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The Sundance Film Festival is well underway and amidst all the traffic, premieres and snow slushed roads, the talk of inclusion and representation at the festival took center stage at a special panel titled “Making the (In)visible: Radical Transparency in the Data-Driven Age.” Moderated by the Black List’s Franklin…

UPDATE Saturday, Jan. 26: As soon as Dr. Stacy L. Smith announced the TimesUp 4% Director Challenge, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative tweeted out the news and more accepted the commitment to work with a female director within 18 months to increase the number of female directors in the 1200 top grossing films…

As the ever-changing landscape of Hollywood heads towards 2020, we have seen progress when it comes to directorial inclusion and representation for women and people of color — or have we? A study by the Sundance Institute and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows that even though there has been an increase of women…

When assessing the diversity strength of the Golden Globes this morning, look no further than Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force production label. It racked up eight nominations across their Warner Bros feature Crazy Rich Asians and FX Ryan Murphy series Pose and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American…

A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

Updated with Monday AM B.O. figures and analysis This weekend director Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros. took what might have appeared to be a niche genre proposition on paper and turned it into a cultural moment. Crazy Rich Asians, based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel, earned $26.5M at the domestic weekend box office…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders is set to star with Jeffrey Wright in All Day & A Night, a drama written and to be directed by Joe Robert Cole, who co-wrote Black Panther. Netflix has set the film for a July 30 start date and will release the film on its streaming service. Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are…

American Crime Story Brad Simpson revealed during the FX session of American Crime Story:The Assassination of Gianni Versace that actor Edgar Ramirez “didn’t give us an immediate ‘Yes'” when it came to playing the title role of the late Italian designer. “I loved being in a room that’s interesting with an actor and he…

EXCLUSIVE: Pearl Street Films exec Margaret Chernin has been named VP Development at Color Force, the film and TV production company run by Nina Jacboson and Brad Simpson. She already is aboard and will oversee the company’s film productions and development. As SVP Development at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl…

Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force has hired its first dedicated TV executive, appointing Nellie Reed as SVP Television. Reed will oversee Color Force's current TV production slate as well as the buying and development of future projects, reporting to Jacobson and Simpson. Reed’s appointment comes on the…

Days after their limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story topped all programs with five Emmy wins, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson and their Color Force shingle have signed a new overall deal with FX Productions. Color Force had signed a first-look deal with the company in fall 2012, and the new…

“Movies originally attracted the artist because of the freedom, and now all that freedom is on TV,” said The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’s John Travolta, holding the show’s Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series. In addition to playing Simpson legal meister Robert Shapiro, and being nominated for the…