by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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STREAMING - From Variety: NBCUniversal is looking to buy Wal-Mart's streaming service, "Vudu." [I didn't know Vudu was a Wal-Mart service!!! - Leroy]
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DISNEY - From YahooEntertainment: Pixar's upcoming "Onward" introduces the first LGBTQ character in Disney animation history.
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STREAMING - From THR: The reunion special of the popular TV series, "Friends," is official at HBO Max.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: Julia Roberts Sean Penn, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton are joining "Mr Robot" creator Sam Esmail for a "Watergate" drama series.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Eli Roth will direct a film adaptation of the video game, "Borderlands," for Lionsgate.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: NBC has renewed its long-running TV series, "The Blacklist," for an eighth season. [I did not realize that it had been on this long. - Leroy]
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CRIME - From TMZ: 20-year-old up-and-coming rapper, Pop Smoke, was killed in his Hollywood Hills house during a home invasion early Wednesday morning, Feb. 19th.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: Sony Pictures Television is developing a TV series based on the venerable pulp fiction hero, "Doc Savage."
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STREAMING - From Variety: Jennifer Lawrence to star in Adam McKay's comedy film, "Don't Look Up," for Netflix.
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MARVEL-CONTEST - From Newsarama: Actor Chris Evan is raffling off a Captain America shield prop that he used in "Avengers: Endgame" for the charity, "Girl Powerful."
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Actress Dichen Lachman ("Animal Kingdom," TNT) has joined the cast of "Jurassic World 3."
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SCANDAL - From GuardianUK: In regards to the Harvey Weinstein trial, actress Rosanna Arquette says that victims of sexual abuse will never be silent again.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooLifestyle: Actress Rosario Dawson has come out.
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CRIME - From Deadline: Famed Hollywood family and sex therapist, Amie Harwick, was killed Sat., Feb. 15, 2020 at her home in the Hollywood Hills. Her ex-boyfriend has been arrested.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Director Martin McDonagh ("Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri") is planning to re-team with his "In Bruges" stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/14 to 2/16/2020 weekend box office is "Sonic the Hedgehog" with an estimated gross of 57 million dollars.
From Variety: Did the Internet backlash that lead to a redesign of "Sonic the Hedgehog" save the film from box office disaster?
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MOVIE TRAILERS - From THR: The site offers a roundup of seven recently released film trailers, including for such films as "The French Dispatch" and "The Green Knight."
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ECO-TELEVISION - From TheGuardian: The BBC is planning a documentary TV series focusing on teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg.
OBITS:
From THR: The actress and singer-songwriter, Ja'Net Dubois, has died at the age of 74, Tuesday, February 18, 2020. She is best known for playing the role of "Willona Woods" in the CBS sitcom, "Good Times" (1974-79). DuBois also co-wrote and sang the theme song, "Movin' On Up," for the CBS sitcom, "The Jeffersons" (1975-85). A noted voice actress, DuBois won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as "Ms. Avery" in the animated series, "The PJs" (1999-2001, Fox/The WB).
From YahooEntertainment: The young actress, Nikita Pearl Waligwa, has died at the age of 15, Saturday, February 15, 2020. Nikita appeared in the 2016 Disney film, "Queen of Katwe." She died as the result of a brain tumor.
From CNN: Former Major League Baseball (MLB) player, Tony Fernandez, has died at the age of 57, Saturday, February 15, 2020. Born in the Dominican Republic, Fernandez was a shortstop and played for 17 seasons, most notably with the Toronto Blue Jays where he was part of the 1993 World Series Championship team.
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