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Donald Glover touched on the prospect of new music in a lengthy interview with Michaela Coel, creator and star of the acclaimed series Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. During the Zoom-conducted discussion, published in its longform glory on Tuesday by British GQ, Glover—who grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness—was asked by Coel about his decision […]
Refreshingly, the Weeknd has made it clear in a number of After Hours era interviews that he’s been taking COVID-19 quite seriously. Abel, of course, is one of a number of artists whose 2020 agenda was—for lack of a more apt description—wholly fucked up by the seriousness of the pandemic here in the U.S. While […]
We all know Lena Waithe stays busy. The multi-hyphenate is now in the process of developing a drama series about open marriages with Amazon Studios. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the writer/producer just finished writing the pilot’s draft with the working title Open. “I’ve never been in an open marriage, but it’s fascinating to me,” Waithe told THR. […]
Joel Schumacher is dead at 80 years old. The writer-director with a versatile filmography spanning decades died Monday, a representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. Following his directorial debut in 1981 with The Incredible Shrinking Woman starring Lily Tomlin, Schumacher landed the pivotal Brat Pack entry and box office smash St. Elmo’s Fire. This was followed by […]
Writer, television personality, journalist, actor, and director Jas Waters, who also went by Jas Fly, has passed away at the age of 39. The account for This Is Us writers, the NBC show Waters wrote for, confirmed the news in a statement posted to social media. “The entire #ThisIsUs family was devastated to learn of Jas Waters passing,” the […]
Though a return to his excellent take on Watchmen remains highly unlikely, Damon Lindelof isn’t against hopping into the respective fires of Marvel and Star Wars sometime in the future. “I think that doing something in the Marvel universe, anywhere in the Marvel Universe, would be really potentially exciting for me, especially as they start to get […]
A sequel to Captain Marvel starring Brie Larson is in the works, according to an exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter. The upcoming film’s script will be written by WandaVision staff writer Megan McDonnell. The publication reports that McDonnell is in the final stages of negotiating. The WandaVision miniseries is expected to debut on Disney+ in 2020 while Captain Marvel 2 will likely […]
For reasons not entirely clear (and certainly not rational), Honey Boy isn’t in the 2020 class of Oscar nominees. The film is a heartbreakingly vulnerable piece of catharsis art, with Alma Har’el inarguably among the year’s most accomplished directors and Shia LaBeouf‘s script equally inarguably among the year’s strongest writing. But it’s not about awards. It’s about the […]
Tyler Perry is known as one of entertainment’s most prolific figures, having created numerous TV series and hit films over the last 20 years. But despite his massive success and ever-growing empire, Perry still prefers to handle all of his scripts himself, as he recently revealed in an Instagram video. “So, I don’t know if you […]
After a seriously lengthy journey to the screen, the third entry in the Bad Boys franchise hits theaters later this month. In a new interview, star Martin Lawrence reflected on the extended wait Bad Boys fans endured, chalking up the delay to a Will Smith-inspired patience for a script that certain notes. Asked by Zach […]
