Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sets July Date For Joint US Congress Address

Actor Bill Cobbs, who was known for his roles in movies including The Bodyguard and Night at the Museum, and TV series The Sopranos, has died aged 90 it has been announced.The actor won a Daytime Emmy at the age of 86 for his role in the series Dino Dana and appeared in more than 150 films and TV series during his career. According to his brother Thomas, who broke the news on Wednesday via Facebook, Bill died on Tuesday 25 June.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American rights to the documentary adventure film, Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey, produced and directed by Australian filmmaker, Rob Murphy. The film will be available on all VOD platforms on June 25, after screening at major world festivals and a theatrical run across Australia and Los Angeles based Laemmle Theatres last year.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Zach Bryan once release a surprise live album on Christmas Day. So for his next long-awaited studio album, why not keep the tradition of holiday drops alive? “The Great American Bar Scene,” a new release Bryan has been teasing for a while, now has a release date — the 4th of July. The singer-songwriter made the announcement via a social media post Thursday evening.

EXCLUSIVE: The untitled Lifetime “Terry McMillan Presents” film starring and executive produced by Garcelle Beauvais will be known officially as Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted By Love and will premiere on Saturday, August 17th at 8/7c.

Ethan Shanfeld The final episodes of “Yellowstone” will arrive Nov. 10 on Paramount, with or without Kevin Costner. The Western drama, which was the most-watched series of the 2022-2023 season besides “NFL Sunday Night Football,” is currently filming Season 5 Part 2 in Montana.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Madison Wells will produce a documentary focusing on the public and private life of Jacinda Ardern, the trailblazing Prime Minister of New Zealand who helped introduce strict gun laws following the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. She also led her country through the Covid pandemic and grappled with issues such as child poverty and climate change. The feature-length film is currently untitled.

Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have announced their first-ever virtual reality concert, dubbed ‘Hyperfocus’, which will be screened from next month onwards.The band’s forthcoming VR concert is set to take place across five different cities in the US over the following months. The ‘Hyperfocus’ concert promises to “deliver an unforgettable performance that allows fans to get up close and personal” with the boyband, per Billboard.“We have been thinking about how to get closer to our fans, and this VR concert is an opportunity for us to do so,” TXT said of the forthcoming VR concert in a press statement.

John Swinney has warned right wing Nigel Farage is likely to become the next Tory leader and Prime Minister one day.

Thania Garcia Post Malone‘s sixth studio album “F-1 Trillion” will arrive on Aug. 16, the American singer and rapper announced Tuesday. Malone shared a picture of a sign in Nashville revealing the album’s title and car-themed logo.

Jordan Peele has a new feature coming.

Naman Ramachandran Series “Barzakh,” starring top Pakistani actors Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed, has set a streaming date. The six-episode series is produced by Waqas Hassan and Shailja Kejriwal for Zindagi, the Indian subcontinent focused programming block on streamer ZEE5 Global. It is helmed by critically acclaimed director Asim Abbasi who also directed Zindagi’s first Pakistani original “Churails” and the feature film “Cake,” which was Pakistan’s entry for the 2019 Oscars.

Warner Bros. announced on Thursday that Trap, the latest thriller from two-time Oscar nominee M. Night Shyamalan, will go earlier, moving up a week from August 9 to August 2nd.

System Of A Down‘s Serj Tankian has weighed in on the current situation in Palestine and the movement to boycott companies with ties to Israel.Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 in response to its occupation of Palestinian territories, killing 1,189 people. Israel’s ongoing operations in the interim have killed 37,702 Palestinians [via Al Jazeera].Recently, record labels, promoters and more have called for a cultural boycott of Israel through the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), an offshoot of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) which was behind the huge wave of drop-outs from The Great Escape, Latitude Festival and Download Festival this year.In an interview with NME about his new autobiography Down With The System, Tankian has given his take on current world events and the ongoing boycotts.

Trish Goff’s son has sadly passed away.

Lexi Carson Vertical has acquired Conor Soucy‘s directorial debut “Dead Whisper” and will debut it in select theaters on July 5, and on AppleTV and Prime Video, beginning July 9. The horror/thriller film “Dead Whisper” stars Samuel Dunning (“Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox”) and marks the first on-screen role for Rob Evan, whose previous credits include Broadway’s “Les Misérables,” and “Jekyll & Hyde.” The rest of the cast’s ensemble includes Tana Sirois, Samantha Hill, Codey Gillum, Chris Goodwin, Dhane Ross, Hester Wilkinson and Bruce Winant.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Francis Ford Coppola hit the Cannes Film Festival last month to triumphantly celebrate the completion of his epic film “Megalopolis,” which he has been working on for nearly 40 years. The celebrations were somewhat compromised, however, by mixed reviews for the film itself, as well as a Guardian report that alleged “chaotic behavior” on the set of “Megalopolis,” including the “Godfather” director reportedly “pulling women to sit on his lap” and “trying to kiss some of the topless and scantily-clad female extras.” New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis interviewed Coppola in Cannes, and did not hesitate to raise the topic of the accusations.

Jack Dunn Vertical and Bren Foster will launch their new martial arts thriller “Life After Fighting” on June 7 in select theaters and on demand. This marks Foster’s feature debut as writer-director and is his first collaboration with producer Navid Bahadori under their newly formed production and distribution company, Spinning Plates.

EXCLUSIVE: Republic Pictures has acquired North American rights to Rob Peace, the sophomore feature from actor-turned-filmmaker Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind), in which he stars opposite Jay Will, 2x Academy Award nominee Mary J. Blige and Camila Cabello.

Thania Garcia Megan Thee Stallion revealed her third studio album will arrive later this June during one of the rescheduled dates of her Atlanta tour stops on Sunday night. The self-titled record will be released under her own Hot Girl Productions and is slated for June 28. After the May 31 and June 1 dates of her Atlanta concerts were postponed due to burst water pipes and outages, Megan shared the news of her album with a QR code and speech during Sunday’s show at the State Farm Arena.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The second half of “Outlander” Season 7 has set its premiere date at Starz. The final eight episodes of the season will premiere on Nov. 22.