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Stranger Things are working on a new Netflix series with Gemma Chan.Production company 21 Laps has optioned Pim Wangtechawat’s forthcoming debut novel The Moon Represents My Heart to make a limited series.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eternals star Gemma Chan is set to both executive produce and act in the project, telling the story of a British-Chinese family who can secretly time travel.Chan will next be starring in Olivia Wilde’s new film Don’t Worry Darling, and has an executive producer credit on an upcoming biopic about Anna May Wong.Stranger Things returned to Netflix today (July 1) for the second part of season four.The complete official soundtrack was also released on Spotify, with additions from the second part including Metallica‘s ‘Master Of Puppets’, Siouxsie And The Banshees‘ ‘Spellbound’, James Taylor‘s ‘Fire And Rain’ and Rick Derringer’s ‘Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (Single Version)’.Other artists on the soundtrack include The Beach Boys, Talking Heads, KISS, The Cramps and Dead Or Alive.A CD edition is set to arrive on September 9 ahead of a special 2LP 12″ vinyl pressing of the album being released on November 4. Both versions are available to pre-order from here.Kate Bush recently broke three Guinness World Records with ‘Running Up That Hill’ after the 1985 classic featured prominently in Stranger Things 4.The song – which appears on Bush’s fifth studio album, ‘Hounds Of Love’ – reached Number One on the UK singles chart earlier this month (June 17) almost 37 years on from its initial release.

The United States of America is honoring Celia Cruz’s legacy by releasing currency with her face in 2024. The Queen of Salsa music will appear in the nation’s quarter after the United States Mint began recognizing women’s contributions in different areas.The Mint, the U.S.’s sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage, recently gave a glimpse and shared more details about the much-anticipated coin.

Ming-Na Wen, who reunited with her Joy Luck Club castmates on Tuesday at her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.The 59-year-old  and Marvel actress was honored with a star in Los Angeles for her contribution to television, where she was the first Asian American actor to have a recurring role in a daytime soap,. Wen would appear in seven seasons of over the course of a decade as Dr.

reports the Associated Press. According to the brand, the doll is part of its “Inspiring Women” series which features the likes of Amelia Earhart and artist Frida Kahlo and costs $35.49. “As the first Asian American actor to lead a US television show, whose perseverance broke down barriers for her gender and AAPI community in film and TV, Anna May Wong is the perfect fit for our Barbie Inspiring Women Series,” said Lisa McKnight, executive vice president and global head of Barbie & Dolls.Wong’s niece, Anna Wong, also collaborated closely with the brand to help develop the doll’s look.

Anna May Wong is getting her own quarter!

LA Times).The long-awaited recognition was preceded by introductions from a number of Hollywood actors, including Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim, who raised the impressive sum to pay for Hong’s star via a GoFundMe page in four days in 2020, and Everything Everywhere All At Once co-star Jamie Lee Curtis.On the crowdfunding page, the Hawaii Five-0 actor wrote that Hong “epitomizes the term ‘working actor,’ and that’s not even taking into account all he’s done to help further representation for actors of color.”Kim pointed out that AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) performers make up less than 1% of the names on the Walk Of Fame, with Hong’s name joining Anna May Wong, Mako, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu.“Though that number is entirely too low,” Kim said, “it does underscore the fact that we need to celebrate every single one of us who has been fortunate enough to be recognised, and that includes the other three AAPI [performers] who are being inducted this year.

Gemma Chan is making things happen for an Anna May Wong biopic.

Anna May Wong, the lone Chinese-American movie star in the 1920s, who was denied leading roles. Nearby, the gallery features original casting notes on Al Pacino and youthful polaroids of Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix from early auditions.

Janet W. Lee An upcoming documentary following the early career of an aspiring Asian American actor unveiled a new trailer that features a conversation with Sandra Oh among other trailblazing actors of East Asian descent.“Searching for Anna May Wong,” produced by Quentin Lee, traces the journey of actor Natasha Tina Liu, who raises the question, “If trailblazing actor Anna May Wong were still alive today, would she still face the same racism and challenges she experienced during her time in Hollywood?”The half-hour film also features interviews with James Hong, Tzi Ma, Amy Hill, the late Elizabeth Sung, Jake Choi, Ludi Lin and Anna May Wong’s grandniece, Anna Wong.

Ryan Murphy’s limited series follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers — Jack Castello (David Corenswet), Raymond Ainsley (Darren Criss), Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope), Camille Washington (Laura Harrier) and Claire Wood (Samara Weaving) — trying to make it during post-World War II era of Tinseltown.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Ryan Murphy exposes the racism, hypocrisy and sexual discrimination that shaped the careers of major stars such as Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) and derailed the careers of others such as Anna May Wong (Michelle Krusiec) and Hattie McDaniel (Queen Latifah) in his new Netflix series “Hollywood.” Steeped in heavily researched history, the series introduces a fictitious storyline with invented characters to offer a picture of what might have been, had a more humane sensibility been allowed to flourish in 1947 — the year in which the story is set. Filmed in real-life locations such as the 101-year-old restaurant Musso & Frank Grill, “Hollywood” shows us the best and the worst of the movie industry.

«I want to take the story of Hollywood and give it a rewrite.»

«I want to take the story of Hollywood and give it a rewrite.»