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Michael K. Williams’ legacy is living on thanks to new animated short film, “The Brown Dog.”

Williams, who died in 2021 of a drug overdose, lent his voice to the short which was commissioned by WeTransfer’s Academy Award-winning arts platform WePresent. Williams’ “Boardwalk Empire” co-star Steve Buscemi executive produced the film and also starred in the animated work.

“The Brown Dog” follows Nobody (Williams), a night-shift security guard for an upscale apartment complex. As Nobody works his shift, his feelings of isolation spark an existential crisis, and he later goes in search of a mysterious brown dog as his own mind seems to slip from him.

In a press statement, co-directors Nadia Hallgren (“Becoming”) and Jamie-James Medina deemed the film a “celebration of Mr. Williams and the deep truth he brought to every character he inhabited — only his voice could speak so quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those...

Exclusive: Ethos Entertainment, the L.A.-based talent management company recently launched by Christina Gualazzi and Matt Goldman, has entered into a new joint venture with the NY-based production company Picture Farm, helmed by partners Ben Freedman, Chris Bren, and Dion Sapp.

Through the partnership, the companies will team on the development and production of a wide range of projects, including scripted and non-scripted TV series, as well as features, commercials, and digital content, the idea being that cross-collaboration and knowledge-sharing will unlock growth opportunities for all involved. The Jv stems from an earlier working relationship formed during production on Black Market with Michael K. Williams, the critically acclaimed Vice TV docuseries, produced by Freedman, Sapp, and Goldman, which won two Realscreen Awards.

Said Ethos Entertainment’s Gualazzi, “By joining forces with Picture Farm, we can offer our clients a wider range of excellence in not only talent management but...

Michael K. Williams had completed much of the second season of his Vice TV docuseries when he died in September. Now, Vice has assigned a premiere date for the return of “Black Market with Michael K. Williams.” The show, featuring some of Williams’ final on-camera work, will premiere its second season on January 10 at 10 p.m. Et.

“Black Market” features the actor serving as a bit of a real-world journalist – entering the dangerous world of illicit trade, such as gambling underworld in New York, car thieves in New Jersey and gun runners in the south. In a new trailer for Season 2 (scroll down to watch), Williams says, “Our goal is just to simply, show the world a window as to why people do the things they do. As they say, when the system fails you, you create your own system.”

The new season of “Black Market” was announced in February,...

Exclusive: Michael K. Williams is returning to the Black Market for the first time in five years after Vice TV renewed his illicit docuseries.

The first season of the show, which saw The Wire star journey into the dangerous world of gunrunners, poachers, drug addicts and illegal gambling dens, aired in 2016.

He subsequently starred in series such as Netflix’s When They See Us and HBO’s Lovecraft Country and also appeared as Bob Dylan in Apple’s Beastie Boys Story.

Williams will now continue the work of season one and look at the conditions from which black markets arise and the cultural reasons behind why they persist, from carjacking in Newark, NJ to the poaching of abalone off the coast of South Africa.

“After a busy period of back-to-back projects, I’m incredibly excited to rejoin my Vice family in taking a deeper dive behind telling the narratives of these global communities,...

After watching the end of its first season, fans of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency know that the show is going to be quite a different experience in season 2, and at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Daily Dead took part in roundtable interviews to look ahead at the future of the series and also reflect on season 1 with co-stars Fiona Dourif and Mpho Koaho, as well as executive producers Robert Cooper and Max Landis.

How did you go about taking something like Dirk, [from] Douglas Adams, which to me feels quintessentially British, and then making it something that will work on BBC America and all around the world?

Robert Cooper: Most of the directors of season 2 are British—all are from the UK but one. There's a sensibility to the show, and I think that's to a certain extent what gives the show a little bit of a bend to it,...

