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Todd Gilchrist It doesn’t take a team of lawyers to see how dramatically the entertainment industry has changed in just a few short years—but they are probably among the best people to help understand how to navigate it.Studios have shuttered, consolidated or acquired their competitors. Streaming services have exploded in popularity and expanded their worldwide footprint.

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Todd Longwell Legendary Entertainment CEO Joshua Grode, the keynote speaker at Variety’s Power of Law breakfast on April 20, is having a good year. For one thing, his company scored big at the Oscars with its epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel “Dune” (produced in partnership with Warner Bros.), which earned 10 nominations, including best picture, and took home six statuettes.

The Gilded Age was renewed for a second season by HBO just a few weeks ago!

A JD Sports shopper has shared a simple tip to get brand new Nike trainers reduced instantly, and it's gone viral. Shoppers have thanked her for sharing the tip, which could save people hundreds of pounds in the long run.

Ezra Miller has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge from March, just hours after they were arrested for second degree assault on Tuesday (April 19).

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Coparenting goals! Exes Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy adorably reunited to celebrate Easter with their kids on Sunday, April 17.

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Ariana Debose is making moves for her next big role. The actress and singer has signed on to a new project, which she’ll star and produce.Ariana DeBose shares the sweet moment her mom met ‘Señor Spielberg’Meet Sue Makkoo: Ariana DeBose’s girlfriend and costume designerDeadline reports that the film is called “Two and Only,” and it will be a romantic comedy based on Julia Roberts’ incredibly famous movie, “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” The project will have a bisexual and Latinx lead, shifting the story’s focus and providing ample opportunity for breaking boundaries.

according to The Hollywood Reporter.Amazon Studios and Skydance Sports are reportedly in the midst of finalizing the deal for the flick alongside the two Oscar winners.The “Ford v Ferrari” star will play Vaccaro and Affleck will portray Nike co-founder Phil Knight.The story will revolve around the sports sneaker company and Vaccaro attempting to sign basketball player Michael Jordan in the mid-eighties for an endorsement deal. The partnership seemed impossible at the time, however, the deal became one of the most significant in sports history.

Naman Ramachandran Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to participate in this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Given the profile of the championships in the United Kingdom and around the world, it is our responsibility to play our part in the widespread efforts of government, industry, sporting and creative institutions to limit Russia’s global influence through the strongest means possible,” the All England Lawn Tennis Club and the committee of management of the championships, said in a statement on Wednesday.“In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Smile — a trio comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner — will release their debut album, “A Light for Attracting Attention,” on May 13on XL Recordings.The 13-track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.The group has previously released four singles: “You Will Never Work in Television Again,” “The Smoke,” “Skrting on the Surface” and “Pana-vision,” the latter of which appeared in the finale of “Peaky Blinders” — and premiere a fifth, “Free in the Knowledge,” with today’s announcement, accompanied by a video directed by Leo Leigh.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJohnny Depp resumed his testimony on Wednesday in his defamation trial in Virginia, telling jurors in detail about the breakdown of his relationship with ex-wife Amber Heard.Depp said that the couple would often argue, and went so far as to tape-record their arguments. He said that Heard would demean him, call him a terrible father and sometimes escalate to violence — shoving, slapping, or throwing a TV remote at his head. Ultimately, he said he would flee.“She has a need for conflict.

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Angelique Jackson CBS Studios has set in motion two initiatives focused on providing a diverse range of emerging creators with opportunities in filmmaking and casting.First, CBS Studios has announced a new casting fellowship targeted toward BIPOC representation. Developed to address the diversity gap in the casting industry, the 10-week program allows fellows to have a fully immersive, hands-on experience working in a casting office, along with mentorship from the studio’s casting executives.The studio has also set its second cohort for the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge, which arms 35 early-career storytellers with $5,000 budgets to make mission-inspired short films.“We always strive to create opportunities for prospective executives… In only its second year, this inclusive program is helping us grow an even more vibrant and motivated studio team,” CBS Studios President David Stapf said of the initiatives conceived by casting executives Lori Erickson and Rob Decina.

Ezra Miller, the lead star of the upcoming big DC Comics tentpole, “The Flash,” is back in the news for all the wrong reasons as the actor has been arrested for the second time in Hawaii. The actor had been originally arrested on March 28 for “disorderly conduct and harassment” in Hilo after an altercation at a bar, a video of Miller choking a woman in Iceland was making the rounds online in 2020.

“Star Wars” fans are excited to see Ewan McGregor reprise the role of everyone’s favorite Jedi master in the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” limited series helmed by director Deborah Chow. While the show also includes the return of McGregor’s prequels co-star Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, fans have long assumed that Liam Neeson would return as Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan’s own master that was struck down by Darth Maul in “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.” Sure, Qui-Gon Jinn is dead, but that’s what Force Ghost appearances are for.

and killed her off — her eponymous sitcom following controversial remarks way back in 2018.Barr’s new Reelz documentary — “Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood” — gets raw about her ousting from the revival of her ’90s sitcom “Roseanne,” which is now known as “The Conners.” The outspoken star alleged that ABC always had issues with her contentious (the network president labeled them “repugnant”) tweets and comments — and engaged in “intellectual witch-burning” to silence her.In 2018, ABC cancelled the original “Roseanne” reboot after Barr’s racist tweet comparing former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”‘I’m a comic. I’m a bad girl … I’m going to say f— it and f— you until I take my last breath.’“Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,’ I got a call for,” Barr claimed in regards to the network’s management methods.The doc also dives deep into the moment Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory about a Parkland school shooting survivor giving a Nazi salute at a rally for harder gun control.She would up deleting the tweet. “I removed it every time they called,” she said.

It appears there may be some truth to the rumors that Thandiwe Newton has split from husband Ol Parker.

The lawyers have made their opening statements, and the high-profile civil trial between Blac Chyna and the KarJenner family is off and running.