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Exclusive: Rebelle Media, founded and run by former CAA film finance and sales agent Laura Lewis, is getting into business with MGM Television. The company has signed a first-look deal with the studio and set its first project, a series adaptation of The Sicilian Inheritance, Jo Piazza’s bestselling novel of the same name.

Described as “a gorgeous destination-based murder mystery, The Sicilian Inheritance is a delicious, escapist story featuring an ensemble cast and strong female characters fighting the forces that keep them down.”

The project continues a relationship between Rebelle and Piazza which began with her bestselling book Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, which is in development with wiip.

“We look forward to progressing this partnership between MGM Television and Rebelle Media with The Sicilian Inheritance,” said Lindsay Sloane, head of MGM Television. “This is exactly the kind of story MGM Television strives to create – filled with intrigue, drama,...

Few years are as packed for the R&b categories at the Grammys as this one. With releases from some of the top artists in the genre and in music in general, as well as a lot of Grammy darlings back in the mix, it seems like many artists will truly just be lucky to net a nom. Let’s take a look at some of the top contenders this year.

We can’t talk about R&b without first talking about Queen Bey. This year Beyoncé could compete in Best Progressive R&b Album with her newest release, “Renaissance.” The album is acclaimed and will easily be the front-runner if it is submitted in R&b (it might instead be slotted in pop). As for song choices, Beyoncé could go for the groovy “Cuff It” or the urban-leaning “Church Girl” for Best R&b Performance, while “Plastic Off The...

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“House of Gucci” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) The legendary and legendarily vicious Gucci fashion empire gets the old-fashioned big movie treatment with Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, and Lady Gaga. Is it kind of ridiculous? Yes, but it’s also the reboot of “Dynasty” you never knew you wanted, one that’s best watched with a living room full of your rowdiest and most opinionated friends. Everyone in the movie is doing a variation on Italian-accented English, the settings are opulent, and Gaga is giving look after look after hat after hat and you will respect the wild, criminal duh-raaamaaa of it all.

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“American Underdog” (Lionsgate) Zachary Levi stars as NFL champ Kurt Warner, who overcame multiple challenges and setbacks on the road to football glory.

“Apex” (Rlje Films) Bruce Willis must kill or be killed in order to escape prison.

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Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Paul Riccio’s dramedy Give or Take, toplined by Norbert Leo Butz, Joanne Tucker and Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live), with plans to release it in theaters in multiple markets in February.

Pic follows a disillusioned New Yorker who gets word that his father has died, subsequently going home to Cape Cod and preparing his house for sale, while sharing it with his father’s temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.

Riccio and Jamie Effros wrote the script for the feature, which also stars Jamie Effros, Louis Cancelmi, Annapurna Sriram and Jaden Waldman.

Riccio and Effros produced with David Kuhn, Angela Malley and Kevin Matusow, with Robert and Nyna Malley exec producing alongside Janet Riccio,...