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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA affirmed its support for diversity equity and inclusion on Monday, after several major studios walked back their commitments in the face of threats from the Trump administration. The national board of the actors’ union adopted a resolution stating that DEI is a “moral imperative” and is also “crucial to the creative and economic vitality of our industry.” In recent weeks, Disney scrapped its Reimagine Tomorrow initiative, which highlighted stories from underrepresented groups, while Warner Bros.

found dead with Arakawa and their dog in their New Mexico home on February 26, after neighbourhood security conducted a welfare check. Arakawa was 63, while Hackman was 95.Though no foul play was initially suspected, their deaths were “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation”, according to a search warrant affidavit.There had been some speculation that the couple had died due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas leak, but authorities were quick to rule that out as a potential cause, with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office issuing an update based on the New Mexico Gas Company’s “extensive investigation for gas leaks and carbon monoxide at Gene Hackman’s home,” conducted on the evening of February 26.On March 8, investigators have confirmed the cause of death for both Hackman and Arakawa, finding that they both died of natural causes, but a week apart.

Alex Ritman The ongoing Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni saga is set to be explored in a swiftly-made documentary from ITN Productions. The 90-minute “He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni,” which is unlikely to be the only doc to emerge about the still rumbling legal battle between the actress and her “It Ends With Us” director, will premiere in the U.K. on Channel 5 Monday night.

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Discovery and 5 (formerly Channel 5) are diving deep into the Lively v Baldoni saga via a fast-turnaround doc from ITN Productions (ITNP). Watch trailer below.

Naman Ramachandran In a deal unveiled at Hong Kong FilMart, Korean filmmaker July Jung’s emotionally charged drama-thriller “Next Sohee” will make its long-awaited stateside theatrical debut in May through Zurty Studios and Echelon Studios, following a celebrated international festival run. The film, which closed the 2022 Cannes Critics’ Week to a seven-minute standing ovation, offers a harrowing narrative inspired by true events.

Zeeko Zaki and Missy Peregrym are hard at work!

The upcoming third and final season of Bosch: Legacy is getting a couple of new faces!

Emily Longeretta Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner, the showrunners and executive producers of “The Bachelor,” are leaving the series. They are still at work on Grant Ellis’ current season of “The Bachelor,” which is nearing its end, but are negotiating their exits from the franchise.

The White Lotus.In the fourth episode of season three, which aired on HBO in the US last Sunday (March 9), Isaacs’ Timothy Ratliff is under intense pressure as he learns he is facing a criminal investigation into his business practices back home. To cope, he starts to take his wife Victoria’s (Parker Posey) anti-anxiety medication.In the memorable scene, Timothy is sitting in his robe with his wife, two sons and daughter in their luxury hotel room. As he stretches, the robe opens and Timothy is exposed in a full-frontal shot.In a new interview with TV Insider, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook, who play son Lochlan and daughter Piper, have spoken about the experience of shooting the scene.“That wasn’t his real penis,” said Nivola.“It was a prosthetic,” added Hook.

Jason Ritter is set for a key recurring role in Lanterns, HBO’s drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. He joins leads Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre and series regular Kelly MacDonald.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The upcoming DC Studios series “Lanterns” has cast Jason Ritter in a recurring role. Ritter joins a cast that also includes Aaron Pierre, Kyle Chandler, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, and Ulrich Thomsen. Per the official logline, the show follows “new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.” Ritter will play Billy Macon, described as “a good-looking charmer who does his father’s bidding.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Eric Schultz knows his way around the White House. He served as deputy White House press secretary during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017. It’s one of the reasons that he now frequently consults on Hollywood projects about Washington.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jeremy Glazer and Miles Gaston Villanueva have been cast in recurring roles in the third and final season of Prime Video’s “Bosch: Legacy.” Glazer will play Patrick Currey, a West Hollywood city councilman who uses his power to keep a tight lid on his sexual proclivities. When investigators start poking around his private life, he tries to ally with Honey “Money” Chandler to best position himself politically and legally.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s popular romantic drama Virgin River has cast Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Cody Kearsley (Riverdale) in recurring roles for the upcoming seventh season, which has begun production, with Deadline able to share two behind the scenes images from the set in Vancouver featuring most main cast members, including stars Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson (You can see them below). The new season, which will pick up two hours after the end of the Season 6 finale at Mel (Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Henderson) wedding, is expected to premiere in early 2026.

EXCLUSIVE: The shocking murder of model Rachel Nickell, and the bungled police investigations that followed, continue to be an endless source of fascination for TV producers.

Netflix documentary speculates he may have been influenced by government agents.Directed by Errol Morris, Chaos: The Manson Murders covers several conspiracy theories tied to the 1969 killing spree, including how it might relate to secret experiments by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) at the time.The documentary is based on the 2019 book Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, And The Secret History of The Sixties, written by journalist Tom O’Neill who appears in the film.The film’s title relates to the CIA project Operation Chaos, which was an initiative to spy on anti-war groups and other protest movements within the US between 1967 and 1974 during the Cold War.MKUltra was a human experimentation program conducted by the CIA to find drugs and procedures which could be used as forms of mind control, whether to force confessions akin to a “truth serum” or to make people forget things from their past.According to NPR, MKUltra was created by CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb in 1953 and ran until the early 1960s. The project began during a period of Cold War “paranoia” at the CIA, when many feared communists had perfected some kind of mind control drug.The experiments conducted by the CIA involved administering mind-altering substances such as LSD, often on unsuspecting individuals.

UPDATED with comment from Eckhart: A federal judge dismissed Fox News from a sexual assault lawsuit that a former employee filed against former anchor Ed Henry.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor A federal judge dismissed claims made against Fox News Channel in a lurid assault case that involved a former associate producer and a former correspondent, noting that management of the cable-news outlet had no knowledge of any conflict or relationship between the two parties until it was notified she had levied sexual harassment claims against him. Fox News had last year filed a request for summary judgement in the case, in which the former producer, Jennifer Eckhart alleged she was raped by Ed Henry, a former Fox News correspondent who was dismissed from the Fox Corp.-backed outlet in 2020 following an investigation into a complaint about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.” Eckhart’s lawsuit was filed in U.S.

After making her directorial debut with the thoughtful and striking drama “Passing,” actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall may have found her next project, a drama based on the life of novelist, poet, and essayist Erica Jong, best known for her controversial novel “Fear of Flying,” a groundbreaking cultural touchstone and feminist take on sexual pleasure, that caused a sensation in 1973. READ MORE: ‘Long Bright River’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Plays A Cop Investigating A Murder During The Opioid Crisis Described in passing in a New York Times article this week as a biopic of Jong, Amanda Seyfried, who will star in the lead role, told The Playlist in an exclusive interview about her new upcoming crime drama Peacock series, “Long Bright River,” the narrative goes beyond just that label or genre.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, announced its awards Wednesday. Among the awards in the Thessaloniki Pitching Forum section was the IEFTA Award for Best Documentary in Development, accompanied by a 10,000 euro cash prize.

Jay-Z’s accuser is heard on tape saying that her previous sexual assault allegations against the rapper were false, according to Jay-Z's lawyer. The accuser, Jane Doe, previously said Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs sexually assaulted her after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards when she was 13 years old.The lawsuit has since been dropped. In a taped conversation, Jay-Z’s sexual assault accuser claimed her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, pressured her into suing the rapper.