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At the blockbuster event of the fall — Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie premiere, of course — diehard Swifties were reveling in the opportunity to not only see the movie but also to get all the souvenirs. My date for the evening, senior film editor Rebecca Keegan, made sure to grab the prized Eras Tour popcorn tin, but it wasn’t for selfish reasons: She was saving the collectible for a special person, her Women in Entertainment mentee whom she would see just a few days later. Her bond with Madeline was deeper than the Swift songbook: Over 12 months, the pair connected through biweekly meetings, phone calls and emails in which advice on life, school and career was shared. The impact was evident when they met for Keegan’s second…
THE MENTEES Alejandra John F. Kennedy HS Anai United World College-USA Andrea Belmont HS Bella John F. Kennedy HS Emily Dominguez HS Kate Belmont HS Ketzally Theodore Roosevelt HS Linda Santee Education Complex Madeline 32nd Street School/USC Magnet Madelyn Lawndale HS Marilin Santee Education Complex Quetzally John F. Kennedy HS Rebeca Compton Early College HS Samantha Birmingham Community Charter HS Trinidad Belmont HS Valerie John F. Kennedy HS THE MENTORS Daria Cercek Paramount Pictures Jennifer Davidson Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Mitzi Delgado Universal Studios Audrey Diehl Warner Bros. Animation Cindy Gardner NBCUniversal Lucia Gervino A+E Studios Andrea Gompf Browne Netflix Agapy Kapouranis Lionsgate Rebecca Keegan The Hollywood Reporter Veronika Kwan Vandenberg Universal Pictures Samantha Nisenboim Producer Karla Pita Loor Banijay Americas Valerie Spiller A+E Networks Elana Sulzer…
Brenda Lee Sixty-five years after its release, the “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” singer hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with 34.9 million streams in the latest week, per Luminate. Adam Bold Amid sale talks with Gersh, the A3 Artists Agency chair is hit with a lawsuit from two of his partners alleging mismanagement of funds, misconduct and drug abuse. Tracy Underwood Disney promotes the executive, who joined in 2010, to president of ABC Signature, overseeing drama, comedy and limited series development. Andy Borowitz The satirist, once a web traffic-driving staple of The New Yorker, was cut amid rolling layoffs at magazine giant Condé Nast that will affect hundreds of staffers. Showbiz Stocks $193.74 (+5.5%) SPOTIFY (SPOT) The streaming audio giant announced plans to slash its workforce by…
Once the writers strike ended in late September, president of FX Entertainment Nick Grad and his colleagues began to clear their schedules. After a 148-day stoppage, the second longest in Writers Guild of America history, surely there would be a deluge of writers with fresh ideas and new spec scripts coming through, and Grad and team were ready. But here we are, nearly two and a half months later, and that deluge never came. Not for those FX executives, or, as an informal survey of the television industry suggests, their rivals across the landscape. “It’s eerie, nobody’s buying anything,” says one top producer, echoing a chorus of sources who express surprise at how quiet the marketplace has been since Hollywood’s writers went back to work. Everybody seems to have a…
On Dec. 5, SAG-AFTRA members wrapped Hollywood’s season of labor turmoil by ratifying the contract deal that ended the 118-day actors strike. Voting 78.33 percent to 21.67 percent to approve the compromise reached by their negotiators, actors sent a resounding, if not overwhelming, message that the agreement — the merits of which had inspired heated debate online for weeks — was sufficient to end a fraught negotiation period. The contract, valued at over $1 billion, is the result of the 160,000-member union’s stand over the changing nature of employment for performers in the streaming era and the rising threat of artificial intelligence. “I hope [this deal] sends a clear message to anyone who thought that ultimately SAG-AFTRA wouldn’t go on strike or its members weren’t willing to take that hit…
The entertainment industry’s rabbis say that in the eight weeks since Oct. 7 — a horrific chapter in Jewish history encompassing Hamas’ massacre, Israel’s ensuing Gaza invasion and the worldwide response to it all — their congregations have been roiled by crises of identity and safety not experienced in America since the Holocaust. These faith leaders tell THR that, on the eve of Hanukkah (for many a Christmas-adjacent holiday of gift-giving but also more consequentially the commemoration of a biblical battle over Jewishness in the land now known as Israel), their temples’ members are confronting anew millennia-old questions about assimilation, antisemitism and the fraught notion of Jewish power itself. “This has been the hardest period for the Jewish people since the Shoah,” says Rabbi Joshua Aaronson of Temple Judea in…
