Queen Latifah to Host Facebook Watch Special Commemorating March on Washington Anniversary

Back in July, it was revealed that John David Washington, Zendaya, and writer-director Sam Levinson quietly filmed an entire black and white feature, “Malcolm & Marie,” while in quarantine. And while there weren’t a ton of details revealed about the film, just having the creator of “Euphoria” working on a new film with those two actors was enough to get people pretty damn excited.

It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen.

Nick Clement “The Tiger Rising,” which is repped by Highland Film Group and based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestselling children’s book, centers on 10-year-old Rob (Christian Convery), who has just lost his mother, and who’s prone to allowing his imagination run wild. One fateful day, he encounters a Bengal tiger being held captive by Beauchamp (Dennis Quaid), a nefarious motel owner.

Mark Rylance is opening up with his thoughts on the allegations made against Johnny Depp.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFacebook says Facebook Watch, the video platform it launched globally in 2018, now draws more than 1.25 billion viewers a month.That’s a large chunk of Facebook’s overall monthly active user base of 2.7 billion, though there are caveats.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook Watch, the social giant’s two-year-old video streaming platform, has become a massive destination — now attracting over 1.25 billion users each month, the company claims.The growth of Facebook’s aggregate global video audience, which is tuning in to live events, original shows, sports, news, music videos and user-generated content, is an indicator that it’s becoming an increasingly credible rival to YouTube, which says it has north of 2 billion logged-in

Martin Luther King Jr.'s «I Have a Dream» speech at the March on Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police officers spoke at the same site Friday, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

many delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, Christopher Nolan's is finally hitting theaters. The John David Washington, Elizabeth Debicki and Robert Pattinson-starring film is officially releasing internationally and in select U.S.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Steve on Watch,” comedian Steve Harvey’s daily Facebook Watch talk show, has been renewed for a second season, Variety has learned exclusively.The second season will premiere on Sept. 14.

A number of Lynn Shelton’s famous friends and collaborators came together on Tuesday night for an emotional tribute honoring the late director three months after her death.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorFacebook Watch has teamed with Will Packer Media and Jesse Collins on a one-hour special to commemorate the historic 1963 March on Washington and its impact on the civil rights movement.

Despite her decades-long career in television comedy, it appears that being a Democratic Convention emcee was not the right role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, according to critics. Louis-Dreyfus, 59, the Emmy-winning actress from hit shows like "Seinfeld" and "Veep," is the last celebrity emcee at the DNC following Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Kerry Washington.

American Cinematheque will shine a spotlight on director Lynn Shelton Aug. 25 at 7 p.m.

The latest Agatha Christie adaptation looks epic: Watch the ‘Death on the Nile’ TrailerNetflix announces the all star cast starring in Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of ‘Pinocchio’The kids were a little confused about how people could cast their votes. Some believed that people had to visit the White House to vote.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A special display to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War is being staged in Hamilton’s Low Parks MuseumStaff at the attraction, which reopened this week following the easing of lockdown, have been working behind the scenes while it was closed to prepare a commemorative display to mark the final surrender of Japan and the start of a new era of peace – VJ Day on August 15,

Chris Willman Music WriterJennifer Hudson and the Democratic party both have rich — but until now separate — histories with Sam Cooke’s classic song “A Change is Gonna Come.” The three came together at the close of the third evening of the 2020 Democratic National Convention Wednesday night with a spectacular performance by Hudson that took place under the tiffany dome at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Hudson’s hometown of Chicago.There were some big Aretha Franklin tie-ins in the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAt 18, first-time voter Billie Eilish is the youngest music artist to appear at the Democratic National Convention, and she made the most of the platform, delivering a strong speech against President Donald Trump, advocating Joe Biden and imploring Americans to vote.She was introduced by host Kerry Washington, who spoke of the voter-registration booths at Eilish’s concerts — which were present before the singer was old enough to vote — and her efforts to reduce the