Ava DuVernay’s ‘Cherish The Day’ & Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation,’ Both Shooting In New Orleans, Prepare As Forecast Cat. 3 Hurricane Ida Threatens

Sledgehammer Games has opened up the crossplay beta for Call Of Duty: Vanguard, which starts today and runs through the weekend.Call Of Duty: Vanguard is now available to play in the latest open beta, which focuses on crossplay. However, for some platforms, the first half of the beta is early access only.

Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick, . The six-episode limited series features Jaden Michael as a young Colin before he becomes the cultural icon and activist known to the world today. The streaming site describes the show as a coming-of-age story that follows the former NFL player during his youth as he tackles the obstacles of race, class and culture as a Black adopted child of a white family. «Life puts us on a path, sometimes winding.

What does it take to stand up for your beliefs? “Colin in Black & White” looks at the decisions and motivations that led Colin Kaepernick to do just that. The activist and filmmaker Ava DuVernay craft a limited series that takes on the social issues that shaped his life long before NFL stardom.

Co-created by Ava DuVernay and former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who silently took a knee during the US national anthem in 2016 in protest of the racial inequality and indiscriminate killing of Black Americans by police — “Colin in Black and White,” the limited docudrama series from Netflix, follows its subject as he looks back on his formative years as an adopted, biracial high school and college athlete with his eyes set on becoming a professional quarterback.

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack?

who passed away yesterday (September 6) on the Netflix limited series When They See Us. For his role as Bobby McCray, he was nominated for an Emmy.“I remember the times you’d come on set even when you weren’t on the call sheet.

Louis Armstrong’s “second home” because the iconic musician spent much of his childhood in the family home above. Aged seven, he was hired by the Karnofskys to work on their junk wagon, blowing a toy horn to get locals’ attention, while in the evenings he would help deliver coal.The family is said to have encouraged him to explore his love of music and loaned him the money to buy his first cornet.

A storied New Orleans jazz site where a young Louis Armstrong once worked toppled when Ida blew through Louisiana as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S.

Being James Bond, from MGM, will stream exclusively on the Apple TV app as a free rental ahead of the theatrical release of No Time To Die, the 25th installment of the storied franchise.

Amidst the crushing punishment Hurricane Ida lashed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with this weekend, Ava DuVernay is today trying to find out how members of Cherish The Day‘s crew are holding up in the devastation.

Fox News‘ weather reporter Robert Ray warned viewers “this is no joke” as he demonstrated how powerful the winds were in New Orleans as Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana.

Pre-production on the upcoming NBC/Blumhouse limited series The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger and Josh Duhamel, has been suspended, a rep for Blumhouse told Deadline. Based on a the real-life, stranger-than-fiction story behind the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, the series has been in final stages of pre-production in New Orleans, with filming slated to begin Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films is in production on Katrina Babies, a feature documentary offering an intimate look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the youth of New Orleans.

Two more local SAG-AFTRA presidencies have been decided: Jim Gleason won a squeaker in New Orleans, and Rik Deskin won handily in Seattle. Both elections are setbacks for Matthew Modine, who’s running against Fran Drescher for national president.

coronavirus pandemic, the festival hasn't happened for two years now.It looked like the music would play this fall — organizers recruited The Rolling Stones to headline a rescheduled festival in October. But then the highly contagious delta variant exploded, forcing another cancellation.Gonczi doesn’t even want to talk about it.

NBC has set a fall premiere date for Home Sweet Home, a new series from Ava DuVernay, her Array Filmworks and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.

The 46th Toronto International Film Festival is fast approaching and the festival is finalizing its line-up in the weeks ahead of launch day in September. Today, the festival unveiled a few new titles, announced the Canadian Satellite Screenings, unveiled the 2021 Industry Conference details and the Primetime lineup.