by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
DC COMICS - From Variety: See previews, performances, and personalities from upcoming films and TV, live-action and animated, based on DC Comics characters at DC FanDome 2021.
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SPORTS/BLM - From TheAtlantic: Is the NFL's Jon Gruden scandal a sign that the league has a problem with bigotry among its coaches, team executives, and owners? Jemele Hill of "The Atlantic" discusses.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones is replacing Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford in Amazon's "The Burial," which will also star Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Jensen Ackles ("Supernatural," "The Boys") joins the ensemble cast of the Western, "Rust," which already includes Alec Baldwin as an actor and producer.
BUSINESS - From Deadline: Unless an agreement is reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the coming days, the 60,000 film and TV workers of the IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) will go on strike on Monday, Oct. 18, at 12:01 a.m. PDT.
TRAILERS-MOVIES - From ETCanada: Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group have released a trailer for its relaunch of the "Scream" franchise with a fifth film. The film is due Jan. 14, 2022.
TELEVISION - From EW: AMC has greenlit a new spinoff of "The Walking Dead." The anthology series, "Tales of the Walking Dead" will debut on AMC and streaming AMC+ next summer.
CELEBRITY - From TimesUK: Rumors say that Prince William sees his uncle, Prince Andrew, as a threat to the British royal family because of Andrew's connection to the late pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and because of his ongoing legal battles with Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre says that Prince Andrew raped her when she was a teenager.
AWARDS - From THR: FX’s "Pose" and "Mayans M.C." and Hulu’s "Love, Victor" were among the winners at Sunday night's 2021 Imagen Awards. The awards recognize positive portrayals of Latinos in media.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 10/8 to 10/10/21 weekend box office is the James Bond film, "No Time to Die," with an estimated take of 56 million dollars.
From Deadline: "No Time to Die" leads the international box office with an estimated gross of 89.54 million dollars. Its total foreign gross to date is 313.3 million.
MOVIES - From BuzzFeed: Timothy Chalamet shares a first-look at himself as "Willy Wonka" from the film, "Wonka," which is due in 2023.
OSCARS - From Variety: Husband and wife entertainment mega-couple, Jay-Z and Beyonce, could make Oscar history if both received "Best Original Song" nominations.
MOVIES - From USAToday: "Best horror movies: 10 thrilling, chilling films to watch for Halloween 2021."
POLITICS/TELEVISION - From Reuters: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News (OAN).
From RollingStone: "Fox News and OAN Were Deeper in the Bag for Trump Than Anyone Realized."
OBIT:
From Deadline: Disney animator, Ruthie Thompson, has died at the age of 111, Sunday, October 10, 2021. She worked an a camera technician, animation checker, or scene planner on many Walt Disney animated films over a four decade period, including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Mary Poppin," and "The Rescuers." She was named a "Disney Legend" in 2000.
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