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Antoine Fuqua, the man who directed such films as “The Equalizer,” “Shooter,” “The Magnificent Seven” and “Emancipation,” has been tapped by Lionsgate to helm their upcoming Michael Jackson biopic.

The film, entitled “Michael,” will be produced by Graham King (producer of the 911 million-grossing and Oscar-winning “Bohemian Rhapsody”) and penned by John Logan. King will co-produce the film alongside John Branca and John McClain, the co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate.

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake said: “I am very excited that Lionsgate will be part of this epic film, and thrilled to be working with Graham, who has proven success in telling iconic life stories, from ‘”Bohemian Rhapsody” to “Ali;” when combined with John, we couldn’t be in more extraordinary hands.”

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Added King: “I first met the Jackson family in 1981 and I’m humbled

GLAAD is gearing up to give out some trophies.

The organization has revealed nominations for the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards, a roster that features high-profile awards season contenders like Tár, A Man Called Otto, Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Inspection; acclaimed series like The White Lotus, Abbott Elementary, Hacks, Harley Quinn, Only Murders in the Building and What We Do in the Shadows; and buzzy music stars Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Orville Peck, Steve Lacy, Dove Cameron and Anitta.

The awards, created to “honor media for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues,” will be doled out during a pair of ceremonies, first in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on March 30 and later in New York City at Hilton Midtown on May 13. The awards are presented by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Ketel One Family Made Vodka.

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Austin Butler could have been a contender for Hannah Montana’s heart.

The “Elvis” Golden Globe winner reflected on the intensity he would bring to Disney and Nickelodeon roles, most famously as a suitor for Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) in the eponymous hit TV series. Butler starred in two episodes of “Hannah Montana,” with his second appearance playing Derek Hanson, Hannah’s blind date in Season 2 Episode 7, titled “My Best Friend’s Boyfriend.”

He additionally had roles in “iCarly” and “Zoey 101,” both of which landed modern-day revival series.

“I look back on the Nickelodeon and Disney shows that I did; even though my skill wasn’t there, I still wanted to give the energy [as if] I was going to make ‘Raging Bull,'” Butler told Backstage magazine. “I kept that fierce dedication toward trying to find more truth, even in things where it could be easier to just phone it in.

After what feels like an eternity, season 3 of The Mandalorian is finally returning March 1. Although there has been no shortage of Star Wars content released since the climactic ending of Season 2, the series that launched Disney+ as a viable contender in the “streaming wars” is finally giving us the next batch of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) adventures. While the ending of The Book of Boba Fett teased that Din had once again taken Grogu as his child, the new trailer indicates that he is facing a return to his home planet of Mandalore. In order to tell this epic story, Lucasfilm has assembled a terrific team of directors to bring the next chapter of The Mandalorian to life.

Steven Spielberg hoped HBO would have tapped him to helm “Mare of Easttown.”

The Academy Award-winning director revealed that he is looking to direct a limited series and make his TV debut behind the camera with a series like acclaimed Emmy winner “Mare of Easttown.”

“I do have an appetite for long-form, and someday, I will direct a long-form series,” Spielberg said during the “Smartless” podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. “I mean, if someone would have brought me ‘Mare of Easttown,’ I would have done that. That was a beautifully directed story.”

The 2021 series starred Kate Winslet as a detective in small-town Pennsylvania who is swept up in a missing person’s case that hits too close to home. “Mare of Easttown” landed four Emmy wins, including acting awards for Winslet, Evan Peters, and Julianne Nicholson. Winslet has addressed the rumors of a second season for “Mare,

The erotic thriller: A slice of escapist entertainment that was once as lucrative as it was steamy. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the genre was firing on all box office cylinders and producing big hits left and right. However, by the mid-1990s, the erotic thriller lost a lot of its financial luster and vanished from the mainstream cinema scene.

Julian Sands, a British actor best known for his roles in films like the 1985 drama “A Room With a View” and the 1989 horror entry “Warlock,” was reported missing at about 7:30 p.m. last Friday, Jan. 13. Sands had been hiking in the Baldy Bowl hiking area, approximately 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

According to a representative for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, ground crews responded and began searching the area soon after the 65-year-old Sands was reported missing. However, parties had to be pulled Saturday evening, after roughly 24 hours of searching, due to avalanche risks and trail conditions.

Sands is known to be an enthusiastic mountaineer. “I love climbing mountains, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Alps over the years, a lot of time in the Andes, Alaska and the American ranges,” Sands told ThriveGlobal in 2020.

