Yasmine Pearl Joins UTA as Talent Agent

Armando “Chick” Galella was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and later worked to honor the military personnel who died there.Galella was 19 years old when he joined the Army in 1940.

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.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe beach in Asbury Park, N.J., may have at first seemed an unlikely venue to host Pearl Jam’s first concert in more than three years, but it turned out to be a highly appropriate locale the weekend of Sept. 18 at the third-annual Sea.Hear.Now festival on the Jersey Shore.

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.

Pearl Jam have added Josh Klinghoffer as a touring guitarist to their line-up.The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist joined Pearl Jam on stage at Ashbury Park, New Jersey at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival yesterday (September 18).The guitarist accompanied the band for the entirety of their 20-strong headline set, playing guitar, percussion and singing backing vocals.A representative for Pearl Jam later confirmed to Consequence of Sound of Klinghoffer’s addition as a touring musician.You can see

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.

Selome Hailu editorYasmine Pearl has joined UTA as an agent in the talent division.Based in Los Angeles, Pearl will report to Chris Hart and Jay Gassner, UTA’s partners and co-heads of motion picture talent. She comes to UTA from WME, where she had been an agent since 2018.“Yasmine is a highly respected agent with a fantastic eye for talent,” said Hart and Gassner.

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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.