The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Births
Writer-producer Scooter Yancey and Crystal Ming, an aesthetic physician assistant, welcomed daughter Zoey Michele Yancey on Feb. 10 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.
Tyrha LindseyWarren,
founder of the Waco Family and Faith International Film Festival, and radio host Sidney Warren welcomed daughter Kennedy Gloria-Marie
Warren on Feb. 17 in Waco, Texas.
Congrats G. Elliott Morris
was tapped as editorial director of data analytics for ABC News and its FiveThirtyEight brand, replacing Nate Silver, on May 19.
Former Artists First and WME agent
Brittany Myers Adams
launched the celebrity brand and endorsement firm Hunter Brand Management on May 17.
NBCUniversal Syndication Studios promoted Vinnie Fusco to senior vp production and operations and Kristen Killackey to vp production and operations May 17.
Shahendra Ohneswere
was hired as head of creative strategy for Island Records on May 18.
Iris Grossman and Peter McGrath
were upped to partner at Echo
Lake Entertainment on May 15.
Josh Scherba was promoted to president and CEO of kids and family entertainment company WildBrain on May 9.
Former TikTok exec Mary Rahmani joined Songfluencer and Genni & Co. as a strategic adviser May 12.
Monica Gleberman
was named senior vp at Lon Haber & Co. | IPPR on May 16.
Sabina Smitham was named head of development for Banshees of Inisherin producer Blueprint Pictures on May 17.
Deaths John Refoua,
the Oscar-nominated editor who cut three Avatar films, died May 14 of bile duct cancer. He was 58.
Ray Stevenson, the British actor who starred as Volstagg in the Thor films and as the brutally evil governor in
RRR, died May 21 while making a movie in Ischia, Italy. He was 58.
Jim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who quit the NFL at his peak to become a Hollywood action hero, died May 18 in Los Angeles. He was 87.
Andy Rourke, bass guitarist for British band The Smiths, died May 19 of pancreatic cancer in New York. He was 59.