Hollywood is clearly up in arms over the “fetal heartbeat” bill signed into law last month by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Should the town use the threat of a mass exodus from the film and TV location-friendly state that would decimate Georgia’s thriving production industry, or put Hollywood muscle and money into funding…

Hollywood has been hand-wringing over the recent spate of draconian anti-abortion laws being passed on the state level — most notably in incentives-rich Georgia — and now Peter Chernin is taking the fight to a new level. The veteran producer has sent an email to many of the town’s top brass that asks for donations to…

Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are the latest industry figures to address their film and TV production in Georgia in the wake of the state’s new “fetal heartbeat” law. The Chernin Entertainment brass said today that they will continue to film their Fear Street movies and the upcoming Starz drama P-Valley in Atlanta…

Media mogul Peter Chernin is planning to raise a new media fund of more than $500 million, opening a new chapter for the digitally savvy executive who has been one of Hollywood’s technology innovators. The tech news site The Information’s report tonight of Chernin raising a fund comes on the heels of a story last week…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Apple has landed the hot TV package See with a straight-to-series order. An epic, world-building drama set in the future, the project is written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2)…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has landed Are You Sleeping, a thriller drama series project starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help, Hidden Figures), which hails from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine. The recently launched scripted drama venture between Peter Chernin's Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content is the…

Endeavor Content, the recently launched unit that combined WME and IMG's scripted television and film financing and sales groups, has partnered with Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment to finance, develop and create premium scripted drama series with international appeal for all distribution platforms. Under the…

EXCLUSIVE:  With the six-month-long awards season kicking off today in Venice with the already critically well-received Downsizing (which now heads to Telluride and Toronto along with countless other hopefuls debuting in the fall/holiday corridor so friendly to Oscar contenders), there is one major studio determined…

Reese Witherspoon and Otter Media, the joint venture formed between The Chernin Group and AT&T, have started up a new company called Hello Sunshine which will focus on telling female-driven stories across all platforms. That will include not only film and TV but also daily social and short-form digital content. To…

UPDATE, 4:06 PM: Air Force Two had arrived at LAX, Vice-President Joe Biden is in town and that means that the wide-spread security road closures are now in effect on the Westside of L.A. The VP is in the City of Angels for a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser at a secret location – well, secret…

EXCLUSIVE: The dance card for Hillary Clinton's latest visit to the Hollywood ATM is getting pretty packed, with a reception at the home of longtime supporters Magic Johnson and wife Cookie on August 22 now added, I’ve learned. That comes as Tinseltown’s top tier is hitting the fundraising court hard for the former…

Hillary Clinton put to rest any doubt that Silicon Valley leaders — including many with close media and entertainment ties — want her to become the next president. Her campaign released this morning a list of supporters with A-list industry names including Netflix’s Reed Hastings, The Chernin Group’s Peter Chernin…