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Third-generation actor Chris Pine sweetly attended the premiere of his father Robert Pine's new show Five Days at Memorial at the DGA Theater Complex in West Hollywood on Monday.The 81-year-old CHiPs alum plays Dr. Horace Baltz in Carlton Cuse and John Ridley's eight-episode Hurricane Katrina drama, which premieres this Friday on Apple TV+.Robert (born Granville) looked sharp in a blue blazer over a light-blue top and slacks with a bright red bow tie and pocket square with denim-colored canvas shoes.

“There is nothing else to do for them except to them make them comfortable.” So says Vera Farmiga’s Dr. Anna Pou in the first trailer for Apple TV’s Hurricane Katrina drama Five Days At Memorial.

Apple TV+ has set global premiere dates for Five Days at Memorial, its limited series from John Ridley and Carlton Cuse, and darkly comic thriller series Bad Sisters, starring Sharon Horgan.

EXCLUSIVE: Comic book and graphic novel publisher IDW has unveiled nine new original comic book projects set for release beginning in July as part of a new initiative. While the focus is on creating new comic book IP, following publishing of the comics, the IDW Entertainment Group will work to potentially develop the IP for film, television and other entertainment mediums the way the company has done in the past with such titles as Wynonna Earp and Locke & Key.

In the first public sighting since the tragic death of her son Ian Alexander Jr., Regina King was hard at work filming John Ridley's biopic Shirley in her Cincinnati hometown on Monday.The 50-year-old Oscar winner channeled her grief to portray the first African-American congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm - who passed away, age 80, in 2005.Regina - who's also a producer - was wearing a 1972-era white floral blazer dress with black PVC high-heeled boots selected by costume designer Megan Coates. Back to work: In the first public sighting since the tragic death of her son Ian Alexander Jr., Regina King was hard at work filming John Ridley's biopic Shirley in her Cincinnati hometown on Monday Groundbreaker: The 50-year-old Oscar winner channeled her grief to portray the first African-American congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm - who passed away, age 80, in 2005King wore Shirley's signature glasses, dental prosthetics designed by Gary Archer, and a short wavy wig was coiffed by hair department head Nakoya Yancey.Oscar nominee Terrence Howard (Triumph) was also on set dressed in a blue three-piece suit to better inhabit the New York native's husband, private investigator Conrad Chisholm.

EXCLUSIVE: Carlton Cuse is returning to Amazon Studios. The prolific, Emmy-winning writer-producer, who co-created and was showrunner for the first two seasons of the Prime Video Original Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Under the multi-year pact, he will develop and produce projects to premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

EXCLUSIVE: Audio Up, the podcast studio behind series from the likes of Anthony Anderson and James Ellroy, is ramping up its moves into TV and film.

EXCLUSIVE: Dorian Missick (Shirley), Pamela Reed (Outside In), Amanda Warren (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Jim Klock (The Underground Railroad) will round out the cast of Prime Video’s The Burial, which is currently in production.

EXCLUSIVE: Micaela Wittman, the actress who recently made her feature directorial with the satirical mockumentary Clairevoyant, has signed with Untitled Entertainment for management. She will be represented there by Katie Rhodes and Dannielle Thomas.

a tweet by comedian Jenny Yang. “Just watch this movie trailer without knowing the title and let the feeling move you,” she wrote.

There have been a lot of movies over the years hinging on time travel, but upcoming film “Needle in a Timestack” puts a new spin on the genre.

Vera Farmiga is heading back to television in a new limited series for Apple.

DC Comics is showing fans a first look at a new Batman project that puts a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader a person of colour for the first time ever.

The next Batman will be a black man and he will be named Timothy Fox, it has been confirmed.

John Ridley says there's a good likelihood that the Batman he's writing for an upcoming four-part comic book series will be a person of color.The 54-year-old, who's working on a miniseries comic of the Caped Crusader, estimated on a DC panel that there's 'a little better than a 47 percent chance' in regards to his Batman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The Academy Award-wining writer appeared as part of the Legacy of the Bat symposium put on by DC FanDome.

A new Batman project promises to put a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader to be a person of colour for the first time ever.

wrote in an op-ed for CNN, confirming the movie’s return to the streaming service.“For me, this is an opportunity to think about what classic films can teach us,” insisted Stewart, a 50-year-old host on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).She did not announce a date for its return, and HBO Max did not immediately return calls for comment.The movie — starring Vivienne Leigh, Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel — was pulled by HBO last week following an op-ed by “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley who said it romanticized “the horrors of slavery.”In her own op-ed, Stewart called it one of a number of old movies that “have played a major role in perpetuating the racist beliefs that devalue Black lives and normalize the use of excessive force

Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley has called out Quentin Tarantino for his constant use of the n-word in his films.John – who won endless awards for 12 Years A Slave – criticised the Django Unchained director for his ‘painful and infuriating’ use of the slur.He told the PA news agency that Quentin ‘in some ways luxuriates in the word,’ adding ‘it’s not used in a particular context, it’s just used to be used.’‘It’s painful and it’s infuriating.

Almost every studio in Hollywood has a skeleton in its closet in regards to a film in its catalog that doesn’t stand up to the test of time. Disney has “The Song of the South,” as well as a lot of older cartoons with racist depictions of characters.

an article in the LA Times by John Ridley, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of 12 Years a Slave, in which he described it as “a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color”.Ridley added: “At a moment when we are all considering what more we can do to fight bigotry and intolerance, I would ask that all content providers look at their libraries and make a good-faith effort to separate programming that might be lacking in its representation from that which is blatant in its demonisation.”HBO responded with a statement, which said: “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLess than two weeks after launch, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming offering. It’s a significant move given the film’s popularity and status as the highest-grossing movie of all time when box office numbers are adjusted for inflation.On Monday, Academy Award winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) called for the film’s removal from HBO Max, saying “It doesn’t just ‘fall short’ with regard to representation.