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EXCLUSIVE: Aristotle Athari, the first male Persian/Middle Eastern descent cast member of Saturday Night Live, has signed with Brillstein Entertainment. He is the second overall Persian/Middle Eastern descent cast member of SNL following alum Nasim Pedrad and is getting rave reviews with his recent sketch with Rami…

EXCLUSIVE: Frida Kempff, the Swedish director whose credits include the 2021 Sundance selection Knocking, has inked with ICM Partners for representation and Brillstein Entertainment Partners for management. Kempff's documentaries and shorts have screened at Cannes, Telluride, IDFA, London IFF and Goteborg. She was the…

EXCLUSIVE: Young actress Madalen Mills has signed with WME and Brillstein Entertainment for representation. The signing comes as Mills recently marked her feature acting debut in Netflix’s first original live-action musical, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, from writer and director David E. Talbert. Mills stars…

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus is doubling down at AMC. Less than a week after it was announced that The Walking Dead star would be fronting his own spinoff of the cabler's zombie apocalypse series with Melissa McBride, Reedus has now signed a first look development deal with AMC Studios. Set to run for two years, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Mucho Mas Media, a partnership between Pelican Point Media and Texican Media, has pacted with Brillstein Entertainment Partners to co-produce feature films with mainstream appeal for the growing U.S. Latino audience. And this segment of the population is, indeed, taking off in the entertainment sector. "I…

One of the longest running talent-rep relationships in Hollywood has come to a climax. As Natalie Portman transitions to a move to Paris, she and Brillstein Entertainment partner Aleen Keshishian will be parting ways, sort of. Portman is relocating to be with husband Benjamin Millepied. A dancer she met while making Bl…

ABC has bought The Cult Of Mac, a single-camera comedy from Australian playwright/TV writer Tony McNamara (Tangle), ABC Studios and studio-based Brillstein Entertainment. It centers on Ted Macfadden, who casts back into his 1987 Chicago childhood with his iconoclastic/crazy dad Mac for inspiration in parenting his…

On the heels of a big ratings rebound last night, the CW’s new drama series Ringer has been given a full-season order. After a decent start, the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring mystery kept sliding against original competition on the major broadcast networks until it spiked 33% in the adults 18-49 (0.8) and adults…

EXCLUSIVE: Following her memorable run on Dancing With the Stars last spring, Kirstie Alley is returning to ABC as the star of a new comedy project. I’ve learned that ABC is finalizing the deals for a pilot order to The Manzanis, a multi-camera family comedy written by sitcom veterans Marco Pennette and Dave Flebotte…

Part of a series that takes an analytical look at the current broadcast pilot season and some of its trends and heroes. It has been a big year for non-writing producers this pilot season, the biggest since the so-called “invasion of the pod people” in 2003 when the broadcast pilot season and May series pickups for…