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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the great response from Jennifer Hudson’s performance of Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted & Black” on the BET Awards, and the 60 minute trailer that followed, MGM/United Artists Releasing is now going wide with their biopic about the legendary performer on Jan. 15, 2021, MLK weekend. The all-in move shows how

An influential group of British Parliamentarians has called on the government to set up an emergency film and TV production insurance fund to help get cameras rolling again across the UK. In a report on the impact of coronavirus on the UK’s cultural sectors, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said

Deadpool, while having a definable story arc and an internal, franchise-driven logic, is at its heart a chaotic franchise. If Wade Wilson is going to continue to wage war with the fourth wall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he needs to be able to do so on his terms. Sure, cameos in other series will

Netflix has set a Oct. 16 streaming date for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, its $56M pickup from Paramount, in what looks to be the first of its 2020-21 awards season contenders. Paramount, which first had the movie, was eyeing a fall platform release, initially with a limited debut of Sept. 25,

Play video content Антон Геращенко / Facebook A hostage situation in Ukraine ended safely when the country’s president met one of the gunman’s odd demands — posting a video encouraging folks to watch a Joaquin Phoenix movie. Here’s the deal … a heavily armed man took 13 people hostage on a bus in western Ukraine,

EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek has always been about bringing people together and that’s exactly what the Gene Roddenberry-created franchise plans to do at Comic-Con@Home this week. With appearances from Star Trek: Discovery, the soon to debut animated Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Picard, CBS All Access’ ever expanding Trekverse helps kick off the virtual

Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have seen Doctor Strange peer into different timelines and realities, 14,000,605 times, to be specific. But it was in the pages of 2016’s The Unbelievable Gwenpool #3 that he caught a glimpse of an entirely new universe - the actual real world – and he seemed pretty pleased with the MCU’s casting choice to play

Snap founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said Tuesday that it’s been really “interesting to watch the U.S. government grapple with the success of a consumer tech company that is headquartered in China,” referring to social media powerhouse TikTok, owned by Chinese giant ByteDance. “It’s a free market question,” Spiegel said on a conference call to

A new work by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021, joining the company’s postponed revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams. The newly announced, as-yet-untitled production of Nottage’s new play will be directed by Kate

SAG-AFTRA members are speaking out about hate crimes and discrimination against Asian-Americans, many of whom have been targeted by their fellow citizens during the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump, who is a member of the union, has even called the virus the “Kung Flu.” On Tuesday, the union held a virtual panel discussion exploring these

Hamilton isn’t the first filmed stage production, but its arguably the most popular. RENT‘s closing cast was filmed back in 2008, also featuring Hamilton‘s Renee Elise Goldsberry as Mimi. In fact, there’s an entire streaming service called Broadway HD as a home for these types of projects. And it should be interesting to see if

EXCLUSIVE: Proudly “boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before,” as its trailer says, Star Trek: Lower Decks has now brought Paul Scheer on board to the animated CBS All Access series. Set to debut on August 6 on the ViacomCBS-owned streamer, the first comedy in the Trekverrse will see the Black Monday

Exclusive Johnny Ortiz — who starred alongside Kevin Costner in “McFarland, USA” — is currently sitting behind bars after being charged with premeditated attempted murder charges … TMZ has learned. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Ortiz and another man, Armando Miguel Navarro, allegedly tried to kill a man named Brian Duke “for the

CAA has signed a non-exclusive strategic partnership agreement with United Media Asia, a Singapore- and Indonesia-based content finance, production and distribution company. The partnership continues CAA’s relationship with UMA, which recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with Southeast Asia’s largest media conglomerate, Kompas Gramedi. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal and also is representing the

Here’s how The Walking Dead doesn’t always follow its own undead guidelines. “What’s the point of expecting realism from a show about zombies?” is a question many fans of The Walking Dead will be well-accustomed to hearing, and there’s certainly a logic behind that statement. In a TV series where the dead come back to life, why

The national board of SAG-AFTRA on Monday reprimanded Los Angeles Local president Patricia Richardson for refusing to remove a member of the local’s Sexual Harassment Committee, even though the board says she had received “detailed complaints from women who had been subject to or witness to sexual harassment, abuse and assault” by the committee member.

