Creating Change announces full 2021 lineup including Big Freedia, Dominique Jackson

After a landmark year when several new billion-dollar streaming services jockeyed for attention, there is a big question greeting the new class as 2021 begins: Where from here?

It’s going to be a sizzling year for new books in 2021. Many key titles were delayed due to the pandemic, so there should be a bumper crop of books to bag in 2021.

Ireland’s Fittest Families is back for the new year and we’re getting inspired to shift our lockdown and Christmas pounds.

TikTok's "Ratatouille" musical event announced its star-studded cast for a benefit concert that will feature content created by and selected from TikTokers. "Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical" – fondly nicknamed the "Ratatousical" – will begin streaming on Friday for 72 hours.Tickets are on sale exclusively on TodayTix.com and are $5.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has announced a new bunch of celebrity guests set to appear on the upcoming second series. After a break of over a year, Drag Race UK will return to BBC Three next month, with celebrity judges joining RuPaul on the panel including actors Sheridan Smith and Elizabeth Hurley, singers MNEK and Jessie Ware and TV presenter Lorraine Kelly.

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California has found a new owner in billionaire businessman Ron Burkle.Burkle views the 2,700-acre property in Los Olivos, near Santa Barbara, as a land banking opportunity, his spokesman said Thursday in an email.The Wall Street Journal reports the property was sold for $22 million to Burkle, an associate of the late pop star and co-founder of the investment firm Yucaipa Companies.The asking price of the property was $100 million in 2016 then

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the competition lineup for its 50th-anniversary edition, which will run in two separate events —one virtual, one in-person—in 2021.The virtual IFFR will be held Feb. 1-7, with a summer in-person festival planned for June 2-6.

In the category of “better safe than sorry” news, the Academy Museum has decided to push its opening once again. Instead of debuting around the 93rd Academy Awards in April, the museum will swing open its doors to the public on September 30, 2021.

The long awaited and oft delayed opening of the Academy of Museum of Motion Pictures is on the move again, shuttling  to early Fall of next year and all due to continuing uncertainties about the state of the Coronavirus pandemic.  The not-so-surprising move , due to the dire circumstances of living in a world wracked by Covid-19, means the Museum which had most recently been scheduled to open to the public on April 30, 2021, just a few days after the April 25th Academy Awards (which was itself

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter hired Beverly Jackson, a digital marketing veteran with over two decades of experience, as VP of global brand and consumer marketing.Most recently, Jackson was with Activision Blizzard as VP of franchise communication and social.

Also Read: Sundance Film Festival Goes Virtual, But Also National With Screenings in 24 StatesThe slate of 140 films is fewer than usual for Sundance, but the festival itself was shortened to seven days from its usual 11-day run.As usual, Sundance will present a small number of films on opening night, which is Jan. 28.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAn appeals court on Monday handed a victory to the estate of Michael Jackson in its battle over the 2019 HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which accused the late singer of sexually abusing two young boys.The Jackson estate sued HBO for $100 million, arguing that the documentary violated a 27-year-old non-disparagement clause from a 1992 concert film from the “Dangerous” tour.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the nation and the globe wake up each morning asking, “Is 2020 over yet?,” the search for the next great new song is one thing that makes getting out of bed a worthy endeavor.We’ve already covered the Taylor Swift, Avalanches, Kid Cudi and Chris Cornell albums as well as the 20-years-late Britney Spears-Backstreet Boys tag team, and fittingly for this odd week, the top songs are an odd batch …James Blake “When the Party’s Over” We don’t usually go for covers in

Also Read: Disney Stock Soars to All-Time High and Record $300 Billion Market Cap After Epic Investor DayOther upcoming 20th Century titles for 2021 include “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” the “Bob’s Burgers” movie, “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” the thriller “Deep Water,” the Ridley Scott film “The Last Duel” and of course Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” which is scheduled to open December 10, 2021.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterVH1 announced on Wednesday that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will return for Season 13 on Jan.