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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 9/28 to 9/30/2018 weekend box office is "Night School," with an estimated take of $28 million.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Gal Gadot joins Fox's remake of "Death on the Nile," based on Agatha Christie's novel.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: Apparently, there will be a second "Deadpool" movie this year. "Deadpool 2" was released this past May. The new film will open December 21st according to a still developing story.
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CELEBRITY - From TheWrap: Comedian Wanda Sykes was booed during a stand-up comedy show for making anti-President Trump jokes.
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SPORTS-CRIME - From ESPN: Louisiana State University (LSU) college basketball player, Wayde Sims, was killed in a shooting outside a restaurant near Southern University of Baton Rouge. A junior from Baton Rouge, Sims was shot about 12:25 a.m. CST and died at a local hospital.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: MTV announced that rapper Li'l Yachty will star in "How High 2," a TV sequel to the 2001 theatrical feature, "How High," which stars Method Man and Redman. [I am a fan of the original. - Editor]
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CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Judge Steven T. O'Neill also ruled Cosby a "sexually violent predator" and fined him $25,000.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Mel Gibson will co-write and direct a remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1969 Western, "The Wild Bunch."
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COMICS-FILM - From YahooPeople: See Joaquin Phoenix in action as "The Joker," in a new set photo.
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STREAMING - From Newsarama: Here is the first photo of the "Star Trek" slash Captain Picard revival.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Zoe Kravitz will star in a TV series, "High Fidelity," which will be inspired by Nick Hornby's 1995 novel, "High Fidelity" and the 2000 Touchstone film adapted from the novel (and starring John Cusack).
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TELEVISION - From Collider: The great Robert Englund will play "Freddy Krueger" ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), the character for which he is most (in)famous, for an episode of the ABC sitcom, "The Goldbergs." Englund will reprise Krueger for the series' Halloween episode.
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TELEVSION - From TVLine: Halle Berry and Lena Waithe has executive producers of BET's adaptation of Eddie Murphy's 1992 film, "Boomerang." The TV series will be a continuation rather than a reboot.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 9/21 to 9/23/2018 weekend box office is "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" with an estimated haul of $26.85 million.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: Todd Phillips reveals a photo image of Zazie Beetz's from his film, "Joker," starring Joaquin Phoenix.
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MEDICINE-BLM - From MotherJones: Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs. Black people and Native Americans are underrepresented in clinical trials of new drugs, even when the treatment targets a type of cancer that disproportionately affects them.
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HISTORY - From YahooFinance: 100 years ago the United States fought its deadliest battle ever, "the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918." The U.S. victory there helped bring an end to World War I, but the cost was 26,000 Americans killed and tens of thousands wounded.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Jordan Peele ("Get Out") will host and narrate the CBS' revival of "The Twilight Zone" for its streaming service CBS All Access.
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CULTURE-BLM - From Vox: Living while black; campaigning while Black.
TRAILER:
From CNET: First trailer for "X-Men: Dark Phoenix," which is due February 14, 2018.
OBITS:
From RollingStone: Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, Marty Balin, has died at the age of 73, Thursday, September 27, 2018. In 1965, Balin founded the psychedelic rock band, Jefferson Airplane, with guitarist, the late Paul Kantner (2016), in San Francisco.
From StarWars: The film producer, Gary Kurtz, has died at the age of 78, September 23, 2018. Kurtz is best known for his association with George Lucas, producing Lucas' directorial efforts, "American Graffiti" (1973) and "Star Wars" (1977). Kurtz produced "The Empire Strikes Back," but parted ways with Lucas. Kurtz earned "Best Picture" Oscar nominations for producing "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars."
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