Veteran Talent Agent Yasmine Pearl Joins UTA From WME

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe first two episodes of Thai language series “Forbidden” have been selected to premiere as part of the Busan International Film Festival’s new On Screen section.The supernatural thriller is targeted at young adults. It is produced as an eight-part HBO Asia Original and will pay on regional streaming service HBO Go and HBO later this year.

Jonathan Cohen If you believe the Internet, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder hadn’t sung live for four consecutive days since September 1992. But the unusually heavy workload didn’t hinder his performances in the least this weekend at his fifth Ohana festival on the beach in Dana Point, Calif., which found him playing three times with his new solo band (twice in public, once in private) and another with Pearl Jam, who closed the festival on Sunday (Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who star Pearl Mackie is joining Solly McLeod (The Rising) and Sophie Wilde (You Don’t Know Me) in the cast of Tom Jones, the four-part period TV series reimagining Henry Fielding’s classic novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Shannon is set to star opposite Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman in Zach Braff’s latest feature,  A Good Person, produced by Killer Films, Elevation Films, Braff and Pugh. MGM is distributing in North American and international markets, which include Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, among other markets.

Matt Fechter has joined Hyperion to launch their Comedy Department. Fechter comes from CAA where he worked as an agent in both the comedy and talent departments working closely with such actors, directors, and comedians as Aristotle Athiras, Courtney Parchman, Jim Rash, Jeff Garlin, Laura Terruso, Madelaine Petsch, Maddie Phillips, Michael Cimino, Mike Cabellon, Miles Brown and Nat Faxon.

The NCIS family just keeps growing. NCIS: Hawai’i is the latest entry in the franchise that will keep procedural fans tuning in every week.

ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog has said their upcoming Voyage concert experience and album could be their last.

have just wrapped in up Los Angeles and London, from which some nominees joined the ceremony remotely. Ewan McGregor and Michaela CoelThe Crown emerged as the evening’s biggest winner, taking home seven trophies.

ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog has admitted the band’s forthcoming ‘Voyage’ concert experience may well be their last.The iconic four-piece made their monumental comeback earlier this month, announcing the release of their new album also called ‘Voyage’, on November 5 – and dropping the singles ‘I Still Have The Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’.They also revealed their forthcoming tour will see a “digital” version of ABBA (not holograms) perform alongside a 10-piece live band.

Noticias Telemundo has named Julio Vaqueiro as anchor of its evening newscast, succeeding José Díaz-Balart.

EXCLUSIVE: Devyn Tyler (Clarice) is set as a new series regular opposite Damson Idris in the upcoming fifth season of FX drama Snowfall. The series hails from the late Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron.

Robin French, a talent agent who worked with legends including Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and later headed production at Paramount Pictures in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he had been in declining health for the past few months and died September 6 in Palm Desert, CA.

Yasmine Pearl has joined UTA as an agent in the Talent division, the agency announced on Monday.Based in Los Angeles, she will report to Chris Hart and Jay Gassner, partners and co-heads of Motion Picture Talent.“My job as an agent is to believe in my clients’ dreams and to help them come true,” Pearl said in a statement.

Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing

Billy Talent have officially announced their sixth studio album, sharing with the news a new single featuring Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.Carried by a fierce, if somewhat pared-back lead guitar riff, the track offers a lot of the punchy, stage-ready rock flavour that Billy Talent have become known for.Aside from having Cuomo himself appear on the track, the band’s Weezer influence also shines through in some of frontman Benjamin Kowalewicz’s vocal melodies, especially when around the halfway

Alice In Chains‘ frontman Jerry Cantrell, Soundgarden‘s former lead guitarist Kim Thayil and Pearl Jam‘s former drummer Dave Krusen are set to launch their own rock camp for budding musicians in California.A spin-off of the long-running Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, the new event – dubbed “The Sounds Of Seattle” – will take place in Los Angeles next year, running between Thursday February 17 and Sunday 20.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Kenward, who spent eight years as an agent at WME, has joined digital brand Friday Beers as President and Chief Operating Officer.