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Click here to read the full article. Street protests over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade took a violent turn on Friday into Saturday. Two arrests were made in serious incidents involving police and protesters in downtown Los Angeles, which saw confrontations and a freeway takeover at one point. On Friday, at around 8:20 p.m., LAPD officers at 5th Street and Main were reportedly assaulted by projectiles, fireworks and a makeshift blow torch, resulting in two arrests and four officers injured. LAPD officers made one arrest for “Resisting an Executive Officer” and the other for “Attempted Murder” on a police...

Click here to read the full article. Longtime CNN weekend anchor Christi Paul today announced on air that she’s leaving the news network. After almost 20 years with CNN and HLN, New Day Weekend anchor Paul tearfully bid farewell, revealing that she was doing her last show and was part of the so-called “Great Resignation,” a movement wherein people abandon steady employment for other opportunities. She said she was moving back to her home in Ohio. A tearful Paul said, said she made the decision in January, claiming her early schedule kept her away from her family. “At some point, my husband...

Click here to read the full article. If you happen to care about the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (at least in its first fifty years), you’ll have no shortage of reasons to read Bruce Davis’ forthcoming book, The Academy and the Award. The boardroom fights—Davis, the Academy’s former executive director, got access to the secret files. The real story of the Bette Davis presidency (weirdly, less stormy than the famous drama queen made it out to be). And those footnotes! In a note to Chapter 15, Davis describes running to the ground an old canard...

Click here to read the full article. With the end nearing for some of Broadway’s limited engagements and the annual post-Tony Awards ax-fallings, the roster of summertime departures is heating up along with the temperatures. From the planned end-dates of American Buffalo and Plaza Suite to unexpected closing announcements for Company and Dear Evan Hansen, options for Broadway ticketbuyers will thin out before the fall brings its new bounty. Deadline has compiled this list of Broadway productions that will be exiting their theaters this summer and early fall. The first batch arrives July 10, with the end of limited engagements for...

Click here to read the full article. Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has raced past the $1B mark worldwide, becoming only the second movie of the pandemic era to reach such rarefied air — and Tom Cruise’s first time to the milestone in a career that has spanned 40 years. It took just 31 days for the aviators to get to $1B with the total through Sunday at an estimated $1.006B worldwide, including domestic’s estimated $521.7M and $484.7M from the international box office. Cruise’s flying ace had already raced across $900M last Monday, and a few days prior had...

Click here to read the full article. SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick are in a dead heat for No. 1 with both Warner Bros and Paramount respectively calling each film at $30.5M for the weekend. If you boil this face-off down to admissions, box office analytics firm EntTelligence is calling the weekend in favor of Top Gun Maverick with 2.5M admissions to Elvis’ 2.4M admissions. Industry average weekend estimates show Elvis ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, $30.1M to $29.965M. Top Gun: Maverick had a slightly lower average ticket price over Elvis, $12.47 to $12.52. Paramount is calling the 5th weekend for Top Gun: Maverick at -32% dip from weekend 4, after a Saturday...

Click here to read the full article. The BBC has been pulled into the controversy following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, after one of its news presenters used a controversial term on air. Today presenter Amol Rajan used the term “pro-life” twice on air to describe anti-abortion campaigners. During the flagship BBC radio news programme, Rajan eschewed the BBC News style guide which advises journalists to use the term “anti-abortion rather than pro-life” in a discussion about the ruling’s repercussions, and used the latter description in a discussion with the BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith: “As you...

Click here to read the full article. Dame Julie Andrews and her beautifully enunciated, crisp tones are an essential part of the success of Netflix’s smash hit period drama, Bridgerton.   The Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music star’s distinctive voice is heard throughout seasons 1 and 2 as the unseen narrator Lady Whistledown, whose sharp comments in her society leaflets help propel the narrative.   However, despite her crucial role at the centre of the drama, Andrews has revealed that, in real life, she has never actually met any of her castmates. Andrews told the Today show: “[Showrunner] Shonda Rhimes...

Click here to read the full article. Sir Paul McCartney played a clip of Johnny Depp in an old music video as part of his headliner set at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. Depp featured in the original video for McCartney’s song ‘My Valentine’ and was seen alongside actress Natalie Portman in the clip projected onto huge screens around the stage, while McCartney performed on piano. The musician has been using the same footage on his recent US tour, which coincided with Depp’s high-profile court case with his ex-wife Amber Heard. The actor’s appearance on screen at Glastonbury divided opinion on social media among...

