Writer-producer Matt Nix, writer-producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, and writer Ephraim Salaam and others are gathering this evening at WME for Brady United Against Gun Violence’s Show Gun Safety Summit.
The event will focus on how content creators can “model gun safety on screen to positively change attitudes and behaviors about guns, helping save lives,” the organization said.
It’s part of an increased effort by Brady United to the entertainment community via a culture and gun safety initiative. Their Show Gun Safety campaign has included a meeting of entertainment figures at the White House last spring, a partnership with USC’s Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health and Society and a list of best practices.
Jessica Yellin will moderate the panel, with attendees also including Brady President Kris Brown and WME’s Dani Potter.
Brady also is planning another event at CAA on Nov. 9, with activists Fred Guttenberg, whose...
The event will focus on how content creators can “model gun safety on screen to positively change attitudes and behaviors about guns, helping save lives,” the organization said.
It’s part of an increased effort by Brady United to the entertainment community via a culture and gun safety initiative. Their Show Gun Safety campaign has included a meeting of entertainment figures at the White House last spring, a partnership with USC’s Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health and Society and a list of best practices.
Jessica Yellin will moderate the panel, with attendees also including Brady President Kris Brown and WME’s Dani Potter.
Brady also is planning another event at CAA on Nov. 9, with activists Fred Guttenberg, whose...
- 10/23/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Brady organization against gun violence is calling on Hollywood writers, directors and producers to examine onscreen gun violence and depictions of gun safety, asking the creative community to sign a pledge that’s already garnered more than 200 signatures of such names as Judd Apatow, Shonda Rhimes, Damon Lindelof and Jimmy Kimmel and the writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The pledge, while noting that the “responsibility lies with lax gun laws supported by those politicians more afraid of losing power than saving lives,” acknowledges that “America’s storytellers” have the power to “effect change.”
“Cultural attitudes toward smoking, drunk driving, seatbelts and marriage equality have all evolved due in large part to movies’ and TV’s influence. It’s time to take on gun safety,” the Brady pledge states, and goes on to ask writers, directors and producers to, whenever possible, to:
Use creativity “to model responsible gun ownership and...
The pledge, while noting that the “responsibility lies with lax gun laws supported by those politicians more afraid of losing power than saving lives,” acknowledges that “America’s storytellers” have the power to “effect change.”
“Cultural attitudes toward smoking, drunk driving, seatbelts and marriage equality have all evolved due in large part to movies’ and TV’s influence. It’s time to take on gun safety,” the Brady pledge states, and goes on to ask writers, directors and producers to, whenever possible, to:
Use creativity “to model responsible gun ownership and...
- 6/13/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood has come together to make a change over the portrayal of gun violence onscreen.
Judd Apatow, Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Kimmel, Damon Lindelof, Adam McKay, Julianne Moore, Shonda Rhimes, Eli Roth, Mark Ruffalo, Amy Schumer, and John Glickman are among the first round of signatures for a petition calling for the film and TV industry to re-examine its influence on national gun violence in the U.S.
The petition, titled “Open Letter to Our Colleagues in the Creative Community,” calls for studios to model responsible gun safety practices in productions and curb portrayals of guns in scenes involving children. The effort, led by activists Christy Callahan, the co-chair of the Brady United Against Gun Violence organization’s Regional Leadership Council, and Robert Bowers Disney, comes after the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting on May 24.
“Considering there have been over 250 other mass shootings so far this year, it’s an almost incomprehensible tragedy.
Judd Apatow, Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Kimmel, Damon Lindelof, Adam McKay, Julianne Moore, Shonda Rhimes, Eli Roth, Mark Ruffalo, Amy Schumer, and John Glickman are among the first round of signatures for a petition calling for the film and TV industry to re-examine its influence on national gun violence in the U.S.
The petition, titled “Open Letter to Our Colleagues in the Creative Community,” calls for studios to model responsible gun safety practices in productions and curb portrayals of guns in scenes involving children. The effort, led by activists Christy Callahan, the co-chair of the Brady United Against Gun Violence organization’s Regional Leadership Council, and Robert Bowers Disney, comes after the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting on May 24.
“Considering there have been over 250 other mass shootings so far this year, it’s an almost incomprehensible tragedy.
- 6/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to incorporate gun safety best practices into their shows and to scrutinize the use of firearms in storytelling.
The list of signatories (click here to see the letter) includes Shonda Rhimes, Bill Lawrence, Jimmy Kimmel and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” writing staff, Michelle and Robert King, Judd Apatow, Steve Levitan, David Shore, Matt Nix, Dan Lin and Jenni Konner. The letter frames gun safety an urgent social issue for the industry to embrace, in the same way that intentional depictions of such topics as cigarette smoking, drunk driving, the use of seat belts, marriage equality and LGBT rights helped change cultural attitudes and save lives.