Authorities have continued with intermittent searches by helicopter and drone.

Kyle Edward Ball's "Skinamarink" is a singular horror movie experience that /Film heralds as an early contender for the scariest movie of 2023. The abstract story follows two young children, Kevin and Kaylee, tiptoeing around their house at night. As they search for their parents, they discover the doors and windows have mysteriously gone missing.

"Experience" is the appropriate word for watching this film that strips all narrative and visual traditions. Ball rarely focuses on the children's faces and only part of their bodies, instead angling his camera on walls, doors, and other parts of the home. Dialogue is difficult to hear and is only occasionally understood through subtitles. Jamie McRae's scratched and grainy cinematography adds a lo-fi aesthetic that reflects the 1990s setting. The darkened surroundings are indistinguishable, with only the flicker of the television or a hallway night light shining through.

Public domain cartoons from the 1930s play on VHS throughout "Skinamarink,

Aubrey Plaza is glad that Emily the Criminal was also not Emily the Gunslinger.

The “Emily the Criminal” star revealed that her favorite “really cool, kind of weird thing about the film” is that her titular character, despite committing crimes, does not use guns.

“I was kind of proud of that, because I don’t think you need guns,” Plaza said during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” earlier this week. “Most thrillers introduce guns, like, immediately…We don’t need guns in every movie.”

The “The White Lotus” Season 2 star continued, “I don’t think it’s like – it’s an unconscious thing, I think, for the audience to watch that movie and not even realize, like, ‘Oh, there’s no guns.’ But I think it actually makes it more, kind of, anxiety-inducing, because you’re like, ‘How is she going to take these guys down without a weapon like that?

2018's "Searching" was not the first desktop film to grace cinemas, but it was arguably the most innovative. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty, the film fully realized the new role of modern technology and the internet within modern mystery narratives, and it also stumbled upon unique ways to characterize and tap into the internality of its characters through their screen usage and interactions with their phones and laptops.

Nearly five years later, a spiritual successor to "Searching" arrives in the form of Nick Johnson and Will Merrick's "Missing," another thrilling continuation of the screen life subgenre with even more tricks up its sleeve. Featuring strong performances from Storm Reid and Nia Long, "Missing" will not only scratch the itch for a twisty, suspenseful mystery, but will also present it in a way that is wholly fresh, original, and evocative of the digital age.

/Film's Ben Pearson spoke with the filmmakers behind the new "Searching" successor,

During the 2023 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, the creators of the acclaimed murder mystery comedy series The Afterparty were joined on stage by cast members of the popular series to announce the premiere date for the highly anticipated second season as well as share a collection of first-look images for the upcoming season. The sophomore season of the Apple TV+ series will make its global debut with the first two episodes on Friday, April 28, 2023, followed by one new episode premiering weekly every Friday, culminating in the season finale set for June 23, 2023.

Apple TV+ is throwing a brand new party. The second season of murder mystery comedy series “The Afterparty” is set to premiere on the streamer April 28, it was announced out of the streamer’s Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. To celebrate, Apple also released four first-look photos for the season, which shows returning stars Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, and Zoë Chao, as well as new cast members of the whodunnit anthology’s second outing.

First released in January last year, “The Afterparty” is a high-concept comedy series where each season focuses on a murder case, and each episode retells the story of the night from a different character’s perspective, as a pastiche of a different film or TV genre. In Season 1, the case took place at the afterparty of a high school reunion, with Haddish playing a detective interviewing a group of suspects that included Richardson, Chao, Ike Barinholtz,

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"The Afterparty" never stops! Christopher Miller and Phil Lord's mystery-comedy debuted to acclaim last January on Apple TV+, and while it found an answer to the question of who killed the pop star Xavier (Dave Franco) in the final episode, detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) wasn't ready to call it quits just yet. Haddish and co-stars Sam Richardson and Zoë Chao are now set to return for a second season that'll feature a new ensemble, a new set of genre-skewing detours, and of course, a new murder.

While we won't know exactly what to expect from "The Afterparty" season 2 until the show's trailer drops closer to its premiere date, the cast and crew of the show appeared at the 2023 Winter

In 2013, Jason Eisener directed a short horror movie from a script he wrote with John Davies for Shudder’s V/H/S/2, the beloved horror found footage anthology. The short film, "Slumber Party Alien Abduction," tells the story of a group of kids and teenagers left home alone right before an alien invasion and who must join forces to fight for their lives. Now, the creative duo is back to repeat their roles in Kids vs. Aliens, a horror comedy that works as the second spinoff of the V/H/S franchise, expanding on the wacky concept and bringing their work to theaters. Unfortunately, the plot gets stretched too thin to push Kids vs. Aliens beyond a feature runtime. Still, the movie rewards horror fiends who decide to stick until the end with a sloppy but gloriously campy gorefest.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” makes its Disney+ debut in February, but another title joining the library this month has us waiting eagerly.

