Partner News 8/20/20
Posted by NALIP on August 20, 2020
Check out our Partner News for August 20, 2020!
DC FanDome Offers Sneak Peek At Virtual Experience, Splits Global Confab Into Two Separate Events
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DC superfans are prepping their cosplay as we are days away from DC FanDome — but the virtual confab is just too big to contain in 24 hours.
Check Out the Season 2 Trailer for Doom Patrol
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In Season 2 of Doom Patrol, the DC Universe’s strangest and most reluctant group of heroes are working to overcome their own challenges and save the world is by growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences and working together. Even though Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) are still angry about the betrayal they each experienced at the hands of Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), a man they previously looked up to and turned to for support, they still must protect the newest member of the family, Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), while they try to understand her powers and the threat that they represent.
Sony Pictures Television’s Gemstone Studios Launches Rising Storytellers Search Seeking Emerging Voices And Female-Centric Stories
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The Gemstone Studios' Rising Storytellers Search, is a program championing emerging voices and female-led narratives. The program seeks to uplift unrepresented creative communities and elevate diverse creators with authentic, bold, and undeniable voices.
Enter now at Rising Storytellers Search
From the Heart Production: Roy W. Dean Grant
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From the Heart Productions seeks to help indie filmmakers, creatives artists, musicians, authors and more start or finish their creative work with different workshops and grants. The Roy W. Dean Film Grant specifically helps fund films that make a contribution to our society. Applications are now open
CAA Launches Scholarships, Mentoring Program for Diversity
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The CAA Scholars initiative will offer multi-year scholarships, fellowships and mentorship to support a diverse group of promising students.
Creative Artists Agency is strengthening its diversity and inclusion efforts by launching CAA Scholars to support a diverse group of worthy students eyeing college, university or trade educations.
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Sony Debuts Sold-Out Drive-In Experience With Masks and Memorabilia
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After announcing a new 12-film drive-in series on its Culver City lot on Wednesday, Sony Pictures kicked off the experience on Friday night with a showing of 2010's Grown Ups among colorful lights, masked staffers and classic movie props.
The screenings, which mark the first time a major studio lot has ever been turned into a drive-in, sold out within 24 hours of being announced after scheduling films for every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Aug. 14 to Sept. 9. The socially distanced outdoor theater can hold about 75 cars and tickets were sold to the public via Atom Tickets for $30 per car.
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Emmy-Nominated ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Creators Talk Themes Of Race, Class, Motherhood & Privilege – Disney Drive-In Series
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Nominated for five Emmys including Outstanding Limited Series, Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere got the Disney Drive-In Series experience over the weekend, when industry voters packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to watch the series finale on the big screen and three of the major creative forces behind the show joined me – virtually, of course, though some even showed for the pre-show in person — for a conversation following.
Virtual Tertulia with Luis Ubinas
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Nicolas Guzman, Antonio Pozos, Sulema Medrano Novak and Mary Devlin Capizzi of Faegre Drinker, Antonio Tijerino of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Estuardo Rodriguez of the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, and Marco Davis of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute invite you to a virtual tertulia to get to know Luis Ubiñas, American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.
Learn more at Hispanic Heritage Foundation
‘Scream’: Jenna Ortega Joins Spyglass Media Group & Paramount Pictures’ Horror Relaunch
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EXCLUSIVE: Count You and Jane the Virgin actress Jenna Ortega in for Spyglass Media Group and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Scream. She joins franchise castmembers David Arquette and Courteney Cox who’ll reprise their respective roles as Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers, as well as newcomer Melissa Barrera (In the Heights). We first told you about Cox’x returns and Barrera addition. The production will shoot in Wilmington, North Carolina.
HBO Acquires Cassius Corrigan-Directed Latinx MMA Thriller ‘Huracán’
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EXCLUSIVE: After its successful festival run, the film Huracán is set to make landfall. HBO has acquired the rights to Cassius Corrigan and Hyde Park International’s Latinx psychological thriller. Packing an MMA punch, the film marks the feature directorial debut of Corrigan, who also wrote the script and is the lead of the film. Huracán is slated to bow on HBO and HBO Max on September 11.
3Pas Studio Celebrates It's 16th Anniversary
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3Pas Studios is a film and TV production company set up by Eugenio Derbez and Ben Odell. The studio focuses on creating more Spanish language content, bringing more diversity to our screens. Happy Anniversary to 3Pas Studios for 6-years of success.
ACADEMY LAUNCHES NEW CONVERSATION SERIES ON RACE AND GENDER EQUITY IN FILMMAKING “ACADEMY DIALOGUES: IT STARTS WITH US”
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced the launch of a new series of virtual panels for members and the public, as a part of its Academy Aperture 2025 equity and inclusion initiative, called “Academy Dialogues: It Starts with Us,” with conversations about race, ethnicity, gender, history, opportunity and the art of filmmaking. These discussions focus on the industry-wide systemic changes that are needed to afford greater opportunities to women and people from underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and to create a new narrative for recovery.
‘East Los High’ Co-Creator Carlos Portugal to Develop Drama ‘Miss NG’ for HBO Max (EXCLUSIVE)
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Carlos Portugal is developing the one-hour mystery drama “Miss NG” at HBO Max, Variety has learned exclusively.
The series is set in the small town of Nuevo Guerrero, where nothing is more important than the annual Miss Nuevo Guerrero beauty pageant. But when last year’s winner goes missing, her former best friend, her arch-rival and her half-sister all enter the upcoming pageant. In doing so, they risk going missing themselves and exposing the town’s dark secrets.
Universal Writers Program Unveils Participants; Kasi Lemmons, Will Packer And Amy Pascal Named Ambassadors
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After a staggering 1,500 applications (the largest number of the submissions for the program ever), Universal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion has selected Jennifer Coates, Angela Delgado, Satinder Kaur and Larry Santana as the participants in this year’s Universal Writers Program. In addition, 2019 program alumni Nandita Seshadri and Derek Asaff have both been extended by the studio to continue developing concepts created while participating in the program last year.