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Aug
11
2021
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By Troy Warren
Telemundo Launching Division to Develop Shows For Peacock

Telemundo Launching Division to Develop Shows For Peacock

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BY ALEX WEPRIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Digital #Entertainment #Business The new division, NBCUniversal Telemundo Hispanic Streaming, already has more than 50 projects planned for the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service. Telemundo Enterprises, the NBCUniversal-owned Spanish language media company, is looking to “supercharge” its investment in streaming, launching a new division that will develop programming for Peacock and the company’s other streaming platforms. The new division is already planning to develop more than 50 projects for 2022 and beyond. The division, which the company calls “NBCUniversal Telemundo Hispanic Streaming,” will be led by Romina Rosado as executive vp and GM, with a mandate…
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Aug
11
2021
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Stevie Nicks Cancels All 2021 Performances Over Coronavirus Concerns

Stevie Nicks Cancels All 2021 Performances Over Coronavirus Concerns

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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Troy Warren for CNT #Music #Entertainment #COVID-19 "These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made. I want everyone to be safe and healthy and the rising Covid cases should be of concern to all of us," the 73-year-old singer said in the statement. Stevie Nicks has canceled five forthcoming performances at music festivals, citing coronavirus concerns, she said in a statement Tuesday. Nicks had been scheduled to headline one day each of BottleRock Napa Valley in California and the Jazz Aspen Festival in Colorado in September. In October, she was to have played two days…
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Aug
10
2021
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By Troy Warren
Quentin Tarantino Vowed to Never Give His Mom “a Penny” Due to Childhood Insult: “No House for You!”

Quentin Tarantino Vowed to Never Give His Mom “a Penny” Due to Childhood Insult: “No House for You!”

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BY JAMES HIBBERD | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Celebrity #Entertainment "You get nothing because you said that," the filmmaker said, describing how his mother mocked his writing at an early age. It’s a decades-long grudge like out of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, except against his mother. The Kill Bill director revealed on a recent podcast that he vowed to never give his mom “a penny” after she dissed his writing at an early age. Tarantino told The Moment podcast that his mother had “a hard time about my scholastic non-abilities” while he was spending time writing scripts in school. “She was bitching at me about that,” Tarantino…
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Aug
09
2021
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By Troy Warren
Los Angeles: Markie Post, ‘Night Court’ actor, dies at 70

Los Angeles: Markie Post, ‘Night Court’ actor, dies at 70

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By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press Troy Warren for LosAngelesNewsAndTalk.Com #Celebrity #Entertainment Markie Post, who played the public defender in the 1980s sitcom “Night Court” and was a regular presence across several decades of television, has died Markie Post, who played the public defender in the 1980s sitcom “Night Court” and was a regular presence on television for four decades, has died. She was 70. Post's manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, said Post died Saturday in Los Angeles after a years-long battle with cancer. Post was a longtime television regular who appeared in shows from “Cheers” to “Scrubs." But she was best known…
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Aug
09
2021
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Johnny Depp to Receive San Sebastian Film Fest Lifetime Achievement Honor

Johnny Depp to Receive San Sebastian Film Fest Lifetime Achievement Honor

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BY SCOTT ROXBOROUGH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment #Celebrity The Spanish festival is courting controversy by giving the disgraced former superstar its Donostia Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the world of cinema. In a move certain to spark controversy, and a potential backlash, Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival will honor actor Johnny Depp with its Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor that recognizes “outstanding contributions to the film world.” Depp, inarguably one of the world’s most successful and well-known actors, is these days often seen as publicly toxic after his failed libel suit against British tabloid The Sun, which ended…
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Aug
08
2021
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The Low-Key Hustle of ‘Free Guy’ Filmmaker Shawn Levy: “I’m Willing to Outwork Anybody”

The Low-Key Hustle of ‘Free Guy’ Filmmaker Shawn Levy: “I’m Willing to Outwork Anybody”

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BY TATIANA SIEGEL | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment With Disney's Ryan Reynolds starrer finally hitting theaters after multiple COVID-related delays, the prolific director-producer — he now has 15 projects lined up at Netflix — has quietly become one of Hollywood’s most dependable hitmakers. Shawn Levy is sipping iced coffee with a hint of milk on a scorching hot summer day in Boston. The industrious director-producer is in town with Ryan Reynolds to host a private cast-and-crew screening of their upcoming film Free Guy for the locals at the AMC Boston Common. It has been a long journey for the Disney tentpole, which shot in…
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Aug
07
2021
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Atlanta: Dennis Quaid shooting faith-based ‘On A Wing and a Prayer’ in Georgia

Atlanta: Dennis Quaid shooting faith-based ‘On A Wing and a Prayer’ in Georgia

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By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com The shoot is scheduled to start Sept. 13 Dennis Quaid is coming to Georgia next month to star in a faith-based film called “On a Wing and a Prayer.” Production for the modestly budgeted movie by Lightworkers Media is scheduled to begin Sept. 13 and runs through Oct. 19. In the film, a small-town pilot dies unexpectedly while flying a plane, forcing passenger Doug White (Quaid) to land the plane safely in order to save his entire family. The film was written by Brian Egeston, with Roma Downey (”Touched by an Angel”)…
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Aug
07
2021
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Box Office: ‘The Suicide Squad’ Struggles in Opening With $12.2M Friday

Box Office: ‘The Suicide Squad’ Struggles in Opening With $12.2M Friday

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BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment James Gunn's antihero movie is headed for a less-than-expected domestic debut of $27 million. It is also available to watch on HBO Max. Warner Bros. and DC’s The Suicide Squad opened to $12.2 million on Friday from 4,002 North American theaters amid challenges posed by the delta variant and a hybrid theatrical-home launch. That puts the tentpole on course to debut to a less-than-expected $27 million at the domestic box office. James Gunn directed the standalone sequel about DC’s team of antiheroes featuring a cast led by Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman,…
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Aug
07
2021
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Why Val Kilmer Skipped L.A. Premiere of Amazon Documentary

Why Val Kilmer Skipped L.A. Premiere of Amazon Documentary

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BY CHRIS GARDNER | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #entertainment The 'Top Gun' star's children supported their famous father at the DGA-hosted premiere where they opened up on his health and how the film rewrites the media's take on him: "He hasn't ever been seen like this." Val Kilmer is doing just fine. The 61-year-old is the subject of Amazon’s intimate documentary Val about his life, acting career, artistic passions and the throat cancer that nearly claimed his life. Despite skipping the film’s world premiere in Cannes last month and staying home while it screened in L.A. on Tuesday, his children tell The Hollywood Reporter there’s…
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Aug
06
2021
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Austin: Why I Left Hollywood for Austin

Austin: Why I Left Hollywood for Austin

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BY BECCA TOBIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for AustinNewsAndTalk.Com Becca Tobin, who stars in the new Disney+ series 'Turner & Hooch,' explains why she traded Laurel Canyon for the Texas burbs: "People now realize that life is short." In the middle of the pandemic, I was living in Los Angeles when my husband and I formed a pod with two of our other really close friends — Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her husband, Cutter Dykstra, and Haylie Duff and her husband, Matt Rosenberg. We had been chatting about how we’ve been able to do all our work remotely and were getting fatigued…
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