‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Trailer Teases a Never-Before-Seen Look at Jazz Legend’s Life and Career (Video)

In an odd moment of chance, “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” is released at a moment in which musical artist Kanye West is rapidly losing the support of the global brands he was associated with due to his recent tirade of anti-Semitic comments.

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the opening of the American Film Market, Deadline hears another hot package has come together that will have Ron Howard directing and producing through Imagine Origin of Species, a true crime thriller scripted by Noah Pink.

In an odd moment of chance, “Louis Armstrong: Black and Blues” is released at a moment in which musical artist Kanye West is rapidly losing the support of the global brands he was associated with due to his recent tirade of anti-Semitic comments.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Sydney Gallonde, the French producer of Make It Happen Studio, is set to re-team with MGM TV Intl. Productions on a biopic of Eugene Bullard, one of the first Black American military pilots who was also a boxer and a jazz musician. Gallonde has acquired the book rights to Claude Ribbe’s biography of Bullard, which shed light on the man’s heroic life and drew headlines on French media across the country when it was published in 2012. Like many Black American entertainers such as Josephine Baker, Bullard left America for Europe and France in 1914 to escape racial segregation, lynchings and prejudice. The young and adventurous man, who was born in Georgia, eventually settled in Paris looking for a better life and worked at a music hall. When WWI erupted, Bullard enlisted in France’s Foreign Legion along with other foreign volunteers, becoming one of the few Black combat pilots during the war. He then volunteered for the French Air Service and later became a flight fighter for the French Army. 

“House of the Dragon” season finale airs next week, and the trailer for Episode 10 promises the most epic showdown for the series yet.The penultimate episode of the season saw Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) maneuvering in the wake of King Viserys’ death to position her son, Aegon, as the rightful heir to the throne after misunderstanding Viserys’ dying words. Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) was wholly absent from the episode, but we see in the Episode 10 trailer that she’ll very quickly learn that her claim is being usurped.“The Greens are coming for you Rhaenyra.

Life on his own terms. Prince Harry is unlikely to become the king of England, but he’s carved a unique path as a philanthropist, father and military veteran.

Few jazz artists had the mainstream, cross-over appeal of Louis Armstrong. Now, Sacha Jenkins and Apple TV+ bring audiences a documentary that charts the trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader’s life and career, and the last imprint he made on American life.

Getting steamy! It may be cold in Stowe, Vermont, during the winter, but the cast of Winter House knows how to turn up the heat — and make long-lasting connections.

Angela Lansbury is getting the last word.

With “The Voice” in the midst of its 22nd season, veteran coach Blake Shelton is making a big announcement — he’ll be exiting the show after the upcoming 23rd season, set to air in spring 2023.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was ordered to lose weight, drop his stage name and stop talking about wrestling if he wanted to make it in Hollywood. The 'Fast and the Furious' star shot to fame back in the mid-1990s as a regular performer with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) - adopting the name The Rock and becoming one of the franchise's most recognisable wrestlers before making a crossover to movies with a role as the Scorpion King in 2001's 'The Mummy Returns'. However, Johnson has now revealed he was asked to make some serious changes if he wanted to be taken seriously as an actor.

I'm a Celebrity is teasing Ant and Dec's return to the jungle in its first-look teaser. The clip, which dropped on Friday night (October 7), showed Ant and Dec ready to skydive into the Australian jungle… but they had a few concerns first.

“Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” season finale trailer that was just released by Amazon Prime Video.The final episode of the eight-episode first season debuts next week, and Amazon has offered a fairly epic preview of what’s to come along with the news that Felicia Day will be hosting “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Official Podcast.”Per the official description of the podcast, fans will be able to go deeper into the canals of Númenor, the mines of Khazad-dûm, the halls of Lindon, and more, as host Felicia Day takes a fresh and insightful look at the groundbreaking series and what it takes to bring Middle-earth to life. Each episode will feature exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including Morfydd Clark, Owain Arthur, and the show’s creators, JD Payne and Patrick McKay, that will take us behind the scenes with jaw-dropping stories and Easter eggs you won’t want to miss.

Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon first costarred together in 2011’s “Take Shelter.” Now, they’ll costar again in a very different project: “George & Tammy,” a miniseries about country music legends Tammy Wynette and George Jones for Paramount Network. The series is a long-time passion project for Chastain, who first signed onto the project in 2011 when creator Abe Sylvia wanted to make it a film.

Angelique Jackson Floyd Mayweather Jr. is set to chronicle his life and career as a champion boxer through a new docuseries, titled “The GOAT,” after inking a life-rights deal with Hidden Empire Films’ Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor. “Now is the perfect time to share my story with the world and let viewers in on my journey from early days of hardships to overcoming adversity to become the athlete and entrepreneur I am today,” Mayweather said in a statement announcing the deal. “As someone who owns his own brand, I can’t think of better partners than Deon, Roxanne, Robert F. Smith — the wealthiest African American in the world — and Hidden Empire Films, a prolific Black-owned production company. This is going to be incredibly special!”

Former EastEndersstar Jacqueline Jossa is hoping her return to Albert Square in a few weeks could kick start her working life again. Jac, who played Lauren Branning from 2010 to 2018, is reprising her role for the funeral of Lauren’s step-grandmother, Dot Branning (played by the late June Brown). And, according to a source who spoke exclusively to OK! this week, Jac, 29, is "thrilled" to get back to Walford.

but to work with Biden, with Ana Navarro calling him DeSantis’ “daddy.”To kick off the Hot Topics discussion, moderator Whoopi Goldberg called up footage of statements from DeSantis and Biden this week, with the governor saying that he and his team “appreciate the team effort” from the White House, and that together, they are “cutting through the bureaucracy.” At that, Whoopi was thoroughly confused by the idea that a team-up between the two wouldn’t happen, even despite DeSantis’ past criticisms of the president.“I mean, what choice does he have?” Goldberg said. “He can’t stand there while [Biden] is standing there and say, ‘I hate what they did.

Jennifer Coolidge’s character, Tanya McQuoid-Hunt, says in the trailer for season 2. And based on the footage revealed in the extended preview for the newest installment in creator Mike White’s anthology series, she couldn’t be more correct. A tragicomedy about the overlapping lives of guests and employees at a luxury resort, is back with another social satire as the story moves from Hawaii to Sicily. And not only does it seem that many guests’ antics get out of control, but like season 1, there’s another dead body. Joining Coolidge and Jon Gries as her husband, Greg, is an all-new ensemble including F.

OK!'s treasured columnist Judi Love has given us her thoughts on why it is necessary for Black history should be taught in schools. Writing in her column this week, Judi also details her verdict on upcoming blockbuster The Woman King, reveals why she's obsessed with the latest series of Married At First Sight UK, congratulates gal pal Alison Hammond for 20 years in showbiz and praises Rihanna for her post-baby body confidence.