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Exclusive: Music label Top Dawg Entertainment (Tde) has launched Tde Films with the new division behind the urban action horror movie The Zone.

Dallas Jackson is directing off a script by David Hayter of the 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise and Jackson. Tde Films is producing alongside former Lionsgate boss Rob Friedman. 20th Century Studios acquired the project. Plot details are being kept quiet other than it has a high concept sci-fi twist.

Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith founder of Tde said, “This partnership with 20th Century Fox aligns strongly with our mission at Top Dawg Entertainment—to innovate, elevate, and expand the cultural conversation. Together, we’re building a bridge between music and film that will leave a lasting impact on audiences around the world.”

Scott Aversano and Rashonda Joplin are overseeing the project at 20th.

Jackson was the writer/director of Thriller for Blumhouse/Netflix, writer/director of...

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Fubo has debuted a new free, ad-supported streaming television (Fast) channel dedicated to a combat sport.

The channel, called Bkfc TV, offers matches from Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, including Bkfc Prospect Series and Bkfc Fight Night.

Bkfc TV first rolled out to fight fans within the Bkfc app. Through Fubo, the channel is now available outside the app for the first time.

“Bkfc fight content took off on our Fubo Sports Fast channel, and we couldn’t wait to bring a dedicated Bkfc network to Fubo’s live TV streaming platform,” said Pamela Duckworth, the lead executive in charge of Fubo Studios. “Fans crave high-energy combat sports, and we continue to see that trend hold true with Bkfc fights. Now, Fubo subscribers can watch Bkfc content around the clock.”

“Fubo has been a great partner for Bkfc,” said Bkfc Founder and CEO David Feldman.

Conor McGregor recently made waves across Hollywood with his film debut in Jake Gyllenhaal’s Road House. The former two-division UFC champion has been taking some time off from the UFC world due to the film after his 2021 loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. However, he is set to return with a bang at the upcoming UFC 303 event.

Conor McGregor

McGregor has been slowly branching out his avenues beyond the UFC world, even venturing into films. The Mma star made a huge announcement recently that he would be an owner of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (Bkfc). This exciting move was appreciated by fans who deemed it a great career expansion for McGregor.

Conor McGregor Announces A Big Career Move As the Owner of Bkfc

Conor McGregor has not returned to the octagon since his injury after his 2021 match with Dustin Poirier

Outside of his successful Mma career, Conor McGregor recently...

Exclusive: Following the successful theatrical run of her latest directorial effort Cocaine Bear, a Uni horror comedy that grossed over $87M worldwide, Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect franchise) has been set to topline Skincare, a new film from Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment and producers Jonathan Schwartz and Logan Lerman, which wrapped production prior to the writers’ strike.

Starring alongside Banks are Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose), Luis Gerardo Méndez (The Resort) and Nathan Fillion (The Rookie).

Directed by Austin Peters, Skincare is described as a vanity thriller set in Hollywood, though specifics as to its plot are under wraps. Peters wrote the script with Deering Regan and Sam Freilich. The film is the third on which Schwartz and Lerman have collaborated on as producers following A24’s The Vanishing of Sidney Hall and Cj Enm’s Press Play. Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi financed and produced...

Exclusive: Amy Ryan is set to star alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt in an Apple Original Films’ upcoming feature film written, directed and produced by Jon Watts.

Hailing from Apple Studios, the thriller follows two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. Clooney produces alongside Grant Heslov through Smokehouse Pictures. Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Dianne McGunigle also serve as producers.

Ryan, an Oscar nominee and SAG Award winner, already has strong ties with Apple as she is set to co-star in Apple’s Sugar, a new, genre-bending series starring Colin Farrell from creator and executive producer Mark Protosevich. On top of that, she was also recently seen in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.

Ryan is repped by Gersh and David Feldman from Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson.

Apple Original Films set to premiere several anticipated film this year including Sharper, a new thriller starring starring Julianne Moore,...

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Horror anthology Them has lined up the cast for its second season on Amazon’s Prime Video.

Deborah Ayorinde — who also starred in the show’s first season — Pam Grier and Luke James will head the cast for the season, formally titled Them: The Scare. Joshua J. Williams and Jeremy Bobb will also be regulars in season two, and Wayne Knight, Carlito Olivero, Charles Brice and Iman Shumpert will recur.