“As America’s storytellers, our goal is primarily to entertain, but we also acknowledge that stories have the power to effect change.
The list of signatories (click here to see the letter) includes Shonda Rhimes, Bill Lawrence, Jimmy Kimmel and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” writing staff, Michelle and Robert King, Judd Apatow, Steve Levitan, David Shore, Matt Nix, Dan Lin and Jenni Konner. The letter frames gun safety an urgent social issue for the industry to embrace, in the same way that intentional depictions of such topics as cigarette smoking, drunk driving, the use of seat belts, marriage equality and LGBT rights helped change cultural attitudes and save lives.
“As America’s storytellers, our goal is primarily to entertain, but we also acknowledge that stories have the power to effect change.
- 6/13/2022
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Pete Buttigieg Hangs With Leonardo DiCaprio, Paris Hilton; Back In L.A. This Weekend For Fundraising
Pete Buttigieg will be back in L.A. fundraising again this weekend, just days after another swing through Hollywood circles, including an event that drew guests including Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton.
Buttigieg raised a healthy $19.1 million in the third quarter, which ended on Monday.
To kick-off the next fundraising period, Buttigieg was back on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He’s been able to draw a significant chunk of support from prominent showbiz figures.
On Tuesday evening, he headlined a fundraiser at the home of Michael Kives, founder of the investment advisory firm K5 Global, and his wife Lydia, a civil rights lawyer. DiCaprio and Hilton were among the guests, and a source said that other attendees included Glenn Close and Ashton Kutcher. Co-hosts included MGM’s Jonathan Glickman and writer Christy Callahan; CAA’s Richard Lovett; and Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.
Other co-hosts included Snap’s Ben Schwerin...
Buttigieg raised a healthy $19.1 million in the third quarter, which ended on Monday.
To kick-off the next fundraising period, Buttigieg was back on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He’s been able to draw a significant chunk of support from prominent showbiz figures.
On Tuesday evening, he headlined a fundraiser at the home of Michael Kives, founder of the investment advisory firm K5 Global, and his wife Lydia, a civil rights lawyer. DiCaprio and Hilton were among the guests, and a source said that other attendees included Glenn Close and Ashton Kutcher. Co-hosts included MGM’s Jonathan Glickman and writer Christy Callahan; CAA’s Richard Lovett; and Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.
Other co-hosts included Snap’s Ben Schwerin...
- 10/4/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As other Democratic candidates race to qualify for the next debates less than a month away, one candidate who definitely is in, donor favorite Mayor Pete Buttigieg, will be making another Hollywood fundraising swing, as will Sen. Kamala Harris.
The mayor of South Bend, In, is scheduled to headline a reception on August 27 at the home of attorney Steve Warren and Johnnie Ingram, with co-hosts including HBO’s Casey Bloys and his husband, attorney Alonzo Wickers, and public affairs strategist Greg Propper and his husband, communications and publicity coordinator Michael Torbiak.
Tickets to the event start at $1,500 per person, according to an invite.
Also planned is an event later in the evening, with tickets starting at $25 per person, and a luncheon fundraiser the next day, a source said. Details still are being finalized.
Buttigieg, unknown to many in the industry at the start of the year, ended up raising...
The mayor of South Bend, In, is scheduled to headline a reception on August 27 at the home of attorney Steve Warren and Johnnie Ingram, with co-hosts including HBO’s Casey Bloys and his husband, attorney Alonzo Wickers, and public affairs strategist Greg Propper and his husband, communications and publicity coordinator Michael Torbiak.
Tickets to the event start at $1,500 per person, according to an invite.
Also planned is an event later in the evening, with tickets starting at $25 per person, and a luncheon fundraiser the next day, a source said. Details still are being finalized.
Buttigieg, unknown to many in the industry at the start of the year, ended up raising...
- 8/15/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The smartest party in Hollywood on Sept. 16 was probably the Foreign Policy Roundtable event held on the poolside lawn of MGM Pictures president Jon Glickman and writer wife Christy Callahan, where eminent entertainment people gathered for a talk by Gen. George Casey, the four-star commander of the multination force in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. Casey was representing the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. CNN's Miguel Marquez, who would have swum the Tigris River on fire for an interview with Casey during the conflict, moderated the talk, and before and after it, Casey chatted candidly (though off the
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- 9/18/2013
- by Tim Appelo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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