By Pete Hammond | Deadline Leading the list of honorees for the Critics Choice Association’s third annual Celebration of Black Cinema are Delroy Lindo receiving the Career Achievement Award, John Legend and Mike Jackson as Producers of the Year, Tessa Thompson winning...
By Dave McNary | Variety Spike Lee will receive the American Cinematheque Award and will be honored during a virtual tribute on Jan. 14, 2021. American Cinematheque chair Rick Nicita said the legendary director always keeps his finger on the pulse of society. “As a...
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is planning to wrap up its Fast & Furious core film franchise with two final movies that will bring to a close a franchise that has revved its way to become the highest-grossing movie series in the...
By Greg Evans | Deadline Producer and recording artist Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is partnering with Eli Roth and entertainment studio 3BlackDot for a three-picture feature film deal. The deal expands Power player Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television in the horror...
By Amanda N'Duka | Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has officially promoted Nicole Brown to president of TriStar Pictures, one-year after Brown was tapped to head the film division for the specialty label following the departure of long-time exec Hannah...
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Dwayne Johnson this week surpassed 200 million followers on Instagram, his go-to social media portal. He posted a video this morning to commemorate the milestone, one he said puts him atop the pile in terms of American men (the soccer...
By Anthony D'Alessandro Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and his producing partner, Datari Turner, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment where they’ll develop and produce feature films. The first project in development that Foxx and Turner are producing...
Variety Staff | Variety Composer Terence Blanchard will receive the TIFF Variety Artisan Award at the TIFF Tribute Awards, scheduled to air Sept. 15 on CTV. The news was announced Wednesday by Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, the co-heads of the Toronto International...
by Joe Otterson | Variety Idris Elba and his Green Door Pictures production company have signed a first-look deal at Apple, Variety has learned. Under the deal, Elba and Green Door will produce both series and features for Apple’s streaming platform, Apple TV Plus....
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Malcolm D. Lee’s Blackmaled Productions has hired Sheila Walcott to be Head of Film and Television. Walcott moves from Warner Bros where she was Director of Development and worked on such films as Just Mercy, A Star is Born,...
by Alex Ritman | The Hollywood Reporter The streamer has signed a multiyear pact with the ‘Star Wars’ actor’s UpperRoom Productions, which has a focus on West and East Africa. Netflix has teamed with Star Wars alumnus John Boyega as it eyes Africa as its next major...
By Matt Donnelly | Variety The Sag-Aftra foundation has tapped actor Courtney B. Vance as its new president. The Emmy winner for “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” succeeds outgoing president JoBeth Williams, as the charitable arm of the actors’ union...