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YahooMovies: Creepy trailer for "It" (based on the Stephen King novel) breaks viewing records. The movie drops September 8, 2017.
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Variety: Liam Neeson is looking to play classic literary private detective, "Philip Marlowe," created by Raymond Chandler.
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Variety: Rainn Wilson will play "Harry Mudd" in the new series, "Star Trek: Discovery." Mudd is a character from the original "Star Trek."
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Variety: Beyonce is director Jon Favreau's top choice to voice Nala in his live-action remake of "The Lion King."
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Variety: Joss Whedon is nearing a deal to write, direct, and produce a "Batgirl" movie.
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IndieWire: Jordan Peele, fresh off his smash hit, "Get Out," is being courted by Warner Bros. to direct is live-action version of the legendary manga and anime, "Akira." Warners has considered so many directors for this long, long-in-development project that Peele is not event he first African-American director to be considered.
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SlashFilm: Aaron Sorkin has said that he is going to take meetings with both Marvel Studios and Warner Bros/DC Comics films about possibly making a film based on a Marvel or DC Comics property.
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YahooMusic: Three months after his death, George Michael was laid to rest in a private funeral.
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ANIMATION - From
THR: The name of the "Wreck-it Ralph" sequel is "Breaks the Internet: Wreck-it Ralph 2." The film is due March 9, 2018.
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OBITS - From
Variety: Darlene Cates, who played the mother in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," died at the age of 69, Sunday, March 26, 2017.
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TheWrap: The sequel to "Terminator: Genisys" has been removed from Paramount Pictures' release schedule...
to no one's surprise.
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Variety: "Nasty Women," a female-driven remake of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," has a director.
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YahooNews: The George Lucas Family Foundation gives $10 million to the University of Southern California (Lucas' alma mater) to help the School of Cinematic Arts expand its student diversity.
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TELEVISION - From
TVLine: Amazon Studios has greenlit a TV series from Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins ("Moonlight") about the "Underground Railroad."
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Variety: Fox is developing a movie musical, "Atlantis," based on the life of Grammy-winning recording artist, Pharell Williams.
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Variety: First look at the new Lara Croft/Tomb Raider.
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BOX OFFICE - From
BoxOfficeMojo: Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast" wins the 3/24 to 3/26/2017 weekend box office with an estimated take of $88.3 million dollars.
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BLM - From
TheRoot: Cops still killing Black people in the age of President Pussy-Grabber.
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LGBTQ - From
ProPublica: Trump appoints anti-transgender bigot to be in charge of protecting the civil rights of all patients.
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MUSIC - From
THR: Snoop Dogg to induct the late Tupac Shukar into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the April 7th, 2017 ceremony in Brooklyn.
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THR: Film producer, Richard A. Roth, has died at the age of 76, Friday, March 17, 2017. Roth is probably best known for producing the beloved 1971 film, "Summer of '42" (one of my all-time favorite movies). [There is another producer named Richard Roth, who produced "Julia" and "Blue Velvet," among others.]
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THR: Jean Rouverol, one of the Hollywood screenwriters blacklisted in the 1950s, has died at the age of 100, Friday, March 24, 2017. She was also a novelist, television writer and actress. For years, she lived with Cliff Carpenter, another performer who had been blacklisted.
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POLITICS - From
TheHill: Michael Moore says that now is not the time to gloat over Trump and the GOP's failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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CELEBRITY - From
YahooCelebrity: The late Carrie Fisher and her mother, the late Debbie Reynolds, were honored at a public memorial.
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RollingStone: The Fisher/Reynolds public memorial is available for viewing
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LABOR - From
Variety: Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Pictures & Television Producers are going badly.
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YahooCelebrity: Amber Heard has said that she was told that coming out as "bisexual" would hurt her film and TV career.
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Variety: Among comic book fans, he earned the description "legendary." Painter, illustrator, and comic book artist, Bernie "Berni" Wrightson, died at the age of 68, Sunday, March 19, 2017. He was one of the co-creators of the character, "Swamp Thing."
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CELEBRITY -
YahooNews: Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter, Emma Thompson, says that she once turned down an offer from Donald Trump to stay in Trump Towers.
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YahooMovies: Jay-Z and Weinstein Company are planning a movie and documentary about Trayvon Martin.
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OSCARS - From
YahooMovies: Ryan Gosling tells why he giggled over the Oscar snub when the film in which he starred, "La La Land," was revealed not to be the best picture Oscar winner because "Moonlight" was the true winner.
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YahooMovies: Amy Schumer has dropped out of the "Barbie" movie.
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Variety: Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon is apparently in the lead to play the character "Cable" in "Deadpool."
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ThePlaylist: Ivan Reitman still wants to do more "Ghostbusters" movies. The below expected box office numbers of Paul Feig's all-female "Ghostbusters" from last year means that it won't have a sequel.
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OBIT - From
TheWrap: Chuck Barris, the host of "The Gong Show," has died at the age of 87, Tuesday, March 21, 2017.
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BLM - From
TheRoot: Everything we think we know about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO may be wrong; even his killer admits that.
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BREAKING NEWS - From
YahooNews: Man shot outside of the United Kingdom's Parliament building complex.
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YahooTV: Roy Thomas, who co-created the Marvel Comics character, Iron Fist," does not want to hear about whitewashing. Marvel/Netflix has just released an "Iron Fist" TV series.
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Variety: Emma Stone's Billie Jean King's biopic, "Battle of the Sexes," is due late September 2017 for the awards season. Steve Carell will play King's "nemesis," Bobby Riggs.
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BOX OFFICE - From
BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 3/17 to 3/19/2017 weekend box office is Disney's live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" with a gross of over $174 million, a record for a March opening weekend.
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OBIT - From
NYTimes: Rock 'n' Roll icon, founder, godfather, and one of the music's most influential artists, Chuck Berry, died Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the age of 90.
From
RollingStone: Why Chuck Berry Is Even Greater Than You Think.
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NYDailyNews: Legendary New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin died Sunday, March 19, 2017 at the age of 88.
TRAILERS:
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FoxMovies: A trailer for Fox/Blue Sky's animated "Ferdinand."
