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(Yahoo) – Kevin Hart is set to star in “72 Hours,” an upcoming comedy directed by “Barbershop” and “Ride Along” filmmaker Tim Story for Netflix. Hart will play a 40-year-old executive who hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twentysomethings on a wild, three-day bachelor party, after he’s inadvertently added to […]
(Deadline) -Four-time Grammy award winner Lizzo will be taking up the guitar to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer who was one of the first to appeal to rock n’ roll and R&B audiences, in Amazon MGM Studios‘ Rosetta. The project is currently in development with Lizzo, Kevin Beisler, Significant Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker producing. Natalie Chaidez […]
(CNBC) – Embattled genetic testing company 23andMe, once valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Missouri federal court on Sunday night. The company’s CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned from her role as chief executive effective immediately, though she will remain a member of the board. Joseph Selsavage, 23andMe’s chief financial and accounting […]
(BBC) – Disney’s live-action version of the classic fairy tale Snow White has topped the North American box office chart despite a slew of underwhelming reviews. The movie has taken an estimated $87.3m (£67.5m) globally during its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. Almost half of that figure came from North America. But it is […]
(CNN) – K-pop band NewJeans played a sold-out show and debuted a new song in Hong Kong on Sunday — just days after a South Korean court upheld an injunction prohibiting the group from carrying out independent musical or commercial activities. But the band’s members then shocked an 11,000-strong crowd at the ComplexCon Hong Kong festival by […]
(BBC) – Mariah Carey has been cleared of copyright infringement in a case over her 1994 Christmas staple, All I Want for Christmas is You. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, a US judge rejected the allegations of songwriter Adam Stone, who released a song with the same name in 1989. He accused Carey of […]
(EW) – “Madame President, we have a situation.” The first trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ new action-thriller G20 kicks off with this promising opening line and features Viola Davis kicking a ton of butt — and saving the world in the process. The Oscar-winner stars as Danielle Sutton, the sitting president of the United States with a military past. […]
(People) – Scarlett Johansson is urging U.S. legislators to place limits on artificial intelligence as an unauthorized, A.I.-generated video of her and other Jewish celebrities opposing Kanye West goes viral. The video, which has been circulating on social media, opens with an A.I. version of Johansson, 40, wearing a white T-shirt featuring a hand and its middle finger […]
(BBC) – Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $100m (£80.5m) lawsuit against the makers of a recent documentary about him, as he continues to face allegations of sexual assault. The rapper is currently in a New York jail awaiting a federal criminal trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which he denies. On Wednesday, […]
(NY Post) – Serena Williams’ Super Bowl moment had been 13 years in the making. After winning the gold medal during the 2012 Olympics, Williams, who was raised in Compton, Calif., celebrated with the crip walk, a dance move popularized by California gangsters. So when Compton’s own, Kendrick Lamar, landed the Super Bowl 2025 halftime […]
