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OBIT - From Deadline: The actor Kenny Baker has died at the age of 81 (although some reports are listing him at 82 or 83). The 3-foot, 8-inch actor is best known for playing R2-D2 in six Star Wars movies. Baker also appeared in "The Elephant Man," "Time Bandits," and "The Goonies."
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ANIME-FILM - From TheTrackingBoard: One of my favorite anime, "Tiger & Bunny, is being developed as a live-action American film. "Tiger & Bunny" follows a veteran hero and his partner, the hot new thing.
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TELEVISION - From TheTrackingBoard: The creators of the long-running CBS TV series, "How I Met Your Mother," is developing a family comedy for the network.
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MOVIES - From YahooNews: On the set of "Fast 8," Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson are greatly at odds with one another.
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SPORTS - From CTVNews: Brazil receives its first gold medal of the Rio Olympics. Brazilian Rafaela Silva won gold in judo (57 kiogram division). Born in a favela (slum), Silva had been the target of horrible racists taunts. She has also come out as gay.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Suicide Squad" looks to hold onto first place at the weekend box office, despite a seeming big debut from the animated "Sausage Party."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Patty Jenkins, who is directing 2017's "Wonder Woman" movie, does not like this open letter that calls her film a mess.
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: The United States' unlikeliest gold medal is a comeback story about swimmer, Anthony Ervin.
MOVIES - From Polygon: "Suicide Squad" has a problem that may also be a problem for other films based on DC Comics characters.
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Michelle Carter becomes the first U.S. woman to win gold in the Olympic shot put.
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TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV: Long-time "Criminal Minds" cast member, Thomas Gibson, is no longer with the series, following a suspension for an on-set confrontation.
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MOVIES - From Vulture: Former employee sends an open letter to top Warner Bros. executives and is highly critical to say the least.
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Simone Manuel becomes the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal for an individual swimming event (100 meter freestyle). She tied for the gold with Canadian Penny Oleksiak - the first tie for a gold medal since 2000. In fact, the last time an American woman won gold in the 100 meter freestyle, it was a tie involving 2 Americans.
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COMICS - From EntertainmentWeekly: In celebration of the birthday of Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America) posts a gag video featuring Hemsworth having trouble with a hammer.
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MOVIES - From EntertainmentWeekly: Hugh Jackman posts a photo on social media that has fans talking about how old he looks. "Old Man Logan" anyone?
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Classic Nickelodeon cartoon, "Rocko's Modern Life" will return in a special.
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MOVIES - From WeGotThisCovered: "Bad Boys 3" is now called "Bad Boys for Life." The release date has also been removed from 2017 to 2018.
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STAR WARS - From BleedingCool: Lando Calrissian reportedly to appear in the Han Solo spinoff movie in which Alden Ehrenreich.
From TheWrap: 7 actors who would be great as young Lando Calrissian.
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TELEVISION - From IGN: Gabriel Luna is the new "Ghost Rider," who will appear on the fourth season on ABC's "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. Nicolas Cage played the character in two films.
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Ousted "Saturday Night Live" cast members, Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah, have new gigs at Showtime.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Mel Gibson escapes settlement payments with is baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Dammit. Angelina Jolie has decided not to appear in Kenneth Branagh's remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Brad Pitt is courting David Fincher to direct the "World War Z" sequel. Fincher and Pitt worked together on "Se7ev," "Fight Club," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
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STAR TREK - From Variety: CBS' new "Star Trek" series, "Star Trek: Discovery" will have a female lead, who will not be the captain.
From IndieWire: More details on "Discovery" including the show having a larger contingent of aliens and a gay character.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Speaking of all-girl reboots, there is "Ocean's 8," an all-female reboot of "Oceans Eleven." Rihanna and Anne Hathaway are in talks to join a cast that already includes Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: So the all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot looks to be a box office flop.
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OBITS - From YahooSports: John Saunders, longtime ESPN anchor, died today, Wednesday, August 10, 2016. He was 61.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Three cast members, including Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah, are leaving "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) or were fired. One of them, Killam, is not sure why.
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MOVIES - From HitFix: There is a planned remake of the classic horror film, "Suspiria." The director of the original, Dario Argento, isn't impressed by those plans, although he is not against the film.
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POLITICS - From BostonGlobe: Louisiana's new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has saved lives since he accepted the Medicaid expansion under "Obamacare."
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OLYMPICS - From YahooSports: U.S. women make history in capturing Rio Olympic gymnastics team gold, the remarkable Simone Biles.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From YahooNews: In Ferguson, Michael Brown's parents are still waiting for secret files in their lawsuit against his killer, former police officer Darren Wilson, the city, and it former police chief.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Tri-Star is leading the revival of "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series. The new will film be based on "The Silver Chair."
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MOVIES - From YahooCelebrity: Dwayne Johnson calls some of his "Fast 8" male co-stars "candyasses."
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Breck Eisner is in talks to direct a new Friday the 13th film.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From TheRoot: High fives and orders to make sure the body camera are off after Chicago pigs... I mean... cops shot an unarmed Black teen.
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MOVIES - From Variety: The Tom Cruise-Doug Liman film previously known as "Mena" is now entitled "American Made." It also moves from Jan. 2017 to a Sept. 2017 release date.
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TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV: Director David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook," "American Hustle") is prepping a TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore.
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COMICS-FILM - From WeGotThisCovered: Set photos from "Spider-Man: Homecoming" shows off Spider-Man's web-shooters.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Woody Allen's series for Amazon has a name, "Crisis in Six Scenes." The series debut on Amazon Prime Video on September 30th and will be comprised of six episodes.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Joseph David-Jones has been cast in Kathryn Bigelow's untitled 1967 Detroit Riots film. David-Jones plays "Connor Hawke" in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" for The CW.
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CULTURE - From RSN: Renee Zellwegger on against her: "We can do better."
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POLITICS - From NYMag: Former Fox News boss, Roger Ailes, used Fox's budget to finance a "Black Room" campaign against his personal enemies. He may have used the network's budget and profits to pay off sexual harassment claims against him.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 8/5 to 8/7/2016 weekend box office is "Suicide Squad" with an estimated take of $135.1 million.
From YahooMovies: "Suicide Squad" sets three August box office records - largest opening weekend ($135.1 million) and largest single day ($65.2 million) and largest Thursday preview ($20.5 million), which is part of the Friday haul
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BOOKS-FILM - From RollingStone: George R.R. Martin's books are the source material for HBO's Emmy-winning hit, "Game of Thrones." Now, his anthology series, "Wild Cards," which he shares with other writers, is being developed for television.
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CELEBRITY - From PopSugar: Angelina Jolie will be a visiting professor at the London School of Economics next year.
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OBIT - From YahooCelebrity: Ricci Martin, the youngest son of legendary actor and singer, Dean Martin, has died at the age of 62, Wednesday, August 3, 2016. Ricci was a musician and also a singer, and he toured a tribute show to his late father (who died in 1995).
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From IBT: I have heard it said that America is driving Black people crazy. Here, is some proof or at least an article about it.
TRAILERS-VIDEO CLIPS:
From YouTube: First teaser trailer for "Allied," a new film from Robert Zemeckis, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
From YouTube: Marvel's Captain America: Civil War - Black Panther Featurette
From YouTube: From the "Ben-Hur" remake, "You Should Have Killed Me."
From YouTube: "Office Christmas Party" trailer.
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