Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners

EXCLUSIVE: The Baker and the Beauty alum Carlos Gomez and Anja Savcic (Loudermilk) are set for recurring roles on David E. Kelley’s hit freshman ABC drama series Big Sky. Zoë Noelle Baker (The Haunting Of Bly Manor) also recurs in the crime thriller created by Big Little Lies‘ Kelly based on C.J. Box’s book.

Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford has urged heavy metal fans to get the coronavirus vaccine so that live music can return.The frontman took to Instagram yesterday (April 10) to share a video encouraging people to get vaccinated in order to “get those amazing vibes and feelings back faster”.“Hi everyone.

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EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner Simon Russell Beale (The Hollow Crown) and BAFTA-nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (NW) have joined the cast of The Imitation Game scribe Graham Moore’s directorial debut The Outfit.

Annika Pham New York-based boutique distributor Juno Films has acquired North American rights to the intimate and compelling Norwegian documentary “Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam,” featuring Turkish-German feminist lawyer and one of the first female imams in Europe. The deal was brokered by DR Sales ahead of the film’s world premiere at the San Francisco Intl.

Naman Ramachandran Prince William, Renée Zellweger, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Leslie Odom Jr are part of the star-studded line-up set to appear at the BAFTA Film Awards on April 10 and 11.Clara Amfo will host the EE BAFTA Film Awards opening night, on April 10, and will be joined by a panel of guests including Rhianna Dhillon and Joanna Scanlan.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla T’Nia Miller, JJ Feild, Charlotte Riley, Adelind Horan and Alex Hernandez have been cast in the Amazon series adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling William Gibson novel “The Peripheral” from “Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Variety has learned.They join Jack Reynor, who stars in the lead role of Burton along with fellow cast members Chloë Grace Moretz and Gary Carr, with Moretz set to play Flynne and Carr set to play Wilf.

NEW YORK -- The closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic has slowed but not stopped patrons and others from calling for books to be banned or restricted.On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before.

List of winners for the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards, presented Sunday in a virtual ceremony:MOVIESActor: Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”Female actor: Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”Supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”Supporting female actor: Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”Cast: “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”TELEVISIONActor in a TV movie or miniseries: Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much is True.”Female actor in a TV movie or miniseries: Anya Taylor-Joy,

Chris McEleny, made the jump when the party was launched last week and will now stand on the party’s West Scotland list.

Hulu has landed the rights to the docuseries The 1619 Project, based on materials from Nikole Hannah-Jones' acclaimed special issue of The New York Times Magazine which examines the impact of slavery on American history.

A docuseries based on 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ and The New York Times’ expansive The 1619 Project is headed to Hulu.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA docuseries based on “The 1619 Project” from New York Times Magazine’s and Nikole Hannah-Jones has been ordered at Hulu.Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams will produce and oversee the series under his One Story Up production banner with producing partner and co-executive producer Geoff Martz. Williams will also direct the first episode.

MP and will take place alongside a series of local elections in England and votes for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. Prescott is standing for the Reform UK party which used to be Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has acquired Vancouver-based Digital Scapes to create its first Canadian studio for games development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Poland-based CD Projekt Red has collaborated with Digital Scapes on game development since 2018, including on theopen-world, role-playing adventure Cyberpunk 2077 game.

Summer Zervos, the former The Apprentice contestant suing the show’s former frontman Donald Trump for defamation, can proceed with her lawsuit now that Trump is no longer President of the United States, a New York appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump could face questioning under oath about a former “Apprentice” contestant’s sexual assault allegations against him, following a ruling from New York’s highest court Tuesday.

Donald Trump could face questioning under oath about a former “Apprentice” contestant's sexual assault allegations against him, following a ruling from New York's highest court Tuesday.Evidence-gathering has been on hold in Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit since Trump asked the high court last year to declare the that the presidency protected him from being sued in state courts.