Billy Porter To Direct High School Coming-Of Age Pic ‘What If?’ In First Movie From Relaunched Orion Pictures

Last New Year’s Eve, Billy Porter was working in New Orleans. This year he’ll still be working — but in New York City.

EXCLUSIVE: The Ready Or Not gang of filmmakers Radio Silence and scribes Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, are coming back together to work on the MGM horror high school movie Reunion. 

Lucy Hale, who previously helped him ring in the new year last time around, and star Billy Porter.Meanwhile, singerCiara will be holding things down in Los Angeles for the fourth year in a row when the West Coast welcomes 2021.As for Seacrest — who will be hosting for the 16th year in a row — he will join Hale and Porter in New York City for the broadcast.

Will Thorne Staff WriterWelcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them.

East Kilbride school the prestigious  title Education Partner of the Year.

A Texas school district removed a high school football team from the playoffs after one player’s vicious attack on a referee during a game. The Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District said Friday that Edinburg High School would not be participating in the Class 6A Division I Playoffs despite beating their opponents Pharr-San Juan-Alamo.

California delayed the start of the high school sports season while college and professional sports teams continued to play, and at least one high-profile basketball dad appeared to be baffled. LeBron James, fresh off an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers, wondered in a tweet how the high school basketball season was going to be delayed when college teams, and soon NBA teams, take the floor.

A Texas high school football player charged onto the field and bowled over a referee Thursday night, angered after being ejected from the game. Senior defensive lineman Emmanuel Duron of Edinburg High School came running from the sideline area after the referee announced the ejection, slamming into the official during the first half of the zone play-in game against Pharr-San Juan-Alamo.

Also Read: 17 Top-Grossing Broadway Musicals of All Time, From 'Hamilton' to 'The Lion King' (Photos)Together, they decide to rehabilitate their image as self-absorbed narcissists by taking on a cause — or as Dee Dee puts it, “some little injustice we can drive to”: a teenage lesbian named Emma (Jo Ellen Pellman) who’s been barred from the prom at her Indiana high school thanks to the rantings of a bigot who leads the local PTA (played by Kerry Washington, in a thankless, one-note role).The

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Concerned parents of pupils at Clyde Valley High are being reassured that the risk to the wider school community is low despite a number of positive coronavirus cases.It’s understood that around seven confirmed cases have been identified within the school in Overtown during the last fortnight.“This is on top of the already confirmed 10 cases starting from September,” claimed one parent, who was concerned

Notting Hill star Hugh Grant recently opened up about his hiatus from Hollywood. During a new interview, the 60-year-old The Undoing actor explained why he took a seven-year break from making movies in the late 2000s.

Lion King, I won't lie.) Here are the best teen comedy movies that you probably saw when you were in high school, but take it from me, they def still hold up today. This teen classic, inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and starring Amanda Bynes, can be summed up into one...sentence: Everybody has a secret.

Billie Eilish’s “No Time to Die,” the theme song for the much-delayed James Bond 007 movie of the same name, received a Grammy Award nomination on Tuesday, despite the fact the film has yet to hit theaters. The pic, the 25th installment of the Bond franchise, has seen its global release date delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

My Kitchen Rules star shared the very first snap of the new family-of-three.WATCH: “It was around about this time a couple of months ago we welcomed our little poppet, Clementine Abigail, into this world,” she captioned the post on Instagram.Happy family! Pete and Ash share a cuddle with Clementine“For days I couldn’t believe she was ours, in fact I still can’t!! She’s growing quickly and has quite the personality already.

Billy Porter is set to make his directorial debut with a coming-of-age drama, which will help relaunch film studio Orion Pictures.The Pose star will team with screenwriter Alvaro García Lecuona for What If, which follows the relationship between a high school student named Khal and Kelsa, a trans girl.More TV news!“I’m thrilled to be part of this new space in Hollywood for telling all types of stories from all types of people,” Porter said in a statement.

media. Teachers at Gryffe High, in Houston, were also given a host of resources to help approach and guide conversations about bullying through the campaign and were also given advice on how best to support students who have been bullied themselves.Wendy Harrington, director of respectme, said: “Young people are heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, with every aspect of their lives – from school to home to social activities – affected in some way.

Billy Porter is taking on a new role as director.