As Chinese cinemas began the reopening process today, box office crossed $472K by 8PM local. Maoyan’s real-time ticketing platform reports that play is led by new entry A First Farewell at around $184K. Following it is the re-issue of Christmas title Sheep Without A Shepherd at about $80K and Disney/Pixar’s Coco in 3rd with just

Counterpoint – Yeah, The Last Airbender is a pretty ugly movie, and the bending—especially the earthbending—is particularly underwhelming. In fact, in his review of the film, Roger Ebert went off on the visuals, calling them “atrocious.” But everybody blames M. Night Shyamalan for this, when in actuality, how is this even his fault? M. Night

Yeon Sang-ho’s Peninsula, the follow-up to his 2016 zombie smash, Train To Busan, made a meal of the international box office this weekend, in Korea and four other markets. The thriller sequel (aka Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula) already logged the biggest opening day score of the year in its home market on Wednesday and

Exclusive Mark Wahlberg dropped a fat stack on a new set of quarantine wheels … a custom 3-wheeler that’s eco-friendly AND street legal!!! Marky Mark’s newest ride is an Arcimoto FUV — Fun Utility Vehicle — which retails for just under $20,000 … and it’s super cool. Sources connected to the deal tell TMZ …

Let’s get together! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Director Nancy Meyers took to Instagram to reveal that the cast of the 1998 reboot of Disney’s The Parent Trap will be reuniting to celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 20 at 9 am ET on Katie Couric’s Instagram. Meyers teased days ago that she had news about The Parent Trap and

Throughout its run, The Flash has brought several Glee stars into the Arrowverse in both big and small roles. Grant Gustin, who portrays Barry Allen was mostly associated with the musical dramedy as the villainous Sebastian Smythe. Starting in season 3 until his final appearance in Glee season 5, Gustin played the openly gay Warbler member

UPDATED, July 17: Lionsgate said Friday that Roadside Attractions’ romantic drama The Secret: Dare To Dream, starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas, will be released on Premium Video on Demand on July 31. In March, the pic based on based on Rhonda Byrne’s 2006 global bestselling self-help book, had to postpone its April 17 theatrical

(Press Association) Tesla founder Elon Musk regularly visited Amber Heard late at night at Johnny Depp’s Los Angeles penthouse, it has been claimed. Alejandro Romero, a concierge at the Eastern Columbia Building, said in a written witness statement as part of Depp’s libel trial with The Sun, that the actress, 34, gave Musk his own

Focusing Too Heavily On Spectacle Of the many reasons video game movies fail, focusing too heavily on style, special effects, and action-packed sequences ranks high on the list. And, while those things are great and needed to make a story exciting, they don’t ultimately satisfy. Despite that, video game movies fall into this trap a

(UPDATED with more messages on the death of Rep. John Lewis) Presidents, Oscar nominees, potential Vice-Presidential nominees, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and other admirers tonight mourned the death of Rep. John Lewis. They also celebrated the tireless fight for justice that the civil rights icon who was later in life called

Exclusive Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are going back to work on the Puerto Rican movie set where they first met … and set in motion her split from Brian Austin Green. Megan and MGK arrived Thursday in San Juan after flying in together from the mainland, ready to get back to business on

Delays in production for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ original series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier caused first by an earthquake in Puerto Rico and then the coronavirus will keep the Marvel spinoff series from making its previously set August premiere date. The series was not on Disney+’s list of next month premieres released Friday.

Even as one of the Switch’s first big-budget games, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, remains arguably the best title on the platform to this day. That puts considerable pressure on Nintendo to make Breath of the Wild 2 an even better game, but its predecessor wasn’t entirely perfect, so there are plenty of

UPDATED WITH WINNERS: Chernobyl was the big winner at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Friday after the Sky and HBO drama scooped seven awards. The Sister-produced nuclear disaster series beat competition from the likes of The Crown, Killing Eve and The Virtues at the pre-recorded ceremony, triumphing in categories including Director: Fiction for Johan