Zendaya: a superstar, not a challenger Former teen actor Zendaya has emerged as one of the few bona fide A-list superstars of her generation, thanks to a stunning recent run of hits on both the screen and the red carpet. 05/14/2024 - 1:31 pm | View Link
Black Hollywood’s Best 2024 Met Gala Looks Vogue’s Anna Wintour gathers Hollywood’s glitterati and social media tastemakers for a themed fundraising gala to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. Now known ... 05/7/2024 - 5:53 am | View Link
Box Office: Zendaya’s ‘Challengers’ Hits Target With $15M Opening for No. 1 Finish White moviegoers made up 43 percent of Friday ticket buyers, followed by Latino moviegoers (27 percent), Black moviegoers ... year by more than 20 percent, Hollywood and theater operators are ... 04/26/2024 - 9:42 pm | View Link
Is Zendaya the Leading Lady We’ve Been Looking For? One thing everyone can agree on: Zendaya is singular, albeit in ways that may say more about Hollywood than they ... on why she’s the only major Black actress from the younger set. 04/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya both wowed in Euphoria, so why are they treated so differently? Speaking at the Beautycon Festival in 2018, she said colourism was an issue in Hollywood and that she was 'an acceptable version of a black girl'. 'As a light-skinned black woman it's important ... 04/18/2024 - 2:40 am | View Link
Are we back yet? That’s the question Broadway has been asking for the past three years, as the theater industry emerged from lockdown into a harsh new reality of rising costs and slow-to-return audiences. But now, after a grim fall, a springtime surge of buzzy new openings and a heartening spike in sales suggest that […]
Director James McTeigue has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. McTeigue is the filmmaker behind several major features and series, including his 2005 directorial feature debut “V for Vendetta,” the cult favorite dystopian comic book adaptation starring Natalie Portman, John Hurt and Hugo Weaving. He followed that film with the 2009 martial arts […]
Cultivator Films Australia, the local subsidiary of France’s Studiocanal, has begun production of “Kangaroo,” its first movie. It tells the story of Chris Barns, aka ‘Brolga,’ founder of the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs. Previously announced in December, the film is directed by Kate Woods (“The Umbrella Academy,” “The Good Lord Bird,” “Looking for Alibrandi”) […]
The longest days in your life are those where a loved one dies. Exhausting waves of feeling lap each other over the hours, stretching and blurring them as disbelief gives way to panic, to fatigue, to deep and paralyzing sadness, all while practical tasks mount and accelerate. As you struggle through forms, travel plans and […]
Netflix released a first look at “Running Point,” Mindy Kaling’s upcoming comedy series starring Kate Hudson. Per the official logline, “when a scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Hudson) is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises, and her family business.
Nine years after the debut of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in the South of France, George Miller is once again the toast of the Croisette. The audience at the world premiere of the director’s prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” went wild for his latest high-octane action film, showering the movie with a six-minute standing […]