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Tammy Fine To Lead Talent Development For NBC News

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NBC News has named Tammy Fine as vice president, talent development, leading the team tasked with attracting, developing and retaining the network’s journalists and other newsroom personnel.

Fine will succeed Liza Eaton, who has led the team over the past year and has decided to take a part time role, according to a memo sent to employees from Rebecca Blumenstein, president of NBC News editorial; Cheryl Rosenbloom, executive vice president of global human resources, and Libby Leist, executive vice president of Today and lifestyle.

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They wrote, “Widely respected across the network, Tammy brings more than three decades of journalism and newsroom leadership experience, along with a longstanding dedication to developing the next generation of journalists.”

The executives wrote that Kristen Powers, who joined talent development in the spring, will report to Fine and Catherine Kim, executive vice president of editorial for the network.

Fine started at NBC News in 1993. Before joining the talent development team, she worked as producer and senior producer for Today, and producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. She also served as adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching a graduate course on strategic communication in the digital age.

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Possession Remake: Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley Movie Sets Release

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A remake of Possession is set to take over theaters.

Paramount is set to release filmmaker Parker Finn‘s reimagining of the 1981 supernatural feature on June 11, 2027. Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley, Diego Calva, Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Paul Dano round out the cast.

Finn (Smile) helms Possession from his own script that is based on writer-director Andrzej Żuławski’s original film. The 1981 feature centered on a woman going through a divorce who begins exhibiting bizarre behavior.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star In ‘Gaijin’ Drama At Hulu

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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu, the streaming home of FX’s Emmy record-breaking Shōgun, is developing another drama about a Westerner’s adventures in Japan, this time set in the 21st century. The project, titled Gaijin, Japanese for foreigner or outsider, comes from Shōgun co-executive producer Shannon Goss. It is executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with an eye for him to star. Lionsgate Television is the studio.

Inspired by Ivan Orkin’s real-life story that led to the creation of Ivan Ramen, Gaijin is about an American culinary school dropout who spontaneously moves to Tokyo with his young son following his wife’s death. Desperate to maintain a connection to his wife’s home country, Ivan (Gordon-Levitt) plunges headfirst into life in Japan. He moves in with his in-laws, whom he barely knows and barely likes, and takes action on a long-held dream of opening his own restaurant – in this case, a ramen shop. Through hardships, culture clashes and humorous moments lost in translation, Ivan will, over the course of the series, take on the Herculean task of building a business and rebuilding a life.

Goss and Orkin executive produce alongside Gordon-Levitt and Jared Geller via Hit Record and Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano, Matthew Goldberg, Michael Blustein and Andrew Gottlieb.

New York chef Orkin became famous for opening successful ramen shops in Tokyo, Japan before expanding Ivan Ramen to his home town and London and starring on Season 3 of Netflix’s Chef’s Table.

Goss is a writer/co-executive producer on Shōgun, sharing in the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy win for Season 1. She also recently co-executive produced AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Goss is repped by WME and 3 Arts.

Gordon-Levitt, recently seen in Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, has coming up movies Pendulum for Vertical, in which he stars alongside Phoebe Dynevor, Jacki Weaver and Norman Reedus, and AI thriller 2034 for Netflix, which he co-wrote and directed, with Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Joel Edgerton, Caleb McLaughlin and Alfre Woodard starring. 3rd Rock From the Sun alum Gordon-Levitt, whose recent series credits include Mr. Corman, Super Pumped and Poker Face, is repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

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Toronto Title ‘The Road Not Taken’ Picked Up By Moebius For Sales 

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Hong Kong-based Moebius Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Peter Ho-sun Chan’s The Road Not Taken, which is set to receive its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Starring Zhou Xun, Wang Xiao and Tian Zhuangzhuang, the film revolves around a middle-aged former TV host whose memory starts to slowly fade, forcing her to confront the fractures within her family and the choices that shaped her life. She finally sees the roads she took – and didn’t take – just before she forgets.

The film is scripted by Chan and Wu Huiling and is produced by Chan and Yee Chung-man. Zeng Jian is on board as cinematographer and the cast also includes Diana Lin and Wen Qi.

Chan was previously at TIFF with She Has No Name, starring Zhang Ziyi, which screened at the festival last year. 

Moebius Entertainment founder and CEO Fred Tsui explained that his company picked up The Road Not Taken before he was appointed Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS). 

Tsui, who executive produced and handled international sales on She Has No Name, first collaborated with Chan on that film’s production and international launch, laying the groundwork for their continued relationship on The Road Not Taken.

In keeping with his forthcoming leadership role at HKIFFS, Tsui said he won’t be taking on new sales projects, but The Road Not Taken is a pre-existing Moebius commitment, and the company will handle its international sales campaign and work with the filmmakers on the film’s global rollout. Tsui is scheduled to assume the HKIFFS Executive Director post on September 23, succeeding Albert Lee.

“Peter Chan is a filmmaker of extraordinary emotional precision and global reach,” said Tsui. “Following our work together on She Has No Name, it is a pleasure to continue that relationship with The Road Not Taken. Its World Premiere at TIFF offers an exceptional platform for the film’s first encounter with international audiences.”

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