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SPORTS - From NYTimes: Sloane Stephens wins the women's tennis singles title at the 2017 U.S. Open Women.
From HuffPost: American tennis is alive because of Black women.
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STREAMING - From ArsTechnica: Disney is pulling its "Star Wars" and Marvel Studios films from Netflix, beginning in 2019.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Spike Lee and Jordan Peele ("Key & Peele") are uniting for the film, "Black Klansman," based on the true story of a Black man who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" opens strong in China.
From Fortune: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" may be the highest grossing straight-reboot film at the worldwide box office.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: Drew Goodard will write and direct "X-Force," a spin-off from Fox's awful X-Men film franchise.
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STREAMING - From TheWrap: Christina Ricci's Amazon series, "Z: The Beginning of Everything" has cancelled.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Armie Hammer joins Felicity Jones in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a current Supreme Court Justice) biopic, "On the Basis of Sex."
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: "Suicide Squad 2" finally has a director. Gavin O'Connor of "The Accountant" (with Ben Affleck) will write and direct the film.
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TELEVISION - Variety: CBS is developing a TV series based on James Ellroy's classic novel, L.A. Confidential. The book was previously developed into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning 1997 film writer-director Curtis Hanson.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jude Law joins Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez in a Woody Allen film due next year.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: A rare photo of Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes, long rumored to be a couple, has surfaced.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: In terms of domestic box office, "Wonder Woman" is now one of the top five highest grossing superhero movies of all time.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Chris Pine to take the lead in Robert F. Kennedy project at Hulu.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Paramount has acquired rights to "authorized prequel" to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," entitled "Dracul."
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STAR WARS - From TheWrap: Colin Trevorrow "steps down" as the director of Star Wars Episode 9.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: "American Horror Story: Cult" - frenzied mess or metaphor for Trump-induced madness.
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MOVIES-FILM FESTIVALS - From Variety: Angelina Jolie gets a standing ovation at the Telluride Film Festival for her new film, "Cambodia."
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POLITICS - From NYDailyNews: The selfish reason Donald Trump has made several film cameos.
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COMICS-FILM - From CBR: 15 things wrong with the X-Men film franchise, according to Comic Book Resources. [Yeah, those movies are a stanky hot mess. - Ed.]
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MOVIES - From Variety: Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" was a big disappointment at the box office. That has cost the deputy CEO of Besson's EuropaCorp is job.
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WGA - From Variety: The incoming president of the Writers Guild of America, West says that Hollywood writers will have to make a 2020 strike threat to get a decent contract.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The number one film at the 9/1 to 9/3/2017 weekend box office is "The Hitman's Bodyguard" with an estimated total of $10.25 million. This is the film's third consecutive weekend at the top of the box office.
From Variety: "Dunkirk" wins the most recent international box office period.
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CELEBRITY - From BBC: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William of Great Britain and his wife, Kate) are expecting a third child.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: A slideshow of the 50 most anticipated films of Fall 2017.
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SPORTS - From BET: Tennis great Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl.
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COMICS-FILM - From CBR: Spike Lee may be involved in a Sony Pictures film based on Marvel Comics character, Nightwatch," who is part of the "Spider-Man" line.
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COMICS-FILM - From ScreenRant: Cate Blanchett gives the three reasons she wanted to be in "Thor: Ragnarok."
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COMICS-FILM - From SideshowToy: A first look at Evangeline Lilly in costume as "The Wasp" during filming of Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Warner Bros. would love Leo DiCaprio to play the Joker in its "Joker" stand alone film to be directed by Todd Phillips.
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MOVIES - From THR: "The Crow" reboot, entitled "The Crow Reborn," is not at Sony Pictures.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Netflix teams up with Damien Chazelle ("Best Director Oscar" for "La La Land") for a Paris-set musical series, "The Eddy."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Director Andy Muschietti says that the sequel to "It," the highly-anticipated adaptation of the Stephen King novel, will focus on the 1986 novel's "cosmic dimension."
From CinemaBlend: Muschietti would like to make a new film adaptation of King's 1983 novel "Pet Semetary," which was previously adapted by director Mary Lambert in 1989.
From TheWrap: Muschietti talks about the origin of Pennywise the Clown's distinctive look in the new "It."
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Robert Pattison of "Twilight" fame once lived with Dustin Diamond a.k.a. "Screech" from "Saved by the Bell."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: HBO's limited series, "True Detective," will return for a third season, with Mahershala Ali as its star. Nic Pizzalatto and Jeremy Saulnier will direct. No air date announced as of yet.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Taylor Swift's friend, the dancer, Todrick Hall, getting trolled over his relationship with Swift and his appearance in her new video.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Sam Rockwell in final talks to play George W. Bush in Dick Cheney biopic from director, Adam McKay.
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MOVIES - From THR: Lily Collins joins Nicholas Hoult in Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertainment's biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien, the creator of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
OBIT:
From TheWrap: Blake Heron, former child star, has died at the age of 35, Friday, September 8, 2017. He was best known for the 1996 film, "Shiloh."
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From TheWrap: Rock musician and recording artist, Walter Becker, has died at the age of 67, Sunday, September 3, 2017. Becker was the guitarist and co-founder of the rock-jazz fusion band, Steely Dan.
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From Variety: The actor and comedian Shelley Berman has died at the age of 92; Friday, September 1, 2017. The Grammy Award he won in 1959 for "Best Comedy Performance, Spoken Word," was the first given for a non-musical performance. In recent years, he played Larry David's father on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which earned him a 2008 Emmy nomination.
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