WME Sports Hires NFL Agent Ben Renzin to Co-Lead Football Business (Exclusive)

He who laughs last, laughs best, and thus Jared Leto might be cackling right now. In yet another twist in the Zack Snyder/ “Justice League” saga, Leto has been tapped to reprise his role as the Joker in the currently titled “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” coming to HBO Max sometime in 2021.

Eli Countryman Kingsley Ben-Adir’s version of Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami” is a different take than Denzel Washington’s portrayal of the civil rights leader in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic, the actor said.“The more I investigated the script, it became pretty clear quite early on that it was a completely different Malcolm and an opportunity to show him in a way that maybe we haven’t seen him before: vulnerable and broken,” Ben-Adir said during a Q&A on Monday night during AFI Fest presented by

Letitia Wright is still mourning the death of her co-star, Chadwick Boseman.Boseman, 43, died on Aug. 28 after a private battle with cancer, leaving many of his friends and co-stars in shock and despair.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterRange Media Partners, Pete Micelli’s upstart management firm, has made two new hires in motion picture literature and a promotion in business affairs and TV lit.The motion picture hires come from the London office of WME. Payne Cowley, who served at the latter as a coordinator in motion pictures, joins Range as a manager under her old boss Rich Cook.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterICM Partners senior motion picture agent Andrea Nelson Meigs is packing up her office in a box to the left.The longtime film rep to luminaries like Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Ellen Burstyn is parting ways with the agency, Variety has learned. Her future plans are presently unknown, though she is said by two sources to be negotiating with another of the big four agencies.An ICM spokesperson said Nelson Meigs left amicably and that they wished her the best.

Jordan Moreau Mike “Doc” Emrick, a veteran broadcaster for the National Hockey League and eight-time Sports Emmy award winner, has announced his retirement after 47 years.NBC Sports made the announcement on Monday morning, with Emrick reminiscing on the early days of his career.“It was 50 years ago this fall, with pen and pad in hand at old Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, I got my first chance to cover the National Hockey League.

according to the BBC, has been buying up rights to mega songs for the past three years.The company spent over $1 billion gobbling up rights to music that also includes LA Reid’s song catalog (which has shares in Boyz II Men’s “End Of The Road”, Whitney Houston’s “I’m Your Baby Tonight” and Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel”), as well as music by Blondie, Barry Manilow and Mark Ronson.Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis claims the music he’s bought is “more valuable than gold or oil” as “ their

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, defended his home turf on Thursday after fellow Republican, Sen.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterCBS was in the zone Tuesday as it dominated the night with an NFL matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans. The game scored a 2.7 in the adults 18-49 demographic in fast nationals while 9.94 million viewers watched the Titans annihilate the Bills 42-16.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNeon has snatched the domestic theatrical rights to Justin Simien’s new horror film “Bad Hair.”The Oscar-winning distributor behind “Parasite” will take the film out to drive-in theaters nationwide before it debuts October 23 on Hulu in October, Variety has learned.Markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento and Las Vegas.

Also Read: Dawn Davis Named Bon Appétit Editor in ChiefThe YouTube relaunch, with its focus on “providing platforms for new voices, diverse content, and inclusive programming,” is under the oversight of new editor in chief Dawn Davis, executive editor Sonia Chopra, global brand advisor Marcus Samuelsson and Condé Nast Entertainment president Agnes Chu.The featured chefs in the new lineup include DeVonn Francis, a first-generation Jamaican-American chef who founded a community space for private

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorA Thursday Night Football game that saw the Chicago Bears and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers go down to the wire helped Fox to the top spot in Thursday’s primetime ratings, with the game scoring a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.07 viewers.The Bears’ victory did see the broadcast well off from CBS’ Monday one-off New England-Kansas City game in broadcast primetime (3.6, 12.7 million) in early Nielsen Live+Same Day data, but last night’s

James Corden didn't think he'd last long as the host of . The 42-year-old host appears on Friday's episode of , and reveals the extent to which he feared his firing after landing the late-night gig in 2015.«When we moved here, my wife and I, we had two kids at that point, and I wouldn’t allow us to buy furniture,» he says.

Taylor Swift is “with Joe B.”

Black Panther breakout Letitia Wright has joined the cast of Dominic Savage’s critically-acclaimed, female-led drama anthology series I Am for U.K. network Channel 4.

Kroy Biermann’s former NFL agent is suing him for allegedly neglecting to pay more than $22,000 in fees.Andrew Baker, the president/CEO of Exclusive Sports Group, filed paperwork with the Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta claiming that he helped negotiate Biermann’s NFL contracts, but that his former client failed to pay on time, according to legal docs obtained by the New York Post’s Page Six.According to the papers obtained by Page Six, Baker claimed that he would send reminders to