious estate is decked out with all the bells and whistles one would expect from a celebrity home, which includes a saltwater swimming pool, fire pit, BBQ area, and even a recording studio with state-of-the-art equipment and a professional vocal booth.The home is 2 stories and the top floor has 3 suites, with a fireplace and walk-in closet in

Lizzo gave an emotional speech at Missy Elliott‘s Hollywood Walk Of Fame induction yesterday (November 8), praising the rapper for all she’s done for “so many Black girls”.Elliott said she was “humbly grateful” to be honoured with a star. “It’s just a blessing to dream big and it truly happened,” she explained during her acceptance speech outside Amoeba Records on Hollywood Boulevard.

Goodbye, Gordon Bombay. Emilio Estevez will reportedly not be back for the second season of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.

Naman Ramachandran German streamer RTL Plus (formerly TV Now), which was launched alongside the RTL Group’s robust financial results on Thursday, has revealed several content partnerships.With an annual content investment of €600 million ($693 million), RTL Plus will be expanded into a cross-media entertainment service, comprising video, music, podcasts, audio books and e-magazines in the first half of 2022, creating Germany’s first all-inclusive media subscription service.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has named speaker and entrepreneur Neil Phillips as its first chief diversity officer, as part of the Golden Globes group’s ongoing reforms.The HFPA had previously promised to appoint a chief diversity officer as a permanent leadership position.

Christopher Nolan has always had a knack for finding top-tier talent for his features. And it would appear that he’s pulling out all the stops for his first film with his new studio, Universal, as the filmmaker has brought in two more of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla People who identify as Hispanic or Latinx make up 18.5% of the United States’ population, but as a Hollywood Diversity Report TV analysis from UCLA released today indicates, the country’s demographic reality is not being reflected on our small screens.In fact, the share of total cast roles in television for the 2019-2020 season for Latinx actors stood at just 6.3% for broadcast, 5.7% for cable and 5.5% for digital.

Robert De Niro’s estranged wife, socialite Grace Hightower, is not entitled to half of the money the actor made in Hollywood and business ventures, after they were divorced, an appeals court in the US has ruled.

Robert De Niro’s estranged wife Grace Hightower isn’t entitled to half of the money the actor made in Hollywood and business ventures after the divorce, an appeals court ruled Thursday. Hightower argued that a 2004 prenuptial agreement that she struck with the 78-year-old "Irishman" star entitled her to half of his earnings from when they were together — claiming they are marital assets to be split evenly.

In the past few years, Hollywood has been confronted by the MeToo movement, OscarsSoWhite, Black Lives Matter and, presently, members of the trans community calling out what they see as transphobic depictions of themselves in films, on television and in the media.

Gal Gadot and Halle Berry hit the red carpet for ELLE’s 27th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration held at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Tuesday (October 19) in Los Angeles.