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Deadline: The final total on the opening weekend for "Avengers: Endgame" is 357.1 million dollars in domestic box office. Of course, the film was the #1 at the 4/26 to 4/28/2019 weekend box office.
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TheWrap: CBS is renewing classic game show, "The Price is Right" for the 2019-20 season. It is also renewing the entirety of its daytime lineup for next season. 2019-20 will also be "The Price is Right's" 48th season, and the show will hit 9000 episodes in October 2019.
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Variety: The film writer-director-producer
John Singleton has died at the age of 51, Monday, April 29, 2019. In 1992, Singleton became the first African-American nominated for a best director Oscar for his 1991 film, "Boyz n the Hood," one of two nominations he received for the film. He also directed films such as "Poetic Justice," "Shaft" (2000), and the second film in the "Fast & Furious" franchise, "2 Fast 2 Furious." He had been hospitalized when he suffered a stroke on April 17th, from which he never recovered.
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Variety: Word is that director John Singleton ("Boyz n the Hood"), who suffered a stroke just short of two weeks ago, will be taken off life support, today, Monday, April 29, 2019.
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BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 4/26 to 4/28/19 weekend box office is "Avengers: Endgame" with an estimated take of 350 million dollars. The film's global box office take is an estimated 1.2 billion dollars.
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Variety: Guillermo del Toro says a director should always try to exceed the film's production budget.
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YahooEntertainment: Friday, April 26th, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary release of Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning film, "Alien," which birth a film franchise. James Cameron, the director of the beloved and Oscar-winning sequel, "Aliens," talks about where the franchise sent wrong.
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THR: Fox has settled a lawsuit that was brought by the family of Joi Harris, a stuntwoman who was killed will committing a stunt on the set of "Deadpool 2."
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THR: Disney studio chief Alan Horn is scrapping many film projects that were in development at Fox before the Disney/Fox merger was complete.
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YahooEntertainment: Oscar nominated writer-director John Singleton ("Boyz n the Hood") suffered a stroke last week (April 17th). Apparently, he is worse off than initially reported. Singleton “is currently hospitalized in a coma and is unable to provide for his personal needs” after suffering a "major stroke."
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Variety: Recent Oscar-winner, Rami Malek ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), will be the villain in the still untitled 25th James Bond film, referred to as "Bond 25."
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EOnline: Oscar-nominated actor, Demian Bichir ("A Better Life"), has announced that his wife, Canadian actress and model, Stefanie Sherk, has died at the age of 37.
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YahooNews: On June 7, 1998, three white supremacists in Texas beat a 49-year-old black man, James Byrd Jr., chained him to the back of a pick-up truck and dragged him for three miles, tearing his body apart. On Wednesday, April 24th, 2019, Texas executed 44-year-old John William King for that crime. He is the second to be executed for killing Byrd; ringleader Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed in 2011. A third man received life in prison.
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Deadline: Come May 2019, there will be no cancellations at the The CW. All of the series' scripted dramas are returning for the 2019-20 broadcast season.
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Variety: Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro's next film, "Nightmare Alley." This new film will reportedly be closer to the 1946 novel than its 1947 film adaptation.
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THR: James Wan and Gary Dauberman, the masterminds behind "The Conjuring" universe of films, are bringing Stephen King's 1975 novel, "Salem's Lot," to the big screen. The book has previously been adapted for television via a 1979 miniseries for CBS and a 2004 miniseries for TNT.
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ComicBook: Writer-director, Kevin Smith ("Clerks"), responds to a fan's accusation that he is "kissing Disney's ass."
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BoxOfficeMojo: The number win film at the 4/19 to 4/21/2019 weekend box office is "The Curse of La Llorona" with an estimate take of 26.5 million dollars.
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YahooEntertainment: A man has seen Marvel Studios' "Captain Marvel" a record 116 times.
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Variety: David Leitch, director of "Deadpool 2" and "Hobbs & Shaw," has signed a first-look deal with Universal. His wife and longtime producing partner, Kelly McCormick, is a partner in the deal.
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THR: Phylicia Rashad won a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Play," for her performance in the revival of "A Raisin in the Sun." Now, the veteran actress will make a Broadway directing debut in Spring 2020 by directing the play "Blue."
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Deadline: Jimmy Kimmel will present a live 90-minute prime time event on ABC that will pay tribute to Norman Lear’s groundbreaking comedy series, "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (both of which originally aired on CBS). An original episode from each iconic Lear comedy will be re-created. "Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In The Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’" will air Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 8-9:30 PM ET. Woody Harrelson will play Archie Bunker, with Marisa Tomei as wife Edith in the recreation of All In The Family. Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes take the roles of George and Louise Jefferson in the All in the Family spinoff, The Jeffersons. James Burrows will direct the special.
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RollingStone: Rapper-turned-actor, Will Smith, joined his son Jaden Smith, who dabbles in both, onstage at Coachella.
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Newsarama: "Avengers: Endgame" directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, are working on a documentary about Marvel Comics' legend, Stan Lee.
TRAILERS:
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YouTube: This is the first official trailer for the Will Smith film, "
Gemini Man." Directed by Ang Lee, the film debuts October 11, 2019.
OBITS:
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MeTV: The actor
Richard Erdman died at the age of 93, Saturday, March 16, 2019. Erdman appeared in over 160 film and TV roles. He had a memorable role in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" ("A Kind of Stopwatch"), and his career ran for 1944 to 2017. In recent years, he had a regular role in the NBC comedy, "Community."
I wanted to mention Erdman's passing, which I missed, because I was a fan. My favorite role of his is probably the 1951 Film-Noir movie, "Cry Danger," which starred the great Dick Powell. - Leroy Douresseaux
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THR: The actor,
Larry "Flash" Jenkins, has died at the age of 63, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Jenkins was best known for his appearances in the films, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Edtv."
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Variety: The actor,
Ken Kercheval, has died at the age of 83. Kercheval was best known for his portrayal of "Cliff Barnes" on CBS' long-running evening soap, "Dallas." Kercheval and Dallas' star, the late Larry Hagman," were the only actors to appear in all 14 seasons of Dallas (1978-1991), although Kercheval's Barnes was a recurring character.
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THR: Film producer,
Steve Golin, has died at the age of 64, Sunday, April 21, 2019. At the 88th Academy Awards, Golin won an Oscar for producing "Spotlight" (2015), one of four producers on the film who received a statuette. Golin was actually competing against himself that night, as another film he produced, "The Revenant," was also up for the best picture Oscar.
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Deadline: Noted paranormal investigator and author,
Lorraine Warren, has died at the age of 92, Thursday, April 18, 2019. Warren and her late husband, Ed Warren (who died in 2006), are known to film audiences because of they are the subjects of the films, "The Conjuring" and "The Conjuring 2," which were based on real-life events in the lives of Lorraine and Ed.
