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The impact of Diane Warren’s music has resonated across the globe. Her “Anthem for Peace” was performed in Tel Aviv in 2008 for over 1,000 dignitaries, including Nobel Prize laureates. In 2012, her song “I Was Here” was named the theme for World Humanitarian Day and was performed by Beyoncé live at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Her nonprofit, The Diane Warren Foundation has supported music education in schools, as well as programs to help those with serious illness and enrich the lives of the elderly. Warren is also a noted advocate for animal rights.

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Diane Warren has supported the following charities:

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Casey Kramer, the longtime actress and daughter of legendary director Stanley Kramer died on December 24, according to her sister Kat Kramer. She was 67.

Casey Kramer’s film and TV career spanned four decades, consisting of mostly smaller parts on shows like Falcon Crest, McBride, Criminal Minds, Dexter, Southland, The Young and the Restless, Transparent, Behind the Candelabra, Lethal Weapon and Baskets.

Her filmography begins with her father’s final film, The Runner Stumbles in 1979, which starred Dick Van Dyke and Kathleen Quinlan and featured sister Kat, as well. Her more recent films include Mississippi Requiem in 2018 and 2020’s Darkness in Tenement 45.

Her mother, Anne P. Kramer, was her father’s second wife. They were married from 1950 until their 1963, when they divorced.

During that time Stanley Kramer directed The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World. His other films include Ship Of Fools,...

Casey Kramer, an actress and the oldest daughter of late producer-director Stanley Kramer, died on Christmas Eve of natural causes at her home in Chicago, her sister Kat Kramer announced. She was 67.

A longtime member of The Actors Studio, Casey Kramer made her big-screen debut in the Dick Van Dyke-starring The Runner Stumbles (1979), directed by her dad.

She went on to appear on television on Falcon Crest, Criminal Minds, The Young and the Restless, Dexter, Southland, Behind the Candelabra, Transparent and Baskets and in the recent films Mississippi Requiem (2018) and Darkness in Tenement 45 (2020).

She also was active in Los Angeles theater as an actress and director.

Casey Lise Kramer was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 28, 1955. Her mother was the late Anne Pearce, a writer and film executive who was Stanley’s second wife. They were married from 1950 until their 1963 divorce.

Stanley Kramer, the nine-time Oscar nominee and Irving...

Updated with trailer and release date: Freestyle Digital Media has released the first trailer and set an April 11 release date for The New Abolitionists, a documentary about the movement to end sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, directed by Christina Zorich and produced by her mother, the late Olympia Dukakis. Check out the trailer above and a clip and the new poster below.

Previous Exclusive: The pic premiered October 21 in Santa Monica as part of Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World, an international cinema series that showcases motion pictures and documentaries raising awareness of important social issues. The premiere kicked off a week-long Oscar-qualifying run for The New Abolitionists at Laemmle Monica, with all ticket proceeds going to anti-trafficking organizations featured in the documentary.

Director Christina Zorich

In The New Abolitionists, “Zorich journeys to Southeast Asia to investigate why and how sex trafficking flourishes in the ‘most trafficked’ region of the globe,...

Return To Space

Australia’s Slr Productions has announced production on season two of the award-winning original CGI animated series, “Space Nova” for ABC Me. The 15 x 22-minute season has received significant production funding from both Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation as well as development funding from ABC Me and Create Nsw. “Space Nova” will be co-produced with Giggle Garage in Malaysia and distributed internationally by Zdf Studios, with Actf representing the series across Australia and New Zealand. Targeting a six- to ten-year-old global audience, the first season sold to broadcasters or streamers in Germany, the U.K., Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the U.S, Singapore, East Asia, Indonesia, and Brazil.

Slr gives the logline as: “On the brink of their greatest mission ever – travelling to the incredible Stardustian’s planet – the Novas’ ship is almost destroyed, throwing them off course and stranding their new friend Ziggy in parts unknown.

The Fyc Independents Screenings will take place Friday, May 31 in Van Nuys, Calif, Variety has learned exclusively.

Formerly the Fyc U.S. Independents, this evening of screenings and schmoozing with talent from series such as the CW’s “All American,” Netflix’s “Atypical” and Starz’ “Vida” is thrown by actress and producer Meredith Thomas to increase visibility of supporting, guest and short form actors.

“I’m driven to help independent talent and creators get much needed attention of TV Academy voters during a time when studios are spending millions on Fyc mailers and hosting extravagant events,” said Thomas. “I want to level the playing field so great work can be seen and recognized.”

The lineup of actors whose Emmy eligible work will be showcased include Kristos Andrews (Amazon’s “Class Act”), Wendy Braun (“Atypical”), Elena Campbell-Martinez (“Vida”), Michael Campion (Netflix’s “Fuller House”), Kim Estes (Vimeo’s “Dicks”), Ren Hanami,...

Marsha Hunt, Norman Lloyd, June Lockhart and Barbara Perry will receive the SAG-AFTRA Founders Award for their historic contributions to the union. The special tribute for “meritorious service” to their fellow actors will be presented Saturday at the union’s national board meeting.

“I am so honored to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these courageous actors and leaders,” said SAG-aftra president Gabrielle Carteris. “Their pioneering spirit and advocacy for their union and peers in those early years was pivotal and helped to make us who we are today.”

Hunt, who turns 100 on Wednesday, is one of the last survivors of the Hollywood Blacklist. She joined SAG in 1938 and was a SAG board member from March 1945-November 1947 under presidents George Murphy, Robert Montgomery and Ronald Reagan. In the 1950s her name appeared in “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television,” and, like many others at the time,...

Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering’s “The Hunting Ground” and James Haven’s “Court of Conscience” both examine the rape culture and its deadly consequences Los Angeles – May 25, 2017 --The searing feature documentary “The Hunting Ground”, a 2016 Oscar-nominated film about campus rape, will screen on Saturday June 3 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre as the ninth installment in Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World series. The short film “Court of Conscience”, starring Jon Voight and the late Anton Yelchin, will also be shown during the evening, followed by a panel discussion led by Kramer with members of the cast and production team including “Court of Conscience” star Voight and writer-director James Haven as well as producers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering who...

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