Colin Kaepernick will be featured in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with the Walt Disney Co.
The partnership between Kaepernick's production arm, Ra Vision Media, and the Walt Disney Co. will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity. It also will provide a platform to showcase the work of minority directors and producers. "I am excited to announce this historic partnership with Disney across all of its platforms to elevate Black and Brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers, and to inspire the youth with compelling and authentic perspectives," Kaepernick said.
Kaepernick, who became the face of a Nike campaign in 2018, will work closely with the Undefeated, which is expanding its portfolio across Disney, to develop stories from the perspective of Black and brown communities.
Composer Ennio Morricone dies
Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose atmospheric scores for some 500 films by a who's who of international directors made him one of the world's most versatile and influential creators of music for the modern cinema, died Monday in Rome. He was 91. Morricone composed melodic accompaniments to comedies, thrillers and historical dramas by Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Terrence Malick, Roland Joffé, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Mike Nichols, John Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino and other filmmakers. He scored many popular films of the past 40 years: Édouard Molinaro's "La Cage aux Folles" (1978), Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982), De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987), Giuseppe Tornatore's "Cinema Paradiso" (1988), Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire" (1993), and Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" (2015). But the work that made him world famous was his blend of music and sound effects for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s: "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), all starring Clint Eastwood. "The notion that I am a composer who writes a lot of things is true on one hand and not true on the other hand," Morricone once said. Maybe my time is better organized than many other people's. But compared to classical composers like Bach, Frescobaldi, Palestrina or Mozart, I would define myself as unemployed."
Divorcing: Actress Christina Ricci filed for divorce from her husband of seven years, James Heerdegen, and is asking for sole custody of their 5-year-old son, Freddie. She cited irreconcilable differences.
Leaving: Frontman Tom Meighan left British rockers Kasabian to deal with "personal issues," the band said. Kasabian said Meighan "wants to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track." Founded in the English city of Leicester in 1997, Kasabian released its self-titled first album in 2004 and became one of the U.K.'s biggest live and recorded acts.
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