Leading Middle East Streamer Starzplay On Lockdown User Boom, Striking More U.S. Studio Deals & Its Advantage Over Netflix

Jake Kanter International TV EditorNetflix’s UK vice president of original series Anne Mensah is to chair the Royal Television Society’s Craft & Design Awards. The awards, which take place in November, are now open for entries and a Casting Award has been added as a new category.

Anne Hathaway and Bill Murray are set to star in Bum's Rush, with Aaron Schneider directing for CAA Media Finance and Rocket Science. Robert Duvall is in talks to join the indie buddy movie, which sees Hathaway play a custom boot maker who crosses paths with a stray dog, Bum, voiced by Bill Murray.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMiley Cyrus was one of the first celebrities to adapt to the new COVID-19 world order. Not long after stay-at-home rules were implemented, the singer-actor launched “Bright Minded,” a talk show on Instagram Live with a guest list that has included Elton John, Demi Lovato, Kerry Washington and Selena Gomez.

Editor’s note: The Los Angeles Blade published a Spanish version of this article on June 16.

mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and more victims of police brutality, many celebrities have taken this moment to advocate for making Juneteenth a nationally recognized holiday. In a lengthy Washington Post op-ed, Usher detailed how the significant day should be widely celebrated.“We could observe it, as many black Americans already do, by celebrating both our first step toward freedom as black people in America and also the many contributions to this land,” he wrote.

When Maria Teresa Kumar was nine years-old, she became a citizen of the United States along with her mom. The pair had immigrated from Bogota, Columbia, after her mother fell in love with and married an English teacher working there. The new family then moved to Sonoma, California.

Mamma Mia! director Ol Parker is teaming with Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — to adapt and direct the book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, by author Jon Mooallem. Concordia acquired the rights to develop and produce the feature film adaptation of the book that dramatizes the impact of a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska on March 27, 1964.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorA group of Middle East film companies are to screen acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro for free in the region in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.Local distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment is partnering with online platforms BEIN, OSN, Etisalat’s E-Life, Du, Vodafone, Ooredoo, and Omantel to offer the film for free across 24 Middle East countries.

"We ask everyone to make a renewed commitment to follow the official guidance and to stay at home as much as possible," they said in a joint statement."In fact, we would go further and advise people to err on the side of caution and to use the new freedoms carefully and safely."Staying at home is the best way we can protect ourselves, and each other, and get the R number in the North West back below 1."

Tucker Carlson thinks he’s outing celebrities pic.twitter.com/Xm8ie64rbF— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 6, 2020Also Read: Fox News Apologizes for Graph on Market Reactions to Civil Unrest: 'Never Should Have Aired'Among those Carlson named was Rapper Lil Nas X.“Rapper Lil Nas X urged his 4.7 million Twitter followers to donate to bail groups in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere,” Carlson said.

Caleb Murray is no longer in police custody after he was arrested in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts on Monday. “On June 1, 2020, Caleb Murray was brought to the Dukes County Regional Lockup.

Kelly Clarkson, Kumail Nanjiani, Kacey Musgraves and a number of other celebrities are outraged after a video surfaced that shows a 75-year-old white male protester in Buffalo, New York, being shoved by police. In the disturbing clip, which was taken by the local radio station, the protester approaches a group of police officers to talk to them, and appears to be holding an officer's helmet. When one officer is heard repeatedly telling his colleagues to «push him back,» another officer shoves

Two Buffalo, New York, police officers were suspended without pay on Thursday after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd continued into their tenth night.

Bill Murray’s son has been slapped with charges of disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer following his arrest at a Black Lives Matter protest.

Bill Murray’s son has been slapped with charges of disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer following his arrest at a Black Lives Matter protest. Caleb Murray was busted in Massachusetts on Monday afternoon after taking part in a largely peaceful demonstration at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven, demanding justice for George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man who was killed at the hands of a white cop in Minnesota last week.

Bill Murray's son has been arrested.  Caleb Murray, the 27-year-old son of the Oscar-nominated actor and comedian, was taken to the Dukes County Regional Lockup in Massachusetts on Monday, the Dukes County Sheriff's Office confirmed to E! News.

Lennie Niehaus, the West Coast alto saxophonist, arranger and composer who played with Stan Kenton's band and collaborated with Clint Eastwood on more than two dozen films, has died. He was 90.