YouTube Taps Tara Walpert Levy as VP of Americas, Overseeing Content Partnerships (EXCLUSIVE)

Anitta is living her best life at the 2021 Latin GRAMMYs.The Brazilian super star was «so happy» to be a part of this year's celebration, held in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJen Prince, Twitter’s global head of content partnerships, is departing the social network after more than eight years to join the Los Angeles Rams football team as its first chief commercial officer.Prince will leave Twitter at the end of November, joining the Rams on Dec.

As with his past features Beginners and 20th Century Women, writer-director Mike Mills focused his latest effort, C’mon C’mon, on family—this time honing in not on his relationship with his father or mother, but instead on that between an adult and a child.

Zengel is represented by CAA and Artists Partnership. Watson is represented by UTA, Independent Talent in the UK, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham LLP.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Schitt’s Creek” star and Canadian screen icon Eugene Levy has signed with UTA.The multi-Emmy-winning actor, producer and writer is best known for co-creating, starring in and executive producing the critically acclaimed CBC and Pop series “Schitt’s Creek” alongside his son and co-star, Daniel Levy.The show — which reached global audiences via Netflix — picked up nine Emmy awards for its sixth season, earning the title for the most awarded comedy series in a

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJet Media Network has closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding led by Los Angeles Media Fund. Other investors in the data-driven digital publishing company include 10X Capital, Gaingels, JetSynthesys, Spivy Private Capital and Equinox Systems.The investment comes as Jet Media Network is preparing to launch its first mobile app — a collaboration with former Brazil, Barcelona and AC Milan soccer star Ronaldinho.

Finn Wolfhard has revealed he’s currently working on his feature-length directorial debut.Speaking to NME, Wolfhard revealed the film will be a “horror-comedy-slasher movie that takes place at a camp,” but didn’t want to reveal any more details just yet.The untitled project will be the first time Wolfhard has directed a feature length film, but he did write and direct Night Shifts – a short movie about a shop robbery that gets derailed – earlier this year.It’s a busy time for Wolfhard.

Stranger Things.The Netflix show’s fourth outing is set to debut next year, which was confirmed in a brief trailer released back in August.Speaking to NME, Wolfhard provided some hints as to the direction showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer are taking with the show’s next season.“The Duffer Brothers are at a point where, as the characters grow our audience grows with them,” Wolfhard said. “That’s really nice and we can start to get a little more scary and kind of horror-related.

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.

Anatomy of a Scandal co-creator Melissa James Gibson is continuing her relationship with Endeavor Content with a two-year overall deal.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Joshua Moshier’s score for The Shrink Next Door, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on November 12, as the first three episodes of the limited series become available for streaming on Apple TV+.

Anna Marie de la Fuente After a record-growth year fueled by pandemic-induced lockdowns, São Paulo-based VOD data and content aggregator Sofa Digital will be launching a Latin American film investment fund, Sofa Capital, on Nov. 9.As the number of streaming platforms proliferate and demand for online content continues to mount across the region, Sofa Digital plans to set up a fund that will enable it to produce 100 Latin American titles a year by 2024.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Miami-based sales and distribution company FiGa Films, led by Sandro Fiorin, has picked up worldwide sales rights to Brazilian AIDS inception drama “The First Fallen” (“Los Primeiros Soldados”) by Rodrigo de Oliveira.Set to world premiere at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Int’l Film Festival, where it will also vie for the top prize, “The First Fallen” traces the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the AIDS epidemic hit Brazil.The story begins

HBO Max has ordered a cooking competition series from Dan Levy.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIt’s unclear how many people were clamoring for this, but here it is: Owners of Amazon’s Fire TV streaming devices in the U.S. and Canada can watch the latest viral TikTok memes, dances and music videos on their living-room TV sets.Fire TV is the exclusive connected-TV partner for TikTok.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEugene Levy is set to host and executive produce a new travel series for Apple.“The Reluctant Traveler” will see Levy visit some of the world’s most remarkable hotels, as well as explore the people, places and cultures that surround them. Self confessedly not your average travel show host, he’s agreed the time is right for him to broaden his horizons.

Eugene Levy is set to become The Reluctant Traveler for Apple TV+.

Emilio Mayorga Alê Abreu’s ‘Perlimps’ and Milton Guerrero’s ‘Kai’ are among the five selected projects to be presented at the Animation! Works in Progress by Annecy showcase at Ventana Sur 2021, the biggest film and TV confab in Latin America.The Animation! WIPs by Annecy sidebar is curated by the French festival and its MIFA market.

Dan Levy is opening up about his sister Sarah Levy‘s recent wedding, and revealed how his parents totally upstaged him after his wedding speech.

Dan Levy hangs out with on-screen and real life dad, Eugene Levy, at the Best Wishes, Warmest Regards book launch held at The Beacon Theatre on Monday (October 25) in New York City.