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Film Independent today unveiled the three short films directed by fellows selected to participate in its Global Media Makers Spring 2022 LA Residency. (Watch them here.)

Over the years, Anne Heche has made a name for herself in various movie and TV projects — but it was her role as a mother that quickly became her favorite part to play.

Matthew Lawrence soaked up some rays on a beach in Hawaii, and he wasn't alone. The  was spotted with Rozanda «Chilli» Thomas. Though the two were photographed hand-in-hand, it's apparently not what it looked like. obtained pictures of Lawrence and the TLC singer hanging out Monday on the beach in Waikiki.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have confirmed that their deep fake film about Donald Trump is currently “on hold”.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the pair revealed that film – titled Deep Fake: The Movie – was a day away from starting production, only to be halted by the pandemic.Parker and Stone had previously worked with Peter Serafinowicz on the viral web series Sassy Justice, which used deepfake technology to project the faces of celebrities and politicians onto fictional characters. Some of the notable figures included Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner.This web series, however, was just the beginning of Parker and Stone’s foray into deepfake technology.“Not a lot of people know that we were a day away from starting production on the first feature movie we had done since Team America: World Police,” said Parker.“We were going to start shooting on the day that the pandemic shut everything down.

Zack Sharf “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker went viral during the pandemic thanks to their surprise deepfake video, “Sassy Justice,” which has earned over 2 million views on YouTube since its October 2020 debut. The 14-minute short finds a deepfake Donald Trump, voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, reporting news out of Cheyenne, Wyoming under the eponymous moniker. The project was the first bit of content to come out of Deep Voodoo, Stone and Parker’s deepfake production studio.Stone and Parker said at the time that “Sassy Justice” came about because “we just wanted to make fun of [deepfakes] because it makes it less scary,” but it turns out the project had its roots in a full-length Donald Trump deepfake movie that Parker and Stone were working on and then scrapped because of the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: When you’re an artist incarcerated in a penitentiary, it’s not as if the warden will provide whatever you need to paint, like, “Grab all the pigment and palette knives you want.”

On the morning they opened the writers room for the fifth and final season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, Emmy-nominated creators Matt & Ross Duffer teamed with prosthetics designer Barrie Gower to relive for Deadline Contenders the events of Season 4.

Tissues, please! One of Matthew Stafford‘s daughters cried on mom Kelly Stafford‘s shoulder because the Rams quarterback is away at training camp.

Christina Aguilera is enjoying a day out with her man!

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorComedian Jo Koy and film producer Dan Lin wrapped the inaugural Rise for Comedy festival on Thursday with a $75,000 donation to the nonprofit Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA).Koy hosted the event, in support of his upcoming film “Easter Sunday,” spread over two nights at Historic Filipinotown’s Rideback Ranch.The shenanigans kicked off with a panel on representation moderated by Kathy K. Im, director of journalism and media at the MacArthur Foundation.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American right to Genevieve Adams’ dramedy Simchas and Sorrows, along with worldwide rights to Peter Curtis Pardini’s doc The Last Band on Stage, and North American rights to Jaclyn Bethany’s queer thriller, The Falling World. The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company will release the former title at the Laemmle Soho in Los Angeles on September 16, and on all major digital and VOD platforms on the 20th. Pardini’s film will hit VOD and theaters in three cities on September 30, with Bethany’s indie unspooling on VOD on October 18.

Angelique Jackson Days after soaring into San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H to preview the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the “House of the Dragon” cast re-assembled for the series’ world premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.Set nearly 200 years before the events of the mega-hit HBO series, “House of the Dragon” focuses on the Targaryen dynasty in all their dysfunction — and with all their dragons.With 17 winged creatures appearing in the first season alone, many of the actors spent a considerable amount of time pretending to fly. Matt Smith, who stars as Prince Daemon Targaryen, told Variety that riding the mechanical buck that mimicked a dragon was “good fun.” “You’re on a remote control, and someone’s there moving it around, and then they fire a load of wind and rain at you,” he quipped.

Shania Twain gave fans a deeper look into her life with her recently released Netflix documentary Not Just a Girl, and opened up about one of the most difficult periods of her life.MORE: Shania Twain shares revealing insight into rarely seen son EjaThe singer opened up about her rough divorce from first husband Mutt Lange while she was also dealing with Lyme disease.VIDEO: Trailer for Shania Twain's new Netflix documentaryWhile healing through a rough patch in her career due to her diagnosis, she discovered that her husband had an extramarital affair with her best friend at the time, Marie-Anne Thiébaud."In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce,"  Shania stated in the documentary. MORE: Shania Twain shares touching news about her long-awaited documentary"My husband leaves me for another woman. Now I'm at a whole other low.