Director Schele Williams is writing book on enslavement

For the first time ever, Michelle Williams, 40, was pictured with her second baby! After welcoming the child with husband and Hamilton director Thomas Kail, 42, in June of 2020, their infant had a public debut during a family fun day in New York on Oct. 18. Michelle was pictured holding the little one as she boarded a water taxi with her husband and her first child, 14-year-old daughter Matilda Ledger, whom she welcomed with the late Heath Ledger.

Ali Fedotowsky first revealed her skin cancer diagnosis, she felt lucky to have caught it early.

David Robb Labor EditorCooley High director Michael Schultz will be honored October 24 by the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center as part of its 26th annual African American Film Marketplace and the S.E. Manly Short Film Showcase, which runs from October 23-November 29.“Michael represents the best of the best in Hollywood, a true genius at what he does,” said BHERC president Sandra Evers-Manly.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMary Lamberthad directed mainly music videos (Janet Jackson’s “Nasty,” Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” among others) when she took the job helming “Pet Sematary” in 1989.

NEW YORK -- Sen. Josh Hawley is working on a book about one of the Missouri Republican's ongoing targets.Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Hawley's “The Tyranny of Big Tech” will be released June 21.

David Robb Labor EditorRobin DiMaggio, the former musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show, was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $1 million from a charity concert intended to raise money for children made homeless by wars.

Jim LeBrecht, the co-director of Sundance doc Crip Camp, Politician actor Ryan J. Haddad and artist-filmmakerTourmaline are amongthe Disability Futures Fellows, announced by the Ford and Andrew W.

Ron Howard teams with Amy Adams for “Hillbilly Elegy,” a Netflix drama about a Yale law student (Gabriel Basso) who drawn back to his hometown and grapples with family history, Appalachian values, and the American dream. The first trailer for the film has arrived.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After years of development, the incredible American Dream gone wrong story behind the 80s male strip club Chippendales, is getting closer to the big screen treatment. Sources tell Deadline that Craig Gillespie is attached to direct the murder saga with Dev Pattel attached to star.

Wendy Williams has gone viral.

Wendy Williams is going viral once again.

Murray Schisgal, the comedy writer who received two Tony nominations for his work on the 1960s Broadway hit Luv and an Oscar nomination for his contribution to the screenplay for Tootsie, has died. He was 93.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

 Serena Williams  was forced to pull out of the French Open just moments before her second-round match against Bulgarian veteran Tsvetana Pironkova on Wednesday.