Them will once again be set in Los Angeles County (the first season, subtitled Covenant, took place in Compton circa 1952) but will move the time frame forward to 1991. The story centers on LAPD Detective Dawn Reeve (Ayorinde, Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told, Prime Video’s forthcoming Riches), who is assigned to a new case: a gruesome murder that has left the most hardened detectives shaken. As Dawn draws closer to the truth,...

Updated with statement from Capitol Police

A field production team for “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” was detained in the Capitol on June 16 after filming comedy segments for the CBS late-night show.

CBS confirmed that an incident occured with the Capitol Police while a production team to support the foul-mouthed puppet character Triumph the Insult Comic Dog were on an authorized location shoot in Congress.

Among the seven people arrested was Robert Smigel, the writer and comedian behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

The Capitol Police said in a statement that a team was detained in the Longworth House Office Building at 8:30 p.m. on June 16 when the group was found “unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway.”

The statement continued, “The building was closed to visitors, and these individuals were determined to be a part of a group that had been directed by the Uscp...

A group of staffers from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” including Robert Smigel, the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, were arrested on Thursday night for unlawful entry at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., Fox News reported Friday.

“Responding officers observed seven individuals, unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway,” the U.S. Capitol police said in a statement to Fox News. “The building was closed to visitors, and these individuals were determined to be a part of a group that had been directed by the Uscp to leave the building earlier in the day.”

The police said the investigation remained active and more criminal charges could result after consultation with the U.S. Attorney.

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Exclusive: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) has signed on for a series regular role in the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and for a supporting role in the film 80 for Brady for Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content.

The former series written and executive produced by showrunner Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford is based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It focuses on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.

Hamlin will play Cortland Mayfair, current reigning patriarch of the Mayfair clan with a voracious appetite for more money, more power and more life, in his first series regular role in over two decades.

Exclusive: Erin Moriarty and Jamie Campbell Bower have signed on to star in Screen Gems’ film True Haunting, based on Edwin F. Becker’s book of the same name, which will be directed by Gary Fleder.

As per its title, True Haunting is based on true events. When Ed and Marsha Becker purchased their first home, they soon discovered the dwelling was haunted by ghosts. Specifically, the sinister family who lived and died there before. Desperate for help, the Beckers sought out an exorcism. The first ever televised. Millions around the country tuned in. Although the broadcast was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse. Much worse…

Richard D’Ovidio adapted the screenplay, with Blair Butler handling revisions. Cindy Cowan is producing.

Moriarty can currently be seen as Annie January (aka the superhero Starlight) on the hit series The Boys,...

Exclusive: Actor, stand-up comedian and bestselling author Damon Wayans has signed with CAA.

The four-time Emmy nominee starred just last night opposite Kevin Hart in ABC’s live staging of Diff’rent Strokes, as part of its Emmy-winning series, Live in Front of a Studio Audience. He played Willis Jackson, the role originated by Todd Bridges.

Wayans is best known for his work as the co-creator and writer of the Emmy-winning sketch series In Living Color, in which he also starred alongside family members including Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, as well as assorted comedy legends, including Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier and Jamie Foxx. He most recently starred as Roger Murtaugh in Fox’s Lethal Weapon series, also co-creating, exec producing and starring in the ABC comedy My Wife and Kids.

Wayans has appeared on the film side in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, Nick Castle’s hit comedy Major Payne,...

Exclusive: Famed sports broadcaster Jim Rome has signed with ICM Partners for representation.

Boasting more than three decades as a broadcasting star, Rome is best known for his nationally syndicated radio program, The Jim Rome Show, which airs on CBS Sports Radio and streams to over two million listeners on 200 stations across North America.

Also serving as the host of two popular podcasts, The Jim Rome Podcast and The Reinvention Project, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2019.

In television, Rome has also been a major presence, contributing to CBS-tv’s The NFL Today for eight years. His weekday three-hour program is simulcast on CBS Sports Network. During the last 30 years, he has also hosted self-titled programs across a variety of other networks, including Showtime, ESPN, ESPN 2, and Fox Sports 1, debuting his first in 1994.

His credentials in the world of sports have been supported by...

ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” which reaches its climax May 17, focuses on Michael Jordan and the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls. In one sense, the show couldn’t come at a better time, filling the void caused by canceled live sporting events and delivering the exploits of a legend.

Production house Sim intended to assemble the hundreds of hours of footage of director Jason Hehir’s 10-part documentary series in much the same way as the Bulls fashioned their titles — all together, as a team.