Click here to read the full article. On-set still photographer Lorey Sebastian, who worked on such movies as Crash, Twilight, Wild Hogs, Blow, St. Elmo’s Fire, I Am Sam, In the Valley of Elah and A Million Ways to Die in the West died May 9 in New Mexico after a brief illness. She was 78. Sebastian was born in 1944 in New York City where she lived until she moved to Los Angeles. She started her career in 1977 when she was the still photographer on the set of Joan Micklin Silver’s film Between The Lines. With over 100 credits...

Click here to read the full article. Alexander Nevsky will star in the new western Taken from Rio Bravo, which recently completed principal photography in Arizona under the direction of Joe Cornet (Promise). Also starring Matthias Hues, Irina Antonenko (Gasoline Alley) , Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, John Fallon (The Shelter) and Cornet himself, Taken from Rio Bravo is one of two upcoming films  – the other, Gunfight at Rio Bravo was shot last year and will be released first – in which Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger named Ivan Turchin. The film follows two friends in 1874, East Texas who pursue a posse of...

Click here to read the full article. Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan’s Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48. Her family revealed the news in a Facebook post early Saturday. For any reporter, publicist or filmmaker who worked with Vicky, they’ll remember her for her jubilant, graceful, patient and can-do spirit. As a journalist, whether you were working with Vicky on a breaking news story, or trying to land an interview with major talent...

Click here to read the full article. A Stranger Things spin-off might be on its way. Creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer:  “There’s a version of it developing in parallel [to season 5], but they would never shoot it parallel,” Ross reportedly said. “I think actually we’re going to start delving into that soon as we’re winding down and finishing these visual effects, Matt and I are going to start getting into it.” Matt added,  “The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, ‘Is...

Click here to read the full article. The Bentonville Film Festival announces the jury prize winners for their 8th annual Festival. The week-long Festival, led by Academy Award-winning actor and Festival Chair Geena Davis,is known for its dedication to championing female, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and people with disabilities’ voices in entertainment.  Every Day in Kaimuki was awarded Best Narrative Feature with director Alika Tengan and cast in attendance. Special honors presented Fin Argus with the Rising Star Award for their truly outstanding talent that has captured the attention of both the public and entertainment and media industry, and Effie Brown with...

Click here to read the full article. Driver’s License singer Olivia Rodrigo and UK musician Lily Allen gave the middle finger to the U.S. Supreme Court justices by dedicating Allen’s 2009 song “F— You” to the Glastonbury festival. The tribute is due to the controversial overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case which protected a woman’s choice to have an abortion. A clip of the concert was posted to social media in which Rodrigo is on stage with Allen. She had some choice words about the Roe v. Wade decision, and didn’t hold back in front of the festival crowd.  🎥...

Click here to read the full article. The man who once ruled New York City nightlife has told a media outlet that he plans to end the party in July. Mark Fleischman, who owned Manhattan’s Studio 54, once the world’s most exclusive club, is now 82 and confined to a wheelchair. He told the New York Post that he plans to use the Swiss nonprofit assisted suicide group Dignitas to end his life on July 13. The group helps assisted suicides with a lethal dose of barbiturates after a lengthy screening process. “I can’t walk, my speech is f–ked up and I...

Click here to read the full article. The Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning continued the National Hockey League’s ratings triumph Friday night, pulling in a big 0.8 and total average audience of 3.44 million for ABC’s telecast. The game no doubt lured a number of fans looking for a series-closing win by the Avalanche. But Tampa Bay said “Not tonight,” winning 3-2 and setting up a big Game 6 tomorrow at 5 PM PT. No matter who wins the series, ABC is already happy with the ratings, which are up big-time over prior NBC Stanley Cup coverage, albeit with the handicap...

Click here to read the full article. UPDATE: A day after Lizzo pledged to donate tour proceeds to Planned Parenthood (a sum matched by producer Live Nation), Rage Against the Machine has made similar plans. The group said Friday night at a tour date and later on Instagram that it will donate nearly a half-million dollars to reproductive rights organizations in Wisconsin and Illinois. “We are disgusted by the repeal of Roe V. Wade and the devastating impact it will have on tens of millions of people,” the group wrote. “Over half of the country (26 states) is likely to ban or...

Click here to read the full article. Big Hit Music today announced the first solo project from a member of BTS, an album from the group’s J-Hope titled Jack in the Box. An announcement on Weverse marked the solo project. It will arrive on July 15, with the first single released two weeks earlier on July 1. The album “represents [J-Hope’s] aspirations to break the mold and grow further.” The single title has not been revealed, but it represents the “diverse content to show J-Hope’s creative identity as an artist will be introduced.” J-Hope also shared the news on his Instagram account (see below), and...