International theatrical sensation Blue Man Group is looking for its next blue men! As part of its celebration of 25 years of wowing and delighting audiences around the globe, Blue Man Group is holding an open call at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre April 26. More than 35 million people worldwide have witnessed iterations of the group’s multifaceted spectacle; this is your chance to get in on the action! According to their website, “A Blue Man performer has the unique opportunity to utilize their artistic abilities in an exciting and dynamic experience unmatched by any other stage production. Trained actors with physical theater, clowning, improvisation skills who fit the physical specifications required by the job are legitimate candidates.” Applicants must be between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 2 inches tall, possess an excellent sense of rhythm, and have compelling nonverbal communication and storytelling skills. Developed in New York City by Chris Wink, Phil Stanton, and Matt Goldman,...

Exclusive: Wme has signed Michael Kenneth Williams, better known as Chalky White if you have HBO and are as addicted to Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire as I am. Williams, who first made his mark on HBO’s The Wire playing Omar, the elusive man who robbed crack dealers, is currently starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Rupert Wyatt-directed remake of The Gambler at Paramount Pictures. He appeared in the Robocop remake as well as Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave and most recently wrapped Inherent Vice for Paul Thomas Anderson. Williams returns for the fifth and final season of Boardwalk Empire this fall. He had been repped at ICM Partners. Williams continues to be managed by Matt Goldman and Sam Maydew at Silver Lining Entertainment. The other thing to know about Williams is that while Quentin Tarantino chose Jamie Foxx to play the title role in Django Unchained...

The separation of management/ production company The Collective has been completed. Founding partners, veteran managers Jeff Golenberg and Sam Maydew, have launched a new management/production company named Silver Lining Entertainment. Joining them is the entire film and TV management arm of The Collective that includes Matt Goldman, Christina Gualazzi and Jason Shapiro. The company has opened offices on South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. The plan for Silver Lining is to continue to represent film and TV talent as well as continue to expand the roster of personalities, writers, directors and musicians. In management structure, Silver Lining will emulate the culture of Seattle entertainment software/technology company Valve, which has no hierarchy, with all staffers collaborating as peers. Golenberg and Maydew, along with Michael Green, started The Collective in 2005. Over the past eight years, the company grew to over 150 people and multiple businesses including Collective Digital Studios, which most...

The $32,000 per-year progressive school founded by the Blue Man Group has come under scrutiny by parents, who claim their kids are barely learning to read, the New York Post reports.

The Blue School, a private school located in New York City's Financial District, has no books and no tests and is facing an exodus of students and teachers.

One mother complained to the Post that the school is “unstructured.” She is pulling her son at the end of the school year, as are the parents of four of her son’s first-grade classmates. Parents also claim that their children are not prepared to take tests and are bored with nothing to do in school.

“A majority of my Upper East Side clients, if they took a look down there, their heads would explode,” education adviser Terri Decker of Smart City Kids told the Post. “Literally, their brains would be on the pavement.

As the deadly stick-up man Omar Little on The Wire and the fearsome bootlegger Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, actor Michael K. Williams has played his share of tough SOBs. Now he’s going to take on a bastard.

An Ol’ Dirty one.

EW has learned exclusively that Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.

Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night,...

By the Hollywood Reporter

Just how bad has the recent multicamera-comedy slump been?

Matt Goldman, whose resume includes stints on "Seinfeld" and "Ellen," took more than a year off to write a book. And when he returned, he found it almost impossible to get a job on the few sitcoms left.

Now Goldman is back with a spec script, which has landed at Fox.

Read more from the Hollywood Reporter.

Just how bad has the recent multicamera-comedy slump been?

Matt Goldman, whose resume includes stints on "Seinfeld" and "Ellen," took more than a year off to write a book. And when he returned, he found it almost impossible to get a job on the few sitcoms left.

Now Goldman is back with a spec script, which has landed at Fox.

The untitled multicamera workplace comedy is produced by Sony TV and studio-based Tannenbaum Co. Inspired in part by Goldman's recent real-life experiences, it centers on a man who tries to make a comeback, both personally and professionally, while working at a dysfunctional company for a woman he dumped five years ago.

"This a show about a guy who is on the road to redemption," said Goldman, who has done some writing work on CBS pair "Gary Unmarried" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" during the past year.

He said...