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AWARDS - From TheWrap: The winners were announced for the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards. "If Beale Street Could Talk" wins "Best Feature," "Best Director" (Barry Jenkins), and "Best Supporting Female" (Regina King).
From THR: During his acceptance speech for "Best Director" at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Barry Jenkins calls on Hollywood to champion more film directed by women.
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SCANDAL - From teleSUR: Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter, R. Kelly, has turned himself into Chicago police. His charges include 10 counts of aggravated criminal abuse, with three out of the four victims being underaged.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: John Krasinski will direct the sequel to his hit film, "A Quiet Place." Emily Blunt is also returning for "A Quiet Place 2."
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WHITE SUPREMACY - From YahooUSAToday: USA Today reviews 900 college yearbooks from the 1970s and 1980s and finds (surprise!) shocking images of blatant racism.
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STREAMING - From Buzzfeed: CBS All Access debuts the first trailer for the rebooted "The Twilight Zone," with Jordan Peele standing in for Rod Serling.
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WHITE SUPREMACY - From NPR: No, the Jussie Smollet is not the most important story today. A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant, Christopher Paul Hasson, has been charged with stockpiling weapons and drugs and is being described as a "domestic terrorist" who was planning "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.
From CBS: By the way, there is a Department of Homeland Security report on domestic terrorism that is a must-read. Ten years ago, the GOP and conservative media successfully hamstrung its release.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Michael B. Jordan will star in Denzel Washington's next directorial effort, "Journal for Jordan" for Sony Pictures.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: The ratings for "The Walking Dead" are at an all-time low, and the series is still the #1 show on cable.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooNews: Jussie Smollet, a star of Fox's "Empire" TV series, has been arrested in Chicago, after turning himself in. He faces charges and accusations that he filed a false police report in relation to an alleged attack against him three weeks ago.
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MOVIES - From People: Chris Hemsworth to play wrestler Hulk Hogan in a biopic of the WWE star.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: The third "Bill and Ted" movies, "Bill and Ted: Face the Music" reportedly will begin production this summer.
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TELEVISION - From BleedingCool: In The CW's "The Lost Reboot," the "Frog Brothers" will be replaced by the "Frog Sisters."
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ANIMATION - From Variety: Oscar-winner, Emma Thompson, has apparently left the Skydance Animation film, "Luck," over Skydance's hiring of former Pixar Animation Studio boss, John Lasseter. Lasseter left Pixar over misconduct allegations.
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MONEY - From TwoCents: All the Ways You Can Get Your Student Loans Forgiven
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TELEVISION - From Newsarama: Neil Gaiman ("American Gods") has been hired to develop a new version of the late Jim Henson's 1980s anthology TV series, "Storyteller."
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Ryan Coogler, director of Marvel's "Black Panther," will produce the film, "Jesus Was My Homeboy," about murdered real-life Black Panther member, Fred Hampton, and the man who betrayed him to the pigs, William O'Neal.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/15 to 2/17/2019 (President's Day) weekend box office is "Alita: Battle Angel" with an estimated take of 27.8 million dollars.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke says Amazon is still in the movie game.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix cancels "Jessica Jones" and "The Punisher," which likely marks the end of its relationship with Marvel TV than began in 2013.
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AWARDS - From Variety: The 2019 Writers Guild Awards winners have been announced. "Eighth Grade" (original screenplay) and "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" (adapted screenplay) lead the winners.
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AWARDS - From teleSUR: A white Mexican actor, Sergio Goyri, uses a racial slur to criticize Oscar-nominated actress, Yalitza Apaicio ("Roma"), the first Indigenous actress to be nominated for an Oscar.
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SPORTS - From Slate: How Colin Kaepernick beat the NFL. [Whoop that trick!]
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BOND - From Deadline: The release date for BOND 25 has been moved back to April 8, 2020. Daniel Craig will return as James Bond-007.
OBITS:
From IndieWire: Film and theater director, Stanley Donen, has died at the age of 94, Saturday, February 23, 2019. Donen is considered to have re-invented the Hollywood movie musical with such films as "On the Town," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and "Singin' in the Rain," considered by some to be the greatest movie musical of all time.
From ESPN: Former Major League Baseball pitcher, Don Newcombe, has died at the age of 92, Tuesday, February 19, 2019. A Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers legend, Newcombe was the first pitcher to win "Rookie of the Year," "Most Valuable Player," and the "Cy Young Award" during his career. In fact, Newcombe was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award, as he won the award in its inaugural year, 1956. Newcombe, the first African-American pitcher to win 20 games in the MLB, was also a bridge player between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
From THR: Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, has died at the age of 77, Friday, February 15, 2019. Ganz was nominated for playing Adolf Hitler in the film, "Downfall" (2004). He also appeared in the film "Wings of Desire" and "The Reader."
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