CAA’s resource guide for telling diverse stories, Full Story Initiative, relaunched with a new and improve database this April and, despite reports of diversity efforts in retreat, its key architect Dennis St. Rose said demand from creatives have only increased. The talent agency’s community and impact executive admitted that he was nervous to bring back the guide amid the broader retreat of diversity initiatives across industries. He had friends and colleagues being fired from DEI positions at top entertainment companies as the drive to prioritize multicultural stories was being pared back. However, after more conversations with screenwriters and showrunners, he…
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Spooky season surprise! A fifth “Halloweentown” movie is in early development at Disney Channel and Disney+ 20 years after the fourth installment, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. Lily Houghton and Ryan Koehn are developing the script for Disney, based on the characters created by Paul Bernbaum, who wrote the original 1998 film. Additional details are still under wraps. It is unclear whether previous cast members like Kimberly J. Brown or Sara Paxton will return to lead the franchise. The “Aquamarine” star replaced Brown as Marnie Piper in the 2006 film “Return to Halloweentown.” Houghton wrote the screenplay for horror comedy “Forbidden…
Jon passionately defended his son against his ex’s claims that Collin is mentally ill.
Megan Fox isn’t losing any sleep over Machine Gun Kelly spending time with Dakota Johnson … ’cause we’re told Megan’s put their former romance firmly in the rearview and has bigger things on her plate. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ…
“The View” hosts were appalled after Vice President JD Vance chose to defend Vivek Ramaswamy over a political ad using Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s estranged mother to attack her. The ad features his opponent’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter a liar while urging voters not to elect her as governor. Arthur disputes Acton’s accounts of her childhood, including her experience of homelessness. While campaigning in Ohio, Vance doubled down on his defense of Ramaswamy’s ad. He said that he was “disgusted” that some Republicans had turned on Ramaswamy for running it and was angered watching Democrats…
Mentored by Robert Altman in ‘M*A*S*H,’ the Emmy-winning actor later stood out in ‘Top Gun,’ ‘The Turning Point’ and ‘A River Runs Through It.’
Simone Biles is closing the chapter on her and husband Jonathan Owens’ Houston home. “Today is the first day the house is going to be on the market,” Biles, 29, said in an emotional TikTok posted Wednesday, October 21. “Why the f*** am I boohoo crying? F***. This house will be on the market for the first time and I don’t know why I’m boohoo crying.” She continued, “I was here for six years, and I feel like there were just so many good memories, so many bad memories. But I feel like I grew up in this house. It’s…
Britt McHenry was back in the sports spotlight Wednesday night … but the former ESPN reporter wasn’t calling the action, she was causing it … throwing a drink on a fan and getting escorted out of an NBA game to a chorus of boos … and it’s all…
Sunny Hostin admitted that her 2024 campaign question to then-Vice President Kamala Harris elicited a ‘problematic’ reply.
Princess Kate Middleton cannot wait for her 13-year-old son Prince George’s boarding school break. “She said she’s looking forward to George coming home [and that] she’s missed him,” local patron Denise Ashton told Hello! after meeting Kate, 44, during the princess’ Thursday, October 22, appearance at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices in Ipswich, England. “They may be going somewhere [during the break].” Kate and her husband, Prince William, share George and his siblings, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8. While Charlotte and Louis attend a day school near the family’s London residence, George recently matriculated at Eton College. (William, 44,…