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Floyd Roger Myers Jr., the former child actor who appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has died. He was 42. The actor died from a heart attack on Wednesday morning at his home in Maryland, his mother Renee Trice told TMZ after her son previously survived three heart attacks...
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As Paramount begins cleaning house under new CEO David Ellison, Paramount Animation‘s President Ramsey Naito is the latest to step down from the company. Previously the head of Nickelodeon Animation, where she launched its largest animation slate in the network’s 40+ year history with over 70 projects at the Nickelodeon...
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While Tom Cruise could see into the future in Minority Report, his co-star Colin Farrell might have benefitted from a little foresight while making the movie. The Oscar nominee recalled getting drunk one night before “one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set” while making the...
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AIE says the Italian comics market is showing superpowered dynamics among consumers, tripling its punch in six years. The post At Italy’s Lucca Comics & Games, AIE Reports Fast Growth appeared first on Publishing Perspectives....
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Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney has booked a steady slate of films since she first entered the role of Cassie Howard in the high school series. She still has Season 3 to complete, and the White Lotus alum also has some big-screen features arriving at the end of the year and...
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“Hitler’s favorite filmmaker.” That’s not how Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. No, she preferred a more self-serving myth – that she was “only an artist,” perhaps a bit naïve, who took on filmic “assignments” from the Third Reich not out of support for Nazi ideology but because, well, they...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Joe Burke is an indie filmmaker and actor best known for his new award-winning movie Burt, Four Dogs, Another Cancer Movie, House Sitting and more. As an...
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EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken domestic distribution rights to the mixed martial arts action drama Beast in Me starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Daniel MacPherson, and Luke Hemsworth. Crowe co-wrote the movie David Frigerio in a story about a former MMA legend turned family man who is lured back...
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster are boarding the Corey Large produced thriller Raven. Ron Livingston and Hassie Harrison are also starring in the movie which Tom Sierchio (Gasoline Alley, The Girl Who Invented Kissing) is directing from his own script. Cameras roll this autumn. Raven follows Fay...
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Slow Horses has shed even more light onto the history and character of Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb. What does that mean for the future?...
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Margaret DePriest, an actress and five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee who wrote on numerous soaps including General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Sunset Beach and others, has died. DePriest passed away on September 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter Sara Kimbell...
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As one of Stephen King‘s scariest pieces of IP gets the HBO Max series treatment, the bloodbath has commenced with the first episode. Following this week’s debut of IT: Welcome to Derry, the show’s co-creators explained how they pulled off the pilot’s big twist, which they thought they’d “have to...
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Sophie Flay, general assignment reporter at ABC7/KABC-TV in Los Angeles, is joining ABC News as correspondent and overnight anchor of World News Now and Good Morning America First Look. Flay has worked at the Los Angeles station, owned by the network, since March 2019. She has covered the Monterey Park...
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Eleonora Rubini elevated to Label Director, Warner Records Italy; Marco Masoli upped to Label Director, Atlantic Records Italy Source...
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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s motion picture divisions, including production, literary, marketing and music, were impacted today with many Melrose Ave lot vets exiting. The new David Ellison run conglom is handing out approximately 1,000 pink-slips as it looks to achieve $2 billion in overall savings. We understand that some of those savings...
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Whether you prefer Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939) or Fairuza Balk in Return to Oz (1985), the Wicked franchise won’t be associating Dorothy with a new actress anytime soon. Ahead of the Nov. 21 premiere of Wicked: For Good, director Jon M. Chu recently clarified that the...
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EXCLUSIVE: Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) is in talks to star alongside Aubrey Plaza in The Heidi Fleiss Story, the forthcoming dark comedy serving as a biopic for “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss. The Heidi Fleiss Story takes place in 1993 Los Angeles, where a powerful young woman named Heidi Fleiss (Plaza)...
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EXCLUSIVE: Can you believe it’s that time of year again? Halloween is just two days away and we’re already looking ahead to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. NBC has unveiled its lineup of new and returning specials and classic holiday programming, including specials such as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Christmas...
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A number of television executives have been affected by the major round of layoffs at Paramount, the first since the company was established by the $8.4 billion merger of Paramount Global and Skydance in August. With Paramount Global’s headcount, 18,600 globally as of the end of 2024, dwarfing that of...
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The first promo for Miles Teller’s stint as SNL host has the Top Gun actor in a pitch meeting with Chloe Fineman, Ben Marshall and Jeremy Culhane and excited about his idea for a “Cool Pope” skit. “You know, baptism in a hot tub, cool stuff like that,” he says....
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The Actor’s Side is back with a whole new season of movie awards contenders in rich conversation. Joining me this week is Mark Hamill, who is getting buzz for his performances in two movies adapted from Stephen King works including his acclaimed role in The Life of Chuck and the...
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The new feature allows musicians to set up online stores selling merch like t-shirts, tote bags and mugs printed with album artwork. Source...
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Cam'ron says he was never paid for his lyrical and vocal contributions to 'Ready '24' Source...
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The next season of “The White Lotus” will film in Paris and the Lutetia Hotel in the 6th arrondissement. Until just a short time ago, The Lutetia was a down at its heels property. I used to stay there. I’m LOL, as they say. The Nazis used it as their...
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Warner Bros TV is making another incision to stop the legal exhumation of The Pitt, and whether or not the Noah Wyle-starring Emmy-winning medical drama is a rip-off of ER from going to trial. “There was no evidence that The Pitt was made by copying from or using ER, so...
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s been nearly 10 years since the late David Bowie released his final album and Channel 4, Dogwoof and Rogan Productions are commemorating the moment. David Bowie: The Final Act [working title] will chart the final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic artists. Featuring rare interviews with those...
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The Star Wars: Visions season 3 episode 'The Lost Ones' features a pretty amusing (if also completely unexpected) reference to Back to the Future....
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Adobe says its AI music tool was 'trained on licensed content... and public domain content where copyright has expired' Source...
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Writer Michael Waldron has revealed a pretty fantastic joke from Marvel's abandoned script for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty involving the Young Avengers and Kang....
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Drake has filed a Notice of Appeal to challenge the dismissal of his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group. Source...
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Last week’s article on direct sales elicited significant response from readers and service providers. Here’s what they had to say....
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A coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund in the United States....
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The adult market accounted for 80 percent of the most recent quarter’s declines. Romance and thrillers are the categories hardest hit....
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Plata Publishing is launching a children’s imprint that’s an extension of the parent company’s adult nonfiction title, Rich Dad Poor Dad....
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Two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is coming to off Broadway this week. Performances begin tomorrow night for his play, “This World of Tomorrow,” co-starring Kelli O’Hara and Ruben Santiago Hudson. Tom wrote the play and stars in it, based on his own short stories. Already the first two shows...
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