Rolling Stonejoined forces withIndieWire, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the online-education platformYellowbrickto launch“Film and TV Industry Essentials” last year. The program began enrolling students earlier this fall, and the curriculum is composed of five easily digestible course modules. Each of the concise lessons lasts between three …
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Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are set to co-star in an upcoming Amazon series based on the 2005 action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Atlanta’s Francesca Sloane will serve as showrunner on the series, which will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.Glover and Waller-Bridge (in a voice role) …
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Dustin Diamond, the actor who portrayed lovable nerd Samuel “Screech” Powers across four incarnations of Saved by the Bell, from 1988 to 2000, died Monday after a three-week battle with carcinoma. He was 44. Diamond’s agent, Roger Paul, confirmed the actor’s death to Rolling Stone. “He was diagnosed with this …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update returned from its monthlong hiatus to tackle the GameStop stock surge, the opening days of the Biden administration and the Capitol insurrection. “A lot has happened since our last show. The inauguration, that was nice. Christmas, I like Christmas. And hey, the terrorist watch list …
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Amazon Studios gave us our first glimpse at Coming 2 America, the sequel to the beloved 1988 comedy Coming to America. The film hits the streaming service on March 5th. The teaser includes a whirlwind of characters from the previous film — many of which are played by stars Eddie …
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Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells delivered an exuberant 2020 recap in the form of a gigantic Broadway medley on The Tonight Show Monday, December 7th. The 2020: The Musical performance found Fallon and Rannells reliving the year’s most momentous and mundane moments with parodies of Broadway classics. The bit started …
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Stacey Abrams discussed the triumphant culmination of her long fight to flip Georgia, as well as what’s at stake in the crucial Senate runoffs there, during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, November 9th. As Abrams recalled, her efforts began back in 2010 when, as the …
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Saturday Night Live channel-surfed between Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s “Dueling Town Halls” for their latest cold open sketch. “We now present a rebroadcast of those town halls the way most Americans watched them… Flipping back and forth, trying to decide between a Hallmark movie and an alien autopsy,” SNL …
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Over four years after an authorized John Belushi documentary was first announced, the film will finally premiere on Showtime this November. Belushi, directed by The September Issue filmmaker R.J. Cutler, boasts the cooperation of the comedian’s widow Judy Belushi Pisano, who provided never-before-seen photos from her private collection for the …
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With the Supreme Court primed to take a rightward lurch, John Oliver highlighted the dire need for a drastic overhaul of several increasingly undemocratic American institutions on Last Week Tonight. The segment was prompted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgand the nomination of Judge Amy Coney …
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