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UPDATED with latest additions: SAG-AFTRA, which launched a strike against Hollywood studios on July 14, launched its interim agreements program that allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming. The guild…

EXCLUSIVE: Ethos Entertainment, the L.A.-based talent management company recently launched by Christina Gualazzi and Matt Goldman, has entered into a new joint venture with the NY-based production company Picture Farm, helmed by partners Ben Freedman, Chris Bren, and Dion Sapp. Through the…

Taraja Ramsess, a stuntman in Black Panther, The Avengers and many other films, was killed alongside two of his children in a car crash on Halloween night on an Atlanta highway, according to reporting by local affiliate WSB-TV. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: As the FilmNation Entertainment team gathered in Santa Monica this week for the American Film Market, some reflection is in order. It has been 15 years since Glen Basner started the venture. Despite the hardships facing everyone at AFM with strikes and uncertainty, what a different a decade and…

Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has predicted the uptick in foreign productions shot in Australia will fall next year due to the writers and actors strikes in the U.S. Responding to funding body Screen Australia’s Drama Report, which published this morning, producers body SPA said “negative effects&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has completed production on the military action/sci-fi film Agent Recon, featuring legendary martial arts expert and action hero Chuck Norris and will launch sales at the American Film Market, with Millennium Media selling foreign territories. Sci-fi icon Marc Singer (Be…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance are co-repping North American rights and Protagonist Pictures has come on board to handle international rights to Summer Camp. The film stars Diane Keaton (First Wives Club, Annie Hall) and Kathy Bates (Titanic, Misery) along with Alfre Woodard (1…

EXCLUSIVE: Ugandan actress Tracy Kababiito, British-Nigerian actor Wale Ojo and Rwandan actress Isabelle Kabano are set to co-star in groundbreaking, pan-African Rwanda genocide drama Bisesero: A Daughter's Story. The production is being billed as the first major feature about the tragic events in…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Günther and Chevy Chen, the co-founding heads of Berlin and Los Angeles-based production company Fireglory Pictures, first met in Germany via Doug Liman's executive produced series Covert Affairs. "I was handling international producing work and met Christine when I came over to…

EXCLUSIVE: Mediawan Africa, the Republic of Benin and French-language international channel TV5 Monde are partnering to co-develop original daily fiction series The Best Is Yet To Come. The ambitious project – which has set an initial target of 220 episodes of 26 minutes – aims to break fresh ground…

Bob George, who served as a producer on the dramas Newness, Zoe and Endings, Beginnings, died Tuesday from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles. George was hit by a car immediately after the door of a parked car opened into the bike lane, according to…

Ben Wheatley’s zombie series Generation Z is building its bite. UK broadcaster Channel 4 has unveiled a first look at the six-part series, which is currently being filmed in Wales by The Forge, the outfit that produced Help and Roadkill. Generation Z, Wheatley’s first TV series, boasts a cast…