“Many documentaries are edited in homes and apartments, with post facilities coming in at the end. This was not one of those projects,” says David Feldman, Sim’s senior vice president of film and television, East Coast.

When the coronavirus pandemic halted film and TV production, Sim was in the middle of its work. At the time the series premiered on April 19, most of the episodes were yet unfinished.

Exclusive: Entertainment lawyers Leigh Brecheen, David Feldman, Stephen Breimer, Richard Thompson and Ashley Silver have peeled away from Bloom Hergott to launch their own new entertainment law firm.

Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson opens its doors immediately, based in the penthouse offices at the Watt Plaza Building in Century City. This follows last spring’s Deadline revelation that Jake Bloom was retiring and Alan Hergott would step down from the storied firm Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman.

The partners in the new firm worked with each other for many years at the former Bloom Hergott firm in the areas of film, scripted and unscripted TV, digital, social and new media, as well as merchandising, licensing, publishing, sports and other areas. The group will continue to represent a list of clients that includes Conan O’Brien, John Oliver, Mel Gibson, Keegan-Michael Key, Lucas Hedges, Amy Ryan, Krysten Ritter, Damon Wayans,...

Exclusive: CBS is developing Repeat, a drama series executive produced by Masi Oka and Sabrina Wind, from ABC Studios.

Written and executive produced by David Hayter Repeat is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Kurumi Inui and the 2018 TV series, which aired on Yomiuri Television in Japan.

In Repeat, the opportunity to travel back 10 months to relive their pasts seems like an incredible gift to a group of strangers, giving them the chance to right wrongs, undo mistakes, and set their lives on a better path, but their new choices have unforeseen results as they unravel a larger conspiracy with deadly consequences.

The general idea, about stranger with supernatural abilities, is reminiscent of Oka’s NBC series Heroes where the powers of his character, fan favorite Hiro Nakamura, included traveling in time.

Oka and Hayter executive produce alongside Wind via her recently launched WindPower Entertainment,...

Exclusive: Damon Wayans is returning to multi-camera comedy with a new project at ABC, where he headlined and co-created hit family sitcom My Wife and Kids. Wayans is reteaming with My Wife and Kids co-creator Don Reo on the new family comedy, Let’s Stay Together (working title), which we hear has received a script commitment plus penalty from ABC. The project, now in development, will be produced by ABC Studios, a division of Disney TV Studios.

According to sources, Let’s Stay Together is being pitched as a family comedy for a new kind of family. It will star Wayans as a single father who finds out it’s hard to get rid of millennial kids, and their kids. The sitcom reportedly features a story line that mirrors Wayans’ own life.

Wayans and Reo are writing and executive producing. The duo’s previous collaboration, the 2001 sitcom My Wife and Kids,...

Exclusive: As lawyers for Johnny Depp and his former law firm spar over a new trial date for the now $50 million malpractice lawsuit the Pirates of the Caribbean star brought against Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman Llp in 2017, there looks to be at least two fewer Hollywood heavyweights in the ring as of today.

Fifty-one years after he started practicing law, Jacob Bloom is retiring from the firm that already doesn’t carry his name, I’ve learned. His fellow founding partner Alan Hergott is also stepping down after years representing clients including Brad Pitt, Star Wars overlord Kathleen Kennedy, her husband producer Frank Marshall, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Hergott and Bloom, who represented Depp for two decades, have been sending emails to clients, current and past, informing them of their decision to move on to a new phase of their lives. As well as working for...

Let's hear it for the writers!

The Writer's Guild of America held their annual awards show on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Donald Glover's breakout series, Atlanta were among those recognized for their achievement of the written word.

Read on below to see the full list of winners.

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Film Winners

Original Screenplay

Moonlight, Screenplay by Barry Jenkins, Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; A24

Adapted Screenplay

Arrival, Screenplay by Eric Heisserer; Based on the Story “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang; Paramount Pictures

Documentary Screenplay

Command and Control, Telescript by Robert Kenner & Eric Schlosser, Story by Brian Pearle and Kim Roberts; Based on the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser; American Experience Films

Television And New Media Winners

Drama Series

The Americans, Written...

The Writers Guild Awards and the Academy writing nominees always don’t line up; many films are ineligible. This year, those included Oscar-writing nominees “Lion” and “The Lobster.”

