The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has set 16 alums from past editions to serve on its Competition Jury, also announcing the set of five set as jurors for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
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EXCLUSIVE: OWN has more of the Love & Marriage franchise on the way for 2024 with new seasons of Love & Marriage: Huntsville and Love & Marriage: Detroit ordered. Additionally, new episodes of Love & Marriage: D.C. are set to premiere on January 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
New seasons will premiere throughout the new year in the network’s established Saturday night unscripted programming block.
“When OWN’s Love & Marriage: Huntsville first hit theair and to this day, multiple spinoffs later, Love & Marriage continues to deliver and prove itself time and again by making OWN the top destination for Black viewers every Saturday night,” said Tina Perry, President, OWN TV Network and OTT Streaming. “We look forward to continuing to tell these authentic stories and our successful collaboration with the brilliant Carlos King and his Kingdom Reign Entertainment.”
Love & Marriage: Huntsville follows the lives of a group of longtime friends in Huntsville, Alabama: Melody Rodgers and her ex-husband Martell Holt, Maurice and Kimmi Scott, Marsau and LaTisha “Tisha” Scott, as well as beauty maven Stormi Steele and her husband Courtney Beasley, plus Tisha’s cousin KeKe Jabbar. They all have strong personalities and strong points of view, each facing the realities of dealing with the ups and downs of love and marriage while wanting to achieve success. Along the way, there is laughter, tears, and heated arguments as they strive to achieve their dreams.
The series is currently airing all-new episodes on Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT where it is the night’s top original non-sports series across broadcast and cable with all key African-American demos, driving OWN to be the night’s No. 1 cable network with A.A. W25-54, touts the network.
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The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has set 16 alums from past editions to serve on its Competition Jury, also announcing the set of five set as jurors for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
Love Island star Laura Anderson and boyfriend Gary Lucy looked more loved-up than ever as they enjoyed a sweet ice skating date together at Canary Wharf in London.The pair recently confirmed that they'd rekindled their romance as Gary shared a video of them sharing a kiss as they celebrated New Year's Eve together with their four month old daughter, Bonnie. After they met on Celebs Go Dating in the summer of 2022, Laura announced her pregnancy in February 2023 - the same day that news emerged they had split.
Jeremy Renner is days away from returning to production on Season 3 of Mayor Of Kingstown, one year after a snowplow accident that nearly claimed his life.
Jeremy Renner and the cast of Mayor of Kingstown are gearing up for their return to production on Season 3 of the Paramount+ drama.
There are few producers in live television with the kind of career Don Mischer has had in television, a career spanning six decades and just about every major event from the Oscars to the Olympics to Obama and all in between. Just a sampling of his credits include the Opening Ceremonies of both the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics; the Super Bowl Halftime Shows with Michael Jackson, Prince, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen; the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial; Motown 25; the Democratic National Convention; the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Hall; the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards; and so many many other events in our lives.
Gary Oldman isn’t a big fan of his portrayal of magician Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise.
Fans of the smash-hit 2003 Christmas movie Love Actually might be surprised to learn there’s a second title in the franchise!
EastEnders fans were left dazzled as they discovered the cast's amazing singing chops during ITV's festive special show Britain Get Singing. Roman Kemp hosted the show, which saw TV's favourite faces from shows like Good Morning Britain, Love Island, Coronation Street, The Masked Singer and, of course, EastEnders belt out a tune in hopes of wowing the audience and a stellar panel of judges.
Faye Winter, the most controversial contestant in Love Island history, has been hinting at a comeback in the All Stars series. Her explosive behaviour during the 2021 series led to nearly 25,000 complaints to Ofcom after she had a heated argument with Teddy Soares.The drama unfolded on movie night when Faye was shown a misleading clip of Teddy admitting he found Clarisse Juliette attractive during his time in Casa Amor. Her fiery reaction sparked outrage and a flood of complaints and Faye later apologised for her outburst.
Ex-Strictly Come Dancing stars James and Ola Jordan have thrilled fans with their recreation of Hugh Grant's iconic dance scene from Love Actually in a hilarious new clip. James, 45, portrayed Hugh's character David while wife Ola, 41, took on the role of his unhappy receptionist - played by Meg Wynn Owen in the film.
Bradley Cooper was writing the script on besties becoming boos.The Cooper Opinion — in a 1993 column titled “When best friends cross the line” — was published in the “Fresh Ink” teen section of the Philadelphia Daily News when the actor was a high school senior at Germantown Academy in the Philly suburbs of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.I know this because I was the young editor, barely out of college myself, who helped Cooper find his pen game when he was a lovesick lacrosse player.“Can best friends who are of the opposite sex hook up with each other without destroying their friendship?” he wrote.Then — with an appropriate paragraphic pause for dramatic effect — he added, “In my case, yes … so far.”As if he was already ready to write his own personal “When Harry Met Sally” about his relationship plot twist with his senior prom date Deborah Landes, Cooper got real about how “suddenly you start to hate that guy she always told you was hot” and about how “once college hits, our relationship will definitely return to a ‘best friendship.’”Long before Cooper, 48, started working his baby blues on the the leading lady likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Lady Gaga and, currently, Carey Mulligan — in “Maestro” his Leonard Bernstein biopic that began streaming on Netflix this week — the baby heartthrob was already in his romantic feelings.“There has always been an underlying attraction between the two of us,” he wrote.But then he continued to get into the conflicted heart of it all: “Before, we could never fathom the idea of being more than just friends, especially because she was involved in a relationship with a friend of mine.
Fans will be shocked by this news about an original cast member exiting Mayor of Kingstown!
EXCLUSIVE: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.
Todd Gilchrist editor Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why the two-disc set “Now That’s What I Call Christmas” was certified 6x platinum just three years after its 2001 release).
Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart – check out the clip above.Directed by Rose Glass (Saint Maud), the romance thriller follows gym manager Lou (Stewart) who falls in love with bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian). Their relationship, however, escalates into a revenge story as they face dangerous threats from Jackie’s criminal father.Other cast members include Ed Harris (Westworld) as Lou’s father, Jena Malone (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Anna Baryshnikov and Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist).Love Lies Bleeding is co-written by Glass and Weronika Tofilska, with Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman serving as producers.It marks director Glass’s second film following her breakout feature debut Saint Maud, which was nominated for two awards at the BAFTAs in 2021.In a five-star review of Saint Maud, NME described Glass as a “must-watch filmmaker” who “could well prove to be a defining voice in the future of British horror”.Love Lies Bleeding is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2024.
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Scott (Aladdin), Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones) and Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love) have wrapped shoot on romance Eternal Return, for Village Roadshow, Macro and BK Studios.
Madonna played ‘I Love New York’ for the first time in 15 years as she kicked off the US leg of her ‘Celebration’ tour in the city.Unlike the electro version of track, which featured on her 2005 album ‘Confessions On A Dancefloor’, the Queen of Pop’s version at the Barclays Center last night (December 13) saw her perform a guitar driven version of the song. You can view footage below.Paying tribute to the city where she started her career she told the crowd: “It’s so great to be home… I mean that in a way that only New Yorkers know.“New Yorkers can identify with just-not-giving-a-fuck motherfuckers.
Showtime‘s linear network, which launched more than four decades ago during the early days of cable, will officially get a new name on January 8, 2024.
Maya Jama will host Love Island: All-Stars when the show airs to UK audiences in January, with fans of the ITV reality programme desperate to get a glimpse at some familiar faces making a return.
“Entrepreneurship and acting are very similar. Both require the same kind of energy,” Goop CEO and Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow told a crowd during a career retrospective this evening at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.