Samuel Goldwyn Acquires Global Rights To Romantic Comedy ‘Stars Fell On Alabama’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Preliminary reports indicate that more than 5,000 Alabama public school students haven’t shown up for any sort of classes - virtual or in-person - state Education Superintendent Eric Mackey said.

Brittany Howard stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week and played a Nina Simone cover – watch below.The performance came after the Alabama Shakes vocalist secured five Grammy nominations this week.Heading to Colbert on Tuesday night (November 24), Howard performed an impassioned. cover of Simone’s track ‘Revolution’, a song she has been covering live at pre-pandemic gigs.

When Chip Matthews heard the mail truck arriving on his sixth birthday, he rushed out — not knowing that he’d come back with a treasure. Outside the house, which was decorated with birthday balloons, mail carrier Tawanna Purter held a pile of boxes.

Chris Willman Music WriterBeyoncé leads the contenders for the 2021 Grammy Awards with nine — an unexpectedly high profile, given that the superstar didn’t even release a new album during the eligibility period. Her wealth of nods is followed by six apiece for Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch and Dua Lipa.Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes fame, was close behind that grouping with five nominations for her solo debut.

Bruce Boynton was a civil rights activist whose 1960 landmark Supreme Court case inspired the iconic Freedom Rides.Boynton was a law student at Howard University when he was arrested while traveling home to Selma, Alabama for the holidays. He was dining at a bus station restaurant designated “whites only” and when he failed to leave when ordered to, Boynton was sent to jail for the night.

An Alabama man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer confessed Wednesday to killing another man 25 years ago, solving a cold case murder that had "nothing else to follow up on," according to authorities.

Janet W. Lee ShortsTV has acquired exclusive one-year distribution rights to a collection of short documentary films commissioned by Mastercard, Variety has exclusively learned.The short films from the collection, titled “Five,” were helmed by women directors, and follow five unique journeys of women entrepreneurs in different countries.

The former owner of an Alabama testing lab was sentenced to prison last week for falsifying drug test results that prosecutors say cost multiple parents custody of their children. Brandy Murrah, 37, was sentenced on Nov.

A 65-year-old Florida man found dead in Jackson County this week had been mauled by a pack of stray dogs, according to local police.  Donald Ray Allen's body was found on the side of a road in the Bascom area near the Alabama state line. Allen was reportedly out for a walk when he was attacked, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

The novel coronavirus is “out of control” in Alabama, warned a state health official this week.   Alabama has reported some 225,910 cases of COVID-19 to date, according to data from the state health department.The rolling daily average of new cases has increased over the past two weeks to 684, representing a 50% jump. Current estimates show that one in every 342 people in the state has tested positive for the virus in the past week alone.  “It’s out of control,” Dr.

Vengeful spouses are not a new element of true crime documentaries — but snakes are. HBO’s upcoming documentary “Alabama Snake” takes a look at one of Appalachia’s strangest crimes to date.

Sean Hannity accused citizens who teleconferenced into a meeting of the Wayne County (Mich.) Board of Canvassers this week of bullying and threatening two Republican members who initially refused to certify the county's vote totals. "You can't make this up," the "Hannity" host said of the callers.

GILLSBURG, Miss. -- Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band famous for “Sweet Home Alabama" and “Free Bird,” now has highway signs pointing to the site of the Mississippi plane crash that claimed the lives of some of its members.Fans gathered Sunday as the Mississippi Department of Transportation unveiled exit signs from Interstate 55 near McComb and state Highway 568 near Gillsburg, the Enterprise-Journal reported.The signs provide direction toward a monument commemorating the Oct.

An Alabama teen charged with killing his family after discovering his mother wasn’t biologically related to him has shown no remorse while locked up at a juvenile detention center, newly released documents show. Mason Wayne Sisk, 15, is facing capital murder charges in the September 2019 shooting massacre of his father, stepmother and three younger siblings in Elkmont.

While Pfizer’s recent announcement of a more than 90% effective coronavirus vaccine candidate sparked hope for many, an Alabama official joins those cautioning over the excitement. “Even if we find out, in say three to four weeks, that the Pfizer vaccine continues to look good, they continue to analyze the data and... they continue to show there’s safety in the months after getting the vaccine, how many people do you think they are geared up to immunize by the end of the year?” Dr.

Hannah Brown didn’t think Tyler Cameron made the best first impression when they met on night one of The Bachelorette.The Alabama native, 26, and the former contractor, 27, dished on their earliest memories of each other in a new YouTube video posted on Tuesday, November 10, alongside former Bachelorette costar Dustin Kendrick.

It’s probably a good idea to wear pants on an airplane. A flight headed to Houston was forced to land early in Alabama last week to deal with an passenger who was allegedly acting unruly.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021.The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art.