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Multi-media studio Young Hollywood has signed with CAA. They were with UTA. Founded by R.J. Williams in 2007, Young Hollywood specializes in celebrity and lifestyle videos. Its owns a library of  over 2,500 hours of celebrity content, garnering over 2 billion views to date via its distribution network that includes such partners as Yahoo, Hulu, and YouTube, where Young Hollywood has a branded premium channel. It has a broadcast studio set up at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles. Young Hollywood has recently expanded into long-form programming, with four series currently in production, and plans to produce over 500 hours of original programming annually. The company continues to be repped by attorney Dave Feldman.

While television networks, movie studios and advertising companies are just figuring out how to shape its content for the digital age, Young Hollywood has already been there and thrived. Although 34-year-old R.J. Williams originally founded the media company in 2007 (without venture capital, by the way), Young Hollywood launched in January 2012 as an original YouTube channel. Since then, it has grown to nearly 100,000 subscribers and received more than two billion views. Today, Young Hollywood has taken over a wing of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills where its broadcast...

Continuing with their “It’s Not About Age…It’s about Attitude” mission, Young Hollywood launched their new Young Hollywood Network (Yhn) on YouTube today. Founded in 2007 by R.J. Williams, Young Hollywood is poised to propel their celebrity and lifestyle multimedia content to a new level of online video visibility. To see what the pop culture new media network was all about, we sat in on an interview with Young Hollywood’s own Nikki Novak’s and Grammy nominee Melanie Fiona (who also sang and acoustic version of her smash hit 4am live in the Yh studio). Novak did her research, asked Fiona funny questions, and exhibited an ability to immediately make her guest feel comfortable. The atmosphere on set certainly helped (it looks and feels more like a relaxed cocktail party than any kind of online video studio), but it’s clear the friendly professionalism of Novak and the...

After an amazing Italian vacation/second honeymoon with husband Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum got back to work yesterday on one of her upcoming films. She tweeted this about her new comedy…

“Reshoots today for my movie Slightly Single in La..funny stuff..I may or may not have chased someone with a pipe in 5 inch heels.”

Fans can Click Here to learn more about ‘Slightly Single in La‘ and can Click Here to check out exclusive pics from the set.

Right before she left for Italy, Jenna filmed today’s Video of the Week with YoungHollywood.com’s R.J. Williams, the founder and CEO of the celebrity news site, to let everyone know about her new PETA campaign and her upcoming projects (including a film she’s working on with Chan). Enjoy!

If you have a favorite video that you would like me to consider, send a link to the video to votw@channingtatumunwrapped.

It’s time for another update on horror-film screenings for the Halloween 2009 season and beyond; you can track back through our previous items starting here. The most exciting news is the addition of a very special show to the Scary Movies 3 series currently unspooling at New York City’s Lincoln Center: Trick ’R Treat with Michael Dougherty (pictured) in attendance!

The All Hallow’s anthology feature unspools at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, upper level) this Wednesday, October 21 at 8:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Dougherty. Trust us: You want to see this one on the big screen. Full details on Scary Movies 3 can be found here. In addition, adventurous genre fans will want to check out Juraj Herz’s The Cremator when it shows as part of Lincoln Center’s The Ironic Curtain: Czech Cinema series on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. This black...