Wasserman Completes Acquisition of Brillstein Entertainment Partners

Oof! Dannii Minogue once called Russell Brand a “vile predator” — and this was over a DECADE before he was accused of sexual assault!

EXCLUSIVE: EST N8, the international finance, production and sales company launched by EST Studios and Bangkok-based N8 Studios at Cannes this year, has hired Sophie Changhui Shi as acquisition and production executive, based in Los Angeles. 

Sometimes less is more… But not usually when you’re cut a check to turn in a prestigious job!

Netflix‘s Daredevil series has called out Disney for its upcoming reboot, calling it a “scam” for creatives who worked on the Netflix show.Netflix’s Daredevil series – which was released in partnership with Marvel – ran between 2015 and 2018 and lasted for three seasons. Following the launch of Disney+ in 2019, Disney – who acquired Marvel back in 2009 – ordered a slate of new Marvel series for its streaming platform.

EXCLUSIVE: Mumbai-based Reliance Entertainment is joining forces with Indian media group Mid-Day Infomedia in a strategic collaboration to bring real-life stories to the screen. 

Bieber's relationship continues to fascinate and bedevil. From their on-off beginning to public spats and many, many declarations of profuse love, the two really have been together through thick and thin. Justin's lost paternal figures in pastor Carl Lentz and manager Scooter Braun, and suffered partial facial paralysis, while Hailey launched her skincare line, fended off Gomez, and was hospitalized for a mini-stroke.

iDKHOW has parted ways with their drummer, and finished work on a new album.The update was shared with a new post on the duo’s social media pages, which confirmed that drummer Ryan Seaman is no longer a part of the line-up due to a “series of broken trusts”.“Dear everyone, I owe you updates (real ones)! Some of you may be aware of this stuff already, but let’s make it official,” Weekes wrote in the statement, going on to reveal the change in structure.“Regrettably, Ryan will no longer be participating in iDKHOW. After a series of broken trusts, it became necessary to let him go,” he continued.

Back when Casey Wasserman’s bespectacled grandfather Lew Wasserman was Hollywood’s top power broker, he was known to step in to clear up labor stalemates with a sense of fairness and the authority to get cooler heads to prevail. His grandson, whose music/sports powerhouse firm just acquired Brillstein Entertainment Partners, learned a lot from his famed grandfather, and believes he’d have a plan to solve the current AMPTP battle with WGA and SAG-AFTRA, and that he would not have let it get this far, with thousands not getting a paycheck for over five months. Hopefully the resumption of talks this week will bring the kind of resolve Wasserman describes, even if there is so much mistrust between the sides that there is no leader whose word carried the weight that Wasserman’s did back in the day.

Sports and music representation powerhouse Wasserman has finalized its acquisition of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, the venerable Hollywood management and production company. Terms were not disclosed. Deadline exclusively revealed the acquisition talks back in February.

Sex Education has discussed the show’s ending, warning that it won’t be “wrapped up completely perfectly”.The fourth and final season of the hit Netflix show will hit the streaming service next week (September 21). Show creator Laurie Nunn previously confirmed the fourth season would be the show’s last in July, describing it as the “right time to graduate”.The final season picks up as Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) face setting up a new sex clinic at Cavendish Sixth Form College.As shown in a new trailer shared this week, Otis is also struggling with the distance between him and Maeve (Emma Mackey), who is studying at the prestigious Wallace University in the US.Speaking to The Guardian in a new interview, Nunn said that she hopes the finale satisfies fans, but that it may still leave questions.“I’m no longer on social media – my baby already knows how to use the phone with his little thumbs, and it freaks me out.

EXCLUSIVE: The company that cuts a lot of Hollywood’s residual checks cut dozens and dozens of employees this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Adam Anders has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Sophie Turner ain’t letting a divorce get in the way of her career.

The campaign in the name of tragic Awaab Ishak has secured another victory. Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to social housing providers this week with fresh guidance on the health risks that damp and mould pose.

A charity has accused the Scottish Government of deliberately neglecting social housing after the number of local authority new builds completed dropped by 23 per cent in a year.

In the early 2010s, Jeffrey Lamar Williams — the Atlanta rapper known as Young Thug — began building an empire. He founded the YSL collective out of his home in the Jonesboro South projects, enlisting friends, family members, and acquaintances.

Craig Revel Horwood admits that he was 'completely homophobic' and shut down his sexuality after being bullied.

, but few of these celebrity couples have held on quite as long as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 33, and Sam Taylor-Johnson 56, who celebrated their 11-year wedding anniversary in June 2023.Yes, your math is right. The Kick-Ass actor and James Bond contender met the director on the set of their movie Nowhere Boy in 2008 when he was reportedly 18 years old.

She’s a doll, but she still wants to party! Nicki Minaj is returning to the MTV Video Music Awards stage this year as both the evening’s emcee and for a performance of her new single, “Last Time I Saw You.”

Ethan Shanfeld Kehlani has signed with Wasserman Music for worldwide representation. The two-time Grammy nominated R&B singer last released an album in 2022, titled “Blue Water Road” and then embarked on a world tour that featured a series of sold-out two-night stands at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater and London’s O2 Academy Brixton.