‘All American’s Mike Merrill Signs With Pantheon; Manuel Vega Inks With CESD

Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), Danny Burstein (Evil), Austin Aaron (13 Reasons Why), Ta’Nika Gibson (Iron Fist), Edwin Hodge (Mayans MC), Terence Davis (Twenties) and Ja’Quan Cole (Wu Tang: An American Saga) have joined the cast of Adam McKay’s Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is producing.

Former U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, a key witness in the 2019 House impeachment probe, sued former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and the United States for $1.8 million on Monday.

Rammstein have announced details of their first ever North American stadium tour – see the dates below.The tour, dubbed ‘Rammstein In Amerika’, will see the German metallers bring their notorious, pyro-heavy show to the continent for the first time.The tour will begin in late August 2022 with a show at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada.

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to Mick Jagger and son Devereaux, the youngest of the Rolling Stones frontman’s eight children.

After their appeal to leave the USA for a family vacation, American actress Lori Loughlin and her husband and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, the courts are allowing the duo to leave the country. For the unversed, last week the duo appealed to leave the country and go to Mexico while serving their sentence.

Lee Evans, who won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City and was part of the Black protests against perceived US racism, died on Wednesday. He was 74 and no cause of death was revealed by the USA Track and Field organization, which did not provide further details.

Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer have rescheduled the remaining dates of their ‘Hella Mega Tour‘.The US leg of the groups’ joint tour had already been postponed from summer 2020 to this summer, however, ongoing coronavirus restrictions have meant fresh dates have been set for next year.

HBO’s new hit series Lovecraft Country takes inspiration from Matt Ruff’s dark fantasy horror novel that explores racism in American culture through the contents of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror books. “I just think it’s so interesting what Matt was doing in the book, which was reclaiming genre spaces for people who have typically been left out of them,” show creator and executive producer Misha Green said during Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event.

Chris Willman Music Writer“American Idol” has set no fewer than a dozen music stars for the series’ grand finale May 23 — three of whom may be fairly predictable, given that Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry are the show’s judges.Not quite as foreseeable in the final show’s performing pecking order: Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan, Luke Combs, Mickey Guyton, Lindsey Buckingham, Fall Out Boy, Alessia Cara, Leona Lewis and Macklemore.The show will air on ABC live across time zones May 23 at 8 p.m.

Halston, Roy Halston Frowick was an American fashion designer who rose to prominence in the 1960s before going on to define the Studio 54 era of the ‘70s and early ‘80s until he lost control of his fashion house. During that time, Jacqueline Kennedy famously wore one of Halston’s pillbox hats to husband John F. Kennedy’s 1961 presidential inauguration.

Jennifer Garner is sharing her experience of a visit to a migrant shelter on the border.

Mexico, Spain and Argentina.CNCO's first two albums — 2016's “Primera Cita" and 2018's “CNCO" — debuted at No. 1 on the Latin charts and reached the Top 40 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Live will be livestreamed internationally via YouTube in more than 100 countries,  including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThose who complain “immigrants are stealing our jobs” hardly seem likely applicants for the jobs held by protagonists in “Fruits of Labor” — such as cleaning other people’s houses or working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant. Constant hard work doesn’t seem to bring the American Dream much closer for this Mexican American family on California’s central coast.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterEva Longoria’s prestige project “Flamin’ Hot,” about the inventor of the spicy Cheetos snack, has found its stars in actors Jesse Garcia and Annie Gonzalez.An award-winning actor and prolific TV director, Longoria is ramping up to a feature directorial era with the Searchlight project, which tells the inspirational story of Richard Montañez.