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ANIMATION-SCANDAL - From BuzzFeed: John Kricfalusi, creator of "Ren and Stimpy," has been accused of preying on underage girls who wanted animation careers
MUSIC-SCANDAL - From HuffPostBlog: While crazy rock musician Ted Nugent criticizes the #ParklandShooting survivors, let's look at his pedophile and statutory rape issues.
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POLITICS - From TheDailyBeast: Neil Young Sounds Off on Trump: ‘He Has No Balls’
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STREAMING - From JoBlo: Comic book luminary Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) and Tom Wheeler will develop a TV series for Netflix. It is (another) take on King Arthur based on Miller and Wheeler's upcoming YA book.
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MOVIES - From TheVillageVoice: The magazine's Bilge Ebiri talks to eccentric actor, Joaquin Phoenix.
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ANIMATION - From TheWrap: In the wake of the cancellation of his "Deadpool" animated series for FX, Donald Glover posts a fake episodic script he wrote for "Deadpool" (for an imagined finale) and he wonders if the series was cancelled because it was too black...
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COMICS-FILM - From DenofGeek: Fox's next "X-Men" franchise films get more release changes. "The New Mutants was moved from Spring 2018 to February 2019 and now it's new release date is August 2, 2019. "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" has also been moved, from Nov. 2, 2018 to Feb. 14th, 2019.
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#MarchForOurLives - From TheDailyBeast: Paul McCartney Honors John Lennon at NYC March for Our Lives
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 3/23 to 3/25/2018 weekend box office is "Pacific Rim: Uprising" with an estimated take of $28 million.
From Variety: After five weekends at the top of the box office, "Black Panther" is finally dethroned.
From Deadline: "Pacific Rim: Uprising" opens at $65 mil in China for a possible worldwide box of about $150 million.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Steven Spielberg says no Oscars for Netflix films.
From Deadline: Peter Bart and Mike Fleming, Jr. had a similar conversation a few weeks earlier.
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ANIMATION - From THR: Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, and FX have dropped their involvement in an animated series based on Marvel Comics' "Deadpool."
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From NOLA: Tom Hardy will star as Al Capone in the biopic, "Fonzo." The film will reportedly shoot in New Orleans and will be directed by Josh Trank, who shot his superhero film, Fantastic Four, in Louisiana.
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MOVIES - From THR: Tessa Thompson will reunite with her "Thor: Ragnarok" co-star, Chris Hemsworth, to headline Sony's "Men in Black" reboot. F. Gary Gray is set to direct the film which is due for release June 14, 2019.
OBIT:
From CJOnline: Linda Brown has died at the age of 76, Monday, March 26, 2018. As a child, Linda was at the center of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in the United States. Linda's father, Oliver Brown, became the lead plaintiff in the Brown v. Board case after attempting to enroll Linda in 1951 in the all-white Sumner Elementary School near the family’s home in Topeka, Kansas.
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