by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: The winner of the 2/26 to 2/28/2021 weekend box office is the animated "Tom & Jerry" with an estimated take of 13.7 million dollars, the second highest pandemic opening weekend.
GOLDEN GLOBES - From Deadline: "Deadline" is live-blogging the Golden Globes, which will allow readers to keep up with the announcement of winners.
From Deadline: Ellen Pompeo penned an open letter the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and “White Hollywood” a day before the 2021 Golden Globes.
From Deadline: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which puts on the Golden Globes, does not have a single voting member who is black. The Directors Guild of America has joined the chorus of voices castigating the HFPA for this.
SCANDAL - From Deadline: "Justice League" actor Ray Fisher and Warner Bros. still having a public feud.
COVID-19 - From YahooEntertainment: Oscar-nominated actress, Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine), has revealed that her father, Michael, recently died of complications of COVID-19.
MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment: Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Lee Daniels, talks about creating his own lane in Hollywood and why he still independently finances his films.
COMICS TO FILM - From Deadline: Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and producer J.J. Abrams prep "Superman" reboot for Warner Bros. There is no word on whether Henry Cavill, who has been playing Superman since "The Man of Steel" will be back.
SPORTS - From YahooSports: The WNBA finally rids itself of its worst owner, former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler, with a new ownership group. One of the owners is a player, Renee Montgomery, whom Loeffler once disparaged.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Winston Duke ("Black Panther") is in talks to play African-American historical figure, Marcus Garvey," in Amazon's "Marked Man."
MOVIES - From IndieWire: No longer involved in the Marvel's "Blade" franchise, Wesley Snipes is developing his own "Blade-killer" movie. It is a supernatural action movie with elements of shapeshifters and time travel.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Steve Soderbergh will direct Zoe Kravitz in New Line's "KIMI" for HBO Max.
STREAMING - From THR: ViacomCBS makes its pitch for the streaming service, "Paramount+" which is a rebranding of CBS All Access. There will be sports, reboots, sequels, and spinoffs.
COMICS TO FILM - From VanityFair: The true history of "Justice League: The Snyder Cut."
SCANDAL - From THR: Revered and controversial French actor, Gerard Depardieu, was charged by French authorities with rape this past December. The news just broke recently, and the charge relates to an accusation of the rape of a young actress back in December 2018.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: BET has renewed "Tyler Perry's The Oval" for a third season after its Season 2 premiere.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix has won the auction for a story pitch for a film called, "The Bluff," which would be a vehicle for Zoe Saldana.
COVID-19 - From WebMD: 500,000 Americans now dead from COVID-19
BOX OFFICE - From Variety: The winner of the 2/19 to 2/21/21 weekend box office is "The Croods: A New Age" with an estimated take of 1.7 million dollars.
SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Actress Gina Carano says that she is not going down without a fight after "devastating" firing from Disney-Lucasfilm, where she was an actress on the Disney+ series, "The Mandalorian."
BLM - From TheRoot: African-American St. Louis Officer Luther Hall has secured a $5 million settlement agreement in his lawsuit against the city, related to his alleged assault by white members of the St. Louis Police Department while he was working undercover as a demonstrator during protests against police violence.
SCANDAL - From Deadline: Fired-from-Lucasfilm actress, Gina Carano, says that she has some shocking stuff to say about Lucasfilm.
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