Apple TV+ has scored rights to a four-part docuseries about NBA legend Magic Johnson. The streamer beat out a number of rivals to secure the series, which comes …
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Kenya Barris Adapting ‘The Man Who Lives Underground’ for Paramount
The Richard Wright film adaptation marks the first project in a larger strategic, financial and creative partnership between Barris’ Khalabo Ink Society and media fund New …
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Andra Day Earns a Best Actress Nomination for ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’
And now, she and Viola Davis are the first pair of Black nominees in the best actress category at the Academy Awards since 1973, when Diana …
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Andra Day Becomes the Second Black Woman to Win Golden Globe for Best Actress Drama
Making Golden Globes history, Andra Day won the Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture drama, for her indelible performance in the Hulu film “The United States vs. …
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Meet the Founders Behind $100M Film Fund New Slate Ventures: “There Is a Big Need for Content”
Headed by 28-year-old Jordan Fudge and partners Zach White and Jeremy Allen, the company has financed Lee Daniels’ ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ with a …
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LA Media Fund New Slate Ventures Raises $100 Million To Invest In “Culturally Impactful” Projects
New Slate Ventures — the media and entertainment fund of LA-based private equity firm Sinai Capital Partners — has raised $100 million to invest in “culturally impactful” projects and …
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Film Financier-Producer New Slate Ventures Raises $100 Million
Film financier-producer New Slate Ventures, which backed “The 40-Year-Old Version,” has raised $100 million for films, documentaries, and television programs.
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A Writer-Director-Star Breaks Through. It Only Took a Lifetime.
Radha Blank spent years trying to impress the theater world. Now, her Sundance hit, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” is proof that dreams don’t expire.
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NYT Critics Pick: ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight
Radha Blank’s film is an intimate, epic reckoning with age, ambition and everything else.
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Magic Johnson Docuseries Lands ‘Dope’ Director Rick Famuyiwa
Rick Famuyiwa will direct the upcoming docuseries on Lakers great Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Variety has learned.
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New Slate Ventures Options Rights To James B. Stewart’s ‘Den Of Thieves’, Oscar-Nominated Terence Winter To Pen Limited Series
Jordan Fudge, Jeremy Allen and Zach White’s media fund New Slate Ventures has optioned the rights to Den of Thieves from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, …
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