Paramount Global executive George Cheek is set to keynote Canada’s Banff World Media Festival in June. The president and CEO of CBS and chief content officer for news and sports at Paramount+ will take part in the festival’s Summit Series, a premium keynote speaker lineup. Cheeks will speak on June 12. The 44th edition of…

ƒmovieMexico’s Alfonso Herrera, best known for his role as the impetuous nephew looking to usurp his drug lord uncle in “Ozark” and as a former member of the wildly popular band RBD and its TV series “Rebelde,” has joined the cast of “Tesis sobre una domesticación,” a movie adaptation of the multi-awarded novel of trans…

“There’s nothing cool about Nike,” Marlon Wayans says as George Raveling in the trailer for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s new movie “Air.” And while that might have been the case in 1984, everything changed once Sonny Vaccaro courted rookie Michael Jordan for an exclusive shoe line. Before the Affleck-directed film’s $7 million Super Bowl…

Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American popular music for half a century, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He was 94. Bacharach’s publicist Tina Brausam revealed the news on Thursday. As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium. His songs — many…

Activist investor Nelson Peltz has bowed out of his ongoing proxy fight with Disney, following returned CEO Bob Iger’s announcement of a sweeping restructuring plan Wednesday. “Now Disney plans to do everything we wanted them to do,” said Peltz, the billionaire Trian Fund Management CEO and founder, while appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”…

The “Saturday Night Live” post-production editors are looking to NBC for answers as contract talks continue, and are ready to strike if their requests aren’t met. On Jan. 12, the 20-odd “SNL” staff members who create the live sketch comedy series’ pre-taped segment approved a strike authorization vote. The editors unionized with the Motion Picture…

London-based world sales company Taskovski Films has acquired documentary “In Ukraine,” directed by Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski, which will world premiere in Berlinale’s Forum section. The film looks at the lives of Ukrainians who stayed in their country after the Russian invasion or have returned home. In a statement the directors said: “How to…

Anonymous Content and Boat Rocker have partnered to co-finance and co-sell an untitled political thriller feature documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss (“Boys State”) and Tony Gerber (“The Notorious Mr. Bout”). Produced by Boat Rocker’s Matador Content, the project was shot over the course of two days last month in Washington, D.C. While details…

Finecut, the leading Korean independent film sales agent, is to represent international rights on “In Water,” the latest film by auteur Hong Sang-soo. The film will have its world premiere in Berlin as part of the festival’s Encounters section. Its sales launch is set for the accompanying European Film Market. This follows three successive years…

A first trailer has been unveiled for debutant filmmaker Jow Zhi Wei’s “Tomorrow is a Long Time,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation 14plus strand. The film follows sixteen-year-old Meng for whom life is not the most fulfilling, with him lounging at home with his grieving father on a…