The limited series “Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever” dives into the film’s soundtrack, from Ludwig Goransson’s score to the chanting and vocals of Wakandan tribes. “The sonic world of Wakanda is evolving,” music consultant Seni Saraki says in the show teaser. It’s impossible to imagine Ryan Coogler’s film series separate from that world, and deeply exciting for “Black Panther” fans to watch that evolution. “Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever” premiers February 22 on Disney+.

Here’s everything else coming to Disney+ in February.

February 1

– “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

– “Dead End Express” (Season 1)

– “Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” (Seasons 1-3)

– “Puppy Dog Pals” Season 5 (3 episodes)

– “O Coro: Sucesso, Aqui Vou Eu” (Season 1)

– “The Chorus: Success, Here I Go”

– “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

NBC's return to Manhattan and its titular Night Court couldn't have gone much better according to Nielsen ratings from the revival's premiere. Featuring two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday night, the revival series not only handily dominated the night, but managed to pull in the most viewers of any comedy debut in over five years for NBC. The last series to make a splash bigger than Night Court on the network was another highly-anticipated reboot - 2017's Will & Grace.

Eugene Levy has been known to play well-meaning, offbeat, and often flustered supporting characters throughout his career. Whether he's a featured player or part of the ensemble, the veteran Canadian actor has stolen scenes left and right with his impeccable timing, earnest delivery, and trademark eyebrows. But following his stint on the fan-favorite series "Schitt's Creek," it seems like the theme of this era for him is stepping out of his comfort zone, which is also a huge aspect of his new show, "The Reluctant Traveller."

As part of the Television Critics Association Winter press tour, Levy appeared on a panel attended by /Film's Vanessa Armstrong to promote the upcoming Apple TV+ travel show. The eight-episode series will take the award-winning actor around the world to experience once-in-a-lifetime adventures with new friends, gorgeous scenery, and mouth-watering food, despite the fact that he normally wouldn't do any of these things if left to his own devices.

The world is ready to travel back to the 1990s with Red (Kurtwood Smith) and Kitty Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) in That '90s Show, the second sequel to the hit Fox show That '70s Show, which ran between 1998 and 2006. Even better, most of the original cast is set to reprise their characters for recurring guest appearances. The new cast shows some real promise, including Callie Haverda as Leia Forman, the daughter of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), as she spends the summer of 1995 with Red and Kitty, and Reyn Doi as the openly gay Ozzie, which should be a real interesting dynamic between him and Red. But where did we leave off with these characters? Let’s look at the series finale of That '70s Show again, and what came of our heroes.

It's rare that a TV drama is able to boast about appearances from so many of Hollywood's elite but Extrapolations can confidently do just that. The powerhouse cast includes the likes of Don't Look Up actress Meryl Streep, Spider-Man sensation Tobey Maguire, Godfather of Harlem star Forest Whitaker, Zack Snyder's Justice League actress Diane Lane, Game of Thrones hero Kit Harrington and Black-ish's Yara Shahidi - to name just a few. Unsurprisingly, a line-up like that has already garnered mass interest in the show and after many conversations around it a release date of Friday, March 17, 2023 has finally been set. The show is slated to premiere with the first three episodes and then a new episode every week after that until the penultimate weekend in April.

Power and privilege are often parts of the same formula — one almost inevitably leads to the other. The films of this award season examine the phenomenon in myriad ways: from factual to fictional, and within institutions as disparate as the military and the classical music community. The directors behind “The Inspection,” “Devotion,” “The Woman King” and “Tár” explored these dynamics both thematically and visually while shepherding their characters through four very different but equally powerful stories.

For “The Inspection,” director Elegance Bratton, whose film is based on his life experience, joining the Marines gave him a purpose and place that otherwise never existed for him.

“People assume that I named myself,” says Bratton, though he didn’t. He recognizes that it evokes assumptions even before anyone lays eyes on him, but intersectionality doesn’t bequeath a gay, Black man much. “[This is] my experience as a person who’s born on the outskirts of privilege.