Month: April 2022

EXCLUSIVE: BET builds up its holiday movie slate with Sound Of Christmas, starring R&B artist Ne-Yo in the lead role. The TV movie directed and written by Booker T. Mattison hails from executive producer Tressa Azarel Smallwood’s MegaMind Media. Sound of Christmas is a film adaptation of The Replacement Wife by bestselling author Tiffany L.
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Forget the silver linings playbook—it’s time for J.Law to dive into the parenting playbook!  Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney have welcomed their first child together, multiple sources tell E! News.  The Don’t Look Up actress and art dealer became parents earlier this year. On April 12, Lawrence and Maroney were seen taking a walk with their baby but have yet to speak publicly about the arrival.
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In Jill: A Biography of the First Lady, authors Darlene Superville and Julie Pace chart the story of Jill meeting Joe (and making him propose five times!), becoming a mother to Beau, Hunter, and Ashley, going through three presidential elections, and breaking barriers with her decision to work outside the White House. By Darlene Superville
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The nonprofit organization We Need Diverse Books Offers (WNDB) has established the Educators Making a Difference Grant program to help combat the deluge of book bans happening across the U.S. Through the program, WNDB, which advocates for inclusivity in children’s literature, offered educators $2,000 to buy diverse titles, diversify existing collections, host community events focused
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“An egotistical tabloid reporter attempts to track down a vampire/amateur pilot who’s been feasting on the unlucky inhabitants of several rural airfields.” This premise shouldn’t have worked. It too closely resembles something thrown out during a high school creative writing class that’s gone off the rails. But Stephen King, who has done some of his
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We talk his ferocious new epic, convincing Björk to make her first film appearance in two decades, and falling asleep to Antiques Roadshow. By Gabriella Paiella April 20, 2022 The Northman director Robert Eggers.Photographs: Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte If animals are giving you messages from the beyond, if everyone is speaking in painstaking
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has assembled the cast for My Life With the Walter Boys, its coming-of-age romance series based on the popular WattPad novel by Ali Novak, which has nearly 80 million reads. Nikki Rodriguez (On My Block) is set as the lead Jackie Howard in the project, with Suits alumna Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas
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Subtle storytelling isn’t effortless. Too often, the urge is to use overly dramatic plotlines to make points with the belief a lesser approach will find a filmmaker’s point overlooked. Nani Li Yan directs Beneath the Banyan Tree with a deftly subtle hand that underscores a Chinese family’s struggle to continue tradition while accepting that they
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Translated by Katherine Gregor — Following up from her 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature prize winning novel, Summer of Reckoning, Marion Brunet brings us a claustrophobic, unsettling and gut-punching new book about a woman and her young son living on the fringes of society in Marseilles. Vanda has always been a free-spirit, rebellious and someone
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Courtesy of Netflix Although some scenes in the upcoming documentary are almost likely fictional or dramatised, the plot is true. Cline opened a fertility clinic in Indiana, US, in 1979, and secretly used his own sperm to impregnate women who visited him for artificial insemination, claiming the donations were from medical residents. As a result,
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Over the last year, artists like Megan Thee Stallion and Rihanna have kept us guessing about what they have in store for their fans, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting “Red (Taylor’s Version)”-level hyped with every subtle hint and new single release. How could we not when Normani and Saweetie are (potentially) releasing albums
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Endemol Shine Australia co-founder Carl Fennessy and ex-Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks have set up a major new Sydney-based production company and have scored backing from Endeavor Content. The duo have launched full-service production and distribution studio Dreamchaser and will serve as joint CEOs. It comes after Fennessy, who ran Endemol Shine Australia
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