This year, the WGA and the Academy differed dramatically. While the WGA deemed “Moonlight” and “Loving” as Original Screenplays, the Academy considered both as Adapted; only “Moonlight” landed a nomination.

At the WGA, as at the BAFTAs, Barry Jenkins’ script for “Moonlight” competed for the Original Screenplay Award against both Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” and Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” Unlike the BAFTAs, Jenkins emerged the winner over Lonergan, a sign of strength for “Moonlight,” which is nominated for eight Oscars.

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However, in the Oscars’ Original Screenplay contest, lauded playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me,...

These fine people won the contest, correctly predicting all five of the eventual nominees: Josh Parham Steven riggs Ighor Arantes James Tisch Adam Atkinson Jorge Gascón Michael Schetrompf Pedro Cruz...

Man's best friend has never been so crude. Adult Swim announced today that the network has ordered a series starring comedian Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel's verbally abusive puppet alter ego). An off-kilter buddy comedy, created by Smigel, Michael Koman and David Feldman, the untitled sitcom details the lives of two former child actors (McBrayer and Triumph) who starred in a Lassie-esque series from the '80s and '90s. After their show's cancellation prompted a depraved downward spiral, Jack is back on the straight and narrow when Triumph finds his way back into his

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Lakeshore Entertainment and Hopscotch Features have tapped David Hayter (X-Men, X2: X-Men United, Watchmen, The Scorpion King) to pen the screenplay for their upcoming The Sword, a stylistic, action-packed tale of vengeance based on the graphic novel of the same name by Jonathan and Joshua Luna (The Luna Brothers). Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi, along with Skip Williamson, and Hopscotch's Andrew Mason, will produce, with Hopscotch's Troy Lum executive producing.

The graphic novel is divided into four volumes, offering another potential franchise property for Lakeshore following the global success of the Underworld franchise, which has grossed more than $460M worldwide. Production on the first installment of The Sword is slated to begin early 2014.

Here's what Lakeshore Entertainment CEO Tom Rosenberg had to say about David Hayter in a statement.

"David has a proven track record of bringing the multifaceted, beloved characters of graphic novels to mainstream audiences and we're...

Alex Murray has ended his partnership with John MacDonald in MacDonald-Murray Management and has become a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Murray reps standup comics, personalities and comedy writers, and is bringing clients that include Jim Gaffigan, G4's Web Soup host Chris Hardwick, Dan Finnerty and The Dan Band, Nascar fixture-turned-comic Michael Waltrip and comedy writers/performers Brandon McMillan, Todd Glass, Jonah Ray, Daniel Kinno and David Feldman. Murray said that he has wanted to join Bep since leaving Icm in 2000. He hopes to build his comedy business in the model of Gaffigan, who's also repped by CAA. Gaffigan has grown to become one of the top 5 touring comics in the country, and the millions he makes allows him to call the shots. He's now branching into acting and next stars on Broadway in That Championship Season alongside Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Chris Noth and Brian Cox. Murray has...

HollywoodNews.com: The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmys featured some wins from a handful of newcomers, as well as some repeat wins from previous years. As “Mad Men” took home the award for Best Drama Series and “Modern Family” took home the Emmy for Best Comedy Series, these shows aren’t the only ones who reaped some of the awards.

View the complete nominee and winner list below:

Drama Series

Breaking Bad (AMC)

Dexter (Showtime)

The Good Wife (CBS)

Lost (ABC)

Mad Men (AMC)

True Blood (HBO)

Comedy Series

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)

Modern Family (ABC)

Glee (Fox)

Nurse Jackie (Showtime)

The Office (NBC)

30 Rock (NBC)

Miniseries

The Pacific (HBO)

Return to Cranford (PBS)

Made for Television Movie

Endgame (PBS)

Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)

Moonshot (History)

The Special Relationship (HBO)

Temple Grandin (HBO)

You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)

Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC)

Michael C. Hall,...

NBC's Last Comic Standing sent M&C the best of clips from last night's show. The show ends with five groups of comics. One comedian from each group advanced to the final ten. Felipe, Myq, Rachel, Mike, and Jonathan. Last Comic Book Smart Boston's Myq Kaplan plays it smart - and finds a funny bone with the audience and judges. Daddy Issues Middle aged dad David Feldman, works the crowd with tales of teenage daughters. Off Beat, On Target A deadpan delivery and off the wall material earn Jonathan Thymus a spot in the finals. Next on Last Comic Standing The semi-finals are continuing with more comics battling to stay in the game.