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Stewart Talent has announced it has signed Daphne Rubin-Vega and Brooke Smith for representation. Brooke Smith can currently be seen on David E. Kelley’s Big Sky. She was recently seen in Jay Roach's Bombshell, which centered on the female Fox News personnel and their allegations against founder Roger Ailes (John…

They fill the mailbox daily – the tightly packaged screeners that arrive like welcome anachronisms, some bearing familiar titles (Mank, Soul) but most as strangers (Wolfwalkers, Athlete A). Their sheer abundance reminds us of the creative energy out there; the “out there,” however, seems lost in the mist. "We need…

UPDATED with additional ads: This year’s Super Bowl shaped up as — let us all hope — a one-of-a-kind experience. But the seventh career championship for Tom Brady, who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a win over the Kansas City Chiefs (last year’s champs), had plenty of familiar elements for viewers in this unfamiliar…

It’s not easy having scissors for hands, as Timothée Chalamet discovers in a Super Bowl ad for Cadillac that pays homage to Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands film. Winona Ryder returns in the role of Kim, while Chalamet is Edgar Scissorhands, the son of Kim and the original Edward, Johnny Depp. Edgar’s challenges…

It is tradition for the Super Bowl MVP to be asked what his next move is. They always reply, “I’m going to Disney World.” Not this year. The question will still be asked. But the Orlando, Fla. theme park isn’t holding its traditional post-game parade this year wherein the winning player appears on a float. It’s the…

EXCLUSIVE: Riot Games — the developer and publisher behind League of Legends — has named former Hulu and Netflix exec Ryan Crosby to head marketing and consumer products at its new entertainment division. He'll develop and produce entertainment extensions based on Riot’s global IP, reporting to Shauna Spenley…

Karl Williams, the longtime Paramount Pictures publicist who was integral in campaigns for the studio’s Transformers, Iron Man, Star Trek, Indiana Jones and other franchises, died Sunday of liver complications at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, IL. He was 52. For those like me who worked with Karl, he was a…

EXCLUSIVE: As exhibition and the domestic box office remain in purgatory during the pandemic with several tentpole movies delayed to later in the year, you would think the streamers would rise to the occasion and backfill the major studios with pushing their wares during the Super Bowl, right? Not exactly. We hear…

The news has already been grim for the 2021 concert scene just one month into the new year. Glastonbury canceled. Coachella canceled. Stagecoach canceled. Next? SXSW, set for March 16-20, has already announced it’s going online. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been bumped to October from its traditional…

Twitter today named Ged Tarpey as managing director of Global Media & Entertainment, overseeing relationships with studios, networks and streamers. Tarpey has been with Twitter since 2012 most recently as sales lead for U.S. media and entertainment where he's worked on innovative ways for the industry to market…

Michael Green, Reza Izad, and Dan Weinstein have reunited to form Underscore Talent, a management company helping creators leverage today's "attention economy." Joining them are Austin Mayster of UTA, Linnea Toney of Toney Media and Megan Brown of APA Named Partners. Underscore Talent launches with a roster of…

Sam Bergen, whose background includes executive stints at Vice Media and Beats by Dr. Dre, has been named chief marketing officer at Illumination. He will oversee all aspects of the company's creative and business marketing, overseeing print and audio-visual advertising as well as graphic and product design.  Gail…