EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Nader has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner on the upcoming ABC multi-camera comedy series Shifting Gears (working title), starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings. It is the first project under an overall deal the veteran writer-producer has signed with the studio behind Shifting Gears, 20th Television, a part of Disney Television […]
Monika Bacardi and longtime business partner Andrea Iervolino, producers on dozens of movies including Ferrari and To The Bone, have entered into a war of words and legal saber rattling following their recent split. The producers were longtime partners at prolific Italian production and distribution company ILBE (Iervolino & Lady Bakardi Entertainment), but Bacardi is […]
Eduardo Xol, a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, has died. He was 58. Xol, a resident of Palm Springs, California, died at the Desert Regional Medical Center on September 20, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, following injuries from a reported stabbing on September 10. TMZ reports that the Palm Springs Police Department […]
There was much enthusiasm but little optimism regarding the contemporary film market at San Sebastian’s third-annual Creative Investors’ Conference, which wrapped this afternoon. Hosted at San Sebastian’s imposing, hipster-coded contemporary arts center Tabakalera, the conference runs for two days and features onstage Q&As with execs from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Attendees include MUBI’s Bobby […]
EXCLUSIVE: Director Sophia Banks and producer Damiano Tucci have launched Getaway Entertainment, a new production company committed to great storytelling across all mediums. Getaway already has a robust slate of projects, including the Cary Joji Fukunaga helmed Blood On Snow starring Tom Hardy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Oh Canada from Paul Schrader starring Richard Gere, Uma […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to A Very Merry Beauty Salon, a new original movie starring and executive produced by Tia Mowry, the final installment of Mowry’s three-picture deal with the network. RonReaco Lee, Donna Biscoe, Cocoa Brown and Ashli Auguillard also star. The movie follows the lively women of an Atlanta beauty salon owned […]
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Gaby Hoffmann, best known for her work on Amazon’s Transparent and HBO’s Girls, has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. Hoffman earned three Emmy nominations, two for Supporting Actress on Transparent for her role as Ali Pfefferman, and a Guest Actress nomination for her performance as Adam’s erratic and mesmerizing sister Caroline on Girls. She was most recently seen […]
Josh Klinghoffer, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Janes Addition, Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop and Morrissey, is set to be arraigned tomorrow in a California courthouse for a March 18 car accident that left a pedestrian dead. Klinghoffer is expected to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge […]