EXCLUSIVE: Another day, another emerging genre filmmaker: Jordan Downey, co-writer and director of the recent Shudder buzz title The Cycle, has inked with Verve for exclusive representation in all areas. The talk of the town recently, The Cycle stars Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll as a forensic anthropologist pulled into a chilling investigation when her long-estranged […]
The news comes shortly after the Mexican icon was honored with a Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award.
Matt Friend has signed with Range Media Partners for representation. The 28-year-old comedian has gone viral on social media for his arsenal of impressions, which includes 250 distinct voices from Donald Trump to Rami Malek. Friend has made a name for himself performing impressions in front of the subjects themselves. He’s done Barack Obama with […]
Singer-songwriter Jackson Wang, currently starring in an Apple campaign tied to his new single and music video, “Thank You,” has signed with WME for representation. Wang’s 2019 debut album, “Mirrors,” became the first album by a solo Chinese artist to hit the Billboard Top 200 and over the years he has collaborated with Ciara, Swae […]
Transgender rights protesters gathered outside the opening of London’s new “Harry Potter” flagship store on Wednesday, as controversy surrounding author J.K. Rowling’s views on gender identity continues to follow the franchise. A group of six demonstrators assembled outside the shop on Oxford Street, carrying signs reading “protect trans lives” and “stop funding trans erasure,” according […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Akingbola, known best for the fan-favorite role of Geoffrey on Bel-Air, has signed with Paradigm for representation. Akingbola played the Banks family house manager Geoffrey Thompson in 38 episodes of Bel-Air, the reimagining of the classic 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He’ll next be seen in ITV and ZDF‘s upcoming space […]
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Saturday Night Live cast member Jeremy Culhane. Now in his second season on SNL, Culhane has been a breakout star with his fan favorite “Mr. On Blast” character and Tucker Carlson impersonation becoming staples on Weekend Update. He kicked off this season with the now-viral “North High” sketch, featuring host Jalen […]
The Puerto Rican star will continue releasing music under La Base Music Group, his own label.
The singer is currently starring in an Apple campaign tied to his latest single “Thank You."
Linden Entertainment has signed actor Asa Butterfield for representation. Butterfield most recently made his stage debut in Barney Norris’ “Second Best” at Riverside Studios in London, which was based on David Foenkinos’ best-selling novel of the same name, and starred in Oscar Boyson’s “Our Hero, Balthazar.” Known for his role as Otis Milburn in the […]
The comedian and online creator will also develop and produce other series for the streamer.
Druski is bringing his money-hungry megachurch pastor character to Netflix. The comedian will star opposite Mike Epps in a new, semi-scripted comedy series titled “Collect & Praise,” premiering on the streamer on Dec. 1. The show is based on a character made viral by Druski in an internet sketch and at the BET Awards. Epps […]
The online dating and relationships guru also starred in the Peacock comedy ‘Older, Hotter, Wiser.’
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot of fan mail. Almost every day, multi-paragraph emails arrive from passionate and well-informed readers in Barcelona and Frankfurt, Chicago and Warsaw. They have appealing names like Bella Monroe, Thalina Rose and Tricia Claxton. Some of them are straightforward enthusiasts while others are more irreverent, like the one who signs off her messages “warm chaos”. Some love the “deadpan genius” of my novels while others admire my nonfiction’s “moral courage”. What they all have in common, though, is that they are entirely fake and trying to con me out of money. They promise to promote my work at their city-wide book clubs or spread the word among their reading communities, if only I transfer a few hundred dollars to cover costs. In the age of generative AI, scam emails have achieved a new level of personalisation. Most writers I know are receiving a steady stream of emails like this. The messages are often sophisticated enough to bypass a spam filter and reach our inboxes, leaving us no option but to read them and ask the painful question: would any real, living person feel this strongly about my work? Or, as one writer friend put it, the reason I know they’re fake is because they’ve actually read all my books. Continue reading...
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Chris Young has signed with UTA for global representation in all areas. The signing comes as Young approaches nearly two decades in the country music spotlight. In addition to his robust solo catalog, over the years he has performed with Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi, Ashley McBryde and others. […]
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